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Senator Murray leans toward higher immigration population growth and foreign labor as you will see below.

In 1996, Sen. Murry voted against the Simpson Amendment to S. 1664. This was a vote in favor of a chain migration system that has been the primary reason for annual immigration levels snowballing from less than 300,000 in 1965 to around a million.

Sen. Murray supported provisions that allow immigrants to send for their adult relatives. Then each of those relatives can send for their spouse's adult relatives, creating a never-ending and ever-growing chain of population. The bi-partisan Barbara Jordan Commission recommended doing away with the adult relative categories (begun only in the 1950s) in order to lessen wage depression among lower-paid American workers.

The Simpson Amendment attempted to carry out that recommendation but Sen. Murray helped to kill the reform by voting with the 80-20 majority against the amendment. Sen. Murray's vote helped continue a level of immigration that the Census Bureau projects will result in a doubled U.S. population in the next century.

Sen. Murray has taken no action to reduce major numbers in all categories.

She voted for importing specific foreign workers to fill the job market. Jobs that Americans would fill. She voted to increase worker importation programs as part of free trade agreements in 2003.

She voted in favor of the Singapore Free trade Agreement, H.R. 2739 and also the Chile Free Trade Agreement, H.R. 2738. The trade agreements permit an unlimited number of Singaporeans and Chileans to enter the U.S. each year as "treaty traders or investors" who are coming to the U.S. to carry on trade between the U.S. and Singapore or Chile to "establish, develope, administer or provide advice or key technical services" to the operations of a business in which they have invested capital.

Congress is prohibited from restricting the category with numerical limits, labor certification requirements or other protections for American workers.

This category is in addition to the number of Singaporeans and Chileans who are permitted to come to the U.S. each year under our normal immigration laws.

These agreements also prohibit Congress from placing any numerical limits, labor certification requirements or other protections for American workers on the issuance of L-1 visas to nationals of Singapore or Chile. L-1 visas are available to "intra-company transferees," or aliens who have been employed abroad for at least one year in the three years preceding application by a business that has subsidiaries or affiliates in the United States. Such visas have been widely abused by businesses seeking to avoid the restrictions on H-1B visas. The Singapore Free Trade Agreement passed the Senate by a vote of 66-32 and the Chile Free Trade Agreement passed the Senate by a vote of 66-31.

She is a co-sponsor of S. 2252, the "Save Summer Act of 2004." Introduced by the second most liberal Senator in Washington D.C. Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA), S. 2252 would raise the annual cap on H-2B visas for 2004 by 40,000, for a total of 106,000 H-2B visas. This would allow thousands of low skill foreign workers to enter the U.S. and compete with American workers not to mention another backdoor for foreign terrorists to slip in.

She voted for S.2045, a foreign worker bill with no anti-fraud measures in 2000. The Abraham foreign worker bill to nearly triple the number of foreign high-tech workers.

On the heels of the release of a GAO report finding no proof of a high-tech worker shortage and evidence of abuse in the H-1B program, she voted for this foreign worker bill that contained no worker protections or anti-fraud measures. The bill passed the Senate 96-1.

She helped the Senate pass S.1723 in a 78-20 vote. Enacted into law, it increased by nearly 150,000 the number of foreign workers high-tech American companies could hire over the next three years.

Although the foreign workers receive temporary visas for up to six years, most historically have found ways to stay permanently in this country. She voted for more foreign workers even though U.S. high tech workers over the age of 50 were suffering 17% unemployment and U.S. firms were laying off thousands of workers at the time.

She voted to allow firms to lay off Americans to make room for foreign workers in 1998.

Before the Senate passed the H-1B doubling bill (S.1723), she had an opportunity to vote for a measure requiring U.S. firms to check a box on a form attesting that they had first sought an American worker for the job. She voted against that, joining those who said the requirement would give government too much authority over corporations’ right to hire whomever they please from whatever country.

This is shocking and every American should be angry! Did you understand that? She joined those who said the requirements would give government too much authority over corporations' rights to hire whomever they please from whatever country. How many Americans know about this sell-out of America's labor-force? So much for American labor.

We are being pushed right out of the job market by foreign labor folks. When your children are old enough to work and support a family, there will be none available. Foreign workers will have taken the job market. Given to foreigners and illegal aliens by liberal law makers!

As for citizenship for illegal alien babies, she has taken no action to reduce the rewarding of illegal immigration by giving citizenship to anchor babies.

