Thread: Pro-Amnesty Church Leaders' War on Jobless Americans

From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
Date: Monday 12oct09 Noon

Pro-Amnesty Church Leaders' War on Jobless Americans

Please help educate the nation's church leaders to stop lobbying for more foreign workers

DEAR FRIENDS,

With only one major exception, virtually all Christian denominations now have national leadership calling for more foreign workers in the U.S. -- even though U.S. workers (including those in church pews) are unemployed by the millions.

This is becoming a real problem here on Capitol Hill.

You can help. See below.

At this moment, every single religious lobbyist speaking to Congress is calling for an amnesty and an increase in our million-a-year green card level for permanent foreign workers.

Friends, only the 920,000-member volunteer force of NumbersUSA can slow down this misguided religious crusade that will leave millions of Americans unemployed as a result.

I really do believe you can cause some of these religious leaders to have second thoughts about whether they have been hood-winked by the open-borders forces' call for giant increases in permanent foreign-worker permits while Americans are suffering a jobs depression.

HERE IS WHAT I ASK OF YOU: (ALL OF YOU)
Come back to your NumbersUSA Action Board every day this week and look for faxes and other actions provided for you. We will be adding faxes during the week.

Please contact your national office and explain why you think your national church leaders are wrong. (You can also see the full list of denominations and contact info here.) http://www.numbersusa.com/hub?action=ro ... 4574&lid=9

(MEMBERS OF ANY LOCAL CONGREGATION)
Forward my blog on Church Leaders' War on Jobless Americans to your local pastor. It is important that local clergy know about the jobs issue that their national leaders are avoiding. http://www.numbersusa.com/hub?action=ro ... 4574&lid=9

(IF YOU ARE NOT AFFILIATED WITH ANY CHURCHES) Please consider phoning or emailing the national church offices, identify yourself as an outsider and express your disappointment that the churches have banded with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in flooding the labor markets.

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Believe it or not, all these denominations are moving forward on the basis of their claim that illegal immigration occurs because we don't allow enough permanent legal immigration to deal with U.S. labor shortages.

That's right LABOR SHORTAGES!

As you can see, the church leaders have been hoodwinked by the open-borders business groups into thinking that we have a labor shortage in the middle of this deep recession!

Seriously, the church leaders need your factual help. I hope you will choose parts of the statistics below and in my blog to emphasize in all your communications with local and national church leaders.

Following are excerpts from my blog today. I hope you will read the blog in its entirety so you are better equipped with the arguments against religious leaders siding with exploitative employers in favor of foreign labor importation. http://www.numbersusa.com/hub?action=ro ... 4574&lid=9

DENOMINATIONAL LEADERS TALK OF LABOR SHORTAGES AMIDST 'U-6' UNEMPLOYMENT RATE OF 17%

Now -- except for the Southern Baptist Convention -- all the country's substantial Mainline Protestant, Catholic and Evangelical denominations are endorsing huge new increases in permanent work permits for foreign workers. (Read my blog on the National Association of Evangelicals' latest dive into the pro-amnesty coalition.) http://www.numbersusa.com/hub?action=ro ... 4574&lid=9

Accepted by progressives and conservatives alike as the best measure of suffering, the U-6 Unemployment Rate for everybody in the U.S. had risen to nearly 17% by mid-summer! It counts not only those actively looking for a job but discouraged workers who have recently given up looking as well as people involuntarily forced into part-time work.

* * * * * For more detail, read today's blog. http://www.numbersusa.com/hub?action=ro ... 4574&lid=9

DENOMINATIONAL LEADERS PREFER ILLEGAL ALIENS OVER IMMIGRANTS ALREADY HERE

Even though the church leaders constantly talk about being kinder to the immigrants already living among us, their constant push for more and more new foreign workers to compete is harming the existing community which has a U-6 Unemployment Rate of 20%.

* * * * * For more detail, read today's blog. http://www.numbersusa.com/hub?action=ro ... 4574&lid=9

CHURCH LEADERS PREFER FOREIGN WORKERS OVER U.S. HIGH SCHOOL GRADS

* * * * * For more detail, read today's blog. http://www.numbersusa.com/hub?action=ro ... 4574&lid=9

CHURCH LEADERS PREFER FOREIGN WORKERS OVER YOUNG LESS-EDUCATED AMERICANS

The effect of church leaders' high-immigration advocacy is even worse for young adults trying to enter the labor market. These are the people most likely to be starting families. Hurting them means especially being just plain mean to young struggling families.

The U-6 Unemployment Rate for U.S.-born high school graduates who are between 18 and 29 is an incredible 30%.

Almost one of every three young adults with a high school degree who wants to work CAN"T FIND A FULL-TIME JOB! But the church bishops and presidents and executive directors want millions more permanent work permits for citizens of other countries -- including illegal aliens.

The inability to get a job, to hold a job or to earn a decent wage and benefits contributes heavily to low marriage rates, high rates of children without fathers in the home, to the joining of gangs and to other criminal and dependency pathologies during these formative years.

