Call Senators Thursday Asking for a YES vote on Grassley's E-Verify Amendment & Vitter's No-Match Amendment

Updated Wednesday, July 8, 2009, 8:00 PM

The Senate has adjourned for the day and will reconvene at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, July 9. Votes on amendments by Sens. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and David Vitter (R-La.) that appeared imminent earlier today are still expected at some point over the next few days. Before adjourning tonight, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) filed a cloture motion to end debate on the overall bill by Friday. Please resume calling Senators on Thursday morning and ask them to vote YES on the Grassley and Vitter amendments - 202-224-3121.

Sen. Grassley's amendment (# 1415) would allow employers using E-Verify to check the workplace eligibility of all employees, not just new hires. Under current law, E-Verify may only be used for new hires. Sen. Vitter's amendment (#1375) would prevent further delays in the implementation of the "no-match" rule, which allows the Social Security Administration to send letters notifying employers that the Social Security number and personal data of certain employees don't match SSA records (almost always because they are illegal aliens).

... Read more: http://www.numbersusa.com/content/news/july-8-2009/call-your-senators-now-support-sen-sessions-e-verify-amendment.html

Immigration 103 Trailer

Congressman Seeks to End Birthright Citizenship for Children of Illegal Aliens

True immigration reformers in the U.S. Congress have reintroduced legislation seeking to end birthright citizenship for children born to illegal alien parents in the United States. Authored by Congressman Nathan Deal (R-GA) and co-sponsored by a bipartisan group of 46 other Members of the House of Representatives, the Birthright Citizenship Act of 2009 (H.R.1868) would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to change the current interpretation of federal law that automatically confers citizenship to any child born in the United States regardless of the immigration status of the child's parents.

... Read more: http://www.fairus.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=20569&security=1601&news_iv_ctrl=1721#1

An Essay By Jim Gilchrist (Minutemen)

The Minuteman Project evolved as an alternative to the corruption and dereliction of duty of our nation’s political governors and the reckless disregard for U.S. rule of law by domestic and foreign entrepreneurs engaged in the 21st century slave trade.

Weary and frustrated with the decades-long refusal of federal, state, and local governments to simply enforce existing U.S. immigration laws, I set out to bring national awareness to this dilemma in order to rouse a sleeping electorate and force public debate on the matter.

... Read more: http://www.minutemanproject.com/newsmanager/articlefiles/481-MMP%20Georgetown%20University%20Law%20Journal%20Essay%20by%20Jim%20Gilchris1-1.pdf