From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
Date: Tuesday 1NOV05 1 a.m. EST


Phone your Senators before Senate votes to add 350,000 more permanent foreign workers a year

DEAR OPPONENTS OF USING IMMIGRATION TO DRIVE DOWN WAGES AND THROW AMERICANS OUT OF THEIR JOBS,

I honestly can't believe this is happening.

At a time when most of the nation is up in arms because overall immigration is far too high, the Senate is set to vote tomorrow to increase the importation of foreign workers and their families by another 350,000 a year.

Those are all jobs that will be removed permanently from the American people because these foreign workers are given permanent residency in the U.S.

PHONE YOUR 2 SENATORS IMMEDIATELY

It is imperative that your state's two Senators understand that this kind of behavior is no longer ignored or tolerated by their constituents.

Phone them right now and express your deep concern about the Senate passing the massive immigration increase plan of Sen. Specter (R-PA) and Sen. Kennedy (D-MA).

You can see the phone numbers for your two Senators by clicking on:
www.NumbersUSA.com/myMembers

Our full phone directory is at:
http://www.numbersusa.com/congressinfo

If you have never done this, let me assure you that every month I hear from people calling their Members of Congress for the first time and ecstatic at how easy it is. Most offices are quite receptive, especially if you are polite to the staffer. Express your outrage at the impending Senate vote but don't take it out on the staffer who is answering.

WHAT TO SAY ON THE PHONE

1. Identify yourself by name and anything else that might give you credibility. Choose as little or much from the rest of these points to say as little or much as you want to say.

2. Say you are calling about the Budget Reconciliation bill on the floor of the Senate right now. (Deficit Reduction Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 2005 -- S. 1932)

3. Tell them how distressed you are that the Budget bill contains provisions to triple the number of permanent jobs offered to foreign workers at a time when 14 million American workers cannot find full-time jobs.

I encourage you when you call to have your computer screen connected to our Hot Topics page on this issue. You will find plenty of arguments and facts from which to choose if you wish to visit a little more with the staffer.

That link is:
http://numbersusa.com/hottopic/H1B.html

4. Point out that many parts of the country are choking on congestion and sprawl -- largely caused by immigration-driven population growth. (Census data show that immigration causes about 87% of U.S. population growth.) Congress is already importing 1 million foreign workers and families each year. It makes no sense to increase that even more.

5. Tell them that you not only want to stop increases in immigration but that you want dramatic REDUCTIONS in the numbers.

CHOOSING FOREIGN WORKERS KEEPS BLACK AMERICAN TECH WORKERS AT THE BACK OF THE OCCUPATIONS BUS

Depending on the Senator, you may want to draw their attention elsewhere in the Capitol Building where civil rights icon Rosa Parks is being honored.

During a week of high public honors for Rosa Parks and the opportunities that she helped open for Black Americans, the U.S. Senate is poised to once again send Black American high-tech programmers and engineers to the back of the occupations bus.

A new study reveals that some 70,000 Black Americans with the skills to hold those jobs cannot find a job in the field. Part of the reason is that the field has been flooded by Congress with several hundred thousand foreign workers in recent years.

The U.S. Senate's response at the moment is to make it even harder for Black Americans to obtain those good jobs at the front of the occupations bus by filling the seats with even more foreign workers.

I cannot believe that the United States Senate truly intends to harm skilled Black American workers in this way. But its behavior shows a callous lack of sensitivity and awareness that allows the harm to occur regardless of motive.

The fact is that every corporation clamoring for this massive increase in skilled foreign workers is implicitly stating that it prefers skilled foreign workers to skilled Black Americans. With Rosa Parks lying in state in the Rotunda of the Capitol, will the Senate assist those corporations who seek ways to avoid hiring Black Americans?

The architects of this massive increase in immigration are Sen. Specter (R-PA) and Sen. Kennedy (D-MA). But the ideas came from Microsoft lobbyists who are calling the shots on immigration policy right now. At the same time that Bill Gates was getting media coverage for going to black schools and encouraging the students there to pursue careers in computer programming and other tech fields, Gates' lobbyists were hatching this idea to keep those jobs out of reach of not only Black American students but all American students.

I honestly don't think most Senators realize what they are doing to American workers and American students. But I also don't think they want to know.

Your phone calls today can go along way to wake them up.

THANKS,

-- ROY
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