But our national church leaders ignore the mounting hardship of our young, non-college adults, lobbying for more foreign workers to compete in their occupations. The people in this high school graduate category who are hurt most by church leaders' lobbying are:

U.S.-born Hispanics (33%)
Black Americans (37%)

CHURCH LEADERS PREFER FOREIGN WORKERS OVER AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUTS

* * * * * For more detail, read today's blog. http://www.numbersusa.com/hub?action=ro ... 4574&lid=9

The U-6 Unemployment rate for U.S.-born high school drop-outs (over age 18 ) is 33%.

The people in this high school dropout category who are hurt most by church leaders' lobbying are:

U.S.-born Hispanics (37%)
Black Americans (42%)

CHURCH LEADERS PREFER FOREIGN WORKERS OVER AMERICAN TEENAGERS SEEKING A JOB

* * * * * For more detail, read today's blog. http://www.numbersusa.com/hub?action=ro ... 4574&lid=9

In communities with high immigration, adult foreign workers typically take most of the jobs in fast-food, lawn care and other service jobs where teenagers traditionally have first learned a work ethic.

The percentage of teenagers working at all has never been lower.

The U-6 Unemployment rate for U.S.-born teens (age 16-17) is 41%.

The people in this teen category who are hurt most by church leaders' lobbying are:

U.S.-born Hispanics (48%)
Immigrants already here (55%)
Black Americans (67%)

CHURCH LEADERS HAVE ABANDONED BLACK UNDERCLASS

* * * * * For more detail, read today's blog. http://www.numbersusa.com/hub?action=ro ... 4574&lid=9

Do the church leaders know that the latest government data indicate that while the economy eliminates hundreds of thousands of jobs a month, the feds are issuing around 160,000 new permanent and temporary work permits each month?

NumbersUSA since last November has advocated cutting the 160,000 as close to zero as possible. THAT would create a little more opportunity for a just society as repeatedly advocated in the Bible.

Please protect the nation's religious leaders from acting out the folly that results from their ignorance of the issues at hand. Millions upon millions of Americans without a job or barely holding on to their job are at danger if the religious crusade for amnesty and more foreign labor importation continues.

THANKS,

Roy

HERE ARE THE DENOMINATIONS THAT ARE CALLING FOR:
(a) amnesty and permanent work visas for 12-20 million illegal foreign workers and dependents
(b) a great increase in permanent work visas for additional new immigrants

CATHOLIC

U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops -- Phone: 202-541-3000-- Email: webcoordinator@usccb.org

LARGE MAINLINE PROTESTANT

Episcopal -- Phone: 212-716-6000 -- Toll Free: 1-800-334-7626 -- Email: Presiding Bishop and Primate The Most Reverend Katharine Jefferts Schori pboffice@episcopalchurch.org

Evangelical Lutheran Church of America -- Phone: 773-380-2700 -- Toll Free: 1-800-638-3522 -- Fax: 773-380-1465 -- Email: info@elca.org

Presbyterian Church (USA) -- Phone: 502-569-5000 -- Toll Free: 1-888-728-7228 -- Fax: 502-569-8005

United Church of Christ -- Phone: 216-736-2100 -- Email: ogm@ucc.org

United Methodist -- Phone: 615-742-5400 -- Fax: 615-742-5423 -- Email: umcom@umcom.org

LARGE EVANGELICAL

Assemblies of God -- Phone: 417-862-2781 -- Toll Free: 1-877-840-4800 -- Email: Contributions@ag.org, General Superintendent GeneralSuperintendent@ag.org, or from this page: http://ag.org/top/contact.cfm

Christian Reformed Church in North America -- Phone: 616-241-1691 or toll free 1-877-279-9994 -- Fax: 616-224-0803 -- E-mail: crcna@crcna.org

Church of God -- Phone: 423-472-3361-- Fax: 423-478.7066 -- Email from this page: http://churchofgod.org/contact

Church of the Nazarene -- Phone: 913-577-0500 -- Fax: 913-577-0848 -- E-mail from this page: http://nazarene.org/contactus.aspx

Free Methodist Church of North America -- Phone: 317-244-3660 -- Toll Free: 1-800-342-5531 -- Fax: 317-244-1247 -- Email: info@freemethodistchurch.org

General Association of General Baptists -- Phone: 573-785-7746 -- Fax: 573-785-0564 -- E-mail from this page: http://www.generalbaptist.com/contactus.htm

The Brethren Church -- Phone: 419.289.1708

The Salvation Army -- Phone: 703-299-8314 -- Toll Free: 800-725-2769 -- Fax: 703-684-3478 -- E-mail at: NHQ_Webmaster@usn.salvationarmy.org

SMALLER EVANGELICAL

Anglican Mission in America -- Phone: 843-237-0318 -- Fax: 843-237-4008 --Email: info@theamia.org or Chairman Charles H. Murphy III's Chief of Staff: sgrayson@theamia.org

Brethren in Christ Church -- Phone: 717-697-2634 -- bic@bic-church.org

Churches of Christ In Christian Union -- Phone: 740-474-8856 -- Fax: 740-477-7766 -- Email: info@cccuhq.org or from this page: http://www.cccuhq.org/component/option, ... Itemid,89/

