From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
Date: Tuesday 22NOV05 2:30 a.m.


We won a step-victory in House ... But your help is urgently needed to stop more Senate insanity

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YOUR FAXING/PHONING IS NEEDED BEFORE THANKSGIVING

You'll get their attention. Congressional staffers are trying to get out of town for the holiday; the Members already are back home. The staffers will well remember what issue caused them so much extra effort the two days when they were hoping to just coast into their days off.

We have big news and analysis to share with you this morning.

For those of you who are in a hurry and don't have time to find out the full context of how our battles are shaping up, just look over to the right and follow the direction in the ACTIONS IN BRIEF box.

We've added a lot of very important actions you can take on your customized Action Buffet. Please take a moment to go there right now and do as many as you have time to do before Thanksgiving:
www.NumbersUSA.com/actionbuffet


1. STEP VICTORY ... House passed budget reconciliation bill without the 350,000 new annual green cards and 30,000 H-1B visas for foreign workers ... But we still have to win in the joint negotiating conference


Thank you for all your calls and faxes to House of Representatives leaders asking them to keep the Senate immigration increases out of the House's version of the giant budget reconciliation bill.

The House passed the bill 217-215. The vote was close because of other issues. But we are grateful that the House Republican leaders ensured that there was no increase in immigration in this version.

Now the House version will go into a Conference Committee negotiation with the Senate version that included Sen. Specter's (R-PA) amazing increase of 350,000.

We met with some top congressional staffers Monday who believe that we have an excellent chance of keeping the Conference from including the 350,000 and even the extra 30,000 H-1B temporary tech workers each year.

As you know, your NumbersUSA staff has been working with key congressional allies to make it clear to House leaders that they will vote against the Budget bill if it contains immigration increases. We learned today that that message has been heard loud and clear at the top and they believe that bringing a budget bill with immigration increases would lead to the bill going down to defeat in the House.

The Conference committee has begun work on the negotiations and may have something ready to present to the House and Senate when Congress returns in two weeks. We will be staying very close to this situation.

We have faxes on the Action Buffet that will help create the right climate for victory on this issue. Please send them all.

I hope you will also click on the Phone Action Notes and make those calls. But if you can't make the calls now, please click on those notes and then click on the SORRY, I CAN'T MAKE THIS CALL button. That will cause the Phone Action Note to go off your corkboard and make room for other actions for you to consider.

I can't help but feel joy at the news coverage in India which told Indian computer programmers to "put a brake on the celebrations" because the U.S. House refused the giant Senate increase of U.S. jobs that Indian workers were expecting to go primarily to them.

Sen. Specter's efforts to radically increase the importation of foreign workers has been followed daily in India where one poll shows more than 60 million workers and family are hoping to get a chance to move to the U.S. in the next few years.


2. SEN. SPECTER UNVEILS A NEW, BIGGER OUTRAGE ... Seeks to add more than 1 million permanent immigrants a year


As chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Sen. Specter has unveiled what he calls a draft immigration bill for the purpose of encouraging discussion.

It is clear that he expects this to be a compromise between the massive amnesty of Sen. McCain (R-AZ) and Sen. Kennedy (D-MA) and the temporary exit amnesty of Sen. Cornyn (R-TX) and Sen. Kyl (R-AZ). It immediately becomes the most likely vehicle for the Senate to use for how it will respond to the immigration crisis.

While the Specter proposal has many strong enforcement provisions (mostly from Cornyn/Kyl) -- including mandatory employment eligibility verification through the Basic Pilot program -- the benefits to the American people would be far outweighed by the proposals' massive increase in immigration and foreign worker importation.

Amazingly, Specter would increase overall immigration by far more than McCain and Kennedy. And he would provide the 12 million illegal aliens not only with amnesty for five years to work here legally, but would allow them to get on the path to citizenship if they just go home long enough to file for it.

You can find our Capitol Hill staff's analysis of the immigration increases at:
l:http://numbersusa.com/hottopic/specterproposal.html


3. THE OPEN BORDERS LOBBY'S PLANS ... How you can thwart it


The current plan of the open-borders champions appears to be this:

(1) Let the House pass a moderately weak bill that deals only with enforcement against illegal immigration.

(2) The Senate passes something similar to the Specter draft.

(3) The joint Conference committee negotiates a compromise that includes some pretty strong enforcement against future illegal immigration. But it will also contain some kind of amnesty for most current illegal aliens. And it will have a massive guestworker program that will bring in probably 400,000 new foreign workers each year as "guests." And it will include some kind of increase in permanent green cards such as the 750,000 sought by McCain/Kennedy or the at least a million sought by Specter.

(4) This monstrosity of a bill passes both the House and Senate because there is so much pressure on Members of Congress to do something deisive about illegal immigration.

