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Tancredo ain't no empty suit

<TABLE class=media-innerbuffer cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=markerTEXTblueMAJOR colSpan=3>Tancredo calls illegal immigration 'the ultimate issue' </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXTred colSpan=3>Houston Chronicle : November 20 , 2007 -- by ALAN BERNSTEIN </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=3> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=markerTEXTblueMINOR vAlign=top height="100%">"The candidate, who lags in the polls in the GOP primary, characterized his better-known opponents as empty suits, saying they want to be president merely for the sake of holding the office. He said he, on the other hand, wants to stir public passion about illegal immigration, which he called 'the ultimate issue.'"
</TD><TD width="2%"> </TD><TD vAlign=top><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>Republican presidential candidate Tom Tancredo asserted in Houston on Tuesday night that Iraq and illegal immigration are part of a single front in a war over the potential destruction of American civilization.
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>While the U.S. deals with violence in Iraq and nuclear proliferation in the region, the Colorado congressman said, the nation faces dangers within its borders because many recent immigrants show no interest in assimilating into American society.
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>"People call me a one-issue candidate," said Tancredo, who helped elevate illegal immigration into a national campaign issue. "Well, OK, as long as you realize that the one thing is the survival of the United States of America."
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>On a rare campaign fundraising visit to Texas -- the proceeds will help him travel to the early primary states of Iowa and New Hampshire, he said -- Tancredo spoke to about 50 people at Maggiano's Little Italy restaurant near the Galleria. Admission was $250 per person.
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>The candidate, who lags in the polls in the GOP primary, characterized his better-known opponents as empty suits, saying they want to be president merely for the sake of holding the office. He said he, on the other hand, wants to stir public passion about illegal immigration, which he called "the ultimate issue."
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>Brenda Spence, a Houston designer of electrical systems for energy exploration equipment, said at the reception that she is proud of him for being frank.
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>"He's the only candidate I have come across for whom I can vote without fear or regret," she said.
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>In the parking lot, four or five people protested Tancredo's stances with signs such as "No Human Being Is Illegal."
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>Tancredo told the crowd a story about meeting a cabdriving immigrant from the Ivory Coast while in Detroit.
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>"He wants to become an American citizen. And one of the things he is doing is learning the English language. And this is a great thing," he said.
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>Maggiano's is part of a national company that has distributed take-home electronic gadgets to help workers learn English restaurant terms. On the opposite side of Tancredo in the legislative debate, the restaurant's owners also are part of a national coalition that backed the unsuccessful move to offer most of the nation's 12 million illegal immigrants a way to earn citizenship.
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Nursing woman gets out of jail 8:13 AM
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<!-- END New Embedded Player -->CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Miscommunication between the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office and Immigration and Customs Enforcement might have led to a mother being kept in jail instead of allowed to leave to nurse her newborn.
Family and friends say they pleaded for help for days.
Danielle Ferreira's 2-month-old boy hasn't been breastfed in four days. It's usually every four hours.
"I just want to go home, I don't want to be here again,” Ferreira told WCNC in an exclusive interview after getting out of jail Tuesday.
She was in jail on a shoplifting charge. Ferreira and her brother allegedly stole $600 worth of merchandise from Eastland Mall by concealing it in a baby stroller.
Once arrested, Immigration and Customs Enforcement placed a hold on her for an expired visa from Brazil.
Ferreira says while in jail, she repeatedly asked to breast feed her son but the jail refused. Jail officials say their medical provider's policy doesn't allow it unless it is medically supervised. Friends tried to give her a breast pump but that too wasn't allowed.
"What kind of precedent are we setting for every female arrested who is going to claim ‘I'm a breast-feeding mother?’ Do you release all of them?" said Sheriff Jim Pendergraph.
More importantly, Pendergraph says the jail was following the law. However, earlier this month Immigration and Customs Enforcement published new guidelines that allow nursing mothers to be released under supervision.
"We found out about that this morning, we have never seen the memo that was sent out to ICE,” he said.
Jail officials say had they known that, Ferreira would have been released last Friday. They're also asking their medical provider to review jail policy.
A court order could have allowed Ferreira to breast feed her son. Other mothers have received court orders for that before. Ferreira says she didn’t know about that possibility. By law, the jail does not give legal advice.
"Why doesn't she stay home and breastfeed her kid rather than being a thief, then she wouldn't be in jail,” Pendergraph said.
Ferreira says she isn't mad. Instead, she just wants to see her kids and breastfeed her son.
"I want to go back home to Brazil and forget everything I lived here,” she said.
Sheriff Pendergraph's job once he leaves office next week will be to prevent these types of things from happening. He'll be working with Homeland Security to close gaps between local and federal law enforcement.
 
