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Grassfire Nation Update


Jim,

With little fanfare, on Tuesday the House of Representatives
passed their version of the DREAM Act. As orchestrated
between Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Harry
Reid, the passage is part of a carefully designed
strategy between the House and Senate.

We have already lived this nightmare several
times from the Obama-Reid-Pelosi machine.
The fact is, Reid used political maneuvering
while working behind closed doors to ensure
that the House version of the DREAM Amnesty
Act now makes it to the Senate floor - as
early as WEDNESDAY NIGHT!

The DREAM Amnesty Act is nothing more than a pet payback
project of Reid that amounts to amnesty for millions of
illegal aliens currently living in the U.S. illegally.

++Your fast action is needed!

We must take action now.

There are a number of Republican and moderate
Democrat fence-sitters who are either undecided
or unannounced as to their voting positions on
the DREAM Act.

The votes of these lawmakers could mean the difference in
this amnesty bill, which is why -- during this late hour
we are sounding the alarm for grassroots Americans to
reach out to these undecideds and unannounced to ensure
that YOUR VOICE is heard on this latest Reid amnesty scam!

Tell Senators and those sitting on the fence what you
think of Reid's nightmarish DREAM Amnesty Act proposal
by clicking here right now and scheduling your personalized
faxes for fast delivery to these key offices!

Click here now to take action:

http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?U=35743&CID=117&RID=24807946

Don't delay in contacting your senators today!

With one simple click our Faxfire system delivers YOUR
personalized fax message directly to the key players in
this rapidly unfolding debate - a debate that left
unchallenged by Americans like you may result in the
"legalizing" of millions of illegal aliens!

Click here to fax the key lawmakers who may decide the
fate of the DREAM act amnesty bill:

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Regardless of the method you choose, it is vital that
our grassroots team take action to stop the DREAM Act
from becoming reality and forever altering the makeup of
our nation.

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

The new breaking news and information is dealing a heavy blow to this Congress and the nationally destructive Dream Act Amnesty which is now on course to be voted on next week!

Our only hope is if thousands of us speak with one voice and we focus on the same topics together, then this critical information may reach members of the Senate. The Dream Amnesty callers and lobbyists are all over lawmakers and staff. Let's move together with one voice and strategy to break through!

The racist comments of Dream supporter Kent Wong are featured in the Washington Times and World Net Daily today. Keep spreading the news!

News is also breaking that Congress' approval rating has dived to an historic low, although Gallup polling is trying to exclude Dream Amnesty as a reason. It is up to you to correct that propaganda. The poll was taken right on top of the Dream Amnesty vote in Congress that passed the bill!

Another one of our heroic border patrol agents has been killed and the news is just now breaking. How can the Senate consider Amnesty when our borders remain open and unsecured?

Please continue and intensify your calls to our targeted US Senate offices, but please change your messaging today.

Today and tomorrow we want you to flood these offices with calls, emails, faxes, and letters about the following news....

NEW MESSAGES

Dream Amnesty Supporter: Hispanics should replace old white men
http://www.alipac.us/article-5938-thread-1-0.html

Dream Amnesty: Congressional Approval Dives to Historic Low!
http://www.alipac.us/article-5939-thread-1-0.html

Border Patrol Agent Killed in Southern Arizona!
Senate considers Amnesty while border unsecured
http://www.alipac.us/article-5940-thread-1-0.html


Here are ALIPAC's Senate targets. Please craft your own message and call in and then fax and email your written message.

CALL THESE OFFICES WITH YOUR MESSAGES
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-219596.html


We need thousands of calls made to these offices within the next 48 hours!

The Dream Amnesty is taking a major hit today if you can deliver the calls, emails, and faxes.

The ALIPAC Team
www.alipac.us


PS: Please keep watching and circulating this video and sending copies to the US Senate! We are receiving more honors on Youtube thanks to your efforts!
Racist Comments From Dream Amnesty Supporters Replace Whites
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFCCHbLMqME
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[FONT=arial, helvetica]Alert! Call swing Senators to stop the DREAM Act amnesty![/FONT]Senate Majority Leader Reid has confirmed that he still plans a vote on the DREAM Act amnesty. It could occur any time after a vote on the tax deal, since the Republicans have agreed to block any other legislation until that is resolved.


Please call the following U.S. Senators who are key swing votes through the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 and urge a NO vote.

Sen. Baucus (D) - MT
Sen. Dorgan (D) - ND
Sen. Landrieu (D) – LA
Sen. Manchin (D) - WV
Sen. McCaskill (D) - MO
Sen. Murkowski (R) - AK
Sen. Stabenow (D) - MI​

Click here for Talking Points and to send a letter to your Senatorshttp://capwiz.com/caps/utr/1/LGJXNUAQKK/FDKJNUATIO/6241274126​

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From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA Date: Wednesday 15DEC2010 Noon EST Reid Says Amnesty Vote Pushed Off To Early Next Week

GOOD NEWS -- No New YES Votes For DREAM Amnesty

BAD NEWS -- Talk of hiding amnesty inside giant spending & tax bills

See below for our latest target list for today.

HERE'S THE UPDATE IN BRIEF FOR TODAY:

• Massive pro-amnesty pressure this week has failed to get a single new YES vote. Congratulatons to all of you who have been phoning with practical and rational comments about the DREAM amnesty. Just as last week, we would beat that amnesty if the vote were held in the Senate today. But we can't stop phoning because Senate leaders are trying to give pro-amnesty advocates every moment possible to find the last of the 60 votes they need.
• No. 2 Senate Majority Leader Reid (D-Nev.) now is pushing the DREAM Act amnesty vote out of this week and he says likely early next week. Nonetheless, he continues to claim that the amnesty vote is a higher priority for the Senate leadership than all but three or four of the long wish list they have before Christmas.
• Reid also indicates that if amnesty doesn't pass before Christmas he may bring Senate back between Christmas and New Year's. He also has suggested he might bring the old Senate back on Monday and Tuesday after New Year's for the final two days before the Congress that was elected in November takes over. He knows that an amnesty has zero chance of passing in the newly elected Congress, so he seems intent on holding the old Congress around as long as he needs to get an amnesty to the President's desk.
• Danger of hiding amnesty inside larger bill during the Lame Duck? The ILW.com website for immigration lawyers carried some fascinating comments this week about the desperation among pro-amnesty advocates. In giving three reasons why the nation's attorneys should support the DREAM amnesty was: "a not-insignificant fraction of DREAM beneficiaries will need legal counsel, one of the few bright spots on the horizon for law firms suffering from the Great Recession." While noting that Reid still doesn't have the votes to pass the DREAM amnesty on its own, "If DREAM passage is to be ensured, the sure-fire method is to attach it to a must-pass bill. Two such bills are currently in play and DREAM could conceivably be attached to either. The bills are of course, the tax cut bill and the Continuing Resolution for Appropriations for FY 2011. . . even serious discussion about attaching DREAM to the must-pass bills would go a long way to getting the 60 votes on the stand-alone bill."
  
