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JAMES WORK
 1139 Rennie Drive
 Katy, Texas 77450

 May 23, 2006

 Senator George Voinovich

United States Senate

Washington, D.C. 20510

 Dear Senator:

 Subject: Senate Bill S-2611, Amendment 3985 (Sen, Ensign)

 I have trouble comprehending why you and 10 other Republicans would have voted to table Senator Ensign’s COMMON SENSE Amendment 3985 , unless you mistakenly think that when hordes of illegals get full citizenship under a future Democratic administration and Congress, those people will vote for you for the Senate or the Presidency. 

 Senator McCain’s argument that “they” paid the SS tax (via withholding) is PHONEY!

They are here illegally.  They BROKE THE LAW to enter the USA and they STOLE or bought STOLEN Social Security cards in order to get hired.  They should not be rewarded for at least two ILLEGAL acts but should be sent back to their point of origin to GET IN LINE for legal readmission.

If the Republican Party is TO RETAIN THE SENATE AND HOUSE, after Novemberyou MAVERICK Republicans need to return to RONALD REGAN CONSERVATIVE  PRINCIPLES and stop condoning things and actions that are clearly wrong and illegal. 

Some of the Senators including McCain, Spector, and from the other side of the aisle, Kennedy, Leahy, Levin, Schumer, and Clinton  need to STOP acting like THEY THINK THEY ARE GODS.        In my opinion, they and others are “leading our country to Hell in a handbasket”.  

 Consider the quote from a history professor, Dr. Alexani Tytler of the University of Edinburgh in 1790.  In the 1964 Goldwater vs Johnson election campaign, we North Carolina Republicans passed out 3"x5" cards with the quote as follows:

“A Democracy can not exist as a permanent form of government.  It can only exist  until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.  From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from that public treasury, with the result that a democracy will always collapse from a loose fiscal policy (burden of large public debt), always to be followed by a dictatorship.”                                                                        1

The Goldwater card also stated,  “What are you doing to prevent Dr. Tyler’s frightening prediction from becoming a reality?  How precious is your freedom to you?” 

It seems that we may be getting perilously close to the point that Dr. Tytler described with so many people clamoring for “ME FIRST, To Hell with the consequences”, and  many of the POLITICIANS are willing to help by BUYING VOTES to insure their REELECTION.

 Please consider the following quote from   Chapter 7 of Second Chronicles, verse 14     

( II Chronicles 7:14) “If my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways;  then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”

 We are IN DANGER OF LOSING BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS in November and thereby speeding the decline of the U.S. of A  if you Republican politicians lose the conservative Republican base and the support of the  huge number of other conservative voters.

 Yours truly

 James Work, Lt. Col. USAR Ret.

 (A Republican since 1936 when my elementary school classmates heckled  me for wearing an

“Alf. Landon for President” button in  then solidly democratic Virginia.)  

                     NOTE: A copy of this same letter addressed to each of the 11 defecting Republicans

                                 was mailed to each on 05-24–06.

Sam Brownback
Lincoln Chafee
Mike DeWine
Lindsey Graham
Chuck Hagel
Richard Lugar
Mel Martinez
John McCain
Arlen Spector
Ted Stevens
George Voinovich
A copy was also sent to Speaker Bill Frist with a cover letter. 
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 JAMES WORK
 1139 Rennie Drive
 Katy, Texas 77450

                                                          May 23, 2006

 Senator Bill Frist, Speaker of the Senate

United States Senate

Washington, D.C. 20510

Dear Mr. Speaker:

 Subject: Retaining the Senate and House

 I was grossly disappointed in the defection of eleven Republicans to “the other side” of the aisle, in voting to table Senator Ensign’s Amdt. 3985 (vote 130) on the 18th of May.  Please read a copy of my attached letter of May 23rd which I sent to each of the 11 Senators.  And do what you can, as Speaker to keep the wayward Republicans in line and to PRESERVE our MAJORITY in both houses of Congress..   Thank you.

 Yours truly

 James Work, Lt. Col. USAR Ret.

 

JAMES WORK
1139 Rennie Drive
 Katy, Texas 77450

                                                            May 30, 2006

 Speaker Danny  Hastert

U.S. House of Representatives

Washington, D.C. 20515

 Dear Speaker Hastert:

 Subject: Immigration Bill

 It is very important to me that the Congress of the United States DOES NOT PASS an immigration bill that incorporates the many OBNOXIOUS PROVISIONS of the Senate version.

