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Dover widow fights to close loophole for illegal immigant drivers

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Texas officials sue U.S. over border fence
Allege Chertoff hoodwinked landowners into waiving their property rights --Associated Press

Widow fights to close legal loophole for illegal-alien drivers
'I am angry and I am still grieving on a daily basis. So is my daughter' --WKYC-TV, Cleveland

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US Warns Tourists of Combat at Mexican Border
Americans are being kidnapped and murdered, State Dept. warns. Full Story

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NumbersUSA Alert

From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
Date: Thursday 15MAY08 4:30 p.m. EDT

Senate committee adds amnesty for 1.2 million illegal ag workers to Iraq spending bill -- PHONE NOW

DEAR FRIENDS,

On a 17-12 vote this afternoon, the Senate Appropriations Committee added Sen. Feinstein's ag amnesty to the Iraq supplemental spending bill.

This bill could come up for a vote before the full Senate tomorrow.

Every phone of every Senator should be ringing off the hook as soon as I click SEND on this alert.

Please pick up your phone the minute you read this and call:

202-224-3121

Call the offices of both of your state's U.S. Senators and tell them:

The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday afternoon committed an outrageous act of disrespect for our men and women in uniform and to the citizens of this country by attaching an illegal-alien amnesty to the Iraq spending bill.

Urge the Senator to vote and work to strip the amnesty from the Iraq spending bill on the floor.You - or the Senator - may already oppose this spending bill. But if the Senator is inclined to vote YES on the Iraq bill, ask the Senator to definitely vote NO and send it back to committee if the amnesty is NOT stripped.

There is no need for an amnesty to provide growers with workers. There already is an H-2A foreign ag worker program that provides growers with an unlimited number of temporary workers if the growers agree to pay a decent wage and ensure that they go home at the end of the season. Feinstein is just trying to protect the abysmally low wages and bad working conditions that farmworkers labor under.

Here are additional talking points (and the names of your two Senators, plus additional phone numbers):

http://www.numbersusa.com/phones?ID=10121

Expect that many staffers will either have no idea what is going on or will be lying to you. Some of you were reporting to us that Sen. Feinstein's staffers were telling you that she had no intention of attaching an amnesty this afternoon at the precise time that the committee was voting on her proposal to attach!!!!!

Unless Senators see an outpouring of disgust and outrage similar to what you waged a year ago, they will interpret it to be safe to vote an amnesty this year.

Besides an estimated 1.2 million illegal alien ag workers, all the millions of illegal aliens in their families would apparently get an amnesty, also.

Good luck. You are the only force that stands between some semblance of the rule of law and massive rewards for illegal immigration.

THANKS,

Roy

NumbersUSA Alert

From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
Date: Thursday 15MAY08 11:30 a.m.. EDT

Stop Feinstein's amnesty in Senate today & shame Pelosi's kill attempt on SAVE Act in House

THIS IS URGENT FRIENDS,

1. Sen. Diane Feinstein is set to try this afternoon to add an amnesty for illegal-alien ag workers to the Iraq supplemental spending bill. We need your phone calls to stop this.

2. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has strong-armed anti-illegal-immigration Democrats to withhold their support for enforcement and is in the process of killing the SAVE Act for the year -- unless NumbersUSA Activist Network users respond in massive counter-attack.

For instructions on phone calls and faxes, go to your Action Buffet corkboard.

Also, you will probably be getting emails later today with direct links to the needed actions. Our cause needs a lot of help today and tomorrow.

STOP FEINSTEIN'S AMNESTY IN COMMITTEE

Our NumbersUSA Capitol Hill Team got several confirmations through both Democratic and Republican sources that Sen. Feinstein (D-Calif.) was preparing to add an ag amnesty to the Iraq bill Thursday afternoon in the Senate Appropriations Committee.

We don't know the details of the amnesty. There is some chance she may try to slip it through by not including permanent legalization but just giving one or two million illegal ag workers a 5-year amnesty that allows them to work and live here while further sinking roots. The open-borders champions hope that the longer illegal aliens stay the more difficult it will ever be to deny them U.S. citizenship.

We need phone calls into the offices of members of the Senate Appropriations Committee -- massively and immediately!

202-224-3121

If you live in the state of one of these Senators, please make a phone call immediately.

If you don't have a Senator on the Committee, you may want to call a Senator in another state with which you have some attachment. We particularly need extra phone calls to Senators from small-population states.

Here are the Appropriations Senators who need your call:

Alexander (R-Tenn.)

Allard (R-Colo.)

Byrd (D-West Va.)

