Thread: Numbers USA: Illegal Bill House of Reps. Vote Today

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From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
Date: Thursday 1MAR07 1 p.m. EST


URGENT: Phone your U.S. Rep now on illegal alien vote later this afternoon


Friends,

An extremely important immigration vote should occur later this afternoon on H.R. 800.

This only became known in the last hour.

The only way you can influence the vote is to make a quick phone call. (Quick is better because it allows more of your fellow NumbersUSA members to get their calls through.)

You won't get many chances to push a positive change in immigration law this year. This afternoon is one of them.

Phone your U.S. Representative and urge him/her to vote FOR the Motion to Recommit H.R. 800 in order to keep illegal aliens from voting in union elections.

House Switchboard
(202) 225-3121

Ask for your U.S. Representative. (If you have time, call offices of Congressmen from neighboring districts.)

Convey these key points to the staffer:

I'm calling about votes on H.R. 800 this afternoon.


I am urging that Rep. xmxmxm vote YES on the Motion to Recommit with instructions that illegal aliens not be allowed to vote in unionization elections.


Illegal aliens should not be allowed to have an influence in whether a workforce decides to be unionized or to block unionization.


Businesses should not be allowed to use illegal aliens to stop unionization desired by its American workers. And unions should not be allowed to use illegal aliens to force unionization on American workers who don't want it.


NumbersUSA and ABI are grading a YES vote as a vote for pro-enforcement vote to reduce illegal immigration. Don't hurt your grades on illegal immigration by voting NO.

Obviously, it is helpful if you put some of this in your own words. But if you feel most comfortable just reading, then just read.

Don't argue or debate. Just say your piece and then say, "Thank you."

But at some point, you may want to say it is important that they call over to the floor and let the Representative know how important this vote is.

The content of H.R. 800 doesn't really matter for us because the Motion to Recommit does not change the key aspects of a bill that is being aggressively pushed by the union lobbies and violently opposed by business lobbies.

The main debate is over the bill’s “card check” or “secret ballot” provision. The bill’s main section would effectively rewrite U.S. law so that workers would no longer be required to use a secret ballot when voting on whether to unionize.

What you advocate on the Motion to Recommit does not take a position either way on that main section.

Emphasize that you are taking no position on H.R. 800 itself -- only on sending the bill back to committee to add the prohibition against illegal aliens having a say in whether or not American workers are unionized.

The language of the Motion by Rep. McKeon (R-CA) is this:

Mr. McKeon of California moves to recommit the
bill, H.R. 800, to the Committee on Education and Labor
with instructions to report the same back to the House
forthwith with the following amendment:

Page 4, line 4, insert after ‘‘representative’’ the following:
‘‘, that such authorizations bear, in addition to the signature of the employee, an attestation that the employee is a lawful citizen or legal resident alien of the United States, and are accompanied by documentary evidence of the same, and’’.

The author's summary of the motion is this:

"The motion to recommit would require that in order to be considered valid, a signed authorization card must be accompanied by an attestation that the signer is a U.S. citizen or lawful resident alien, and be accompanied by documentary evidence showing same."

We are likely to lose this vote, but it is important to get everybody on record as to whether they want illegal aliens to be fully participating members of society.

It also is important that you ensure that your Representative's office understands that this vote will affect his/her immigration grade. When offices complain to us in the future about a bad grade from a NO vote today, we will be able to say that his/her constituents gave warning.

Anti-illegal-immigration Members of the House tried to bring the illegal-alien prohibition up as an amendment, but the Rules Committee refused to allow a vote.

So, the only choice our side had was to raise the issue in a Motion to Recommit. Voting for the motion would NOT kill the bill, but it would delay it a bit. Responsibility for that would lie with the Rules Committee for not allowing the amendment to have a vote.

Thanks,

-- ROY

Done.

Me Too!

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