I hope that you and the House  members of the conference committee will “HANG  TOUGH” and insist on the version passed by the House of Representatives. 

 I realize that compromise is an important  part of politics but you/we must not give away our country to foreigners.  It is BETTER TO see a  comprehensive immigration BILL DIE IN CONFERENCE and then convince the Senate to pass the House version dealing with border security FIRST and then tackle the other issues.

 If enough of our citizens communicate our desires on this issue with Mr. Bush, I hope he will reconsider his previously stated position regarding wanting a comprehensive bill now.  My letter to him on this subject will go out today. 

Yours truly 

James Work, Lt. Col. USAR, Ret.

(A Republican since the Alfred Landon vs F.D.R . campaign in 1936)

 Copy: Rep. Michael T. McCaul

JAMES WORK
1139 Rennie Drive
 Katy, Texas 77450

                                                           May 29, 2006     The President                                                                

The White House                                                          

Washington, D.C. 20500 

Dear Mr. President: 

Subject: The Immigration Bill

 Now that the Senate has passed its version of an Immigration Bill, which I think is grossly flawed, containing many provisions which I think, IF enacted into law, would hasten the Democrats regaining both houses of Congress and the Presidency for years to come, as well as ACCELERATING OUR NATIONS BEING CARRIED TO HELL IN A HANDBASKET.

 The House version of the bill needs to be enacted NOW and then some of the other considerations can be made, but ONLY AFTER we SECURE THE BORDERS and our government ENFORCES CURRENT LAWS regarding persons here illegally.

 You, the members of Congress and all of our citizens need to carefully consider the 3"x5" card that we North Carolina Republicans passed out in the 1964 Goldwater/Johnson campaign.  It is reproduced below.

                    (75% reduced sized copy of Goldwater casmpaign 3"x5" card

                     With Dr. Alexani Tytler’s quote)

 The Senate’s version of the Immigration Bill will speed the fulfilling of the professor’s warning.

We still pray for you and your family every day and for great wisdom for you.

 Yours truly

 James Work, Lt. Col., USAR, Ret.  

 

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1139 Rennie Drive
 Katy, Texas 77450

                                                      August 28, 2006

 Senator K. Bailey Hutchinson

U.S. Senate

Washington, DC 20510-4304

 Dear Senator Hutchinson:

 Subject: Immigration Reform/Control:

 I was disappointed in reading the column in the July 26 Washington Times by you and Representative Mike Pence wherein you propose a MUCH TOO BROAD program to (1) admit too many immigrants (particularly unskilled ones), (2) permit them to bring families, (3) stay too long, (4) NOT require a foolproof (or nearly so) identification system based on isometrics (eye scans and fingerprints) and (5) you do not require a  foolproof cross referencing system for employers with Social Security FRAUD PREVENTION capabilities.

 I thought that Senator Jeff Sessions column in the Washington Times on August 2, 2006 was well stated and I recommend that you and Mr. Pence rework your proposal to fall in line with his proposal.  No doubt you have read it, but , for your convenience, I am enclosing a copy with the more important points highlighted.

 Please reconsider your positions on these matters.  I understand that with so many TEXANS having a Mexican and Central American connection, you HAVE TO BE VERY BRAVE to not JUST LET THEM ALL IN.  If this happens with a weak-kneed Congress, you can kiss our USA goodby.  GENERAL SANTA ANA WILL HAVE WON POSTHUMOUSLY!   The RECONQUISTA will be complete and the CHARACTER and SOUL of our country will be destroyed.. 

 Border control MUST be passed first.  Then tackle these other issues.

 Thank you.

 Yours truly 

James Work                                               

Lt. Col. USAR, Ret. 

Copy: Sen John Cornyn,                         Sen Jeff Sessions


                                                 JAMES WORK

                                              1139 Rennie Drive

                                         Katy, Texas 77450-3029

                                                  August 28, 2006

 Senator John Cornyn

United States Senate

Washington, DC 20510

 Dear Senator Cornyn:

 Subject: Immigration Bill   S-2611

  First, let me thank you for representing us Texas citizens in the Congress and for standing up for conservative values and especially for your work on the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding the successful confirmation of our two new Supreme Court justices.  (I would have found it very difficult to deal with Senators Spector, Leahy, and Kennedy when they act like they think they are GODS.)

 I am very concerned about the Immigration Bill that the Senate passed and which will soon be considered by the Senate-House Reconciliation Committee.  I think that the first priority must be to CONTROL THE  BORDERS and then work on the other problems with illegals.  It would be better to have NO BILL THIS YEAR than to pass either the S-2611 OR the proposed PENCE-HUTCHINSON   bill .  

