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AgJOBS Amnesty 2008 Feinstein Amendment to the Senate Appropriation Committee’s 2008 Iraq Supplemental Spending Bill The Feinstein amnesty, titled “Emergency Agriculture Relief,” is 101 pages long. It was submitted to Members of the Senate Appropriations Committee on May 15, 2008—the same day it was passed by the Committee by a vote of 17 to 12. The amendment would require the Department of Homeland Security to grant “emergency agricultural worker status” (i.e., amnesty) for up to five years to as many as 1.35 million illegal aliens, plus their spouses and children, if the illegal alien: • Could show by “a preponderance of the evidence” that he worked 863 hours or 150 work days (defined as 5.75 hours of work per “work day”), or earned at least $7,000 in agricultural employment between January1, 2004, and December 31, 2007; In other words, the illegal alien would have to show that he was illegally employed in agriculturefor a grand total of less than 22 weeks during a four-year period! And he can prove his employment history “by producing sufficient evidence to show the extent of that employment as a matter of just and reasonable inference.” he is represented by an attorney or a nonprofit organization, during an 18-month application period that would begin six months after enactment of the amnesty; No illegal alien is permitted to file an application for the amnesty without assistance from an attorney or an advocacy group—a “qualified designated entity” is defined as a labor or employer association or “any such other person” with “substantial experience” in filing adjustment of status applications. • Was not a known terrorist or convicted criminal; and Criminals would only be barred if they had been convicted of one or more felonies or three or more misdemeanors, so a couple of convictions for domestic violence or drunk and disorderly are fine, since those are generally misdemeanor offenses. And, of course, terrorists-in-waiting— those who have not yet committed a terrorist act or been caught with other known terrorists so they could be added to the watch list—likely would have no trouble qualifying for this amnesty, NumbersUSA 310 Sixth Street, S.E., Washington, D.C. 20003 (202) 543-1341 www.NumbersUSA .com 2 just as Mahmud Abouhalima, an illegal-alien cab driver in New York, qualified for the 1986 agricultural amnesty before going on to drive a bomb into the World Trade Center in 1993. Once an illegal alien met these minimal qualifications, he would be entitled to: • Bring his spouse and children here to join him, or legalize their status, if they are already here illegally; • Official U.S. government identification documents, including a valid social security number —with which he would be able to apply for a driver’s license—and a work permit (spouses would be allowed to apply for work permits, as well); and • Immunity from prosecution for committing social security fraud if he had been working illegally with a false or stolen social security number. In order to keep “emergency agricultural worker status,” formerly illegal aliens would have to agree to part-time indentured servitude. • They would have to complete 100 “work days” of agricultural work each year in order to keep their status for up to five years, at which point their status would terminate. That would still leave them 265 days a year to compete with working-class Americans for better paying jobs, which they (and their spouses) would be able to do legally with their newly obtained work permits. (Of course, the Secretary of Homeland Security would be authorized to waive this work requirement due to pregnancy, injury, disease, special needs for a minor child, severe weather conditions, or employment termination without just cause.) • They would also have to pay applicable Federal income taxes, but only for their legal employment. They would not be required to pay any back taxes owed for work they did while in the United States illegally. Enactment of this “emergency” amnesty would bring virtually all immigration enforcement to a grinding halt: • Beginning on the day of enactment, no illegal alien able to make “nonfrivolous” claim that he would qualify for amnesty could be deported until 30 days after the beginning of the application period or until his application for amnesty was adjudicated, which ever is later. • An illegal alien apprehended after the application period began would have to be given 30 days to file an application, if he could make a “nonfrivolous” claim, and could not be deported until the application was adjudicated. NumbersUSA
Submitted by TruthHurts on Tue, 05/20/2008 - 10:55am.
If the "Fair Tax Bill" were passed, all the illegals would generate more then enough money to 1) remove the tax payers burden for covering all the costs involved with them being here. 2) Generate additional funding to combat the problem. It's a win win situation. Go to "FairTax.org" and sign this petition. We can make all those that are living underground pay their fair share of taxes. When you contact your congressmen/Women please remind them to support the Fair Tax Bill.
TRUTHHURTS Submitted by Foxx on Tue, 05/20/2008 - 3:31pm.
If only we still had the "line item veto". This is nohting more than a political ploy, they know that if the Prez. disagrees with one part, then the entire bill is sent back with a veto. So, i agree, the service men and women deserve better. Attach this bill to another or make it a bill of it's own. At least there is finally with exception to the criminal part an amnesty bill that makes sense that has potential to pass. Slightly more comprehensive and achieveable than total deportation, just try to deport the population of Florida, let me know how that works for you. And would the peanut gallery give up on the fair tax, it's going to die in whatever committee it's sent to. All criminal illegals with any felony and any suspected or known terrorists should be our primary concern first, then we can pass the amnesty bill.
Submitted by freespeech on Tue, 05/20/2008 - 7:48pm.
Foxx you are right in your assessment of the ploy going on in congress. The ones involved in this fiasco are a total disgrace to the seat they hold. Foxx don’t get me wrong I don’t mean any disrespect on the position you hold on illegal Immigration. You are right in one respect; we can’t even evacuate the state in a hurricane let alone deport 20 million people that have broken our laws to get here. Let me clarify my position one more time, we won’t have to deport them. If we enforce the laws we have on the books, and pass the save act they will go home in their own. It is called enforcement through attrition. Submitted by Foxx on Tue, 05/20/2008 - 10:02pm.
I understand your assessment and agree. I'm against directly telling someone provided they have been good decent illegal citizens that they can no longer live here, when we let them in.....in the first place. If the save act makes it impossible to live here, then any logical person would leave, but i'm still on the fence in regards to the save act. All that bill does is say indirectly, like a quiet kick in the rear, get out.
Submitted by lilyslore on Tue, 05/20/2008 - 10:10pm.
...the only people who will benefit from the fraud that is the comically named the Fair Tax are drug dealers, slavers and smugglers who will no longer have to account for their ill gotten gains. After all, the Fair Taxers don't care where the money came from, only that they get their slice of the Rancid Pie of Corruption in the form of sales taxes to subsidize an overblown and out of control Federal Government. Any bill that asks you suspend the Laws Of Mathematics is a hoax. Ask your congressman to abhor this fiasco. Lily's Lore "I don't ever want to be rescued And I don't ever want to be saved I got a feelin' that I'm gonna be alive forever Dancin' on the edge of a grave..." Jim Steinman Submitted by joninclay on Wed, 05/21/2008 - 9:44am.
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Sen. Bill Nelson, And Martinez
United States SenateWashington D.C. 20510
How could the Senate vote to attach an amnesty to the Iraq supplemental bill? How can 17 Senators put the rights of illegal aliens over the safety of our brave men and women fighting in Iraq?
There is absolutely no need for any sort of amnesty, and particularly not one for agricultural workers. Farmers, orcharddist, and other agribusiness-owners can take advantage of the H-2A program to attain seasonal help. The Senate Appropriations Committee's vote only helps the renegade businessmen who would rather hire illegal workers at the expense of Americans just to make a quick profit.
This vote in favor of amnesty is a vote against our brave men and women fighting in Iraq..
Did you also know that this amnesty bill also contains provisions to allow even more H-2B workers? We have more than enough foreign workers already, especially when one considers the number of unemployed American workers! Please do your patriotic duty and either have the amnesty and foreign-worker provisions stripped from the Iraq supplemental funding bill or vote the entire bill down. Our brave servicemen and women risking their lives for our freedom deserve better than to be used in this manner.