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CIS Estimates DREAM Act Would Cost American Taxpayers $6.2 Billion Per Year

Friday, December 3, 2010, 8:03 AM EST - posted on NumbersUSA

The Center for Immigration Studies says passage of the DREAM Act would cost American taxpayers at least $6.2 billion per year. According to CIS, at least 1.2 million illegal aliens would enroll in public colleges and universities, qualifying for in-state tuition rates. The average $6,000 in-state tuition benefit would be subsidized to the taxpayers.
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12 Days Until Christmas Ends Amnesty Threat

By Roy Beck
Friday, December 3, 2010, 2:52 PM EST - posted on NumbersUSA

Essentially, there are 12 legislative days until Christmas ends the amnesty threat. The title of this blog is the name of our remaining grassroots mobilization campaign of the year. Our activist members will be working through these 12 days to make 2010 the 9th year in a row that the grassroots will have completely killed off all attempts to pass any kind of amnesty. It now looks like next Wednesday is the next day that an amnesty vote is being threatened. Read Full Entry

 

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From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA Date: Friday 3DEC2010 4 p.m. EST 12 Days Until Christmas Ends Amnesty Threat

After all this week fighting the possibility of an amnesty vote the next day, we think we can now tell you that we are unlikely to have that first amnesty vote until next Wednesday.

If you can keep up the phoning and faxing, we might be able to push the votes off even another week.
www.NumbersUSA.com/actionbuffet

Essentially, there are only 12 legislative days until Christmas ends the amnesty threat.

So, we are going to do everything the rest of this year under the banner of our campaign title:

12 Days Until Christmas Ends Amnesty Threat

Our activist members will be working through these 12 days to make 2010 the 9th year in a row that the grassroots will have completely killed off all attempts to pass any kind of amnesty.

This is what my team sees and believes at this moment:

• Sen. Reid did NOT file cloture on DREAM yesterday.
• The Senate is working on taxes today and tomorrow. The Republicans have refused to go along with a Unanimous Consent agreement on tax votes, so unless an agreement on that is reached today, they will be voting tomorrow morning on that and then, presumably, leave town.
• In any case, Reid could file cloture on amnesty either today or tomorrow, which would mean that the earliest a vote could come would be Tuesday (or more likely Wednesday). However, he could wait until next week to file.
• House Members have fled Washington for the comfort of home. When they come back next week, it looks like the leadership is hoping to have an amnesty vote on Wednesday.
• Most Hill people now think the Senate won't vote on the amnesty until after the House passes it. If the House takes up the bill on Wednesday and passes it, the Senate might take up the bill on Friday.
• Although passage in the House is far more likely than in the Senate, Democratic leaders obviously are having a hard time lining up 218 votes, as they continue to punt the roll call deeper into December.
• There are only about 12 legislative days left before Christmas. When Congress goes home for Christmas, everybody seems to agree, this Lame Duck will fly away with them and the amnesty threat will be over (if it hasn't been passed by then.)

Folks, please join me in singing:

On the 12 days of pre-Christmas,
the voters came to see
Congress remove the amnesty
from the congressional pear tree.

Even many mainstream media reporters are starting to adopt the line that our Rosemary Jenks has been quoted saying -- that this will be the last chance for an amnesty for years to come. The pro-amnesty crowd is pouring tens of millions of dollars and every activist trick they have into their last-ditch effort.

They could still win their amnesty this month if all of you don't keep phoning and faxing your opposition:

www.NumbersUSA.com/actionbuffet

First thing Monday, I will send you a revised target list for your phoning.

THANKS FOR EVERYTHING YOU DID THIS WEEK,

P.S. Keep checking our home page for updates, news stories and analysis. A lot is happening all the time until Christmas ends the amnesty threat.

www.NumbersUSA.com




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From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA Date: Sunday 5DEC2010 10 p.m. EST 1st AMNESTY VOTE LIKELY WEDNESDAY

This National Target List Is For Top NumbersUSA Activists

You are getting this early notification because you have sent more than 100 faxes to Congress in the cause of sensible immigration. (I'll send more narrowly targeted geographic lists to all of our activists Monday.)

Congressional leaders are now promising DREAM Act amnesty votes starting on Wednesday. We could kill the whole nightmare if we can win the very first vote.

Please look at the many lists below and see where you can make a difference with the phone on Monday.

The open-borders people were beating us Friday on the phone calls, according to our activists who were on the Hill and in their offices. Furthermore, Pres. Obama's massive grassroots operations are setting up phone banks across the country tomorrow to try to give the appearance of popular support for another amnesty.

YOUR phone calls are the only thing that can change the false impression of grassroots support for amnesty.

No. 1 MOST IMPORTANT ACTION -- UNCOMMITTED 2012 DEMS

Phone Senate Democrats who are up for RE-ELECTION IN 2012 and who remain publicly UNCOMMITTED as to how they will vote on DREAM.

Be polite, because these folks are being brutalized by the pro-amnesty student actvists. They will appreciate a calm phone call.

When you call, tell them one or two of these:

• you appreciate their general opposition to amnesty in the past but you can't figure out why they haven't announced their opposition this time around.
• if they vote YES on "cloture" for the DREAM amnesty, that vote will be an amnesty albatross around their necks during the 2012 elections
• dozens of pro-amnesty Democratic seats in Congress turned Republican in the November elections. Voting YES on this amnesty will help put their Senate seat in jeopardy.
• even if there are young illegal aliens who deserve a chance at an amnesty, the DREAM Act is not the bill -- it has zero enforcement to keep millions of other foreign parents from illegally bringing their children to put them in the same situation that DREAM is supposed to fix.

Michigan

Stabenow, Debbie
DC: (202) 224-4822
Local: (313) 961-4330

Missouri

McCaskill, Claire
DC: (202) 224-6154
Local: (314) 367-1364

North Dakota

Conrad, Kent
DC: (202) 224-2043
Local: (701) 258-4648

Virginia

Webb, James
DC: (202) 224-4024
Local: (540) 772-4236

West Virginia

Manchin, Joe
DC: (202) 224-3954
Local: (304) 264-4626

No. 2 MOST IMPORTANT LIST
-- OTHER UNCOMMITTED SENATORS (both R & D)

You don't have the 2012 elections to hold over their heads. But these are Senators who ought to be with us. They need a counter-weight to the thousands of phone calls they are getting from the pro-amnesty forces.

When you call, tell them this:

• you appreciate their general opposition to amnesty in the past but you can't figure out why they haven't announced their opposition this time around.
• even if there are young illegal aliens who deserve a chance at an amnesty, the DREAM Act is not the bill -- it has zero enforcement to keep millions of other foreign parents from illegally bringing their children to put them in the same situation that DREAM is supposed to fix.

