On this page we will be focusing on
just a few
essential issues at a time. They are the concerns of the nation and/or
state that we can learn about and speak out to lawmakers and others in decision making
positions. Let's
get moving on the issues that are key.
IMPORTANT ISSUES FOUND ON THIS PAGE:
Jessica's Law North
Carolina News!
Ask Congress to pass
the "Affordable Gas Price Act"
House Bill #4987 -
Fence by Date Certain Act
Obama's Plan to Disarm
the United States - IMPORTANT!
NCFRW Resolutions
passed at winter meeting and endorsed by MRW Board
Democrats Fail to Act on Terrorist Surveillance
Senator Dole calls for
Funding Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Training
Global Poverty Act
Enforcement and Border
Security
E-Mail Senators and
District 6 Representative
Tax Break for Chavez
Oil - Act Now!
Rebates for Illegal
Aliens
On with the Border Fence
Building! VIDEO FROM YOUTUBE: IMPACT OF IMMIGRATION IN REAL TERMS!
On June 24, 2008 the revised
Jessica's Law bill will be heard in the Senate Judiciary I
Committee at 10:00am. Stay tuned! Progress is
definitely being made, and we need to be sure to stay
current on its move through the legislative process.
A strengthened bill was
passed last week by the Senate. Because it is different
from the House version it has been sent back to the
House Judiciary I Committee for agreement.
IMPORTANT - WATCH
THIS VIDEO AND CONSIDER HOW TO BE INVOLVED IN TAKING ACTION.
Obama's Plan To Disarm The U.S.
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY |
Posted Friday, June 06, 2008 4:20 PM
PT
Defense Policy: In the middle of a
war on two fronts, Barack Obama
plans to gut the military. He also
wants to dismantle our nuclear
arsenal. And he wants to keep you in
the dark about it.
The Obamatons of the mainstream
media have failed to report one of
the most chilling campaign promises
thus far uttered by the presumptive
Democrat nominee for president.
In contrast, John McCain has vowed:
"We must continue to deploy a safe
and reliable nuclear deterrent,
robust missile defenses and superior
conventional forces that are capable
of defending the United States and
our allies."
Click here
to read the entire article from
Investor's Business Daily.
NCFRW Resolutions
Four important resolutions were passed at the
February, 2008 North Carolina Federation of Republican Women meeting.
Those
resolutions, which you can click to read in PDF
format, concern
Marriage
between one man and one woman,
Drivers'
Licenses,
Crimes
Against Unborn Children and
Jessica's Law.
The Board of Moore Republican Women
has read, considered and unanimously passed each of the resolutions.
Please take the time to read and understand the resolutions. They will be
brought to membership for a vote at the April 7th luncheon meeting.
VIDEO: "We're
Waiting"
Democrats Fail to Act on Terrorist Surveillance
This information is
from Freedomproject.org.
House Democrats left Washington for their second
break since letting the
Protect America Act
expire on February 16th. There is a
bipartisan majority ready
to pass the Senate’s terrorist surveillance bill, but House Democrats chose to
leave for two weeks without bringing it to a vote.
We need a permanent terrorist
surveillance law that 1) gives our intelligence agencies the tools they need to
keep us safe and 2) protects patriotic American companies who helped the
government prevent further terrorist attacks. And we need it now. Anything
less is unacceptable.
How can you help hold Democrats
accountable for leaving
Washington without
passing permanent bipartisan terrorist surveillance legislation? There are three
steps:
Forward our
web video, “We’re Waiting,” to a friend.
What points should your letters to the editor
highlight?
Right now, foreign terrorists are making plans to
attack America and our
intelligence agents can’t listen without dangerous delays.
Democrats should explain to us why they left
Washington for a two week break instead of demanding a vote on the
bipartisan terrorist surveillance bill that passed the U.S. Senate.
Since the Protect America Act expired on
February 16, Democrats in Congress have found time for everything other than
national security. They need to act now.
