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roadreeler57 · Oct 3, 2008

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Continue Pressuring Senate to Pass H.R. 6633; CR Clears Congress With Short-Term E-Verify Extension

Updated Friday, October 3, 2008, 7:30 AM

On September 27, the Senate cleared a Continuing Resolution (CR; H.R. 2638) that, among other things, extends the E-Verify program through March 6, 2009. However, there is still a chance for Senators to take up H.R. 6633 -- the House-passed, five-year E-Verify reauthorization bill -- before the elections recess. If you want to avoid another debate in a different Congress with a potentially more challenging political climate, please call your Senator today (202-224-3121) and ask him/her to pressure Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to allow a vote this week on H.R. 6633.

Congress needed to pass a CR before October 1 – the beginning of Federal fiscal year 2009 -- in order to keep the government running because it had not passed any fiscal year 2009 spending bills for Federal agencies. The inclusion of a short-term E-Verify extension in this must-pass measure is a bittersweet development.
Although E-Verify will survive for four more months, the reauthorization battle will need to be fought all over again with a new President in the White House who may or may not support the program. As such, the best outcome continues to be Senate passage of H.R. 6633, the House-passed E-Verify reauthorization bill.
There are two ways in which Majority Leader Reid can still facilitate a vote on the bill:
1. Ignore the hold Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) has placed on H.R. 6633, and allow a cloture vote on the Senate floor. If he does this, there easily will enough votes necessary to stop Menendez' filibuster and enable passage H.R. 6633; or
2. Avoid a vote altogether by talking to Menendez privately, persuading him that what he is doing is threatening the reputation of the Democratic Party just before elections and get him to withdraw his "hold" on H.R. 6633. Reid could then bring H.R. 6633 to the floor for a unanimous consent vote.
Either way, the American worker and public wins.
It is particularly important to put pressure on Democratic Senators to put an end to Menendez' grandstanding. If you call Republican Senators, please thank them for standing firm and ask them to not flinch.
Good news from the House. On September 23, the Judiciary Committee did not take up H.R. 5882, which would add an additional 550,000 permanent green cards next year, and H.R. 5924, which would add 20,000 additional foreign nurses per year for three years (plus their families). It is not known if the bill’s proponents will attempt to attach the measures to another bill destined for passage. http://numbersusa.com/actionbuffet

roadreeler57 · Oct 3, 2008

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Missouri Highway Patrol to scope out illegals

Updated: 2008-10-03 10:42:04

Gov. Blunt once again has taken aggressive steps to curb illegal immigration in Missouri. The governor, along with the Missouri State Highway Patrol and the Missouri Department of Public Safety, today signed a Memorandum of Agreement in Washington, DC with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). It allows specially trained members of the Missouri State Highway Patrol to enforce immigration laws in conjunction with their day-to-day law enforcement activities.

Under Section 287g of the Immigration and Nationality Act, a Gateway Taskforce will crack down on illegal immigration, in particular, unscrupulous Missouri employers who actively engage in the illegal employment of undocumented workers. It will focus on harboring illegal immigrants, transporting illegal immigrants, forced labor, human trafficking, identity theft, document fraud, and bulk cash smuggling.

The Gateway Taskforce will include ICE agents and specially trained members of the Highway Patrol. Missouri Highway Patrol Troopers will work out of local ICE offices in Kansas City, Springfield and St. Louis. All 18 of the ICE-trained troopers will begin working one week per quarter in these ICE offices. The task force will utilize a co-located, integrated, collaborative approach to information sharing and operational efficiency that will better ensure the effective and efficient use of resources, expertise, and technologies.

Blunt recently signed a comprehensive immigration reform package which he considers one of the toughest new laws in the country to stem the tide of lawbreakers into his state.

