Anti Immigration & Illegal Immigration Info - Ongoing Thread

roadreeler57 · Feb 5, 2009

roadreeler57 · Feb 5, 2009

Coalition for the Future American Worker

</TD></TR><TR><TD id=banner colSpan=2>Thank you for your concern about American jobs.

2.5 million Americans lost jobs last year and we'll lose more in 2009. Everybody is affected. The government's plan to create jobs could take years. But there are things we can do to put Americans back to work now.
View our TV messages and email them to your friends.

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Ask why we keep bringing in 1.5 million foreign workers a year to take American jobs.

More than 11 million Americans are looking for work. Yet our government allows more than 1.5 million foreign workers a year to legally enter the U.S. for jobs. That doesn't include millions of illegal foreign workers.
Ask why congressman Luis Gutierrez wants to stop worksite enforcement against employers hiring illegal workers.

Worksite enforcement of companies hiring illegal workers is opening up jobs for Americans. But Congressman Luis Gutierrez is pressuring President Obama to stop worksite enforcement. Why would he do that to his fellow Americans in an economy like this?
What you can do to help.

<LI class=maintext>Call President Obama at 202-456-1111 and ask him to tell Congressman Gutierrez NO on stopping worksite enforcement. <LI class=maintext>Call your Members of Congress at 202-224-3121 and ask them why it makes sense to bring in another 1.5 million new foreign workers this year.
Tell your friends about this website and ask them to join the fight to save American jobs.

</TD></TR><TR><TD align=middle width=560 colSpan=3>Californians for Population Stabilization

Federation for American Immigration Reform

NumbersUSA Education & Research Foundation

American Immigration Control Foundation

American Engineering Association

American Engineering Association

The Programmer's Guild

American Council on Immigration Reform

American Jobs Coalition

ZaZona.com

No More H-1B

Fight Back America United Steel Workers

The Communications Workers of America, Local 4250

BrainSavers.org http://americanworker.org/
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roadreeler57 · Feb 5, 2009

Take a few minutes & send a free fax.

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</TD></TR><TR><TD width=1 bgColor=#000000></TD><TD width=34 bgColor=#ffffff></TD><TD vAlign=top align=middle width=552 bgColor=#ffffff><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=552 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD height=10></TD></TR><TR><TD>[FONT=arial, helvetica]Alert! Congress to give 300,000 Stimulus jobs to illegal aliens![/FONT]</TD></TR><TR><TD height=10></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top>The current version of the Senate’s stimulus bill would provide about 300,000 jobs in the construction industry to illegal aliens since it does not contain the E-Verify mandate of the House bill.

A Heritage Foundation study by Robert Rector used the government’s own figures to arrive at that figure. The Senate bill would provide about $104 billion in funding for construction projects, creating jobs for about 2.04 million construction workers over several years. Government estimates indicate that currently about one out of every seven workers hired for construction is an illegal alien, or about 300,000 for this bill.

This debacle could largely be prevented if the bill is amended to add the House provision that requires participation in the E-Verify program by those who receive stimulus funds.

CLICK HERE to tell your Senators if they must pass the Stimulus bill, to please at least ensure the jobs will go to citizens.

Note: CAPS is not taking an official position on the Stimulus Bill, however, we feel that if it were to pass, it's important to ensure that jobs go to citizens, not illegal aliens.

E-Verify (formerly the Basic Pilot/Employment Eligibility Verification Program) is an online system operated jointly by the Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration (SSA). Participating employers can check the work status of new hires online by comparing information from an employee's I-9 form against SSA and Department of Homeland Security databases. More than 87,000 employers are enrolled in the program, with over 6.5 million queries run in fiscal year 2008.
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roadreeler57 · Feb 5, 2009

Dear Mr:

Thank you for expressing your opposition to legislation that would reauthorize the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). While you and I disagree on the issue, I appreciate hearing your views.

The Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) extends health coverage to otherwise uninsured low-income children. As one of the original authors of the bipartisan legislation creating CHIP, I am proud of the positive impact this program has had on millions of children. CHIP has ensured access to health insurance for 7.1 million low-income children who would otherwise be disenfranchised from the health care system.

On January 29, 2009, the Senate voted 66-32 to reauthorize CHIP for four and half years (H.R.2). To provide funding for the Childrenâ€™s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), both the House and the Senate approved proposals to increase the tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products. This renewed financial commitment, funded by an increase in the per-pack tax on cigarettes from $0.39 to $1.00, will allow CHIP to reach an additional 4.1 million children nationwide.

While I understand your concerns regarding increasing taxes and expanding the governmentâ€™s role within the health care system, the public health benefit of reducing smoking, especially among teenagers, and expanding health care access to children who canâ€™t afford private insurance compelled me to vote in favor of the legislation. Unfortunately, there has been significant misinformation circulated about this bill. While CHIP does allow states the flexibility to design their own programs, that flexibility (does not enable states to cover illegal immigrants) nor families with resources sufficient to purchase private health insurance. The goal and design of CHIP are consistent: ensuring access to basic health care for American children who otherwise would be disenfranchised from the health care system.

H.R.2 was signed into law by the President on February 4, 2009.

Ensuring that all children have access to and coverage for health care has been one of my highest priorities since coming to Congress. As a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pension Committee, I will continue to push for affordable health care for children and for all Americans.

Thank you again for contacting me.

Sincerely,
Sherrod Brown

roadreeler57 · Feb 7, 2009

www.NCFIRE.info

I don't know how many of you saw this letter from Jeff Lewis, National Director of the FIRECoalition, to President Obama. It hits directly at the problems we are facing in this country because of the lack of enforcement of our immigration laws and how our politicians are ignoring the Constitution of the United States of America. If you haven't read it, you should!

Family Security Matters

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.2432/pub_detail.asp
February 4, 2009
Open Letter to President Barack Obama: Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement

Jeff Lewis, National Director, FIRE Coalition
President Obama,

You took an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution, not once, but twice during your first week in office.

Before Speaker Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Reid, and special interest panderers like “The Race” (La Raza) start whispering amnesty in your ear, I would appreciate if you would read the Constitution, specifically Article IV, Section 4, and that oath you took to protect us against invasion.

On the official White House website, under immigration you state the following, which I quote in blue:

IMMIGRATION
http://www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/immigration
"The time to fix our broken immigration system is now… We need stronger enforcement on the border and at the workplace… But for reform to work, we also must respond to what pulls people to America… Where we can reunite families, we should. Where we can bring in more foreign-born workers with the skills our economy needs, we should."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/immigration
Barack Obama, Statement on U.S. Senate Floor
http://www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/immigration
May 23, 2007

Our immigration system is not broken. The will of politicians to enforce the law is what is broken. The character to uphold the Constitution and the courage to defend Article IV, Section 4 has been lacking for decades. Article IV, Section 4 guarantees us a Republican form of government, NOT a democracy. We are a nation of laws, not immigrants. We certainly must respond to what pulls people to America by putting business owners and politicians in prison who knowingly ignore the rule of law for their own profit. That takes character and courage. Do you have that? I hope so.

You mention reuniting families. For tens of thousands of Americans, the only way we can reunite them is with a shovel. Twenty-five Americans die each day at the hands of the very illegal alien invaders you suggest we should embrace. Let's be honest here. If you commit a crime and are sent to prison, does the judge take into consideration that you have two daughters, or that you were making your employer good money for the services you provided him?

