When it comes to immigration, we are living in a Wild West culture in which the outlaws feel free to strut down the street and demand that the authorities give them whatever they want. Witness Capitol Hill today. The lobbyists for a variety of industries that hire lots of illegal foreign workers are rallying their troops to phone the House Rules Committee; they are asking it to strip a provision of the giant stimulus bill that would require recipients to use E-Verify to keep illegal aliens from getting the new jobs. Will the good "townspeople" cower behind their curtains, or get out in the streets and insist that the Rules sheriffs run the bandits off?

The Rules Committee is to begin work at 3 p.m. today.

No. 1: Please go to your Action Buffet corkboard and take as many actions that are offered there as you can.

No. 2: All of you with House Rules Committee Members in your state will find urgent phone notes with talking points. Phone before the committee votes whether to allow the trillion dollars of the stimulus bill to be used to provide jobs to illegal aliens.

No. 3: Even if you are from another state, after you read the danger we are in today in the House, you may want to call the Switchboard number (202-224-3121) and ask to speak to the offices of some of the Members. Here are the Members.

No. 3: If your Senator or Representative is brand new, make sure you have sent all the welcome faxes that put them on notice of what you expect of them on immigration.

No. 4: Those of you in New York need to send the faxes to stand up for the appointment of a new U.S. Senator who is coming under tremendous fire because she has opposed hiring illegal aliens in the past.

No. 5: Read Ray's blog today about the Gunfight At The Rules Corral.

No. 6: As always, don't forget to bookmark the NumbersUSA Home page so you can come to it every day to read the latest most important news, views and actions to take about immigration.

It is snowing here in your nation's Capital. So, we'll see whether that slows down House activities as much as it slows down befuddled drivers. But even if the Rules voting is postponed until tomorrow, your phone calls today are desperately needed.

THANKS,