NumbersUSA sent out an Alert today: "Republican Buy-In
Makes Amnesty Real Threat." Much
of the message contained a pitch for contributions; I deleted those sections, although
if you are interested, the NumbersUSA website is here. Here’s the Alert:
This morning, the House Judiciary
Committee passed the Farm Workforce Modernization Act. That would mean the bill
can now be voted on by the House with little additional warning. . . and with
23 Republican Co-sponsors, it's likely to pass.
I bet a lot of people might wonder
why the Judiciary Committee is passing a farm workforce bill. It's because this
bill is really an immigration bill.
We need to stop this bill.
Here's why they don't just call it
an immigration bill: There are none of the good immigration reforms American
voters are demanding, such as requiring E-Verify for every U.S. employer and
eliminating chain migration. There's only more immigration and more amnesties.
- There's no reduction in immigration numbers.
- There's no end to the visa lottery.
- There's no reform of asylum or refugee laws.
- And there's no mandatory E-Verify for any but a tiny proportion of employers... who are going to get all the low-paid, indentured servants they can handle anyway.
Indentured servitude! -- THAT'S
what this bill is about: using amnesty to provide indentured servants to the
groups like the Western Growers Association. That's because it gives hundreds
of thousands of workers -- and their families -- amnesty and green cards...
after they work four to eight years as what amounts to indentured servants
first.
Once the illegal farm workers get
their amnesty, they would be free to take any job in America, not just farm
jobs. On top of that, an additional 40,000 new green cards each year would be
issued for unskilled workers to work in ANY job they can get in America.
Please don't write off this threat
as merely coming from extremists in the House. It has overwhelming support from
the Democratic caucus, and almost two dozen Republican House members are
co-sponsoring. So, especially with the impeachment battle, it's hard to take
anything for granted.
We're going to need hundreds of
thousands of our members to contact Congress. For that to happen, we're going
to need to activate our millions of activists, with millions upon millions of
emails and social media messages. We've just finished a vital overhaul of our
website, allowing much easier access to actions while maintaining security and
discretion.
Two Ohio Representatives are on the Judiciary Committee: Steve Chabot [https://chabot.house.gov/] and Jim Jordan [https://jordan.house.gov/]. Click here for the full House of Representatives
roster and contact information.
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