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</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top align=left background=/images/_actionbuffet/news-bg.gif height="100%"><TABLE class=media-innerbuffer cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=markerTEXTblueMAJOR colSpan=3>Absent federal reform, states increasingly tackling immigration </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXTred colSpan=3>The Dallas Morning News : November 30 , 2007 -- by DIANNE SOLIS </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=3> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=markerTEXTblueMINOR vAlign=top height="100%">Click here to learn more about state and local efforts to control illegal immigration. </TD><TD width="2%"> </TD><TD vAlign=top><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>Immigration-related legislation tripled in state legislatures this year, reflecting growing worry and rancor over enforcement and assimilation of the foreign-born, according to a new report released Thursday by the National Conference of State Legislatures.
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>"The federal government has left a real void in not enacting immigration reform," said Sheri Steisel, federal affairs counsel for the conference. "The states are often left holding the financial and, now, the policy bag."
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>And the legislation covered the gamut, Ms. Steisel emphasized -- from Texas measures that protect victims of human trafficking to Arizona measures to yank business licenses if a firm is caught hiring a worker without proper immigration papers.
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>In all, 1,562 pieces of legislation were introduced in all 50 states in 2007. Of those, 244 became law, and many became targets of litigation.
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>That has only spiked frustration among the state legislatures group over the failure of federal lawmakers to overhaul the nation's complicated immigration laws, Ms. Steisel said.
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>In January, for example, a new Arizona state law will crack down on employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants -- something already in federal law. But the state measure differs in two ways: Employers will be required to use a federal database known as E-Verify to check the validity of Social Security numbers. And if the state finds they are in violation, their business licenses can be suspended.
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>In Illinois, Ms. Steisel noted, the state has passed a law to prohibit businesses from using the E-Verify database because of concerns about its accuracy.
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>"And both [measures] are in courts," Ms. Steisel said.
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>The E-Verify database is the new name of a federal system formerly called Basic Pilot, in which businesses could voluntarily check Social Security numbers. More than 31,000 businesses have signed up for the system. The failed immigration overhaul in Congress would have made use of the system mandatory.
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>The report looked at legislation dealing with all immigrants, authorized and unauthorized, and those classified as migrants and refugees.
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>The greatest number of laws dealt with the types of work documents that can be accepted as proof of legal status.
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>Nationwide, 73 new laws now deal with employment verification issues, Social Security numbers, and state-issued driver's licenses or identification cards, according to the report by the conference of state legislatures.
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>Those measures generally cracked down on illegal immigrants, though some new laws are designed to go after human traffickers, according to the report.
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>Texas enacted eight measures. Among them was a law that says if a non-U.S. citizen is convicted of a misdemeanor involving family violence -- and that person pleads guilty -- the charge may result in deportation, the exclusion from admission to the U.S. or the denial of naturalization under federal law, according to the report.
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>One measure commemorates the Dallas mega-march in 2006, in which immigrants and their supporters marched by the tens of thousands in downtown Dallas for an overhaul of the nation's immigration laws.
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<TABLE class=media-innerbuffer cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=markerTEXTblueMAJOR colSpan=3>NC: Community Colleges instructed to admit illegal aliens </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXTred colSpan=3>NUSA : December 3 , 2007 -- by NUSA </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=3> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=markerTEXTblueMINOR vAlign=top height="100%">North Carolina's 58 community colleges have been instructed to ignore the legal status of applicants. Previously, each school was permitted to make its own decision.

Click here for a story from the Charlotte Observer.

The education of illegal aliens in North Carolina has been in the news before. A 2006 study by the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found that the cost of educating the children of illegal aliens was approximately $210 million a year compared to $10 million a year in 1996.

