"REAL ID" and Ag Jobs Update and One More Call to Action: One More Chance to Defeat the "REAL ID Act" April 25, 2005 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mip://05be0410/URL) National Council of La Raza Take Action!
Thank you for all of your efforts in recent weeks in contacting Congress to help our immigrant community. As you have seen, there has been activity that affects us all in many important ways. What happened with âREAL IDâ and where do we go from here? The Senate has passed its version of the appropriations bill to fund our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and to aid Tsunami victims. This bill did NOT include the âREAL ID Actâ because Senator Isakson did not have the votes in the Senate to pass this as an amendment. The House of Representatives previously passed a different version of the appropriations bill (to fund troops and aid Tsunami victims) which included the âREAL ID Act.â Now, members of both the House and the Senate must meet in conference committee to come up with a compromise bill, and there is a chance that the conferees will NOT remove the language included in the âREAL ID Act.â That is why your voice is crucial and why this fight is not over. Take Action The message is simple: Keep âREAL IDâ out of the appropriations bill. This bill will hurt our community and will not make us safer. 1. Please contact your senator if he or she is on the Appropriations Committee. Click here to see who is on that committee: http://appropriations.senate.gov/members/members.htm 2. Please contact the White House by calling (202) 456-1111. What happened with âAgJOBSâ? âAgJOBSâ was introduced by Senator Craig as an amendment to the appropriations bill. Because of rules of procedure, the Senate needed 60 votes to include it in its version of the bill; only 55 votes were achieved. Many senators preferred not to include âAgJOBSâ and other immigration amendments in the appropriations bill. We appreciate all the work that folks around the country did on this very important legislation; the struggle for justice for farmworkers is not over. For more information, contact Flavia Jimenez at [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) ================================================================= National Immigrant Solidarity Network No Immigrant Bashing! Support Immigrant Rights! webpage: _http://www.ImmigrantSolidarity.org_ (http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/) New York: (212)330-8172 Los Angeles: (213)403-0131 Please consider making a donation to the important work of National Immigrant Solidarity Network Send check pay to: ActionLA/SEE 1013 Mission St. #6 South Pasadena CA 91030 (All donations are tax deductible) *to join the immigrant Solidarity Network daily news litserv, send e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit: http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/isn *a monthly ISN monthly Action Alert! listserv, go to webpage _http://www.actionla.org/cgi-bin/mojo/mojo.cgi?f=list&l=isn_ (http://www.actionla.org/cgi-bin/mojo/mojo.cgi?f=list&l=isn) Please join our following listservs: Asian American Labor Activism Alert! Listserv, send-e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) or visit: http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/api-la NYC Immigrant Alert!: New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania areas immigrant workers information and alerts, send e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit: http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/nyc-immigrantalert US-Mexico Border Information: No Militarization of Borders! Support Immigrant Rights! send e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Border01/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Does he tell you he loves you when he's hitting you? Abuse. Narrated by Halle Berry. http://us.click.yahoo.com/aFQ_rC/isnJAA/E2hLAA/7gSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
