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	<title>Comments on: Amnesty Alert!</title>
	<link>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2008/05/19/amnesty-alert/</link>
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		<title>By: jfk</title>
		<link>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2008/05/19/amnesty-alert/#comment-65510</link>
		<dc:creator>jfk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 01:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2008/05/19/amnesty-alert/#comment-65510</guid>
		<description>Sahdman, we will need to put together our version of a million man march when that day occurs.  I'm serious; it will take a peaceful demonstration of us by the hundreds of thousands to show these lawmakers how important this issue is to us.  I respectfully suggest to BVBL, NumbersUSA, the Minutemen, and other concerned groups that they start planning this type of organized protest now.  We know for sure that, no matter who wins the presidential election, the next president will push an amnesty program to a Congress that will likely be run by Democrats.  I can't think of any Dems offhand in the Senate or House that are actively opposed to amnesty.  Hope I am wrong about that, by the way....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sahdman, we will need to put together our version of a million man march when that day occurs.  I&#8217;m serious; it will take a peaceful demonstration of us by the hundreds of thousands to show these lawmakers how important this issue is to us.  I respectfully suggest to BVBL, NumbersUSA, the Minutemen, and other concerned groups that they start planning this type of organized protest now.  We know for sure that, no matter who wins the presidential election, the next president will push an amnesty program to a Congress that will likely be run by Democrats.  I can&#8217;t think of any Dems offhand in the Senate or House that are actively opposed to amnesty.  Hope I am wrong about that, by the way&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: sahdman</title>
		<link>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2008/05/19/amnesty-alert/#comment-65435</link>
		<dc:creator>sahdman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 17:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2008/05/19/amnesty-alert/#comment-65435</guid>
		<description>Once Obama or Mccain get in office and the Democrats have free reign over everything political.  They are going to shove amnesty down the throats of Americans.  I fear there is going to be a day that people get tired of calling, faxing, emailing, sending letters.  And when we stop they will pass every form of amnesty they can think of.  It is truly scary.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Once Obama or Mccain get in office and the Democrats have free reign over everything political.  They are going to shove amnesty down the throats of Americans.  I fear there is going to be a day that people get tired of calling, faxing, emailing, sending letters.  And when we stop they will pass every form of amnesty they can think of.  It is truly scary.</p>
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		<title>By: Howard the Duck</title>
		<link>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2008/05/19/amnesty-alert/#comment-65420</link>
		<dc:creator>Howard the Duck</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 16:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2008/05/19/amnesty-alert/#comment-65420</guid>
		<description>I have always received replys from Warner, Webb, and Allen on this issue.  The important thing is to contact your Senator.  You can go to senate.gov and bring up your Virginia Senators, which provides an email link.

You can paste the numbersusa email message there, or do it through numbersusa.com

http://www.numbersusa.com/faxcenter?action=preview&#38;ID=10119

Thanks in advance!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have always received replys from Warner, Webb, and Allen on this issue.  The important thing is to contact your Senator.  You can go to senate.gov and bring up your Virginia Senators, which provides an email link.</p>
<p>You can paste the numbersusa email message there, or do it through numbersusa.com</p>
<p><a href="http://www.numbersusa.com/faxcenter?action=preview&amp;ID=10119" rel="nofollow">http://www.numbersusa.com/faxcenter?action=preview&amp;ID=10119</a></p>
<p>Thanks in advance!</p>
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		<title>By: Loudoun</title>
		<link>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2008/05/19/amnesty-alert/#comment-65418</link>
		<dc:creator>Loudoun</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 16:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2008/05/19/amnesty-alert/#comment-65418</guid>
		<description>I just spoke with Senator Majoriy Leader Reid's aide and she indicated that she believes the amnesty language will be stripped from the bill.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just spoke with Senator Majoriy Leader Reid&#8217;s aide and she indicated that she believes the amnesty language will be stripped from the bill.</p>
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		<title>By: Loudoun</title>
		<link>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2008/05/19/amnesty-alert/#comment-65417</link>
		<dc:creator>Loudoun</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 16:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2008/05/19/amnesty-alert/#comment-65417</guid>
		<description>If you can't get in touch through the DC offices, call the local offices and leave a message with a staffer:

