House GOP Leaders Plan Vote on $659 Million Surge Alien Bill

[Leanne King]

House GOP Leaders Plan Vote on $659 Million Surge Alien Bill

House GOP Leaders Plan Vote on $659 Million Surge Alien Bill

 We have to man the phones today and  tomorrow and stop the planned vote on the $659 Million Surge Alien Bill. It does nothing to secure the borders and gives Obama an opening to do what he wants on amnesty. Please get everyone you can to stop this bill. Burn the phone lines down. If ever, we need everyone's help calling congress and saying NO to this bill

. PLEASE HELP GET THIS BILL STOPPED.

A note from our friends at FAIR

House Leadership to Send Flawed Border Bill to Floor
Call Your Representatives NOW and Urge Them to Vote No!
Sources all over Capitol Hill are reporting that House Speaker John Boehner plans to send a flawed border bill to the floor this week. The bill will be a response to President Obama's request for Congress to provide government agencies an extra $3.7 billion to speed up the processing of and provide care for illegal alien minors flooding the border and resettle them all across the country.

1. President Obama has caused this crisis.
Under the guise of "prosecutorial discretion," President Obama has blatantly refused to enforce our immigration laws, ordering immigration agents to essentially ignore all illegal aliens who have not been convicted of violent crimes. Removals of illegal alien minors have dropped nearly 80 percent during his Administration. Even President Obama's former director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) unapologetically declared that the chances of the average illegal being deported are "close to zero."
To make matters worse, President Obama has circumvented Congress and adopted administrative amnesty programs, such as the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), that shield illegal aliens from deportation. These policies have sent a clear message around the world: if you come, you can stay.

2. Policy changes will either fail in the Senate or become a vehicle for amnesty.
As Congress has debated how to respond to the President's request for $3.7 billion in extra funding, House leaders have insisted that policy changes must accompany the money. They have focused specifically on changing the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) of 2008 to allow minors from Central America to be processed and deported quickly like minors from Mexico.
While this is a laudable goal, the Senate has vowed to block any changes to the 2008 Act. And, if policy changes are sent to the Senate, any legislation that returns to the House is likely to contain some sort of amnesty or other bad policy changes. This would set up a dangerous scenario for a conference committee or action in a lame-duck session of Congress.

3. If policy changes pass Congress, they will be rendered meaningless by the Obama Administration.
President Obama has made it clear that he does not care whether Congress amends the 2008 Act to speed up the removal of minors from Central America. Just last Thursday, the White House confirmed that it is considering a plan to admit even MORE Honduran, Guatemalan and Salvadoran minors by giving them refugee status -an act that requires outright ignoring the legal definition of a refugee. Granting refugee status to these minors would nullify any legislation Congress passes to speed up the processing and deportation of illegal alien minors crossing the border.
More importantly, the Obama Administration has vowed that by the end of August, it will unilaterally grant some sort of administrative amnesty to illegal aliens already in the U.S. By some accounts the plan may shield millions of illegal aliens from deportation! (See, e.g., The New York Times, June 30, 2014)

4. The legislation being proposed by House Leadership will not improve the situation. In fact, it will make matters worse!
In particular, the House Leadership bill is damaging because it includes the Cornyn-Cuellar bill. This bill actually further complicates the process of removing illegal alien minors by giving them an additional hearing before an immigration judge to attempt to establish they have a legitimate claim to stay in the U.S. In addition, the Cornyn-Cuellar bill allows illegal alien minors who have received final deportation orders in the past 18 months to get those orders expunged and re-apply for admission to the U.S.!! (To learn more, read FAIR's summary of the Cornyn-Cuellar bill.)

Finally, the House Leadership bill does nothing to address the real cause of the crisis. It does not attempt to stop President Obama's non-enforcement policies or his administrative amnesty programs. And it does nothing to impede President Obama from fulfilling his promise to grant administrative amnesty to millions of illegal aliens in the U.S. by the end of this summer!
Act NOW! FAIR is asking all of its members, supporters, and activists to call their Representatives and urge them to vote NO on the House Leadership supplemental spending bill. Tell your Representative:
• You oppose new legislation that will only complicate the deportation of illegal alien minors;
• You demand that House leaders address the TRUE cause of this border crisis: the President's non-enforcement policies and administrative amnesty programs. House leaders should support legislation that significantly restricts the President's ability to abuse various forms of relief such as deferred action, humanitarian parole, parole-in-place, temporary protected status, etc. This includes supporting legislation authored by Senator Ted Cruz and Representative Marsha Blackburn that would end DACA; and
• You demand that House leaders immediately take action to stop the President from fulfilling his promise to grant administrative amnesty to millions of illegal aliens in the U.S.

