ATTENTION
TAKE ACTION TODAY
Thanks to friend of the Constitution Party, Janet Renner, Founder of Missourians Against Illegal Immigration, for sending the following action information:
According to NumbersUSA, the Senate passed 4 amendments to the DHS Appropriations bill, H.R. 2898. These were:
1) The Sessions amendment to permanently reauthorize E-Verify and mandate its use by all government contractors and subcontractors.
2) The DeMint Amendment to force DHS to complete the 700 miles of border fencing which has already been approved and funded.
3) The Vitter amendment to force the Social Security Admin to continue their "No-Match" program (DHS Sec. Napolitano recently ended this program)
4) and the Grassley amendment to allow all businesses that use E-Verify to run all of their current employees through the E-Verify system."
There's a problem though. It's called R-O-P-E - Reid-Obama-Pelosi-Emanuel. What this means is that since these people can't have their way publicly, they'll try to kill the amendments above behind closed doors in their Conference Committee that will finalize the bill before it goes to Obama for signature.
CPers: Here is today's suggested action:
Please call Pres. Obama's comment line at:
(202) 456-1111
or the White House Switchboard for him at:
(202) 456-1414
You can also email him by using the form at http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ .
We need to do this by the end of today Monday, July 13.
Here are the basic talking points to Pres. Obama:
"I expect you to instruct your staff to refrain from gutting immigration enforcement during the Conference Committee process on the DHS appropriations bill. . ...
In March, your people conspired with Speaker Pelosi and Leader Reid to kill the House E-Verify provisions. And you did it behind closed doors, without explanation. That isn't going to work again this time.
The nation's eyes will be on whether or not you condemn hundreds of thousands of unemployed Americans to joblessness because you overturn the Senate's enforcement amendments this week, which will be opening up hundreds of thousands of jobs otherwise held by illegal aliens."
To all CP Loyalists: Thanks to each and every one of you for joining in this battle to keep pressure on Obama and his Republican and Democrat friends.
Please read the "Immigration" plank below from the Constitution Party Platform:
www.ConstitutionPartyMO.org
IMMIGRATION
US Constitution, Article 4, Section 4:
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion;
James Madison:
“When we are considering the advantages that may result from an easy mode of naturalization, we ought also to consider the cautions necessary to guard against abuses … aliens might acquire the right of citizenship, and return to the country from which they came, and evade the laws intended to encourage the commerce and industry of the real citizens and inhabitants of America, enjoying at the same time all the advantages of citizens…”
We affirm the integrity of the international borders of these United States and the Constitutional authority and duty of the federal government to guard and to protect those borders, including the regulation of the numbers and of the qualifications of immigrants into the country.
Each year approximately one million legal immigrants and almost as many illegal aliens enter these United States. These immigrants - including illegal aliens - have been made eligible for various kinds of public assistance, including housing, education, Social Security, and legal services. This unconstitutional drain on the federal Treasury is having a severe and adverse impact on our economy, increasing the cost of government at federal, state, and local levels, adding to the tax burden, and stressing the fabric of society. The mass importation of people with low standards of living threatens the wage structure of the American worker and the labor balance in our country.
We oppose the abuse of the H-1B and L-1 visa provisions of the immigration act which are displacing American workers with foreign.
We favor a moratorium on immigration to these United States, except in extreme hardship cases or in other individual special circumstances, until the availability of all federal subsidies and assistance be discontinued, and proper security procedures have been instituted to protect against terrorist infiltration.
We also insist that every individual group and/or private agency which requests the admission of an immigrant to the U.S, on whatever basis, be required to commit legally to provide housing and sustenance for such immigrants, bear full responsibility for the economic independence of the immigrants, and post appropriate bonds to seal such covenants.
The Constitution Party demands that the federal government restore immigration policies based on the practice that potential immigrants will be disqualified from admission to the U.S. if, on the grounds of health, criminality, morals, or financial dependence, they would impose an improper burden on these United States, any state, or any citizen of these United States.
We oppose the provision of welfare subsidies and other taxpayer-supported benefits to illegal aliens, and reject the practice of bestowing U.S. citizenship on children born to illegal alien parents while in this country.
We oppose any extension of amnesty to illegal aliens. We call for the use of U.S. troops to protect the states against invasion.
We oppose bilingual ballots. We insist that those who wish to take part in the electoral process and governance of this nation be required to read and comprehend basic English as a precondition of citizenship. We support English as the official language for all governmental business by these United States.
