DEAR FRIENDS OF BORDER
SECURITY,
We need your immediate phone calls to prevent a radical
threat on Arizona border security in a vote on the U.S.
House floor expected on Wednesday.
CALL YOUR REP AT
Also, find a phone note for this with talking points
.
HERE'S THE SCOOP
FROM OUR CAPITOL HILL TEAM
- THE BILL: Rep.
Grijalva (D-Ariz.) has a bill that is supposed to come
up for a vote on Wednesday: H.R. 324 - the Santa Cruz
Valley National Heritage Area Act.
This would cover a gigantic area of Arizona, including
much of the illegal entry area that reporter Leo Banks
chronicled in his article
- THE AMENDMENT WE NEED:
Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah) is trying to offer an
amendment to preserve border enforcment in the huge new
park area.
The amendment simply says that nothing in the bill shall
prevent the Border Patrol from performing their duties
to secure the border in this newly designated area.
- THE DANGER: The
Border Patrol is increasingly being limited in its
enforcement on various park lands. Promoters of illegal
immigration inside the federal government seem to be on
a trend of turning parks into sanctuaries for illegal
alien traffic.
The fear is that the H.R. 324 designation will be used
to prevent the Border Patrol from setting up
communication towers, cameras, sensors and so on, on the
massive land included under the bill.
The land included under the bill covers some of the
primary smuggling corridors in Arizona.
It also covers Highway 19, where the Border Patrol has a
temporary checkpoint that is scheduled to become a
permanent checkpoint--at which the BP seizes huge
amounts of drugs and apprehends large numbers of illegal
aliens each year--within the next year. It is entirely
possible that the designation could be used to reverse
that decision, especially since Rep. Grijalva is a vocal
opponent of checkpoints (or any other activities that
deter illegal immigration).
In addition, the private group that is designated to
help administer the designation is led by a person who
has been very active in opposing the building of the
fence.
For the most part, Rep. Grijalva has opposed efforts to
stop illegal traffic across the southern border and is a
huge supporter of amnesties and other rewards for
illegal immigration. His Immigration-Reduction Grade is
F-minus!
- GRIJALVA'S OPPOSITION TO THE
AMENDMENT: Rep. Grijalva opposed Bishop's
amendment at the committee level on the grounds that
"the designation doesn't carry any restrictions that
would affect the Border Patrol, so the amendment is
unnecessary."
We have to assume that his assurances can't be trusted,
given Grijalva's track record. And even if he is telling
the truth, why would it hurt to confirm in the bill that
no border control activity will be restricted?
- ANOTHER VERIFICATION ISSUE:
Remember our motto?
TRUST IS EARNED THROUGH VERIFICATION
The only way we can trust
that Grijalva's bill will allow all border security
activity is for there to be language guaranteeing it in
the bill.
The way we verify that
Grijalva is telling the truth is to insist on the Bishop
amendment.
- YOUR MESSAGE: If you
are from the same state as the Rules Committee Members
listed below, please call them and insist that they
allow a vote on the amendment.
There is some possibility that the amendment will also
be offered by Rep. Roskam (R-Ill.)
So, just ask for a vote on the "Bishop/Roskam amendments
to ensure that the H.R. 324 Santa Cruz Valley bill does
NOT restrict the full operations of the Border Patrol
and immigration enforcement."
Another even quicker statement might be: "Make sure
there is an amendment to H.R. 324 that guarantees full
border security operations on the Arizona border."
- RULES COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
CALIF: Dennis Cardoza (D), David Dreier (R), Doris
Matsui (D)
COLO: Ed Permutter (D), Jared Polis (D)
FLORIDA: Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R), Alcee Hastings (D)
MAINE: Chellie Pingree (D)
MASS: James McGovern (D)
NEW YORK: Michael Arcuri (D), Louise Slaughter (D)
NORTH CAROLINA: Virginia Foxx (R)
TEXAS: Pete Sessions (R)
Also important to contact are chief Party Leaders:
CALIF: Nancy Pelosi (D)
CONN: John B. Larson (D)
INDIANA: Mike Pence (R)
MARYLAND: Steny Hoyer (D), Chris Van Hollen (D)
MICHIGAN: Thaddeus McCotter (R)
OHIO: John Boehner (R)
VIRGINIA: Eric Cantor (R)
SOUTH CAROLINA: James Clyburn (D)
CALL MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AT
- THWARTING THE CONTINUING DRIVE
FOR AN AMNESTY: See my blog today on
about why we are thanking Pres. Obama
for backing down on health plan coverage for illegal
aliens even as we continue to prepare for his amnesty
push.
The pro-amnesty forces know that a blanket amnesty is
going to be very, very difficult to pass.
So, they are trying to provide the amnesty in a hundred
pieces. First, the idea was to include the illegal
aliens under the federal health plan. We/you rose up in
rage and apparently have blocked it.
Now, it appears that Grijalva's bill would provide a
kind of amnesty by severely weakening enforcement along
Arizona's border.
We must rise up today and stop it.
We must cause every leader in Washington to understand
that unless their bills guarantee no benefit to illegal
immigration, the public will rise up against them.
It is most important that we try to focus our energies
in one place to have the impact we need. Today and
tomorrow, it is the Bishop/Roskam amendments that will
verify in this bill that no border enforcement efforts
in Arizona will be curtailed.
THANKS,
Please take a look at our fundraising thermometer for
this month. As you can see -- after making our monthly
goal in August -- we're running short in September.
For all of you who have never kicked in $10 or $25 to
the movement, this would be a great time.
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