What's Going On At The Border?

• 42,000 criminal illegal aliens have been caught at the southern border in the past five months
• 139,000 of the 1.1 million people apprehended along the southern border in 2005 were criminal aliens, seeking to illegally re-enter the United States.
• 39 tunnels have been discovered under the southern border, often used for drug and human smuggling.

"Violence on border at record high,” Washington Times, 3-2-06
www.washingtontimes.com/national/20060302-124525-9041r.htm

As a war rages between U.S. Border Patrol and smugglers of both humans and drugs along our southern border, the Senate Judiciary Committee is focused on creating a permanent underclass of citizens, with no intention of getting control of our border! The increase in violence on the border cannot be ignored!

Instead of pandering to special interest groups, what about Americans? What about America? The Senate Judiciary Committee should focus on keeping America safe by securing our borders! No form of guest worker programs should be accepted!

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman, Arlen Specter (R-PA), has introduced legislation that ignores border security and, instead, creates the mother of all guest worker amnesty programs. His bill sets no limits on the number of "guest workers," or the number of American jobs they can take – as if that should even be in question. Specter's committee will be marking up the bill before voting to send it to the floor of the Senate. The Committee on Thursday, March 16 started showing signs that it will produce an immigration bill crafted by Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) that rewards those 12-20 million illegal aliens already in the U.S. with permanent citizenship. Of special interest is the fact they the Judiciary Committee is currently working behind closed doors on amnesty proceedings and the debate will not be made public. It is unclear whether the votes of the committee will be made public.

Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, responsible for the continuing, never ending illegal immigration fiasco are: Republicans: Specter, Hatch, Grassley, DeWine, Sessions, Graham, Cornyn, Brownback, Coburn, and Kyl (AZ) who supports massive guest worker programs in legislation he has already introduced in competition with Senator Specter. Democrats: Leahy, Kennedy, Biden, Kohl, Feinstein, Feingold, Schumer, Durbin.

Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee should be held accountable in the most contentious terms, both for conducting the legislative process behind closed doors in Hillary Clinton-fashion, and ultimately for the actions behind closed doors. In fact, the mere process of conducting these activities outside public scrutiny, trying to avoid individual accountability for selling their vote to anti-American interests, is disgraceful and deserving of unmitigated rebuke. Senator Jon Kyl (AZ) could have refused to participate in anything taking place behind closed doors. He didn’t. Senator Kyl, in continuation of his past style, will likely endorse a massive guest worker program, which will be concealed deep in the fine print of the legislation, and then try to deny the interpretation of the legislation. Brace yourself. If there wasn’t going to be a massive guest worker program, the entire process would not have occurred behind closed doors.

I should urge you to call your Senators and implore them to vote against any bill that includes guest-worker/amnesty programs! But why should I have to? Why should they have to be told? What about enforcing the laws on the books now (and not one of them is willing to do that)?

If you want to call your Senator, follow this link:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

or, if you prefer, the Capitol Switchboard is: 202-224-3121

Red State Patriot

Posted March 16, 2006 06:53 PM
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