Thread: New Numbersusa Alert

Dear Faxer:


Ask your Senator to safeguard the funding for local immigration enforcement

This new phone call request has been posted in your Action Buffet based on your answers to the Interest Survey.

You can find this phone call request by proceeding to
http://www.numbersusa.com/phones?ID= 10235

Please call your U.S. Senator who serves on the Senate Appropriations Committee and ask them to EXPAND funding for the 287(g) program, which enables state and local police to enforce our immigration laws.

We have been updating you (click here for NumbersUSA's blog) on Congress' deliberations on local law enforcement, and whether Congress will approve funding to continue the most effective programs. Many of you have already been calling your Representatives who serve on the House Appropriations Committee.

We are now asking all of you who see this to call your Senator(s) who serves on the Senate Appropriations Committee, and ask them to protect the funding for the 287(g) program.

State and local police are badly needed to help overwhelmed federal immigration authorities apprehend and detain illegal aliens in the interior of our country. Illegal aliens currently outnumber federal immigration agents by 5,000 to one, and only 2,000 federal agents are active in enforcing the immigration laws in the interior of our country. Clearly, those numbers indicate that a limited number of federal agents are incapable of confronting the estimated 12-20 million illegal aliens currently inside our nation's borders and would benefit from the assistance of the more than 600,000 state and local law enforcement officers nationwide who come into contact with illegal aliens every day.

The Senate Appropriations Committee is expected to markup the DHS Appropriations bill on June 19. Your Senator will help determine how much the federal government can spend next year on enforcing immigration laws.

The news is full of stories about illegal aliens returning - or considering a return - to their home countries, in part, because of the pressure they feel from the growing number of cities, counties, and states that are enforcing the law.

This is driving the pro-illegal immigration crowd crazy. Don't underestimate how much pressure they are putting on your Senator to de-fund or underfund the 287(g) program and other enforcement efforts.

I have called my Senator, David Price and will call others on the NumbersUSA list.

Oh geesch...Reggiemay posted this below. Anyone else hear about this?? He's referring to our US Rep. Mark Kirk.


PostPosted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:43 am

fedup: I just called Kirk's office and was told discussion of 287g funding has been put off to date unknown. I left a message in support of increasing funding.

On it & called.

I called all 5 Texas members of the House Appropriates Committee Tues., June 17. The bill was to be "marked up" yesterday. Someone-Populist, I thought-posted a notice listing all of the members of the Committee by state together with other information. Would be worth it to include that list with this "Alert" here for those who aren't NUMBERS members?

Thanks for your calls Texas2step. Here is the prior thread with House Approp. Committee members (looks like Numbers wants us to focus on the Senate now):

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-119723.html

Here is what is on numbersusa. Analysis??? Keep checking. We've still got a lot of work to do.


Homeland Security Spending Bill Markup Postponed

Updated Wednesday, June 18, 2008, 4:43 PM

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The House Appropriations Committee today postponed its markup of a bill that will determine how much money the federal government can spend next year on enforcing immigration laws. Committee members had been under huge pressure from special interests to reduce effective enforcement funding, and to gut the rapidly increasing enforcement of immigration laws by local police and sheriffs. However, pressure from NumbersUSA members and others to increase enforcement funding has likely forced open borders members on the committee to re-think their plans. Thanks goes out to all of you who helped shut down this anti-enforcement effort.


http://www.numbersusa.com/content/news/ ... kup-p.html

Thanks fedup for the update.

This is sooner then I thought. We can send emails and make calls still. This is real personal for me as both Waukegan and our county sheriff have applied.


Congress Watch Update
House Markup of Homeland Security Spending Bill Set for June 24

Updated Friday, June 20, 2008, 1:49 PM

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The House Appropriations Committee’s markup of the FY 09 Department of Homeland Security spending bill (no bill number yet) -- the bill that will determine how much money the federal government can spend next year on enforcing immigration laws – has been set for Tuesday, June 24. The Committee postponed the markup set for June 18 after pressure from NumbersUSA members and others to increase enforcement funding. Committee members had been under huge pressure from special interests to reduce effective enforcement funding, and to gut the rapidly increasing enforcement of immigration laws by local police and sheriffs.

http://www.numbersusa.com/content/news/ ... kup-p.html

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Congress considers whether to starve the most-effective efforts that deter illegal immigration


By Roy Beck, Wednesday, June 18, 2008, 1:46 PM

U.S. House appropriators are deep in internal discussions over whether to praise (and fund) current enforcement efforts that are proving most effective in arresting illegal aliens and deterring future illegal immigration. Postponement of markup today on a DHS spending bill is probably a good sign.

The House Appropriations Committee has postponed its Wednesday afternoon (June 1 consideration of the DHS spending bill that will determine funding levels for immigration enforcement next year.

This postponement appears to be a significant momentary victory for supporters of enforcement.

Thanks to all of you NumbersUSA activists who flooded the phone lines of committee members yesterday with your concerns. You can continue to phone committee members at 202-224-3121, asking for expanded funding for the 287(g) program for local immigration enforcement.
Anti-Enforcement Ideas Circulating

We cannot tell you for sure what committee leaders had planned to introduce today because they have refused to make public their bill. (Whenever that happens, we generally are correct in suspecting that they are including convoluted language designed to disguise legislation that we would oppose. If they wait to the last minute to make a bill public, we don't have time to read and analyze it and to alert you to any dangers.)

We do know that there are strong currents within Congress wanting an election-year action that will look really tough against the worst criminals among illegal aliens while secretly gutting the enforcement programs that are proving effective in pushing overall illegal immigration down.

Particularly at risk are two effective efforts that the pro-illegal groups despise:

* No. 1: 287(g) program allowing and equipping local agencies to arrest and detain illegal aliens of all kinds.
* No. 2: Arrests of any illegal alien encountered while looking for criminal alien fugitives.

One idea floating around Congress would be to take away all funding for 287(g) and put it into a larger fund for tracking down fugitive criminal aliens.

Another idea has been to bar ICE -- when tracking down those fugitives -- from arresting and detaining non-fugitive illegal aliens it encounters along the way.

We believe both ideas may have been part of the DHS spending bill the committee was supposed to consider today.

Basically, the pro-illegal forces are willing to track and deport illegal aliens who have been convicted of violent crimes. But they don't want any other of the 13-20 million illegal aliens bothered in any way.

The first real showdown on this philosophy may be in the House DHS spending bill debate.

One thing we know for sure is that committee Members are under huge pressure from special interests and newspaper editorial boards in their Districts to gut the rapidly increasing enforcement of immigration laws by local police and sheriffs.
Effective Enforcement Doesn't Target Only The Felons

The news is full of stories of illegal aliens returning -- or considering returning -- to their home countries in part because of the pressure they feel from the growing number of cities, counties and states that are enforcing the law.

This is driving the pro-illegal crowd crazy. Don't underestimate how much pressure they are putting on the House Appropriations Committee to de-fund or underfund 287(g) and other enforcement efforts.

Local agencies cannot enforce immigration laws unless they receive proper training such as through the 287(g) program.

Dozens of law enforcement agencies are blocked from cracking down on illegal immigration because Congress in the past failed to appropriate enough money.

State and local police are badly needed to help overwhelmed federal immigration authorities apprehend and detain illegal aliens in the interior of our country.

To be effective at discouraging future illegal immigration, enforcement cannot be limited to tracking and deporting violent criminal illegal aliens. All illegal aliens, no matter how well-behaved they are, must fear detection and arrest if enforcement is to be a deterrent to illegal immigration.

http://www.numbersusa.com/content/nusab ... ost-e.html

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