Action Alert: Immigration Amnesty Fiasco

I'm cutting and pasting from an email I got today, because I think it pretty well sums up the situation with respect to the upcoming vote for the alive again Immigration Amnesty Bill. Why this thing has President Bush's support and strong backing is beyond me. From where I sit, support of this bill amounts to a breach of any legislator or the president's oath to uphold the constitution.

Here is the paste:

We need 41 Senators to vote NO on cloture next Tuesday or to not show up
for the vote.

Sen. Johnson (D-S.D.) is still seriously ill and expected to be a
no-show.

We believe we have solid commitments from 32 other Senators that they
will vote NO on cloture that would allow the Kennedy/Bush amnesty (S. 1639) to
come to the Senate floor for debate.

That would give us 33 of the 41 we need.

Congratulations to all of you who have elected Senators solidly in our camp
or who have persuaded Senators to move to the anti-amnesty side -- those
Senators in this list:

32 DEFINITE 'NO' ON AMNESTY CLOTURE Many of you will find ways to express tremendous appreciation and to help solidify them so that no offer from the White House or party leadership can turn them at the last moment.
Alexander (R-Tenn.)
Allard (R-Colo.)
Baucus (D-Mont.)
Byrd (D-W.Va.)
Bunning (R-Ky.)
Chambliss (R-Ga.)
Coburn (R-Okla.)
Corker (R-Tenn.)
Cornyn (R-Texas)
Crapo (R-Idaho)
DeMint (R-S.C.)
Dole (R-N.C.)
Dorgan (D-N.D.)
Enzi (R-Wyo.)
Grassley (R-Iowa)
Hutchison (R-Texas)
Inhofe (R-Okla.)
Isakson (R-Ga.)
Landrieu (D-La.)
McCaskill (D-Mo.)
Pryor (D-Ark.)
Roberts (R-Kan.)
Rockefeller (D-W.Va.)
Sanders (I-Vt.)
Sessions (R-Ala.)
Shelby (R-Ala.)
Smith (R-Ore.)
Stabenow (D-Mich.)
Sununu (R-N.H.)
Tester (D-Mont.)
Thune (R-S.D.)
Vitter (R-La.)

12 SENATORS LEANING NO ON FINAL PASSAGE BUT PROBABLY LEANING YES ON CLOTURE
(when it counts) Please do everything you can to get to these Senators and help
them understand what is at stake and where the citizens of your state stand.
Bond (R-Mo.)
Bingaman (D-N.M.)
Burr (R-N.C.)
Boxer (D-Calif.)
Cochran (R-Miss.)
Conrad (D-N.D.)
Ensign (R-Nev.)
Levin (D-Mich.)
Gregg (R-N.H.)
Nelson (D-Neb.)
Hatch (R-Utah)
Webb (D-Va.)

ALL OTHER SENATORS APPEAR TO BE PLANNING TO VOTE TO HELP PASS A BILL THAT WOULD BE:

• largest amnesty for illegal aliens in history
• largest increase in foreign labor in history
• largest expansion of social welfare programs in history (to handle the 35-40
  million -- mostly low-educated, low-skilled -- foreigners who would get Green
  Cards over the next 20 years alone

All those Senators need your constant phoning, as well. A few could still
be brought to the side of American workers, students and communities and vote NO
on the amnesty. And the rest need to be shown full wrath to help the others
decide to stay on the side of the voters.

Source: NumbersUSA: http://www.numbersusa.com

Make it a point to email and call your Senator's office first thing on Monday. Even better, grab a few of your friends and go visit his or her local office and make your point in person. These Senators need to understand that to vote for cloture is the real measure of whether they support this monstrosity of an amnesty bill or not.