Thursday, June 27, 2013

Senate Passes Amnesty


SPECIAL ALERT
Senate Passes S.744 Amnesty


What just happened:
Shortly before 1 p.m., 68 Senators voted for S. 744 in the all-important final cloture vote. It needed 60 votes. This assures its final passage by the Senate (only 50 votes needed) later today. (See who voted for cloture below.)
The bad news:
If eventually signed into law, this bill would threaten to knock millions of Americans out of the middle class by flooding their occupations with 33 million foreign citizens who are offered lifetime work permits over the next decade. Can you believe 68 U.S. Senators voted for that?
The willingness of every single Democratic Senator and almost a third of Republicans to accept the corporate lobbyists' insistence that our country faces devastating labor shortages is disheartening to all of us who have fought so hard to protect the 20 million Americans who can't find a full-time job, and the millions more who have seen their real wages declining for decades during a worker surplus.
What's next, and the good news about your efforts thus far:
Now, we must turn our full efforts to the U.S. House of Representatives and another huge grassroots effort in July. But this will be only a three-week fight before the month-long August recess.
There is no question that the five-month opposition that all of you have waged is having good results in the House, where the Senate bill is facing an increasingly hostile reception.
If the House refuses to move a giant overall amnesty, it doesn't matter what the Senate has done.
For all of you who have spent so much of your time recently in this fight, you need a respite. I urge you to take a bit of a breather from activism this next week, celebrate our nation's Independence Day, enjoy your families and friends. You've earned it.
As for today, it sure would be great if you took a moment to make an on-line donation to re-build the C-4 activism political battle fund for our big July House Battle!

For example, Republican Bob Corker, the Senator who rescued the S. 744 amnesty from defeat last week with a fig-leaf border control amendment, admitted on the floor this morning that the bill is extremely unpopular back in his state of Tennessee.
All of us at NumbersUSA thank you for everything you have done thus far. And we thank you for all Americans who will benefit if the House blocks the incredibly harmful provisions of S. 744.
Even if the House passes an absolutely wonderful immigration bill -- such as the enforcement legislation recently passed overwhelmingly by the Judiciary Committee -- that would give Senate leaders the opportunity to ask for a joint Senate/House "Conference Committee" which would split the difference between that very good bill and the Senate monstrosity.
If a Conference compromise bill were to include an amnesty, both the Senate and House would need to vote for it, without opportunity for amendment. The general thinking here in Washington is that most House Democrats would vote for the Conference "report" bill and very likely the needed couple dozen or so House Republicans would, too..
We must re-build our battle funds for the July fight.
Help us re-build our battle funds for the July fight.
 


 Today, 68 Senators cast votes that will be very difficult to ever redeem with future actions.

After all the promises of "enforcement first," these Senators accepted an entirely "amnesty first" bill that in the first few months would give work permits and legalization to some 11 million foreign citizens who either (a) crossed the border illegally, most of them by paying drug cartels and many of them by helping the cartels move drugs, or who (b) violated the promises on their vacation and guest visas and illegally took U.S. jobs (often through identity theft and fraud) and a share of the taxpayer-provided infrastructure.
Every single Democratic Senator voted YES to the amnesty and to the arguments of corporate lobbyists that a nation -- with 20 million Americans unable to find full-time jobs in a country plagued with labor shortages -- must give out 33 million new lifetime work permits to foreign citizens over the next decade.
And these Republican Senators voted YES to the same provisions, breaking with the majority of their Party and all their Party leaders in the Senate:
Alexander (R-TN)
Ayotte (R-NH)
Chiesa (R-NJ)
Collins (R-ME)
Corker (R-TN)
Flake (R-AZ)
Graham (R-SC)
Hatch (R-UT)
Heller (R-NV)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Kirk (R-IL)
McCain (R-AZ)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Rubio (R-FL)



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