Of course not. You and your daughters would suffer a fate determined by YOUR actions, not the judge's. The United States already allows more legal immigration than the rest of the world combined.

To suggest we should bring in more foreign-born workers when there are tens of millions of Americans out of work is irresponsible and reckless.

Whatever happened to supply and demand? If an employer can't find workers at $5 per hour, perhaps he will have to pay $10. When the wage meets the demand for a man's services such that he can provide for himself and his family, he will gladly do the work.

Your actions will speak louder than your words. We do need change we can depend on, but it is not toward socialism. Restore our constitutional republic. Make Dr. King and our Founding Fathers proud.

“For too long, politicians in Washington have exploited the immigration issue to divide the nation rather than find real solutions. Our broken immigration system can only be fixed by putting politics aside and offering a complete solution that secures our border, enforces our laws, and reaffirms our heritage as a nation of immigrants.”

For too long, politicians in Washington have betrayed the American people. Instead of showing your allegiance to one flag, one nation, you twice voted to wave a white flag of surrender when you, as a U.S. Senator voted for S.1348 and S. 1639, the amnesty bills. Knowingly doing so violates another section of that Constitution you swore to God and Country you would uphold:

Section 3 of the 14th Amendment states:

"No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a two-thirds vote of each House remove such disability."

Our failure to secure our borders and ports of entry falls directly on your shoulders. You stated above that we need to "secure our borders, enforce our laws." You could make that happen with the stroke of a pen, or a phone call. No excuses, sir. It is obvious that the United States has benefited in the past from immigration. That time has passed. Our heritage is as a nation of laws, bound together by that Constitution you asked God to "so help you" defend.

Create Secure Borders: Protect the integrity of our borders. Support additional personnel, infrastructure and technology on the border and at our ports of entry.

Do you really want to create secure borders? We've wasted billions and billions of dollars on a “war on drugs” for the past 35 years. We have troops protecting the 38th Parallel between North and South Korea that have had a100% success rate at keeping illegal drugs from entering South Korea from the north. As you know, the Mexican government is at the brink of collapse. Like our own government, the corruption is rampant.

As you re-deploy our troops from Iraq, I have a suggestion that makes sense, and allows you to show you meant to keep your oath of office:

For every two brigades you remove from Iraq, deploy one of them along our southern border with Mexico.

Within a year you will have ENDED 80% of the illegal drug traffic coming across our southern border, saving billions of dollars, countless lives, reducing crime and the threat of terrorism. You will become the first President in many decades to actually uphold Article IV, Section 4, "protecting us from invasion." That’s change we need.

Listen to Glenn Spencer of American Border Patrol. Watch his accurate GPS-laden videos of what is really going on at our borders.

Restore funding to the Secure Fence Act of 2006. Defend our borders for 50 years with 30,000 troops, instead of increasing our presence in South Korea by 16,000 as PACOM suggests we should. Why should the American taxpayer pay for the border security of a country which boasts the 11th largest economy in the world, while at the same time leaving our borders wide open? It not only makes no sense, it is treasonous. Thomas Paine and Patrick Henry must be turning over in their graves.

Improve Our Immigration System: Fix the dysfunctional immigration bureaucracy and increase the number of legal immigrants to keep families together and meet the demand for jobs that employers cannot fill. (http://www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/immigration/)

Read Center for Immigration Studies' Mark Krikorian’s book, The New Case Against Immigration: Both Legal and Illegal.

Fully fund and enforce the SAVE Program, US-VISIT, and eliminate the VISA Waiver Program. Even Senator Diane Feinstein refers to the VISA Waiver Program as the soft underbelly of our national security.

Respect all the legal immigrants in line by repatriating all the illegal alien invaders back to their homeland, and preserve the dream of belonging to the middle class in this country by not giving their jobs away to the cheapest imported slaves available.

If employers cannot find workers to perform the work, then either he is not offering a living wage, or our education system is failing to educate the best and brightest on the planet. Odds are, both are true. Keep the illegal alien united with his family by returning his children with him, and appeal to the Supreme Court to start interpreting the 14th Amendment in the context of the dialog in which it was ratified, not the bastardized lingo of legal-speak that it has become. Eliminate “anchor-baby” pseudo-citizenship. It's a lie, and a magnet.

Children born of illegal aliens on American soil are NOT citizens by birth. As a man who refers to himself as African-American, I would think you would be offended that illegal alien invaders are granted citizenship in this way. As a lawyer who has taught Constitutional law, I would think you know better.

Return illegal aliens to their home countries and protect American lives and jobs, or grab a shovel to help reunite those Americans betrayed by politicians who have failed to keep their oath of office. Visit VOIAC.org.

Remove Incentives to Enter Illegally: Remove incentives to enter the country illegally by cracking down on employers who hire undocumented immigrants.

Enforcement through attrition works. Do as the American Legion suggests and start fining employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens $25,000 per head. Put the worst offenders in prison. Confiscate their 30 pieces of silver and all ill-gotten gain from their illegal activity. Investigate the 5,000 plus employers of illegal aliens alleged by everyday American citizens found at WeHireAliens.com. Put the employers found guilty in prison. That will END illegal alien employment.

Bring People Out of the Shadows: Support a system that allows undocumented immigrants who are in good standing to pay a fine, learn English, and go to the back of the line for the opportunity to become citizens.

Considering that "undocumented immigrants" are actually illegal aliens, how can they possibly be in “good standing?” How much longer before our politicians start referring to illegal aliens as "irregular migrants" like the UN's International Organization on Migration (IOM) does? Are you aware that YOUR Vice President accepted funds from a UN front-group called Citizens for Global Solutions, whose soul purpose is to promote a globalist agenda?

By all means, let us bring people out of the shadows. We can start with the slackers in Congress. Do not pretend to condescend with your rhetoric to the patriotic American that he or she simply does not understand the big picture. They do.

Fully fund the ICE 287(g) Delegation of Immigration Authority Program. Stop giving lip service to preserving this Union. If Arizona Governor Napolitano is confirmed as Secretary of Homeland Security , then insist she actually do the job of securing our homeland. The United States can ill-afford four more years of the largest invasion in world history.

Work with Mexico: Promote economic development in Mexico to decrease illegal immigration.

What a novel concept. How about we match our immigration policy to theirs? Have you read it? You should; then you would know how disingenuous their whining that we are being unfair to them really is.

Repeal NAFTA and all other treaties and agreements that don't put America FIRST! My home state, North Carolina, has lost more jobs as a result of NAFTA than any other state, and boasts an 8.7% unemployment rate, the worst in over 35 years.

Giving most-favored-trade status to China has crippled the American business such that it cannot compete with Third World labor. We need fair trade, not free trade, unless our objective is to destroy the middle class in this country.

Will the United States become a Third World country under your leadership, or the envy of the world because you've restored our Constitutional Republic, and everything for which it stands?

Before you go spending trillions of dollars promoting prosperity around the world on the backs of American workers, revisit your oath one more time.