Alaska

Murkowski, Lisa (Republican)
DC: (202) 224-6665
Local: (907) 271-3735

Louisiana

Landrieu, Mary (Democrat)
DC: (202) 224-5824
Local: (225) 389-0395

Montana

Baucus, Max (Democrat)
DC: (202) 224-2651
Local: (406) 657-6790

North Dakota

Dorgan, Byron (Democrat -- retiring)
DC: (202) 224-2551
Local: (701) 250-4618

No. 3 CALL LIST -- 2012 SENATE DEMOCRATS
WHO SAY THEY WILL VOTE YES ON AMNESTY

Yes, some of these look like hopeless causes. But they just saw five dozen Democratic seats in Congress flipped to GOP in November. They may not feel so secure any more.

Plus, we're stuck with these Senators for at least two more years. They need to feel just how unpopular their pro-amnesty ways are. Our past experience is that we oten can get 10-20% of these kinds of politicians to pleasantly surprise us when the vote actually occurs if we push hard enough.

When you call, tell them:

• if they vote YES on "cloture" for the DREAM amnesty, that vote will be an amnesty albatross around their necks during the 2012 elections
• dozens of pro-amnesty Democratic seats turned Republican in the November elections. Voting YES on this amnesty will help put their Senate seat in jeopardy.
• the DREAM Act is an amnesty without a single enforcement element that will reduce illegal workers coming to take jobs in the future.
• a YES on DREAM is a vote to kill the dreams of millions of young unemployed Americans who can't find a job
• even if there are young illegal aliens who deserve a chance at an amnesty, the DREAM Act is not the bill -- it has zero enforcement to keep millions of other foreign parents from illegally bringing their children to put them in the same situation that DREAM is supposed to fix.

Connecticut

Lieberman, Joseph
DC: (202) 224-4041
Local: (860) 549-8463

Delaware

Carper, Thomas
DC: (202) 224-2441
Local: (302) 573-6291

Florida

Nelson, Bill
(his state changed a lot in this election -- he should start getting worried about his open-borders position)
DC: (202) 224-5274
Local: (813) 225-7040

Hawaii

Akaka, Daniel
DC: (202) 224-6361
Local: (808) 522-8970

Maryland

Cardin, Benjamin
DC: (202) 224-4524
Local: (410) 962-4436

Minnesota

Klobuchar, Amy (especially vulnerable)
DC: (202) 224-3244
Local: (612) 727-5220

New Jersey

Menendez, Robert
DC: (202) 224-4744
Local: (973) 645-3030

New Mexico

Bingaman, Jeff
DC: (202) 224-5521
Local: (505) 346-6601

New York

Gillibrand, Kirsten
(she's a turncoat who was pro-enforcement in the House and became a champion of amnesty when she was appointed governor -- let her know that not all voters are like the NYC open-borders groups she spends so much time with)
DC: (202) 224-4451
Local: (212) 688-6262

Ohio

Brown, Sherrod
DC: (202) 224-2315
Local: (614) 469-2083

Pennsylvania

Casey, Robert
DC: (202) 224-6324
Local: (215) 405-9660

Rhode Island

Whitehouse, Sheldon
DC: (202) 224-2921
Local: (401) 453-5294

Washington

Cantwell, Maria (vulnerable)
DC: (202) 224-3441
Local: (206) 220-6400

Wisconsin

Kohl, Herb (his open-borders Wisconsin buddy Feingold was just defeated)
DC: (202) 224-5653
Local: (608) 264-5338

No. 4 CALL LIST -- WISHY-WASHY REPUBLICANS

It will be difficult to defeat the amnesty without these Republicans who have been indicating that they will vote NO. But their past performances give us a lot of worry about what they will end up doing. And they are under enormous pressure from the pro-amnesty lobby.

Be polite when you call. Tell them:

• the DREAM Act is an amnesty without a single enforcement element that will reduce illegal workers coming to take jobs in the future.
• a YES on DREAM is a vote to kill the dreams of millions of young unemployed Americans who can't find a job
• even if there are young illegal aliens who deserve a chance at an amnesty, the DREAM Act is not the bill -- it has zero enforcement to keep millions of other foreign parents from illegally bringing their children to put them in the same situation that DREAM is supposed to fix.

Maine

Collins, Susan
DC: (202) 224-2523
Local: (207) 622-8414

Snowe, Olympia (up for re-election in 2012)
DC: (202) 224-5344
Local: (207) 622-8292

Ohio
Voinovich, George
DC: (202) 224-3353
Local: (614) 469-6697

No. 5 CALL LIST -- COMMITTED PRO-AMNESTY REPUBLICANS

These Republicans immediately broke with most of the Members of their Party to announce their aggressive support for rewarding and enticing more illegal immigration.

They should not be spared the pain of massive public dissent, especially Lugar who is starting to attract interest for a Primary challenger against him in the 2012 elections.

Call with your animosity toward their announced intention to vote YES on the amnesty.

Indiana

Lugar, Richard
(mention the desire to have a Primary challenger in 2012 if he votes YES)
DC: (202) 224-4814
Local: (317) 226-5555

Utah

Bennett, Robert
DC: (202) 224-5444
Local: (801) 524-5933

THANKS FOR THE PHONING.

EVERYTHING IS AT STAKE THIS WEEK. WE HAVE TO ENSURE VICTORY.

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From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA Date: Monday 6DEC2010 10:30 p.m. EST THE AMNESTY VOTES ARE FINALLY SET TO HAPPEN
-- WEDNESDAY, IN THE HOUSE & SENATE

Action No. 1: Send the anti-amnesty faxes that are posted on your NumbersUSA customized Action Board. They are free and can be sent over the internet with the click of your mouse.

www.NumbersUSA.com/actionbuffet

Of course, things can change, but these votes have really been scheduled, finally.

The moment of truth is here. And the truth is that the only thing stopping the triumph of amnesty on Wednesday will be the vigorous direct opposition from citizens like you. Pres. Obama has thrown the full power of the White House behind passing the DREAM Act amnesty by deploying virtually every Cabinet secretary to lobby, as well as activating his massive, national grassroots organization with its nearly unlimited spending power.

Hundreds of thousands of citizens like YOU created enough of a firestorm to win anti-amnesty votes several times in 2007 -- and to keep the votes from occuring since then.

It only works if every one of you does something -- now.

If enough of you respond fully and immediately, this could be the last time we have to fight an amnesty for years -- or we could lose at the last minute, and 10 years of beating back the amnesties would be lost in an instant.

Action No. 2: Watch for my Phone Alert Tuesday morning. It will be tailored for your state.

As important as the faxing is, each phone call tomorrow will be worth 50 faxes.

The wealthy open-borders forces have set up phone banks all over the country -- just like political Parties do on Election Day. They will be driving massive numbers of phone calls into Congress throughout Tuesday.

Only you can create a different story in the offices of the swing-voting Members of Congress. Will they hear YES TO AMNESTY all day, or will they be reminded constantly that a NO ON AMNESTY MEANS A YES FOR UNEMPLOYED AMERICANS?

Sideline Action: In case you are interested, I will be doing an hour-long debate about the amnesty on 190 NPR radio stations nationally at 10-11 a.m. (Eastern) on Tuesday morning.

