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Tancredo
Offers Bill to Sink Mexican ID Card
February
12, 2003 Volume 6, Issue 3
It’s called
the "matricula consular," the Mexican ID card. It is the Mexican government’s
way of circumventing U.S. immigration law, and forcing amnesty for illegal aliens
down America’s throat. Mexican president, Vincente Fox, has instructed his 47
consulates here in the United States to issue these Mexican ID cards to Mexicans
residing illegally in the United States. Over a million cards were issued in 2002.
The card
resembles a California State driver’s license. It lists the holder’s birth date,
place of birth and U.S. address. The Mexican government has been lobbying U.S.
government agencies and private industries to accept the card. Their goal is to
make it easier for illegal immigrants to obtain taxpayer-funded, U.S. government
services, open bank accounts and obtain jobs. So far their efforts are working.
Today more than 800 U.S. police departments, 66 banks, 15 cities and 13 states
accept the card as valid ID.
This card
is fueling the firestorm of illegal immigration. It is severely damaging our national
security. It is an outrage and it MUST be stopped.
Congressman
Tom Tancredo (R-CO) has had enough of this illegal infiltration. Rep. Tancredo
has recently introduced H.R. 502, a bill that would "require identification
that may be used in obtaining Federal public benefits to meet restrictions ensuring
that it is secure and verifiable." In other words: Bye-bye matricula consular.
We MUST create
a groundswell of support for Rep. Tancredo’s H.R. 502!
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Action to Take *
1. Call your
Representative and URGE him or her to support and cosponsor H.R. 502. House Switchboard:
(202) 225-3121.
2. Call President
Bush and tell him that something must be done about the matricula consular! Tell
him our national security depends on it! White House Comment Line: (202) 456-1111.
Fax: (202) 456-2461. Email: president@whitehouse.gov
3. Click
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The
Dirty Half-Dozen
Six Senate
Republicans recently decided to turn their backs on America’s energy future—just
to appeal to the extreme environmental lobby. Senators John McCain (AZ), Olympia
Snowe (R-ME), Susan Collins (ME), Lincoln Chafee (RI), Peter Fitzgerald (IL) and
Mike DeWine (OH) recently backed away from a plan to attach oil exploration in
the Alaskan National Wildlife Reserve (ANWR) to a 2004 spending bill.
Recall that
last year the Republican-led House of Representatives convincingly passed an energy
bill that would have allowed oil drilling in a miniscule 2,000 acres of the 19.5
million acre refuge. The Democrat-led Senate, however, killed the ANWR provision.
Drilling in ANWR could produce as many as 16 billion barrels of oil and significantly
relieve our dependency on foreign oil at time when our nation is watching gas
prices skyrocket. Even President Clinton’s own Energy Department supported drilling
for oil and natural gas in ANWR and touted that it could be done in an environmentally
safe manner.
Perhaps these
six turncoats need to be reminded that their job is to look out for America’s
energy future, NOT hand out political favors to the radical environmental lobby.
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Action to Take *
1. If you’d
like to express your sentiments to these six Republicans who seem determined to
hold your energy future hostage to the environmental lobby, please use the contact
information below:
Sen. John
McCain: Ph: (202) 224-2235; Fax: (202) 228-2862; email: senator_mccain@mccain.senate.gov
Sen. Olympia
Snowe: Ph: (202) 224-5344; Fax: (202) 224-1946; email: Olympia@snowe.senate.gov
Sen. Susan
Collins: Ph: (202) 224-2523; Fax: (202) 224-2693; email: senator@collins.senate.gov
Sen. Lincoln
Chafee: Ph: (202) 224-2921; Fax: (202) 228-2853; email: senator_chafee@chafee.senate.gov
Sen. Peter
Fitzgerald: Ph: (202) 224-2854; Fax: (202) 228-1372; email: senator_Fitzgerald@fitzgerald.senate.gov
Sen. Mike
DeWine: Ph: (202) 224-2315; Fax: (202) 224-6519; email: senator_dewine@dewine.senate.gov
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