FL Judiciary Hammer Time!

Stop College Tuition Subsidies for Illegal Aliens

The Senate Judiciary Committee will likely hear SB1400 next Tuesday, April 1, 2014.   

HB851 (companion to SB1400) passed the House 81/33.  SB1400 passed the Senate Education Committee Hearing 5/4.  SB1400 has three more hearings before going to the full Senate.  We can and must stop in one of the three Senate Committee hearings.  The Judiciary Committee Hearing will be the second of four Senate Committee hearings. 

The following elected officials need to hear your opposition to SB1400, College Tuition Subsidy for Illegal Aliens.

Talking Points:

• An unknown number of legal students will be displaced from college by illegal alien students.      
  
   
• The Florida Legislature not only did not estimate the number of displaced legal students they failed to estimate of the fiscal cost.    
  
   
• The wording of the bill is deceitful in order to circumvent the federal prohibition against offering reduced rates to a certain group without offering the reduced rates to all citizens of USA.  The deceitful working uses terminology of "tuition waivers" rather than "in-state tuition rate."    
  
   
• This bill seems to be a likely futile effort by Republican Leadership to bolster the sagging poll numbers of Gov. Rick Scott.    
  
   
• This is not just a bad deal, it is pandering by an outright giveaway of college slots.  Remember how Republican Leadership erected every possible blockade when citizens demanded Florida enact E-Verify.  Remember too how the Obama Administration has all but abandoned immigration enforcement.  Legal students and citizens don't get any enforcement in return.  They lose THEIR DREAMS.

Senate President:

 Gaetz, Don  Senator Gaetz has stated he opposes SB1400.  As Senate President, he can block the bill so ask him to block SB1400.  

District Phone:  (850) 897-5747
District Fax:  (888) 263-2259
Toll Free:  (866) 450-4366
District Phone:  (850) 747-5856
Tallahassee Phone:  (850) 487-5001
Email:  gaetz.don.web@flsenate.gov

Judiciary Committee

Chair:    

Senator Tom Lee (R)

District Phone: (813) 653-7061
Tallahassee Phone: (850) 487-5024
Fax:  Unknown

Email:  lee.tom.web@flsenate.gov 

Vice Chair:

Senator Darren Soto (D)

District Phone: (407) 846-5187

District Fax: (407) 846-5188

Tallahassee Phone: (850) 487-5014   

Email:  soto.darren.web@flsenate.gov  

• Senator Rob Bradley (R)   

District Phone:  (904) 278-2085

Tallahassee Phone: (850) 487-5007

Tallahassee Fax: (888) 263-0641 

Email:  bradley.rob.web@flsenate.gov  

• Senator Andy Gardiner (R)   

District Phone: (407) 428-5800

Tallahassee Phone:  (850) 487-5013

Fax:  Unknown

Email:  gardiner.andy.web@flsenate.gov 

• Senator Arthenia L. Joyner (D)   

District Phone: (813) 233-4277

Tallahassee Phone: (850) 487-5019

Tallahassee Fax:  (813) 233-4280

Email:  joyner.arthenia.web@flsenate.gov 

• Senator Jack Latvala (R)  (Sponsor of SB1400!)  

District Phone:  (727) 793-2797

District Fax: (727) 793-2799

Tallahassee Phone:  (850) 487-5020

Fax:  Unknown

Email:  latvala.jack.web@flsenate.gov  

• Senator Garrett Richter (R)   

District Phone:  (239) 417-6205

District Phone:  (239) 338-2777

Tallahassee Phone: (850) 487-5023

Fax:  Unknown

Email:  richter.garrett.web@flsenate.gov  

• Senator Jeremy Ring (D)   

District Phone: (954) 917-1392

District Fax:  (954) 917-1394

Tallahassee Phone:  (850) 487-5029

Email:  ring.jeremy.web@flsenate.gov 

• Senator John Thrasher (R)   

District Phone:  (904) 287-4222

District Fax:  (888) 263-3475

Tallahassee Phone:  (850) 487-5006

Tallahassee Fax:  (850) 487-5368 

Email:  thrasher.john.web@flsenate.gov 

PLEASE MOBILIZE YOUR FRIENDS, NEIGHBORS, TEA PARTIES, PATRIOTIC ORGANIZATIONS, AND EVERYONE BY ASKING THEM TO CALL.