Thread: ALERT: Tell Congress and President to support Amer. Workers

NumbersUSA:

Tell New Congress and the New President to Suspend Giving Out Most New Foreign Work Visas
Wednesday, January 7, 2009, 9:48 AM

On Wednesday, January 7th, NumbersUSA mailed a letter to President-elect Barack Obama urging him to make Americans and already-resident legal immigrants his top priority. In the letter, we urged Obama to temporarily suspend the importation of most foreign workers, chain migration and the visa lottery. Also, we urged him to fully fund E-Verify and make it mandatory for all employers. If you haven't taken action to support American workers, now is the time! If you haven't done so already, please join more than 140,000 members and sign the petition to support American workers. Also, check your action buffet for faxes to send to your elected officials.

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Text of letter from NumbersUSA:
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The Honorable Barack Obama
President-elect of the United States
1800 F Street NW
Washington, DC 20405

7 JAN 09

Dear President-Elect Obama,

Congratulations on your historic victory. NumbersUSA – a non-profit, non-partisan group with more than 850,000 active members – is focused on America’s economic troubles that continue to grow. I am writing to urge you to make American workers and already-resident legal immigrant workers your first priority when you take office on January 20th.

With the federal government reporting continuing giant losses of jobs, it is time to slow the massive importation of workers.

Non-farm employers in the U.S. eliminated 533,000 jobs in November alone. At the same time, in a typical month the Department of Homeland Security issues 138,000 new work permits and green cards (not including replacement or renewal documents) to foreign workers.

How can it make any sense for the American people's own government to be approving more competitors for a dwindling number of jobs? Month after month as hundreds of thousands of Americans lose their jobs, the feds keep pumping another 138,000 new foreign workers into the labor force.

The monthly 138,000 figure is so big you may doubt its credibility. But it comes directly from the Department of Homeland Security. Its most-recent-year data show that the U.S. granted:

• 744,531 permanent green cards to working-age adults ages 20-64, and
• 912,735 new employment authorization documents to temporary foreign workers.

That adds up to an annual rate of 1,657,266 new foreign workers (not counting illegal workers) added to our economy. There are no indications that the pace has slackened. If this pace continues, DHS will issue an average of 138,000 new work permits and green cards to working-age adults each month this year.

You have stated your priority as an economic agenda which begins with the laudable goal of creating and protecting good jobs for American workers. The stimulus package you propose would cost $700 billion to $1 trillion to meet your goal of 3 million jobs in the next two years. Any job creation is welcome relief to working families as more and more join the ranks of the unemployed each month.

These families are unlikely to feel the impact of your job-creation plan, however, because of our current immigration and visa policies. Consider the simple math: During the two years in which you intend to create/protect 3 million jobs, our immigration system is poised to bring in more than 3 million additional foreign workers. This means that the hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars spent on new jobs won’t even create enough jobs to keep pace with the labor we will be importing from abroad into our besieged economy.

Our immigration system, predicated on the false assumption that there are jobs Americans won’t do at every level of the skill ladder, is illogical in even the best of economic times. But when the current labor force is already suffering in an economy hemorrhaging jobs, the folly of importing job seekers to compete for jobs that are becoming scarcer becomes crystal clear.

You can help the same number of unemployed American workers as proposed in your stimulus plan without spending even 1% of its projected total by suspending most labor importation and by enforcing laws that will open up the seven million jobs the Pew Hispanic Center says are now held by illegal foreign workers. Or you can double the effectiveness of your job-creation proposal at less than 1% of additional cost by changing our labor importation policies and enforcing immigration laws.

In the process, our humanitarian immigration should continue. We probably should expand and accelerate nuclear-family programs for spouses and minor children. And we should continue to take our fair share of the world’s special-needs refugees. We should also admit the few thousand foreign workers of truly world-class skills to fill highly specialized jobs for which no American is available. But most of the rest of immigration should be suspended.

A Time-Out on Chain Migration and the Visa Lottery

Chain migration is the primary mechanism that has caused legal immigration in this country to quadruple from historical levels of approximately 250,000 per year to one million a year since 1990. Chain migration results from a system that prioritizes non-nuclear family members and eventually leads to the immigration of cousins, aunts, uncles, in-laws, nieces and nephews of the original immigrant. Since virtually all immigrants need to work to support themselves and their families, regardless of the category under which they were admitted, chain migration creates a nearly endless stream of job seekers that puts downward pressure on wages and directly hurts the economic well being of the working poor.

The irrational visa lottery has the same effect. Rather than awarding visas based on job skills, education, refugee status or family connections, the visa lottery awards 50,000 visas through a random drawing. According to testimony of the State Department’s Inspector General during the 109th Congress, the visa lottery “contains significant risks to national security from hostile intelligence officers, criminals, and terrorists attempting to use the program for entry into the United States as permanent residents.â€

Faxes sent!

Thanks populist for some reason I'm not getting their emails. Thanks for keeping us up-to-date.

Thanks for posting! Done!

You're welcome. I just called D.C. & and will f/u with faxes.

Originally Posted by Gogo

Thanks populist for some reason I'm not getting their emails. Thanks for keeping us up-to-date.

Hi Gogo,
FYI, I didn't receive this alert via e-mail, but from scanning Numbers' website.

Originally Posted by Populist

Originally Posted by Gogo

Thanks populist for some reason I'm not getting their emails. Thanks for keeping us up-to-date.

Hi Gogo,
FYI, I didn't receive this alert via e-mail, but from scanning Numbers' website.

OK thanks. I need to do that once a week at least. They aren't sending as many emails. I think they expect us to be adults if we're serious about this issue.

I hope this is read by Obama but will he notice it or even care since it is in English, not Spanish, is from REAL Americans (yeah Obama those who duly elected you to represent and serve them; NOT illegal aliens) but isn't from illegal aliens and their LaRaza, Chamber Of Commerce, Corporate America, The Mexican Government and any number of other special interest supporters and lobbyists representing 521 companies actively lobbying for more cheap foreign labor in the way of visas and those illegally crossing the border every week.
Mr Obama if you really care about struggling Americans, pay attention to the exploding number of homeless in my area as more people lose their jobs and homes. This area already had a high unemployment rate before the economic collapse because the job market wasn't good to begin with but now is suffering even more. Shelters are unable to handle the increasing number of homeless yet we see legalizing millions of impoverished illegally here who will bring millions of their impoverished immediate and extended family members along with the 5,000 to 10,000 illegally crossing a wide open border which Napolitano won't secure is number nine on yours and Congress screw Americans todo list further burdening our health care, land, food, water, energy and other LIMITED resources while adding millions more impoverished to our population. Welcome to the third world.................

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