  TOP PHONE TARGETS TODAY
  
  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.
  
  LEANING NO BUT PROBABLY NEED MORE ENCOURAGEMENT
  
  202-224-3121
  
  These Senators' staff continually tell our members that they will vote NO. But based on past performance, on current pressure from PRO-amnesty forces in their states, etc., our Hill Team believes they need lots more phone calls thanking them for their expected NO vote and reminding them why they are taking the ethically and practically correct position.
  
  MAINE
  Sen. Collins (R)
  Sen. Snowe (R)
  
  MONTANA
  Sen. Baucus (D)
  
  NORTH CAROLINA
  Sen. Hagan (D)
  
  NORTH DAKOTA
  Sen. Conrad (D)
  
  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.
    
    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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NCFIRE​

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North Carolinians For Immigration Reform and Enforcement​

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Secure Our Borders - Enforce Our Laws
www.NCFIRE.info​

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The mobile Mexican Consulate is coming to the Greenville NC Convention Center this Saturday AND Sunday (18th and 19th) to sell Mexican matricula consular ID cards and Mexican passports to "UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS" in the area. They will also be REGISTERING PEOPLE TO VOTE!


The Mexican Consulate has leased space in the TAXPAYER FUNDED Convention Center for 2 days because of the large number of illegal aliens they expect to show up. Why is a foreign national government handling their affairs on North Carolina taxpayer property?


The center is located at303 Greenville Blvd., Greenville, NC. Their phone number is: (252) 321-7671.Here is the Greenville Convention Center calendar which shows the event:
http://www.gcccalendar.com/month.php

The local Hilton Hotel is sponsoring the event and Tom Glennon is the CEO of the hotel. His contact info is: (252) 355-5000. **Call Mr. Glennon and ask him why he is aiding and abetting illegal aliens by sponsoring this event on local taxpayer property?

Talking Points

1. No foreign governments should be using U.S./NC taxpayer property for the purpose of selling ID cards to those illegally present in OUR country.
2. Legally present foreign nationals have a passport from their home country and a U.S. VISA. Nothing less.
3. Continuing to "aid and abet" ILLEGAL ALIENS is VERY costly to taxpayers. Schooling, medical, housing, interpreters, legal representation, etc.
4. Insist that your elected officials represent legal citizens and their interests. We are the voting constituents.
5. Border enforcement; first, foremost, and only. No AMNESTY, aiding or abetting is acceptable.

Contact List Below...please be the polite and respectful Americans that we pride ourselves on.

1. Contact: Congressman Walter Jones at the phone numbers below and ask him to continue his support of immigration enforcement in North Carolina.



Greenville N.C. Office:
1105-C Corporate Drive
Greenville, NC 27858-4211
Phone: 252-931-1003 or toll-free 800-351-1697 (in N.C. only)
Fax: 252-931-1002


Washington, DC Office:
2333 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington DC 20515
Phone: 202-225-3415
Fax: 202-225-3286

2. Contact the Greenville City Council:

Mayor Patricia C. (Pat) Dunn
1103 Ragsdale Road
Greenville, NC 27858
Telephone: 252-758-1692
pdunn2@suddenlink.net

Mayor Pro-Tem Bryant Kittrell
PO Box 7207
Greenville, NC 27835
Telephone: 252-355-0088
bryantkittrell@kittrellandarmstrong.com

Council Member Kandie SmithPO Box 7207
Greenville, NC 27835
Telephone: 252-565-4617
ksmith@greenvillenc.gov

Council Member Rose H. Glover
2115 South Village Drive
Greenville, NC 27834
Telephone: 252-752-1113
rglover50@suddenlink.net

Council Member Marion Blackburn
PO Box 7207
200 West Fifth Street
Greenville, NC 27835
Telephone: 252-931-0728
info@MarionBlackburn.com

Council Member Calvin Mercer
PO Box 7207
Greenville, NC 27835
Telephone: 252-551-9189
mercerc99@yahoo.com

Council Member Max Joyner, Jr.
105 East Arlington Boulevard
Greenville, NC 27858
Telephone: 252-756-8300
mjoyner@clementins.com




3. Contact the Pitt County Commissioners: http://www.pittcountync.gov/bcc/apps/members/

Kimberly W. Hines, Clerk to the Board
Pitt County Office Building
1717 W. 5th Street
Greenville, NC 27834
252.902.2950
252.830.6311 (Fax)



James Johnson
President-NCFIRE
North Carolinians For Immigration Reform and Enforcement
www.NCFIRE.info
www.Facebook.com/NCFIRE
NCFIRE@ncfire.info
NCFIRE Hotline: 1-888-885-0879

 

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Dirty Harry now says he will bring the Dream Act up for a vote on Saturday, December 18.

 

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From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA Date: Friday 17DEC2010 9 p.m. EST Forward this Alert to your friends so they can also watch this momentous vote and hear analysis of what it might mean.

WATCH NUMBERSUSA'S LIVE WEBCAST
OF SENATE VOTE ON DREAM ACT AMNESTY

10 a.m. SATURDAY MORNING
www.NumbersUSA.tv

Be sure to type dot tv and NOT dot com.

Friends, as a group, you put in one whale of a day of phoning and faxing. I offer my sincerest thanks to every one of you who gave up spectator status and joined the lions in the arena of our national community's political battles. You have fought for principles dear to you, and dear to the future of our country.

Now, there is nothing else you can do but watch to see how our 100 U.S. Senators end up voting.

But thanks to your constant efforts for 24 months of this now-waning Congress, our prospects for tomorrow continue to look very good.

The biggest amnesty vote since 2007 is scheduled to be the first order of business after the Senate convenes tomorrow morning (Saturday the 18th).

Plan to come to the web page at 10. If Majority Leader Reid pushes back the time, we will put up a sign telling you when to check back.

