Protests=Write your congressmen

[jeezeweeze]

Originally Posted by littlemom

There was encouragement for voter registration drives in the park. Whats up with that and whose job is it to make sure they are legal enough to register to vote? example of nothing happening is the school board member who was not a citizen. I ask all on this board when do the American Citizens march and say we don't want this and what can we do besides writing our congressman. Lou Dobbs said it best that by letting the illegals be here we have made wages stall and the middle class people go down the toilet. It now takes two incomes to sustain a family. Meat packing plants paid 19.00 an hour in 1980 and pay 9.00 something today. When do we get a day off with pay to speak out and march the streets and block traffic. Why are we giving them any media at all. BTK liked media attention too.

ARE THEY REALLY SIGNING UP ILLEGALS TO VOTE....??? OMG

[lurker]

Originally Posted by Bubba

Thanks for the info. I sent my brick just now to Sen. Sam Brownback, since he was just in Dodge City and seemed to support the illegals by his presence at the Catholic Church meeting awhile back.

Sam is too far in the religious right for me.... I think wordy could call him a fundie and get away with it.

[Army_of_One]

Originally Posted by lurker

Sam is too far in the religious right for me.... I think wordy could call him a fundie and get away with it.

Agree with you there Senor Lurker

[Bubba]

Originally Posted by lurker

Sam is too far in the religious right for me.... I think wordy could call him a fundie and get away with it.

My feelings are right in line with you on that. That is why I sent him a brick! It is the best $12 I ever spent.

[Tee]

Thank you for your letter regarding immigration. I appreciate your taking the time to share your thoughts and concerns with me.

The United States Senate has spent the last several weeks considering border security and immigration policy proposals. Such proposals include S. 1033, the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act; S. 2454, the Secure America's Borders Act; a substitute proposal offered by Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA), and a compromise proposal offered by Senators Chuck Hagel (R-NE) and Mel Martinez (R-FL). In addition, the Senate has been considering proposals addressing the allocation of visas, including the H-2B visa program.

In my role as Intelligence Committee Chairman, I have spoken out forcefully on the need to debate and vote on these various proposals. Unfortunately, the Senate has failed to act due to politics and other factors that have kept senators on both sides of the aisle from being able to offer amendments to such proposals and have them voted on. This is not how the Senate is supposed to operate. The American people should expect better on an issue that is this important to our nation. I stand ready to join my colleagues in an effort to have a real debate and take action on this issue.

I understand your concerns. As Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, I view the situation at our border as a matter of national security. Rest assured, I have and will continue to support legislation that strengthens the security of our borders and reduces illegal immigration. I will carefully scrutinize proposals that affect our nation's immigration policies. I will also work to enact sensible legislation to ensure that American workers are first in line for available jobs and that any remaining jobs go to a legal foreign workforce. Again, thank you for writing.

With every best wish,

Sincerely,



Pat Roberts
PR:jl

[Bubba]

Originally Posted by Tee

Thank you for your letter regarding immigration. I appreciate your taking the time to share your thoughts and concerns with me.

The United States Senate has spent the last several weeks considering border security and immigration policy proposals. Such proposals include S. 1033, the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act; S. 2454, the Secure America's Borders Act; a substitute proposal offered by Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA), and a compromise proposal offered by Senators Chuck Hagel (R-NE) and Mel Martinez (R-FL). In addition, the Senate has been considering proposals addressing the allocation of visas, including the H-2B visa program.

In my role as Intelligence Committee Chairman, I have spoken out forcefully on the need to debate and vote on these various proposals. Unfortunately, the Senate has failed to act due to politics and other factors that have kept senators on both sides of the aisle from being able to offer amendments to such proposals and have them voted on. This is not how the Senate is supposed to operate. The American people should expect better on an issue that is this important to our nation. I stand ready to join my colleagues in an effort to have a real debate and take action on this issue.

I understand your concerns. As Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, I view the situation at our border as a matter of national security. Rest assured, I have and will continue to support legislation that strengthens the security of our borders and reduces illegal immigration. I will carefully scrutinize proposals that affect our nation's immigration policies. I will also work to enact sensible legislation to ensure that American workers are first in line for available jobs and that any remaining jobs go to a legal foreign workforce. Again, thank you for writing.

With every best wish,

Sincerely,



Pat Roberts
PR:jl

That is "word for word" the exact same letter I got in the mail the other day. Also, being a true politician he skirts all around the issue about illegal immigration, but doesn't tell you how he is voting or if he is for against securing the border with a wall, or getting tough on enforcement and deportation, or getting tough on employers and imposing big fines if they violate the law and hire illegals. After reading the letter, I see that he thinks something should be done, and that he isn't pleased the way the Senate is going about it. But he doesn't once say where he stands.

