5/12/2005

Fellow Immigration Reform Leaders:

Many of you have heard about and know the details of the Unite to Fight illegal immigration summit in Vegas May 27-29. If you have not made plans to attend and support this event yet, then I encourage you to do so today.

Mark Edwards, the Wake Up America Foundation, and many others worked very hard to make the Minuteman Project and the Hold Their Feet to the Fire operations a success. Now it is time for us to support them as they endeavor to make this historic summit a great success.

Although Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) is a relative newcomer to the movement (Sept. 11, 2004) one of the things we immediately noticed was the need for greater communications and cooperation among immigration reform groups. We have made great strides in that area over the past 8 months and our core group feels this summit can help us to make significant progress in this area.

So many of you have been very supportive and very helpful to us and other new groups that have formed in the last year. I'm truly looking forward to meeting many of you in person and listening to what you feel is the best course of action for our rapidly rising movement.

We plan to activate our entire network to support this summit. We need concerned citizens, activists, organization leaders, bloggers, talk show hosts, and elected officials to attend.

I personally plan to be in Vegas a few days early to assist with the event if needed and to meet with leaders that are in the area or arrive early. I know that Vegas is a long haul for many of you and we are all watching our budgets, but I hope that you can make this trip and give the event maximum support through your websites, media appearances, and networks.

The latest list of leaders attending, the schedule, and travel resources are found at the link below. If you are not currently scheduled to attend but would like to participate, please let me know or contact Wake Up America directly.

http://www.wakeupamericafoundation.com/ ... index.html

I look forward to seeing you there. Perhaps one day, historians will reflect on the spring of 2005 as the time when our nation started to turn back this destructive tide of illegal immigration.

Kind Regards,


William Gheen
President, Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC)
www.alipac.us
Post Office Box 30966, Raleigh, NC 27622-0966
Tel: (919) 787-6009 Toll Free: (866) 329-3999
FEC ID: C00405878

Cc: Immigration Reform Leadership Contacts
ALIPAC Executive Officers