EVERY YEAR FOR 10 YEARS, NumbersUSA's ARMY OF CITIZENS HAS FOUGHT AGAINST MAJOR AMNESTY EFFORTS.

We've lost occasionally (the Senate in 2006 and the House just last week, for example).

BUT NO AMNESTY HAS EVER MADE IT TO THE PRESIDENT'S DESK.

If the DREAM Act amnesty gets 60 votes tomorrow in the Senate, it goes to the President's desk and our as-yet-unblemished decade will end with a disaster.

But if DREAM falls short of 60 tomorrow, you citizens who have worked hand in hand with us for 10 long years will have a decade of perfect defense, with no real chance of any amnesty threats in the next two years and hopefully beyond.

Thanks again for all of your hard work,

See you tomorrow morning.

10 a.m. SATURDAY
www.NumbersUSA.tv




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[FONT=arial, helvetica]ACTION ALERT! -- Saturday vote likely for DREAM Act amnesty! Call Senators to stop it![/FONT]


Senate Majority Leader Reid has announced that he is scheduling a cloture vote on the House DREAM Act amnesty for Saturday. We must ask you once again to call Senators and stop this bill.​

1. Call your two Senators through the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 and ask for a NO vote.

1. Call one of the local offices in your state for your Senators, especially if you cannot get through to the Washington office.
   Click here, then go to the "Elected Officials" map to find the numbers on CAPS website.

1. Call the following U.S. Senators, who are considered swing votes, through the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 and urge a NO vote.

Sen. Baucus (D) - MT
Sen. Dorgan (D) - ND
Sen. Landrieu (D) – LA
Sen. Manchin (D) - WV
Sen. McCaskill (D) – MO
Sen. Murkowski (R) - AK
Sen. Stabenow (D) - MI

When you call, be polite. Briefly point out that this bill is unfair to American students and legal immigrants. This mini-amnesty will only encourage more amnesties and more illegal immigration.​

Please call again. Thank you.
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[FONT=Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Friends of ALIPAC,

The fuse has been lit in the night by Senator Harry Reid and the nationally destructive Dream Act Amnesty is up for another vote Saturday morning. Reid only needs a few votes. We believe Amnesty can be stopped if enough of you respond immediately.

We need over 5,000 calls generated by ALIPAC to stand a chance! Please take this threat seriously, get on the phones now, get others on the phones with you, and call! call! call! until the vote is taken Saturday morning.

The paid phone banks of the illegal aliens and their supporters are surging today to take America from you with an Amnesty that can be applied to most or all illegal aliens in America.

Please read and distribute our national press release then get on those calls!

National Release
Dream Amnesty Allows Obama To Grant Amnesty To All Illegals
http://www.alipac.us/article-5950-thread-1-0.html


Step 1

Everyone call Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY). McConnell is the minority leader. Call and say your version of...

"I'm calling to tell Senator McConnell that every single Republican in the Senate had better vote NO ON CLOTURE for the Dream Amnesty tomorrow. I am going to hold Senator McConnell, as minority leader, personally responsible for keeping Republicans together in opposition to this terrible Dream Act AMNESTY bill that would allow Obama and Homeland Security to give Amnesty to any and all illegal aliens according to the 'waiver' on page 5 line 21. Please let Senator McConnell know that Americans are counting on him to assure all GOP Senators vote NO ON DREAM AMNESTY CLOTURE"

McConnell contact info at....
http://mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=OfficeLocations



Step 2: After calling the minority leader's office, let's all fall in formation behind the targets chosen by our friends at NumbersUSA. Please select from our suggested talking points and then call each and every Senator listed below. If you call through the list once, start at the beginning and call again! By calling using these suggestions from NumbersUSA we can concentrate our impact.

Call to say / or leave a message

"Please ask Senator _____ to vote NO ON DREAM AMNESTY CLOTURE because HR5281 on page 5 line 21 allows Obama and Homeland Security to waive all requirements and grant amnesty to almost all illegal aliens in America."

"Please vote NO ON CLOTURE FOR 5281 AMNESTY BILL because this bill will displace and replace millions of innocent American workers, students, and voters."

"Please ask Senator _______ to vote NO ON CLOTURE ON THE DREAM AMNESTY BILL and tell Harry Reid that America wants Congress to come home for Christmas and end the lame duck!"


Call lists and posture...
From NumbersUSA

TOP PRIORITY: Encourage These 12 Senators
To Stick With Leanings or Pledges To Vote NO

This is the group that we HAVE to win. Fortunately, they are all leaning toward voting NO and their staff may even be saying they probably will vote NO. But our allies in the Senate don't feel absolutely sure of these votes. The dozen Senators are under enormous lobbying pressure intended to make them feel inhumane if they vote NO.

Give them quick phone calls to thank them for their intention to vote NO on the DREAM Act amnesty. And note that a key reason they are right is that DREAM provides zero enforcement to stop future millions of illegal workers from coming and taking jobs from hard-pressed Americans.

Florida
George LeMieux (R)
Washington, DC ph: 202-224-3041 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 205100001
Coral Gables, FL ph: 305-418-8553 adr: 8669 NW 36th St., Coral Gables, FL 33166
Jacksonville, FL ph: 904-398-8586 adr: 1650 Prudential Drive, Jacksonville, FL 32207
Pensacola, FL ph: 850-433-2603 adr: 1 N. Palafox St., Pensacola, FL 32502
Tampa, FL ph: 813-977-6450 adr: 3802 Spectrum Boulevard, Tampa, FL 33612

Kansas
Sam Brownback (R)
Washington, DC ph: 202-224-6521 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 205100001
Topeka, KS ph: 785-233-2503 adr: 612 S. Kansas Ave., Topeka, KS 66603
Garden City, KS ph: 620-275-1124 adr: 811 North Main St., Garden City, KS 67846
Overland Park, KS ph: 913-492-6378 adr: 11111 West 95th - Suite 245, Overland Park, KS 66214
Wichita, KS ph: 316-264-8066 adr: 245 N. Waco, Wichita, KS 67202
Pittsburgh, KS ph: 620-231-6040 adr: 1001-C N. Broadway, Pittsburgh, KS 66762