House leaders plan to vote on their bill THIS WEEK! Call your Representatives NOW!
To find the phone number of your Representative

http://www.opencongress.org/people/zipcodelookup

To our great patriots....THANK YOU!!!

[Richard Stotts]

Ander Crenshaw had an office member call me back insisting that the bill was good.   @ 202-226-9928.  I called Crenshaw @ 202-225-2501.  I say consider calling both.

[edgar a martin]

I don't like the way that Rubio & Crenshaw have been waffling on the previous amnesty attempts...action speaks louder than words!  Crenshaw is in for the fight of his (political) life against the very formidable, Capt Ryman Shoaf...he needs to 'gitter done' or he is toast!

[Patricia M. McBride]

Called and got right through to Crenshaw's office, so I would guess the call volume is low right now.

[Leanne King]

Sessions Warns Obama On "Exceedingly Dangerous" Executive Action
Written by Jack Kenny

Congress and the American people "will not stand" for altering or suspending the nation's immigration law by executive action, Senator Jeff Sessions (shown, R-Ala.) said in a Senate speech Monday, warning that the president is planning to lead the nation into "exceedingly dangerous waters."
"Congress makes laws, the executive branch executes those laws. It's that simple," the three-term senator said in an impassioned speech on the Senate floor. Sessions warned of a constitutional crisis if President Obama follows through on his promise to act "without Congress" to achieve immigration reform.
"Such calculated action strains the constitutional structure of our republic," Sessions said. "Such unlawful and unconstitutional action, if taken, cannot stand. No Congress, Republican or Democrat, can allow such action to occur or to be maintained. The people will not stand for it. They must not stand for it," he continued.
Sessions was a vocal opponent of the bipartisan immigration reform bill the Senate passed by a vote 68-32 last year, saying at the time that the granting of legal status and a path to citizenship to millions of illegal immigrants is "not coterminous with, not in harmony with, the nation as a whole." Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has said the Republican-controlled House will not act on the bill this year, a decision an obviously angry Obama denounced when addressing reporters in the White House Rose Garden on June 30.
"And in this situation, the failure of the House Republicans to pass a darn bill is bad for our security, it's bad for our economy and it's bad for our future," the president said in announcing "a new effort to fix as much of our immigration system as I can, on my own, without Congress." Obama and his aides met that day with representatives of groups pushing immigration reform to discuss plans for moving on the issue before the November midterm elections, according to various media reports. "He seems resolute that he's going to go big and go soon," Frank Sharry, executive director of the pro-reform group America's Voice, told Time magazine.
Obama issued a "policy directive" in June of 2013, instructing Justice Department and Homeland Security officials to cease deportation proceedings against, and to grant temporary work permits to, illegal immigrants under 30 who arrived in the United States prior to their 16th birthday. That, said Sessions, has "created an unprecedented, unlawful flow of more young people" into the country. For the president to now grant millions of adults "amnesty by executive order," he added, "will collapse any remaining moral authority of our immigration law, undermine the sovereignty, really, of our nation." The senator's advice to the president is "pull back."
"It is utterly unacceptable for you to meet with special interest groups, La Raza and others, and then promise action that is contrary to law," Sessions said, adding that he was not suggesting any "parley or any compromise. There is no middle ground on nullifying immigration law by the President."
Sessions made no mention of impeachment, a subject that has been bandied about between Republicans and Democrats since former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin called for Obama's impeachment if he takes further action to prevent enforcement of immigration laws. Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) seconded that view over the past weekend, saying on Breitbart News Saturday that if the president takes such action, "we need to bring impeachment hearings immediately before the House of Representatives. That's my position and that's my prediction." Speaker Boehner has ruled out any impeachment vote and made no mention of immigration in an op-ed article explaining why the House will bring suit against the president over executive orders delaying provisions of the Affordable Care Act. Democrats are claiming House Republicans plan to initiate impeachment proceedings against the president if their party wins control of the Senate this November, while Republicans say the Democrats are talking up impeachment as scare tactics to spur campaign contributions.
With Congress due to begin a five-week recess on Friday, Sessions called for "Congressional action this week to bar unilateral, imperial action by the President" and prevent "what could be a constitutional crisis." He urged his colleagues to end "acquiescence to executive overreach" and pass legislation now to bar work permits for millions more illegal immigrants in a time of high unemployment, "thereby protecting American workers."
"If President Obama is not stopped in this action, and he exceeds his powers by attempting to execute such a massive amnesty contrary to law," he warned, "the moral authority for any immigration enforcement henceforth will be eviscerated. Anyone, the world over, will get the message: Get into America by any method you can and you will never have to leave. We are almost there, but it is not too late."
Photo of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.): AP Images
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/18806-session...