The admittance to community colleges is yet another incentive for illegal aliens to flock to North Carolina. </TD><TD width="2%"> </TD><TD vAlign=top><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>If you think the decision to force community colleges to accept illegal aliens was a mistake, please call the following people and express your disapproval and urge them to do something about the situation: </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>Governor Mike Easley: </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>1-800-662-7952 </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>(919) 733-4240 </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>(919) 733-5811 </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>NC Senate Majority President Marc Basnight: </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>(919) 733-6854 </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>email: Marcb@ncleg.net </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>NC House Speaker Joe Hackney: </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>(919) 733-3451 </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>email: joeh@ncleg.net</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
 
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<TABLE class=media-innerbuffer cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=markerTEXTblueMAJOR colSpan=3>NC: Community Colleges instructed to admit illegal aliens </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXTred colSpan=3>NUSA : December 3 , 2007 -- by NUSA </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=3> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=markerTEXTblueMINOR vAlign=top height="100%">North Carolina's 58 community colleges have been instructed to ignore the legal status of applicants. Previously, each school was permitted to make its own decision.

Click here for a story from the Charlotte Observer.

The education of illegal aliens in North Carolina has been in the news before. A 2006 study by the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found that the cost of educating the children of illegal aliens was approximately $210 million a year compared to $10 million a year in 1996.

The admittance to community colleges is yet another incentive for illegal aliens to flock to North Carolina. </TD><TD width="2%"> </TD><TD vAlign=top><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>If you think the decision to force community colleges to accept illegal aliens was a mistake, please call the following people and express your disapproval and urge them to do something about the situation: </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>Governor Mike Easley: </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>1-800-662-7952 </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>(919) 733-4240 </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>(919) 733-5811 </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>NC Senate Majority President Marc Basnight: </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>(919) 733-6854 </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>email: Marcb@ncleg.net </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>NC House Speaker Joe Hackney: </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>(919) 733-3451 </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>email: joeh@ncleg.net</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
 
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</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD rowSpan=3> </TD><TD class=t1fromdatetext>From: Roy Beck, President, http://NumbersUSA.com </TD></TR><TR><TD class=t1fromdatetext>Date: Thursday 6DEC07 2:30 p.m. EST </TD></TR><TR><TD class=t1fromdatetext> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD class=t1redunderbigheader>Phone & fax your 3 Members of Congress this aft and all day Friday to stop sneak increases </TD></TR><TR><TD class=t1thinwhitespace> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=t1letterblock vAlign=top align=left>DEAR FRIENDS OF TRANQUIL COMMUNITIES AND AMERICAN WORKERS,

Hundreds and hundreds of landscapers and other advocates for high immigration fanned across Capitol Hill this week, pounding on doors and insisting that Congress provide them with more foreign labor.

They believe they still have a chance that big increases in foreign labor will be sneaked into the giant appropriations bills that have to be passed before Christmas.

Your action is needed immediately.

NumbersUSA's Action Buffet Team has already placed on your corkboard a phone action note and a fax action note to help you counteract all the open-borders lobbying this week.

PHONE CONGRESS at:
202-224-3121

A lot of our opponents in Congress and in lobbying groups believe that most of you in the NumbersUSA Action Network only care about stopping amnesties for illegal aliens and about securing the border.

Our opponents often suggest that you aren't motivated enough about protecting American workers themselves, especially the most vulnerable workers, to stop Congress from further flooding various labor markets with imported foreign workers.

We really need to prove our opponents wrong this week.

The landscapers and their ilk were suggesting that they are on the verge of going out of business and that the American economy is in danger because of severe labor shortages -- unless Congress sneaks through huge increases in foreign labor this month.

I hope a bunch of you will call and say something like: "I mow my own lawn. Let the wealthy people hiring landscapers pay whatever it costs to get Americans to do the jobs. The Census Bureau says 23 million Americans without higher education currently don't have a job. There are plenty of people not working who could be enticed into these jobs. But any foreign worker imported for these jobs would require taxpayer subsidies."