MAINE

Susan Collins (R)
Washington, DC: ph: 202-224-2523 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510
Augusta: ph: 207-622-8414 adr: 68 Seawall Street, Augusta, ME 04330
Bangor: ph: 207-945-0417 adr: 202 Harlow Street - Room 204, Bangor, ME 04401
Biddeford: ph: 207-283-1101 adr: 160 Main Street, Biddeford, ME 04005
Caribou: ph: 207-493-7873 adr: 25 Sweden Street - Suite A, Caribou, ME 04736
Lewiston: ph: 207-784-6969 adr: 11 Lisbon Street, Lewiston, ME 04240
Portland: ph: 207-780-3575 adr: 1 City Center, Portland, ME 04101

Olympia Snowe (R)
Washington, DC: ph: 202-224-5344 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510
Auburn: ph: 207-786-2451 adr: Two Great Falls Plaza, Auburn, ME 04210
Augusta: ph: 207-622-8292 adr: 68 Sewall Street - Suite 101C, Augusta, ME 04330
Bangor: ph: 207-945-0432 adr: 1 Cumberland Place, Bangor, ME 04401
Biddeford: ph: 207-282-4144 adr: 231 Main Street, Suite 2, Biddeford, ME 04005
Lewiston: ph: 207-784-6969 adr: 11 Lisbon Street, Lewiston, ME 04240
Portland: ph: 207-874-0883 adr: 3 Canal Plaza - Suite 601, Portland, ME 04112
Presque Isle: ph: 207-764-5124 adr: 169 Academy Street, Presque Isle, ME 04769

MONTANA

Max Baucus (D)
Washington, DC ph: 202-224-2651 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510
Billings: ph: 406-657-6790 adr: 202 Fratt Building, Billings, MT 59101
Bozeman: ph: 406-586-6104 adr: Federal Building, Bozeman, MT 59715
Butte: ph: 406-782-8700 adr: Silver Bow Center, Butte, MT 59701
Great Falls: ph: 406-761-1574 adr: 18 5th Street South, Great Falls, MT 59401
Helena: ph: 406-449-5480 adr: 225 Cruse Avenue - Suite D, Helena, MT 59601
Missoula: ph: 406-329-3123 adr: 211 North Higgins - Room 102, Missoula, MT 59802

Jon Tester (D)
Washington, DC: ph: 202-224-2644 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 205100001
Billings: ph: 406-252-0550 adr: 222 North 32nd Street, Billings, MT 59101
Helena: ph: 406-449-5401 adr: 208 North Montana Avenue, Helena, MT 59601
Missoula, MT ph: 406-728-3003 adr: 116 West Front Street, Missoula, MT 59802
Butte, MT ph: 406-723-3277 adr: 125 West Granite, Butte, MT 59701
Great Falls, MT ph: 406-452-9585 adr: 321 First Avenue North, Great Falls, MT 59401
Kalispell, MT ph: 406-257-3360 adr: 1845 Highway 93 South, Kalispell, MT 59901

NORTH CAROLINA
Kay Hagan (D)
Washington, DC: ph: 202-224-6342 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510
Greensboro: ph: 336-333-5311 adr: 701 Green Valley Rd, Greensboro, NC 27408
Raleigh: ph: 919-856-4630 adr: 310 New Bern Avenue, Raleigh, NC 27601

NORTH DAKOTA
Kent Conrad (D)
Washington, DC: ph: 202-224-2043 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510
Bismarck: ph: 701-258-4648 adr: Federal Building, Bismarck, ND 58501
Fargo: ph: 701-232-8030 adr: Federal Building, Fargo, ND 58102
Grand Forks: ph: 701-775-9601 adr: Federal Building, Grand Forks, ND 58203
Minot: ph: 701-852-0703 adr: 100 First Street SW, Suite 105, Minot, ND 58701

OHIO
George Voinovich (R)
Washington, DC ph: 202-224-3353 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 205100001
Nelsonville, OH ph: 740-441-6410 adr: 78 West Washington Street, Nelsonville, OH 45764
Columbus, OH ph: 614-469-6697 adr: 37 West Broad Street - Room 310, Columbus, OH 43215
Toledo, OH ph: 419-259-3895 adr: 420 Madison Avenue - Room 1210, Toledo, OH 43604
Cincinnati, OH ph: 513-684-3265 adr: 36 East 7th Street - Room 2615, Cincinnati, OH 45202
Cleveland, OH ph: 216-522-7095 adr: 1240 East 9th Street - Suite 2955, Cleveland, OH 44199

Texas
Kay Bailey Hutchison (R)
Washington, DC ph: 202-224-5922 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 205100001
Harlingen, TX ph: 956-412-1468 adr: 222 East Van Buren Street, Harlingen, TX 78550
Dallas, TX ph: 214-361-3500 adr: 10440 North Central Expressway - Suite 1160, LB 606, Dallas, TX 75231
Houston, TX ph: 713-653-3456 adr: 1919 Smith Street - Suite 800, Houston, TX 77002
Austin, TX ph: 512-916-5834 adr: Federal Building, Austin, TX 78701
San Antonio, TX ph: 210-340-2885 adr: 145 Duncan Drive, San Antonio, TX 78226
Abilene, TX ph: 325-676-2839 adr: 500 Chestnut Street - Suite 1570, Abilene, TX 79602

West Virginia
Joe Manchin (D)
Washington, DC
ph: 202-224-3954 adr: 311 Hart Office Bldg., Washington, DC 20510

Vermont
Judd Gregg (R)
Washington, DC ph: 202-224-3324 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 205100001
Berlin, AL ph: 603-752-2604 adr: 60 Pleasant Street, Berlin, AL 03570
Portsmouth, NH ph: 603-431-2171 adr: 16 Pease Blvd., Portsmouth, NH 03801
Manchester, NH ph: 603-622-7979 adr: 41 Hooksett Street, Manchester, NH 03104
Concord, NH ph: 603-225-7115 adr: 125 North Main Street, Concord, NH 03301

2nd PRIORITY: Pound These 3 Senators Up For Re-Election in 2012 Who Are Leaning YES on Amnesty

There is no logical political reason for these Senators to vote YES on amnesty . . . if the people of their states know what they are doing. All three of these have good tendencies in our direction on amnesty in the past. But they are acting like this amnesty is somehow different.

Your job with these Senators is to persuade their staffs that voting for an amnesty without any enforcement will definitely be a key issue in the 2012 elections during what all experts predict will be continuing high unemployment for U.S. workers.

All three of these are Democrats in states that swung heavily Republican in last month's elections. A vote for amnesty might look like political suicide.

