Letter from Colin A. Hanna, President of "Let Freedom Ring, Inc"

Letter from Colin A. Hanna, President of the non-profit organization "Let Freedom Ring, Inc"

Folks,
Here is the very latest news from the Senate regarding the proposedimmigration bill: Senator Reid filed cloture last night and we expect avote on it tomorrow (Thursday 06/07/07).

AMENDMENTS UPDATE:

On Wednesday, June 6, 2007 the Senate convenes at 9:30 am and immediately begins consideration of the controversial Immigration Bill. There will be2 hours of debate and then we will have 2 stacked roll call votes on the Kennedy amendment and the Cornyn amendment #1184 (regarding illegal aliencriminals). Note the Kennedy amendment is an alternative to the Cornyn amendment and it will be introduced on Wednesday morning.Tuesday’s roll call votes and the list of pending amendments are below:

Tuesday Roll Call Votes (4)
Allard #1189 (evaluation system for visas) was defeated 31-62

Durbin #1231 (ensuring employers make efforts to recruit American workers) was agreed to 71-22

McConnell #1170 (voter ID) was defeated 41-52

Feingold #1176 (study on treatment of WWII refugees) was agreed to 67-26

Amendments pending to the bill (11:
Cornyn #1184 (bar criminals, terrorists, and other criminals)

Sessions #1234 (limitation on claiming earned income tax credit)

Sessions #1235 (5 year limitation on claiming earned income tax credit)

Dodd #1199 (green cards for parents of US citizens)

Menendez #1194 (family backlog deadlines)

Lieberman #1191 (asylum and detention standards)

Cornyn #1250 (mandatory disclosure of information)

Clinton #1183 (reclassification of spouses and children)

Obama #1202 (termination of merit based system)

DeMint #1197 (health care coverage for holders of Z non-immigrant visas)

Bingaman #1267 (remove requirement that Y-1 visa holders leave the US before they are able to renew their visa)

We MUST ramp up the calls to our Senators big time over the next 24 hours. I believe we have CLOSE to the 41 senators necessary to defeat cloture, causing Reid to pull the bill. WE CAN WIN!!! Please place telephone calls to your U.S. Senators today (phone and fax numbers available ontheir websites). Please call or fax as many U.S. Senators as you areable, in addition to your own. I will try to post their phone/fax numberson our WNAF website by later this morning.

Please also visit Eagle Forum’s website and see their alert “Stop theSilent Amnesty”
http://www.eagleforum.org/alert/2007/06-05-07.html

Thank you for taking time from your busy schedules today to contact as many U.S. Senators as possible during this critical time.

I hope you will enjoy this ad which debuted yesterday in Washington. Copy and paste this address into your web browser:
http://www.wheresthefence.com/

It was produced by our friend Demos Chrissos of Rapid Response Media who also produced our "Easy Cover" TV spot. (Which you can see on our Home
Page, www.WeNeedAFence.com)

Kill the Bill or Fix It

As a member of We Need A Fence, I found it a necessity to pass this following text on to you from an ad that Let Freedom Ring intends to place in the Washington Post newspaper this week. It goes as follows...

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Immigration: Kill the Bill or Fix It?

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Can there be any serious observer of the Senate immigration debate who wants the Kennedy-Kyl-Bush immigration bill to pass in its current form?There are three broad categories of problems with Senate Bill 1348, the“grand compromise:”
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• Direct contradictions: As just one example, its supporters claim that it mandates that border security provisions are in place and additional border agents hired (the “triggers”) before the Z Visa amnesty program may be implemented, yet it provides for “probationary” benefits from the day after an illegal alien applies for a Z Visa that are essentially permanent and permit the alien to be employed, to travel freely and “not be considered an unauthorized alien.” Also, as long as the Z Visa program provides for an ultimate path to citizenship, the American public is likely to consider it amnesty, and therefore reject the entire bill as unacceptable.
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• Toothless “requirements:” Supporters claim that the bill requires that aliens who have been members of criminal gangs are deportable, yet the bill provides for a “renunciation of gang affiliation” that would permit the gang member to remain, inviting sham documentation.
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• Unrealistic assumptions: The staffing and logistical requirements to implement a registration and background check system to process 10 to 20 million applicants are so massive that it is likely that processing will become more of a rubber stamp than a thorough review.
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Let Freedom Ring is pro-immigrant and pro-immigration. We want to maintain America’s proud tradition as the most genuinely welcoming nation on earth, yet we think that it is simply common sense to insist on knowing whom we are welcoming. To do less in a post 9/11 world is irresponsible. Border security is a necessary precondition to realistic immigration reform, and true border security requires more extensive infrastructure, technology and staffing than the tokens specified in Senate Bill 1348.
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We should make illegal immigration harder and legal immigration easier.
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A good bill would be better than the status quo that ignores the rule of law, endangers national security and opens the door to worker exploitation. But the status quo would be better than the deeply flawed bill now before the Senate. Fixing our broken immigration system is our most pressing domestic issue, and it is unlikely that the current Senate bill can be sufficiently improved in three or four days of floor debate and amendment. If the Senate leadership insists on invoking cloture this week, responsible and patriotic Senators on all sides of the issue should vote to defeat the bill. We can do better!
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Let Freedom Ring, Inc.
West Chester, PA

www.LetFreedomRingUSA.com

June 4, 2007
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My thanks go out to Colin Hanna for the heads-up...
AubreyJ.........