The law prohibits sanctuary cities within Missouri, ensuring no city or county government turns a blind eye to illegal activity. The legislation prohibits the issuance of a Missouri driver license to an illegal immigrant, and creates new penalties for helping an illegal immigrant obtain a license by fraud. Additionally, the legislation the governor championed and secured makes transporting and concealing an illegal immigrant a felony punishable by up to one year in prison. It prohibits illegal immigrants from receiving welfare benefits provided by state or local government. It requires all public employers and all state contractors to use E-Verify, an easy-to-use electronic system to check the immigration status of new employees.

For information about two workshops in Southwest Missouri demystifying workforce immigration issues go here.
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roadreeler57 · Oct 4, 2008

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roadreeler57 · Oct 6, 2008

NY Times middle finger to American workers

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'DROP DEAD': NY Times to Unemployed Americans

By Roy Beck, Sunday, October 5, 2008, 7:10 PM

OK, I'm having a little fun with the famous headline from another NY paper in the 1970s about Pres. Ford's reaction to NYC's request for a bailout. But essentially "Drop Dead" was the NY Times editorial board's response to rising American unemployment on Friday. The callousness of the media elite toward U.S. working stiffs continues to amaze me.
We lost another 159,000 non-farm jobs in September.
But the NY Times wants another 550,000 foreign workers and their families!
ON SAME DAY, TIMES EDITORIAL & HORRIBLE JOB NEWS

Last Friday on the same day that the feds announced another 159,000 jobs lost from our economy, the Times editorial wept that Congress has not helped Sen. Menendez (D-N.J.) and Rep. Lofgren (D-Calif.) increase permanent immigrant green cards next year by 550,000.
Buying into the myth that this would be "recapturing" green cards that didn't get used in previous years, the Times considers 550,000 to be a "modest" number:
"Recapturing visas is a modest fix that should have been made a long time ago." -- New York Times editorial, 3OCT08
The folks at the Times don't seem to understand that "ceilings" imposed on various kinds of greencards are not "floors." And they aren't entitlements.
If we have a diving economy with more and more people out of work, it shouldn't matter what the ceiling is for immigrants, we shouldn't be bringing in anywhere near the total "allowed" under the law. In fact, it makes sense to bring in nobody under current conditions.
Keep in mind that the 550,000 greencards proposed by the Times for next year are IN ADDITION to more than 1 million greencards already approved, not counting the hundreds of thousands of TEMPORARY work visas that already are authorized.
HERE ARE THE AMERICANS ABANDONED BY NY TIMES

In order to call for still another 550,000 foreign workers and their families, the New York Times has to turn a totally callous heart toward these Americans:

9.5 million officially unemployed Americans who are seeking a job but can't find one at all.
6.1 million additional Americans who are working part-time jobs but who would like a full-time job.

The kind of twisted sense of economics that would cause the New York Times to think their advocacy for a half-million more immigrants next year wouldn't affect these 15.6 million hurting American workers is the same kind that has thrown our financial markets in such disarray. It is an economics divorced from human and society needs.
While Rome burns, the New York Times editorialists fiddle with innovations and novelties in the immigration system, always convincing themselves that giving away a hundred thousand U.S. jobs here and a hundred thousand U.S. jobs there really won't be noticed by the American families who have lost their main or sole income.

Over the last 12 months -- while the Times' friends in the federal government added another 1 million immigrants -- 2.2 million more Americans became officially unemployed.
Another 1.6 million were forced from full-time jobs into part-time jobs.

Did it really make sense to bring in 1 million immigrants under those conditions?
Where is the compassion in that?
And as bad as the overall statistics are, some groups of Americans are being hurt far worse:

Official unemployment for Hispanics stands at 7.8%.
For Black Americans -- 11.4%.
For teenagers -- 19.1% are looking for a job and can't find one.

Does bringing in another million immigrants (plus the 550,000 increase advocated by the Times) seem a wise way to ease the hurt among those groups?
Oh, I forgot, according to the Times, bringing in additional immigrants at more than triple the number of U.S. jobs lost in September is only a "modest" inconvenience. Perhaps from the ivory towers of the Times, that is what an American losing a job looks like.

