Update, May 21, 2008: CongressDaily AM reported today that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) stripped the AgJOBS amnesty from the Iraq supplemental spending bill last night, as well as the increase in visas for employment-based permanent workers. However, provisions to increase H-2B visas for unskilled seasonal workers remain in the bill.

The H-2B provisions still in the bill, which were sponsored by Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), would exempt from the annual cap of 66,000 any H-2B nonagricultural seasonal workers who were admitted during the previous three years. This could increase the annual number of H-2B workers to over 400,000 by FY 2011. Please call your Senators to tell them to remove the H-2B visa increases, as well. The Capitol switchboard number is 202-224-3121. Call and ask to be connected to your Senator's office.

May 20, 2008:  Because the House of Representatives unexpectedly delayed the Iraq supplemental spending bill late Thursday, the full Senate won't be allowed today to vote on the amnesty billthat the Senate Appropriations Committee unexpectedly took up and approved Thursday.It now looks like the full Senate won't be allowed to act on the amnesty measure for around 1.3 million illegal alien agricultural workers (plus their families) until Tuesday at the earliest.

Particularly interesting is the claim by some Senators that we will fail to harvest crops and feed the world this year without an amnesty for illegal aliens. They made the same claim in each of the last four years. Each time that we beat back the amnesty, the harvests still happened! How many times do Feinstein and other alarmists have to cry wolf (or rotting crops) before people stop paying attention?

We beat them last year because the American people focused for a few weeks reminded their Senators that the citizens of this republic are still the boss.

Please do everything you can to enlist a small army in your community to fight this.

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