From: Roy Beck <ImmigrationInfo@numbersusa.com> Add to Address Book
Date: 2006/06/09 Fri PM 02:15:30 EDT
Subject: Time to turn up the heat on Congress

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From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
Date: Friday 9JUN06 9:30 a.m. EDT


Please take some actions today .... and prepare for many more actions next week

DEAR SUPPORTERS OF LOWER OVERALL IMMIGRATION,

Thanks to all of you who -- in the two weeks since the Senate voted for a massive immigration increase and amnesty -- have been regularly checking your Action Buffet for new actions and who have been responding to the several Fax Alerts that we have sent you.

Now, it is time to really start turning up the heat again.

I'm asking each one of you to do at least one of the following TODAY.

Members of Congress are feeling great pressure from our side, but we must really escalate that pressure if we are to totally block all the immigration increases in the Senate bill. Thus far, the Republican majority in the House of Representatives has stood firm against the national Republican Party leaders and President Bush. We have a lot of hope that the House can hold the line against the amnesty/open borders plan of President Bush, the Republican National Committee and nearly all Senate Democrats. BUT IT WILL HAPPEN ONLY IF ALL OF YOU DO WHAT YOU DID IN APRIL AND MAY.

There are a lot more of YOU than there used to be.

Last Saturday, our Activist Membership crossed the 200,000 mark! That means we have almost 100,000 more of you working together in this cause than we had last December when we pressured for toughening amendments to the House-passed H.R. 4437.

Action No. 1: Send all the faxes that have accumulated on your Action Buffet corkboard.

We can tell from the number of faxes that have been ordered over the last two weeks that many of you have taken a much-deserved break from activism and not been sending the new faxes we have posted on your customized corkboard.

Please go now to:

www.NumbersUSA.com/actionbuffet

Action No. 2: Tell us when and where your Senators and Representative are holding town hall meetings

You should see a thumb-tacked note on your corkboard asking for this information. When you click on the note, you will go to a page that will give you good instructions for how to track down this information.

There is no central place to find out when and where Members of Congress expose themselves to the voters. In fact, they try to keep it as secret as possible because they don't really want to have to hear directly from you.

That is why the town hall meeting part of our Action Buffet is so very important.

NumbersUSA doesn't have the staff to dig out potential meetings of all 535 Members of Congress. We MUST rely on you to send us that info on your own Members so we can share with everybody else from your state and District.

Click on corkboard note to send us town hall meeting information

Action No. 3: Attend any meeting or event where your Senators or Representative are expected to appear

Nothing you do will be as powerful as attending in person one of the events where your Members of Congress appears, and then asking a question or making a statement about immigration -- or even holding up a sign giving your view on immigration -- or applauding another voter who expresses your opinion on immigration.

You all have become great faxers and phoners. But we must have many, many more of you personally confronting the Members of Congress -- especially the ones who have Immigration Grades ranging from F-minus to B.

See your Members' immigration grades at:

www.CongressGrades.org

If you see a thumb-tacked note on your corkboard that announces a meeting of one of your Members of Congress, PLEASE LOOK AT IT -- and make plans to attend.

Get some friends to go with you to ensure that you will have a cheering section.

And be sure to use the feedback devices on our page that allow you to easily let us know you are planning to attend and to give us a report when you return.

Action No. 4: Call some friends or let us know that you plan to visit the local office of your Representative or one of your Senators next week

These Members of Congress must have voters in their local offices putting the pressure on their staffs to block the Senate amnesty and immigration increases.

If you are interested in doing this but don't want to go alone, send us an email through our Help Desk form and we will put you in touch with other people in your area who are trying to make a trip.

PLEASE NOTE: We have a new way of your communicating to us in which you cannot just hit REPLY to our Alerts anymore.

We are not trying to make things difficult for you. But with 200,000 members, our staff simply has not been able to keep up with your emails. We have hired two interns for the summer to help Jon and Jeremy. But we also must create a better system of categories if we are to provide the level of service we once did.

So, you should always communicate with us by:

(a) clicking on the CONTACT US link in the navigation bar at the top of our web pages. That takes you to the HELP FORM link.

(b) or putting this address in your directory and regularly using it:

www.numbersusa.com/helpform

On the Help Form page, you choose the category in which you are writing and send us an email that way.

Thousands of people have already started using this form in the last month, and it is accelerating our ability to respond.

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Thanks for jumping into this TODAY before you move into your weekend family and recreation activities.

Then, please, plan to do something Monday and during the rest of the week.

We will be sending you additional guidance on how best to stop the amnesty -- or at least keep it from passing this month. The longer we can delay this, the better our chances are of winning.

Thank you,

-- ROY





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