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roadreeler57 · Oct 7, 2008

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roadreeler57 · Oct 8, 2008

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roadreeler57 · Oct 9, 2008

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Texas Issuing Different Looking License to Immigrants

Thursday, October 9, 2008, 4:16 PM

A new Texas rule will force immigrants to prove that they are living in the United States legally before they can obtain a driver's license. The new rule, which went into effect on October 1, also requires vertical licenses instead of horizontal ones issued to U.S. citizens.
Anyone who attempts to obtain a new license or renew a license who cannot prove that they are legal to be in the U.S. will be turned away. Texas Department of Public Safety officials said illegal immigrants will not be arrested unless there is an issued warrant for their arrest.
The verical licenses will also include the stamped words "temporary visitor" to differentiate them from regular licenses. Immigrants with permission to reside in the U.S. for six moths or less will be denied licenses as well.
The new rule is consistent with federal law passed after September 11 that requires states to ensure they issue licenses to only legal residents.
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roadreeler57 · Oct 10, 2008

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roadreeler57 · Oct 10, 2008

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roadreeler57 · Oct 10, 2008

Dear Jim,

********Urgent Request for Poll Watchers*********

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- An estimated 1.2 to 2.7 million non-citizen immigrants who have registered to vote could be the tipping point in the November elections, according to a new study, "How Many Non-Citizen Voters? Enough to Make a Difference: The Impact of Non-Citizen Voting on the American Elections", by immigration researcher, David Simcox.

The new study -- to be released on October 7 in Washington, D.C. -- estimates that in 2006 non-citizen voters ranged from:

-- 127,000 to 235,000 in New York;
-- 57,000 and 113,000 in New Jersey;
-- 87,000 and 209,000 in Illinois;
-- 476,000 to 700,000 in California;
-- 146,000 and 232,000 in Florida;
-- 161,000 to 333,000 in Texas; and
-- 41,000 to 86,000 in Arizona.

The estimated totals nationwide of non-citizen voters in the 2006 elections range from 1,839,000 to 2,714,000 illegal voters according to the new study.

FIRE Coalition is requesting all members consider becoming local election judges or poll watchers. If all local positions are filled for election judges, or you are ineligible or cannot sacrifice an entire day, please become a poll watcher in your district.

Please contact the Republican or Democratic Party officials in your district and volunteer your services for the upcoming election as soon as possible (this week), as time may be running out to qualify. They can direct you to the proper entity to apply.

Each Party in each state/county has its own criteria for such things as assigning polling places, training to detect and properly report irregular voting practices and the ‘do’s’ and ‘do nots’ of behaving yourself in polling places.

You may be permitted cameras. Please check.

The number one thing is to get poll watcher credentials.

BLACK BOX VOTING is a good general guide for poll watchers

If you are in an area where there is a large concentration of illegal aliens, your participation is vital.

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</TD><TD>“A measure of the urgency for immigrants to enroll for their survival is the exhortation of a popular Univision comedian, Latino folk hero, and former il¬legal alien, Eddie Sotelo26 (popu¬larly known as “Piolin”). Soleto’s exhortation echoes the current back-to-the-wall rhetoric among illegal immigrants: “Si no votan, nos botan” (“If you don’t vote, they’ll throw us out”). There is no less urgency for citizens, naturalized and native. And they must decide whether voting should remain an exclusive attribute of citizenship and demand the safeguards to make it so. “ </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Keep up the fight!

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roadreeler57 · Oct 11, 2008

Getting to the Truth About the Unemployment Rate

By Charles Breiterman, Friday, October 10, 2008, 10:30 AM

Low unemployment numbers help the political party in power get reelected. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, which reports the unemployment rate, is part of the Department of Labor. The Secretary of Labor is appointed directly by the President, is a member of the President’s cabinet, and is likely to be loyal to the President. For these reasons, it is not surprising that the figure commonly supplied by the government and reported by the media actually underreports the true situation.
The official unemployment rate is technically known as “Measure U-3.”1 To be counted as unemployed, a person must have actively sought a job within the last four weeks and have held no job. Measure U-3 is currently at 6.1% nationally, or 9.5 million persons.

