Feinstein pushes ag worker program

[Debbie]

I called Feinstein's office before the last push for amnesty and was told she would do what she thought was best. I said it was not her job to do what SHE thought was best but to do the will of the people who are always right! Her boot licker was very rude and treated me like I was unimportant and they didn't have the time to listen!

[Debbie]

This is from FAIR today.....it will give millions of illegals and their families citizenship down the road!

Amnesty Amendment Added to Iraqi War Funding Bill!
Call Your Senators Now!!

Late Thursday afternoon, the Senate Appropriations Committee attached several immigration amendments - including an amnesty amendment - to the Iraq War Funding Bill. By doing so, members of the Senate Finance Committee not only snuck controversial amendments into a bill that funds our servicemen and women, but they chose to attach guest worker amnesty provisions that the American people flatly rejected in 2007! These amendments are designed to allow corporations to import hundreds of thousands of additional guest workers at a time when the U.S. economy is struggling.

The Iraq War Funding Bill could be on the Senate floor as early as NEXT WEEK as Senators try to finish business before the Memorial Day recess. FAIR is asking all members, activists, and friends to call their Senators NOW and tell them you oppose these measures!

Two of the amendments adopted in the Senate Appropriations Committee were provisions rejected in last year's Bush-Kennedy Amnesty Bill (S.1639). These include:

(1) The Feinstein AgJOBS Amendment. This amendment, authored by Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), grants 5-year amnesty visas to 1.35 million illegal alien agricultural workers plus their families by granting them "emergency worker status." The amendment also:

* Grants work authorization to beneficiaries and their spouses;
* Grants travel authorization to beneficiaries and their families;
* Otherwise treats beneficiaries as green card holders (legal permanent residents); and
* Prohibits beneficiaries from being prosecuted for social security fraud and related identity theft crimes.

To qualify for the amnesty program, an illegal alien must show he or she was employed at least 150 days or earned at least $7,000.00 in the agricultural sector in the 48 months ending December 31, 2007. The alien will then pay a fee of $250.00 and receive an identification card evidencing his or her legal status.

(2) The Mikulski H-2B Amendment. This amendment, authored by Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), will increase the number of unskilled H-2B guest workers by reinstating the returning worker exemption for a period of three years. This exemption (which expired last year) allows guest workers who entered the U.S. through the H-2B guest worker program in the previous three years to return without counting towards the 66,000 cap. This exemption could lead to exponential growth in the H-2B program, potentially increasing the number of unskilled H-2B guest workers by over 200,000 in just a few years.

But the Senate Appropriations Committee didn't stop there! It adopted two other immigration amendments intended to appease special interests and corporations. The Murray-Gregg Amendment, authored by Senators Patty Murray (D-WA) and Judd Gregg (R-NH), increases the number of employment-based green cards available for multinational executives and so-called "high-tech" workers by "recapturing" approximately 218,000 unused visas from as far back as 1994. The Leahy Amendment, authored by Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT), extends the duration of a program that helps rich investors obtain green cards.

Please call your Senators NOW and tell them you are appalled that these are the priorities of the United States Senate! Tell your Senators that the only immigration legislation you want taken up in Congress is true immigration reform legislation that restores common sense to our system, secures our borders, and imposes tough sanctions on employers who exploit cheap foreign labor.

[Mac-7]

jose wrote:

I think this is a great move on her part, these are people we need here and they aren't some plague like some people think they are.

If the program were limited only to men who were not allowed to bring their family with them and had to return after one or two years we could probably find some support for that.

But this is just anohter sneaky amnesty scheme so the answer is no way.

[Debbie]

If you have time this week end read these two articles. You will get a sense of how serious immigration into America is and the dangers we now face for not having the common sense to protect our nation and our sovereignty. World trade agreements were the first step in destroying this great nation. We have always had the ability and the blessing to provide for all our needs. There never was any reason to reach beyond our own borders for anything and we never should have. Now we are in a diversified nightmare and we don't even know who the enemy is within our own borders! God help us!

Intel agencies seek help recruiting new immigrants
http://enews.earthlink.net/article/top...