Conservative Lutheran Association

Evangelical Assembly of Presbyterian Churches -- Phone: 734-742-2020 -- Fax: 734-742-2033 -- Email from this page http://www.ea-pc.org/aboutus/contact.htm

Evangelical Presbyterian Church -- Phone: 734-742-2020 - Fax: 734-742-2033 -- Email: webmaster@epc.org

Evangelical Free Church of America -- Phone: 952-854-1300 or toll free 1-800-745-2202 -- Email: webmaster@efca.org

Fellowship of Evangelical Churches -- Phone: 260-423-3649 -- Fax: 260-420-1905 -- Email: fecministries@fecministries.org

International Church of the Foursquare Gospel -- Phone: 1-888-635-4234 -- Fax: 213-989-4590 -- Email from this page: http://www.foursquare.org/contact/

International Fellowship of Christian Assemblies -- Phone: 724-962-3501-- Fax: 724-962-1766

International Pentecostal Church of Christ -- Phone: 740-852-4722 -- Fax: 740-852-0348 -- Email: General Overseer c.hughes@ipcc.cc

International Pentecostal Holiness Church -- Phone: 405-787-7110 -- Fax: 405-789-3957 -- Email: info@iphc.org

Presbyterian Church in America -- Telephone: 678-825-1000 -- Fax: 678-825-1001-- Email: ac@pcanet.org

Primitive Methodist Church USA -- Phone: 215-675-2639 -- Email: Rev. Kerry R. Ritts, President revkrr@aol.com

Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America -- Phone: 412-731-1177-- Fax: 412-731-8861-- Email from this page: http://reformedpresbyterian.org/index.p ... &Itemid=71

The Christian & Missionary Alliance -- Phone: 719-599-5999 -- Email: webmaster@cmalliance.org

The Evangelical Church -- Phone: 763-424-2589 -- Email: ecdenom@usfamily.net

The Vineyard, USA --- Phone: 281-313-8463 -- Fax: 281-313-8464 -- Email: info@vineyardusa.org

Transformation Ministries -- Phone: 626-915-7641 -- Toll Free: 1-800-299-3448 -- Fax: 626-915-7649 -- Email: crc@transmin.org

United Brethren in Christ -- Phone: 260-356-2312 -- Email from this page: http://www.ub.org/forms/feedback.html

US Conference of the Mennonite Brethren Churches -- Phone: Midwest Office 316-558-8688 or Toll Free 1-800-257-0515, West Coast 661-412-4939 -- Fax: Midwest Office 316-744-7472 West Coast 661-412-4938 -- Email: Executive Director, Ed Boschman ebed@usmb.org

The Wesleyan Church Corporation -- Phone: 317-774-7900 -- Email: information@wesleyan.org

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This makes me want to puke. The 501 C 3 tax exempt status should be pulled on every one of these organizations for lobbying, using their organization to influence legislation and impact public policy in direct violation of US tax code. Americans who have up to now supported these outfits should withdraw their membership and stop all funding, including tithes. Use your tithe to find an American family that desperately needs your help and do God's Work direct.

Good point, judy. I think these days all churches are suffering from loss of contributions (and there was a story I read here a few days ago that the Lutherans were giving up some of their work with endangered youth.)
Church leaders are realizing that Americans are not as willing to give as much, when it comes down to the family starving or the churches starving. You can always read the Bible and other holy books at home and discuss the lessons without a minister or priest speaking from the pulpit to tell how to interpret what you have read.
In this country, they have seen the parishioners in dire straits--and there goes the wealth of the church. Of course they want new immigration of the faithful and good jobs for them to build up their coffers. Same problem for the governments in this country--since the American people have been destroyed in their earning power, legalize anyone that wants to crawl across the border that now have to pay taxes to refill the gov't coffers.
It is all about money.

Originally Posted by vortex

Good point, judy. I think these days all churches are suffering from loss of contributions (and there was a story I read here a few days ago that the Lutherans were giving up some of their work with endangered youth.)
Church leaders are realizing that Americans are not as willing to give as much, when it comes down to the family starving or the churches starving. You can always read the Bible and other holy books at home and discuss the lessons without a minister or priest speaking from the pulpit to tell how to interpret what you have read.
In this country, they have seen the parishioners in dire straits--and there goes the wealth of the church. Of course they want new immigration of the faithful and good jobs for them to build up their coffers. Same problem for the governments in this country--since the American people have been destroyed in their earning power, legalize anyone that wants to crawl across the border that now have to pay taxes to refill the gov't coffers.
It is all about money.

Exactly!! It is all about the money and the churches lobbying for health care legislation have not only violated US tax code that prevents 501 C 3 organizations from lobbying, influencing legislation, impacting public policy and determining the outcomes of elections, they have disgraced themselves in the eyes of our Lord.

They are willing to put people in jail, deny US citizens their freedom, because for whatever reason they choose not to purchase health insurance. This is incarnate evil.