Thread: NUmbersusa 2007 the lowdown on a Great Year!

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[b]Roy's Annual Report to Members

Last Year We Hit Home Runs!

Even Greater Things Coming 2008!

DEAR 42,000 FINANCIAL SUPPORTERS OF NUMBERSUSA:

I hope you are inspired by reading here the entire list of victories you and we achieved in 2007 in killing a string of amnesties for illegal aliens and in starting to build a firm foundation for actual reductions in overall immigration.

Frankly, I hope that after reading about what your money has done in the past, you will make your first donation of 2008 to ensure that our side of the immigration issue can have an even better record of achievement this year.

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First, let me tell you how you have helped build a stronger and more formidable institution to fight the massive forces trying to flood our occupations and communities with foreign workers and dependents.

We added more than a quarter-million activist members in 2007, growing from 240,952 members to 539,286.

Many of our allies in Congress have made it clear to us that the only way we can beat back the lobbying money and the elitist biases which propel the open-borders agenda in Washington is to create a large enough mobilization of actual citizens.

Your donations have made it possible to reach out to millions of Americans this year, resulting in another quarter-million (and you may be one of them) joining the activist network.

Our staff has more than doubled since summer of 2006, to more than 25 employees (plus several contract professionals).

They consist of computer programmers, engineers, legislative analysts, researchers, lobbyists, media spokespersons, writers and personnel who directly serve you and your requests.

This is what makes NumbersUSA different from most other organizations that are fighting amnesty and over-immigration. Many groups are internet or mail operations, most of whom play important roles in public education and rallying the troops, but which have little or no staff. But a movement needs a few organizations that have true institutional strength.

I’m so glad we aren’t still fighting with just 12 staff members. We need every last one of our 25 staff to go up against the huge staffs of our opponents at the National Council of La Raza, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Washington lobbyists of most of the religious bodies to which you and I belong, the ACLU, the national associations of restaurants, hotels and resorts, most of the national labor unions, the national staffs of both the Democratic and Republican Parties, and many more!

We doubled the size of our Capitol Hill lobbying team.

It is essential to our collective success that, just when your phone calls and faxes are driving a congressional office crazy, we have one of our people in that office in person to help explain what it is that office needs to do to calm the restless citizenry. It is also essential that we have people constantly in and out of the congressional offices so we can tell you what those offices most need to hear from citizens at any given moment.

We increased our website Help Desk Team from two to five and now cover your emailed inquiries from 8:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. every weekday and for five hours on each day of the weekend.

The skyrocketing volume of users of our website trapped us in very poor membership services, often leaving people waiting days for a response to their questions. But around Thanksgiving, your donations made it possible for us to expand the Help Desk Team which responds to virtually all log-in and similar website problem within 15 minutes (during work hours). And we have recently been answering nearly all the rest of your emails within 24 hours.

NumbersUSA processed nearly 8 million faxes in 2007 from citizens communicating with their Members of Congress and the Administration!

Needless to say, this kind of growth has put our technical resources under enormous strain. Somehow, we made it almost to the end of the year without a loss of performance. But our Tech Team is scrambling right now to increase our capacity to guarantee immediate on-line activism for our current expanded membership and also for all the growth we hope will happen in 2008.

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Here is a quick run through of our successes in 2007:

1. ALL INCREASES IN LEGAL IMMIGRATION & ALL AMNESTIES FAIL

When the new Congress was sworn in back in January of 2007, NumbersUSA was told a Senate “comprehensive immigrationâ€

bumped