Thoughts of HoMan

Big Big Issue…

You’re not going to believe this… but I hope you hear this and I hope you get really pissed off when I tell you.



Keep in mind… we still have a little bit of time here… but it’s only because the House of Representatives unexpectedly delayed the Iraq supplemental spending Bill Thursday, the full Senate won't be allowed to vote on the amnesty bill that the Senate Appropriations Committee unexpectedly took up and approved Thursday and attached to it.



If you didn’t catch that… I’ll spell it out. There is an AMNESTY Bill attached to an IRAQ spending bill. So in order to fund our troops and their safety… Feinstein wants to trade that for Criminal Amnesty.



It now looks like the full Senate won't be allowed to vote on the amnesty for around 1.3 million illegal alien ag workers (plus their families) until next Wednesday.



That gives us some time to beat this atrocity.



This bill is sick and really does about four things.



- Grant a three-year work visa followed by a permanent greencard to all illegal aliens who have been working as shepherds, goat herders and dairy herders.



- Grant a five-year work visa to the estimated 1.3 million illegal aliens working in other agricultural jobs -- plus all of their families. There is no instruction on what happens after the five years.



- Grant a tripling of the maximum number of H-2B visas for lower skill, non-agricultural seasonal workers.



- Grant industries an extra 218,000 additional permanent green cards for skilled foreign workers.



And the worst part about the whole this is that we’ve told Congress about a hundred times that WE DON’T WANT CRIMINAL AMNESTY IN ANY FASHION.



Here’s what it takes to qualify.



You only have to meet ONE of the following three criteria to get the amnesty:

• Earned $7,000 working in agriculture during the 2004-2007 period.



• Or worked 863 hours in agriculture during the 2004-2007 period.



• Or worked at least a little bit in agriculture on 150 different days during the 2004-2007 period.



That amounts to an average of $1,750 per year ...

... or 216 hours per year (the equivalent of 4 hours per week) ...

... or parts of 37 days per year.



Call the offices of both of your state's U.S.

Senators and tell them:

• The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday afternoon committed an outrageous act of disrespect for our men and women in uniform and to the citizens of this country by attaching an illegal-alien amnesty to the Iraq spending bill.



• Urge the Senator to vote and work to strip the amnesty from the Iraq spending bill on the floor.



• You - or the Senator - may already oppose this spending bill. But if the Senator is inclined to vote YES on the Iraq bill, ask the Senator to definitely vote NO and send it back to committee if the amnesty is NOT stripped.



• There is no need for an amnesty to provide growers with workers. There already is an H-2A foreign ag worker program that provides growers with an unlimited number of temporary workers if the growers agree to pay a decent wage and ensure that they go home at the end of the season. Feinstein is just trying to protect the abysmally low wages and bad working conditions that farmworkers labor under.



We don’t want AMNESTY… We don’t want the NAU… We shouldn’t be kneeling before a bunch of Criminal Immigrants.



This makes me sick.