Also, I think some key points should be something like:
  • With the downturn in housing and other weakening of the economy, less-skilled American workers are facing some tough times. The last thing we should do is import more foreign workers to compete with them for the remaining jobs.
  • Recent Census data show that foreign worker households are far more likely to require taxpayer subsidies. Why would we import more of these costs to taxpayers when forcing landscapers to recruit and hire Americans would actually reduce taxpayer subsidies.
  • I've heard that landscapers have been all over Capitol Hill this week pushing for increases in foreign workers. I urge you to pass appropriations bills that have no increases of any kind of foreign workers.
Because there are at least a dozen different proposals to increase foreign workers of all kinds, I'm not asking you to refer to specific amendments or their sponsors.

What I want is for Congress today to immediately be reminded that there are far more constituents who want less immigration than the selfish businesses asking for more.

THANKS A LOT, EVERYBODY.

IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT CONGRESS NOT FORGET YOU ARE OUT THERE DURING THESE CRITICAL WEEKS OF PASSING APPROPRIATIONS BILLS.
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Huckabee doesn't look like your best candidate, but he's not bad either. Better than most Republicans and all Democrats on the topic most important to you.
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Appreciate the comment...I been preaching http://teamtancredo.com I dont like Huckabee because of the way he dealt with it in Ark...I think hes just swaying with the winds
 
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The law takes effect Jan. 1.
In his ruling on Friday, U.S. District Judge Neil V. Wake wrote that the lawsuit was premature because there was no evidence that anybody had been harmed, and that the plaintiffs — a coalition of business and immigrant rights groups — were suing the wrong people.
The ruling said the law gives only investigatory authority to the governor and state attorney general, who were named as defendants. Wake said county prosecutors, who weren't defendants, actually have the power to enforce the law.
The plaintiffs had asked for a preliminary injunction blocking the law from taking effect.
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Julie Pace, an attorney for the business groups, said her clients were meeting Saturday to determine whether to appeal the ruling or file a separate lawsuit against the county prosecutors. She said the business groups could pursue both avenues.
Alfredo Gutierrez, a spokesman for immigrant rights groups, said they plan to refile the lawsuit after Jan. 1, when they might be able to show damages caused by the law.
A spokesman for Gov. Janet Napolitano said the governor's office had not yet read the ruling and had no immediate comment.
Napolitano signed the bill in July, saying that while immigration is a federal responsibility, Congress was apparently "incapable of coping with the comprehensive immigration reforms our country needs."
The law is intended to curb Arizona's role as the busiest illegal gateway into the country. The Pew Hispanic Center estimates that illegal immigrants account for one in 10 workers in the Arizona economy.
Under the law, any business that is found to have knowingly hired an illegal worker is subject to sanctions ranging from probation to a 10-day suspension of its business licenses. A second violation would bring permanent revocation of the license.
The plaintiffs in the lawsuit had argued the law was an unconstitutional attempt by the state to regulate immigration, which is the responsibility of the federal government. The judge's ruling did not address that argument.
"He didn't uphold the law," Pace said. "He didn't decide if it was constitutional. We can have that argument another day."
Attorneys for the state say the groups weren't reading the law correctly and that it does not conflict with federal law.
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Dont be fooled-Keep close tabs on situation

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</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD rowSpan=3> </TD><TD class=t1fromdatetext>From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA </TD></TR><TR><TD class=t1fromdatetext>Date: Saturday 8DEC07 11:45 p.m. EST </TD></TR><TR><TD class=t1fromdatetext> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD class=t1redunderbigheader>Where do each of the Presidential candidates really stand on 16 immigration measures? </TD></TR><TR><TD class=t1thinwhitespace> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=t1letterblock vAlign=top align=left>DEAR VOTERS,

Several Presidential candidates are changing their immigration positions one month before the voting begins in the primaries. And most of the changes are moving in the right direction!

See all the changes here.

Nonetheless, you will see that most of the candidates still have room for a lot of improvement.

We have posted a candidate GRID on immigration since last January. But this week, we completely revised the grid, adding a lot of new categories and a more helpful way of rating. I hope each of you will go there now and see how they all stack up.

