Senators Feinstein and Craig add amnesty legislation to Iraq war spending bill!

In an underhanded and deceitful move, an amnesty bill was added to the Iraq War spending bill in the Senate Appropriation Committee.  The amendment was approved by a 17-12 vote.  The Ag-Jobs amendment, was sponsored by Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Larry Craig (remember the bathroom incident?) (R-Idaho):

There is an unwritten rule in Congress that the appropriations process should not be used to pass major legislation. So when the Senate Appropriations Committee makes an exception to this rule, you can bet that they are doing so only to deal with some burning crisis.

...What were the compelling interests that led the Senate Appropriations Committee to include major legislation as part of the military spending bill on Thursday? Amnesty for illegal aliens, and lots of new foreign workers for powerful business interests.

In one afternoon, the Appropriations Committee approved amnesty for 1.35 million illegal alien agricultural workers, and made available an additional 650,000 skilled and unskilled foreign guest workers over the next three years. That’s 2 million new, or newly legalized, foreign workers entering our labor force over the next three years – even as our economy has been losing jobs.

The 2 million figure does not include the dependents of the amnesty recipients or new workers who could be admitted under existing agricultural guest worker programs. Townhall

Outraged by this tactic and abuse of the legislative process?  Let your U.S. Senators know asap.

Comments

[berlin]

Gut!

[Frank Finney]

This Amnesty proposal is preposterous! Not only will we be opening the doors to millions of illegal aliens, but we, as American taxpayers, will be footing the bill for all of the concessions they will be given free of charge! U.S. taxpayers to pay for Mexicans to stay in Mexico? How ludicrous! If anything, we need to impose harsher legislation to keep all illegal aliens out of our country. U.S. citizens, unite! Just say "Hell No!" to this kind of stupid legislation and the people who support it.