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06-16-2003, 09:27 PM
Cornyn Expected to Outline Illegal Alien Guestworker Amnesty Proposal
Call Senator Cornyn Today!
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is expected to outline his Guestworker amnesty proposal in a speech today before the U.S. Senate. Cornyn's draft proposal would allow illegal aliens to work in the U.S. for up to three years. After three years in the program, participants could apply for legal permanent resident (LPR) status and could extend their stay in the U.S. for two years while their application was being processed.
Cornyn's proposal is a rolling amnesty program for illegal aliens and the employers who violate federal employment law by hiring them!
Help fight this pro-illegal alien proposal by taking the actions listed below!
Call to Action (See talking points below):
Tell Sen. Cornyn what you think about his Guestworker amnesty proposal. Call his office at 202-224-2934 and voice your opposition TODAY! WE WANT HIS PHONE TO RING OFF THE HOOK!!
Follow up your phone call with a faxed personal letter - these are highly effective. (Click here to send a free fax to Sen. Cornyn.)
Contact your senators and urge them to reject Sen. Cornyn's proposal. (Visit the elected officials section of our web site for help contacting your senators.)
Forward this action alert to your likeminded friends, coworkers, neighbors, and family members. The more calls and letters we can generate, the better our chances of defeating this proposal.
Talking Points:
This is not only an amnesty for illegal aliens, it is also an amnesty for employers who have consistently violated federal employment laws.
If it is true that these workers are needed, then the very existence of this proposal acknowledges that normal immigration is failing to meet those needs. Rather than correct a legal immigration policy that brings a million people here every year who apparently cannot do the jobs that need to be done, Cornyn leaves that policy untouched and attempts to create a massive program based on labor needs on top of the million legal immigrants we already admit.
Guestworkers displace American workers and lower American workers' wages and working conditions in certain job sectors.
There is nothing in the proposal that would benefit the long-term unemployed who are already here, in terms of education, job training, and job placement.
History shows that guestworkers rarely go home.
Any guestworker program that involves "earned legalization" is an amnesty, a reward for law-breaking that is vociferously opposed by the American public.
Who would pay for the health care of the participants and their dependents--and how? Emergency health care for illegal aliens along the southwestern border is already costing area hospitals $200 million a year, with perhaps another $100 million in extended care costs.
If guestworkers are permitted to bring their families, will employers pay for the schooling of the guestworkers' children, or will that cost be borne by taxpayers?
No one has yet explained how the millions of applicants would be given security checks or whether that's even remotely feasible, given an already overburdened immigration enforcement system. When the immigration system already can't adequately perform, adding in the responsibility for security checks, tracking, and removal when necessary for millions of participants in a guestworker program will guarantee disaster.
For more information on why Guestworker programs and amnesty are a bad idea, read the following FAIR issue briefs:
Permanent Guests: How Guestworker Programs Harm America
Why Amnesty for Illegal Aliens is a Bad Idea
See the Stein Report for news coverage on Senator Cornyn's Guestworker amnesty proposal.
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Another call to action.
Call Senator Cornyn Today!
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is expected to outline his Guestworker amnesty proposal in a speech today before the U.S. Senate. Cornyn's draft proposal would allow illegal aliens to work in the U.S. for up to three years. After three years in the program, participants could apply for legal permanent resident (LPR) status and could extend their stay in the U.S. for two years while their application was being processed.
Cornyn's proposal is a rolling amnesty program for illegal aliens and the employers who violate federal employment law by hiring them!
Help fight this pro-illegal alien proposal by taking the actions listed below!
Call to Action (See talking points below):
Tell Sen. Cornyn what you think about his Guestworker amnesty proposal. Call his office at 202-224-2934 and voice your opposition TODAY! WE WANT HIS PHONE TO RING OFF THE HOOK!!
Follow up your phone call with a faxed personal letter - these are highly effective. (Click here to send a free fax to Sen. Cornyn.)
Contact your senators and urge them to reject Sen. Cornyn's proposal. (Visit the elected officials section of our web site for help contacting your senators.)
Forward this action alert to your likeminded friends, coworkers, neighbors, and family members. The more calls and letters we can generate, the better our chances of defeating this proposal.
Talking Points:
This is not only an amnesty for illegal aliens, it is also an amnesty for employers who have consistently violated federal employment laws.
If it is true that these workers are needed, then the very existence of this proposal acknowledges that normal immigration is failing to meet those needs. Rather than correct a legal immigration policy that brings a million people here every year who apparently cannot do the jobs that need to be done, Cornyn leaves that policy untouched and attempts to create a massive program based on labor needs on top of the million legal immigrants we already admit.
Guestworkers displace American workers and lower American workers' wages and working conditions in certain job sectors.
There is nothing in the proposal that would benefit the long-term unemployed who are already here, in terms of education, job training, and job placement.
History shows that guestworkers rarely go home.
Any guestworker program that involves "earned legalization" is an amnesty, a reward for law-breaking that is vociferously opposed by the American public.
Who would pay for the health care of the participants and their dependents--and how? Emergency health care for illegal aliens along the southwestern border is already costing area hospitals $200 million a year, with perhaps another $100 million in extended care costs.
If guestworkers are permitted to bring their families, will employers pay for the schooling of the guestworkers' children, or will that cost be borne by taxpayers?
No one has yet explained how the millions of applicants would be given security checks or whether that's even remotely feasible, given an already overburdened immigration enforcement system. When the immigration system already can't adequately perform, adding in the responsibility for security checks, tracking, and removal when necessary for millions of participants in a guestworker program will guarantee disaster.
For more information on why Guestworker programs and amnesty are a bad idea, read the following FAIR issue briefs:
Permanent Guests: How Guestworker Programs Harm America
Why Amnesty for Illegal Aliens is a Bad Idea
See the Stein Report for news coverage on Senator Cornyn's Guestworker amnesty proposal.
powered by Capitol Advantage ©2003
Another call to action.