10-11 a.m. ET -- See a list of NPR stations that carry On Point with Tom Ashbrook. www.wbur.org/syndication/?program=On-Point

10-11 a.m. ET -- Listen online: www.onpointradio.org/

4-6 p.m. ET -- SIRIUS Satellite Radio, NPR TALK Channel

4-6 p.m. ET -- SIRIUS Satellite Radio, Everything Plus The Best of XM Channel.

4-6 p.m. ET -- XM Satellite Radio, XM Public Radio Channel.

MOST LIKELY SCENARIO RIGHT NOW

In the House, leaders want to vote first because it is assumed the best chance of passing an amnesty is in the House. This could happen late Wednesday morning or in the afternoon. They want to build momentum for the Senate to take up the amnesty perhaps Wednesday evening.

If the amnesty fails in just one of the chambers, WE win.

Generally, Speaker Pelosi would not schedule a vote on a bill that she doesn't believe she can get the 218 votes to pass it.

Does that mean she has assurance of 218 YES votes? I don't think so. But she must be close. And she figures that if she holds the vote Wednesday she can force enough on-the-fence Democrats to take her side. Your job is to pull those Democrats over to the NO side.

Our road to victory depends on holding all but about 6 of the Republicans as NO votes and to get about 45 Democrats to vote NO.

About 75 Democrats are still in play. I'll be coming to you about them Tuesday morning.

In the Senate, we have better prospects of winning. In the House, they only need 50% plus one vote to pass the amnesty. But in the Senate they have to get 60% of the 100 votes.

Incredible pressures are being exerted on Republican Senators who have supported the DREAM amnesty in the past to do so again. Thus far, only Senators Lugar of Indiana and Bennett of Utah has committed to a YES. But at least 10 other Republicans need a lot of your support to vote NO, even though we feel relatively good about most of them. If they are your Senators, you will get an alert Tuesday morning.

We also are continuing to exert as much pressure as possible on about a dozen Democratic Senators who are up for re-election in 2012 and have shown a distaste for amnesty at some time in the past.

YOU HAVE HELD OFF AN AMNESTY FOR JUST SHORT OF 2 YEARS AGAINST INCREDIBLY BAD ODDS -- DON'T LET VICTORY SLIP AWAY AT THE LAST MINUTE.

THANKS FOR ALL YOU HAVE DONE (i.e. 700,000 FAXES IN THE LAST MONTH).

THANKS FOR WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO DO NOW.

P.S. Don't forget to keep coming back to our Home page for updates. The news in this alert was posted hours ago at:

www.NumbersUSA.com




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[FONT=Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Friends of ALIPAC,

Senator Reid has filed for Cloture on the Dream Act Amnesty. The fuse is lit and it is starting to look like the GOP may have cut a backroom deal with Obama to pass this.

Votes are scheduled for tomorrow, Wednesday, December 8, 2010, in both the House and the Senate!

This is not a drill. This is an actual AMNESTY EMERGENCY!

Call now to demand:

"Vote no on Dream Amnesty, millions of American workers, students, and voters will be displaced by this legislation. Say no to Amnesty and no to Dream Act!"

Call our targeted Senate list and remember to say NO ON CLOTURE FOR DREAM AMNESTY
Targeted Senators
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-219596.html


Call ALIPAC's targeted House Reps as well!
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-219949.html

AND MOST IMPORTANTLY CALL YOUR OWN SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES TO DEMAND THEY OPPOSE DREAM ACT AMNESTY.

Talk to staff, fill the voice mail, send emails, call talk radio shows!

You only have hours left to make an impact.

The ALIPAC Team
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Comments, questions, suggestions, reports, etc... at this link...
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-220576.html
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From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA Date: Wednesday 8DEC2010 12:30 p.m. VOTING EXPECTED TO START AROUND 4:30

We are winning in Senate & have a chance in House. But your phone calls are still needed to counteract giant barrage of pro-amnesty phoning.

1. Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) has just announced she will vote NO!

The pro-amnesty forces' battle plan for being able to get to 60 votes to pass the DREAM Act amnesty always depended on Snowe voting YES.

Snowe said: "Millions of illegal immigrants could attempt to become legal residents as a result of this proposal, according to some estimates, and it is incumbent upon the Senate to ensure our policies never again lead to a situation where we are confronted with upwards of 12 million illegal immigrants residing within our borders."

I suggest you quote Snowe to some of the offices you continue to call today.

2. Pro-amnesty activists are reporting they are 10 votes short in the HOUSE (but we are more than many votes short, ourselves).

The good news is that your phoning and faxing these last months (and especially this week) have guaranteed that almost all Republicans in the House will vote NO and that many Democrats will vote NO, while you are also keeping many, many Democrats still uncommitted either way.

The pro-amnesty people are claiming they have 208 of the 218 needed to pass.

Go to the alert I re-sent this morning that has all your targets in your region. Call the Democrats in those lists.

Capitol Switchboard is: 202-224-3121

3. Join our live webcast which we will begin at 3:30 this afternoon.

We will send out another alert when we know when something is really happening. We will get going in earnest once the DREAM amnesty comes to the floor of the Senate, perhaps as early as 4:15 this afternoon.

The debate will be quite short and the vote should immediately follow.

The vote will be on cloture, whether to allow the real debate on the bill to begin.

If we keep the amnesty side from getting 60 votes, we will have killed the DREAM amnesty.

The live streaming of our commentary and explanations from our conference room will be at:

www.NumbersUSA.tv

We'll be doing what we always do when immigration comes to the floor for a vote -- anxiously gathering to watch how Congress responds to our days, weeks and months of mobilizing the grassroots. And discussing and arguing over what each detail means.

Nothing fancy or formal. Just turning the cameras on our staff session. But after having you in our conference room for 10 hours on Election Night, we thought you might like to join us again for this occasion.

I may not be in the room at the beginning because I have to run over to CNN and do an interview on the Cavuto show. I'll get back to our conference room and the webcast as fast as I can.



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Congress Votes Today on Millions of 10-Year Work Permits for Illegal Aliens


By Roy Beck, Updated Wednesday, December 8, 2010, 12:07 AM EST - posted on NumbersUSA