What does Jihad really mean and who are the so-called moderate Muslims?
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.asp...

[AmericanPatriot]

This truly is outrageous. By voting for this amnesty these 17 Senators have only helped sleazy business owners and illegal workers who do not have a right to be in this country, and have harmed America's unemployed and underemployed and their families! Feinstein should hang her head in shame, along with the other 16 senators. I wonder how she sleeps at night knowing that her amnesty vote is against American workers and is a vote against our brave men and women fighting in Iraq. Its time to begin the "Fire Feinstein" campain! We need to give her and the other 16 senators the boot!

[Bobby]

Debbie wrote:

I called Feinstein's office before the last push for amnesty and was told she would do what she thought was best. I said it was not her job to do what SHE thought was best but to do the will of the people who are always right! Her boot licker was very rude and treated me like I was unimportant and they didn't have the time to listen!

Debbie I am not surprised. Being a native Californian, I have watched Dianne Feinstein, secretively, as one poster put it, the first I think, prance around in Sacramento and simply follow her own agenda. She is an utter disgrace, up to her eyeballs in corruption, and should have been booted out of office after her first term. Instead she is on her third or fourth. Are Californians some kind of sado-masochists or something? Feinstein has taken a state that used to have a surplus and presided over it to the point of a near 20 billion dollar deficit. Then I once heard her say that the Governor, Schwarzenegger is an opportunist when he decided to run. Yet the citizens proved Feinstein to be full of it, by electing him. She is a joke and a half.

[LadyM]

Here is a link that I ran across that is easy to use and lists all the staffers contact information for all the Senators and Representatives. It is time to let these traitors know exactly how we feel about attaching amendments that have nothing at all to do with the original bills they are attached to.
http://www.amiillegal.com/archivefile.cfm...
In November, we need to voice our opinion of the job they are doing at the polls. Get rid of all of them and for the sake of our Nation, please find another option to the 3 Amigos that we have running for the presidency. All of which have stated that they are for Amnesty for all the illegals in our country now. And we all know how well that worked when the 1986 amnesty was passed. All it did was encourage more illegal's coming in hopes of the next amnesty. It's up to us, the American citizens, to stop them.

[Vern]

Fienstein is an idiot and thiks the American public is too.
From another post ...

Recently an article I read from the L.A. Times about a young illegal woman who is waiting for her fourth liver transplant at the cost to taxpayers of about $400,000 each plus an additional $30,000 per year for anti-rejection drugs prompted me to write a letter to Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
I expressed my outrage that we have thousands of veterans, homeless and uninsured citizens that were born here yet they are denied proper health care while someone brought here illegally can get four liver transplants. I don't want to seem unsympathetic, I wrote, but enough is enough. It's time we started taking care of our own. It's time to secure our borders and deporting those who have overstayed their welcome.

As usual, I received a reply from Sen. Feinstein. She thanked me for expressing my concerns regarding the impact of illegal immigration. She "wrote" that she understands that the high level of undocumented immigrants puts a strain on our schools, medical facilities and prisons but defended their existence here in America. She stated "70 percent of agriculture workers are undocumented."

That's 70 percent that should be deported ... there is no such thing as cheap tomatoes.

Feinstein doesn't have to worry about losing her job to an illegal alien or not having health insurance. She doesn't have to worry about Social Security.

It's time Feinstein and her colleagues come back to earth and do their job ... taking care of Americans.

— Vern Leathers, Chico

[onenation]

Ag refususes to hire white people. I tried to get a job in Fresno as a day laborer when I couldnt find anything else. They would not even let me fill out an ap. This was 15 years ago but I doubt things have changed

[jacksdone2]

Brad wrote:

Same old Feinstein and her agricultural slave labor supporters. What happened to the last agricultural workers we gave amnesty to in 1986? Oh that's right they are now doing those used to be middle class jobs in the service and construction industry. The labor department showed in a report years ago that for any given period there were at least 250,000 more agricultural workers then jobs. I am sure that number has went up, because of mechanization. The H2-b visa program most agricultural companies won't use, because they have to provide a realistic pay, regular hours, housing etc. Today's agricultural business model calls for a new wave of exploitable labor each year, all at the taxpayer expense.
Feinstein and her globalist, one world government advocates in the Senate are using immigration as a tool to further weaken the US economy, national cohesiveness and sovereignty.
How many people should America have? That is the question non of these elite want to face or answer? Watch the video Immigration Gumballs and see for yourself where population increases are taking us.