[TexKan]

I think it is time to require that the politicians (congress) meet thier campaign promisses.......... basically iif they get elected on a platform and then go to Washington and piss all over the folks that got them there (like so many are doin)............... then they ought to get fired - right then and there. My vote is goin to the one that don't "tap dance"........... is direct, and wants my country protected. I aint' wastin a vote on these wishy washy folks.

Ya know if I do a bad job - I get written up - put on notice and if I don't do better............. bam I'm gone........... so why do accept less from the politicians than we expect from ourselves or our workers???????????.

TIME for a change.......... if they can throw out a president............ how hard can it be to toss a crummy republican or democrat?......... I think there should be a "contract" of sorts............. I'm votin for the Arizona sherriff.... write in vote

[jeezeweeze]

you got it.... great idea Tex

[Bubba]

I saw this story from a link on the drudge report today about sending bricks to the U.S. Senate building.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/31/wa...gewanted=print

A Build-a-Protest Approach to Immigration
By CARL HULSE
WASHINGTON, May 30 — Talk about constructive criticism.

Advocates of tougher border security have sent thousands of bricks to Senate and House offices in recent weeks to make a none-too-subtle point with lawmakers about where many of their constituents come down on emerging immigration bills.

Leaders of the campaign, which has delivered an estimated 10,000 bricks since it began in April, said they had hit on the idea as a way to emphasize the benefits of a fence along the border with Mexico.

In an age when professionally planned lobbying campaigns have long since overwhelmed spontaneous grass-roots pressure, organizers of the brick brigade said they also saw an opportunity to deliver a missive not easily discarded.

"E-mails are so common now," said Kirsten Heffron, a Virginian who is helping coordinate the effort. "It is really easy for the office to say duly noted, hit delete and never think about it again."

If the impact was notable, so were the logistical difficulties, particularly given the mail screening and other protective measures put into effect at the Capitol after the anthrax attacks of 2001.

Initially, organizers of the Send-a-Brick Project encouraged people to send bricks on their own, and Ms. Heffron said things had gone relatively smoothly.

But many people, she said, preferred that the organization itself send the bricks and an accompanying letter to selected lawmakers.

The project will do it for an $11.95 fee. So when 2,000 individually boxed bricks showed up at once, Senate officials balked, threatening to force the group to pay postage to have each delivered to its intended recipient. The dispute left the bricks stacked up until an agreement to distribute them was worked out.

"We received them and we delivered them to all the addressees," said a spokeswoman for the office of the Senate sergeant-at-arms.

As the bricks landed in Congressional mailrooms and cramped offices, the effort was applauded in some offices but drew a bemused response elsewhere.

"Given the approval ratings of Congress these days, I guess we should all be grateful the bricks are coming through the mail, not the window," said Dan Pfeiffer, a spokesman for Senator Evan Bayh, Democrat of Indiana.

The senders of the bricks were encouraged to add a letter telling lawmakers that the brick represented a start on building a border wall.

Many could not resist putting their own message on the bricks. "No Amnesty," said a typical one, referring to a contested Senate plan to allow some illegal immigrants to qualify eventually for citizenship. "Stop the Invasion, Build a Wall," said another brick painted like a flag and shown on the group's Web site at www.send-a-brick.com.

Besides the border fence, the group supports technology improvements for border security, added money and personnel for the Border Patrol and an enhanced security presence in general on the southern border.

The brick effort was scheduled to wind down this week, though the organization encouraged people to continue if they desired.

On Tuesday, representatives of the architect of the Capitol collected bricks from lawmakers' offices and stacked them on loading docks with plans to donate them to a nonprofit group.

In a letter he circulated on Tuesday, Representative Scott Garrett, Republican of New Jersey, encouraged his colleagues to donate their bricks to a Habitat for Humanity resale store in Virginia, so the proceeds could go to that organization's projects.

"Through the Send-a-Brick Project, our constituents have found a solid way to communicate their feelings about illegal immigration," Mr. Garrett wrote in a draft of his letter. "Whether you agree with their message or not, we think that this campaign has given Capitol Hill a positive opportunity to turn bricks into buildings."

Ms. Heffron, who has been active in political campaigns and public affairs, said her organization was comfortable with the bricks being put to other uses after they had made their point.

She said the campaign had grown out of frustration expressed in an online forum on immigration issues over resistance by some lawmakers to erecting a wall. Another impetus was a desire for a counterpoint to large rallies by advocates of immigrants' rights.

Given the success of the initiative, she said, the group may turn its attention to lobbying lawmakers in their home districts this summer and may have a role in a demonstration in Washington. She said she hoped that the brick barrage showed lawmakers that when it comes to immigration, the weight of public opinion is on the side of border security.

"I think they don't realize the passion of it," she said of some lawmakers. "Maybe it is going to take a little protest in the streets to get our voices heard as well."

An estimated 10,000 bricks sent to the Senate. Do you think our voice is starting to be heard? It's not too late to send your brick! www.send-a-brick.com