Thread: NumbersUSA Important Message and ACTION ALERT

From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
Date: Wednesday 28SEP05 4 p.m.


Your calls are driving some people to sign ... and driving some people just a little nuts

UPDATE

Your calls all day are starting to have a good effect. Thanks to all of you who have acted thus far.

(Below this Update, I've printed this morning's Action Alert in full, if you need refreshing.)

House Immigration Chairman John Hostettler now has 17 signers to his very tough letter to Pres. Bush demanding that he start enforcing immigration laws.

Click here to see our constantly updated list of signers.

If your U.S. Representative is on that list, stop calling.

If your Congressman/woman is NOT on the list, please call this minute -- and then call tomorrow (Thursday) until you get the result you want. If you get an answering machine, leave your message. It will help.

Chairman Hostettler needs 50 signers for this letter to have enough strength to make Karl Rove stop and think whether he has to consider this block of House voters.

Whatever your overall feelings about Rep. Tom DeLay (who had to step down as House Majority Leader today because of indictment by a Texas jury), he and the Immigration Reform Caucus were the only major obstacles to Pres. Bush and Sen. Kennedy pushing through massive amnesties for illegal aliens.

With DeLay demoted, there are no major political figures trying to block the amnesties. Now, our hope rests entirely with second-level leaders like Hostettler and with garnering scores of rank and file Members of Congress.

BLITZ MEMBERS OF IMMIGRATION REFORM CAUCUS

We have 91 U.S. Representatives on Tom Tancredo's Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus.

But only 17 letter signers.

Does something not smell right to you? Here's the deal. A lot of Members have joined the Caucus to hide from their constituents' wrath about the immigration mess. But a lot of them are too wimpy to actually do anything.

Please check out the Members of the Caucus. (Unfortunately, the website hasn't added the last 10 Members, but work with what they've got.)

Pick out one or several Members from your state and start hounding them until they sign Chairman Hostettler's letter.

You may want note to their receptionists that if the Member can't even agree that it is time for the President to enforce the laws Congress has passed then there is a real question whether that Member belongs on the Caucus or in some open-borders group.

Look up the phone number of any Member of Congress using this link.

Let's fill up the signers list with the 91 Members of the Caucus!

FAX OR EMAIL HOSTETTLER'S LETTER TO YOUR REPRESENTATIVE

Many of you are reporting to us that your Members' staffers are resisting your requests, saying that their Member cannot sign the letter because:

1. They haven't seen the letter.
2. They haven't been asked to sign the letter.
3. The letter has already been sent to the White House.

Stand polite but firm with these staffers.

Hostettler's staff assures me that the letter was sent last night, as was the request for signing -- and that the Hostettler letter will NOT be sent until Friday.

You can probably move things along best by offering to email or fax the text of the letter.

Just highlight the following copy of Hostettler's letter and paste it into an email or print it out to fax. (Please don't pass on our Action Alerts to any congressional office. Some people do this, and it causes complications for us on the Hill.)

September 29, 2005

The Honorable George W. Bush
President of the United States
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20500

Dear Mr. President,

We write as Members of Congress concerned about immigration. Recently there has been much discussion of new guestworker or temporary worker programs. However, we believe that there should be no new guestworker program or any expansion of the number of lawful residents in our country until the Executive Branch better enforces current immigration laws.

History has shown that enforcement provisions are ignored and underfunded while guestworker and amnesty provisions are always implemented.

The 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act contained amnesties for farm workers and other illegal aliens as well as employer sanctions and other enforcement provisions. Unfortunately, the amnesties were carried out and the enforcement was not.

The 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act also contained enforcement provisions that were not implemented. For instance, the bill mandated the implementation of a national exit-entry tracking system for all aliens. Nine years later the exit-entry system is still not near completion.

Today an estimated 12 to 20 million illegal aliens are in the United States. They know that if they successfully enter the country and find a job, they will likely be able to stay for the rest of their lives because the government has shown little interest in enforcing its own laws. Employers also know that once they hire an illegal alien, it is unlikely that they will ever be investigated or prosecuted for doing so. Enforcement of the laws against illegal immigration and employing illegal aliens is necessary.

The American people need to see that the current laws against illegal immigration are being enforced before any guestworker program can be considered.

Sincerely,
Rep. John Hostettler
Rep. Lamar Smith


You have definitely stirred up a lot of offices today. Hostettler's staff reports getting a lot of calls from other offices wanting to know why they are getting so many calls from constituents.

Now, many, many more of you need to make calls this evening and all day tomorrow to drive home the need for these offices to actually get a signature for the letter.