Heed the advice of Marcus Tullius Cicero:

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman, philosopher and orator (42 B.C)

How about work with the American citizen taxpayer and promote economic development in the United States by, instead of spending trillions of dollars on worthless and wasteful stimulus packages, implementing across the board tax relief. Abolish the un-Constitutional federal income tax on individuals. Reduce corporate taxes to levels that allow American businesses to actually stay in America.

Since we are already looking at a trillion dollar deficit in 2009 BEFORE any stimulus hocus-pocus, what have we got to lose, more debt for our grandchildren? The methods proposed by the DNC and RNC idiots-in-charge guarantee failure. Give free enterprise and capitalism an honest chance again. Help the world by first helping America. That's the intent behind your oath of office. That's the sacred promise to the American People. "We the People" deserve no less.

Millions of veterans in our nation's history fought, and many died for this country. Please do not betray all of them. May God help you do what is right and just. Correct the injustice done to Border Agents Ramos and Compean. President Bush merely commuted an illegal sentence. Pardon these brave patriots. They were not just protecting their children from illegal alien invaders, but yours as well.

But by the grace of God, your children could be on the Operation Body Count victims' posters of Americans killed at the hands of illegal aliens.

Tell Mexico to get its own house in order, and do the same here. Yes, we can, and should.

The change we need is comprehensive immigration ENFORCEMENT, not more pandering lies and betrayals. We've had about enough of that. And when the illegal alien sympathizers come knocking on the People's House Door, tell them to go home and fight for their rights in their own country, that YOUR allegiance is to the American people, and the U.S. Constitution.

As an honorably discharged combat veteran, I am disgusted by the behavior of politicians sitting in the chairs that belong to be occupied by honorable men and women. Your recent-history-predecessors have not impressed me. You have within your power to do a lot more. Your legacy is not written yet.

Let your legacy be of a truly brave and honorable man. Do not sign any legislation that comes across your desk that is un-Constitutional.

End illegal immigration and reduce legal immigration to levels that put the best interests of the American people FIRST!

And before you go entertaining reforming our immigration laws, try enforcing them first. That hasn’t been tried. You might also remember the words of one of our Founding Fathers, author of the United States Constitution, and President #4:

“It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what it will be tomorrow.” – James Madison

God bless America and those that defend her.

FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributor Jeff Lewis is the national director of the Federal Immigration Reform and Enforcement (F.I.R.E.) Coalition.

James Johnson
Founder/President
NCFIRE- North Carolinians For Immigration Reform and Enforcement
www.NCFIRE.info
NCFIRE@dishmail.net

roadreeler57 · Feb 7, 2009

Blog

598,000 U.S. Jobs Lost in JAN -- Will Senate Today Go Through With Plan to Give Stimulus Jobs to Illegal Aliens?

By Roy Beck
Friday, February 6, 2009, 9:10 AM

The feds' monthly report was even worse than expected: 598,000 jobs cut in January. And, yet, Senate leaders have still not given permission for a vote on a Stimulus Bill amendment that would keep illegal foreign workers from getting jobs created by the massive taxpayer effort. How many Americans have to lose their jobs before they are given priority over illegal aliens and the outlaw companies that hire them? Read Full Entry

STUDY: current Senate Stimulus bill would give 300,000 construction jobs to illegal aliens (UNLESS E-VERIFY ADDED)

Computerworld Editor has Wrong View of H-1B Critics

TV Ads Try to Educate About Immigration and Jobless Stats that Media & Elected Officials Are Hiding

The Biggest 2 Lies About E-Verify (arguments to keep hiring illegal aliens)

Read More Blog Entries http://www.numbersusa.com/content/

roadreeler57 · Feb 8, 2009

Since our last update, users have added 21 new "alleged" illegal alien employers to the WeHireAliens.com website.

The table below contains a synopsis of their information. To view or take action on each name (notify the company or report the company to authorities), click the hyperlinks provided.

<TABLE cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=1 width="100%" border=1 xcomment="bordercolor=#cc0000"><TBODY><TR><TD align=middle>Name</TD><TD align=middle>Area of Operation</TD></TR><TR><TD>JACKS TIRE AND OIL </TD><TD>State of UT </TD></TR><TR><TD>TopMaster </TD><TD>State of KS </TD></TR><TR><TD>recycledpcparts.com abilio santos </TD><TD>opalocka, FL </TD></TR><TR><TD>Loring Pasta Bar / Jason Mc Lean(Owner) </TD><TD>Minneapolis, MN </TD></TR><TR><TD>URBAN CONSTRUCTION </TD><TD>SAN ANTONIO, TX </TD></TR><TR><TD>LIUNA Enviormental Remediation Workers Local 1030 </TD><TD> </TD></TR><TR><TD>Shields Inc. </TD><TD>State of NC </TD></TR><TR><TD>Chavez Drywall Inc. </TD><TD>State of NC </TD></TR><TR><TD>Classic Tuxedo </TD><TD> </TD></TR><TR><TD>Stringer's, Llc </TD><TD>Temecula, CA </TD></TR><TR><TD>URBAN CONSTRUCTION </TD><TD>SAN ANTONIO, TX </TD></TR><TR><TD>Christiansen Drywall, Inc. </TD><TD>State of UT </TD></TR><TR><TD>Lewis Landscaping </TD><TD>Bergen County, NJ </TD></TR><TR><TD>Monarcas Mexican Restaurant, Inc. </TD><TD>State of AL </TD></TR><TR><TD>$1.50 Dry Cleaners </TD><TD>Nashville, TN </TD></TR><TR><TD>Costume World </TD><TD>Nation </TD></TR><TR><TD>Woodshire Apartments </TD><TD> </TD></TR><TR><TD>Dave Meyer Contracting </TD><TD>State of GA </TD></TR><TR><TD>Woodshire Apartments </TD><TD> </TD></TR><TR><TD>Best Western Muncie </TD><TD>Muncie, IN </TD></TR><TR><TD>Mex Lindo </TD><TD>Owasso, OK </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

Don't forget to forward this email to your friends and relatives who may be in a position to patronize this employer. We need to get as many people involved as possible if we want the hiring of illegal aliens to stop.

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Thank you for using www.WeHireAliens.com!

Sincerely,

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roadreeler57 · Feb 8, 2009

Tell them to STOP Importing foriegn Workers!

