A very interesting post from www.Vdare.com about the Massachusetts Senate election. This follows this post about the  DC March for Jobs against more immigration. This follows this post about the Thursday morning Senate amnesty vote.  This follows this post about the release of illegal immigrant felons from prison by ICE. This follows this post about how to Report Illegal Immigrants! For more about what is happening in the nation now click here and you can read the two very interesting books that are shown HERE.

Bingo! Clown slips on banana peel

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Gabriel “Gang Of Nine” Gomez Loses Both Hispanics AND Whites in Massachusetts

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By Matthew Richer    

[Previously by Matthew Richer The Marco Rubio Of Massachusetts: Will The GOP Establishment And Its Token Hispanic Gabriel Gomez Blow This Election Too]
Watching the Republican Party’s current obsession with “Hispanic outreach” reminds one of the circus clown whose routine consists of tossing banana peels in front of himself, then slipping and falling flat on his back.
Early in the special election campaign to replace John Kerry in the U.S. Senate, it was clear that the Massachusetts GOP Establishment had handpicked Gabriel Gomez as their candidate, and for only one reason—he’s Hispanic.
Just as being black was the only reason Deval Patrick was elected Governor and Barack Obama elected President, being Hispanic was the only reason Gabriel Gomez received the GOP nomination for the Senate.
When asked about his qualifications, Gomez constantly repeated the fact that he had served as a Navy SEAL. Unfortunately, military service does not impress a lot of voters here in the Bay State, and “Navy SEAL Gabriel Gomez” quickly became an irritating soundbite.
True, Gomez did join a successful private equity firm after his military service, but one has to wonder if he was just an Affirmative Action hire. He never really seemed to understand economic policy very well—especially given that he is a huge booster for the nation-bankrupting Gang of Eight Amnesty/ Immigration Surge.
During the debates, Gabriel Gomez deliberately chided his Democratic opponent, Ed Markey (NumbersUSA F) for being too weak a proponent of the Gang of Eight amnesty and actually vowed to outdo the Democrat on this issue. ““I want to make it a ‘Gang of Nine,’” Gomez promised again and again.  Gomez: We’ll win ‘with or without DC’, by Jessica Taylor, June 25, 2013
You can’t make this stuff up.
Every time Gomez uttered this “Gang of Nine” remark, it was obvious that he really believed that he was delivering a decisive blow against his opponent. But the only people wincing were potential voters.
The “Gang of Nine” sound bite was obviously pre-rehearsed. Who can doubt that Gomez’s consultants went over it with him many times before the debates? Clearly they believed that it would be a real zinger.
In fact, Gabriel Gomez hired many of the same consultants who engineered the defeats of John McCain in 2008, and Mitt Romney and Scott Brown in 2012, including Eric “Etch-a-Sketch” Fehrnstrom, and Lenny Alcivar of Hynes Communications. [Giving boost to Senate hopeful Gabriel Gomez, conservative super PAC takes aim at Democrat Ed Markey, By Robert Rizzuto, MassLive.com, April 24, 2013 ]
Additionally, Gomez spoke Spanish on television, in campaign ads, and even before exclusively English-speaking audiences.
The amusing thing is that Gomez’s shameless hispandering didn’t even win him any Hispanic votes. The state’s largest Spanish-speaking newspaper, El Planeta, endorsed Ed Markey just before Gomez’s well-advertised (but sparsely attended) “Latino Townhall” in Southbridge, MA. [El Planeta Newspaper endorses Ed Markey, TuBoston.com, June 13, 2013]
Not that it mattered. Even if Gomez received 100% of the Hispanic vote, it would not have improved his chances of winning. Besides, most Hispanic voters in Massachusetts are Puerto Ricans who aren’t interested in Amnesty. But Puerto Ricans do support the Democratic Party because, like most Hispanics, they are natural Democrats.
Ed Markey ended up winning 55% of the vote, despite the fact that turnout was abysmally low.  [Edward Markey wins a low-turnout, big-spending Massachusetts Senate race, By Ryan Lenora Brown, Christian Science Monitory, June 26, 2013]
While hispandering didn’t win the Republicans any new votes, it cost them plenty, including many former Scott Brown supporters who chose to stay home. And let’s be honest: those Scott Brown voters were almost entirely white voters.
This was really a squandered opportunity because Gabriel Gomez lost to a very weak candidate. Before this year, Ed Markey was hardly a household name in Massachusetts. He was just one of those Democratic congressmen who had been around forever and no one seemed to know why. In a lot of districts, if you keep your mouth shut and vote the party line, you can get you reelected for as long as you like, which has been 37 years in Ed Markey’s case.