We need a terrorist surveillance law that gives
our intelligence agents the tools they need to keep us safe and protects
patriotic companies that have helped prevent further terrorist attacks.
Dole
Calls for 287(g) Funding
Program
provides local law enforcement officers
training,
resources to identify criminal illegal aliens
Washington, D.C. The Senate
approved U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole's amendment calling for $75 million to
be directed to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to expand the
287(g) program, which provides local law enforcement officers the
training, resources and authority to help ICE apprehend, identify and
remove criminal illegal aliens. The measure is part of the fiscal year
2009 budget resolution.
"To
address the problems presented by individuals who are not only here
illegally but who have self-identified themselves because of their
criminal behavior we must provide the funding for ICE to make the
necessary resources available to our local law enforcement officers who
are on the front lines", said Dole.
Dole helped deliver the first in
the nation statewide partnership plan for North Carolina sheriffs to
coordinate with ICE, part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
The plan, which adopts a regional approach to ensure statewide access to
287(g) databases and other resources to determine the immigration status
of apprehended individuals, is being directed by a steering committee
made up of sheriffs from around the state.
Currently, four North Carolina
counties currently have 287(g) agreements with ICE; Mecklenburg,
Alamance, Cabarrus and Gaston Counties. Sheriffs, working with ICE and
the steering committee, will determine what tools and resources best
meet their needs and where additional resources are needed in a region.
For Immediate
Release: March 14, 2008 Contact:
Katie Hallaway, 202-224-2999 Amy Auth, 202-224-7905
Enforcement
and Border Security
North Carolina
Senators Burr and Dole are founding Senators of the newly-formed Border Security
and Enforcement First Caucus. Other founding senators are Sen. David
Vitter of Louisiana, Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, Sen. Jim Inhofe of Okahoma,
Sens. Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson of Georgia, and Sen. Roger Wicker of
Mississippi. The stated mission of the Caucus is
"to promote a true, achievable alternative [to amnesty and
mass deportations]: attrition through enforcement and border security. Living
illegally in the United States will become more difficult and less satisfying
over time when the government - at ALL LEVELS - enforces all of the laws already
on the books." Click
Here to Fax our Senators and support their work for enforcement and
border security. The information here is brought by NumbersUSA.
Thanks to Linda Jarrett for bringing this to our attention.
When you want to be in
touch...
E-Mail Your Senators and
District 6 Representative:
The Center for
Individual Freedom reports the following, and urgently asks us each to read the
whole story and TAKE ACTION!
Congress, as part
of its so-called economic stimulus plan, is preparing to authorize tax rebate
checks for illegal aliens.
You read that
right.
According to
FoxNews.com:
"The $146 billion stimulus package intended to jolt the economy by giving
taxpayers rebates up to $1,200 includes cash returns for illegal immigrants who
pay taxes. Under the plan passed by the House, illegal immigrants who
qualify as 'resident aliens' and earned a minimum of $3,000 would be eligible
for rebates of between $300 - $600." If this gets your attention, read
more. Please act now to see that this outrage does not happen.
Link Here for the whole sorry story!
On With the
Border Fence Building!
Take some time
to view this important video about amnesty. It's a debate
between Jessica Echard, Eagle Forum Executive Director, and Juan Hernandez. It's essential
to understand the impact of 12 million immigrants in America
illegally. Let others know how you feel about this
continuing outrage!
We are bring our readers parts of an
article about building fences on our southern borders. We
hope you will read and take actiion to let Congress know we are
concerned about illegals entering the United States and want to
get action now to build those fences. The legislation is
there thanks to our hard work in Spring, 2007. Now we need
to add essential funding to make it happen.
Just during the recent holidays, we
LOST the battle to fund and build the promised federal border
fence when Congress secretly removed it from the Department of
Homeland Security’s budget, thereby leaving our country exposed
to the alien invasion for the foreseeable future. When this
cycle’s Presidential candidates are traveling to Michigan, South
Carolina, Florida and Nevada, they need to be met by Minutemen
who will forcefully remind them that our families could become
the victims of crime, violence and economic dislocations because
our Washington lawmakers have chosen to ignore the border
security problem, the TOP national security issue of the 21st
century.