She co-sponsored a bill, S.8, which is the Educational Excellence for All Learners Act of 2003. Although this bill deals primarily with education resources, hidden within it are a provision that would repeal the federal ban against in-state tuition for illegal aliens, as well as one that gives amnesty to certain illegal aliens who have gone to school in the U.S. ( 2003-2004).

She also is a co-sponsor of S.1545, the DREAM Act of 2003. S.1545 would grant in-state tuition and amnesty to illegal aliens under the age of 21 who have been physically present in the country for five years and are in 7th grade or above. Such a reward for illegal immigration serves as an incentive for more illegal immigration.

She is a co-sponsor of S. 1645, the Agricultural Job Opportunity, Benefits, and Security Act of 2003, an amnesty for agricultural workers. Of the 1.2 million illegal aliens currently working in agriculture, an estimated 860,000 plus their spouses and children could qualify for this amnesty, so the total could reach three million or more. The potential recipients of the amnesty will be required to prove 100 days of agricultural employment in the 18-month period that ended Aug. 31, 2003. Then, prior to receiving amnesty, workers would have to show 360 days of additional farm work over the next six years.

Do you see what she votes for friends? She is consistant with voting to reward illegal aliens. We are suppose to be law abiding citizens here in America. Why are we continuing to reward illegals while we expect more from our own citizenship requirements? For instance, our pride of being good citizens who "obey" the laws of our land! We expect less from others than we do ourselves? This is pure unadultrated hogwash folks and not acceptable to a law abiding people. Yet we continue to elect these liberals into office year after year. Election after election!

In 2000, she voted for an amnesty for illegal aliens from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Haiti in the Senate H-1B bill (S.2045). The move to include the amnesty with the H-1B legislation failed 43-55 in a procedural vote on the Senate floor.

She voted to grant amnesty to close to one million illegal aliens from Nicaragua and Cuba in 1997. She voted to grant legal status to Nicaraguans and Cubans who had lived in the United States illegally since 1995, along with their spouses and minor unmarried children. The overall ten year impact of this legislation will be the addition of some 967,000 people to our U.S. population. There was no separate vote on the amnesty, as it was inlcuded in the DC Appropriations bill. The only opportunity Senators had to vote in favor of or against the amnesty was the Mack Amendment to S.1156. The Mack Amendment passed 99-1.

She was part of a 97-3 majority which passed S.1664. S.1664 was a large omnibus bill with dozens of provisions aimed at reducing illegal immigration. It authorized major increases in the border patrol forces. But it also had many provisions aimed at making life more miserable for illegal aliens who manage to get into the country, half of whom arrive with legal visas but then illegally overstay. Until passage of the bill, a person could be apprehended as an illegal alien, be deported and then turn around and come back to the U.S. on a legal student, tourist, worker or relative visa. After the bill, an illegal alien was barred from any kind of legal entry for 10 years. On so many hands, she voted for more illegal immigration and on this bill, she votes to reduce it. Ms Flip-flop it seems.

She tried to kill voluntary pilot programs for workplace verification in 1996. She voted IN FAVOR of the Abraham Amendment to S.1664. She was part of a coalition of pro-business conservatives and liberal civil libertarians who tried to use the amendment to kill the establishment of voluntary pilot programs in high-immigration states. The programs were intended to assist employers in verifying whether people they had just hired had the legal right to work in this country. Such verification is considered by many experts to be an essential tool for withdrawing the job magnet from illegal aliens. The verification system established by S.1664 did not involve an ID card. Rather it provided that when new workers wrote down their Social Security number on an application, employers could phone into a national verification system to help assure that the number was a real number and belonged to the person giving it. In earlier smaller pilot programs, businesses had hailed the verification system for making it easier for them to avoid hiring illegal aliens. She was unsuccessful in stopping the voluntary verification system. The Senate tabled the Abraham Amendment by a 54-46 vote.

I would say, it's past time to get these liberal law makers out of our government NOW! IT'S TIME THAT SEN. MURRAY HIT THE ROAD IN WASHINGTON STATE.

I THINK AMERICANS HAVE ENOUGH MOUTHS TO FEED AT HER TABLE. SHE DOESN'T NEED MORE DIPPING INTO HER SOUP-POT MS MURRAY.

Folks, when you hear about the unemployment rate being up or down, just remember, their isn't any reason there should be an American without a job and if they are without a job, then re-read this above.

For More On Sen. Patty Murray's Voting Record On Other Issues and how she votes in lockstep with the ACLU, GO HERE

For a Senator, she seems strangely lacking in information about the country she claims to represent, although she's doing an adequate job of bringing the socialist agenda to this state and Washington D. C.