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.