The fate of immigration reform in Texas hangs by a thread THE GRASSROOTS TEXANS NETWORK The fate of immigration reform in Texas hangs by a thread. ACT NOW or watch reform die in committee--AGAIN. Forwarded from IRCOT: On Monday all Conservative Bills will be dead in the Texas House unless the Calendars Committee hears from you today! You can be sure the other side is burning up the phone lines! THE 3 TOP PRIORITY ITEMS AND CORRESPONDING ACTION YOU MUST TAKE IN THIS ORDER: 1. CALL THE CALENDARS COMMITTEE ON THESE 3 BILLS HB 3252 This was the only E-Verify bill that passed out of committee & it is the most important bill! HB 301 English as the Official Language. HB 911 Prohibition on application of foreign laws. Call the Calendars Committee at 512-463-0758. Tell them you want them to vote YES for these bills quickly to meet the Monday deadline. Tell them Citizens do not want to compete with illegal aliens for Texas jobs and you, Our sovereignty, must be their priority! 2. HB 12 Anti-Sanctuary City . Call your State Rep and ask them to vote YES for HB 12 Anti-Sanctuary City on Monday when it returns to the floor. 3. HB 608 Cost of benefits for illegal aliens. Call your State Rep and ask them to support this bill when it comes to the floor on Tuesday! _______________________________________________________________ 2ND TIER OF PRIORITY LEGISLATION Amazingly, 4 GOOD BILLS and 1 BAD BILL on illegal immigration are sitting in THE Calendars Committee from our 2nd Tier of important legislation. ON MONDAY ALL BILLS WILL DIE! We ask that you CALL the calendars committee to vote YES TO THESE BILLS BEFORE THE DEADLINE. HB 911 Application of Foreign Laws and Forums in the State HB 875 Identifying illegal aliens prior to granting bail HB 892 Unlawful transport of illegal aliens HJR 86 Constitutional Amendment to deny bail to illegal aliens arrested on a felony VOTE NO TO KILL THIS BILL: HCR 88 Calling on Congress, Senate, the President to fix the immigration system using a comprehensive immigration reform solution. ______________________________________________________________ After viewing the proceedings on the House Floor today and throughout this past week, it is clear that the House leadership is not up to the task of defending conservative legislation. During the debates on the House floor, liberals are relentless in using procedural rules to stymie the unprepared House leadership. Frankly it is an embarrassment. But they believe that everything they do occurs in a vacuum, and no one will notice. We must let them know we are watching. NOW IS THE TIME TO LET THEM KNOW THAT WHEN THEY SAID THE TEA PARTY WAS DEAD AND GONE - WE ARE VERY MUCH ALIVE AND WATCHING EVERY MOVE! We have the opportunity to call them on their shortcomings and demand something be done. I urge you to call your State Representatives and the Speaker's office and demand they bring in a parliamentary expert to defend their own bills because it's obvious either they don't have the ability to do so, or they don't want to. Your Action Item: Call your State Representative & the Speaker of the House. Tell them you are watching the liberals continually kill conservative bills over minor procedural moves. It is obvious to you that House leadership must bring in another parliamentary expert who has the ability to deal with the liberals' procedural moves. They do not have the expertise within their current team. House Speaker Joe Straus 512-463-1000 State Rep Doug Miller 512-463-0325 ___________________________________________________________ BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE LEGISLATURE... HB 12 was brought down Friday night by a questionable point of order and sent back to the State Affairs Committee. The Bill will come back to the House floor on Monday for a vote. If Straus does not bring on a strong parliamentary expert we are doomed to have the same thing happen. HB 608 is now out of Calendars Committee and is scheduled for first reading on Tuesday, May 10th. HB 3252 was voted out of State Affairs Committee last night and is moving on to Calendars. The bill is not out of danger, however. If the Calendars Committee chaired by Todd Hunter does not move it out immediately the bill is dead. Calls must go to the Calendars Committee over the weekend urging them to pass the bill and get it scheduled for a floor vote. HCR 88 Is a resolution calling for Congress, Senate, and the President to fix the broken imigration system with comprehensive immigration reform, or amnesy light. With the mandate conservatives gave Republicans this past November, it is outrageous that Republicans in the State House would send a mandate to this administration for anything other than eliminating magnets which draw illegal aliens to the state and addressing the violence which our open borders allow. Please call the Calendars Committee and tell them you are against HCR 88. _____________________________________________________ RECAP OF ACTION ITEMS FIRST PRIORITY: 1) CALL THE CALENDARS COMMITTEE ON THESE 3 BILLS: HB 3252 Only E-Verify bill passed out of committee & the most important bill this session! HB 301 English as the Official Language. HB 911 Prohibition on application of foreign laws. 2) HB 12 Anti-Sanctuary City . Call your State Rep and ask them to vote for HB 12 Anti-Sanctuary City on Monday when it returns to the floor. 3) HB 608 Cost of benefits for illegal aliens. Call your State Rep and ask them to support this bill when it comes to the floor on Tuesday! SECOND PRIORITY: 4) Call the Speaker's office & your State Rep urging them to bring in a parliamentary expert to defend conservative legislation on the House floor. 5) Call your State Representative and tell them to support HB 1129, HB 608, and HB 804when they come up on the House floor. 6) Call the Calendars Committee office and tell them to VOTE FOR HB 875, HB 892, HJR 86. 7) Call the Calendars Committee office and tell them to VOTE AGAINST HCR 88. House Speaker Joe Straus 512-463-1000 office 512-463-0675 fax Calendars Committee 512-463-0758 office State Rep Doug Miller 512-463-0325 office or find your State Representative http://www.fyi.legis.state.tx.us/ Contact Your Govt http://www.usa.gov/Contact.shtml Is the Constitution the Supreme Law of the Land or not? I GUESS THE SCOTUS HAS ANSWERED THAT QUESTION Patriot Freedom http://www.patriotfreedom.org/battlefield.php If a link above does not work, cut-and-paste to your browser. Please be aware that Barack Hussein Obama’s grandfather was a highly respected witch doctor with the Luo tribe. His white grandmother was VP at the Bank of Hawaii and she worked with and for Peter Geithner on other projects, Peter is the father of Timothy Geithner, Obama's choice of Treasurer of the US. 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