Thanks,

-- ROY



THE FOLLOWING IS THE ACTION ALERT WE SENT TO YOU THIS MORNING WITH ALL INSTRUCTIONS AND EXPLANATIONS OF THE CRITICAL OPPORTUNITY AT HAND




HOUSE IMMIGRATION CHAIRMAN HOSTETTLER URGENTLY NEEDS OUR HELP TODAY AND THURSDAY

IN A NUTSHELL: Hostettler has written a tough letter to Bush .... Says no new guestworkers until Bush starts enforcing immigration laws ..... He needs a lot of signatures from other Members of Congress .... That's not likely to happen unless NumbersUSA people ring the phones off the hook and push their own Representatives to sign.

Please call your U.S. Representative and ask him/her to sign Hostettler's letter to the President.

Chairman Hostettler is making an incredibly bold move for the American people. It is intended to grab the President's attention and turn it away from massive new guestworker programs and amnesty and toward the enforcement we all desire.

If you want to stop the President in his misguided trajectory and change the face of the debate this fall, making a phone call in support of Hostettler's letter is the most important action you can take this week.

THE LETTER
TO PRESIDENT BUSH

Frustrated with the Bush Administration's refusal -- just like that of the Clinton Administration -- to enforce immigration laws, U.S. Rep. John Hostettler (R-IN) has prepared a letter demanding that this Administration start obeying the laws Congress has passed.

Click here to read the letter.

Chairman Hostettler's brave partners in writing the letter are Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) who may become Judiciary Chairman in one more year and Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO).

Hostettler was among a parade of Representatives brought into the White House this month to be told what the President wants them to do to push the Bush foreign guestworker program. Instead of being cowed by the power and prestige he encountered in the White House, Hostettler is that rare public servant who sees the public needs first and is fixated on the fact that this Administration has done virtually nothing over its five years to stop illegal immigration even though it has the power and the legislative authority to do so.

THE RACE FOR SIGNATURES

Chairman Hostettler is trying to obtain signatures from as many Members of Congress as possible before they leave town Thursday evening.

To get the President and Karl Rove to pay attention, he needs at least four dozen Members of Congress willing to publicly challenge this Administration's refusal to enforce most immigration laws passed by Congress.

He won't get many without your help.

He, Rep. Smith and Rep. Tancredo will be carrying copies of the letter in their jackets as they wander the floor of the House of Representatives and the hallways of the House office buildings today and tomorrow. They will be stopping most Representatives they encounter, showing them the letter and asking them to sign. If the Representatives have heard that their offices are being bombarded with constituents asking them to sign the letter, they will be much more likely to be interested in talking about the letter.

If the Representatives turn down the opportunity the first time but then hear their phones ringing all day, some of them will call up Hostettler and ask to sign.

We've been through these emergency letter-signing exercises many times in the past. Believe me, incessant phoning will grab the attention of these offices and focus them on whether they really want to leave their names off the letter or sign.

WHAT TO SAY ON THE PHONE

Be short and clear.

By the way, Hostettler is pronounced
"HOE stet' lur".

Use your own phrasing to make these key points (or just make the first point if you don't feel comfortable talking on the phone):

1. I am calling to urge Rep. Xmxmxmx to sign the letter to Pres. Bush that Immigration Chairman Hostettler is carrying with him today.

2. The letter demands that Pres. Bush start enforcing immigration laws.

3. We have 12 million or more illegal aliens in this country because first Pres. Clinton and now Pres. Bush haven't even tried to enforce the laws that Congress has passed.

4. The letter tells Pres. Bush that he should stop talking about guestworker programs until he proves he is capable of enforcing the immigration laws already on the books. If he can't make illegal aliens go back home now, why should anybody believe he will make guestworkers go back home when their visa is over?

5. The letter has to be signed today if Rep. Xmxmxmx is going to get credit for standing on the side of enforcement.

You can find more assistance for making the call at: THIS LINK.

Please use the feedback elements on that page to let us know that you made the call and to tell us anything that you hear that might be helpful to us in mobilizing support for this letter.

WHAT NUMBER TO CALL

You need to call your U.S. Representative's Washington D.C. phone number.

You can find it at:
www.numbersusa.com/myMembers

THE LIST OF LAWS THAT PRESIDENT BUSH HAS REFUSED TO IMPLEMENT

Rosemary Jenks, our Director of Government Relations, has just finished a long list of enforcement measures that the Bush Administration has refused to implement.

Many of them are items that Pres. Clinton refused to implement for several years.

The list is truly frightening.

Here is the link to the list.

Earlier this week, we provided this list to many Members of Congress to help them in their quest to re-establish the rule of law within the Bush Administration.

Now, we want you to have use of the list, as well. To view it is to be outraged at the missed opportunity. If the Clinton and Bush Administrations had carried out these laws by their deadlines, I feel confident that our illegal population would be millions smaller and we would not have to listen to all these arrogant news commentators claim that nothing will work in trying to restrain illegal immigration.

The Bush Administration has been unable to do all of the things on the list required by law. But now it is proposing that it will be able to handle millions of additional applications for guestworker jobs and for at least temporary amnesties for millions of illegal aliens while screening all for security and other concerns.