However, if the Democrats have an Achilles heel it is surely immigration.
For example, a viable GOP nominee could have made an issue out of the Matthew Denice case. It would have been the perfect opportunity to embarrass the Democrats and to illustrate the madness of our immigration policies.
As VDARE.com has previously reported, 23 year old Matthew Denice of Milford, MA was killed in 2011 by a drunk-driving Ecuadorean illegal immigrant named Nicolas Dutan Guaman. In the middle of the day, Guaman blew a stop sign and crashed into Denice’s motorcycle. Denice was still alive as Guaman’s pickup dragged him a quarter of a mile. After Denice became dislodged, Guaman backed up over him and sped away. Fortunately, the police caught up with him. [Timeline: Matthew Denice Case |Nineteen months after the death of Milford's Matthew Denice, no trial has been scheduled, By Mary MacDonald, Milford Patch, March 29, 2013]
What makes this tragedy particularly scandalous: Nicolas Guaman had been arrested previously for, among other things, assaulting a police officer and a firefighter. But because of the sanctuary policies that Democratic Governor Deval Patrick supports, Guaman was always released and never reported to ICE.
Even worse, last spring Judge Janet Kenton-Walker, a Deval Patrick appointee, ruled that Guaman’s trial would be postponed indefinitely because of his “unique cultural and linguistic background.” [Justice A Foreign Word For Judge, by Howie Carr, HowieCarrShow.com. April 14, 2013]. Translation: Guaman doesn’t speak English or Spanish, but an Andean dialect with no written form, and it will take many months for the court to find an attorney and an interpreter who can communicate with him (at significant public expense). [McPhee: Dangerous judge in Milford case, The MetroWest Daily News, April 14, 2013]
How many backward South American peasants like Nicolas Guaman will be amnestied under the Gang of Eight bill? It’s an important question—which Gabriel Gomez was not interested in asking.
A credible Republican candidate could have forced Ed Markley to defend the sanctuary policies that produced this travesty of justice and prolonged the suffering of Matthew Denice’s friends and family. But instead, Gomez mouthed vapid immigration happy talk—no doubt with the enthusiastic approval of his consultants.
Russell Kirk used to caution those on the Right that conservatism should not be allowed to morph into an ideology—a warning that has flummoxed some conservatives who believe that adhering to an ideology is a strength, as long as it is the correct ideology. But for Kirk, an ideology is a political worldview in which one is emotionally invested.
The problem with Conservatism Inc. is that they have become emotionally invested in their vision of the Hispanic Republican. They have constructed a mental moat around the idea and all the logic and evidence we muster will not penetrate through to them—not even losing elections, which they’ve been doing a lot of lately.
In fact, losing only convinces these Republicans that they must “try harder” to woo Hispanics—which supposedly means granting a blanket amnesty to illegal aliens.
Hispandering, therefore, is not just an idea, it is an ideology and an ideology is a difficult thing to combat.
And that is why we should see the defeat of Gabriel Gomez as a victory for patriotic immigration reformers. It illustrates the utter foolishness of the GOP elite’s Hispanic strategy.
After all, if Hispandering by Latino Republicans does not win any Hispanic votes, then why will work any better when white candidates engage in it? Ted Cruz got elected in heavily Hispanic Texas, but he’s a committed opponent of amnesty. Hey, why not follow his lead?
Running for national office is a huge commitment. How many people want to be the next Mitt Romney, hiring pricey consultants who advise you on how to alienate voters and blow elections (enriching them in the process)?
You can’t keep losing and stay in business forever. Eventually, candidates are going to look for better campaign advice.
Like that circus clown tossing the banana peels, Hispanic Outreach has become a stale routine that has bored white voters, and even Hispanic voters, into staying home and not voting on Election Day.
If the GOP is to have any future, then they must reject these Rasputins of the Right who preach this nonsense.
Patriotic immigration reform will not achieve victory without their defeat.
And they certainly suffered a defeat this week in Massachusetts.
Matthew Richer (email him) is a writer living in Massachusetts. He is the former American Editor of Right NOW magazine.