 Both of these bills (1) would admit too many immigrants (particularly unskilled ones), (2) permit them to bring families, (3) stay too long, (4) NOT require a FOOLPROOF (or nearly so) identification system based on isometrics (eye scans and fingerprints), and (5) do not require a foolproof cross referencing system for employers with Social Security FRAUD  PREVENTION capabilities. 

 I understand that with so many TEXANS having a Mexican or Central American connection, you HAVE TO BE VERY BRAVE to not JUST LET THEM ALL IN.  If this happens with a weak-kneed Congress, you can kiss our USA goodby.  GENERAL SANTA ANA WILL HAVE WON  POSTHUMOUSLY!   The RECONQUISTA will be complete and the CHARACTER and SOUL of our country will be destroyed.

 Border control MUST be passed first.  Then tackle the other issues.    Thank you.

 Yours truly                                                                                         

                                                                                                    Enc. Copy of my letter of

James Work,   Lt. Col., USAR Ret.                                           08-28-06 to Sen Hutchinson

 
Immigration Battle in the Senate
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CLICK HERE to see Amnesties in S. 2611, the Senate Immigration Bill

NEXT STEPS: (JUNE 30, 2006) House Republicans announced on June 22 that they will hold hearings on the Senate-passed bill (S. 2611) before reconciling differences between the two chambers’ bills in a conference committee with the Senate. The goal, in part, is to highlight provisions of S. 2611 that a majority of House Republicans find unacceptable. The hearings will be held in July and August in various cities around the country. The call for hearings will delay action on a bill until at least September. Congress also could put off action until after the election in a lame duck session.

Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), the Chairman of the International Relations Terrorism Subcommittee, will hold hearings on border vulnerabilities on July 5 in San Diego, California and on July 7 in Laredo, Texas. Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman Howard McKeon (R-CA) will hold hearings in mid-July on how workplace immigration enforcement affects U.S. workers and on making English the official language of the United States. Armed Services Committee Chairman Duncan Hunter (R-CA) will hold hearings in Yuma, Arizona in mid-August to hear the perspectives of Border Patrol agents and the National Guard. Government Reform Committee Chairman Tom Davis (R-VA) will hold a hearing during the week of August 14 in Arizona on the costs of illegal immigration to state and local governments. Hearings also will be scheduled by Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI), Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King (R-NY), and Administration Committee Chairman Vernon Ehlers (R-MI).

CLICK HERE to find out what you haven't heard about S. 2611

In a provocative move, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) called for additional Senate-based hearings beginning on July 5 in Philadelphia to look at the need for more foreign “guestworkers.” However, a Capitol Hill newspaper called Roll Call quoted one Senate Republican staff person who characterized Specter’s move this way: “If the House is going to have hearings on how bad amnesty is, then I’m going to have hearings on how good amnesty is.”

Before a conference committee can begin over the immigration measures passed by both chambers, a problem must be resolved regarding some unconstitutional provisions contained in the Senate-passed measure. The offending provisions in S. 2611 are tax measures which, under the Constitution, must originate in a bill passed the House. On June 13, House Ways and Means Chairman Bill Thomas (R-CA) said he would object to convening a House-Senate conference if the Senate does not find an alternate vehicle for its version of the legislation. The objection would come in the form of a “blue slip” - a congressional precedent under which Rep. Thomas would offer a resolution to return the bill to the Senate. On June 29, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) agreed to use a House-passed bill concerning the alternative minimum tax (H.R. 4096) as a vehicle in order to get around the constitutional problem. Under the plan, which could be put to a vote some time in July, the Senate would take up H.R. 4096, gut its contents, insert S. 2611, pass it, and wait again for conferees to be appointed. If House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) agrees to a conference committee with the Senate, one will be held.

Conference committee members are normally appointed by the respective leadership of both chambers. On May 11, Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) outlined an agreement on the selection of a potential conference committee with the House. The Senate portion of the conference committee would include 26 members - an unusually large number – including 14 Republicans and 12 Democrats. The seven senior Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee (Chair Arlen Specter [R-PA], Orrin Hatch [R-UT], Charles Grassley [R-IA], Jon Kyl [R-AZ], Mike DeWine [R-OH], Jeff Sessions [R-AL], and Lindsey Graham [R-SC]) and the five senior Democrats (Sens. Patrick Leahy [D-VT], Ted Kennedy [D-MA], Joseph Biden [D-DE], Herbert Kohl [D-WI], and Diane Feinstein [D-CA]) would be members of the conference committee. The rest of the conferees would be selected individually by Frist and Reid.

