Thread: A must read from Numbers USA!

From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
Date: Monday 13nov06 11:30 p.m. EST


Put new Republican Party chairman on notice -- Send the new faxes

FRIENDS, LET'S STOP THE BUSH AMNESTY STEAMROLLER,

The Bush Amnesty Machine is in high gear now that those pesky Republican House Members (most of whom oppose amnesties) have been thrown out of the majority.

If you've been frustrated and itching for action since the elections, below are several things you can do Tuesday that would really help divert politicians from doing something quite disastrous on immigration between now and Christmas.

No. 1: Catch up on your faxes. Send them all.

Our fax-writing team has been quite busy writing a lot of very specialized faxes, most of them based on your answers to the NumbersUSA Interests Survey.

See your faxes (unless you sent all of them over the weekend) at:

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

We've delivered tens of thousands of faxes since Election Day, but we need to keep up the barrage.

No. 2: President Bush apparently has handpicked one of the biggest open-borders promoters in the Senate to be the new head of the Party -- start calling

Reuters (and our Senate sources) are reporting at this moment that U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL) will become general chairman of the national Republican Party.

The Cuban-born Martinez, 60, often cites his immigrant background as a reason why he must work to rapidly increase the flow of immigrants over already historic highs. Formerly Bush's secretary of Housing and Urban Development before being elected to the Senate in 2004, Martinez would replace Ken Mehlman who plans to step down in January.

Sen. Martinez has a “D” immigration-reduction grade. He was the author of a bill last spring that would have granted the Bush/McCain amnesty and would have doubled the importation of foreign workers to more than 2 million a year.


You can help blunt Martinez' open-borders efforts by protesting his selection this week.


If you are a Republican, start phoning every Republican Party leader (from precinct to state level) whom you know. Ask them to send the word up the ladder that the rank and file want Martinez to promise not to use his position to promote high-immigration and pro-illegal-alien positions at odds with the majority of the Party. Express great concern about him being given the reins of the Party.


Call the White House and complain about this choice. White House opinion line is (202) 456-1111. White House switchboard is (202) 456-1414.
If we generate enough controversy, it is possible Martinez may want to start his tenure with an issue a little more popular with the American people, and especially more popular with Republicans.

Call the White House regardless of your political party. If you are other than Republican, stress your affiliation. Ironically, the White House tends to discount calls from people who identify themselves as conservative. So, it is best if you can identify yourself as a Democrat, Independent, Moderate or Liberal to have influence at the White House which regards immigration restriction as being a position of narrow right-wing extremists.

But if you ARE a Republican or conservative, let 'em have it from that basis, too.

No. 3: In the House of Representatives, the Republican conservative star who broke with his GOP peers to promote a version of the Bush/McCain amnesty plan may have the momentum to become the Republicans’ new House Leader.

Rep. Michael Pence (R-IN) last summer began to destroy his past good reputation on immigration reduction by barnstorming across the country for massive new flows of foreign workers and legalization for illegal aliens.

We have put up action notes for those of you who have identified yourselves with the Republican Party and who have a Republican Representative in the House.

Whether or not you see a fax on your corkboard to send that would warn your Member of Congress about Pence, you may want to make some phone calls Tuesday.

If you have a Republican Representative call him/her. If you have Republicans from your state, call them.

Get their phone numbers at:

NumbersUSA.com/congressinfo

To see a list of all your state's Members of Congress, click here:

Profiles.numbersusa.com

And then click on the state on the map.

No. 4: Have you clicked your political party interest, yet? You will see many more opportunities for action if you do.

As with all information provided to NumbersUSA, nothing about you will ever be shared with anybody -- a promise that has been kept for all 9.5 years of our existence.

Please click on the choice below that most closely matches your interest. Choose only one.

Democrat

Independent (swing voter)

Republican

About 58,000 of you have already done this and don't need to do it again (it won't mess anything up, though, if you do click again).

But about 175,000 of you have never indicated a preference and miss out on a lot of faxing and phoning opportunities.

No. 5: Don't miss our brand new page on local and state actions. This is where the immigration problem is starting to improve.

Regardless of what the new Congress does, local and state governments are sure to continue to try to find ways to cause illegal aliens to move out of their jurisdictions.

See our brand new State and Local Immigration Action Center. These are examples of steps local communities can take to minimize the impact of the federal government's abdication of responsibility.

Go to this local/state page.

Or go to the Home page and click on the yellow Take Local Action button in the right column.


Thanks for pouring on the steam as Congress comes back to town and as the White House thinks it can run roughshod over us on immigration.

Daily citizen pressure from multiple points is the only way we can hold off the amnesty this fall.

-- ROY

If you haven't taken the Numbers USA survey, please do so. On the survey you can request to only receive a link to faxes that pertain to immigration. Thank you.

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Thanks MW ... printing it out and adding it to the pile for today.

I check the site everyday and SEND those faxes!! Such an easy thing.

I'll head over right now and see what's on offer.

Sent my FAXs. I really liked the two to Bush.

It's great to be able to blitz this easily. Send those faxes.

Along w/ my daily barrage of faxes to Jorge and the gang of traitors, I got mine sent off NumbersUSA also.

dang that was alot of faxes..i am tired now...GOD BLESS AMERICA AND ALL THAT DEFEND HER....

Whew! That was alot of faxes. I hope they don't get too upset with some of my P.S.'s...

Thanks I got one from Oregonians for Immigration Reform too today and am doing it, but I am going to call tomorrow.