Stand With South Carolina ( And Against Illegal Immigration )

A very interesting post from The Ruthie Report/MINNSIR  about the  DC March for Jobs against more immigration. This follows this post about the Thursday morning Senate amnesty vote.  This follows this post about the release of illegal immigrant felons from prison by ICE. This follows this post about how to Report Illegal Immigrants! For more about what is happening in the nation now click here and you can read the two very interesting books that are shown HERE.

Thomas Gantt posted in The Ruthie Report/MINNSIR

Thomas Gantt 10:51pm Jun 26 Stand With South Carolina ( And Against Illegal Immigration ) Brothers and Sisters. I understand that many cannot attend the March on DC July 15th but there are many things you CAN do to support the March. You can spread the word on FB and other social media. I am doing that and also promoting on Blog talk radio shows. Hell, you could even Paint the URL , DCmarchforjobs.com, along with statements explaining it, on your vehicle and drive it around. I believe this march will go down in history and it is up to us to make sure it will be as successful as possible !!! http://www.dcmarchforjobs.com/ On Facebook https://www.facebook.com/events/173448449498609 Also, Please visit www.teapartycommunity.com DC March for Jobs - Stop Congress' Amnesty Push www.dcmarchforjobs.com STOP Immigration Reform Now! Rally on July 15th, 9:30am at Freedom Plaza, Washington DC. “Protect Am...

A very interesting post from www.Vdare.com about assimilation of immigrants. This follows this post about the recall effort in Arizona. This follows this post about the environmental impact of the Senate amnesty bill.  This follows this post about the release of illegal immigrant felons from prison by ICE. This follows this post about how to Report Illegal Immigrants! For more about what is happening in the nation now click here and you can read the two very interesting books that are shown HERE.

Peter Schaeffer: The History Of Immigration And Assimilation

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By Steve Sailer     

Peter Schaeffer writes(in comments at Tyler Cowen's site): 

