STRIKE WHILE THE IRON IS HOT!
TELL CONGRESS "DON'T PULL A SNEAKY TRICK LIKE THAT AGAIN!"

The "H1-B Defeat" is a phenomenal achievement by Americans against the massive and well-funded high-tech industry. Gates and company guessed wrong in expecting Americans to be asleep at the switch during the "lame duck" session--many of us had already predicted the H1-B increase (included in last May's Senate amensty bill) would be rerun just at this time.

In the past, even staunch anti-illegal immigration allies felt safe in giving corporate business what they want--high-skilled cheap labor. Looks like those days are gone.

You're welcome to send my letter below (either as is or adapted as you like) in let members of the 110th (coming) Congress know that they needn't expect to operate "business as usual."

For those with newly-elected House or Senate members whose offices aren't yet established, send to their "campaign websites" (e.g. google on "John Doe for Senate"). You can re-send the message after their offices are established on January 4.

Got to get these new ones started out on the right track.



http://www.federalobserver.com/archive.php?aid=11186
Americans tell Congress...
'Put lumps of coal in Bill Gates' Christmas stocking'
By S. J. Miller

I suspect Bill Gates is leading the massive and well-funded high-tech visa lobby with mutters of "Christmas! Bah, Humbug!" Instead of the H1-B jackpot their lobbyists bought and paid for, "high-tech" industry stockings will contain lumps of coal. Gates' demand for massive "high-tech" visas (known as "Bill's SKIL Bill") fell to defeat.

Their attempts to flood the US with "cheap labor" workers to take American jobs failed in the face of pressure on Congress by outraged Americans. Both last-minute, "dark-of-the-night" attempts by Texas senators John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchinson to increase H1-B "high-tech" visas were defeated in the final hours of the 109th Congress. House Majority Leader John Boehner (OH) joined the high-tech whores with his end-run attempt to hang the measure on a US-India trade bill, and was slapped in the face.

Both Gates et.al and Congress have learned that the days when Americans didn't know or care about H1-B visas are gone. Grass-roots activists can be proud of having achieved a defeat of H1-B increases during a lame-duck Congress when most of America is occupied with Christmas shopping.

But it's no time for resting on laurels; it's time to "strike while the iron is hot." E-mail or fax your 3 members of Congress warning them against trying to pull such a sneaky trick again. I'll include congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle: Senator Bill Frist, Senator Harry Reid, Senator Mitch McConnell, Speaker Dennis Hastert, Congressman John Boehner, Congressman Roy Blunt, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi and Congressman Steney Hoyer.

Their e-mail addresses, fax numbers and "snail mail" addresses are on www.house.gov and www.senate.gov.

Use your own message, or feel free to copy and/or adapt the following letter:

Dear Senator _________/ Congressman ______________:



As a member of the 110th Congress, this is your notice that the "business as usual" of the past 6 years will no longer be tolerated.

No more of Senator John Cornyn's or Kay Bailey Hutchinson's strong-arm tactics for last-minute, “dark-of-night” H1-B increases. And no more hurried passage by "unanimous voice vote" as with Bobby Rush and Henry Hyde's HR 1285, the H1-C Bill for "nurses for disadvantaged areas."

The issue of "foreign workers (skilled or unskilled)" has now joined "Immigration" as one Americans insist be debated openly and publicly, with ALL votes recorded for public review.

Legitimate measures need not fear of open public debate and recorded votes. We've made that clear to Congress on the general immigration issue; the so-called "labor shortage that demands foreign guest workers" is no exception.

Just as we've discarded the myths of illegal immigration ("they do the jobs Americans won't do, we also reject the myths about the “need for foreign workers:"

America has no labor shortages. "Foreign guest workers" are demanded for two reasons:

(1) Business wants cheap labor, whether to pick tomatoes, program computers or nurse hospital patients.

(2) UStrade representatives need something to barter in their attempts to find new markets for US goods, and jobs inAmericaare one of the few remaining items in demand. US trade envoys regard loss of American jobs as nothing but "collateral damage" in the global economy.

Yes, we know that American jobs are just another chip on the Global Economy's poker table!

With the transfer of congressional power to Democrats, we expect increased accountability. We'll no longer tolerate elected representatives destroying working Americans' future when they think we're not looking. Nor will we tolerate American job giveaways concealed as amendments to "Appropriations/Spending bills" or the recent "United States-India Peaceful Atomic Energy Cooperation Act", also known as "Nukes for Mangos".

Senator Harry Reid, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other congressional leaders have the opportunity to show that they truly do protect the interests of American workers rather than moneyed special interests.

They would do well to remember what led to their "Democratic victory." Americans can issue a "voters' pink slip" to Democrats as easily as we did to Republicans.

We'll be watching,

(signed) Mr. or Ms. American Voter

P.S. Don't forget that we recognize AMNESTY as anything that allows illegal aliens to remain in the US. Don’t try to peddle AMNESTY as "path to citizenship," "earned legalization," "guest-worker plan" or other politically sanitized names. And no more 1986 measures which promised enforcement but never delivered.

First you must deliver sustained (over several years) enforcement of immigration laws that we can observe. Jobs will open to Americans that were previously closed, no more illegal aliens crowding hospital ERs for free medical care, a sharp reduction in the "No Hablo Ingles" population, and no more "Tower of Babel" ballots--ALL US election ballots printed English.

Bills passed by Congress and signed by the President MUST BE IMPLEMENTED IMMEDIATELY! We're speaking of the Secure Fence Act. DHS Secretary Chertoff doesn't hold veto power over Congress and the American people.

Only then will we allow any talk of allowing illegal aliens to remain simply by "paying a fine, keeping a job and learning English" while you insist “it’s not amnesty.”

As to your cry "What about the 11 million illegal aliens in the US—we can’t deport them all?"

Americans answer "Implement Attrition Through Enforcement" and watch them deport themselves.