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Conventional Unemployment Rate
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Extended Unemployment Rate
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SGS Alternative Unemployment Rate

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9.5 million persons

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17 million

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23 million

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6.1% of the workforce

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11%

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15%

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The serious problem with U-3 is that there are plenty of people who have a part-time job, but are still in dire financial straits and are looking for work. However, these people are not counted as unemployed. Therefore, U-3 gives a false picture of the challenges facing the American worker.
A more inclusive measure of how hard it is for people to find work is “Measure U-6.”2 Measure U-6 is currently at 11% nationally, or 17 million persons. Measure U-6 includes the data from U-3 plus:

People who are not working and have looked for work within the past one year, but not in the last four weeks.
People who want and are available for full-time work but have had to settle for a part-time schedule. These involuntary part-timers are counted as "employed" in the conventional unemployment rate.

A measure of unemployment that is even more inclusive than U-6 is the SGS Alternative Unemployment Rate, currently at 15% nationally, or 23 million persons.

www.shadowstats.com3

The SGS rate includes discouraged workers who are unemployed and want to work, but have not looked for work within the past year. This class of five million highly discouraged workers used to be included in the official unemployment figures, until a change was made during the Clinton administration. It made sense to count these people and still does, because these people still don’t have jobs. Now the government only includes in Measure U-6 people who have looked for work within the past year.4
What are these highly discouraged workers doing? Did they take out a home equity loan and are living off that? Are they living off their parents? Are they homeless? Are they earning money from illegal activites? Are they simply on welfare? The Census Bureau has conducted interviews with these people, and in later blog entries we anticipate reviewing the results of those studies.
Finally, the unemployment rate among teenagers is 19.1%. A Northeastern University study found that a high rate of immigration significantly reduces job opportunities for teens.5 The study was conducted using data from 2003-2004 when the teen unemployment rate was only about 17%. Therefore, the findings are even more urgent today. Studies show that people who work as teens are more likely to work as adults, more likely to graduate from high school, and less likely to experience a teen pregnancy. There are benefits to working, even for affluent teens. Among the recommendations of the study:
“Enforce the immigration laws of the nation and require employers to live up to the spirit as well as the letter of the law”
With as many as 23 million currently unemployed, and a sharp recession or depression about to descend upon us, it is not the time to grant an amnesty to the at least seven million illegal aliens in the workforce.

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1 http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t12.htm
2 http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t12.htm
3Shadowstats.com is not some “tin foil hat” website. The proprietor has an M.B.A. from Dartmouth and was one of the top students in his graduating class. The information can be crucial for making investment decisions. If you know that the unemployment rate is really four points higher than what is being reported by the government – then reality will bite no matter what the government says the unemployment rate is—retail sales will fall and you want to sell your retail stocks (Home Depot, Sears) before the sales' data is released and the price of those stocks plummets.
4Source: www.shadowstats.com “Government Economic Reports: Things You've Suspected But Were Afraid to Ask!” by Walter J. Williams, August 24, 2004.
5Andrew Sum et al., "The Paradox of Rising Teen Joblessness in an Expanding Labor Market", Report Prepared by the Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, Report Prepared for Jobs for America’s Graduates, Alexandria, Virginia, January 2005. http://www.numbersusa.com/content/n...08/getting-truth-about-unemployment-rate.html