The history of assimilation can be looked at several ways, all of them revealing. 
1. Perhaps the single most important point is that mass immigration was ended around WWI. The restrictive legislation of 1917 (the literacy act), 1921, and 1924 (Johnson-Reed) ended the great wave of mass immigration. Immigration continued on a much smaller scale and the composition was shifted. Because the new laws were based on national quotas, some countries were de-facto unrestricted (the UK, Ireland, etc.) while other reached their annual quotas rather quickly.
The immigration restrictions had several positive effects. Wages and working conditions improved for immigrants over time. Since most immigrants worked in manufacturing, wage gains in manufacturing were particularly positive. Sectoral differentiation (by accident) favored immigrants in this period. Manufacturing was booming and farming was in decline. Since the immigrant population was predominantly urban and employed in goods production, this was a plus.
Living conditions for immigrants clearly improved after mass immigration ended. The horrific tenements slums of the 1900 period were largely empty by the 1930s. Without new massive waves of immigrants, the prior cohorts were able to move up the social ladder into better housing (among other things).
The immigration restrictions of the WWI period clearly aided assimilation in practical ways (waves and living conditions). However, they also sent a very important message to the immigrant communities. America rejected ‘diversity’ and demanded that the immigrants embrace America rather than the other way around. There points were were well understood back then and it was widely understood that the immigration cutoff (substantial reduction actually) had accelerated assimilation.
2. The America of the 1920s and later was vastly better suited to assimilating immigrants than our nation today. We had a booming job market, no welfare state, middle-class unions (starting in the 1930s), English imposition, disciplined education, no multiculturalism, no bilingualism, no victimization ideology, intact families, rigorous law enforcement, etc. Beyond that, ‘Americanization’ (assimilation) was a widely embraced ideal and promoted heavily. Now we have the pernicious and very dominant ideology of ‘diversity’.
3. In spite of much more favorable circumstances, assimilation took time. Some groups assimilated much faster than others, but three generations were typically enough to achieve earnings party with old stock natives. The mythology is that one generation was sufficient. It wasn’t. Even well after WWII, ethnic differences in earnings, social status, etc. were measurable.
The political assimilation of ‘Great Wave’ immigrants was relatively slow but did occur. In this context, I will use the Catholic vote as a proxy for ‘Great Wave’ immigrants. By some measures, 1928 marks the zenith of Catholic alienation from the political mainstream. Al Smith got 90% of the Catholic vote (apparently) and was still easily defeated by Hoover. Indeed, he failed to carry his home state of New York (he was a former governor or New York). By the time JFK was elected, Catholic support for the Democratic party had fallen markedly. He won the Catholic vote, but by a notably smaller margin than Al Smith. A poll of Fordham University students in 1960 showed that most of the Catholic students favored Nixon over Kennedy (the Jewish students at Fordham favored Kennedy). Students at other Catholic schools favored Nixon as well.
Perhaps more relevantly, Eisenhower captured a majority of the Catholic vote in 1956. In subsequent presidential elections, Republicans were able to easily capture the Catholic vote (if they could win at all).
It’s worth noting that in an earlier era, ethnics were polled separately and political differences by ethnicity were material. By the 1980s, this practice had essentially disappeared because ethnic voting patterns were no longer different enough to measure.
However, voting patterns are not the most important aspect of assimilation in my opinion. The assimilation of American values is far more important. Once again, studies show that ‘Great Wave’ immigrants embraced the values of old-stock natives (personal responsibility, individual effort, hard work and education as the keys to advancement, national loyalty, limited government, etc.). Basically, ‘Anglo-conformity’ worked.
It is wrong to suggest that Jewish Americans don’t like WASP America. More like they resent it. The American Jewish community remains (privately) obsessed with the efforts of WASPs to exclude Jews from elite society. The fact that many of these efforts were more than 100 years ago doesn’t appear to matter. Nor does the fact that even with Jewish quotas in place, Jews were vastly overrepresented at Harvard and other elite schools.
The bigger picture, that America has been a wonderfully hospitable nation with immense opportunities for personal and professional advancement is subordinated to resentment of country club prejudice in the 1920s. As a consequence, American Jews define themselves as outsiders and vote accordingly.
As these notes should indicate, America was once a much better place for immigrants and their families. The historic advantages of assimilation, ‘Americanization’, Anglo-conformity, immigration restrictions, and a strong economy are all gone (along with quite a few other historic virtues). It’s also true that the immigrants were better historically. They were much more likely to be skilled, educated, etc. The ‘Great Wave’ immigrants has much lower skill levels and the turn of American society against immigration was largely a consequence. Contemporary mythology emphasizes the role of nativism in the restrictions of the 1920s. Declining skill levels provides a different and more germane explanation.

AZ Voters Look To Recall Sens McCain & Flake Following Amnesty Vote‏

A very interesting post from www.CaliforniaCrusader.com about the recall effort in Arizona. This follows this post about the environmental impact of the Senate amnesty bill.  This follows this post about the release of illegal immigrant felons from prison by ICE. This follows this post about how to Report Illegal Immigrants! For more about what is happening in the nation now click here and you can read the two very interesting books that are shown HERE.

 

 

AZ Voters Look To Recall Sens McCain & Flake Following Amnesty Vote‏

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I sent out a tweet on this.  If Colorado can garner enough signatures to put a recall of two state senators on their ballot, Arizona should be able to get enough to put a recall for these bozos on their ballot!  SIGNED "A man's heart plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps." -- Proverbs 16:9 “A nation that cannot control its borders isn’t really a nation.” - Ronald Reagan --- On Tue, 6/25/13, Freedom Outpost News <liberty@freedomoutpost.com> wrote:   June 25, 2013 Email not displaying correctly?View it in your browser

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A very interesting post from www.Vdare.com about the environmental impact of the Senate amnesty bill. This follows this post about Senators to pressure for the upcoming amnesty bill votes.   This follows this post about the release of illegal immigrant felons from prison by ICE. This follows this post about how to Report Illegal Immigrants! For more about what is happening in the nation now click here and you can read the two very interesting books that are shown HERE.

