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butterbean · Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 2271

Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, joined by lawmakers from Florida and California and supported by hundreds of farm, labor and church groups, is reintroducing a guest-worker plan that's been debated for years. As many as 1.5 million farm workers and their relatives now in this country illegally could gain legal status under the bill. "I happen to believe we have the votes," said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. "I believe the bill can move quickly."

It is incredible that politicians claim they want to implement the recommendations of the 911 Commission but then propose legislation that actually goes in precisely the opposite direction! My concerns are based on history and experience.

The history I refer to is that the terrorists who attacked our country were able to embed themselves in our country by exploiting vulnerabilities of the immigration system. On September 1, 2006, I was called before the House Judiciary Committee by F. James Sensenbrenner, former chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, as a witness at a field hearing conducted in Iowa. The hearing topic was, "Is the Reid-Kennedy Bill a Repeat of the Failed Amnesty of 1986?"

A portion of my prepared testimony for that hearing below:

"A nation’s primary responsibility is to provide for the safety and security of its citizens and yet, for reasons I cannot begin to fathom, the members of the Senate who voted for S. 2611 are seemingly oblivious to the lessons that the disastrous amnesty of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA) should have taught us. That piece of legislation lead to the greatest influx of illegal aliens in the history of our nation. Fraud and a lack of integrity of the immigration system not only flooded our nation with illegal aliens who ran our borders, hoping that what had been billed as a ‘one time’ amnesty would be repeated, but it also enabled a number of terrorists and many criminals to enter the United States and then embed themselves in the United States.

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marcy · Joined: 01 Sep 2006 Posts: 93

I recieved an e-mail from US Borderwatch, they asked that I e-mail my Senators and ask them not to support S237, I did, not sure it will work. Hopefully this will not get passed.

butterbean · Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 2271

marcy · Joined: 01 Sep 2006 Posts: 93

Butterbean , Thanks for the info. I e-mailed Borderwatch because when I looked up bill S 237 it is the min. wage bill, nothing about illegal immigration. Feel really stupid! Wrote to them about their e-mail waiting for reply. I try to read all the bills and check how everyone is voting on the issues. I made a mistake today, I got so caught up in the illegal issue I did not check it out for myself. I will not let that happen again. Thanks again for all your information!