You pose the question, how many people should america have..I say send all the illegals back to Mexico,along with all the liberal WHONKS that know everything,and let them start their own country.

[jacksdone2]

Vern wrote:

Fienstein is an idiot and thiks the American public is too.
From another post ...
Recently an article I read from the L.A. Times about a young illegal woman who is waiting for her fourth liver transplant at the cost to taxpayers of about $400,000 each plus an additional $30,000 per year for anti-rejection drugs prompted me to write a letter to Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
I expressed my outrage that we have thousands of veterans, homeless and uninsured citizens that were born here yet they are denied proper health care while someone brought here illegally can get four liver transplants. I don't want to seem unsympathetic, I wrote, but enough is enough. It's time we started taking care of our own. It's time to secure our borders and deporting those who have overstayed their welcome.
As usual, I received a reply from Sen. Feinstein. She thanked me for expressing my concerns regarding the impact of illegal immigration. She "wrote" that she understands that the high level of undocumented immigrants puts a strain on our schools, medical facilities and prisons but defended their existence here in America. She stated "70 percent of agriculture workers are undocumented."
That's 70 percent that should be deported ... there is no such thing as cheap tomatoes.
Feinstein doesn't have to worry about losing her job to an illegal alien or not having health insurance. She doesn't have to worry about Social Security.
It's time Feinstein and her colleagues come back to earth and do their job ... taking care of Americans.
— Vern Leathers, Chico

She goes beyond being an idiot.She's a socialist numbnuts.Just one click away from communism.What a turkey.Now Arnold, who sold himself as a republican,is licking her shoes also.California is doomed with the jerks they have in government.Whats worse is that all the thrash that starts out as very poor lawmaking,by a bunch of Whonks,seems to find it's way across the US.To bad!

[jacksdone2]

taxed to death wrote:

<quoted text>
Lets send Feinstein, Bathroom Craig and all the rest of the A-holes that want amnesty for illegals.
They just do not get it that Americans are fed up
with the special treatment they get.
They do not understand there is no such thing as cheap tomatoes.
I hope the all rot in hell ... illegals too

I am a conservative.How dare you call Craig bathroom Craig.I call him craphouse Craig.Lets get it right.

[jacksdone2]

Vern wrote:

Fienstein is an idiot and thiks the American public is too.
From another post ...
Recently an article I read from the L.A. Times about a young illegal woman who is waiting for her fourth liver transplant at the cost to taxpayers of about $400,000 each plus an additional $30,000 per year for anti-rejection drugs prompted me to write a letter to Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
I expressed my outrage that we have thousands of veterans, homeless and uninsured citizens that were born here yet they are denied proper health care while someone brought here illegally can get four liver transplants. I don't want to seem unsympathetic, I wrote, but enough is enough. It's time we started taking care of our own. It's time to secure our borders and deporting those who have overstayed their welcome.
As usual, I received a reply from Sen. Feinstein. She thanked me for expressing my concerns regarding the impact of illegal immigration. She "wrote" that she understands that the high level of undocumented immigrants puts a strain on our schools, medical facilities and prisons but defended their existence here in America. She stated "70 percent of agriculture workers are undocumented."
That's 70 percent that should be deported ... there is no such thing as cheap tomatoes.
Feinstein doesn't have to worry about losing her job to an illegal alien or not having health insurance. She doesn't have to worry about Social Security.
It's time Feinstein and her colleagues come back to earth and do their job ... taking care of Americans.
&#8212; Vern Leathers, Chico

Well said,but you might as well talk to a doorknob.The elitists are'nt listening.

[Awareness]

Feinstein is a TRAITOR and she needs to be thrown OUT OF THE SENATE!!