The GRID contains information that really is quite shocking. Most of you are aware that several of the candidates favor amnesty for the illegal aliens already in this country but claim (as do all 15 candidates of both parties) that they favor stopping FUTURE illegal immigration. But 9 of the 15 are opposing most of the measures that experts agree would be necessary to actually stop the illegal flow. In essence, 9 of the 15 candidates are promising to allow illegal immigration to continue at an outrageously high level. Look at the GRID, you'll see what I mean.

I know that many of you will have questions -- and even arguments with us -- when you see the GRID. Please see below my responses to comments that I anticipate you might make. After you have read that -- and the criteria I used in rating (as posted on the GRID pages) -- please use the CONTACT link provided on the GRID pages to let us know of any information about a candidate's stance that you believe we might have missed.

The GRID is a living rating system and is constantly adjusted based on new information and on changes by the candidates.

I can tell you for sure that you can't really know where the candidates stand on immigration by watching the debates or watching their ads. I couldn't tell, either, until I sat down with all their websites and the voluminous material our Online Content Manager, Mike Betsch, has posted from interviews and speeches on each of the candidates.

WHAT I REALLY WISH YOU WOULD DO
WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL RATINGS

I am emailing this to more than 1.6 million people on our email list (including 525,000 of you who are registered NumbersUSA activists).

Can you imagine the effect on campaign staffs if even one-tenth of you contacted campaign offices this next week and commented about their candidate's immigration position?

Unlike most Americans, you can have a real effect on what the next President does if you will email and phone one or more of the candidates.
  • Here is what you can do to help:

    [*]Find contact information on the individualized pages we have for each candidate. Go to the Democratic grid or the Republican grid and click on the photo of a candidate. That will take you to the full immigration profile of that candidate. You'll see contact information and the candidate's website link there.
    [*]Contact a candidate and praise him/her for the stances that we have awarded a green "GOOD" or "EXCELLENT" on the GRID.
    [*]Then, pick out one to three items on the GRID that are getting negative ratings (red) or mediocre ratings (black) and urge that the candidate improve his/her stance.
    [*]Are you already supporting one of the candidates? If so, you can be especially influential by calling your candidate's offices and telling of your support overall but the importance of the candidate improving on a few immigration items.
</B>Please don't be in the 9 out of 10 who do nothing and then wonder why the candidates don't better reflect the wishes of the public. You have to let them know.

ANTI-DEMOCRAT BIAS?

Quite a number of you have already found the new GRID this week on your own -- and you've let us know what you think.

A few have suggested that our GRID is biased against the Democratic candidates because we use the rating "abysmal" for many of their stances.

I can only respond that we also use "abysmal" for some of the Republicans and apply it evenly, based on merit.

Unfortunately, the Democratic Presidential candidates thus far have been an embarrassment on immigration, compared to a growing number of Democratic Members of Congress who are truly getting serious about combatting illegal immigration.

I urge all of you who are Democrats and Independents to make sure the Democratic candidates are disabused of any thought that they won't be punished politically for holding such open-borders views if they make it to the General election next November.

Our problem, however, is that until at least one Democratic candidate takes a strong stand against illegal immigration, none of them will be punished in the Primaries for being pro-illegal immigration. Can you persuade any of these candidates that the first one who takes a strong stand against illegal immigration has a chance to reap a lot of Primary votes? The majority of Democrat voters favor the things on the GRID that the candidates are against.

And a recent Democratic poll found that political Independents overwhelmingly want tough measures against illegal immigration. In fact, it is the No. 1 issue for Independents. The Democratic candidates are aware of this poll. But until they feel some more direct opposition (like you are going to provide this next week), they apparently hope the immigration issue will just go away.

One thing you can really press these Democratic candidates on is why those in the Senate have not yet co-sponsored <A href="http://www.numbersusa.com/interests/attrition.html" target=_blank>S. 2368, the SAVE Act, introduced by Democratic Senators Pryor (Ark.) and Landrieu (La.) The Presidential candidates claim that they know that the jobs magnet must be removed from illegal aliens. But if they won't co-sponsor the SAVE Act, which would take most "on-the-books" jobs away from illegal aliens, their claim of opposing illegal immigration is not credible.

Are the Democratic candidates going to put their co-sponsorship where their mouths are, or are they going to show themselves to be hypocrites who really don't want anything to stand in the way of unscrupulous employers hiring as many illegal aliens as they desire?

