[Rec'd via email just now...]


From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
Date: Wednesday 30JUL08 12:15 a.m. EDT

Decent E-Verify Agreement Reached in U.S. House of Representatives

DEAR FRIENDS,

Please disregard my Alerts sent on Tuesday that described dire danger for the E-Verify program in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Your phoning and faxing -- and the work of our allies in the House -- have turned the situation around to a first-step victory.

At 9:39 p.m. Tuesday, I was able to post the following on the Home page of the NumbersUSA website the following:

Mostly good news to report this evening from multiple sources in the U.S. House -- negotiators have agreed to a 5-year re-authorization of the E-Verify program to keep illegal aliens out of U.S. jobs and without the strings attached that had threatened to strangle it in future years.

There are several indicators that many Members of Congress in both Parties really listened to you the citizens through your hundreds of thousands of faxes and phone calls this past week.

You can read more details and your fellow citizens' comments in my blog.

I thank all of you for all the faxing and phoning that made this first victory possible. Believe me, Members of the House of Representative felt tremendous pressure because of your work.

If the agreement holds together through today, we can hope to have House passage of E-Verify and then move on to get it passed in the Senate.

My blog discusses the challenge we face in the Senate.

We are asking for no more E-Verify phone calls into the House at this time, but please keep the pressure on the Senate. Please take any actions you find on your Action Buffet corkboard to continue the pressure for good immigration policy out of this Congress.

THANKS FOR EVERYTHING,