[Curious]

I have never looked for work in Fresno, but I can tell you that, as a white kid with my family, we picked peaches, plums, black walnuts, and prunes in Gridley, picked cherries and thinned and picked apples in Washington, Oregon and Montana, and never had a problem finding work. But I also can tell you that we were one of the few white families in these orchards. My personal experience, not that it negates anyone else's, is that white people didn't apply.

onenation wrote:

Ag refususes to hire white people. I tried to get a job in Fresno as a day laborer when I couldnt find anything else. They would not even let me fill out an ap. This was 15 years ago but I doubt things have changed

[onenation]

"curious" I'm glad you said that. How long ago was that? A friend of mine in his 60s used to pick fruit in the orchards as a teen ager. It was the fastest work he could get for his age and experience.I was turned down flat but I went to a day labor place in down town Fresno. It was SOOOOO creepy. They would not even let me fill out an ap. There were nothing but spanish speaking Mexicans there and all the signs on the walls were in spanish.I became a nurses aide instead and then a nurse, but I was in a really tight spot back then and needed the work. It was my second time feeling the full brunt of reverse discrimination. If your not Mexican and you apply for a job you definitly get the feeling you shouldnt be there. It is sometimes subtle, but it's there. An American with a good knowledge of his or her civil rights would not put up with the abuses heeped on the Mexican people so they discourage anyone they think can become a whistle blower from applying and then say Americans dont want these jobs.I'm more angry at the ag farmers then the Mexicans about this.The abuse would stop in a day if all the workers were American

[Major Tom]

Ever try going to Mexico and demanding our rights down there?

[La Migra]

Check this out ... http://www.douglassreport.com/reports/illegal ...

[Corn Julio]

ehhhhhhhhhhh ehhhhhhhh ehhhhhhhh
Diane Feinstein is a **** ehhhhh ehhhhhh ehhhhh
She makes me want to puke ehhhhhhh ehhhhh ehhhhhh

[Curious]

Onenation, These jobs were in the late 70s and early 80s. We always worked directly for the orchard owners and applied to the orchard owners. I did not have the experience of going to a day labor place so I can't speak to that.

At first it was a little unnerving as it probably was for them. But over time we became friends with some of the families. The families who had their kids working were all very nice people, there for the same reason that I was there and that you looked there. Some of the single guys who traveled together were not so nice.

We do things backwards. Just like getting married and divorced. Anyone can decide today to get married and do it very cheaply. But try to get a divorce and see how expensive and difficult it is. It is the same for beoming a citizen. We need to have reasonable requirements at a reasonable cost to become a citizen. This should mean a temporary visa that allows a person to find employment, the requirement to learn the rules and agree to live by them, and really swift and painful deportation if the rules aren't met. As it is we make it very difficult to get here, we do not monitor anything successfully, and we are slow to deport. This is very costly. But I don't think this should apply to just one group of people. White Americans are an expensive drain on all of our systems as well.

The blankets of hateful stereotypes are wrong. All people want better for their families and if we populated the US with those people, regardless of color or ethnicity, we would all be better off.

onenation wrote:

"curious" I'm glad you said that. How long ago was that? A friend of mine in his 60s used to pick fruit in the orchards as a teen ager. It was the fastest work he could get for his age and experience.I was turned down flat but I went to a day labor place in down town Fresno. It was SOOOOO creepy. They would not even let me fill out an ap. There were nothing but spanish speaking Mexicans there and all the signs on the walls were in spanish.I became a nurses aide instead and then a nurse, but I was in a really tight spot back then and needed the work. It was my second time feeling the full brunt of reverse discrimination. If your not Mexican and you apply for a job you definitly get the feeling you shouldnt be there. It is sometimes subtle, but it's there. An American with a good knowledge of his or her civil rights would not put up with the abuses heeped on the Mexican people so they discourage anyone they think can become a whistle blower from applying and then say Americans dont want these jobs.I'm more angry at the ag farmers then the Mexicans about this.The abuse would stop in a day if all the workers were American