Kill-Lottery bill vote tomorrow -- your final phone calls needed

From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
Date: Wednesday 13JUL2011 3:30 p.m. EDT

DEAR SUPPORTERS OF OVERALL IMMIGRATION REDUCTIONS,

The U.S. House Judiciary Committee votes tomorrow (Thursday) on what would be the first law to REDUCE immigration since 1924!!!!

It would be a small but significant step of killing the Visa Lottery and ending the practice of randomly selecting more than 50,000 new permanent immigrant workers every year from countries that have the least ties with the United States.

ACTION: Please call the Member(s) of the Judiciary Committee (in the list below) with whom you have the closest geographical or political connection.

Call Wednesday afternoon (or leave a voice mail message this evening).

Or call first thing Thursday morning.

HERE'S THE BASIC THRUST OF WHAT YOU NEED TO SAY:

"Please vote for H.R. 704, the bill to end the Visa lottery. This bill will reduce by 50,000 the immigrants that Congress brings in each year to compete with unemployed Americans.

"I urge you to OPPOSE every amendment that is being offered.

"Most of the amendments would just re-allocate the lottery visas to other categories. The effect would be the same number of immigrant workers competing with unemployed Americans.

"Do NOT re-allocate any of the 50,000 lottery visas."

Remember, the most important thing is to REDUCE overall immigration numbers. It is those astronomical numbers (one million legal immigrants a year) that drive most of our immigration problems in terms of jobs, the environment, congestion and government costs.

H.R. 704, the bi-partisan SAFE for America Act of 2011, has a great chance of passing the House and a decent chance of passing the Senate this year. But it has to get through committee without people re-allocating the visas. If the lottery is killed but the visas increased elsehwere, we would have to oppose the bill. Reducing the numbers is the most helpful thing we can do for the American people right now.

PHONE NUMBERS for JUDICIARY COMMITTEE MEMBERS


ARIZONA

REP. TRENT FRANKS 202-225-4576
REP. BEN QUAYLE 202-225-3361


ARKANSAS

REP. TIM GRIFFIN 202-225-2506


CALIFORNIA

REP. HOWARD BERMAN 202-225-4695
REP. JUDY CHU 202-225-5464
REP. ELTON GALLEGLY 202-225-5811
REP. DARRELL ISSA 202-225-3906
REP. ZOE LOFGREN 202-225-3072
REP. DAN LUNGREN 202-225-5716
REP. MAXINE WATERS 202-225-2201


GEORGIA

REP. HANK JOHNSON 202-225-1605


FLORIDA

REP. SANDY ADAMS 202-225-2706
REP. TED DEUTCH 202-225-3001
REP. DENNIS ROSS 202-225-1252


ILLINOIS

REP. MIKE QUIGLEY 202-225-4061


INDIANA

REP. MIKE PENCE 202-225-3021


IOWA

REP. STEVE KING 202-225-4426


MICHIGAN

REP. JOHN CONYERS 202-225-5126


NEW YORK

REP. JERROLD NADLER 202-225-5635


NORTH CAROLINA

REP. HOWARD COBLE 202-225-3065
REP. MELVIN WATT 202-225-1510


OHIO

REP. STEVE CHABOT 202-225-2216
REP. JIM JORDAN 202-225-2676


PENNSYLVANIA

REP. TOM MARINO 202-225-3731


SOUTH CAROLINA

REP. TREY GOWDY 202-225-6030


TENNESSEE

REP. STEVE COHEN 202-225-3265


TEXAS

REP. LOUIE GOHMERT 202-225-3035
REP. SHEILA JACKSON LEE 202-225-3816
REP. TED POE 202-225-6565
REP. LAMAR SMITH 202-225-4236


UTAH

REP. JASON CHAFFETZ 202-225-7751


VIRGINIA

REP. RANDY FORBES 202-225-6365
REP. BOBBY SCOTT 202-225-8351


WISCONSIN

REP. JIM SENSENBRENNER 202-225-5101

With 22 million Americans unable to find a job, there is no need for the Visa Lottery that randomly doles out 50,000 visas to individuals with no special skills. These people will invariably compete with America's unemployed for the few jobs our economy is creating.

The visa lottery promotes massive illegal immigration by people who think they may some day win the lottery and be allowed to stay in the United States. The late Barbara Jordan, as Chair of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, recommended the elimination of the visa lottery.

Although the Democrats are most likely to vote against this bill, don't let them off the hook. Demand to know why they would support giving away 50,000 U.S. jobs a year through the lottery instead of letting the unemployed in their own District have those jobs.

PLEASE PHONE AS SOON AS YOU SEE THIS.

AND THANKS TO ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE BEEN PHONING IN SUPPORT OF THE BILL SINCE YESTERDAY.

WHAT'S NEW ARE ALL THE AMENDMENTS TO RE-ALLOCATE THE LOTTERY VISAS TO CHAIN MIGRATION AND BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT CATEGORIES. WE HAVE TO KILL THOSE AMENDMENTS.

THANKS.

-- ROY

Numbers USA
1601 N. Kent Street
Suite 1100
Arlington, VA 22209

received by e-mail from NumbersUSA on Wed, Jul 13, 2011 4:17 pm