Please Help Texas!!! Tell State Legislators To Pass Anti-Sanctuary, Other Immigration-Enforcement Legislation

An urgent post from www.Numbersusa.com about E-verify and sanctuary cities bills in Texas. This follows this previous post about state immigration enforcement efforts in Texas. This follows this post about congressional redistricting and this follows this post which shows that there are 30,000 openly illegal immigrants in the border town of El Paso, where President Barack Obama recently bashed immigration enforcement! On a related note, you can read about Miss Kentucky Latina here, an interesting article about Jessica Alba here or another article about Salma Hayek here. For more that you can do to get involved click HERE and you can read a very interesting book HERE!


Tell State Legislators To Pass Anti-Sanctuary, Other Immigration-Enforcement Legislation



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http://www.numbersusa.com/faxes?ID=13255






On Monday, June 13th the Senate Transportation & Homeland Security Committee will hold a hearing on legislation (SB 9) that would prohibit sanctuary cities, require local police to enroll in the federal Secure Communities program, and crack down on the issuance of driver's licenses to illegal aliens. Gov. Perry just allowed legislators to take up this bill in special session.





If you live in the Austin area, or can travel to the Capitol, please attend the hearing and support SB 9.





What: Senate Transportation & Homeland Security Committee Hearing





When: Monday, June 13 – 9 am





Where: State Capitol Building, E1.016 (Hearing Room), Austin





Irrespective of whether you can attend, please contact members of the Senate Transportation & Homeland Security Committee, legislative leaders, and your Senator and Rep. to support SB 9. Instructions for contacting these legislators are provided below. Additional talking points are included at the bottom.





Action for Committee Members





Please call and email the below-noted committee members with the message:









“Please pass SB 9. All policies that shield illegal aliens from detection and facilitate their presence must end.









Too many have been killed or suffered severe injury to allow sanctuary policies to continue. And having driving privileges helps illegal aliens hold jobs that should be reserved for unemployed citizens.”









Chairman Tommie Williams (512) 463-0104





Sen. Kirk Watson (512) 463-0114





Sen. Wendy Davis (512) 463-0110





Sen. Rodney Ellis (512) 463-0113





Sen. Chris Harris (512) 463-0109





Sen. Juan Hinojosa (512) 463-0120





Sen. Robert Nichols (512) 463-0103





Sen. Florence Shapiro (512) 463-0108





Sen. Jeff Wentworth (512) 463-0125





Action for Legislative Leaders





Please call and email House Speaker Joe Straus and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst (leader of the Texas Senate) with the message:









“Please ensure passage of SB 9. All policies that shield illegal aliens from detection and facilitate their presence must end.









Too many have been killed or suffered severe injury to allow sanctuary policies to continue. And having driving privileges helps illegal aliens hold jobs that should be reserved for unemployed citizens.”









Speaker Joe Straus - (512) 463-1000 Email form





Lt. Governor David Dewhurst - (512) 463-0001 Email form





Also please send these legislative leaders the fax on your Action Board





Action for your Rep. and Senator





Please call and email your Rep. and Senator with the message:









“I am a constituent who wants you to vote for SB 9. All policies that shield illegal aliens from detection and facilitate their presence must end.









Too many have been killed or suffered severe injury to allow sanctuary policies to continue. And having driving privileges helps illegal aliens hold jobs that should be reserved for unemployed citizens.”









You can look up contact information for your legislator under these links for the Senate and House. If you do not know your legislators’ names, use the Senate locator and House locator.





Also please send your Senator and Rep. the fax on your Action Board.





Additional Talking Points









A recent poll said that sixty-nine percent of Texans want a ban on sanctuary cities and 70 percent think police should be involved in checking the immigration status of those they believe are in the country illegally.





Another police officer was just killed by an illegal-alien drunk driver. Sanctuary policies must end! These policies are not needed to protect witnesses and crime victims who are illegal aliens because they are protected under the federal “U” visa.





The patchwork array of sanctuary cities around Texas is leaving dangerous criminal illegal immigrants on our streets. Their underground society, with street sales of fake identity documents, creates a nurturing environment for terrorists as well. This makes Texans, and the entire country, more vulnerable.









The case against sanctuary policies is very straightforward. There are two laws that Congress passed in 1996 that expressly forbid sanctuary policies. Those statutes say in plain English that a city may not have a policy that prohibits its officers from communicating with the federal government about a person’s immigration status.





When public assistance agencies are prevented from inquiring about an applicant's immigration status, public benefits are distributed to ineligible illegal aliens. This displaces benefits meant for needy Texans! Taxpayers should not foot the bill for covering illegal aliens.