DC Office of Senator John Warner
Washington, DC
202-224-2023 
 
Midlothian Office of Sen. John Warner
Midlothian, VA
804-739-0247 

D.C. Office of Sen. James Webb
Washington, DC
202-224-4024  

Arlington Office of Sen. James Webb
Arlington, VA
703-807-0581</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you can&#8217;t get in touch through the DC offices, call the local offices and leave a message with a staffer:</p>
<p>DC Office of Senator John Warner<br />
Washington, DC<br />
202-224-2023 </p>
<p>Midlothian Office of Sen. John Warner<br />
Midlothian, VA<br />
804-739-0247 </p>
<p>D.C. Office of Sen. James Webb<br />
Washington, DC<br />
202-224-4024  </p>
<p>Arlington Office of Sen. James Webb<br />
Arlington, VA<br />
703-807-0581</p>
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		<title>By: starryflights</title>
		<link>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2008/05/19/amnesty-alert/#comment-65415</link>
		<dc:creator>starryflights</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 16:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2008/05/19/amnesty-alert/#comment-65415</guid>
		<description>I have been sending faxes and calling each day.  I hope enough citizens call with their outrage about what Congress has done.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have been sending faxes and calling each day.  I hope enough citizens call with their outrage about what Congress has done.</p>
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		<title>By: ladyxx</title>
		<link>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2008/05/19/amnesty-alert/#comment-65414</link>
		<dc:creator>ladyxx</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 16:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2008/05/19/amnesty-alert/#comment-65414</guid>
		<description>An Email from FAIR

Amnesty Amendments Set to Hit the Senate Floor Today
Call Your Senators NOW!!

As we reported last week, during the Senate Appropriations Committee mark-up of the Iraq War Funding Bill, Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Larry Craig (R-ID) successfully attached a version of AgJOBS onto the bill. This special interest legislation is intended to protect sources of cheap labor by granting 5-year amnesty visas to 1.35 million illegal aliens plus their spouses and children. To see a summary of the amnesty portion of the Feinstein-Craig amendment, click here.  THE SENATE IS SET TO BEGIN DEBATE ON THE IRAQ WAR FUNDING BILL AS EARLY AS TODAY!!!! FAIR is urging all members, activists and friends to call their Senators NOW and urge them to strip all immigration amendments from the bill.

If that weren't enough, the Senate Appropriations Committee also saddled the Iraq War Funding Bill with:

    * An amendment authored by Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) that will dramatically expand the number of unskilled H-2B guest workers entering the U.S. each year;
    * An amendment authored by Senators Patty Murray (D-WA) and Judd Gregg (R-NH) that will make approximately 218,000 more green cards available for multinational executives and so-called "highly skilled workers" by "recapturing" visas from as far back as 1994; and 
    * An amendment authored by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) that grants a 5-year extension to a program that helps wealthy investors get green cards. 

PLEASE CALL YOUR SENATORS NOW AND URGE THEM TO STRIP ALL IMMIGRATION AMENDMENTS FROM THE IRAQ WAR FUNDING BILL!!! As soon as you have called your own Senators, please also call Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). These two leaders are the most powerful, influential, and able to strip these disastrous amendments from the Iraq War Funding Bill. When you call these Senators, please tell them: 

    * The American people overwhelmingly rejected amnesty for illegal aliens in 2007;
    * You are outraged the Senate is once again attempting to sneak amnesty and other immigration amendments aimed at appeasing corporate interests into an unrelated appropriations bill;
    * The debate over the funding for the troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan should not be held hostage by the corporate cheap labor interests in Washington, DC!  

To find your Senators' contact information, click here

http://www.fairus.org/site/R?i=PSevpA1nMbIoLJm7b37xuQ... 