“Let Them Drink Toilet Water”—Gang Of Eight Bill Means Population Tsunami

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By Brenda Walker    

I used to be a Democrat. I still am an environmentalist. It doesn’t surprise me when my former fellow-Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer salivates about two million-strong Mexican mobs assembling on the Washington mall to intimidate Americans: the Amnesty/ Immigration Surge bill is designed literally to crowd out the historic American nation. The politics of this—the drive to Elect a New People—have been extensively discussed on VDARE.com. But the population aspect—the tsunami of people that would be allowed in by this bill—deserves attention too.
Obviously any serious environmentalists would worry about the danger inherent in importing enormous numbers of people, especially from the Third World to the First where their use of resources normally increases greatly. After all, greater material consumption is why most immigrants come, though we call it “searching for a better life.”
But these days, “global warming” has become almost the sole issue in Establishment environmentalism. Population issues have been purged, because it is not PC to say America is full up.
I was part of a movement among grassroots Sierra Club members that worked for years to return the organization to being a voice for domestic overpopulation concerns. Unfortunately, the normal democratic process for reform had been undermined by a secret bribe of $100 million to suppress mention of the connection between excessive immigration and environmental harm.
When business special interests and non-white racial nationalists wrote this Open Borders plus Amnesty bill of their dreams, all the conspirators got what they wanted. Any "compromise" simply meant more handouts, from La Raza to the Chamber of Commerce.
As a result, the “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” bill is a monstrous Leviathan of more cheap workers, more Democrats, more union members, more taxes, more shoppers, more pavement—and, above all, more people. The base-line estimate, taken from a recent CBO report that immigration enthusiasts actually touted as favorable to their cause: a stunning 46 million persons in the next two decades [Senate bill allows 46 million immigrants by 2033, says CBO, by Neil Munro, Daily Caller, June 19, 2013]
During the mark-up of the legislation in May, Schumer deflected Senator Jeff Sessions’ question about the numbers allowed in the “new legal flow” by announcing: “They’re coming. They’re either coming under law or not under law. And what we do is try to rationalize that system.”
In other words, this bad-faith bill explicitly eliminates borders and enforcement—it just calls the result “legal immigration.” A massively increased future flow from the Third World is the goal of the Gang of Eight bill. The 10 (20?) million illegal aliens to be legalized are just the beginning.
We already know what the future will look like if America becomes a boarding house: my home state of California—or as we now call it “Crowdifornia.”
Many of the immigrants unleashed by S.744 will certainly end up in Golden State. Would a quarter of the 46 million settle in the scenic former paradise? That guesstimate would not be unreasonable, since over one in four residents is foreign born now, according to the Census. Twenty-five percent of 46 million would be over 11 million in 20 years who need schools, jobs and housing.
California (population now 38 million) has a little-known but long-established history of drought and the population is well beyond a normal carrying capacity. Tree-ring research has indicated water shortages of disturbing length in relatively recent history:

Beginning about 1,100 years ago, what is now California baked in two droughts, the first lasting 220 years and the second 140 years. Each was much more intense than the mere six-year dry spells that afflict modern California from time to time, new studies of past climates show. The findings suggest, in fact, that relatively wet periods like the 20th century have been the exception rather than the rule in California for at least the last 3,500 years, and that mega-droughts are likely to recur.
Severe Ancient Droughts: A Warning to California, By William K. Stevens, New York Times, July 19, 1994