A Leadership Florida/Mason-Dixon poll
taken late last year indicated that 92% of Floridians view
illegal immigration as a problem. Most citizens in other states
throughout this country also agree with that view, but their
elected officials have not heard enough from them, or else our
nation’s borders would have been secured by now.
For months we have heard Hillary
Clinton, Barack Obama, John McCain and others talk about the
need for “change” in Washington. However, the real change that
this nation needs is a return to the rule of law… and that
will only happen when we make our voices heard loud and clear
like we did last June in order to defeat the Senate’s odious
amnesty bill.
When Congress returns to work next
week, our top priority will remain the restoration of the $3
Billion dollars previously allocated for the physical border
fence—with no rest until we succeed. We must fill their
inboxes, voice mails and fax machines with messages from their
constituents to let them know THE FENCE IS A DEAL-BREAKER FOR
THEIR RE-ELECTION; that we will remain vigilant in our mission
to secure our nation’s borders, and if they are seeking
re-election later this year, they “better get with the program”!
Please tell your friends, family and
neighbors about how Congress has put their lives at risk by
allowing the 12 million or more illegal aliens that comprise of
rapists, thugs, drug dealers, criminal syndicates and al-Qaeda
terrorists to live in your local community. Tell them that the
most important thing they can do this year is to contact their
Congressman, their 2 Senators, President Bush and all of the
Presidential candidates, to tell them that securing the border
is the only thing they can do to ensure our emergency rooms are
not filled with people who were violently attacked in an
al-Qaeda attack or MS-13 execution-style slayings.
The American people had their national
security stripped away from them in 2007 by Congress revoking
the Border Fence funding, but we will not let Congress do it
again in 2008. You and your family can truly ensure our success
this year by staying involved and voicing your support for
national security at our border.
Last year millions of illegal aliens
entered our country carrying drugs, diseases, weapons, and
trafficking underage girls and boys who are sold into the
illegal sex trade—as well as MS-13 gang members like the ones
who committed brutal, random rape and murder of college students
in New Jersey, and terrorists like the ones who attempted to
attack Fort Huachuca, Arizona. We have recently received
information that the same MS-13 gang members and other illegal
aliens who are invading our country and attacking our youngsters
on a daily basis, have after one recent outrage, defaced a
second Vietnam Veteran memorial in New Haven, Connecticut.
Congress truly pulled the rug out
from under us, slyly DE-FUNDING the BORDER FENCE while we were
spending quality time with our families this Christmas,
deceiving the American people and only showing good will to the
12 million lawbreakers living among us. We must ensure that the
next President and our current Washington lawmakers understand
that we—AND THEY—cannot sustain this country as nation of laws
unless our sovereignty is protected, and we know America’s
families will be safe from the terrorists, violent gang members,
career criminals and international drug cartels that are
swarming our country through our open borders.
In order to ensure the promises
President Bush and the Congress made to secure our borders and
enforce our immigration laws during the 110th Congressional
Session are kept, we must get vocal now! We cannot allow slick
politicians to use double-talk and think that they can go
unpunished when after twelve months, they only have 20 miles of
fencing constructed, rather than the 700 miles we were promised.
We are NOT willing to risk more
dangerous delays, or gamble on the political will of a new more
liberal 111th Congress in 2009, which is why the border security
movement must take action NOW. The Will of the People for
national security and safety enforcement must be resoundingly
delivered to Congress in the same manner as we mustered last
summer for the Senate “NO Amnesty” votes.
So
Be It! THE LAW IS THE LAW
So if the US government determines
that it is against the law for the words, "under God" to be on our money, then,
so be it. And if that same government decides that the "Ten Commandments" are
not to be used in or on a government installation, then, so be it.
I say, "so be it," because I would like to be a law abiding US citizen.