Negotiations in a conference committee are typically conducted behind closed doors by staff members associated with committee members. The actual committee members usually meet, again in private proceedings, only after staff has made substantial progress in drafting an agreement. If a majority of the members reach an agreement, a conference committee report will be produced and voted on in both chambers. The contents of conference committee reports are typically not revealed to the public until just before a vote in both chambers.

CLICK HERE
for a Comparison of House and Senate Immigration Reform Proposals

Earlier in June, House Judiciary Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) said that he would like to see as many public conferences as possible. If the conferees agree to his wishes,
the process may be more open than normal.

STATUS: On May 25, the Senate concluded work on S. 2611, the “compromise” amnesty bill, by passing it by a 62-36 vote. If the bill becomes law in its current form, it would create the largest immigration increase in U.S. history – a disaster for American workers and taxpayers. S. 2611 would increase legal immigration by 60 million people over the next 20 years and grant amnesty to an estimated eight to 10 million illegal aliens. The Senate passed the bill despite recent polling indicating that Americans oppose amnesty and want legal immigration numbers reduced.

Before passing S. 2611, the Senate voted on six final amendments. An unsuccessful amendment by Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX, SA 4097) would have affected the confidentiality of information from DREAM Act-related amnesty applicants in cases where an application was denied and appeals were exhausted. Sen. Jeff Bingaman’s (D-NM) successful amendment (SA 4131) would cap the number of employment-based visas for workers, spouses and children at 650,000. Another successful amendment, SA 4083 (sponsored by Sen. Russ Feingold [D-WI]), deletes a provision in the bill that would have prohibited courts from staying removal of any alien except in certain cases. Sen. Jeff Sessions’ (R-AL) unsuccessful amendment (SA 4108) would have prevented illegal aliens, whether granted amnesty or not, from being rewarded for their illegal activity by way of a tax credit. A similarly-fated amendment, SA 4136 (sponsored by Sen. John Ensign [R-NV]), would have prevented illegal aliens granted amnesty from being rewarded for their prior illegal activity by way of a tax credit for tax years before 2006. Finally, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) was able to push through a manager’s amendment (SA 4188), which included 115 pages of additional revisions from a number of agreed-to amendments, although no public notice was provided as to which amendments were included.

On May 24, the Senate overrode the wishes of the majority of Americans through two procedural and highly political moves. First, the Senate voted to invoke cloture, which limits debate on the bill (i.e., no more than 30 hours) in preparation for final passage, and limits further amendments to ones that are germane and agreed to in advance. Had 40 Senators voted to reject cloture, the bill would have, effectively, been stopped. Subsequently, the Senate rejected a budget point of order raised by Sen. Wayne Allard (R-CO), which, if accepted, would have slowed progress on passage of this amnesty-guestworker "compromise" proposal. Beyond these actions, the Senate voted on eight other amendments, with five of them being adopted. A successful amendment by Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV, SA 4127) requires aliens to pay DHS an additional $500 fee before receiving that amnesty or “guestworker” status. An amendment by Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH, SA 4114) was endorsed that reallocates visas made available through the Visa Lottery to allow more "high-skill" workers in through that program. An amendment by Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA, SA 4025), which was adopted by voice vote, encourages adoption of children from other countries by U.S. citizens and creates a new nonimmigrant classification for an adoptable child. Also adopted by voice vote were: (1) an amendment by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA, SA 4144), which requires employers who seek to hire H-2C "guestworkers" to meet specified notification and posting requirements to recruit U.S. workers for the position for which the H-2C "guestworker" is sought; and (2) an amendment by Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT, SA 4124), which requires the Census Bureau to report to Congress on how to ensure that illegal aliens are not counted for purposes of House seat apportionment. An amendment offered by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX, SA 4101, which would have established a SAFE "guestworker" visa for citizens of CAFTA-DR and NAFTA nations, was rejected, as was – by a narrow margin (48 for and 49 against) – a proposal by Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND, SA 4095), which would have sunsetted the H-2C "guestworker" program after five years. Senators voted to table an amendment by Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA, SA 4084), which would have restricted aliens' access to the proposed "blue card" agricultural "guestworker" program.