MICHIGAN
Debbie Stabenow (D)
Washington, DC: ph: 202-224-4822 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510
Detroit: ph: 313-961-4330 adr: 243 West Congress, Detroit, MI 48226
East Lansing: ph: 517-203-1760 adr: 221 W Lake Lansing Rd, East Lansing, MI 48823
Flint: ph: 810-720-4172 adr: 2503 South Linden Road, Flint, MI 48532
Grand Rapids: ph: 616-975-0052 adr: 3230 Broadmoor Street, Grand Rapids, MI 49512
Marquette: ph: 906-228-8756 adr: 1901 West Ridge, Marquette, MI 49855
Traverse City: ph: 231-929-1031 adr: 3335 South Airport Road W, Traverse City, MI 49684

MISSOURI
Claire McCaskill (D)
Washington, DC: ph: 202-224-6154 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510
Cape Girardeau: ph: 573-651-0964 adr: 555 Independence Ave., Cape Girardeau, MO 63703
Columbia: ph: 573-442-7130 adr: 915 East Ash Street, Columbia, MO 65201
Kansas City: ph: 816-421-1639 adr: 4141 Pennsylvania, Kansas City, MO 64111
Springfield: ph: 417-868-8745 adr: 324 Park Central West, Springfield, MO 65806
St. Louis: ph: 314-367-1364 adr: 5850 A Delmar Boulevard, St. Louis, MO 63112

VIRGINIA
Jim Webb (D)
Washington, DC: ph: 202-224-4024 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510
Falls Church: ph: 703-573-7090 adr: 7309 Arlington Boulevard, Falls Church, VA 22042
Richmond: ph: 804-771-2221 adr: 507 East Franklin Street, Richmond, VA 23219
Roanoke: ph: 540-772-4236 adr: 3140 Chaparral Drive, Roanoke, VA 24018
Virginia Beach: ph: 757-518-1674 adr: 222 Central Park Ave, Virginia Beach, VA 23462

3rd PRIORITY: These 3 Senators Do NOT Face 2012 Re-Election But Are On The Fence And Leaning YES

All three of these have voted with us against amnesty in the past.

Tell their staffs that you don't understand how the Senator could oppose "comprehensive immigration reform" in the past when amnesty and enforcement were wrapped together, but now they are willing to pass an amnesty with NO enforcement.

ALASKA
Lisa Murkowski (R)
Washington, DC: ph: 202-224-6665 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510
Anchorage: ph: 877-829-6030 adr: 510 L Street, Anchorage, AK 99501
Fairbanks: ph: 907-456-0233 adr: 101 12th Avenue, Fairbanks, AK 99701
Juneau: ph: 907-586-7400 adr: 709 West 9th Street, Juneau, AK 99802
Kenai: ph: 907-283-5808 adr: 130 Trading Bay Road, Kenai, AK 99611
Ketchikan: ph: 907-283-5208 adr: 540 Water Street, Ketchikan, AK 99901
Wasilla: ph: 907-376-7665 adr: 851 East Westpoint Drive, Wasilla, AK 99654

LOUISIANA
Mary Landrieu (D)
Washington, DC: ph: 202-224-5824 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510
Baton Rouge: ph: 225-389-0395 adr: U.S. Postal Building, Baton Rouge, LA 70801
Lake Charles: ph: 337-436-6650 adr: One Lakeshore Drive, Lake Charles, LA 70629
New Orleans: ph: 504-589-2427 adr: Hale Boggs Federal Bldg, New Orleans, LA 70130
Shreveport: ph: 318-676-3085 adr: U.S. Courthouse, Shreveport, LA 71101

NORTH DAKOTA
Byron Dorgan (D and retiring)
Washington, DC: ph: 202-224-2551 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510
Bismarck: ph: 701-250-4618 adr: Federal Building, Bismarck, ND 58501
Fargo: ph: 701-239-5389 adr: 112 Roberts Street, Fargo, ND 58102
Grand Forks: ph: 701-746-9126 adr: 102 North 4th St, #108, Grand Forks, ND 58201
Minot: ph: 701-852-0703 adr: 100 First Street South West, Suite 105, Minot, ND 58701

4th PRIORITY: These 6 Senators Lean Strongly YES On Amnesty But Will Have To Face Voters In 2012

Most of these Democrats have had very little interest in hearing from us in the past.

But after last month's cataclysmic results, these Senators find themselves in states where they could have a really competitive race in 2012. Thanks to all of you who phoned them today. Now, we need another round of calls telling them how much an amnesty vote Saturday will be like an albatross around their necks during the 2012 campaigns.

CONNECTICUT
Joseph Lieberman (D)
Washington, DC: ph: 202-224-4041 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510
Hartford: ph: 860-549-8463 adr: One Constitution Plaza, Hartford, CT 06103

FLORIDA
Bill Nelson (D)
Washington, DC: ph: 202-224-5274 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510
Coral Gables: ph: 305-536-5999 adr: 2925 Salzedo Street, Coral Gables, FL 33134
Davie: ph: 954-693-4851 adr: 3416 South University Drive, Davie, FL 33328
Fort Myers: ph: 239-334-7760 adr: 2000 Main Street, Fort Myers, FL 33901
Jacksonville: ph: 904-346-4500 adr: 1301 Riverplace Boulevard, Jacksonville , FL 32207
Orlando: ph: 407-872-7161 adr: 225 East Robinson Street, Orlando, FL 32801
Tallahassee: ph: 850-942-8415 adr: U.S. Courthouse Annex, Tallahassee, FL 32301
West Palm Beach: ph: 561-514-0189 adr: 500 Australian Ave, West Palm Bch, FL 33401

MINNESOTA
Amy Klobuchar (D)
Washington, DC: ph: 202-224-3244 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510
Minneapolis: ph: 612-727-5220 adr: 1200 Washington Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55415
Moorhead: ph: 218-287-2219 adr: 121 4th Street South, Moorhead, MN 56560
Rochester: ph: 507-288-5321 adr: 1134 7th Street NW, Rochester, MN 55901
Virginia: ph: 218-741-9690 adr: 820 9th Street North, Virginia, MN 55792

NEW MEXICO
Jeff Bingaman (D)
Washington, DC ph: 202-224-5521 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510
Albuquerque: ph: 505-346-6601 adr: 625 Silver Ave SW, #130, Albuquerque, NM 87102
Las Cruces: ph: 575-523-6561 adr: Loretto Town Centre, Las Cruces, NM 88001
Las Vegas: ph: 505-454-8824 adr: 118 Bridge Street - Suite 3, Las Vegas, NM 87701
Roswell: ph: 575-622-7113 adr: 105 West Third Street - Suite 409, Roswell, NM 88201
Santa Fe: ph: 505-988-6647 adr: 119 East Marcy - Suite 101, Santa Fe, NM 87501

