URGENT URGENT URGENT CALL YOUR SENATORS NOW!

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Friends,

It is URGENT you contact Senators Hillary Clinton (http://clinton.senate.gov/contact/webform.cfm?subj=issue ; In DC Phone: (202) 224-4451), Chuck Schumer (http://schumer.senate.gov/SchumerWebsite/contact/webform.cfm; In DC: 202-224-6542) and any other senator from where you reside (see: http://www.senate.gov and click on "Senators" at the top left to find your senators' names and their offices' direct phone numbers.) to oppose the Senate bill 2611 the Hagel-Martinez-Specter compromise NOW. The bill, which is being voted on today, would among other things:

call for the deportation on undocumented immigrants
Establish a temporary worker program
Provisions like restricting due process to those accused of violating immigration laws would further erode the human and civil rights of immigrants.

You can see the complete text summary here: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:SN02611:@@@D&summ2=m&


Republicans are pushing to add additional punitive enforcement provisions and further restrict access to citizenship, with few Democratic Senators standing up to them.

Yesterday by a vote of 83 to 16, the Senate voted to construct a 370-mile wall on the Southwest border. If Bush's proposals are incorporated, too, it will be a major victory for the far right.

Call them, email them, snail mail them anything just tell them that you oppose the so-call “Compromise,” that Senate B.2611 is no compromise at all.
Tell your Senators to remove the provisions from Senate Bill 2611 (the Hagel-Martinez-Specter compromise) that criminalize undocumented immigrants and restrict their rights and ability to gain citizenship.
Tell them to reject the Bush administration's proposals for sending National Guard troops to the border and new punitive enforcement provisions.
Instead of undermining civil rights and civil liberties, our elected officials should support real immigration reform that:
· increases the number of available family visas
· enables all undocumented immigrants within the U.S. to legalize their status and gain a path to citizenship
· provides due process, including restoration of access to the courts and meaningful judicial review for immigrants
· stops mandatory deportations and indefinite detentions
· allows undocumented immigrants and their families to remain together in this country
· protects the rights of both immigrant and native-born workers
If efforts to radically amend Senate Bill 2611 in a progressive, pro-immigrant direction do not succeed, it must be defeated.