And thus the Senate will continue its role as being the Great Perversity Machine of American politics.

As it did in 1986 and 1990, the Senate once again is poised to take a broad public outcry about being overwhelmed by immigration in their communities and pervert that citizen sentiment to help it pass legislation designed to allow a few greedy industries to bring in massive new flows of foreign workers.

Incredibly, most Senators today believe they can do the same thing again. The more that you shout for a solution to the illegal immigration problem, the more those Senators rub their hands in glee that they have the cover to pass another huge immigration increase.

The more Americans cry for LESS immigration, the more the Senate believes it can approve MORE immigration.

I know it sounds impossible. But watch carefully and you will see that is precisely what is happening with the Senators for most of you. Watch the way they have turned your complaints about too many illegal aliens into arguments that that proves that immigration levels are too low.

It has been just this sort of manipulative deception in service of the corporate donors to their campaigns that has driven the Senate repeatedly since 1965 to raise immigration levels from the traditional 250,000 a year to the million a year today.

But in those earlier times, the Senate never faced a group of citizens as determined as you all -- or as numerous -- or as easily and well-mobilized. They never had to feel the political pain as they perverted the public will in the past.

Please methodically send every fax and make every phone call to Senators that we put up on the Action Buffet. It is the cumulative effect of your activism that sometimes causes miracles to happen.

Don't worry about sending several faxes to the same Senator all in a row. Our computer spaces those faxes out with many hours between the deliery of each.

You don't have to keep track of which Senators at the moment are scoundrels and which deserve the benefit of the doubt. We have sorted them for you so that when you see faxes to your Senators on your Action Buffet, we will already have suggested the kind of language that is appropriate to each of them.

If your Senators have shown any sign of sensitivity to your concerns in the past, we have put up a fax for you to give them praise while firmly insisting that they resist Specter and his kind.

Right now, the situation in Congress -- and particularly the Senate -- looks very bleak. But you can change the climate if you all will just act at the same time. (See the next section.)

Several offices of Senators already are complaining to us that we are unfairly turning their voters against them on their recent behavior on immigration issues. We respond that we are only telling you exactly what your Senators are doing to either increase the immigration mess or to clean it up.


4. HOUSE LEADERS SAY GRASSROOTS PRESSURE is only thing stopping complete opening of borders


I met at high levels of the House Monday and heard that when Republican House Members meet, immigration is the No. 1 topic they raise because it is the No. 1 topic they hear from their constituents.

I hope every one of you pats yourself on the back for that. Believe me, every time you contact a Member of Congress in any way, it is adding up to something important.

We were asked to be sure that our NumbersUSA Action Network -- as well as the activists of our ally groups -- is geared up to provide as much grassroots pressure as possible for the House to resist the Senate plan to force a guestworker and amnesty program down the House's throat.

It was clear after my meetings that your efforts are the ONLY thing that stands in front of the Senate and its irresponsible corporate allies making all Americans compete with billions of foreign workers for wages.


5. TWO DEMOCRATIC SENATORS STAND AGAINST OPEN BORDERS ... Push enforcement first


Sen. Dorgan (D-ND) and Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) have introduced separate pieces of legislation that seek to reinforce our nation's borders. Both have said they disagree with bringing a guestworker bill to the floor until additional enforcement legislation is passed and until the Administration shows its willingness and ability to implement the laws already on the books.

At a time when so much of the Republican leadership in the Senate is focused on how to import as many foreign workers as possible -- and after a time when we almost never get the time of day from most Democrats -- it is certainly refreshing to see these two prairie Democrats weighing in on the side of the American people.

This is a very positive counter-sign.

We have put up faxing opportunities to congratulate these Senators but also to ask your own Senators to co-sponsor their bills.


6. TAKE YOUR OWN POLITICAL SURVEY to see more specialized fax opportunities


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LET'S STUFF THE SPECTER TURKEY AND HANG IT ON THE WALL AS A TROPHY OF A VICTORIOUS DEFENSIVE BATTLE.

THANKS,

-- ROY in this email:
1. STEP VICTORY ... House passed budget reconciliation bill without the 350,000 new annual green cards for foreign workers ... But we still have to win in joint negotiating conference
2. SEN. SPECTER UNVEILS A NEW, BIGGER OUTRAGE ... Seeks to add more than 1 million permanent immigrants a year
3. THE OPEN BORDERS LOBBY'S PLANS ... How you can thwart it
4. HOUSE LEADERS SAY GRASSROOTS PRESSURE is only thing stopping complete opening of borders
5. TWO DEMOCRATIC SENATORS STAND AGAINST OPEN BORDERS ... Push enforcement first
6. TAKE YOUR OWN POLITICAL SURVEY to see more specialized fax opportunities


actions in brief:
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