OHIO
Sherrod Brown (D)
Washington, DC: ph: 202-224-2315 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510
Cincinnati: ph: 513-684-1021 adr: 425 Walnut Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202
Cleveland: ph: 216-522-7272 adr: 1301 East Ninth St., Cleveland, OH 44114
Columbus: ph: 614-469-2083 adr: 200 N High St., Columbus, OH 43215
Lorain: ph: 440-242-4100 adr: 205 West 20th St., Lorain, OH 44052

WASHINGTON
Maria Cantwell (D)
Washington, DC: ph: 202-224-3441 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510
Everett: ph: 888-648-7328 adr: 2930 Wetmore Avenue, Everett, WA 98201
Richland: ph: 509-946-8106 adr: 825 Jadwin Avenue, Richland, WA 99352
Seattle: ph: 206-220-6400 adr: 915 Second Avenue, Seattle, WA 98174
Spokane: ph: 509-353-2507 adr: U.S. Federal Courthouse, Spokane, WA 99201
Tacoma: ph: 253-572-2281 adr: 950 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, WA 98402
Vancouver: ph: 360-696-7838 adr: 1313 Officers Row, Vancouver, WA 98661

WISCONSIN
Herb Kohl (D)
Washington, DC: ph: 202-224-5653 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510
Appleton: ph: 920-738-1640 adr: 4321 West College Ave., Appleton, WI 54914
Eau Claire: ph: 715-832-8424 adr: 402 Graham Ave, #206, Eau Claire, WI 54701
LaCrosse: ph: 608-796-0045 adr: 425 State Street - Suite 202, LaCrosse, WI 54601
Madison: ph: 608-264-5338 adr: 14 West Muffin Street - Suite 312, Madison, WI 53703
Milwaukee: ph: 414-297-4451 adr: 310 W Wisconsin Ave - #950, Milwaukee, WI 53203

Friends, you will need to start phoning as soon as you get up Friday and see this. And your phone calls will be good all day.

Very few Senate offices are likely to keep their phones open Friday evening or Saturday morning. So, you need to make the calls before this evening.

THANKS FOR ONE LAST FLURRY OF CALLS,

www.NumbersUSA.com

received by e-mail from Numbers USA on Fri, Dec 17, 2010 1:42 am.

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Dirty Harry now says he will bring the Dream Act up for a vote on Saturday, December 18.

Yeah just found out...Latest newsletters posted above...Looking for more...Busy so couldnt post yesterday ............. 10AM Saturday live webcast www.numbersusa.tv

 

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Senate to Vote on DREAM Act Saturday!
Call Your Senators NOW and Tell Them to Vote NO

Senator Reid Thursday evening filed cloture on the House version of the DREAM Act (H.R.5281) and immediately announced that he would bring the bill up for a vote Saturday--most likely Saturday morning. If the Senate passes the DREAM Act, it will go straight to the President’s desk and become law. We therefore have about 36 hours to make sure all 100 Senators know that the American people overwhelmingly reject the DREAM Act!
Call your Senators NOW and tell them you want them to vote NO on the DREAM Act!

The DREAM Act has been one of the key items in the special-interest agenda Democratic Leadership has been desperately trying to pass in the waning days of the 111th Congress. We need you to tell the United States Senate that Americans will no longer tolerate special interest legislation like the DREAM Act--legislation designed to unfairly benefit one group, while ignoring the interests of the American people as a whole.
Keep calling your Senators until you get through!

Even though the holidays are approaching quickly, we need all of our members, activists and friends to summon up one more bit of energy and call their Senators. If you can’t get through to the Washington, D.C. office, try calling your local office. Remember, if you do not call your Senators, the only people influencing their votes will be the special interests hovering over Capitol Hill at this very moment. Don’t forget: if the Senate passes the DREAM Act, it will go straight to the President’s desk and become law!
When you call your Senators, tell them:

• Congress should be using its time and energy in the lame-duck session to help American workers, not illegal aliens;
• American students should not have to compete with illegal aliens for limited federal dollars and declining slots at colleges and universities;
• It is unfair that hard-working American taxpayers are forced to subsidize the education of illegal aliens; and
• Granting amnesty to lawbreakers does nothing to stop illegal immigration and will only encourage more.

To find the phone numbers of your Senators, click here. Stay tuned for more information as the action unfolds on Capitol Hill.

 

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ATTN: Greenville, NC Hilton Hotel NOT sponsoring Mexican event


I have contacted the Greenville, NC Hilton Hotel. CEO Tom Glennon's spokesman has assured me that the Hilton Hotel has nothing to do with the event at the Greenville Convention Center this weekend.


NCFIRE obtained this information from the Mexican Consulate in Raleigh, NC when we called inquiring about the event they had posted on their event calendar: http://portal.sre.gob.mx/raleigh/index.php?option=displaypage&Itemid=105&op=page&a mp;SubMenu= .


NCFIRE regrets the information that we passed along in our previous email and we request that our members please stop calling the Greenville Hilton Hotel.



James Johnson
President-NCFIRE
North Carolinians For Immigration Reform and Enforcement
www.NCFIRE.info
www.Facebook.com/NCFIRE
NCFIRE@ncfire.info
NCFIRE Hotline: 1-888-885-0879

 

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AMNESTY ALERT! “DREAM ACT� AMNESTY VOTE TOMORROW!
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Dear Fellow Patriots,

News agencies have are reporting that a LAST DITCH effort by Obama-Reid-Pelosi to force the nightmarish, amnesty scheme dubbed the “DREAM Act� down the throats of the American people will happen THIS WEEKEND!

A vote is expected SATURDAY morning in the US SENATE to force debate on the amnesty scheme which would create a pathway to citizenship for millions of younger illegal aliens if they enroll in college or join the U.S. military!

FACT: The federal government would FORCE colleges and universities to grant preferential treatment to illegal aliens in admissions and financial aid over tax-paying U.S. citizens!

FACT: Mexican drug cartels are already run by ruthless criminals who served in military units already trained by U.S. military programs. Do we need to train citizens from hundreds of nations which don’t support the U.S. how best to hurt us? NO!