NOT ENOUGH CREDIT TO TANCREDO, HUNTER AND PAUL?

On Thanksgiving Day, I sent out a long email lauding former Sen. Fred Thompson's fantastic, detailed official position on immigration issues.

We got a lot of criticism from you for giving him that kind of attention. Many of you asked why we haven't highlighted the very good immigration work of the three Republican candidates from the U.S. House of Representatives.

In fact, we did highlight Rep. Tancredo, Rep. Hunter and Rep. Paul early in the year when the campaign first got underway. And we provided links to their websites so you could give money and volunteer help if you wished. I was pleased Thanksgiving to give Thompson the same kind of treatment as he was the first candidate to really try to compete with those three U.S. Representatives on immigration.

The revised GRID allows you to judge for yourself on the basis of 16 factors how you think the candidates rank on our issue.

By the way, many Thompson supporters also chastised me for the Thanksgiving email. But they thought I didn't show Thompson enough respect when I said his record while in the Senate was mediocre enough to require us to watch carefully to see if we can trust his promises. Our motto is "Trust But Verify."

ARE WE BEING GULLIBLE BY CHANGING THE 'GRID' BASED ON LAST-MINUTE NEW POSITIONS OF SOME CANDIDATES?

Some of you are offended that we turned several ratings from red to green for former Governor Mike Huckabee (R-Ark.) this week when he came out with his new immigration plan.

"How can you trust him after all that he has done in the past," is the nature of many of your comments.

Just a few days before the new Huckabee plan, a front-page headline in the Washington Times screamed:

" Immigration Group: Huckabee A 'Disaster' "

The second paragraph let be known that the quote came from none other than me, commenting on Huckabee's record on immigration while govenor.

That story then was blasted throughout the webworld late last week.

But yesterday, several newspapers carried quotes from me saying that Huckabee had redeemed himself with his new official stances and promises.

Here is what you have to know about the GRID:
  • My rating of a candidate's past performance in political office is at the bottom of the grid. It can't be changed by new promises. Hence, even though Huckabee now has a lot of green ratings for promises, he still has a red "bad" for his past work as governor.
  • The rest of the ratings are indeed based on promises. The GRID is primarily forward looking. We want to know what a candidate says he/she will do as President. Many of you are cynical; you believe the candidates will just lie to get your votes and then will do the opposite of what they promise. I don't see it that way. Part of what all of us are doing during this campaign cycle is forcing candidates to make better and better promises in more and more public ways. I think it will be very dangerous for any of them to back out after being so public.
  • The GRID is so much more important than anything you have heard in the debates and ads which have mainly majored in the minors. All the argument between Romney and Guiliani, for example, about sanctuary cities has been about something that is important but rather minor compared to most of the other items on the GRID.
WHAT'S IT TAKE TO GET AN 'EXCELLENT?'

Many of you already are concerned about your candidate getting a "GOOD" instead of an "EXCELLENT" in some categories.

To get an EXCELLENT, the good stance usually needs to be reflected in a combination of promises spoken by the candidate, in official statements such as on a website and in actions this year (especially while in political office). Some candidates who are in Congress have had good actions in the past but may not be co-sponsoring a good bill this year, for example.

In the case of the Amnesty category, a candidate cannot get an EXCELLENT merely by pledging to stop any amnesty. No, the candidate also has to be clear about what he/she plans to do with the millions of illegal aliens in this country and that plan needs to be something like Attrition Through Enforcement (although mass deportation would get the top rating, too).

You will see the "poor" rating in a lot of categories for a lot of candidates. That usually is an indication that the candidate is doing nothing about a particular problem -- not talking about it, not co-sponsoring legislation, not including it in official statements. If you can provide us evidence that your candidate indeed has done something in a category, we will upgrade the "poor" rating.

PLEASE CHECK OUT YOUR CORKBOARD AND TAKE THE ACTIONS THERE

NumbersUSA's Action Buffet Team has added quite a number of fax and other action notes to your corkboard this week.

Several of them are based on how you took your Interest Survey. If you have not indicated your interests, take the survey now so you can help in more ways.

THANKS,
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