Phone your Senators again ... this time to support "Byrd Amendment" to strip
immigration increases

GOOD NEWS ... SEN. BYRD IS GOING TO CHALLENGE 350,000-A-YEAR IMMIGRATION
INCREASE ON FLOOR OF SENATE!

Your 150,000-plus faxes of the last two weeks and your hundreds of phone calls
since yesterday are starting to change things in the Senate. We have a chance
to stop this madness in the Senate. (It's only a chance at this moment, but
yesterday we were told there was no chance at all!)

Call today. Call Wednesday. You've got their attention --drive your point home.

If you didn't make a phone call yet, please do it immediately. If you already
made calls, you have a new message to deliver.


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EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW TO MAKE THE CALL

Please use the following link to get phone numbers, talking points and to give
us feedback on your call:
http://www.numbersusa.com/phones?ID=4162

We will keep that Phone Action page updated throughout today and tomorrow, so
you will have up-to-date info in between any mass emailings we do.

ASK YOUR TWO SENATORS TO VOTE FOR THE BYRD AMENDMENT ON IMMIGRATION REVENUE

When you call the offices of your state's two Senators, tell them that you
urge the Senators to vote FOR Sen. Byrd's amendment concerning immigration
revenue.

Tell them this amendment is to S. 1932 (the Deficit Reduction Omnibus
Reconciliation Act of 2005).

Tell them that Sen. Byrd's amendment would strip out provisions that
inadvertently were going to add 350,000 permanent foreign workers and family
to the U.S. workforce EVERY YEAR.

Then make your points about how we don't need massive new flows of foreign
workers (see arguments below).

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

ABOVE IS ALL YOU NEED TO READ TO ACT.

USE THE INFO IN THE REST OF THIS EMAIL FOR ASSISTANCE IN WHAT YOU MIGHT SAY ON
THE PHONE.

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WHAT'S HAPPENING IN SENATE THAT GIVES US SOME HOPE

Yesterday, there appeared no interest anywhere in the Senate to try to amend
the Budget Reconciliation bill by stripping the provision that would add up to
350,000 extra permanent green cards a year. Our best friends in the Senate
said they didn't want to challenge the provision because they knew they would
lose overwhelmingly.

But constituent pressure has been immense against this massive increase in
immigration.

As in so many times in the past, our saving angel appears to be Sen. Byrd
(D-WV) who at the moment has decided to offer an amendment on the Senate floor
(probably on Wednesday) to strip all provisions from the Reconciliation bill
that would increase temporary H-1B work visas and permanent immigration green
cards.

It appears that Sen. Sessions (R-AL) will lead the Republican support for this
bill.

Sen. Byrd's amendment apparently would raise the Judiciary Committee's revenue
goal by raising fees on existing work visas and greencards instead of by
selling more visas and greencards.

One of the great things about this effort is that it appears that Sen. Byrd is
actually getting several Democratic Senators to work closely with him on
killing the outlandish provision of selling skilled American jobs in order to
raise extra revenue to decrease the federal deficit. The American worker
rarely has gotten help against immigration competition from Democratic
Senators (other than Byrd and Feinstein of California) in recent years. But
this provision cooked up by Microsoft lobbyists and forced into the budget
bill by Sen. Kennedy (D-MA) and Sen. Specter (R-PA) may have finally gone so
overboard to get more Democrats standing up for working Americans again.

At a time when most of the nation is up in arms because overall immigration is
far too high, Sen. Byrd -- by bringing this measure out in the open for debate
-- may be able to show his colleagues how shameful it would be for the Senate
to increase the importation of foreign workers and their families by another
350,000 a year.

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


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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 you want them to vote for the Byrd Amendment to strip 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.

THANKS,

-- ROY