Petition and legislation update

I want to thank everyone who got signatures during Tuesday's Primary. According to feedback from volunteers, most of the voters were receptive to the petition. I got a few people to join our cause and only had 1 real argument. Despite good reception from voters, Tuesday's Primary had very low turnout. This weekend, Riverfest will be an excellent opportunity to gather more signatures. For more information, visit http://securearkansas.com/
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The pro-illegal crowd has already decided to play the RACE Card! Visit this link here so see the story and comments!:
http://www.nwaonline.net/articles/blogcomments
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http://www.fairus.org/site/
May 22) FAIR has received confirmation from Senate Republican Leadership that the Mikulski H-2B Amendment was removed from the Iraq War Funding Bill on the Senate floor this afternoon. The H-2B amendment was added to the War Funding Bill last week by Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) as the bill traveled through the Senate Appropriations Committee. The amendment reinstated for three years the returning worker exemption to the H-2B unskilled guest worker program which expired last year. Under the exemption, an alien who worked in the U.S. during the past three years under the H-2B program can return to the U.S. to work without counting towards the 66,000 cap. This exemption would have led to ever-growing numbers of unskilled H-2B guest workers entering the U.S. each year—increasing the number by hundreds of thousands. (May 21) Under growing pressure, Democratic leadership agreed to remove three of the four immigration amendments from the Iraq War Funding Bill that is on the Senate floor this week. The move came when Senator Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) made a point of order under Senate rules, which prohibit legislating on an appropriations bill. This parliamentary move effectively removed three of the four immigration measures from the bill.
Removed from the bill were:

The AgJobs Amendment offered by Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) that would have granted amnesty to 1.35 million agricultural workers and their families;

The Murray-Gregg Amendment that would have made approximately 218,000 more green cards available for multinational executives and so-called "highly skilled workers" by "recapturing" visas from as far back as 1994;

The Leahy Amendment that would have extended for 5 years a program that helps wealthy investors get green cards.