Dear Faxer:

Condemn your Democratic Senator who voted in favor of the 350,000 immigration increase

This new fax has been posted in your Action Buffet !

You can find this fax by proceeding to
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The Senate voted 14-85 against passing the Byrd Amendment to strip a giant budget bill of provisions to increase importation of permanent foreign workers and family by 350,000 a year.

Ten Democrats did vote in favor of the Byrd Amendment.

The House is expected to pass its version of the Budget Reconciliation bill without any immigration increase and the differences will have to be hammered out in Conference Committee.

In the meantime, it is extremely important that your Senator hear from you about their vote in favor of increasing immigration numbers by almost one-third. Senators are somewhat used to being hammered before a vote, but Senators are really used to getting a vote over with and hearing sudden silence from all the citizens who were clamoring up to that moment.

The message Senate staffers hear from you over the next couple of days can be quite influential on the next immigration decision their offices make.

Send this fax to the Democratic Senator(s) from your state who voted against the Byrd Amendment, effectively voting in favor of potentially increasing immigration by up to 350,000 a year.

Your NumbersUSA Capitol Hill Team says that the Specter/Kennedy plan would do the following:

1. It would raise the annual cap on permanent employment-based immigration by changing the formula as follows: employment-based visas = 140,000 + any unused family-based visas from the previous year + (the lesser of 90,000 or unused employment-based visas from any prior year).

2. It exempts the spouses and children of employment-based immigrants from counting against the numerical cap, beginning in 2004. (In 2003, workers got 36,210 visas, and their spouses and children got 45,927 visas. Total visas could have more than doubled under this bill.)

3. It adds a fee of $500 per petition for most employment-based visa petitions.

4. It allows alien spouses and children of citizens to adjust to Legal Permanent Resident status if the citizen abused them, died, or lost or renounced their citizenship; and it allows alien spouses and children of LPRs to adjust to LPR status if the LPR abused them or died.

5. Anytime the H-1B cap is reached, the lesser of 60,000 or any unused visas in any prior years are added to the cap.





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