The gravity of HR 4088

A Dream Deferred had this clip on HR 4088. It explains in a nutshell the gravity of this bill if it were to be passed.

Censoring the media on HR4088

Looking around to find out who is sponsoring 4088 I found this commentary by OpenCongress.org:

"We [Open Congress] are not currently finding any news articles on this topic using our daily automated search of Google News. However, if you know of a relevant news article to display here, OpenCongress site editors have the ability to add it manually. Simply e-mail us the web address of this page and the web address of your suggested news article: writeus |at| opencongress *dot* org.

[writeus@opencongress.org] We'll post relevant links as quickly as possible. Also, if this topic is important to you, you could write a letter to the editor -- if a news article refers this specific topic by name, a link to that news article is likely to appear here soon."

This is very significant - if Open Congress cannot find information on this bill that means most of the American people are also uninformed. Perhaps this is happening because the sponsors of the bill are concerned about getting into the spotlight. This bill will cause heartache and misery to millions of people. This bill makes Eliot Spitzer's romp with the expensive call girl look like cheating at checkers.

If our Congress goes through with this, the Sponsors of the S.A.V.E. act will have created their spot in the burning great beyond (and I don't mean heaven).

photo: http://uk.gizmodo.com/2006/07/11/federal_judge_sanitizing_movie.html

URGENT - Please help stop HR. 4088

4088  IS A DEPORT-ONLY BILL


The Republicans have pushed this bill to vote even though it has not been evaluated in committee. It is urgent that everyone contact their representative.


On November 6, 2007, Rep. Shuler (D-NC) introduced H.R. 4088, the Secure America Through Verification and Enforcement Act of 2007 (the "SAVE Act"). The Shuler bill, which now has over 139 co-sponsors takes a deportation-only approach to immigration reform. Anti-immigrant Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) is a co-sponsor of H.R. 4088, along with a who's who of the least immigrant-friendly members of Congress.

The bill will:

Target minor children and families for detention and mandate the creation of a new family detention center modeled after the infamous T. Don Hutto Facility;

Confiscate private land of citizens through eminent domain for building more fences which have already proven ineffective at curbing immigration;

Increase militarization of the border through additional body armor and firearms for agents; and
Impose a mandatory electronic employer verification program known as the Basic Pilot Program (re-branded as E-verify) on the entire American workforce. This highly controversial program lacks necessary safeguards to protect American workers from wrongful termination and improperly identify at least 2.5 million workers as ineligible for employment. The program would also destabilize the economy by immediately removing at least 7 million undocumented employees from the entire U.S. workforce at one time.

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE AND SAY:

PLEASE DECLINE TO SIGN THE PETITION TO DISCHARGE

H.R. 4088 THE SHULER-TANCREDO BILL

(ALSO KNOWN AS THE "SAVE" ACT)

AND, IF YOUR REPRESENTATIVE IS A CO-SPONSOR OF H.R. 4088

PLEASE WITHDRAW YOUR NAME AS A CO-SPONSOR OF

H.R. 4088, THE SHULER-TANCREDO BILL

See if your Rep. is a Sponsor Here:

http://clerk.house.gov/110/lrc/pd/petitions/Dis5.htm

Your Representatives' phone number is online here:

http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/mcapdir.html

OR

CALL THE HOUSE SWITCHBOARD AT:

202-225-3121