If you are in his district, please thank Representative Hastert or Sensenbrenner for sticking with the House's immigration enforcement bill! Otherwise, please urge your representative to support their actions. House Speaker Dennis Hastert, and James Sensenbrenner, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, are two key players in determining the course of action taken by the House conference committee on the immigration bill.
Sensenbrenner has been resolute in support of HR 4437, the enforcement bill that he authored. Now Hastert has indicated he may take the unusual step of holding hearings on the Senate bill before appointing anyone to a House-Senate committee to negotiate a compromise immigration bill. This would give House members, and the American public, an opportunity to learn about all the provisions in the Senate bill.
Such a discussion would likely diminish support for the Senate bill. Analysis by Robert Rector at the Heritage Foundation indicates that if the current Senate bill were adopted an estimated 66 million persons would legally immigrate to the U.S. over the next 20 years. The number who would be allowed to immigrate here is tens of millions higher, yet the media have ignored the implications of this bill on population growth in the U.S.
Express your support to these leaders and encourage them to resist efforts to weaken HR 4437.
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David A. Bess
www.legalamerica.blogspot.com