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) 
DC Office (202) 224-3542
District Office (702) 388-5020

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
DC Office (202) 224-2541
District Office (502) 582-6304</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An Email from FAIR</p>
<p>Amnesty Amendments Set to Hit the Senate Floor Today<br />
Call Your Senators NOW!!</p>
<p>As we reported last week, during the Senate Appropriations Committee mark-up of the Iraq War Funding Bill, Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Larry Craig (R-ID) successfully attached a version of AgJOBS onto the bill. This special interest legislation is intended to protect sources of cheap labor by granting 5-year amnesty visas to 1.35 million illegal aliens plus their spouses and children. To see a summary of the amnesty portion of the Feinstein-Craig amendment, click here.  THE SENATE IS SET TO BEGIN DEBATE ON THE IRAQ WAR FUNDING BILL AS EARLY AS TODAY!!!! FAIR is urging all members, activists and friends to call their Senators NOW and urge them to strip all immigration amendments from the bill.</p>
<p>If that weren&#8217;t enough, the Senate Appropriations Committee also saddled the Iraq War Funding Bill with:</p>
<p>    * An amendment authored by Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) that will dramatically expand the number of unskilled H-2B guest workers entering the U.S. each year;<br />
    * An amendment authored by Senators Patty Murray (D-WA) and Judd Gregg (R-NH) that will make approximately 218,000 more green cards available for multinational executives and so-called &#8220;highly skilled workers&#8221; by &#8220;recapturing&#8221; visas from as far back as 1994; and<br />
    * An amendment authored by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) that grants a 5-year extension to a program that helps wealthy investors get green cards. </p>
<p>PLEASE CALL YOUR SENATORS NOW AND URGE THEM TO STRIP ALL IMMIGRATION AMENDMENTS FROM THE IRAQ WAR FUNDING BILL!!! As soon as you have called your own Senators, please also call Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). These two leaders are the most powerful, influential, and able to strip these disastrous amendments from the Iraq War Funding Bill. When you call these Senators, please tell them: </p>
<p>    * The American people overwhelmingly rejected amnesty for illegal aliens in 2007;<br />
    * You are outraged the Senate is once again attempting to sneak amnesty and other immigration amendments aimed at appeasing corporate interests into an unrelated appropriations bill;<br />
    * The debate over the funding for the troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan should not be held hostage by the corporate cheap labor interests in Washington, DC!  </p>
<p>To find your Senators&#8217; contact information, click here</p>
<p><a href="http://www.fairus.org/site/R?i=PSevpA1nMbIoLJm7b37xuQ..." rel="nofollow">http://www.fairus.org/site/R?i=PSevpA1nMbIoLJm7b37xuQ&#8230;</a> </p>
<p>Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV)<br />
DC Office (202) 224-3542<br />
District Office (702) 388-5020</p>
<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)<br />
DC Office (202) 224-2541<br />
District Office (502) 582-6304</p>
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		<title>By: CitizenofManassas</title>
		<link>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2008/05/19/amnesty-alert/#comment-65409</link>
		<dc:creator>CitizenofManassas</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 14:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2008/05/19/amnesty-alert/#comment-65409</guid>
		<description>I just called both and left messages.   The staff members were really interested in hearing my opinion.... NOT.   It is a shame these two blow hards support criminals.  I wonder if they would feel the same if they lived next to a house that was full of illegals?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just called both and left messages.   The staff members were really interested in hearing my opinion&#8230;. NOT.   It is a shame these two blow hards support criminals.  I wonder if they would feel the same if they lived next to a house that was full of illegals?</p>
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		<title>By: Vigilant1</title>
		<link>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2008/05/19/amnesty-alert/#comment-65393</link>
		<dc:creator>Vigilant1</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 13:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2008/05/19/amnesty-alert/#comment-65393</guid>
		<description>ladyxx said on 19 May 2008 at 8:46 pm: 
Senator Webb never responds to my faxes or letters. Guess since I am not a veteran I don’t matter. 

I am a veteran and he doesn't respond to me either.  Guess he didn't learn from "the great communicator" when he was appointed Sec. of the Navy.   Webb has no concerns about illegal immigration and the same goes for Warner.  Warner did have to courtesy to answer my letter about illegal immigration but his response was more or less....."we need immigrant workers to pick the apples in Virginia...."   Glad to see he is retireing but we will probably get someone no better in his place.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ladyxx said on 19 May 2008 at 8:46 pm:<br />
Senator Webb never responds to my faxes or letters. Guess since I am not a veteran I don’t matter. </p>
<p>I am a veteran and he doesn&#8217;t respond to me either.  Guess he didn&#8217;t learn from &#8220;the great communicator&#8221; when he was appointed Sec. of the Navy.   Webb has no concerns about illegal immigration and the same goes for Warner.  Warner did have to courtesy to answer my letter about illegal immigration but his response was more or less&#8230;..&#8221;we need immigrant workers to pick the apples in Virginia&#8230;.&#8221;   Glad to see he is retireing but we will probably get someone no better in his place.</p>
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		<title>By: ladyxx</title>
		<link>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2008/05/19/amnesty-alert/#comment-65330</link>
		<dc:creator>ladyxx</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 00:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2008/05/19/amnesty-alert/#comment-65330</guid>
		<description>http://appropriations.senate.gov/members.cfm

