August 3, 2006

Don’t miss the night-time photo of the existing [and effective] border fence in San Diego here! Washington Times piece on Senate relenting on funding fence

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Senate votes to fund the fence
By Stephen Dinan and Brian DeBose
THE WASHINGTON

The Senate did an abrupt about-face yesterday, voting overwhelmingly to begin paying for 370 miles of fencing and 500 miles of vehicle barriers on the U.S.-Mexico border, just three weeks after voting against the same spending.
The amendment’s sponsor said senators were so embarrassed by that July 13 vote that most felt they had to reverse course and vote for it this time — especially after so many were on record in May voting to build the fence in the first place. The amendment, which provides nearly $2 billion for the project, passed 94-3, with 66 senators switching from “no” to “yes” votes since last month.
“I think people wanted to get right,” said Sen. Jeff Sessions, Alabama Republican. “People heard from their constituents after they voted to authorize the fence in May and then voted against funding it a couple of weeks ago.”
The fence has become one of the flash points as Congress and President Bush try to craft a new immigration enforcement policy this year piece by piece. Mr. Bush travels to Texas today to review operations at the border, including the success of his plan to deploy the National Guard to assist the U.S. Border Patrol in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.
This week, the president reached his goal of assigning 6,000 Guard troops to the border states by Aug. 1. Still, of the 6,340 troops assigned as of yesterday, only 2,675 troops, or 42 percent, were “forward deployed.” The rest are at joint task force headquarters, in training or in transit.
But the Guard’s presence has led to a 25 percent drop in apprehensions at the border compared with the same time last year, suggesting the troops are having success in preventing illegal aliens from trying to cross.
That good news, though, was tempered by a government report that found Department of Homeland Security employees were fooled by counterfeit driver’s licenses in nine different tests by undercover investigators at U.S. border crossings. The Government Accountability Office said that hole in security “potentially allows terrorists or others involved in criminal activity to pass freely into the United States from Canada or Mexico.”
Democrats seized on the report as evidence Mr. Bush has fallen short on a key measure of homeland security.
“The record is clear: for more than five years, the president has failed to secure our borders and to enforce our immigration laws,” said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, who added that Republicans in Congress have let Mr. Bush get away with underfunding the Border Patrol and have delayed “real immigration reform” by fighting among themselves over whether to do enforcement first or pass a broad bill……

read the rest here. See the photo of the existing fence in San Diego! It works!

August 2, 2006

Details and more information on the coming U.S. House Field Hearings in Georgia focused on the effects of illegal immigration – and possible amnesty-again. Hearings are open to the public.

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We need help!

HOUSE FIELD HEARINGS IN GEORGIA! Two days, Monday, August 14 & Tuesday August 15, 2006

Attention Americans! An opportunity to demonstrate your thoughts on America’s unsecured borders, illegal immigration and amnesty again! America needs you here!

These hearings are open to the public! MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD!

We need people to attend the hearings and to peaceably assemble outside the event to hold signs

[SECURE OUR BORDERS! – ENFORCE OUR LAWS! NO – MORE AMNESTY!]

Please arrive 45 minutes before start of hearings.

The open borders/illegal alien lobby will be there.

The Dustin Inman Society will provide some signs with above sentiments, or you can bring your own signs with similar polite and reasonable text.

The national and local media will be present to capture the mood of Americans in Georgia and the Southeast on the senate bill and the amnesty-again that it would provide. If there were ever a day to take part of the day off your job or business, this is it!

Please attend!

This from the Atlanta Journal Constitution:

“The House Education and Workforce Committee is scheduled to have a hearing Aug. 14 in Gainesville, the epicenter of the state’s chicken processing industry, a major employer of immigrants. The hearing will focus on the impact illegal immigration is having in the workplace.

The Energy and Commerce Committee on Aug. 15 will have another hearing in Dalton, a national hub for carpet manufacturers — another source of jobs for immigrants— on how illegal immigration affects medical facilities and “individual American taxpayers.”

“Though more than 1,000 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, Gainesville and Dalton have been roiled by many of the same issues once limited to border states…”
Please note: If we do not fill the hearing room with Americans, Sam Zamarripa Inc./MALDEF/ La Raza will – with illegal aliens! As Zamarripa did in the recent Georgia Senate proceedings on the Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act .

U.S. Congressional Field Hearings coming to Gainesville and Dalton, Georgia August 14 and 15

U.S. House of Representatives Education and Workforce Committee Field Hearing

Chairman: Congressman Charlie Norwood

What: Federal hearing to discuss the impact of illegal immigration on the American Workforce and what is the impact on American workers and businesses of the Reid-Kennedy bill’s provisions mandating Davis-Bacon wage rates for guest-workers?

When: August 14, 2006 at 11:00 a.m.

Where: Federal Courthouse in Gainesville, GA -121 Spring Street, S.E., Room 201
Gainesville, GA 30501

Note: D.A. King is scheduled to be a witness at this hearing.

Driving directions below alert.

AND:

The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce Field Hearing
Chairman: Congressman Nathan Deal

What: “Examining the Impact of Illegal Immigration on the Medicaid Program and Our Healthcare Delivery System.”

When: Tuesday, August 15, 2006, at 10:00 a.m.

Where: Lecture Hall at the Northwest Georgia Trade and Convention Center, 2211 Dug Gap Battle Road, Dalton, Georgia 30720.

Please arrive 45 minutes before start of hearings.

Driving directions below alert.

Driving directions also please use Mapquest if needed. See you there!

Driving Directions to Gainesville Federal Courthouse: [Contact courthouse: (770) 532-1361]

From Interstate 985

Exit to US Highway 129 (Exit 22) and turn north. US Highway 129 is also called E.E. Butler Parkway.
Follow E.E. Butler Parkway to Washington St.
Turn left on Washington St.
Turn left on Green St. and the courthouse will be on the right.
From Cumming and Highway 400
Follow GA Highway 369 (Jesse Jewell Parkway) east to West Academy St.
Turn left on West Academy St.
Follow West Academy Street two blocks and turn right on Spring St.
The courthouse will be on the left after passing the downtown square.
Driving directions from other Georgia locations click here. http://www.usmarshals.gov/district/ga-n/locations/index.html

Mapquest driving directions to Dalton Hearing here

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