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DEAR FRIENDS,
I know you will want to hear about the Aderholt bill which meets two essential criteria for me to come to you with highest excitement:
No. 1: It has a chance to pass.
Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.) is a member of the House Appropriations
Committee where he is introducing his bill as an amendment to be
attached to the spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security.
He is a respected senior Member among the mainstream of House
Republicans. He is already getting support from other Committee
members.
The
House Republican leadership has promised to pass something that
de-funds at least the most recent executive amnesty. The Aderholt bill
is one of the three or four that is shaping up as the likely vehicle.
No. 2: It deals with the overall problems of immigration enforcement.
We've all been waiting for a bill like this for six years as the Obama
Administration has systematically re-shaped immigration laws and
stopped and distorted all kinds of enforcement. The Aderholt bill not
only de-funds the executive amnesty the President announced in November
but it also overturns unilateral anti-enforcement actions he has been
taking for six years.
THE ADERHOLT BILL:
- Prohibits the President's use of granting parole to illegal aliens
- Prohibits the Administration from granting work permits to all illegal aliens
- Defunds all executive actions on immigration, including all memos issued by the Department of Homeland Security
- Closes
the loophole that played a large role in last summer's border surge by
treating illegal aliens from non-contiguous countries the same as
contiguous countries, making them easier to remove
- Prohibits illegal aliens from accessing Social Security, medicare, and benefits from the Affordable Care Act
- Reinstates the Secure Communities program
- Restricts federal funding to municipalities that provide sanctuary to illegal aliens
- Prohibits the government from providing legal council to illegal aliens in removal proceedings
- Restricts the Administration's ability to grant and extend Temporary Protected Status to illegal aliens
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Send a fax to your U.S. Representative to make sure he/she knows that
there is passionate support in your District to stop DHS from issuing
work permits to millions of illegal aliens.
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Everything is moving fast.
The Appropriations Committee votes on de-funding options as early as tomorrow (Friday).
The full House may be voting on a final DHS spending bill as early as next Wednesday, sending it to the Senate.
You
will remember that in December, NumbersUSA activists flooded Capitol
phone lines with calls for the House to vote on a spending bill that
included a de-funding of the executive amnesties.
We
lost that skirmish. Instead, Congress funded most of the government
through September but funded DHS (Homeland Security) only into February.
Although
it is a much restricted opportunity for what we wanted, this is our
chance to stop the amnesty with the wording of the DHS spending bill
this month.
Speaker John Boehner sounded good today when he met the media.
Earlier
in the day, pro-illegal-immigration forces began promoting the idea
that because of the terrorism in Paris, the House Republicans would have
to back off "threatening to shut-down" the federal security agency over
the amnesty issue.
Asked about that, Speaker Boehner today said:
"I
don't think the funding of DHS is at risk. What I do think is at risk
is the rule of law and our Constitution, and we have to act -- so we
will."
Various
Republicans are saying the House will pass a bill that fully funds DHS
the rest of the year but prohibits spending any money to give out work
permits and other benefits to illegal aliens. If the President vetoes
that bill, they say, it is the President who would be shutting down DHS.
Speaker Boehner has rarely shown a lot of spine in standing up to the open-border crowd, so his statement today was reassuring.
Your
faxes today -- and responses to other requests over the next week --
will help ensure that the Speaker sticks to his promise to act in
defense of the rule of law and the Constitution.
THANKS FOR YOUR HELP,
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