Please help California Assembly Member Manuel Perez pass AB1544 to help undocumented workers
in agriculture and service industries to get work permits.
This bill will be voted on in the California Assembly Appropriations Committee May 25th.
To help pass this bill to protect workers we need, please do the following:
1. Call your the members of the California Assembly Appropriations
committee before May 25th, and urge them to pass this Assembly Bill 1544.
You can find you assembly member's phone by clicking in the menu above to see them listed by name or by district office city, or by district number.
After May 25th, when the bill comes before the full assembly, call and tell your own Assembly member to
pass AB1544. Watch this web page for announcement of when the bill will come before the Assembly.
Tell them California prosperity depends on these workers and we must protect hard working
people who have committed no serious crime from being deported if they run a stop light.
Tell them these people do not take Americans' jobs. The United Farm Workers tried to recruit tens
of thousands of workers and got 8,600 applications, but only 7 seven accepted a job and only 1 lasted 15 days.
Tell them workers under this program must qualify as follows:
a. Have lived and earned in the US two years. This is not a migrant worker bill that admits new workers to the US.
b. Register and pass a background check.
c. Have never been convicted of a serious or violent
felony, as confirmed by the fingerprinted criminal history.
d. Study English or pass an English proficiency exam.
e. Pay fees to fund program administration.
f. Work for an eligible employer (A service industry employer must employ 25 or more workers.)
Tell them states that have driven undocumented workes away had suffered severe dollar loss for lack of workers.
Tell them these workers must be paid according to US wage and labor standards.
We must fix the situation where undocumented workers are paid less than minimum wage and in cash with no social security tax
withholding and no employer payroll tax share being paid.
Tell them to include qualification for driver permits. We must have all drivers in California pass the driver tests and buy insurance.
We must fix the situation where we are not protected if our car is damaged by an uninsured, unqualified driver.
Please ask all your voting friends and family to call as you have done.
2. Click "Petition Form" in the menu above to display the petition form.
3. When the form displays click "File/Page Setup on your browser and set it for "Landscape" orientation so it will fit the paper.
4. Click "File/Print on your browser and click print again to get the form on paper.
5. Get the form filled with voter signatures. Mail the form to Assembly Member Manuel Perez at
POBox942849, Rm 4117, Sacramento, CA 94249-0080. Or, you can fax it to him at 1 (916) 319-2180.
You can fax to any assembly member by replacing "319-20" in their phone number by "319-21".
6. Please give each person who signs your petition a blank copy of the petition to fill with voter signatures and send their form to Manuel Perez as you have done.
Yours for a Wise and Just America,
Lamont Phemister 650 286 9707 San Mateo, CA 94402
P.S.. Opponents who claim the bill is unconstitutional are wrong. This bill has been written in careful
consultation with Homeland Security, and it does not take effect until the Federal government gives authorization.
One may ask what value is a law that is not in effect? The value is huge because it will be a great spur
to push Washington to give authorization and also implement immigration reform. This bill is far from being
immigration reform but it is the most powerful step available to voters before the November election. We must
not neglect to act.