Our Urgent Request of Obama -- Stop Importing Foreign Workers

By Roy Beck, Wednesday, January 7, 2009, 1:25 PM

A national crisis requires bold action.
NumbersUSA today urged President-Elect Obama to immediately suspend most importation of foreign workers to give relief to the American workers who will be left without a job if the importation continues.
Unlike all other emergency recommendations, our call to action would not cost hundreds of billions of dollars. In fact, it would cost almost nothing.
A PEOPLE'S CAMPAIGN REQUIRED TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN

I believe that when you read my letter to Mr. Obama (below) that you will immediately see the logic and practical application of its recommendations.
But through Washington eyes, our recommendations to largely halt immigration during our jobs crisis may very well be easily dismissed.
Only you the people can force leaders -- and the news media -- to answer this direct question:
THE KEY QUESTION: At a time of giant job losses, does it make any sense to issue around 138,000 new work permits and green cards to foreign workers each month?
Politicians and media personalities will do everything possible to avoid confronting that question.
But if we can force them to answer the question, do you believe they can possibly provide an excuse for continuing this insanity?
Please go to our Action Buffet and send the free internet faxes available for you to force this key question on your Members of Congress, Mr. Obama and others.
And keep coming back every few days to take the new actions posted. The people of this country will have to hammer politicians and the media relentlessly before we can hope to get an answer the question.
KEY FACT -- 138,000 NEW FOREIGN WORKERS EACH MONTH

NumbersUSA's Capitol Hill Team is talking up this key fact all over the Hill.
They are telling me that most Hill staffers are shocked at the figure. The number is so high that we have to walk them through the numbers for them to be convinced that we know what we are talking about.
National immigration lawyers spokesmen have ridiculed us, claiming that our immigration policies bring in only 140,000 per YEAR.
With apologies to those of you who are lawyers, the immigration lawyers' response shows just how far from the truth lawyering can get you. Yes, we have a category that allows businesses to get 140,000 permanent workers per year. But the lawyers don't seem to want to concede that every adult who comes here as an immigrant is a potential worker. And the lawyers are also neglecting to count all the foreign workers who come here on temporary work permits each year.
Here is the source for the 138,000 figure.
The Department of Homeland Security's most-recent-year data show that the U.S. granted:

<LI class=green> 744,531 permanent green cards to working-age adults ages 20-64, and
912,735 new employment authorization documents to temporary foreign workers.

That adds up to an annual rate of 1,657,266 new foreign workers (not counting illegal workers) added to our economy. There are no indications that the pace has slackened.
If the DHS continues to issue work permits and green cards at the same pace, we will see 138,000 new foreign workers arriving every month this year.
ROY BECK is Founder & CEO of NumbersUSA

Letter to President-Elect Obama:
The hyperlinks in this letter were not in the original letter to President-Elect Obama

The Honorable Barack Obama
President-elect of the United States
1800 F Street NW
Washington, DC 20405

7 JAN 09

Dear President-Elect Obama,

Congratulations on your historic victory. NumbersUSA – a non-profit, non-partisan group with more than 850,000 active members – is focused on America’s economic troubles that continue to grow. I am writing to urge you to make American workers and already-resident legal immigrant workers your first priority when you take office on January 20th.

With the federal government reporting continuing giant losses of jobs, it is time to slow the massive importation of workers.

Non-farm employers in the U.S. eliminated 533,000 jobs in November alone. At the same time, in a typical month the Department of Homeland Security issues 138,000 new work permits and green cards (not including replacement or renewal documents) to foreign workers.

How can it make any sense for the American people's own government to be approving more competitors for a dwindling number of jobs? Month after month as hundreds of thousands of Americans lose their jobs, the feds keep pumping another 138,000 new foreign workers into the labor force.

The monthly 138,000 figure is so big you may doubt its credibility. But it comes directly from the Department of Homeland Security. Its most-recent-year data show that the U.S. granted:

• 744,531 permanent green cards to working-age adults ages 20-64, and
• 912,735 new employment authorization documents to temporary foreign workers.

That adds up to an annual rate of 1,657,266 new foreign workers (not counting illegal workers) added to our economy. There are no indications that the pace has slackened. If this pace continues, DHS will issue an average of 138,000 new work permits and green cards to working-age adults each month this year.

You have stated your priority as an economic agenda which begins with the laudable goal of creating and protecting good jobs for American workers. The stimulus package you propose would cost $700 billion to $1 trillion to meet your goal of 3 million jobs in the next two years. Any job creation is welcome relief to working families as more and more join the ranks of the unemployed each month.

These families are unlikely to feel the impact of your job-creation plan, however, because of our current immigration and visa policies. Consider the simple math: During the two years in which you intend to create/protect 3 million jobs, our immigration system is poised to bring in more than 3 million additional foreign workers. This means that the hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars spent on new jobs won’t even create enough jobs to keep pace with the labor we will be importing from abroad into our besieged economy.

Our immigration system, predicated on the false assumption that there are jobs Americans won’t do at every level of the skill ladder, is illogical in even the best of economic times. But when the current labor force is already suffering in an economy hemorrhaging jobs, the folly of importing job seekers to compete for jobs that are becoming scarcer becomes crystal clear.

You can help the same number of unemployed American workers as proposed in your stimulus plan without spending even 1% of its projected total by suspending most labor importation and by enforcing laws that will open up the seven million jobs the Pew Hispanic Center says are now held by illegal foreign workers. Or you can double the effectiveness of your job-creation proposal at less than 1% of additional cost by changing our labor importation policies and enforcing immigration laws.

In the process, our humanitarian immigration should continue. We probably should expand and accelerate nuclear-family programs for spouses and minor children. And we should continue to take our fair share of the world’s special-needs refugees. We should also admit the few thousand foreign workers of truly world-class skills to fill highly specialized jobs for which no American is available. But most of the rest of immigration should be suspended.

A Time-Out on Chain Migration and the Visa Lottery

Chain migration is the primary mechanism that has caused legal immigration in this country to quadruple from historical levels of approximately 250,000 per year to one million a year since 1990. Chain migration results from a system that prioritizes non-nuclear family members and eventually leads to the immigration of cousins, aunts, uncles, in-laws, nieces and nephews of the original immigrant. Since virtually all immigrants need to work to support themselves and their families, regardless of the category under which they were admitted, chain migration creates a nearly endless stream of job seekers that puts downward pressure on wages and directly hurts the economic well being of the working poor.

The irrational visa lottery has the same effect. Rather than awarding visas based on job skills, education, refugee status or family connections, the visa lottery awards 50,000 visas through a random drawing. According to testimony of the State Department’s Inspector General during the 109th Congress, the visa lottery “contains significant risks to national security from hostile intelligence officers, criminals, and terrorists attempting to use the program for entry into the United States as permanent residents.” The lottery also fails in its goal of diversifying the immigrant flow, since more than half of all lottery visas are issued to Europeans.

Expansion of E-Verify

Reducing the legal importation of foreign workers is only part of the solution. The E-Verify program needs to be fully funded and mandatory for all public and private employers. As you stated during your term in the Senate and on your campaign website, employers must have a fast and reliable means of verifying that their workers are here legally, and they must be held accountable when they employ illegal aliens. When jobs are as scarce as they are today, it is even more critical that U.S. jobs are available only to citizens and other legal workers. E-Verify accomplishes this. It enables employers to verify quickly, easily and reliably the work authorization of all new hires.

The SAVE Act, introduced by Democrats in the House and the Senate in the 110th Congress, would require all employers to check the immigration status of their employees, ensuring that workers who have played by the rules won’t be pushed out of jobs by employers who exploit illegal workers.

Fulfilling Barbara Jordan’s Vision

Civil rights champion Barbara Jordan and her bi-partisan national commission a decade ago recommended eliminating both the visa lottery and chain migration, as well as implementing mandatory workplace verification. These recommendations were part of her vision of economic justice for vulnerable Americans who are unemployed or who work for very low wages. Her prescription for the economy is all the more relevant now around one and a half million Americans have lost their jobs in 2008.