When the House and Senate (presumably) vote this afternoon, I think it is important to frame the issue in terms of giving out millions of additional 10-year work permits.
You see, even people who don't qualify in the first place or who do qualify for the provisional amnesty but never meet the educational criteria later -- all of them can get a 10-year work permit from the start.
Here's the way it would work under the latest DREAM amnesty bill introduced in the Senate (and coming up for a vote today):
THE 10-YEAR WORK PERMITS FOR PEOPLE WHO DO NOT QUALIFY
1. Application: The DREAM amnesty begins with illegal aliens filling out applications. They merely have to claim -- not provide evidence -- that they meet criteria of having been brought to the U.S. before age 16 and being under the age of 30 at time of enactment and being present in the U.S. at least 5 years before enactment of the amnesty, among other criteria.
2. Work Permits Given: Once they allege these minimal criteria, the illegal aliens are given "conditional lawful permanent resident status" and are given a 10-year work permit to compete directly with the 22 million Americans who want a full-time job but can't find one.
Estimates suggest that up to 2 million illegal aliens could legitimately qualify for the opening application, and perhaps a couple million more might be or look young enough to fraudulently apply.
Those millions would immediately be able to legally compete for any U.S. job.
3. Ten Years of Work Before Education Required: Despite all the talk about how this amnesty is just for people who go to college or serve in the military, the illegal aliens don't have to do much of anything in that regard to have the legal right to work for 10 years.
Everybody who applies and gets the work permits has 10 years to complete two years of college or two years of military. Ten Years!
By the way, despite the fact that some media outlets have taken to referring to the potential recipients of the amnesty as "the best and the brightest" and "stars," illegal aliens can get the 10-year work permit merely by completing a GED and enrolling in a single course in a community college or trade school.
4. When 10 Years Are Up, What's The Chance of Anybody Being Asked to Leave? At the end of 10 years, illegal aliens who have not compiled two years of college or military would finally lose the right to compete legally with unemployed Americans for a job.
But they also would have sunk 10 more years of roots into their communities, building up an even bigger claim that it would be a hardship to be forced to leave this country. In addition, their advocates in the open-borders groups can say that they aren't really illegal aliens since they have just spent 10 years living and working as legal residents.
Fortunately for them, the DREAM amnesty allows those who fail to meet any of the criteria after 10 years to file a claim of hardship. The US Citizenship & Immigration Services agency is given the right to issue waivers and allow these illegal aliens to stay. By the way, they can get a waiver if the hardship is to them, or if it would be to a spouse, one of their children or one of their parents.
In the end, it is not only the 2 million potential qualified opening applicants but millions of potential fraudulant applicants who will get 10 years of legal competition against unemployed Americans. The only way the frauds can lose their work permit is if the government brings individualized cases to prove that they lied on the applications. Want to guess how many of the millions of fraud cases the government would have time to investigate and prosecute -- one by one?
Are any of the pro-DREAM amnesty supporters thinking about that?
Aside from all the issues of rewarding or encouraging law-breaking, there is the question about why this Lame Duck Congress at this time of 9.8% unemployment would feel the need to greatly increase the job competition for unemployed Americans.
ROY BECK is Founder & CEO of NumbersUSA











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Final hours before Amnesty vote. Last chance America!
Posted on Wednesday, December 08 @ 14:13:27 EST
Topic: Americans for Legal Immigration PAC America,

This is your last chance to weigh in against the Dream Act Amnesty which the US Senate plans to vote for Cloture on around 4:30pm Eastern today! (3 hours from time of this email).

The US House plans to vote on Amnesty around 7:30pm EST!

ALIPAC activists across America are lighting up the DC switchboards, while tracking who is voting for or against Cloture on the Dream Amnesty in the Senate. ALIPAC's President, William Gheen, is doing back to back talk radio shows rallying more Americans to our efforts to defend America.

Millions of you are on the verge of being replaced and displaced in your jobs, classrooms, and voting enclosures.

Speak out now while minutes remain. ...


STEP 1: Your efforts have helped to move key votes our way! Please call the Senators below listed as "Noting No on Dream Amnesty Cloture" and say "I want to thank Senator ______ for standing with Americans, instead of foreign nationals. Tell Senator ____ I said thank you for agreeing to vote NO ON DREAM AMNESTY CLOTURE. Please ask Senator ____ to encourage other Senators to vote NO ON DREAM AMNESTY CLOTURE like he/she is."

STEP 2: Please call, then write the Senate offices listed below as VOTING YES or MAY VOTE YES ON DREAM AMNESTY CLOTURE.

Call and say "Please ask Senator ______ no to sellout America! Ask him/her to vote NO ON DREAM AMNESTY CLOTURE. Dream Amnesty is inappropriate for the lame duck session and would displace and replace millions of innocent American students, workers, and voters!"

Step 3: After you have called and written ALIPAC's senate targets below, please rally more Americans (friends, neighbors) to join you and then proceed to call and write our targets in the Congress found at this link.
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-219949.html

PLEASE KEEP CALLING AND WRITING UNTIL YOU RECEIVE FURTHER WORD FROM US.

THE DEMOCRATS ONLY NEED A FEW MORE VOTES TO PASS AMNESTY.

Give this everything you have!

The ALIPAC Team
www.alipac.us


SENATE TARGETS

Sen. Bob Bennett (R., Utah) VOTING YES FOR AMNESTY, if stand alone bill.
Washington D.C.
431 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington DC 20510-4403
Phone: (202) 224-5444 (202) 224-5444
Salt Lake Office
Wallace F. Bennett Federal Building
125 South State Street, Suite 4225
Salt Lake City, UT 84138-1188
Phone: (801) 524-5933 (801) 524-5933


Sen. Richard Lugar (R., Indiana) LEANING YES FOR AMNESTY
306 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-4814
Web Form: http://lugar.senate.gov/contact/
101 NW Martin Luther King Boulevard
Room 122
Evansville, Indiana 47708
(812) 465-6313 p
(812) 421-1883 f

Baucus, Max (D-MT) MAY VOTE YES ON AMNESTY{/b}
DC Phone: (202) 224-2651 Fax: (202) 224-9412 (Fax)
Billings Phone: (406) 657-6790 Fax: (406) 657-6793
Helena Phone: (406) 449-5480 Fax: (406) 449-5484
Missoula Phone: (406) 329-3123 Fax: (406) 728-7610
Kalispell Phone: (406) 756-1150 Fax: (406) 756-1152
Bozeman Phone: (406) 586-6104 Fax: (406) 587-9177
Butte Phone: (406) 782-8700 Fax: (406) 782-6553
Great Falls Phone: (406) 761-1574 Fax: (406) 727-3726
http://baucus.senate.gov/contact/emailForm.cfm?subj=issue


Susan Collins (R., Maine) MAY VOTE FOR OBAMA's AMNESTY
DC Phone: (202) 224-2523 Fax: (202) 224-2693
Bangor Phone: (207) 945-0417 Fax: (207) 990-4604
Augusta Phone: (207) 622-8414 Fax: (207) 622-5884
Biddeford Phone: (207) 283-1101 Fax: (207) 283-4054
Lewiston Phone: (207) 784-6969 Fax: (207) 782-6475
Caribou Phone: (207) 493-7873 Fax: (207) 493-7810
Portland Phone: (207) 780-3575 Fax: (207) 828-0380
http://collins.senate.gov/public/continue.cfm?FuseAction=ContactSenatorCollins.EmailIssue


Olympia Snowe (R., Maine) MAY VOTE FOR AMNESTY
DC Phone: (202) 224-5344 Fax: (202) 224-1946
Portland Phone: (207) 874-0883 Fax: (207) 874-7631
Auburn Phone: (207) 786-2451 Fax: (207) 782-1438
Augusta Phone: (207) 622-8292 Fax: (207) 622-7295
Bangor Phone: (207) 945-0432 Fax: (207) 941-9525
Biddeford Phone: (207) 282-4144 Fax: (207) 284-2358
Presque Isle Phone: (207) 764-5124 Fax: (207) 764-6420
http://snowe.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactSenatorSnowe.Email


Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R., Alaska)MAY VOTE FOR AMNESTY
DC Phone: (202) 224-6665 Fax: (202) 224-5301
Anchorage Office 907-271-3735 Fax 907-276-4081
Fairbanks Office 907-456-0233 Fax 907-451-7146
Juneau Delegation Office 907-586-7400 Fax 907-586-8922
Kenai Delegation Office 907-283-5808 Fax 907-283-4363
Ketchikan Delegation Office 907-225-6880 Fax 907-225-0390
MatSu Delegation Office 907-376-7665 Fax 907-376-8526
Bethel Delegation Office 907-543-1639 Fax 907-543-1637
http://murkowski.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=Contact


Sens. Sam Brownback (R, Kansas) Voting No on Dream Amnesty Cloture
DC Tel: 202-224-6521 Fax: 202-228-1265
Topeka Phone: (785) 233-2503 Fax: (785) 233-2616
Pittsburg Phone: (620) 231-6040 Fax: (620) 231-6347
Overland Park Phone: (913) 492-6378 Fax: (913) 492-7253
Wichita Phone: (316) 264-8066 Fax: (316) 264-9078
Garden City Phone: (620) 275-1124 Fax: (620) 275-1837
http://brownback.senate.gov/public/contact/emailsam.cfm


Sens KayBailey Hutchinson (R, Texas) Voting No on Dream Amnesty Cloture
284 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-5922
Web Form: http://hutchison.senate.gov/contact.cfm
961 Federal Building
300 East 8th Street
Austin, Texas 78701
512-916-5834 512-916-5839 (FAX)

Hatch, Orrin G. (R-UT) Voting No on Dream Amnesty Cloture
DC Phone: (202) 224-5251 Fax: (202) 224-6331
Salt Lake City Phone: (801) 524-4380 Fax: (801) 524-4379
Ogden Phone: (801) 625-5672 Fax: (801) 394-4503
Provo Phone: (801) 375-7881 Fax: (801) 374-5005
Cedar City Phone: (435) 586-8435 Fax: (435) 586-2147
St. George Phone: (435) 634-1795 Fax: (435) 634-1796
http://hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Offices.Contact


Pryor, Mark (D-AR) Voting No on Dream Amnesty Cloture
DC Phone: (202) 224-2353 Fax: (202) 228-0908
Little Rock Office Phone: (501) 324-6336 Fax: (501) 324-5320
Toll Free from AR: (877) 259-9602
http://pryor.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=ContactMe


Nelson, Ben (D-NE) Voting No on Dream Amnesty Cloture
DC Phone: (202) 224-6551 Fax: (202) 228-0012
Lincoln Phone: (402) 441-4600 Fax: (402) 476-8753
Omaha Phone: (402) 391-3411 Fax: (402) 391-4725
Chadron Phone: (308) 430-0587 Fax:
Scottsbluff Phone: (308) 631-7614 Fax:
http://bennelson.senate.gov/contact-me.cfm




PLEASE POST FEEDBACK, UPDATES, RESPONSES, QUESTIONS, etc... at this link...
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-220714.html
http://www.alipac.us/article5917.html

 

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[FONT=Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Friends of ALIPAC,

With the breaking news on our homepage (alipac.us) reported from NumbersUSA that Maine Senator Olympia Snowe will vote No ON Dream Amnesty Cloture, Sen Reid is retreating!

He has now announced that the Senate will vote after the House votes on the bill!

We must now pursue Reid as he runs to his Democratic stronghold in the House!

Please redirect all of your calls onto our House targets. Please implement new messages now being added at the top of our list!

Everyone, let's go after the HOUSE. They vote at 6:30pm (estimated) Eastern, and if we hit them with enough calls, to the right offices, with the right messages we may be able to stop this Amnesty push!

Yes, I am ready to help ALIPAC challenge Amnesty with calls to the HOUSE at this link....
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-219949.html


To the HOUSE!

The ALIPAC Team
www.alipac.us
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From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA Date: Tuesday 7DEC2010 8:30 p.m. EST Come To Our Office Tomorrow (VIA LIVE WEBCAST)
And Join Us As We Watch, Comment
And Analyze the House & Senate Amnesty Votes

YOU ALL HAD A GREAT DAY OF ACTIVISM TODAY.
YOU HAVE THE OPEN-BORDERS FOLKS ON THE RUN.

Action: Join our live webcast.

When the debates, arcane parliamentary maneuvers and voting start tomorrow, join our NumbersUSA staff in our conference room and watch with us.

The live streaming from our conference room will be on our home page:

www.NumbersUSA.com

We'll be doing what we always do when immigration comes to the floor for a vote -- anxiously gathering to watch how Congress responds to our days, weeks and months of mobilizing the grassroots. And discussing and arguing over what each detail means.

Nothing fancy or formal. Just turning the cameras on our staff session. But after having you in our conference room for 10 hours on Election Night, we thought you might like to join us again for this occasion.

We'll send you an email perhaps an hour before we go live. It is possible that we won't know when the debate will start until just a half-hour before.

It sounds like the House debate could start no earlier than 1 p.m. Wednesday. And then we'll turn the cameras on again when the Senate starts its debate. That is now scheduled for after 3:30 p.m. At the moment, 10 years of efforts to pass an amnesty could be resolved in just a few hours tomorrow afternoon.

Action: PHONE.

Keep phoning the target congressional office Wednesday until the votes are taken.

You have the email with the list of targets for your own particular region of the country that I sent earlier today. Keep working on that list.

You know that we never advocate letting up the pressure in any way until we have won. But our reports from the Hill suggest that your torrent of faxes and phone calls helped create great turmoil today among those trying to pass the DREAM Act amnesty.

House amnesty leaders are desperately seeking some kind of Hail Mary pass to pull out a last-minute victory.

They apparently still can't persuade 218 Representatives to vote YES on the DREAM amnesty, so they are talking about combining it with the AgJobs amnesty for a few million illegal aliens who can claim some past agricultural work. Their thought is that they can attract some extra Republicans who won't be willing to vote against something that big agri-business wants.

Of course, their plan would also create an amnesty that is twice the size to attract politicians who are squeamish about DREAM being too big.

Your phone calls Wednesday need to keep everybody in Congress as squeamish as possible.

Action: FAX.

Be sure you have sent all the faxes posted on your customized Action Board:

www.NumbersUSA.com/actionbuffet

I apologize for how sluggish our website was today for many of you. We are going to have to expand our capacities, but what a great problem to have so many Americans trying to take action against a bill that would be sure to enlarge by millions the number of future illegal aliens and of additional workers competing against unemployed Americans within what everybody agrees will be a job shortage for many years to come.

Take a look at my new blog for extra ammunition in your faxes and phone calls.

THANKS FOR ALL OF YOUR HARD WORK.

MAYBE WE CAN END THESE AMNESTY THREATS ONCE AND FOR ALL TOMORROW!

From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
Date: Tuesday 7DEC2010 8:30 p.m. EST

Come To Our Office Tomorrow (VIA LIVE WEBCAST)
And Join Us As We Watch, Comment
And Analyze the House & Senate Amnesty Votes

YOU ALL HAD A GREAT DAY OF ACTIVISM TODAY.
YOU HAVE THE OPEN-BORDERS FOLKS ON THE RUN.