Already, overuse of natural resources has led to expensive and taxpayer-funded “solutions” like “toilet-to-tap” water recycling in southern California.
First World America could water take for granted. But with increasing population, critical resource shortages are emerging across America as infrastructure breaks down under the strain.
For example, in 2007, Georgia had such a severe drought that it sued the Army Corps of Engineers to release more water for use, along with ordering mandatory restrictions for households. But nobody in the Main Stream Media mentioned that water users in the state had doubled since 1960, from four to eight million.
For an issue that affects American society so profoundly, the Amnesty/ Immigration Surge debate has been remarkably narrow. The public emphasis of proponents and their MSM megaphone has been on the poor little foreign lawbreakers and how they must be “brought out of the shadows”—even though a May Gallup poll showed citizens’ overwhelming concerns were the economy and jobs.
Among the issues being ignored are cultural fragmentation, lack of patriotic assimilation, immediate costs to taxpayers for services and infrastructure, harm to citizen workers, increased crime and erosion of sovereignty.
But the basic ingredients of civilized life—including even the availability of water—are also endangered by mass immigration. Current difficulties will seem miniscule when the elites’ immigration tsunami hits.
The Gang of Eight's bill isn't just evil—it's incoherent, with all the problems that come from being written by a committee, especially one comprised of groups who despise the historic American nation.
Only grassroots pressure can stop this bill—and make sure America is something more than a multicultural mess reduced to drinking the toilet water.
Brenda Walker lives in northern California and blogs about immigration and culture in LimitsToGrowth.org. She thinks the Senators should be forced to listen to a public reading of their thousand-page bill in its entirety on the Senate floor.

Moving toward the 41 votes needed to block S. 744 in the final cloture vote later this week.

A very interesting post from  www.thedustininmansociety.org about Senators to pressure for the upcoming amnesty bill votes. This follows this post about the latest vote on the amnesty bill.  This follows this post about the release of illegal immigrant felons from prison by ICE. This follows this post about how to Report Illegal Immigrants! For more about what is happening in the nation now click here and you can read the two very interesting books that are shown HERE.

