| DEAR SUPPORTERS OF LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGAINST ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION,
The House Appropriations Committee tomorrow (Wed) will be deciding how much money the federal government can spend next year on enforcing immigration laws.
All of those committee Members need a phone call today letting them know that voters are watching and expecting them to expand funding for enforcement.
The committee Members are under huge pressure from special interests and newspaper editorial boards in their Districts to do the opposite -- to gut the rapidly increasing enforcement of immigration laws by local police and sheriffs.
Please phone at least one committee Member on the list below. Call at:
202-224-3121
Tell the person who answers some or all of the following:
You are calling about the DHS Appropriations bill (Department of Homeland Security.
You know the Congressman/woman is on the committee that will be marking up the bill tomorrow ("marking up" means amending and putting into final form to send to the full House of Representatives).
It is most important the he/she expand funding for the 287(g) program that trains local agencies to enforce immigration law.
There are enough local agencies across the country willing and eager to help the feds that the illegal immigration problem could be largely solved if Congress would just provide enough training and other resources.
You will be watching reports to find out how the Congressman/woman votes on amendments that will help or hinder all law enforcement in detaining and removing illegal aliens from your community.
Add anything else you choose about why you want illegal aliens picked up and put into deportation proceedings, and why you want local law enforcement to be involved.
It is important that enforcement not be just for illegal aliens who have committed violent felonies. All illegal aliens must fear being arrested if we are to get enough voluntary departure to open up millions of jobs to non-employed American workers.
The news is full of stories of illegal aliens returning -- or considering returning -- to their home countries in part because of the pressure they feel from the growing number of cities, counties and states that are enforcing the law.
This is driving the pro-illegal crowd crazy. Don't underestimate how much pressure they are putting on the House Appropriations Committee to de-fund or underfund 287(g) and other enforcement efforts.
Local agencies cannot enforce immigration laws unless they receive proper training such as through the 287(g) program.
Dozens of law enforcement agencies are blocked from cracking down on illegal immigration because Congress in the past failed to appropriate enough money.
State and local police are badly needed to help overwhelmed federal immigration authorities apprehend and detain illegal aliens in the interior of our country.
Illegal aliens currently outnumber federal immigration agents by 5,000 to one, and only 2,000 federal agents are active in enforcing the immigration laws in the interior of our country. Clearly, those numbers indicate that a limited number of federal agents are incapable of confronting the estimated 12-20 million illegal aliens currently inside our nation's borders and would benefit from the assistance of the more than 600,000 state and local law enforcement officers nationwide who come into contact with illegal aliens every day.
As of August 21, 2007, 23 state and local law-enforcement agencies had struck agreements with ICE, and about 75 others had submitted applications. Most agreements were signed in the prior 18 months. To date, ICE has trained 416 officers, who, in turn, have made over 22,000 arrests in conjunction with Federal law enforcement officials.
HERE ARE MEMBERS OF HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE
Please phone a Representative from your state.
If your state is not listed here, please phone a Representative in your region of the country.
One phone call will be a wonderful help. If you have time and want to be a hero today, please call as many from your region as possible.
ALABAMA
Robert B.Aderholt
Jo Bonner
Robert E. "Bud" Cramer, Jr.
ARIZONA
Ed Pastor
ARKANSAS
Marion Berry
CALIFORNIA
Ken Calvert
Sam Farr
Michael Honda
Barbara Lee
Jerry Lewis
Lucille Roybal-Allard
Adam Schiff
CONNECTICUT
Rosa L. DeLauro
FLORIDA
Allen Boyd
Ander Crenshaw
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Dave Weldon
C.W. Bill Young
GEORGIA
Sanford Bishop
Jack Kingston
IDAHO
Michael K. Simpson
ILLINOIS
Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.
Ray LaHood
Mark Steven Kirk
INDIANA
Peter J. Visclosky
IOWA
Tom Latham
KANSAS
Todd Tiahrt
KENTUCKY
Ben Chandler
Harold Rogers
LOUISIANA
Rodney Alexander
MARYLAND
C.A "Dutch" Ruppersberger
MASSACHUSETTS
John W. Olver
MICHIGAN
Carolyn C. Kilpatrick
Joe Knollenberg
MINNESOTA
Betty McCollum
MISSOURI
Jo Ann Emerson
MONTANA
Dennis R. Rehberg
NEW JERSEY
Rodney P. Frelinghuysen
Steven R. Rothman
NEW MEXICO
Tom Udall
NEW YORK
Maurice D. Hinchey
Steve Israel
Nita M. Lowey
José E. Serrano
James T. Walsh
NORTH CAROLINA
David E. Price
OHIO
David L. Hobson
Marcy Kaptur
Ralph Regula
Tim Ryan
PENNSYVANIA
Chaka Fattah
John P. Murtha
John E. Peterson
RHODE ISLAND
Patrick J. Kennedy
TENNESSEE
Zach Wamp
TEXAS
John Carter
John Abney Culberson
Chet Edwards
Kay Granger
Ciro Rodriguez
VIRGINIA
Virgil H. Goode, Jr.
James P. Moran
Frank R. Wolf
WASHINGTON
Norman D. Dicks
WEST VIRGINIA
Alan B. Mollohan
WISCONSIN
David R. Obey
THANKS, YOUR HELP IS URGENTLY NEEDED,
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