Action: Join our live webcast.

When the debates, arcane parliamentary maneuvers and voting start tomorrow, join our NumbersUSA staff in our conference room and watch with us.

The live streaming from our conference room will be on our home page:
www.NumbersUSA.com

We'll be doing what we always do when immigration comes to the floor for a vote -- anxiously gathering to watch how Congress responds to our days, weeks and months of mobilizing the grassroots. And discussing and arguing over what each detail means.

Nothing fancy or formal. Just turning the cameras on our staff session. But after having you in our conference room for 10 hours on Election Night, we thought you might like to join us again for this occasion.

We'll send you an email perhaps an hour before we go live. It is possible that we won't know when the debate will start until just a half-hour before.

It sounds like the House debate could start no earlier than 1 p.m. Wednesday. And then we'll turn the cameras on again when the Senate starts its debate. That is now scheduled for after 3:30 p.m. At the moment, 10 years of efforts to pass an amnesty could be resolved in just a few hours tomorrow afternoon.

Action: PHONE.

Keep phoning the target congressional office Wednesday until the votes are taken.

You have the email with the list of targets for your own particular region of the country that I sent earlier today. Keep working on that list.

You know that we never advocate letting up the pressure in any way until we have won. But our reports from the Hill suggest that your torrent of faxes and phone calls helped create great turmoil today among those trying to pass the DREAM Act amnesty.

House amnesty leaders are desperately seeking some kind of Hail Mary pass to pull out a last-minute victory.

They apparently still can't persuade 218 Representatives to vote YES on the DREAM amnesty, so they are talking about combining it with the AgJobs amnesty for a few million illegal aliens who can claim some past agricultural work. Their thought is that they can attract some extra Republicans who won't be willing to vote against something that big agri-business wants.

Of course, their plan would also create an amnesty that is twice the size to attract politicians who are squeamish about DREAM being too big.

Your phone calls Wednesday need to keep everybody in Congress as squeamish as possible.

Action: FAX.

Be sure you have sent all the faxes posted on your customized Action Board:

www.NumbersUSA.com/actionbuffet

I apologize for how sluggish our website was today for many of you. We are going to have to expand our capacities, but what a great problem to have so many Americans trying to take action against a bill that would be sure to enlarge by millions the number of future illegal aliens and of additional workers competing against unemployed Americans within what everybody agrees will be a job shortage for many years to come.

Take a look at my new blog for extra ammunition in your faxes and phone calls.

THANKS FOR ALL OF YOUR HARD WORK.

MAYBE WE CAN END THESE AMNESTY THREATS ONCE AND FOR ALL TOMORROW!

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Bump-Final vote coming soon yet tonight...See above link & watch with me...May God help us with this vote..

 

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From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA Date: Thursday 9DEC2010 2 p.m. EST SENATE TABLES ITS OWN DREAM AMNESTY

Reid Plans Vote On House-Passed DREAM Amnesty Next Week
As He Hopes To Use Time To Gain More Votes

SORRY, BUT WE NEED MORE CALLS AND FAXES TO THE SENATE

All of you who watched our live web-streaming this morning during the Senate proceedings know that it was a complex and confusing mess. But here is where we are in several nutshells:

• Our NumbersUSA Hill Team was convinced that we had enough votes to kill the DREAM amnesty if there had been a vote at 11 a.m. as promised.
• Reid obviously knew pretty much what we knew. He didn't want to accept that his amnesty dream was lost and moved to buy another week of time, showing that one of his top priorities continues to be adding millions more foreign-born workers with work permits to compete with unemployed Americans.
  
  He moved to table the Senate's DREAM amnesty bill.
• A motion to table only required a majority vote. It passed 59-40.
  
  It is very difficult to read into what each individual YES and NO vote meant. Each Senator seemed to have different ideas in mind. We had several strong anti-amnesty Senators voting with Reid to table and some strong pro-amnesty Senators voting against tabling.
• The result, however, is that we were not able to kill the DREAM amnesty once and for all today.
  
  The pro-amnesty side is crowing that it has another week to change the minds of some Senators to pass this next week.
  
  If Congress can't come to an agreement on the tax issue by the end of next week, passage of the amnsty will be pretty much impossible.
  
  But if there IS a tax agreement, the pro-amnesty people are hoping to peel off a number of Senators who now are saying they plan to vote NO.

ACTION: We need you to continue to come back to your customized Action Board every day to take action until Congress adjourns or deals with the amnesty.

www.NumbersUSA.com/actionbuffet

For today, every single Senator needs to hear from you again to help guard against listening to bargaining offers. So, call your two Senators again. Consult your Phone Action Notes on the Action Board for talking points.

202-224-3121

Also, send new faxes we've posted there for key Senators.

Then, tomorrow, we will switch you back to target lists.

Remember that it has been the grassroots mobilization over the last 10 years, and especially this year, that has stalled the amnesty push to this point.

Just a little more effort, and we will have beaten this thing.

P.S. In a couple of hours, you will receive an email from Jim Robb asking for your end-of-year donation assistance. At the very least, we need to meet our usual monthly goal for minimum maintenance of our programs. As I send this alert, we are only at 8% of our goal for the month. Please include NumbersUSA and the fight to stop illegal immigration in your end-of-year giving plans. Thanks.

You can click here to donate now by phone, credit card or mailed check.

http://www.numbersusa.com/content/action/make-donation.html

P.S.S. For the most part, Talk Radio is focused on other issues. We really need the help of Talk Radio's vast audience to help us beat amnesty next week.

Please phone and email Talk Radio shows to which you listen and encourage them to give this amnesty attention on their shows.










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We Had The Amnesty Beat In The Senate This Morning But Now Have To Hold The Line Another Week


By Roy Beck, Thursday, December 9, 2010, 3:24 PM EST - posted on NumbersUSA

First, something that virtually everybody concedes -- If the Senate had voted this morning (as had been promised), the DREAM Act amnesty would have been defeated. So, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid decided to buy another week of pro-amnesty lobbying from the White House and the rich pro-amnesty advocacy groups. Many news outlets immediately put out reports that the amnesty bill was now dead. But not so fast. The news is not that good . . .
The pro-amnesty groups still have millions of dollars in their war chests that they haven't spent yet. Their emails are now rallying their troops for another week of pounding Senators to vote to give millions of additional work permits to increase the competition against unemployed Americans.
In the crazy, anything-can-happen climate of the final days of a Congress, don't bet on whether they can pull a victory out of what would have been sure defeat if the vote had occurred today.
All of you who watched our live web-streaming this morning during the Senate proceedings know that it was a complex and confusing mess. But here is where we are in several nutshells:

• Our NumbersUSA Hill Team was convinced that we had enough votes to kill the DREAM amnesty if there had been a vote at 11 a.m. as promised.
• Reid obviously knew pretty much what we knew. He didn't want to accept that his amnesty dream was lost and moved to buy another week of time, showing that one of his top priorities continues to be adding millions more foreign-born workers with work permits to compete with unemployed Americans.
• Reid moved to table the Senate's DREAM amnesty bill. A motion to table only required a majority vote. It passed 59-40.
• That effectively killed the Senate's version of DREAM. But Reid promised to bring up the House-passed DREAM next week.