Barbara Jordan’s recommendations are a sensible, cost-effective way to serve the legal immigrants and U.S.-born workers in this country who are already struggling to support themselves and their families in a tough economy. Our hope is that with your assumption of office, we will finally have a President who will bring about the change that our most vulnerable populations so desperately need and deserve. Please know that we at NumbersUSA stand ready to work with you and your Administration in bringing about a more just immigration policy.

Sincerely,

Roy Beck
Founder & CEO
NumbersUSA Education & Research Foundation

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Brian2199 of FL
Mon, 01/12/2009 - 6:10pm
New I could not agree with

I could not agree with Peter9191-CA more! He is exactly right in his assumption that we, Conservative America, MUST start enacting LAWS which require elected-officials, and non-elected businessmen alike to be fully accountable for their employment actions. Once this has been done, it will be easier to deal out punishment for infarction(s) of hiring illegal-aliens, and quite possibly make them bear the burden of the deportation process, and resultant financial obligations that come with such deportation. As it stands now, the courts have NO CLEAR LEGAL COURSE OF ACTION against many of these supposed infarctions, so the REAL-AMERICANS are forced to pay-up. This needs to stop, and WE MUST FIND A WAY TO SEND THE ILLEGAL-ALIENS IN AMERICA BACK TO THEIR OWN COUNTRIES!
NumbersUSA Moderator: Do not forget, Brian, that NumbersUSA is made up of Conservatives, Liberals, Libertarians, etc. We've achieved our successes by bringing people together across the political spectrum.
Congress controls the flow of immigration, federal courts ruled that the public should appeal to congress if they want changes, not by lawsuit. However, FAIR assisted a group in a RICO suit against Tyson chicken. Lawsuits cost a great deal of more than our efforts to stop bad legislation and pass good reform legislation.

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Catherine4488 of NJ
Mon, 01/12/2009 - 5:59am
New With all these new jobs

With all these new jobs being created by Obama, who will get these jobs? If companies are not forced to use the E-verification system they will hire the cheapest labor. Many companies or states like N.J. get away with keeping illegals working is the fact they hide behind the fact that they did not know they were illegal. If they have to use the E-verification system they can't get away with this.
NumbersUSA Moderator: Good point. The construction industry is one place where many "shovel-ready" jobs could go to illegal workers if E-Verify is not in place. Of course, legal immigration will bring in 138,000 new foreign workers every month to take jobs as well.

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Douglas0492 of WA
Sun, 01/11/2009 - 9:43pm
New Re: Our Urgent Request of Obama -- Stop Importing Foreign Worker

The current state of the economy has prompted rumors of (and actual) lay-offs within many large US corporations. Is it selfish for US Citizen employees to be concerned that as this occurs, the equivalent H1B visa employees may be retained over them, where the later are simply "cheaper"?

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Peter9191 of CA
Sat, 01/10/2009 - 3:38pm
New Re: Our Urgent Request of Obama -- Stop Importing Foreign Worker

Unfortunately I dont think fax and email campaigns are sufficient to stop these traitors any longer. As you can see they have no intention of being stopped by hue and cry....they just wait until it quiets down and sneak stuff under the radar...Even Bush was doing this with amnesty....
Most of our money should now go for more permanent remedies such as legal action. Many of these officials have certainly been violating their oaths of office if not other laws.
The left has used legal action for years to change precedents and have painted conservatives into a legal corner. We need to engage a counter strategy against judicial and legal activism.

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Vincent7502 of FL
Sat, 01/10/2009 - 10:28am
New Re: Our Urgent Request of Obama -- Stop Importing Foreign Worker

The last time i recalled, we the americans voted these people into office, not foreigners, I think they are supposed to work for us & express our will not their agenda

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CS3095 of CA
Sat, 01/10/2009 - 9:47am
New How do you donate

How do you donate anonymously? My family or I will be harmed if it is made public. I am a Latina. I live a neighborhood completely overrun will illegal immigrants. I would like to help save what is left of California.
NumbersUSA Moderator: NumbersUSA does not share your information with anyone. You can donate here.

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Robert4907 of DE
Fri, 01/09/2009 - 10:54pm
New What more can be said, Roy?

What more can be said, Roy? I would like to add this, however. I can’t say the ILLEGAL ALIENS are completely to blame for the shape of our economy, but they are a BIG part of the problem. The ILLEGAL ALIENS send BILLIONS upon BILLIONS out of this Country every year, money we will NEVER see again. Does this help our economy? How about the BILLIONS the American taxpayers fork out for the ANCHOR BABIES, the schooling of them, the medical care and the list goes on, and on, and on. How about the MILLIONS upon MILLIONS paid to jail ILLEGAL ALIENS for the crimes, then the cost to deport them. Does this help our economy? Then you have these activist groups that want AMNESTY for these ILLEGAL ALIENS. It would be absolute suicide for this Country if AMNESTY were granted to the 20 million or so ILLEGAL ALIENS. We have more and more people out of work everyday and they want to add another 20 million to this Country? I say, “NO”! If AMNESTY were ever granted to these 20 million ILLEGAL ALIENS, you can bet big money that 3 years from now, there would be ANOTHER 3-5 million ILLEGAL ALIENS demonstrating on our soil for AMNESTY. I don’t wish to lose my privilege on this site, so I will refrain from using the words that fit here. An end MUST come to this illegal immigration. The best tool we have so far is E-Verify. It MUST be used by ALL businesses and Government Social Services. EVERY employee must be checked! If they are illegal, they are to be dismissed! I believe it is time for all 50 States to pass a State law, like Arizona, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Missouri, South Carolina and a few others. It is time for these ILLEGAL ALIENS to go back to their home Country and get out of this Country. The problems they are causing will not go away until the ILLEGAL ALIENS are out of this Country. Now, Roy, I think we said it all!
FROM ROY: Oh, maybe just for today, Robert. Thanks for all your good comments. You are definitely on the right track on the states. Every state -- and even counties -- could largely resolve its own illegal alien problem by passing a law requiring all businesses to use E-Verify. The illegals won't all leave at once, but some will leave immediately, and the exodus will continue at a steady pace. Localities do not have to wait on Congress. And, yes, each amnesty just develops pressure for the next amnesty. Conress enacted its first amnesty in 1986 and then passed six more (narrower) amnesties in the 1990s. But once we established our Capitol Hill presence in 2001 and got our membership up to an impressive size, not a single one of the more than 5 dozen amnesties that have been proposed in Congress has passed. That is because of all of YOU. We the staff at NumbersUSA can have minimal effectiveness without the constant vigilance and participation of those of you who have registered to send faxes and phone calls (which really DO make a difference, even in the offices of the worst Members of Congress).

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Katherine5862 of CA
Fri, 01/09/2009 - 7:28pm
New Re: Our Urgent Request of Obama -- Stop Importing Foreign Worker

I came to this country legally in 1991 from the UK (with a University Degree) at the age of 21 and after years of H1B visas I started the Green Card process in 1997. It took me another 10 years and a mandamus against the US government (another $1K after the about $15K for all the other stuff and difficulties along the road). I think anyone who goes through this incredibly difficult process legally is someone the US should welcome.
Personally I think it's the illegals that should be the main focus of Numbers USA, ALIPAC, etc. Being finally a permanent resident with I had to go through, I did everything I could when the 2007 bill was being tried to force down this countries throat.

