7708: Please support! (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: bateyrelief@mindspring.com

Dear Friend,

Your help is urgently needed on behalf of the immigrant population living in
the United States. Hard working immigrant families are at risk of being
seperated.  Under the current immigrantion law, persons applying for their
legal residency and who had entered the country illegally must go back to
their home country, sometimes for 8-10 years, until the legalization process
is finalized and accepted by the Immigration Naturalization Service (INS).
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Legislation which would extend 245(i) for a year, until April 30, 2002 has
been prepared by Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) and Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA).
But it still needs more Republican support in order to pass. Please contact
the following Senators and urge them to co-sponsor this crucial legislation.
We need your help!

Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-RI)  202-224-2921
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) 202-224-2235
Sen.  Peter Fitzgerald (R-IL) 202-224-2854
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) 202-224-2523
Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) 202-224-5344
Sen. James Jeffords (R-VT) 202-224-5141
Sen Gordon Smith (R-OR) 202-224-3753
Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS) 202-224-6521
Sen. Mike DeWine (R-OH) 202-224-2315
Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) 202-224-4254
Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM) 202-224-6621
Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) 202-224-6324
Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) 202-224-6244
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Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) www.bateyrelief.org
Tax-exempt, non-profit, non-political humanitarian aid organization.
For donations and information, please contact:
Ulrick Gaillard, J.D., Executive Director
P.O. Box 300565, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11230
(917) 627-5026 or at bateyrelief@mindspring.com.
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Maria Virtudes Berroa, Regional Director
Apartado Postal 5085, Santo Domingo, Rep. Dom.
(809) 383-1547 or at bra.dominicana@mindspring.com
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Bureau, 120 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10271