It is very difficult to read into what each individual YES and NO vote on the tabling motion meant. Each Senator seemed to have different ideas in mind. We had several strong anti-amnesty Senators voting with Reid to table and some strong pro-amnesty Senators voting against tabling.
The result, however, is that we were not able to kill the DREAM amnesty once and for all today.
The pro-amnesty side is crowing that it has another week to change the minds of some Senators to pass this next week.
If Congress can't come to an agreement on the tax issue by the end of next week, passage of the amnesty will be pretty much impossible.
But if there IS a tax agreement, the pro-amnesty people are hoping to peel off a number of Senators who now are saying they plan to vote NO.
ACTION: We need you to continue to come back to your customized Action Board every day to take action until Congress adjourns or deals with the amnesty.
www.NumbersUSA.com/actionbuffet
For today, every single Senator needs to hear from you again to help guard against listening to bargaining offers. So, call your two Senators again. Consult your Phone Action Notes on the Action Board for talking points.
202-224-3121
Remember that it has been the grassroots mobilization over the last 10 years, and especially this year, that has stalled the amnesty push to this point.
Just a little more effort, and we will have beaten this thing.
ROY BECK is Founder & CEO of NumbersUSA











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I do not post give $ newsletters much but now IS the time!!! Thanks in advance

NumbersUSA Leading the Charge Against DREAM Amnesty With Nearly a Million Faxes--Help Us Pay For Them! ​

It's NOW OR NEVER! Please break the piggy bank and send us a gift now. We must win this! ​

[SIZE=+1]Click Here to Donate Now[/SIZE]

Dear Jim,

No group pushes the buttons of Congress like NumbersUSA!​

​

For the past 14 years, many groups have risen up to fight against amnesties by using the Internet. And we're glad they're helping. Some of them mostly use immigration as a fundraising scheme. Others are small and lack influence. NumbersUSA is the giant. We invented faxing to Congress.​

​

You members have ordered 872,000 faxes on the DREAM Act since the debate began in earnest last month.​

​

These faxes are free to the public--but we have to pay for them. ​

​

Imagine our phone bills! On top of that, we've run several ground-breaking webcasts to show our members exactly what is happening.​

​

These efforts cost a fortune! Please help us now with a generous donation!​

​

Have you been on our website lately? Have you noticed how slow it has been? We literally cannot keep up with the huge, huge demand from the public. More than 100,000 people have come to NumbersUSA for the first time in the past 30 days. We must expand capacity--right now!​

​

 

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Senate Vote on DREAM Act Amnesty Likely to Come Next Week

Updated: Friday, December 10, 2010, 11:03 AM
The pro-amnesty coalition has bragged that it processed 40,000 phone calls this week into Congress in favor of amnesty. Anti-amnesty Americans who want to protect U.S. jobs for unemployed Americans will need to phone their Senators again today. Yesterday, the Senate tabled S.3992 (Senate DREAM Act), so it can instead consider the version passed by the House (H.R.5281). Please continue to call the Senate at 202-224-3121 and urge a NO on the DREAM Act. Read Roy's blog for suggested talking points. Read Full Story

 

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NumbersUSA Leading the Charge Against DREAM Amnesty With Nearly a Million Faxes--Help Us Pay For Them! ​

It's NOW OR NEVER! Please break the piggy bank and send us a gift now. We must win this! ​

[SIZE=+1]Click Here to Donate Now[/SIZE]

Dear Jim,

No group pushes the buttons of Congress like NumbersUSA!​

​

For the past 14 years, many groups have risen up to fight against amnesties by using the Internet. And we're glad they're helping. Some of them mostly use immigration as a fundraising scheme. Others are small and lack influence. NumbersUSA is the giant. We invented faxing to Congress.​

​

You members have ordered 872,000 faxes on the DREAM Act since the debate began in earnest last month.​

​

These faxes are free to the public--but we have to pay for them. ​

​

Imagine our phone bills! On top of that, we've run several ground-breaking webcasts to show our members exactly what is happening.​

​

These efforts cost a fortune! Please help us now with a generous donation!​

​

Have you been on our website lately? Have you noticed how slow it has been? We literally cannot keep up with the huge, huge demand from the public. More than 100,000 people have come to NumbersUSA for the first time in the past 30 days. We must expand capacity--right now!​

​

Their December 2010 Donation Map http://www.numbersusa.com/content/action/donation-map.html

 

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From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA Date: Tuesday 14DEC2010 Noon EST PRO-Amnesty Groups Claim 160,000 Phone Calls

Senate Staying In DC Longer To Have Time To Pass Amnesty

TODAY'S UPDATE ON YOUR LONG & VALIANT BATTLE

Yes, your phone calls are still needed -- and today!

202-224-3121

And be sure to visit your www.NumbersUSA.com/actionbuffet

The PRO-amnesty groups have virtually unlimited funds to solicit phone calls and run them through their expensive call services so they can monitor. I am guessing that their claim of 160,000 phone calls may be accurate. I'm sorry to say this in the middle of the holiday season and just before Christmas, but your calls are the only things keeping a couple more Senators from jumping onto the amnesty bandwagon.

See target lists below.

HERE'S THE UPDATE IN BRIEF FOR TODAY:

• Pro-amnesty forces claim they are only one vote short of victory. I really believe this is part of their two-year-long bluff to try to make themselves seem like they have momentum in order to perhaps frighten some Senators to join the "winning" team. Nonetheless, their claim is unnerving. We can't afford to do anything but take it seriously. The pro-amnesty TV network Univision is reporting 4 votes short of 60, with several still Undeclared. That is scary enough.
• Sen. Brown says NO! That's the best news from yesterday. He was the Republican whom the pro-amnesty forces claimed was going to get them to the 60-vote victory mark. (See more details below.) Congratulations to all you activists in Massachusetts.
• Senate isn't going home at end of week. Senate Majority Leader Reid had earlier indicated he wouldn't keep Senators in session until Christmas Eve like he did last year. Typically, Congress adjourns before Thanksgiving to allow the nation to feel safe at least for the month of December. Reid was supposedly going to let the Senate go home at the end of this week. (The newly elected Congress takes over Jan. 5.) If the Congress adjourned at the end of this week, it was going to be hard to shoe-horn the DREAM Act amnesty debate and vote in between all the giant have-to business. But now, it looks like the Senate is staying in session until next week and maybe until next Thursday the 23rd. Bad news for us.
• Amnesty vote unlikely before LATE this week. Yesterday, we were saying the amnesty vote might happen as early as Wednesday (tomorrow). With the extended Senate session, it is difficult to see the amnesty coming up before this weekend and probably next week. That gives the various contingents of illegal-alien students and clergy coalitions a lot more time to lay guilt trips on Undeclared and squishy-NO Senators back home. More bad news.
• We have only one chance instead of two to defeat on cloture votes. Previously, Sen. Reid had to get 60 votes to pass cloture to START debate on the DREAM amnesty. If we lost that one, we would have another chance to keep him from getting 60 votes to pass cloture to STOP debate and have a final vote. That has changed. Because the House has sent over its own DREAM amnesty, Reid can bring it up for debate at any time WITHOUT a cloture vote. We expect that he will immediately file cloture to STOP the debate even before it begins. Once he does that, he can't hold the cloture vote until two days later. This isn't a big deal, but the change does disadvantage us somewhat from our ability to kill the amnesty.