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From NumbersUSA   Today: From 15 standing strong against massive amnesty last week, 27 Senators this eve put down their marker in latest procedural vote (SEE ROLL CALL BELOW) The Senate just voted 67-27 to limit debate and amendments on the Corker-Hoeven amendment to the S. 744 amnesty bill. That means the 1,100+ page bill as amended by 119 pages of amendments today can come to a vote as early as Wednesday morning. The final cloture vote (requiring 60 votes) on the whole bill could be as early as Thursday morning. Some good news this evening is that we saw 12 additional Senators who were willing to defy an unprecedented crush of corporate lobbyists and stand against giving out 28-33 million more foreign work permits during a time of high unemployment. Last week, only 15 of the 100 Senators were willing to make that kind of stand and voted to kill the S. 744 mass immigration/amnesty bill on the very first vote in the process. One of those -- Sen. Kirk (R-Illinois) -- switched sides tonight and voted to keep the amnesty alive. But the outpouring of grassroots opposition to this bill continues to move us toward the 41 votes needed to block S. 744 in the final cloture vote later this week. Believe me, we have a huge battle ahead of us to get to 41. But it is still possible if we can persuade enough more Senators that the voters of their state understand what an empty set of promises the Corker/Hoeven amendment really is. Perhaps the most hopeful news this evening was that the entire leadership of the Senate Minority Party (Republican) voted against stopping debate on this substitute bill. A month ago -- with all the pressure from the National Republican Establishment and corporate lobbyists -- we would not have been surprised to see the Senate Republican leadership backing this bill. Instead, this evening the Minority Leader (McConnell), the Minority Whip (Cornyn), Policy Chair (Barrasso) and Conference Chair (Thune) all voted NO. We have a fax for you to send to each of your Senators based on votes just cast on the floor. Go to your NumbersUSA Action Board and find faxes prepared for you to send to Senators based on whether they voted for or against the giant amnesty and massive foreign labor importation in this evening's vote. click https://www.numbersusa.com/actionbuffet Thanks to all of you who have been calling -- many of you every day -- the last two weeks. I have to tell you that we cannot stop asking you. We must keep the pressure up every single day this week. Voted NO AL Sessions (R-AL) AL Shelby (R-AL) AR Boozman (R-AR) IA Grassley (R-IA) ID Crapo (R-ID) ID Risch (R-ID) IN Coats (R-IN) KS Moran (R-KS) KS Roberts (R-KS) KY McConnell (R-KY) KY Paul (R-KY) LA Vitter (R-LA) MO Blunt (R-MO) MS Cochran (R-MS) NC Burr (R-NC) NE Fischer (R-NE) NE Johanns (R-NE) OH Portman (R-OH) OK Coburn (R-OK) OK Inhofe (R-OK) PA Toomey (R-PA) SC Scott (R-SC) SD Thune (R-SD) TX Cornyn (R-TX) TX Cruz (R-TX) WI Johnson (R-WI) WY Barrasso (R-WY) Congratulations to all of you who live in the states above. The majority of those Senators have been in danger of going for the bill over the last month. I know that your phone calls and faxes and office visits have helped them make the decision to vote NO today. Voted YES to keep AMNESTY alive AK Begich (D-AK) AK Murkowski (R-AK) AR Pryor (D-AR) AZ Flake (R-AZ) AZ McCain (R-AZ)   CA Boxer (D-CA) CA Feinstein (D-CA) CO Bennet (D-CO) CT Blumenthal (D-CT) CT Murphy (D-CT)   DE Carper (D-DE) DE Coons (D-DE) FL Nelson (D-FL) FL Rubio (R-FL) HI Hirono (D-HI)   HI Schatz (D-HI) IA Harkin (D-IA) IL Durbin (D-IL) IL Kirk (R-IL) IN Donnelly (D-IN)   LA Landrieu (D-LA) MA Cowan (D-MA) MA Warren (D-MA) MD Cardin (D-MD) MD Mikulski (D-MD)   ME Collins (R-ME) ME King (I-ME) MI Levin (D-MI) MI Stabenow (D-MI) MN Franken (D-MN)   MN Klobuchar (D-MN) MO McCaskill (D-MO) MS Wicker (R-MS) MT Baucus (D-MT) MT Tester (D-MT)   NC Hagan (D-NC) ND Heitkamp (D-ND) ND Hoeven (R-ND) NH Ayotte (R-NH) NH Shaheen (D-NH)   NJ Chiesa (R-NJ) NJ Menendez (D-NJ) NM Heinrich (D-NM) NM Udall (D-NM) NV Heller (R-NV)   NV Reid (D-NV) NY Gillibrand (D-NY) NY Schumer (D-NY) OR Merkley (D-OR) OR Wyden (D-OR)   PA Casey (D-PA) RI Reed (D-RI) RI Whitehouse (D-RI) SC Graham (R-SC) SD Johnson (D--SD)   TN Alexander (R-TN) TN Corker (R-TN) UT Hatch (R-UT) VA Kaine (D-VA) VA Warner (D-VA) VT Leahy (D-VT)   VT Sanders (I-VT) WA Cantwell (D-WA) WA Murray (D-WA) WI Baldwin (D-WI) WV Manchin (D-WV) WV Rockefeller (D-WV) DIDN'T VOTE CO Udall (D-CO) GA Chambliss (R-GA) GA Isakson (R-GA) OH Brown (D-OH) UT Lee (R-UT) WY Enzi (R-WY) It appears that most of the Senators not voting were not able to get back to Washington in time for the roll call. We feel reasonably sure that Sen. Enzi and Sen. Lee would have voted NO, which would have gotten the NO vote up to 29. That means we have to persuade 12 more Senators to see this bill as a giant amnesty and increase in foreign workers at the expense of 20 million American workers who can't find a full-time job and in exchange for promises of enforcement that are full of loopholes. We still have a decent chance to change the minds of 12 more Senators who for some reason were enticed by the empty enforcement promises of this Corker/Hoeven amendment but who have never really wanted to be known in their states as the politician who helped pass the largest amnesty in history. Keep in mind that on these procedural votes, people are not necessarily showing where they will be on the underlying bill. Read Chris Chmielenski's blog on the vote here: www.NumbersUSA.com Please send the faxes and be ready to make some more phone calls tomorrow. It is most important that every Senator who voted YES this evening should feel a lot of heat all tomorrow. roy beck Mon, June 24th

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