roadreeler57 · Oct 12, 2008

The Evil of 2 Lessers by Dr Chuck Baldwin

<CENTER>A Wasted Vote
by Chuck Baldwin
October 10, 2008 </CENTER>

When asked why they will not vote for a third party candidate, many people will respond by saying something like, "He cannot win." Or, "I don't want to waste my vote." It is true: America has not elected a third party candidate since 1860. Does that automatically mean, however, that every vote cast for one of the two major party candidates is not a wasted vote? I don't think so.
In the first place, a wasted vote is a vote for someone you know does not represent your own beliefs and principles. A wasted vote is a vote for someone you know will not lead the country in the way it should go. A wasted vote is a vote for the "lesser of two evils." Or, in the case of John McCain and Barack Obama, what we have is a choice between the "evil of two lessers."
Albert Einstein is credited with saying that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result. For years now, Republicans and Democrats have been leading the country in the same basic direction: toward bigger and bigger government; more and more socialism, globalism, corporatism, and foreign interventionism; and the dismantling of constitutional liberties. Yet, voters continue to think that they are voting for "change" when they vote for a Republican or Democrat. This is truly insane!
Take a look at the recent $700 billion Wall Street bailout: both John McCain and Barack Obama endorsed and lobbied for it. Both McCain and Obama will continue to bail out these international banksters on the backs of the American taxpayers. Both McCain and Obama support giving illegal aliens amnesty and a path to citizenship. In the debate this past Tuesday night, both McCain and Obama expressed support for sending U.S. forces around the world for "peacekeeping" purposes. They also expressed support for sending combat forces against foreign countries even if those countries do not pose a threat to the United States. Neither Obama nor McCain will do anything to stem the tide of a burgeoning police state or a mushrooming New World Order. Both Obama and McCain support NAFTA and similar "free trade" deals. Neither candidate will do anything to rid America of the Federal Reserve, or work to eliminate the personal income tax, or disband the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Both Obama and McCain support the United Nations. So, pray tell, how is a vote for either McCain or Obama not a wasted vote?
But, back to the "he cannot win" argument: to vote for John McCain is to vote for a man who cannot win. Yes, I am saying it here and now: John McCain cannot win this election. The handwriting is on the wall. The Fat Lady is singing. It is all over. Finished. John McCain cannot win.
With only three weeks before the election, Barack Obama is pulling away. McCain has already pulled his campaign out of Michigan. In other key battleground states, McCain is slipping fast. He was ahead in Missouri; now it is a toss-up or leaning to Obama. A couple of weeks ago, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida were all leaning towards McCain, or at least toss-up states. Now, they are all leaning to Obama. Even the longtime GOP bellwether state of Indiana is moving toward Obama. In addition, new voter registrations are at an all-time high, and few of them are registering as Republicans. In fact, the Republican Party now claims only around 25% of the electorate, and Independents are increasingly leaning toward Obama.
Ladies and gentlemen, Barack Obama is headed for an electoral landslide victory over John McCain. John McCain can no more beat Barack Obama than Bob Dole could beat Bill Clinton.
I ask, therefore, Are not conservatives and Christians who vote for John McCain guilty of the same thing that they accuse people who vote for third party candidates of doing? Are they not voting for someone who cannot win? Indeed, they are. In fact, conservatives and Christians who vote for John McCain are not only voting for a man who cannot win, they are voting for a man who does not share their own beliefs and principles. If this is not insanity, nothing is!
So, why not (for once in your life, perhaps) cast a vote purely for principle! Vote for someone who is truly pro-life. Someone who would quickly secure our nation's borders, and end the invasion of our country by illegal aliens. Someone who would, on his first day in office, release Border Patrol agents Ramos and Compean and fire U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton. Someone who would immediately, upon assuming office, begin leading the charge to dismantle the Federal Reserve, overturn the 16th Amendment, expunge the IRS, and return America to sound money principles. Someone who would get the US out of the UN. Someone who would stop spending billions and trillions of dollars for foreign aid. Someone who would prosecute the Wall Street bankers who defrauded the American people out of billions of dollars. Someone who would work to repeal NAFTA, CAFTA, GATT, the WTO, and stop the NAFTA superhighway. Someone who would say a resounding "No" to the New World Order. Someone who would stop using our brave men and women in uniform as global cops for the United Nations. Someone who would stop America's global adventurism and interventionism. Someone who would steadfastly support and defend the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
"Who is this person?" you ask. Go here to find out:

BALDWIN '08

As John Quincy Adams said, "Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost."

roadreeler57 · Oct 13, 2008

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New Ad Campaign

Our National Ad Campaign

By Roy Beck, Friday, October 17, 2008, 12:17 AM

The rotating banner ads in the left column of our home page are from a national campaign that NumbersUSA is running this fall. You probably have seen them on the home pages of national internet providers and national news sites.
Generous donors specifically designated that we use their contributions to try to expand understanding among those in the American public who may have been a little bit afraid to examine immigration issues -- especially younger Americans.
What you see on our home page is different from how people usually see our ads because they see them one at a time. What we have done is run them together in a way that may be a little distracting. I just wanted to make sure all of you had a glimpse of the ads.
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When you click on the ads, you will see a special website designed for people new to the immigration issue. I hope you will browse these web pages. If you find something you find helpful, please forward it to others.
I think you will be particularly interested in the short video of a young man discussing barriers to engaging the immigration issue and about the need for level-headed, rational discussion of immigration numbers.
If you have places that you can place these ads for free, please let us know.
Please give us feedback in the Comments section below for this blog.
ROY BECK is Founder & CEO of NumbersUSA
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Gary6333 of NY
Fri, 10/17/2008 - 4:32pm
I often post on many message

I often post on many message boards (including Yahoo financials) and local newspaper blogs, and I am sure many of you are doing your part. I voice my opinions concerning illegal trespassers and too much immigration. However, I am often called a racist! If that is how a "racist" is defined, then I am proud to be a "great" racist!

Michael2817 of CA
Fri, 10/17/2008 - 3:53pm
I like the AD Good

I like the AD
Good Question:
Why can't NumbersUSA get federal funding?
The racist group La Raza got 10 million of our tax dollars!
Heck, Acorn got money from Obama's group to cheat our voting system.
What does this tell us, if you're liberal and want to turn our Democracy into a Socialist system, our government will give you free money, but if you try to protect your nation for ALL Races and protect the our right to have jobs, you're ignored?
I'm not given up, but I am very tired of our loyal U.S. citizens being treated like criminals for protecting our nation from predatory businesses by the media.

Richard6783 of MA
Fri, 10/17/2008 - 12:40pm
Don, while there are a lot

Don, while there are a lot of vocal neo-mercantilists in the immigration enforcement movement, mercantilism actually drives up costs and reduces opportunity for people.
Read Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations." He covers the subject and problem well. Roy Beck also covers it in some of his books.

Don9868 of IN
Fri, 10/17/2008 - 11:26am
Banner ads or anything else

Banner ads or anything else that gets the facts out about this pressing problem is a good thing. I wrote a blog on a political website concerning the immigration problem and received a reply that was a history lesson on our country from a Florida resident. I sent a reply stating I knew about our history but the problem we have is about our present day numbers not the history of how we got here. I sent info on the NUMBERS USA website also.
There is so much wrong information being spewed out daily. I thank NumbersUSA for putting all the facts and issues together that brings me to one conclusion. There are too many legal and illegal immigrants in this country and it causes harm to our workers and country. Our politicians that encourage them and those that hire them are a major part of the problem. All the problem areas we have in America today whether it be unemployment, healthcare, taxes, bad infrastructure, mortgage financial crisis etc, all are directly affected by the NUMBERS.
The politicians have refused to acknowledge and take action on it. We have heard a lot this political season about jobs being outsourced across the border. What's the difference in moving jobs across the border or bringing workers across the border to do the jobs here????? Same results, more American citizens unemployed!

Richard6783 of MA
Fri, 10/17/2008 - 8:45am
I would not rule out the use

I would not rule out the use by NumbersUSA of high profile low cost publicity stunts on the part of individual members or groups of members. I understand that the online media campaign is costing NumbersUSA seven figures. It would be nice to have people doing actions that would cause the broadcast media to cover NumbersUSA for free. http://numbersusa.com

roadreeler57 · Oct 18, 2008

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