From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
Date: Friday 21OCT05 9:30 a.m.


Send fax in response to Senate Judiciary just approved selling U.S. tech jobs to foreign workers

Please send this fax to your two Senators now.

Send fax

http://www.numbersusa.com/faxes?ID=4119

We still have some chance to stop this huge increase in immigration that the Senate Judiciary Committee passed yesterday.

But it is quite clear that most Senators still do not understand that the American people are fed up with immigration numbers being so high. They are doing the same thing Congress has done for the last 20 years: Every time the public rises up in anger about out-of-control illegal immigration, Congress responds by dramatically increasing legal immigration!!!

The House of Representatives seems to be understanding that this is not the path we want.

But Senators either don't understand or think the public won't care enough to truly respond. We -- you -- must continuously hammer Senators at every turn to remind them that we are watching and that we care.


NumbersUSA's press release by our media coordinator, Caroline Espinosa


Press Release
NumbersUSA Decries Vote to Meet Budget Goal By Selling U.S. Tech Jobs to Foreign Workers

Senate Judiciary Committee Votes to Sell Hundreds of Thousands of Visas to Corporations

On Thursday, October 20, 2005, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted in favor of Senators Arlen Specter (R-PA) and Edward Kennedy’s (D-MA) plan to sell hundreds of thousands of additional work visas and permanent green cards to corporations to hire foreign workers for high-tech and professional jobs in the U.S.

"Senators Specter and Kennedy’s plan is a travesty to American students studying to enter scientific, engineering and high-tech fields, as well as to those Americans who have worked hard to become masters of their craft," said Roy Beck, Executive Director of NumbersUSA. "Selling huge numbers of additional jobs to foreign workers adds insult to injury for American citizens who are already having a difficult time finding full-time employment in their professional field at a family wage."

The plan was devised to satisfy the requirement for each congressional committee to come up with spending cuts or revenue increases to offset the profligate spending in recent years by Congress and the President. Senators Specter and Kennedy’s proposal sells hundreds of thousands of high-skilled American jobs over the next several years to corporations that will then be allowed to import additional foreign workers instead of hiring Americans. A portion of the jobs will be given for three to six years to foreign workers, and the rest of the jobs will be taken away from American workers forever by importing permanent foreign workers.

"It is truly unfortunate and tragic that the Judiciary Committee has decided to balance their part of the budget mess on the backs of unemployed and underemployed high-tech and other professional workers," said Beck. "This action sends the message to American students that if they pursue a specialized field, they may not be able to find jobs in the U.S. This plan will cost corporations $500 per visa, but will cost American workers their livelihoods."

Beck further criticized Senator Specter and the Judiciary Committee for increasing immigration at a time when it already is running more than a million a year – four times higher than traditional levels: "American communities need a breather. They need immigration reductions. They don’t need the federal government forcing hundreds of thousands more foreign workers into their already congested job markets and communities."


2. After you have sent the fax, you may want to call Senators on the Judiciary Committee who are from your state



These are the Members of the Committee who allowed the provision to sell hundreds of thousands of additional U.S. jobs to foreign workers:

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Delaware
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Sen. Biden, Joseph
(202-224-5042)

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Illinois
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Sen. Durbin, Richard
(202-224-2152)

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Kansas
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Sen. Brownback, Sam
(202-224-6521)

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Massachusetts
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Sen. Kennedy, Edward
(202-224-4543)

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New York
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Sen. Schumer, Charles
(202-224-6542)

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Ohio
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Sen. DeWine, Mike
(202-224-2315)

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Pennsylvania
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Sen. Specter, Arlen
(202-224-4254)

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South Carolina
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Sen. Graham, Lindsey
(202-224-5972)

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Texas
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Sen. Cornyn, John
(202-224-2934)

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Utah
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Sen. Hatch, Orrin
(202-224-5251)

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Vermont
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Sen. Leahy, Patrick
(202-224-4242)

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Wisconsin
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Sen. Feingold, Russell
(202-224-5323)
Sen. Kohl, Herb
(202-224-5653)


3. What to say on the phone


I think you can pretty well figure out for yourself what to say.

1. Let them know that you know what this Senator allowed the Senate Judiciary Committee to do. Tell the staffer who answers that you are calling about the Specter/Kennedy proposal to sell massive new amounts of foreign-worker green cards and work visas to corporations in order to reduce budget deficits.

(We do not have any recorded votes to give you at this time. So don't use the words that the Senator "voted" for this. Rather, use the words that the Senator "allowed" this. We have left off the phone list the names of Senators who we believe did something to oppose Specter's plan.)

2. Let them know why you think Specter's plan is a travesty to American students studying for scientific, engineering and high-tech fields and a travesty to all Americans already in those fields.

3. Give your own connection to the issue.

4. Finish with a succinct statement such as: I oppose any action that increases green cards or visas for foreign workers. Give American workers a chance. Reduce all immigration.


Only when these Senators hear a wall of noise from American voters that they demand NO MORE INCREASES IN IMMIGRATION -- ONLY REDUCTIONS IN IMMIGRATION -- will they stop these every-few-months shenanigans.

-- ROY
in this email:
1. Fax your Senators to decry Judiciary Committee vote
2. NumbersUSA Press Release
3. Call your Senator on the Judiciary Committee to decry the vote
4. What to say on the phone
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