And Rightly So!

One of the highlights of the Thrill-Spending add-ons to the below posted War Bill includes provisions for…yes…amnesty. It’s BACCCK.

This is why we keep close watch on Congress. In a bipartisan effort accomplished quickly and virtually under the table, Sens. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) — in Senate Appropriations markup of the War Supplemental bill — obtained approval of an amendment that would create an amnesty for illegal alien farm workers. The measure, called the Emergency Agriculture Relief Act, was added to the War Supplemental bill in a 17-12 vote last Thursday.

War bill? You mean, the war on American workers?

Known as the AgJob amendment, the Feinstein-Craig measure revived instantaneously the controversy that caused conservatives to lash out at the White House and Congress last summer.

The measure would grant temporary legal status to 1.35 million illegal immigrants and their families currently working in the agricultural field. The legislation was passed out of committee at the request of agribusiness interests who have been insisting that they need illegal aliens to harvest crops and run horse shows. The legislation is nothing less than “comprehensive immigration reform” on a smaller scale.

Ahh…keep the invasions small and compact in an effort to make it SEEM less the invasion that it really is.

NumbersUSA, an organization fighting illegal immigration, called the amendment “outrageous” and urged constituents to contact their political leaders. They noted that because families can also obtain temporary legal status through the amendment, it could reach almost 3 million people.

“The most important point to stress is that there is no need for an amnesty to provide growers with workers…there already is an H-2A foreign agricultural worker program that provides growers with an unlimited number of temporary workers if the growers agree to pay a decent wage and ensure that they go home at the end of the season,” said NumbersUSA news release.

So they’re trying to con the American people once again…being sneaky and underhanded. My own state rep is involved with this bullshit and he’s not getting my vote ever again.

Congress needs a constant vigil; they prove to us over and over again that they are not honest and they do not have American citizens’ best interest at heart. American business, profit driven desires are who counts. We can end this crap by making our numbers count, with our votes and who we do business with.