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From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
Date: Wednesday, 8APR09 Noon EDT
Missouri's McCaskill was an anti-amnesty Democrat but said yesterday she backs
DREAM amnesty
DEAR MISSOURIANS,
Phone Sen. McCaskill's offices now and protest her revelation yesterday at a
Union, Mo. town hall meeting that she probably will vote for the DREAM amnesty.
Fellow Missourians, your activism has never been more important in the
immigration battle than now.
Because Sen. McCaskill has been the backbone of anti-amnesty, pro-enforcement
Democrats in the Senate, many believe that if she flips to the open-borders
side, an amnesty will indeed pass this year.
Washington observers have based that in part because they have not believed
that Missouri voters would allow their Senator to join the open-borders side.
Their reasoning is that if Missourians are actually ALLOW one of their Senators
to support an amnesty, that would mean acceptance of open borders surely will
have become mainstream for the country as a whole, as well.
Please, Missourians, SHOW ME you have the the commitment to send a clear
message to Sen. McCaskill, to Senate leaders and to the President for the sake
of the whole nation.
Please go to your Action Buffet corkboard where you will find a fax to send to
Sen. McCaskill and a phone note with phone numbers and talking points. Most
importantly, on the phone note, you will find a button to take you to a form
where you can report what you are told when you call the Senator's office.
We feel quite certain that the Senator's staff will be totally uninformed --
worse, misinformed -- about the DREAM Act because it is obvious that Sen.
McCaskill has no idea what is in the legislation she says she is inclined to
support.
IT IS IMPORTANT THAT EVERY OFFICE AND EVERY STAFF MEMBER HEAR FROM YOU -- SO,
TAKE YOUR PICK OF THE FOLOWING OFFICES.
Staffers in every office need to know that their Senator has crossed the line
and is in great political danger.
If you live near one of these offices, drop by and talk to a staffer in person.
St. Louis, MO
ph: 314-367-1364 adr: 5850 A Delmar Boulevard, St. Louis, MO 63112
Washington, DC
ph: 202-224-6154 adr: SH 717, Washington, DC 20510
Springfield, MO
ph: 417-868-8745 adr: 324 Park Central West, Springfield, MO 65806
Cape Girardeau, MO
ph: 573-651-0964 adr: 555 Independence Avenue, Cape Girardeau, MO 63703
Columbia, MO
ph: 573-442-7130 adr: 915 East Ash Street, Columbia, MO 65201
Kansas City, MO
ph: 816-421-1639 adr: 4141 Pennsylvania, Kansas City, MO 64111
THE CREDIBILITY OF OUR CONCERN
You need to know that we are starting this emergency campaign based on
something solid.
What we have is a report of the town hall meeting in the St. Louis Beacon which
you can read for yourself.
I have checked with Hill sources this morning who say that the report of
McCaskill's amnesty comments are consistent with what has been circulating
about her in Democratic circles on Capitol Hill.
If Sen. McCaskill steps back and publicly declares that all these reports are
wrong, we will gladly call off this campaign and go back to treating her as one
of our heroes.
WHY IS NO. 2 BEST SENATE DEMOCRAT TURNING AGAINST AMERICAN WORKERS?
During her first two years in the Senate, McCaskill earned an overall A-minus
Immigration-Reduction Grade and a solid A on amnesty votes.
She currently has the second best grade of all Senate Democrats in protecting
American workers from losing jobs to foreign workers.
Why would she turn on her record, on Missouri voters and on American workers by
supporting a gigantic amnesty?
For now, I'm hoping that the reason is that she has allowed herself to be
misled because of her very close association with Pres. Obama and because (our
Hill sources tell us) his Administration is applying incredible pressure on all
Democrats to support the DREAM amnesty as a supposedly narrow bill for "the
kids."
Your job is to force Sen. McCaskill and her staff to look at what the DREAM
amnesty actually does and bring her back to her principles and to the wishes of
her constituents.
You know that there is not a big clamor anywhere in Missouri for her to become
an amnesty champion. The impetus has to be based on pleasing the open-borders
leadership of the Democratic Party.
Bring her back to her roots, Missourians.
THE SENATOR'S CONFUSION
Here are some excerpts from the news story of the Union town hall meeting:
McCaskill, in turn, reaffirmed her longstanding argument that the best way to
battle illegal immigration is to enforce stiff penalties on employers who
knowingly hired illegals and, for example, "put 14 in a hotel room ...and pay
them $200 in cash on Fridays" to work as roofing or lawn crews.
Such jobs are the real enticement for illegal immigrants and their
disappearance is the best was to discourage it, the senator said.
Good stuff. This is the old McCaskill we have loved.
However, McCaskill emphasized that she also had sympathy for some teenagers who
had been brought to the United States as infants or toddlers by their
illegal-immigrant parents. The teens (some who were unaware of their illegal
status) now face deportation, because their status became known when they
applied for college or the military.
"We have a heart-breaking example of young woman in mid-Missouri. Who's
valedictorian of her class,'' McCaskill said. "Huge community leader in her
church. Now having trouble staying the country because her parents didn't
follow the rules.''
OK, McCaskill described a fairly narrow group of people about whom we can have
some honest debate about what to do with them. But . . .
"The DREAM Act is hard,'' McCaskill said. But she then added, "I will probably
vote for the DREAM act. I didn't vote for it last time."
The difference with the new version is that it's tightly tailored to address
only a limited number cases of illegal-immigrant teens who have been longtime
U.S. residents and could be productive adult citizens, McCaskill said.
* * * * *
McCaskill's announcement won applause from some, and groans from others.
NOTHING 'TIGHTLY TAILORED' ABOUT DREAM AMNESTY
Read the DREAM blog by Rosemary Jenks (NumbersUSA's Director of Government
Relations). She has analyzed every line of the DREAM Act and tells you in the
blog how:
the DREAM Act offers immediate provisional amnesty to virtually every illegal
alien up to the age of 35.
All a person has to do is file an application that CLAIMS to meet the criteria.
That gives the illegal aliens an immediate provisional amnesty.
Although the feds may eventually require some paper to show a degree from
somewhere, you can be sure that the fraudulant document industry is already
preparing the plates to turn out these false diplomas at a good profit.
The likelihood of any illegal alien losing the amnesty because of fraud is
unlikely because DREAM is written so that nobody can lose the amnesty unless
the feds do the expensive investigation to PROVE that the illegal alien isn't
qualified.
Rosemary also shows that the DREAM Act opens the way for a pathway to
citizenship for most of the illegal aliens who are OVER the age of 35 if they
are related to illegal aliens under 35. Unless an amnesty eliminates Chain
Migration categories, it will always open the way for millions upon million
more relatives, including those who are illegally already in this country.
You see, the tear-jerking description that Sen. McCaskill gave is only a tiny
part of the DREAM Amnesty.
If Sen. McCaskill wants to help the valedictorian illegal aliens, then she
should write a bill that narrowly does that -- not support a bill that offers
the chance of citizenship to MILLIONS of illegal aliens.
Missourians, you have to help pull Sen. McCaskill back from the brink of a
horrible disaster that would permanently allow U.S. jobs for millions of
illegal aliens while leaving millions of Americans unemployed.
THANKS,
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come to it daily for fresh news, blogs and actions about our great national
immigration battle.
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