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Roy Beck
Fri, 01/09/2009 - 2:39pm
New Several people have taken

Several people have taken exception to my calling for a continuation -- and even expedition -- of immigration for nuclear family and refugees, while deeply cutting numbers in all other categories.
First, I applaud your desire for truly deep numerical cuts. I agree that much about America would be better off if we could cut immigration to zero -- at least for several years.
But I also believe that there are certain practical considerations that must be weighed. One is that I am not ready to take away the right of a U.S. citizen to adopt or marry outside this country. It is true that most such marriages are U.S. citizens who are immigrants or whose parents are immigrants. But the Constitution will not allow us to treat some U.S. citizens differently from other citizens. If we allow any citizen to marry outside the country, we have to allow all citizens.
If the government refuses to confront the problems of immigration much longer, we may have to consider tougher steps. But I, for one, prefer to live in a country in which citizens are free to marry and adopt from any country -- this is part of the individual liberty for which we all fight.
As for refugees: If we bring all other immigration categories into a rational size, we have room for our country to bear our fair share of the world's burden of re-settling refugees for which there is no reasonable option of their ever being allowed to return to their home country. That number is surprisingly small each year. I personally believe that this is one of the few legitimate reasons for immigration in a modern age, but it must be kept clean and free of fraud (something that often is not the case). I also believe that trying to eliminate refugee resettlement would not be supported by more than a small minority of Americans and, thus, would politically make it more difficult to achieve other reductions.

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Stephanie6074 of CO
Fri, 01/09/2009 - 10:46am
Re: Our Urgent Request of Obama -- Stop Importing Foreign Worker

I was referring to the analogy that was posted about Maximum Occupancy -

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Stephanie6074 of CO
Fri, 01/09/2009 - 10:45am
This is on of the best

This is on of the best analogies that I have ever heard - and thanks to everyone that supports stopping illegal immigration - My father-in-law was shot at in 2007 for wearing a 'US Border Patrol Hat" and the illegals that did it were sent back to Mexico the week before it happened and were already back. Then they ran back after the shooting occurred - WORTHLESS COWARDS.

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MD2510 of MA
Fri, 01/09/2009 - 10:44am
Re: Our Urgent Request of Obama -- Stop Importing Foreign Worker

In the official media, Lou Dobbs of CNN is the only one who has taken sensible positions closely aligned with Numbersusa. Why have we not see someone promote this letter and position on that primetime show or maybe I missed it?

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Rolando 8998 of TX
Fri, 01/09/2009 - 9:03am
Roy, For years I have been a

Roy,
For years I have been a consistent NumbersUsa faxer. Steven1018 of TX wrote in his comment many statements that I find hard to disagree with in view of our Country’s current reality condition. Steven1018 of TX writes; " People like Obama and those around him will not only ignore such a petition. They will regard it as an act of supplication and, thereby, view it with amused contempt. This is the nature of such people. In dealing with such politicians as he- as with foreign despots- one must negotiate from a basis of proven strength". Jason Mrochek, Co-founder & Executive Director Fire Coalition writes in his blog; Our elected "representatives" no longer represent our interests. Our government no longer feels the need to abide by a Constitutional form of government. They'll do what they want to do and ignore the laws they don't like. Expecting consideration of your views apart from their planned interests of “change” and the demise of America, you have written a letter highlighting a National crisis to an individual the so-called president-elect, who shows downright contempt for our Constitution and for the American people and who is awaiting inauguration day despite not having proven he is a natural-born citizen, flaunting the supreme law of the land (Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution). You should know very well that the "news media", our politicians and the people inside our government are also players in America's demise by pandering to the Chamber of Commerce and to all the socio-ethnic organizations pushing for more and more foreign admissions of people into our Country devastating our economy, eroding the American culture and displacing American citizens from the jobs. The fact the two main candidates this past presidential election endorsed by the two major political parties were supporters of amnesty for illegal aliens and of the continuing importation of foreign workers and using our laws to replace Americans from the jobs and while at the same time exporting manufacturing and other jobs abroad, speaks plainly as to their intentions and to our success in prevailing stopping the immigration national crisis. I’m foreign born, naturalized U.S citizen and a so-called Hispanic. I believe is time to realize that we are in a contention with those who want to erase America and we who are in opposition should not longer be passive to tactics our adversaries use. You report that Hill staffers are shocked at the foreign workers importation figures, yes indeed they are shocked; ”Renault: I'm shocked, shocked to find that there is gambling going on here! Croupier: Your winnings, sir. Renault: Oh, thank you very much”--Movie Casablanca 1942.

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charles0427 of GA
Fri, 01/09/2009 - 7:58am
Re: Our Urgent Request of Obama -- Stop Importing Foreign Worker

I have emailed my senators and asked them how I can return my social security card and what documents I need to fill out to become an illegal citzen so I can get all the free benefits and not have to pay taxes on my meager income. Needless to say I have not heard back from them.

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Roger2842 of MD
Fri, 01/09/2009 - 5:23am
no more immigration until we

no more immigration until we sort out the illegal problems and send them back,use some of the bailout funds and the unemploed to round them up

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Patsy4441 of TX
Fri, 01/09/2009 - 12:10am
Re: Re: Our Urgent Request of Obama -- Stop Importing Foreign Wo

Thanks Roy for your continued and persistent fight to save our Beautiful Country,to keep us safe and secure.God Bless You,and God Bless Texas
Sincerely,Patsy,Native Texan

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Dennis J.6517 of CA
Thu, 01/08/2009 - 9:38pm
Re: Our Urgent Request of Obama -- Stop Importing Foreign Worker

I have been having a problem just getting a job since August, 2004. My previous experience involved twenty two years as a federal employee who retired from the service only because I was having a problem getting a higher position. I thought retiring would make it easier to get a job with another government agency or a position with one of the private industry companies. It appears that too many of these private industries are hiring a lot of immigrants, but only because they know that other language. These positions require basically no previous experience otherwise. Why would a person that already has some managerial experience as well as experience training others continue to be left out?
I also know at least three others that are having problems getting jobs, too. It isn't because we don't qualify, it's because we don't know what they are looking for in their employees. That other language, and language should not be a deciding factor.

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RENE2996 of TX
Thu, 01/08/2009 - 8:36pm
Re: Re: Re: Our Urgent Request of Obama -- Stop Importing Foreig

Let's take care of every American worker before we worry about everybody else around the world. Rene Rodriguez USN Retired

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Susie A2631 of FL
Thu, 01/08/2009 - 8:06pm
Re: Re: Our Urgent Request of Obama -- Stop Importing Foreign Wo

Thank you for saying exactly like 83% of the American population has been saying for years. No one in Washington has been listening. You are absolutely right, no one will read that long winded condescending letter Roy wrote. Tell the truth, short and sweet. We are Americans, we dont need to molycoddle everyone on Capital Hill. I think your letter should be the one sent to Washington.

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Gary6333 of NY
Thu, 01/08/2009 - 7:57pm
Keep up the GREAT work Roy!

Keep up the GREAT work Roy! We will continue to reinforce your foundatin, and keep it strong!

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Aloha8462 of ID
Thu, 01/08/2009 - 6:39pm
Thanks, Roy, and all the

Thanks, Roy, and all the people of NumbersUSA for keeping everyone informed on what is going on with immigration. Keep up the good work.