IF YOUR REPRESENTATIVE IS A DEMOCRAT

Appeal to their Partisan instincts to criticize everything Pres. Bush is doing right now inside the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Not only are there questions about how DHS handled the Hurricane Katrina response (through its FEMA department) but the immigratin part of DHS is filled with ineptitude and mismanagement in failing to enforce laws designed to protect our physical security.

The majority of Democrats want an amnesty for illegal aliens but are a little wary of massive guestworker programs.

So, don't talk about amnesties with the Democrats. Just push them to sign this letter to demand that Pres. Bush stop his 5-year failure to enforce immigration laws and protect the jobs and wages of America worker.

IF YOUR REPRESENTATIVE IS A REPUBLICAN

Major news organizations are now reporting that many Republicans are now seeing polling indicating that their political bases will weaken if they don't show a strong image of fighting illegal immigration.

You need to emphasize with Republican Representatives that failure to sign this letter will be used as a sign of their lack of interest in cleaning up the illegal immigration problem.

IF YOU'VE NEVER MADE A CALL TO CONGRESS, PLEASE MAKE THIS YOUR FIRST TIME.

THOUSANDS BEFORE YOU HAVE DISCOVERED ON THE FIRST TIME THAT IT REALLY IS QUITE EASY.

THANKS,

ROY BECK

P.S. You can check to see if your Representative has signed the letter by CLICKING ON THIS LINK. We'll be updating it all today and Thursday as we learn of signatures. Be sure to let us know if you hear from an office that they have signed and we don't have it listed yet.

P.S.S. This is also an opportunity to do some extra education within every single congressional office ... about the need for enforcement ahead of everything else. That's the message we want ringing in their ears this fall. in this email:
BLITZ MEMBERS OF IMMIGRATION REFORM CAUCUS

FAX OR EMAIL HOSTETTLER'S LETTER TO YOUR REPRESENTATIVE

Action Alert from this morning with message to deliver and key links for phone numbers, etc.

actions in brief:
Phone your U.S. Rep -- Ask him/her to sign Hostettler's letter urging Pres. Bush to start enforcing immigration laws.

Get phone number of your Rep. at:

www.numbersusa.com/myMembers

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W

No team work in DC. these people can't even agree to disagree. I see only republican's signed the letter to bush not one democrat signed. Is this because they were not asked or refused ??

I contacted Mike McIntyre's office yesterday but do not see his signature.

Wonder if it would do any good to go up there with a "backer stick" (tobacco stick, apx 5 ft long 1 1/2 inch by 1 1/2 inch rough pole used for hagging tobacco in barns for curing)
Seems my grand dad got lots of corporation with one with all those sons he had on the farm.

54 signers on Hostettler's letter at 7:00 pm tonight and hopefully still growing!!! Patrick McHenry came through for NC citizens again by signing and his office called me this afternoon to tell me so. WooHoo!!! Hooray for Mr. McHenry and the rest of the representives who are standing up for America! Thanks to the rest of you out there who bombed the politicans with calls. Our hard work is paying off!!!!

Originally Posted by rebellady1964

54 signers on Hostettler's letter at 7:00 pm tonight and hopefully still growing!!! Patrick McHenry came through for NC citizens again by signing and his office called me this afternoon to tell me so. WooHoo!!! Hooray for Mr. McHenry and the rest of the representives who are standing up for America! Thanks to the rest of you out there who bombed the politicans with calls. Our hard work is paying off!!!!

I also see that Sue Myrick has signed today. Thats 4 tarheels so far.

Originally Posted by Charlesoakisland

Originally Posted by rebellady1964

54 signers on Hostettler's letter at 7:00 pm tonight and hopefully still growing!!! Patrick McHenry came through for NC citizens again by signing and his office called me this afternoon to tell me so. WooHoo!!! Hooray for Mr. McHenry and the rest of the representives who are standing up for America! Thanks to the rest of you out there who bombed the politicans with calls. Our hard work is paying off!!!!

I also see that Sue Myrick has signed today. Thats 4 tarheels so far.

Yeah and not a single Buckeye, but you know what a Buckeye is? It's a worthless NUT

Good job team!

Way to work it!

W

Originally Posted by Scubayons

Originally Posted by Charlesoakisland

Originally Posted by rebellady1964

54 signers on Hostettler's letter at 7:00 pm tonight and hopefully still growing!!! Patrick McHenry came through for NC citizens again by signing and his office called me this afternoon to tell me so. WooHoo!!! Hooray for Mr. McHenry and the rest of the representives who are standing up for America! Thanks to the rest of you out there who bombed the politicans with calls. Our hard work is paying off!!!!

I also see that Sue Myrick has signed today. Thats 4 tarheels so far.

Yeah and not a single Buckeye, but you know what a Buckeye is? It's a worthless NUT

I like that but we gots some worthless nuts from NC in DC and they aren't Buckeyes ?

Thank you for the update RebelLady

W