If not - I would like to share the email petition I recieved this morning, which was moving enough to me to participate. In any case, and when I signed my name – I was # 600 signature. It would be very simple, for others who agree with this concern, to start their own list of signatures - just identify, the one that hits the #1000 mark they then send it on to the White House.
Suggestion: To protect the privacy of those you send it on to, use the “BCC address line for sending email†address’s -  that will keep them private...
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Date:Â Monday, April 30, 2007
I think this is an important issue. If you disagree its ok just please send it on.
Thanks
Mom is a homemaker and Dad worked all his life and paid into SS.  Dad has passed away and now Mom can barely make ends meet.  While the possible "illegal" alien in front of her at the grocery store buys the name brands, Mom goes for the generic brands, and day old breads. She doesn't have out of state calling on her phone, because she can't afford it and shops at the thrift shops and dollar stores.? She considers having a pizza delivered once a week "eating out". She grew up during the depression, watched her husband go overseas to fight in WW II a year after their marriage, and then they went on to raise, feed and clothe 5 children, struggling to pay tuition for parochial schools.
The Senate voted this week to allow "illegal" aliens access to Social Security benefits. I'm sorry, but how can the Senate justify this slap in the face to born and bred, or naturalized citizens.
It is already impossible to live on Social Security alone. If they give benefits to "illegal" aliens who have never contributed, where does that leave us that have paid into Social Security all our working lives?
Attached is an opportunity to sign a petition that   requires citizenship for eligibility to receive Social services. If you do not wish to sign the petition yourself, please forward on to anyone you think might be interested.
PETITION FOR: President Bush
Mr. President: The petition below is a protest against the recent vote of the senate which was to allow illegal aliens access to our social security! We demand that you and all congressional representatives require citizenship for anyone to be eligible for social services in the United States
If you don't forward the petition and just stop it,
we will lose all these names. If you do not want to sign it, please just forward it to anyone who might want a voice. Thank you! Or copy and
paste.
To add your name, click on "forward." You will be able to add your name at the bottom of the list and then forward it to your friends.
THE 1,000TH PERSON SEND IT ON TO THE FOLLOWING E-MAIL ADDRESS:Â Â Â President@WhiteHouse.govÂ
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Comments: 22
With all due respects it might be a good idea to try to verify this kind of stuff before becoming alarmed. This is one of those old internet things that circle around and around.
It is not valid. See: http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/socialsecurity.asp for the founding of this issue last year.
Furthermore . . . US Senate votes are public record and this simply is not an issue that has been considered this year, much less this week. See the official Senate site : http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/vote_menu_110_1.htm
Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~
The real intent is to influence the shape of proposed legislation; neither the House nor the Senate has taken up any bill on Immigration in this Congress.
Regarding your mention of neither the House nor the Senate has taken up any bill on Immigration in this Congress :
" The U.S. Senate 109 Congress, 2nd Session by a vote of 62 to 36 passed bill S.2611 for another Guest worker program with citizenship provisions, social security benefits and similar to IRCA 1986, the Government, and law enforcement cannot pursue Fraud charges against those denied admission. "Hands off" criminal prosecutions. It's Amnesty pure and simple for et all.
A new program for 1.5 million temporary agricultural workers also passed the Senate similar to the 2.7 Special Agricultural Workers, SAWs legalized in 1986. There was no mention of an over burdened Immigration Admissions bureau within the DHS with insufficient personnel to accomplish the present workload."
Some some bills may not be final...but they are out there being discussed....so I will move forward with the thought better safe than sorry....
Bush did propose legislation regarding "immigration reform" in the late unlamented 109th Congress - but those votes do not mean anything as a new Congress has been sworn in.
You are lucky to have escaped this. I get a copy every couple of weeks, along with angry letters claiming (falsely) that Starbucks, or General Mills, or some other American company refused to give coffee, cereal, cookies, whatever to the troops.
These are all bogus
Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~
12 to 20 million illegal immigrants in our country, and you say " The over hyped criss of immigration " ??
I don't know what you and BlownAfart are smoking, but please pass it my way because it obviously has both of you living in some sort of dreamland.
The United States is a country made up of immigrants, and it is part of what makes us so strong and vibrant. And while immigration reform remains an unsolved challenge for our nation, the Democratic-led House is leading the way towards comprehensive reform.
On March 22 the House began this critical work when a group of bipartisan members introduced the Security Through Regularized Immigration and a Vibrant Economy Act of 2007 (STRIVE).
The bill would overhaul the current immigration system in a way that better protects and enforces our borders, while respecting the hard work and contributions of immigrants to our country and reflecting the realities of our workforce and the needs of our communities.
The STRIVE Act would ensure that we have an immigration system in place that meets the security and economic needs of our nation by creating laws that are tough, enforceable and realistic.
This bipartisan immigration reform would:
· Secure Our Borders
· Strengthen Interior Enforcement
· Bolster Employment Verification
· Create a New Worker Program to Reflect the Realities of Our Workforce
· Reform a Broken System In a Way That Protects Families
· Allow Earned Legalization for Qualified, Hardworking Individuals
Provide Strong Labor Protections
In addition, on March 30 Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Chairwoman of the House Judiciary Immigration Subcommittee, chaired the first House hearing on immigration reform. The hearing, took place at Ellis Island, featuring testimony on the historical trends and personal experiences of American immigration. Read about the hearing: Past, Present, and Future: A Historic and Personal Reflection on American Immigration >>
Learn more about the STRIVE Act >>
Read Speaker Pelosi's statement on the STRIVE Act of 2007 >>
* http://speaker.gov/issues?id=0022