TOP SENATE TARGETS

UNDECLARED BUT LEANING YES

202-224-3121

ALASKA
Sen. Murkowski (R)
No statement on her web site and no media quotes. Daily Kos says multiple whips counts have her as a likely supporter. Most of the PRO-amnesty groups are counting her as a YES.

LOUISIANA
Sen. Landrieu (D)
She indicates that the House bill needs to be considered because it has some changes (suggesting that she will claim the House bill closes loopholes). She talks of major concern for the "children."

MICHIGAN
Sen. Stabenow (D)
She was a certain YES on cloture to start debate. But she has not indicated whether she would vote YES to end debate and thus pass the bill. She is up for re-election in 2012 in a state that turned sharply Republican in the 2010 elections. Now (as noted above), we are facing only a cloture vote to END debate. PRO-amnesty forces count her as theirs. But I don't think she has to be at all.

MISSOURI
Sen. McCaskill (D)
McCaskill has a wide-ranging interview on her web site. Appears to be leaning toward yes but its non-committal. She says (1) we have never punished children, (2) this is a different bill than the one I voted against, and (3) if this bill is more narrowly drawn, I will take a serious look at it. She needs to be reminded that any amnesty support will certainly show up when she tries to be re-elected in 2012 by a state that went sharply Republican in the 2010 elections.

NORTH DAKOTA
Sen. Dorgan (D)
He was a certain YES on cloture to start debate. But he has not indicated whether he would vote YES to end debate and thus pass the bill. Now (as noted above), we are facing only a cloture vote to END debate. In the past, he has been one of our most reliable NO votes on amnesty. But he is retiring and acting squishy. PRO-amnesty forces are counting him as theirs. I don't think that has to be true at all.

UNDECLARED BUT LEANING NO

202-224-3121

These Senators' staff continually tell our members that they will vote NO. But for some reason, all media and political whip counts are calling them Undeclared. Thank them and encourage them to go ahead and publicly declare themselves a NO.

MONTANA
Sen. Baucus (D)

NORTH CAROLINA
Sen. Hagan (D)

NORTH DAKOTA
Sen. Conrad (D)

UNDECLARED AND TOTALLY UNKNOWN

202-224-3121

WEST VIRGINIA
Sen. Manchin (D)

DECLARED NO BUT OF SOME CONCERN

202-224-3121

MAINE
Sen. Collins (R)

OHIO
Sen. Voinovich (R)

202-224-3121

Please make those calls. We can win this, like we have beaten every amnesty in every year since 2000.

KEY MESSAGES IN ALL PHONE CALLS TO SENATORS WHO ARE SYMPATHETIC TO THE DREAM ACT POSTER CHILDREN

Keep this in mind about Senators who are Undeclared, or who say they will vote NO but are squishy, or who say they will vote YES but are potentially movable to NO:

They all are sympathetic to the poster children of the DREAM Act -- those are the minority of potential amnesty recipients who were brought to the U.S. by their parents when they were infants or toddlers and who are now good high school or college students.

You will gain nothing with the Senators we are trying to reach today by being negative about these students.

Instead, you have to approach these Senators on the basis of practicality. Perhaps the poster children do deserve consideration in the future but not before the enforcement is put in place to stop future illegal immigration. Your argument is that it is not possible in this rushed Lame Duck session to create and pass an amnesty that is limited to the deserving and which will stop future unfair illegal labor competition to unemployed Americans.

My thought is that it would be helpful today for every phone call to make the same pitches to Senators who are sympathetic to the poster children of the DREAM amnesty:

• No matter how sympathetic these students may be, you can't give out another mass amnesty without fixing the weak enforcement that allowed their parents to bring them here and keep them here for years and years. DREAM has ZERO enforcement.
• The DREAM Act amnesty includes no requirement that jobs be shut off to the millions of future illegal aliens who will bring THEIR children and put them in this exact same predicament that DREAM puports to resolve. It is totally irresponsible to the 22 million unemployed Americans to give out a big amnesty without requiring mandatory verification to keep illegal aliens from holding jobs.
  
  SENS. BROWN (R-Mass.) & LeMEIUX (R-Fla.) SHOW THE PRACTICAL RESPONSE TO EMOTIONAL APPEALS
  
  Perhaps no two Senators have been subjected to as much emotional pressure to bow to amnesty. The PRO-amnesty forces have bet the farm on moving these two because of special political circumstances in their states.
  
  In its report of Sen. Brown's declaration of opposition to DREAM amnesty yesterday, the Associated Press reported:
  
  Brown's remarks came as a coalition of educators, religious leaders and immigrant advocates made a last ditch appeal Monday asking him to support the proposal. Brown also had been a target of a national campaign by advocates.
  
  For months, supporters of the bill and illegal immigrant college students, who call themselves "DREAMers," have staged sit-ins, rallies and marches outside Brown's office. Students have left hundreds of signed letters from supporters and young immigrants who said they would enlisted in the military if the bill passed.
  
  Imagine if you were under that kind of emotional pressure? Imagine having all those clergy suggesting that you are inhumane, anti-Hispanic and even immoral if you don't legalize these young adult illegal aliens!
  
  I have to tip my hat to Sen Brown for having the confidence of his convictions and a sense of that morality of standing up for 22 million Americans who want a full-time job but who can't find one. He once again declared his opposition to the DREAM amnesty at a Salvation Army charity event in downtown Boston!!!!!
  
  Sen. LeMieux has been under similar pressures. After the Senate voted to postpone the amnesty vote last week, he put out this statement:
  
  I am very sympathetic to the young people who entered our country illegally by no fault of their own, but I will not support consideration of the DREAM Act without addressing border security. I recently visited the US-Mexico border in Arizona and witnessed the progress toward securing the border. Fully funding and replicating our security successes across the border would allow us to address the DREAM act. However, we are still far from achieving a level of border security that is acceptable to me or to the American people.
  
  I would have liked to see Sen. LeMieux set a higher standard of pre-conditions, including mandatory workplace verification and an end to chain migration, but his standard works just fine for the few weeks until he leaves office.
  
  This is the line in the sand you are asking every Senator to draw . . .
  
  . . . . . The line is that whatever one's feelings about the merits of some illegal aliens for an amnesty, no amnesty should be even talked about until the border is secure against continued mass illegal immigration and our jobs are secure from illegal aliens being able to take them from Americans.
  
  THANKS SO MUCH FOR PICKING UP THAT PHONE ONCE AGAIN,
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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