Why Are 35 Radio Talk Show Hosts and Hundreds of Their Listeners Going to be in Washington to Discuss Immigration?

Why Are 35 Radio Talk Show Hosts and Hundreds of Their Listeners Going to be in Washington to Discuss Immigration?

Radio Personalities, Members of Congress, FAIR, to Hold Press Conference Demanding Immigration Enforcement without a Guest Worker Amnesty

WASHINGTON, April 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- While illegal aliens and their supporters take to the streets to demand amnesty and other benefits, ordinary Americans take to the radio airwaves to express their anger at their government's failure to enforce laws against illegal immigration.

During the week of April 22, the radio airwaves of America, along with hundreds of listeners from all across the country, are coming to Washington, D.C., as part of the Hold Their Feet to the Fire event, to make sure that the president and Congress hear them loud and clear. Thirty-five leading talk radio hosts, reaching millions of listeners all across the United States, will be broadcasting from a Capitol Hill hotel, focusing on one topic -- immigration enforcement -- while ordinary citizens fan out across Capitol Hill to meet with every member of Congress.

The message from talk radio will be a simple one: Enforce our nation's borders; crackdown on employers who hire illegal aliens; end all non-emergency benefits and services to illegal aliens. Above all the message of Hold Their Feet to the Fire is, NO AMNESTY, NO NEW GUEST WORKER PROGRAMS.

The 35 radio talk show hosts, along with leading members of Congress, the wives of two imprisoned Border Patrol officers, and the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), will hold a Capitol Hill Press Conference Tuesday April 24 to discuss Hold Their Feet to the Fire and the grassroots national effort true immigration enforcement that does not reward illegal aliens, or undermine America's embattled middle class, and the release of Border Patrol Officers Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean.

When: April 24, 2007 at 1 pm

Where: Cannon House Office Building Terrace. (Outdoor Independence
Avenue side)

Who: Organizers of Hold Their Feet to the Fire 2007. Confirmed
Speakers:

Roger Hedgecock, Radio Talk Host KOGO-AM San Diego
Rep. Brian Bilbray, Chairman Congressional Immigration Reform
Caucus
Rep. Tom Tancredo, announced presidential candidate
Dan Stein, President Federation for American Immigration Reform
Mrs. Monica Ramos Wife of jailed Border Patrol agent Ignacio
Ramos
Mrs. Patty Compean Wife of jailed Border Patrol agent Alonso
Compean.

Source: Federation for American Immigration Reform

CONTACT: Ira Mehlman, +1-213-700-0407, or Bob Dane, +1-703-850-2435,
both of the Federation for American Immigration Reform

Web site:

http://www.fairus.org/

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