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Cea5336 of IL
Thu, 01/08/2009 - 5:35pm
Re: Our Urgent Request of Obama -- Stop Importing Foreign Worker

I agree with Herber8899 of FL - the letter is much too long; it will never get the attention it deserves, probably not even be read!
I also take exception to Roy's sentences: "In the process, our humanitarian immigration should continue. We probably should expand and accelerate nuclear-family programs for spouses and minor children. And we should continue to take our fair share of the world’s special-needs refugees."
These sentences are the exact "logic" the Left uses to enact more liberal PROGRAMS benefiting immigrants, both legal and illegal, in the name of humanitarianism (and which the RINOs call "compassionate" conservatism)! Enough with the handouts to every indigent except bonafide USA citizens out of jobs and living in poverty (who NEVER get help from the government, no matter WHO sits in the White House, but are instead made to feel like criminals and forced to go through miles of red-tape paperwork hoping they will get a hand UP); I'm sick of the hypocrisy. You can't have it both ways.
Here are my answers. Eliminate ALL illegal immigration, put a 10-year moratorium on all LEGAL immigration, make English the official language which will facilitate assimilation, bring back our manufacturing base from China-Mexico-South America, and train our own legal USA citizens to do the work government says we won't do. That's a blatant lie!
P.S. Thanks for taking the Post-It notes off the top of the faxes so now we can read what we’re faxing!

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Thomas2924 of IN
Thu, 01/08/2009 - 4:09pm
Re: Our Urgent Request of Obama -- Stop Importing Foreign Worker

I would love to sit Barack down, slowly read him Roy's very thoughtful letter, then ask him to talk to me about any of the recommended policies that he does not think he should implement. That is a debate I would not lose. It all really comes down to the awesome responsibility to the American people that he is about to assume, and that our best Presidents always keep close to their hearts. He can choose the easy road, do what is politically expedient, and fail us, or he can take the long and hard road, and earn the respect and gratitude of our nation. These are things we desperately need that are long overdue.

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Herbert8899 of FL
Thu, 01/08/2009 - 3:09pm
Re: Re: Our Urgent Request of Obama -- Stop Importing Foreign Wo

Respectfully, your letter is too long. Consider an executive summary with the B. Jordan comments near the top. The rest could be included as an appendix. Otherwise someone, perhaps not sympathetic, will prepare the ex. summary, if your lucky.

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Dorothy7665 of NE
Thu, 01/08/2009 - 1:21pm
Re: Our Urgent Request of Obama -- Stop Importing Foreign Worker

The immigration policy argument that supports the issuance of temporary work visas no longer exists when a developed nation such as the United States encounters soaring unemployment and underemployment numbers in my opinion. I agree with your letter completely.
The original stated purpose for permitting foreign citizens to enter the United States to work in highly technical areas related to the perceived unavailability of qualified citizens to fill specific technical job vacancies. The burden of establishing that a need exists now to import workers from abroad should fall squarely upon prospective employers to establish that they cannot locate any citizens to train to fill vacancies should it not?
Many foreign workers enter the United States each year as working professionals trained abroad and employed in a temporary capacity in fields such as nursing (both R.N.s and L.P.N.'s), occupational therapy, physical therapy, medicine, teaching (elementary, high school and university level) and computer technology. Surely a developed nation such as ours with so many highly educated citizens to draw upon could instead utilize job shadowing and on the job apprenticeship programs to fill this need for qualified, well trained professionals if there is an unmet labor demand in a specific field?
For example, there are even training programs overseas that assist people training in some of these fields with specific inducements to relocate to the United States as temporary workers. This situation draws talented foreign workers away from their own countries to the detriment of the needs of people in many developing nations where these professionals are sometimes urgently needed. Additionally, there may be a limited ability on the part of some local and state occupational licensing entities to ascertain whether offshore training is always equivalent in rigor to professional training in the United States.

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Joann1458 of AL
Thu, 01/08/2009 - 12:12pm
Re: Our Urgent Request of Obama -- Stop Importing Foreign Worker

I will phone the local offices of my representive and my two senators to support this American work force.

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Stephen 7703 of MN
Thu, 01/08/2009 - 11:46am
Roy: Thanks for the great

Roy:
Thanks for the great articles and letters. I have been using your newsletters and statistics and using them to promote my own grass roots effort to educate the public here in Minnesota. Here's how...
I have subscribed and have been reading online versions of the major local newspapers here in Minnesota. Every time I see an article that discusses unemployment, layoffs or the recession I make sure to leave an online comment (that all readers can see) highlighting the issues of importing foreign labor during the recession and the impact to legal workers already in the US.
I don't know how many people actually see these comments (depends on the newspaper and the article) but I have been getting alot of positive feedback on this particular issue.

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James3303 of FL
Thu, 01/08/2009 - 7:38am
Re: Our Urgent Request of Obama -- Stop Importing Foreign Worker

perhaps congress should take the next wave of illegal immigrants and put them in the jobs that they deal with everyday at the Capitol. perhaps congress should build them a tent city on the mall in DC. that way they won't have to commute or pay for rent. it is time to send the illegals back if 1. they do not work 2. they commit a crime 3. they get benefits illegally. maybe if congress would have to work with them and try to communicate, they could see what we as americans deal with daily. i know, i know, just a pipe dream. from this point forward every illegal in the world will want to come here because America is the land of the free(BENEFITS).

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Elizabeth9909 of TX
Thu, 01/08/2009 - 3:05am
The only quality of life the

The only quality of life the Congress considers is their own!!!

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Kenneth8533 of CA
Wed, 01/07/2009 - 11:49pm
California to my knowledge

California to my knowledge is the most effected by both legal and illegal immigration and in the south of the state we have seen a massive increase in water usage due to the population explosion .If we have another year with lower than average rain fall we will be rationing water. In my 50 years we have never had to ration water, we always have periods of drought in southern California usually lasting about 5 years. But the politicians just say we must conserve water . I and all of my friends and relatives have not changed our water consumption from the last drought, how much more can we conserve? And if we keep letting more people in what will it matter? This is just one issue that immigration has created not to mention the increased consumption of land that puts more stress on our endangered species the increase in dependency on foreign oil the never ending road and freeway work that when finally done is soon grid lock again . And one more knife in the back of Californians the need for more, and more power plants ,that no one wants in their back yard ,until we have brown or black outs again. Jobs will come and go, but the country is much more than jobs we have a limited supply of resources in many parts of the country we have more people than the resources to provide the basics to those people. Some ,most ,or all have to be imported from another state or country .
Thank you Roy , for all that you and NumbersUSA do.

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Ronald8488 of NC
Wed, 01/07/2009 - 10:33pm
Re: Re: Our Urgent Request of Obama -- Stop Importing Foreign Wo

Rebecca, I couldn't have said that better myself. This started 20 yrs ago. I would like congress to abolish immagration for 20 yrs and work on deportations, or let the ILLEGALs make their way home and lower the ILLEGALs flood waters around my home. All our homes!!!.People that want to come here will come the right way. Or don't even try to come at all. 3rd gen Italian-Welsh.