Bennett (R-Utah)

Bond (R-Mo.)

Brownback (R-Kan.)

Cochran (R-Miss.)

Craig (R-Idaho)

Domenici (R-N.M.)

Dorgan (D-N.D.)

Durbin (D-Ill.)

Feinstein (D-Calif.)

Gregg (R-N.H.)

Harkin (D-Iowa)

Hutchison (R-Texas)

Inouye (D-Hawaii)

Johnson (D-S.D.)

Kohl (D-Wis.)

Landrieu (D-La.)

Lautenberg (D-N.J.)

Leahy (D-Vt.)

McConnell (R-Ky.)

Mikulski (D-Md.)

Murray (D-Wash)

Nelson (D-Neb.)

Reed (D-R.I.)

Shelby (R-Ala.)

Specter (R-Pa.)

Stevens (R-Alaska)

Your message is basically that you have heard of Sen. Feinstein's desire to attach an illegal ag worker amnesty to the Iraq spending bill and that you object. You can quickly state why any kind of amnesty is bad -- particularly in the middle of a recession.

You may also point out that there is no excuse for growers hiring illegal aliens. North Carolina growers, for example, have set up a North Carolina Growers Association that meets all of the ag labor needs through local workers and through legal foreign workers brought through the H-2A visa which ensures that the guest workers go home. Why shouldn't California growers play by the same rules as law-abiding farmers in other states?

Based on past experience, there is a good chance that Feinstein will decide not to introduce her amnesty Thursday afternoon if she feels there is a major move against it. That's what we want. Please let every member of the committee know just how worked up citizens get as soon as they hear of a possibility of an amnesty.

PROTEST SPEAKER PELOSI'S STRONG-ARMING OF DEMOCRATS TO KEEP THEM FROM SUPPORTING THE SAVE ACT

Don't let anybody kid you about what is happening with the SAVE Act efforts to stop outlaw businesses from hiring illegal aliens.

North Carolina Democrat Heath Shuler's SAVE Act is an incredible threat to the unscrupulous and unpatriotic businesses of America who insist on illegal labor to hold down their labor costs. Most business owners are not like that. But the outlaw businesses have the ear of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and of her House Democratic leadership.

Pelsosi and her team are strong-arming Democrats to make sure they do not sign the Discharge Petition that would bring the SAVE Act to the floor for a vote. They know it would easily pass if there is a vote.

Even though 49 House Democrats have co-sponsored the SAVE Act, only 10 have signed the Discharge Petition.

The other 39 Democrats have heard the message loud and clear that if they sign the petition and it gets the necessary 218 signatures to force a vote, those Democrats should not count on any favors or help for their congressional Districts from the House leaders. In a sense, they are being threatened with being shunned by their Party.

Our Action Buffet team has put up a fax for every one of you to send to your own Representative to break Pelosi's intimidation racket. Please take the actions related to this that you will find on your corkboard.

THANKS,

Roy

ALIPAC Alerts

ALIPAC RED ALERT!

AMNESTY WARNING. PLEASE TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION.

We have just learned that sellout Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Larry Craig (R-Idaho) have successfully inserted the "Ag Jobs" amnesty components into a defense spending bill.

This amendment has been accepted by the Senate Appropriations Committee and has been added to an Iraq War spending bill.

They could vote on the spending bill today or tomorrow. If the bill passes with this language included it will grant a form of AMNESTY to millions of illegal aliens working on farms.

Take immediate action.

1. Call Dianne Feinstein and Larry Craig and give their staff an earful within reason. Follow-up your call with an e-mail or fax.

2. Call both of your US Senators immediately. If you get a voicemail, leave a message. Tell your Senators NO AG JOBS AMNESTY! NO DEFENSE SPENDING BILL WITH AG JOBS IN IT! Make sure you call, and immediately send a written complaint after calling.

3. Then proceed to call as many other members of the US Senate as possible with the same message. Call them all if you can.

We need a strong and immediate reaction from across the nation to this move by Feinstein and Craig!

Article with details.
Senate panel adds immigration measure to Iraq supplemental
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-115577.html

ALIPAC's Senate Contact Information List
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-63874.html

Let's Roll!(prepared in haste by)The ALIPAC Teamwww.alipac.us

Friends of ALIPAC,

If you have NOT taken a few minutes to read these and send copies to your local media, state lawmakers, and state Governors and AG's then you are letting the illegal aliens have a free walk.

NC's college restriction on illegal aliens is now the toughest policy in America and could catch fire in other states, but only if you take action!

Special Help Needed challenging suspect statistics released by college system.