I say, "so be it," because I would like to think that smarter people than I are
in positions to make good decisions.
I would like to think that those people have the American public's
best interests at heart.
BUT, YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE I'D LIKE?
Since we can't pray to God, can't Trust in God and cannot post His Commandments
in Government buildings, I don't believe the Government and its employees should
participate in the Easter and Christmas celebrations which honor the God that
our government is eliminating from many facets of American life.
I'd like my mail delivered on Christmas, Good Friday, Thanksgiving and Easter.
After all, it's just another day.
I'd like the US Supreme Court to be in session on Christmas, Good Friday,
Thanksgiving and Easter as well as Sundays. After all, it's just another day.
I'd like the Senate and the House of Representatives to not have to worry about
getting home for the "Christmas Break." After all it's just another day.
I'm thinking that a lot of my tax payer dollars could be saved, if
all government offices and services would work on Christmas, Good Friday and
Easter. It shouldn't cost any overtime since those would be just like any other
day of the week to a government that is trying to be "politically correct."
In fact...I think that our government
should work on Sundays (initially set aside for worshipping God...) because,
after all, our government says that it should be just another day...What do you
think????
If this idea gets to enough people, maybe our elected officials will stop
giving in to the minority opinions and begin, once again, to represent the
'majority' of ALL of the American people.
SO BE IT...........
Editor's note - we don't know who wrote this, but we
agree, what's fair is fair! What do YOU think?
.The
Center For Individual Freedom reports:
U.S.
Border Patrol Agent has been brutally murdered by an illegal
alien, and who's to blame?
Certainly, the illegal alien who intentionally swerved to run down
Agent Luis Aguilar -- 32 years old, married, with two tiny boys,
who will never know or remember their father -- is to blame.
But
I can't help but wonder whether the border fence -- the one that the
politicians in Washington promised to build across our southern
border last year -- could have prevented this tragedy. The fence
that the very same Congress, in the middle of the night, recently
voted to gut funding for and keep the drug dealers and murderers
pouring into this country ...
...
Should they share some blame in the killing of Luis Aguilar?
And,
what about those who hauled two brave Border Patrol Agents into a
kangaroo court and convicted them based on perjured testimony of an
admitted illegal alien drug smuggler?
Could it be that the unjust treatment of those two Border Patrol
Agents, who are now serving a combined 23 years in federal prison
for "doing their job," just may have emboldened criminal illegals to
violate our nation's immigration laws even more?
If
you haven't heard about the brutal murder of Border Patrol Agent
Luis Aguilar, here's the raw story...
In a
recreational area near Andrade, California, where people go to ride
dune buggies, a brown Hummer suddenly roared into the campground,
jeopardizing the lives of men, women and children.
As
the L.A. Times put it: "The man at the wheel, a suspected drug
smuggler, was heading to Mexico, fast."
Agent Aguilar, quick and brave, grabbed a spike strip and threw it
in front of the Hummer.
The
driver sped up and went after Aguilar. As one witness put it, "It
looked like the man swerved and hit the agent intentionally."
Of
COURSE he did!
And
why not? According to regulations, border patrol agents aren't
allowed to PURSUE illegal aliens.
And
if agents use their guns, a U.S. Attorney will make certain they end
up serving an 11 or 12-year prison sentence.
Of
course, if our elected officials had actually allowed the
construction of that fence... if they were really serious about
securing the border, there would be no way to tell if it would have
made a difference in the specific case of Aguilar.
But
make no mistake, our elected leaders' lack of resolve when it comes
to securing the border sends an unmistakable message to illegal
aliens and drug smugglers.
Until our elected leaders get serious, things will only get more
dangerous for our nation's brave border patrol agents and innocent
Americans living along the southern border!
The Ramos and Compean Appeal has been heard
and the nation awaits the judge's decision--a decision that could
set both border agents free and return them to their families.
Grassfire is urging members of our team to contact the White House
and your elected leaders and demand they work to FREE Ramos and
Compean. To contact the White House: 202-456-1111
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