On May 23, the Senate voted down an amendment by Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA; SA 4087) that would have replaced the bill's "earned legalization" amnesty and Deferred Mandatory Departure provisions with a one-tiered scheme in which all aliens illegally present in the United States on or before January 1, 2006, are granted amnesty and an "orange card" (instead of the normal "green card") if they are otherwise admissible. That amendment would have added 2 million illegal aliens to the amnesty already contained in the bill. Members succeeded in tabling an amendment (SA 4117) by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) that would have opened up a dangerous loophole for terrorists to enter the United States. An amendment (SA 4177) by Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) passed which revised the bill’s mandatory employment verification provisions. The Senate also tabled two other amendments. Sen. Ted Kennedy’s amendment (D-MA; SA 4106) would have affected employer sanctions and enforcement under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Sen. Richard Durbin’s amendment (D-IL; SA 4142) would have provided another waiver from the removal process for family hardship.

On May 22, members voted to table an amendment sponsored by Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA; SA 4009) that would have required an employer applying to hire H-2A workers, or utilizing "blue card" status temporary agricultural workers, to pay the greater of the local prevailing wage for that occupation or the minimum wage. The Senate endorsed an amendment by Sen. John Ensign (R-NV; SA 4076) that would authorize border state governors to have their National Guard troops train annually on the border, although the troops would not directly participate in the apprehension of illegal aliens.

The Senate adjourned on Friday, May 19, after briefly debating S. 2611, the "compromise" amnesty bill. No votes were held. On Thursday, May 18, the Senate adjourned after voting on ten amendments to S. 2611, the "compromise" amnesty bill. The Senate passed an amendment by Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA; SA 4066) that retracts provisions of a positive amendment (SA 3965) passed the night before. SA 4066 removes a provision requiring Federal certification of an employer's need to import foreign workers. An amendment by Sen. Ensign (SA 3985) would have cut off access to Social Security benefits for most illegal aliens, but the amendment was tabled. Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-HA; SA 4029) succeeded in passing an amendment that exempts children of naturalized Filipino World War II veterans from numerical limits. An amendment (SA 3964) by Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) was adopted that would remove the ability of illegal aliens to prove their employment history through reasonable inference. This would greatly reduce the potential for fraud. An amendment (SA 4064) by Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) would have made English the official language of the United States. Although the amendment passed, it was displaced by a subsequent amendment by Sen. Ken Salazar (D-CO; SA 4073) that was more symbolic than substantive in nature. SA 4072, sponsored by Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY), would have used funds targeted for administration of the amnesty and temporary worker programs to reimburse state and local governments for the costs of incarcerating criminal aliens as well as for health care and educational services related to non-citizens. That amendment failed but a related one (SA 4038) by Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) passed that would impose fees on amnestied aliens to fund health care and educational services for non-citizens. The Senate tabled SA 3969, an amendment by Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ), which would have removed the automatic path to citizenship for “guestworkers.” Members concluded the day by passing an amendment (SA 3998) by Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) that would increase detention space for apprehended illegal aliens.

May 16 was the first full day of debate on floor amendments to S. 2611. An unsuccessful amendment offered by Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA) would have prohibited the implementation of any guestworker or amnesty scheme until DHS could certify that necessary border security measures and increases in Federal detention space were fully operational. A somewhat similar but much weaker amendment by Sen. Ken Salazar (D-CO) was adopted. It would authorize the President to trigger implementation of guestworker and amnesty provisions by certifying that such programs would strengthen national security. The most contentious discussion of the day surrounded Sen. Byron Dorgan's (D-ND) proposal to strike the controversial guestworker provisions from the bill, which after lengthy debate, was tabled permanently. Sen. Jeff Bingaman's (D-NM) amendment capping the number of new guestworkers at 200,000 per year was agreed to by voice vote after an attempt was made to table it. This removed the most out-of-control part of the bill, but still would lead to more than 60 million immigrants over the next 20 years. The Senate also adopted an amendment by Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) to add 1,000 Border Patrol agents.

CLICK HERE
to see the Heritage Foundation report

A study released May 15 by the Heritage Foundation's Robert Rector estimates that S. 2611 will allow 103 million persons to immigrate legally to the United States over the next twenty years, fully one-third of the current population, and cause increased government spending of at least $46 billion per year. Mr. Rector subsequently revised his analysis after passage of an amendment by Sen. Jim Bingaman (D-NM) capped the “guestworker” program at 200,000 per year. He now estimates that S. 2611 will allow 60 million persons to immigrate legally to the United States over the next twenty years. (CLICK HERE to see the revised analysis.)  From  http://www.numbersusa.com/hottopic/2454.html