Today, the attached letter (PDF) was sent to President Bush by nine U.S. Senators urging him to fulfill the border security provisions listed in the Senate immigration bill whether the legislation passes or not. Each border security trigger in the bill can be implemented under current law without any need for new legislation from Congress.
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For more on this letter, visit Senator DeMint’s website here:
http://demint.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=JimsJournal.Detail&Blog_ID=63
Dear Mr. President:
We respectfully ask that your Administration enforce the border security laws that have already been authorized by Congress regardless of whether the Senate passes the immigration reform bill. The bill assumes that several critical border security benchmarks can be achieved within 18 months. These security triggers are already authorized under current law and can be completed without the immigration bill. We believe these enforcement measures are vital and should not wait until Congress passes additional immigration reforms.
Securing the border is the best way to restore trust with the American people and facilitate future improvements of our immigration policy.
Sincerely,
U.S. Senators Jim DeMint (R – South Carolina), Tom Coburn (R – Oklahoma), Mike Enzi (R – Wyoming), David Vitter (R – Louisiana), Jim Inhofe (R – Oklahoma), Jim Bunning (R – Kentucky), Charles Grassley (R – Iowa), John Ensign (R – Nevada) and Jeff Sessions (R – Alabama).
Wesley M. Denton
Communications Director
Office of Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC)
202-228-5079 direct
Wild Thing’s comment……..
These are all Republican Senators , not only that but no Rhino’s either are on the list of those who are opposing Bush and Amnesty for illegals who have invaded and stolen identities.
If a person says they love America there is no way I will believe them if they are a Dem. or a Rhino.
Yes, please put the pressure on to NOT sign that immigration bill.
It’s the wrong way.
It’s a terrible bill with a terrible price to pay.
Maybe we should start a new political party–The American Party.
We care about this beautiful lady we call home and it’s high time someone did something about all the liberal travesties going on inside her borders. It’s making her sick and weak. And I don’t want her to die.
I wish I could trust their statements but somehow I don’t, I fully believe it’s only posturing on their part to step forward at this late date to “requuest” the president to uphold the laws of the land and those already passed. Laws that have simply been ignored by the very same men making the request.
They have failed us and now they want to distance themselves from their complicity.
They need to remember this: In every civil uprising and revolt throughout history, the leaders get executed, the elitists get executed, the educators get executed as well as their sympathisers.
Keep pushing and they’ll get an unpleasant result.
I don’t know Jack. Some of the names have been pretty vocal about voicing displeasure over the immigration/amnesty bill.
Lynn I love that idea, and it sounds so wonderful to me….The American party.
Jack they are really asking for it. I think they believe that the conservaitves and anyone else against this will mellow out, that we don’t have the long term fight in us to not let this happen without getting them back in our vote for one thing.
But we do and we are not the ones that want a weekend war we know it takes time, they are the ones that want to rush everything and then not win. God help us though if they do get their way, it is dangerous what they are doing beyond words.