The so-called “DREAM Act� is a nightmare of economic and national security disasters just waiting to happen. Please help us stop it. This is our last battle of this Congress and the last power-grab by OBAMA-REID-PELOSI before they lose their total-control of Washington in January.

FAX CONGRESS TODAY! Help give courage to those U.S. Senators brave enough to oppose the White House political machine and SAY “NO� TO AMNESTY!

FAX CONGRESS TODAY and while the debate is raging, let Congress know America is STILL watching!

Obama-Reid-Pelosi thing American’s aren’t paying attention. In fact, they are counting on it. They need us out buying Christmas presents and watching television and not caring what they do in Washington. Once again, they have forgotten that America is OUR nation, not theirs!

FAX CONGRESS TODAY and stop this outrageous amnesty scheme from putting America’s economy and America’s national security further at-risk!

This is our nation, and she counts on us to protect her. Please, stand with us today. From all 50 states, loud and clear. Let the establishment in Washington know WE STILL OPPOSE AMNESTY and we’re not going to let them get away with any more dirty tricks!

For America and all our futures, thank you in advance for standing with us once again!

God bless you, and God bless America,

Sean McCaffrey
Founder/President

 

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They needed 60 votes in the Senate... 55-41 We Win!

 

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Well, Roadreeler, good job. Looks like you can take the next two years off. I am beginning to wonder if the Democrats put up such an atrocious piece of legislation that they knew it would fail so they would at least have a chance in the 2010 elections. If it had passed, they knew they would be voted out en mass in 2012.

 

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DREAM Act Nightmare: Immigration Bill Dies in Senate

December 18, 2010 12:03 PM
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ABC News’ Matthew Jaffe reports:
Senate Republicans today shot down the DREAM Act, an immigration measure that would have helped undocumented students who came to the US before age 16 to become legal residents after five years by completing higher education or military service.
The final tally of today’s procedural vote was 55-41, but the measure needed 60 votes to advance.
Senate Republicans argued that the bill amounted to amnesty, that it would impede the enforcement of immigration laws and that it failed to address the larger problem of border security. “Here we are in the final days of a lame-duck, some say dead-duck Congress, considering a bill that would create a major problem to the effective enforcement of immigration laws. People are not happy with us,” Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., said this morning on the Senate floor.
“This bill is a law that at its fundamental core is a reward for illegal activity,” he said.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., claimed that Senate Democrats were only pushing the bill so late in this session of Congress for their own political gain. “To those who are bringing this bill up today, I know why you're doing it. You're not doing it to advance the issue. You're doing it to advance your situation politically,” Graham said. “It is not appreciated. You're making it harder. You care more about politics in the last two weeks than you care about governing the country. This will not help America do the things America does.”
Ultimately, the numerous pleas from across the aisle -- such as from the Senate’s number-two Democrat Dick Durbin -- fell on deaf ears. Durbin emphasized that the measure would have helped millions of young immigrants.
“This is the only country they have ever known and all they’re asking for is a chance to serve this nation -- that is what the DREAM Act is all about,” said Durbin. “To say that we’re pushing and rushing a vote for them -- it can’t come too soon! Their lives hang in the balance.”
The bill passed the House earlier this month, making today’s vote in the Senate a last-ditch effort by Democrats to pass the measure before Republicans take control of the House and gain seats in the Senate come January.
Three Republicans backed the bill today: Sens. Dick Lugar of Indiana, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Robert Bennett of Utah. But five Democrats voted against it: Sens. Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Jon Tester of Montana, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Max Baucus of Montana and Kay Hagan of North Carolina. Four senators did not vote: Sens. Jim Bunning of Kentucky, Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, Orrin Hatch of Utah and Joe Manchin of West Virginia.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2010/12/dream-act-nightmare-immigration-bill-dies-in-senate.html

 

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From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA Date: Saturday 18DEC2010 5 p.m. EST Senate Defeats
DREAM Act Amnesty!

See how each of 100 Senators voted
Go to my blog for who voted how. Also, I give you several different ways of analyzing how the votes turned out.

Tell your Senators what you think of their amnesty votes
Joe Jenkins is busily writing texts and posting new faxes for you to send from your customized NumbersUSA Action Board. If you don't see them when you first get this email, check back tomorrow.

Read what how the national media are quoting NumbersUSA in reaction to today's victory
Befitting the key role that NumbersUSA's activists played in yet again defeating an amnesty, NumbersUSA played a prominent role in the news reports this afternoon.

We don't often get a chance to read fun and celebratory stories about immigration in the mainstream media, so I'm going to provide you with several excerpts that will hopefully make you smile.

It also is a quick way for you to see how we at NumbersUSA see the fight once January and the new Congress arrive.

I apologize if this seems self-promoting since I am the one being quoted. But I hope you realize that the only reason any media care what I have to say is because of all the work that all of you do.

Most of these are excerpts. But I've included the whole news flash story from The Hill, which is one of the authoritative publications that covers Congress intensely and is followed closely by political junkies nationwide. The Hill jumped out with this story almost immediately after the vote.

THE HILL

Pro-immigration groups decry 'shameful' vote;
Enforcement groups vow new push

By Bridget Johnson

12/18/10 12:10 PM ET

An anti-illegal immigration group said after Saturday's defeat of the DREAM Act in the Senate that "we look forward to moving aggressively to offense."

"Now, the next Congress can start to put unemployed Americans back to work by eliminating the ability for illegal aliens to hold jobs and by reducing the number of unnecessary permanent foreign workers we currently bring in legally every month," Roy Beck, president and founder of NumbersUSA, said in a statement minutes after the Senate voted 55-41 to end debate on the measure, not clearing the 60-vote filibuster threshold.

Beck lauded a decade of "perfect defense" against "amnesty" initiatives.

"Now, we look forward to moving aggressively to offense," Beck said. "The next Congress has the strongest pro-enforcement membership since 1995 and probably since 1924."

But the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda decried senators' "shameful" failure to pass the DREAM Act.

"Todays failed vote is an indication that an ugly current of nativism is alive and active in the U.S. Senate, said Lillian Rodrguez-Lpez, chairwoman of the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda, in a statement.

"It would be an outrageous ploy if a yes vote on this bill was withheld for partisan gain in the next Congress," she said. "To those Senators who denied the American dream to so many worthy young people, we will not forget."