WND: State bans illegals from community colleges

http://www.alipac.us/article-3190-thread-1-0.html

ALIPAC in the News! Community colleges ban illegal immigrants

http://www.alipac.us/article-3189-thread-1-0.html

NC illegal alien college policy toughest in the nation!

http://www.alipac.us/article-3188-thread-1-0.html

ALIPAC Challenges NC Media Reports on Number of Illegals in College System!http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-115521.html

Let's distribute this information far and wide! All NC ALIPACers, please challenge all state media sources to verify and correct the bogus stats.

The ALIPAC Team

http://www.alipac.us/

From WorldNetDaily:

53 illegals held against will in Phoenix
In fortified home by suspected smugglers demanding more money
--Associated Press

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Illegal Alien Cop Killer Could Face Death Penalty
Policeman, father, shot seven times. Full Story

Duncan Hunter interviewed on The Schiffer Report

Representative Duncan Hunter (R-Cal) discusses border issues and illegal immigration in an interview on the May 8, 2008 show of The Schiffer Report:

http://rightalk.listenz.com/080508-SR.mp3

You can either listen to the show online or download the MP3 file.

(To download the MP3 file, right click on link and choose "Save Target as...".)

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National Day of Prayer for Ramos & Compean

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National Day of Prayer for Ramos and Compean--May 11
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) is calling on the nation to remember the plight of Ramos and Compean during a national day of prayer on May 11. Both men remain in solitary confinement awaiting a judge's decision on their December, 2007 appeal that could free them and return them to their families. Grassfire is urging ALL members of our team to remember these agents and their families in your thoughts and prayers on this day, and continue working with Grassfire toward their freedom. Please continue alerting friends and family to sign our national petition. Sign our national petition to free Ramos and Compean

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May 7, 2008

County OKs $1M for illegal-immigrant sweeps

By Dennis Welch
Tribune

The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors voted Wednesday to give the sheriff's office nearly $1 million to capture illegal immigrants, despite strong objections from small-business owners.

Deputies detain 13 at suspected Mesa drop house [http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/115742]

[null]Arpaio takes immigration sweep to Fountain Hills [http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/115619] [http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/114152]

[null]Supervisor: Arpaio has 'gone too far in sweeps [http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/115693] [http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/115742]

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Rabbis critical of sheriffs sweeps for illegals [http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/114152]

Members of the Arizona Small Business Association asked the board to hold onto the money until it was sure Sheriff Joe Arpaio's saturation patrols were not using racial profiling.

"Kill the money until you know what's going on," said Annie Loyd, a small-business owner and an independent congressional candidate for Arizona's District 1. "All we want is to know what's going on."

She said she wants the sheriff to hand over all the data relating to his crackdown to make sure his deputies are not unfairly targeting Hispanics.

Members of the business group, which represents about 2,300 companies in the county, also said the sheriff's immigration raids are eroding the state's reputation and could keep businesses from moving to Arizona.

Joan Koerber-Walker, chief executive of the business group, added that the sheriff's actions have the potential to spark violent clashes between those who support illegal immigrants and those who want them out of the country.

Protests from the business community are significant because Arpaio has repeatedly used it as a pretext for launching his immigration sweeps. In the past he has said that small businesses were complaining about illegal immigrants and lack of enforcement by local police departments.

Despite those concerns, the board voted 3-1 to approve the $999,989, which comes from the state Department of Public Safety to the county.

The cash is earmarked for the sheriff's office to aid in catching suspected illegal immigrants.

The only no vote belonged to Mary Rose Wilcox, D-District 5, who said Tuesday that the sheriff's immigration sweeps were terrorizing the community.

Those operations, in which deputies stop drivers for minor traffic violations and then check their immigration status, have focused on primarily Hispanic neighborhoods and have drawn widespread accusations of civil rights abuses.

Besides Wilcox, other high-profile leaders have criticized the operations, including Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon, who has called the raids "made-for-TV stunts." Others, including East Valley lawmakers, have praised Arpaio's sweeps.

After the supervisors' meeting, Arpaio held a 20-minute impromptu news conference in which he disputed the allegations by Gordon and others that his deputies were concentrating on Hispanic neighborhoods.

Arpaio said his latest crime suppression efforts in affluent Fountain Hills, which kicked off Tuesday, show that he's not just targeting Hispanic communities.

"I didn't go there because (Gordon) said so," Arpaio said.

The sheriff said that he should be commended for enforcing the law, and that law-abiding citizens have nothing to fear.

"The only people who fear us are those who have violated the law," he said.

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