Byrd introduced his amendment by talking about how the US is loosing conrol of its borders (a totally unrelated subject), and that there are 8-12 million illegals in the country. He warped about how he is seeing overcrowding of hospitals, school, and like- he's lumping together two totally different subjects - of ILLEGAL border crossers and LEGAL IMMIGRATION for highly skilled, tax paying, law abiding professionals.
Byrd is himself a former Ku Klux Klan member and a xenophobist- is why the restrictionists chose him to introduce this crazy amendment.
Read about Byrd's KKK days:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd
There are two kinds of people supporting Byrd's amendment- immigration restrictionists like Byrd and Sessions (Alabama senator) and democrats like Durbin (Illinois Senator). The democrats used to be friends of legal immigration and now, with the loss of power in the White House and Senate- have gone totally beserk!!!
See what xenophobists like NumbersUSA and FAIR have to say about the Byrd Amendment:
http://www.numbersusa.com/hottopic/H1B.html
http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=leg_testimony_nov12005
Tomorrow Senators vote on this bill. Let's not allow the restrictionists to control this debate. Between now and tommorow morning continue to CALL your US Senators and urge them to vote for the Judciary's Reconcilition Bill and NO for Byrd's Amendment. If this doesn't pass the Senate tomorrow, there is no hope for any relief at all!!!!
(The House Bill just raises Fees on L-1 and provides ZERO benefits in return)
Keep in mind to CALL your US senators (www.senate. gov) TODAY (you can email too if there is time, but calling is much more preferable) because as I was told by one Senate Staffer today- with the volume of emails that come in, it takes may take several days to get to them. No use if they check our emails after they've cast the wrong vote!!
A summary of key talking points:
-URGENCY : EB Visa relief is absolutely critical NOW because of the massive retrogression that took place recently. This retrogression set the clock by many, many years for genuine, skilled, legal immigrants from across the word. This on top of the many years you've already waited patiently.
-EXPLAIN this relief is for LEGAL immigrants who are ALREADY HERE, paying taxes, working for American corporations, contributing to the community and not border crosssers (ILLEGALS is a separate subject altogether and should not be confused with this)
- DESCRIBE the hardships you face, as the case may be, with US citizen children (what happens if you're deported), no portability, zero benefits in Social security and medicare but paying all taxes, the inability of spouses to work, etc...
Byrd is himself a former Ku Klux Klan member and a xenophobist- is why the restrictionists chose him to introduce this crazy amendment.
Read about Byrd's KKK days:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd
There are two kinds of people supporting Byrd's amendment- immigration restrictionists like Byrd and Sessions (Alabama senator) and democrats like Durbin (Illinois Senator). The democrats used to be friends of legal immigration and now, with the loss of power in the White House and Senate- have gone totally beserk!!!
See what xenophobists like NumbersUSA and FAIR have to say about the Byrd Amendment:
http://www.numbersusa.com/hottopic/H1B.html
http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=leg_testimony_nov12005
Tomorrow Senators vote on this bill. Let's not allow the restrictionists to control this debate. Between now and tommorow morning continue to CALL your US Senators and urge them to vote for the Judciary's Reconcilition Bill and NO for Byrd's Amendment. If this doesn't pass the Senate tomorrow, there is no hope for any relief at all!!!!
(The House Bill just raises Fees on L-1 and provides ZERO benefits in return)
Keep in mind to CALL your US senators (www.senate. gov) TODAY (you can email too if there is time, but calling is much more preferable) because as I was told by one Senate Staffer today- with the volume of emails that come in, it takes may take several days to get to them. No use if they check our emails after they've cast the wrong vote!!
A summary of key talking points:
-URGENCY : EB Visa relief is absolutely critical NOW because of the massive retrogression that took place recently. This retrogression set the clock by many, many years for genuine, skilled, legal immigrants from across the word. This on top of the many years you've already waited patiently.
-EXPLAIN this relief is for LEGAL immigrants who are ALREADY HERE, paying taxes, working for American corporations, contributing to the community and not border crosssers (ILLEGALS is a separate subject altogether and should not be confused with this)
- DESCRIBE the hardships you face, as the case may be, with US citizen children (what happens if you're deported), no portability, zero benefits in Social security and medicare but paying all taxes, the inability of spouses to work, etc...
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