ABC NEWS

Opponents of Illegal Immigration Claim Victory With Repeat DREAM Act Failure

By DEVIN DWYER and MATTHEW JAFFE

Dec. 18, 2010

By a vote of 55 to 41, the bill -- the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors, or DREAM Act -- failed to win the 60 votes needed to break a GOP filibuster, even though the measure passed the House last week.

The defeat was the second for the legislation since 2007, when it last was brought to the Senate floor. Opponents have argued that the bill amounted to an "amnesty" that could cost taxpayers and encourage continued illegal immigration.

"We are declaring a 10-year victory," said Roy Beck, president of Numbers USA, an advocacy group that has lobbied against the DREAM Act. "Since 2001, there has been an attempt to pass giant amnesties every year. And we have been on defense, we have fought every single year. And now there's not going to be any amnesty in this new Congress. It's over."

* * * * * *

President Obama said in a statement that he was "incredibly disappointed" by the vote.

"It is disappointing that common sense did not prevail today," he said. "But my administration will not give up on the DREAM Act, or on the important business of fixing our broken immigration system."

* * * * * *

"There are some compelling cases out there that deserve to be considered. But there are also 22 million Americans who have compelling cases, who want a job and can't find a job," Beck said. "What the DREAM Act does is add at least a couple million more workers to legally compete against the 22 million unemployed Americans."

"I realize these kids did not personally decide to break the law. Nonetheless, they represent law-breaking. How do you keep parents from doing this to their kids in the future? The DREAM Act does nothing about that," he said.

* * * * * * *

NEW YORK TIMES

Immigration Vote Leaves Obama Policy in Disarray

By JULIA PRESTON

Published: December 18, 2010

The vote by the Senate on Saturday to block a bill to grant legal status to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrant students was a painful setback to an emerging movement of young immigrants and also appeared to leave the immigration policy of the Obama administration, which has supported the bill and the movement, in disarray.

The bill, known as the Dream Act, gained 55 votes in favor with 41 against, a tally that fell short of the 60 votes needed to bring it to the floor for debate. Five Democrats broke ranks to vote against the bill while only three Republicans voted for it. The defeat in the Senate came after the House of Representatives passed the bill last week.

The result, though not unexpected, was still a rebuff to President Obama by newly empowered Republicans in Congress on an issue he has called one of his priorities.

* * * * *

Groups favoring reduced immigration cheered the vote on the student bill as a watershed victory that they said marks the end of a period they have spent on the defensive.

"The next Congress can start to put unemployed Americans back to work by eliminating the ability for illegal aliens to hold jobs," said Roy Beck, president of NumbersUSA, which lobbied hard against the student bill. "Now, we look forward to moving aggressively to offense."

* * * * *

FOX NEWS

DREAM Act Goes Down in Flames in Senate

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/12/18/senate-tries-pass-dream-act/#ixzz18UJU4sBW

Published December 18, 2010 | FoxNews.com

An immigration bill that would blaze a trail to legal status for hundreds of thousands of undocumented students went down in flames in the Senate on Saturday, delivering a critical blow to Democrats and Hispanic activists.

* * * * *

Both sides, which have fought tooth and nail over the bill immediately reacted to Saturday's vote.

"Now, the next Congress can start to put unemployed Americans back to work by eliminating the ability for illegal aliens to hold jobs and by reducing the number of unnecessary permanent foreign workers we currently bring in legally every month," said Roy Beck, president and founder of NumbersUSA.

Rea Carey, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, said, "It is deeply disappointing that the Senate today refused to even allow a vote on the bill."

House Democrats vowed the fight was not over.

"Though disappointed by the result of today's DREAM Act vote in the Senate, we are not deterred in our determination to continue advocating for this critical legislation," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a statement.

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FINAL THOUGHTS TODAY

There is much more to be said, friends. But not today.

You can tell from the sampling of my quotes in the media that I think we have just ended an era of DEFENSE.

And you can see that NumbersUSA is ready for aggressive offense. Our top staff has already met to strategize that OFFENSE for 2011. We have met with key Members of Congress and key staff. We are improving our activist tools.

I will talk to you more about all of that after Christmas.

For now, I just want to thank all of you for what you were able to do this week, this fall, this year and, for many of you, for this entire decade!

For those of you who didn't watch our live webcast of the Senate vote and our analysis of it this morning, I'll say what I said into the camera:

You created the political conditions that caused 12 of the 15 Republican Senators who voted for an amnesty in the past to NOT vote for the amnesty today.

You created the political conditions for 6 Democratic Senators to go against their Party and their President to NOT vote for the amnesty today.

That's why we won today.

As Jim Robb said on our live webcast: We didn't have wealthy lobbying groups that stood to make money off defeating the amnesty the way that wealthy groups stood to make money by passing the amnesty. We didn't have any of the country's blocs of elites helping us. All we had was individual citizens who banded together in an internet grassroots mobilization to defeat an amnesty for the 10th year in a row.

THANKS FOR YOUR CHRISTMAS GIFT TO THE NATIONAL INTEREST,

P.S. I do not celebrate the dashed hopes of the thousands of illegal-alien students who worked so hard to pass the DREAM Act amnesty that would have given them work permits and legal residency. As I have often been quoted in the media saying, many of these young adults have a compelling story.

But those compelling students hitched their wagons to cynical politicians who sought to use their "compellingness" to first pass a massive blanket amnesty (CIR) and then this loophole-filled, fraud-prone DREAM Act amnesty that showed zero concern for the compelling stories of 22 million unemployed Americans and their kids. A national community has an ethical and constitutional obligation to put those compelling stories of its own fellow citizens at the front of the line for any redress.





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CASA GRANDE, Ariz. -- Pinal County sheriff's deputies say they've have arrested five suspected illegal immigrants who attempted to hide in a pile of cow manure.
A sheriff's deputy tried to stop a speeding vehicle Thursday morning in Casa Grande, but lost sight of it after a brief pursuit. The vehicle was later found abandoned and authorities say evidence found inside indicated it had been used to smuggle illegal immigrants.
Deputies tracked the vehicle's occupants to a dairy about two miles away, where they found a woman and four men that had tried to conceal themselves in cow manure. The five have been turned over to the Border Patrol.
They say the vehicle's alleged driver — 48-year-old Gerardo Garcia of Eloy — was found hiding in brush near the dairy. He's been booked into the Pinal County Adult Detention Center on a fraud warrant out of Maricopa County.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/12/17/arizona-sheriff-suspected-illegals-hid-pile-cow-manure/