That is a link for the members of the Senate Appropriations Committee.  They approved legislation sponsored by U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Larry Craig (R-Idaho) that would provide emergency relief to the nation’s current agriculture labor shortage. 

The legislation was offered as an amendment to the Iraq supplemental spending bill.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://appropriations.senate.gov/members.cfm" rel="nofollow">http://appropriations.senate.gov/members.cfm</a></p>
<p>That is a link for the members of the Senate Appropriations Committee.  They approved legislation sponsored by U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Larry Craig (R-Idaho) that would provide emergency relief to the nation’s current agriculture labor shortage. </p>
<p>The legislation was offered as an amendment to the Iraq supplemental spending bill.</p>
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		<title>By: K</title>
		<link>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2008/05/19/amnesty-alert/#comment-65329</link>
		<dc:creator>K</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 00:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2008/05/19/amnesty-alert/#comment-65329</guid>
		<description>I don't know about ag-jobs at all. But I do know that they really wasted VISAs for legal residents. You may do the math or watch a house hearing from USCIS and DOS. They testified that the wasted visas is a real and it is due to administrative bottlenecks. The list of people waiting for their turn is as long as freeway I-90.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t know about ag-jobs at all. But I do know that they really wasted VISAs for legal residents. You may do the math or watch a house hearing from USCIS and DOS. They testified that the wasted visas is a real and it is due to administrative bottlenecks. The list of people waiting for their turn is as long as freeway I-90.</p>
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		<title>By: ladyxx</title>
		<link>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2008/05/19/amnesty-alert/#comment-65328</link>
		<dc:creator>ladyxx</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 00:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2008/05/19/amnesty-alert/#comment-65328</guid>
		<description>Senator Webb never responds to my faxes or letters.  Guess since I am not a veteran I don't matter.  

I agree,  he doesn't speak for me.  I will really miss John Warner when he retires.  He has helped me on several issues.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Senator Webb never responds to my faxes or letters.  Guess since I am not a veteran I don&#8217;t matter.  </p>
<p>I agree,  he doesn&#8217;t speak for me.  I will really miss John Warner when he retires.  He has helped me on several issues.</p>
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		<title>By: june_reston</title>
		<link>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2008/05/19/amnesty-alert/#comment-65323</link>
		<dc:creator>june_reston</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 23:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2008/05/19/amnesty-alert/#comment-65323</guid>
		<description>When we called Webb's office, one of his staffers said this was not amnesty and that we didn't know what we were talking about.   

She was quite abrasive, which means Webb doesn't care about his constituents - he will do whatever it takes to build the great Democrat Plantation, where government tries to tell it us it must think for us because we aren't capable of thinking for ourselve. 

Webb is spending more time writing and promoting his new book and doing interviews than "Senating."  It's time too boot him out of office and elect a Senator who speaks FOR the people, not AT them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When we called Webb&#8217;s office, one of his staffers said this was not amnesty and that we didn&#8217;t know what we were talking about.   </p>
<p>She was quite abrasive, which means Webb doesn&#8217;t care about his constituents - he will do whatever it takes to build the great Democrat Plantation, where government tries to tell it us it must think for us because we aren&#8217;t capable of thinking for ourselve. </p>
<p>Webb is spending more time writing and promoting his new book and doing interviews than &#8220;Senating.&#8221;  It&#8217;s time too boot him out of office and elect a Senator who speaks FOR the people, not AT them.</p>
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		<title>By: Dave in PWC</title>
		<link>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2008/05/19/amnesty-alert/#comment-65321</link>
		<dc:creator>Dave in PWC</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 22:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2008/05/19/amnesty-alert/#comment-65321</guid>
		<description>How do we find out who is on the committee so we can email them as well?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How do we find out who is on the committee so we can email them as well?</p>
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