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John and Carol4790 of MN
Wed, 01/07/2009 - 10:10pm
Re: Our Urgent Request of Obama -- Stop Importing Foreign Worker

Mr Obama, you promised you know how to and will create many jobs, so we are asking you to keep that promise and keep the jobs we have in America for American workers, who pay taxes, instead allowing all the immigrants coming in to take the jobs ! Please show us that you meant what you said ! Thank you !

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Chuck1146 of MT
Wed, 01/07/2009 - 9:51pm
Re: Our Urgent Request of Obama -- Stop Importing Foreign Worker

I recently retired from state service with the State of Washington, and I can
attest to the extent that illegal immegrants and their fellow travelers have
penetrated American institutions. Mexicans and Russians were the most numerous
in the locations where I was employed. I worked in the Depts. of Corrections and
Labor and Industries, and I had first hand expierience with dealing with the il-
legals in many different situations
I am here to say that these people receive support in numerous ways from local,
state, and federal governments. I can attest that the INS, the Washington State
Farm Bureau, and the State of Washington joined together to curtail the enforce-
ment for immegration laws in central Washington during the time that I was work-
ing in this region. This is but one example of some of the out-right disdain
for our laws and the protection of national interests that I encountered in my
time of state service. Americans should become aware of the extent of the pro-
blems with illegal immegration before it is too late to take steps to correct the
situation.

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Lynda1390 of FL
Wed, 01/07/2009 - 9:08pm
Yes, we are a nation of

Yes, we are a nation of immigrants. When my grandparents migrated to America, there was room. There was opportunity. It was easy to make room for all four of their families. However, about 103 years have gone by, and a very strange thing has happened: everybody who came here was fruitful and multiplied. While this was going on, we kept accepting more and more people into our country. This worked pretty well for awhile. However, we have now come to the point where it's like one of those restaurants that have a sign, "CAPACITY: MAXIMUM 147 PEOPLE." But instead of paying attention to the sign, we keep adding more and more people. Just as you cannot have 247 people in a building designed for 147, you cannot allow everyone on the face of the earth to move to America. There's no more room at the inn, folks. We have reached maximum capacity.
FROM ROY: You are so right, Lynda. I'll take your restaurant illustration a little further. Congress sees the sign that says "capacity: maximum 147 people", looks around the restaurant and says, you know there really is room to cram in some more. After all, the capacity sign is not based on the maximum number who could possibly be squeezed in. Rather, the capacity is set based on safety, comfort and quality of life. But Congress just consider how many can be crammed in. Quality of life never seems to be considered.

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Rebecca3094 of NC
Wed, 01/07/2009 - 9:07pm
Re: Our Urgent Request of Obama -- Stop Importing Foreign Worker

I continue to be astounded and dumbfounded by the sheer nonsense going on in our Federal government. If my math is correct, the stimulus package, at a "conservative" $700 billion for 3 million jobs, essentially costs us $233,333 per job. Then we are going to import foreign workers who will basically nullify this action. Do these people ever step back and look at the big picture? It's just ridiculous; there is no other word for it.
Yes, we are a country of immigrants. LEGAL immigrants, that is. I completely agree with Roy. We need to restrict our importation figures of legal immigrants because we are no longer the country we were 30 or even 10 years ago, and if we want to protect the American way of life it requires tough measures or the end of this country as we know it. The economic crisis just exacerbates the issue even more. Plus, we need to enforce the laws on the books to take care of the illegal immigration.
If these politicians had to fight the crowds and traffic like we common folk do, and had to put their kids in the public schools that are overcrowded and dealing with immigrant children, they might wake up and realize something needs to be done.

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Robert4907 of DE
Wed, 01/07/2009 - 8:57pm
I strongly believe there is

I strongly believe there is NO JOB that an American wouldn't do. But concerning picking strawberries, oranges, apples and the such, how about this.
I WOULD NOT deny our farmers the right or privilege to hire immigrant workers, but do it LEGALLY.
If our farmers do indeed need immigrant workers, APPLY FOR THEM! That way, when a immigrant worker enters this Country, he (she) will enter with a valid visa and guest worker card. The farmer will be responsible for the transportation and housing of the workers. When the work is done, the workers will be paid and return home.
THEY WILL NOT REMAIN IN THIS COUNTRY AND TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OUR SOCIAL SERVICES AND NATURAL RESOURCES!
I can’t say the ILLEGAL ALIENS are completely to blame for the shape of our economy, but they are a BIG part of the problem. The ILLEGAL ALIENS send BILLIONS upon BILLIONS out of this Country every year, money we will NEVER see again. Does this help our economy?
How about the BILLIONS the American taxpayers fork out for the ANCHOR BABIES, the schooling of them, the medical care and the list goes on, and on, and on.
How about the MILLIONS upon MILLIONS paid to jail ILLEGAL ALIENS for the crimes, then the cost to deport them. Does this help our economy?
Then you have these so called activist groups that want AMNESTY for these ILLEGAL ALIENS. It would be absolute suicide for this Country if AMNESTY were granted to the 20 million or so ILLEGAL ALIENS. We have more and more people out of work everyday and they want to add another 20 million to this Country? I say, “NO”!
If AMNESTY were ever granted to these 20 million ILLEGAL ALIENS, you can bet big money that 3 years from now, there would be ANOTHER 3-5 million ILLEGAL ALIENS demonstrating on our soil for AMNESTY. DO WE WANT THIS?
NumbersUSA, keep up the great work!...and know I'm with you all the way!
NumbersUSA Moderator: Farmers have access to an unlimited number of temporary workers through the H-2A visa program. There is evidence that, in some cases, growers intentionally pass over American workers in favor of cheaper, foreign workers. Nevertheless, many growers find the minimum wage requirement and H-2A application process to cumbersome and end up hiring illegal workers anyway.

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Daniel4752 of AZ
Wed, 01/07/2009 - 8:39pm
Good letter Roy. Keep up the

Good letter Roy. Keep up the good fight.
FROM ROY: It is good to see everybody's comments thus far (I always enjoy reading through them, even if I don't always respond to them). I hope that we can set a grassroots fire on this one. Our fax machines are whirring at the moment, with thousands of faxes going into congressional offices. I expect to see them humming all night, and hope we can keep the faxes flowing the rest of the week. We have to first get the attention of the congressional staffers who will eventually report up to senior staffers. With enough push, we can hope to see Members of Congress themselves becoming familiar with the "138,000 Problem" and the need to address it!

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Will9992 of KY
Wed, 01/07/2009 - 8:35pm
Has anyone taken the time to

Has anyone taken the time to investigate why all these people want to come to our country, I keep hearing the phrase, they just want a better chance in life, but remember, all these people are from a foreign country, all have family there, why would they want to leave them, think about this and then remember, why are these countries in the condition they are in, First most are over populated, most have rulers that care nothing for the people, but- how did these rulers forced them selves into power- why- the people allowed them to, the people would not fight for their rights, without fighting for your rights, you relinquish all rights to complain, when these people decide to take back their country, their homelands will improve, NOW- lets get back to our Country, almost everyone in the world hates us, but every nation have people who want to come here- why- because we are the greatest Country on Earth- AT LEAST AT PRESENT- IF we continue to let people come here and have the same privileges as we all share, we will soon be in the same situation as these other nations, over populated, starving and ruled by people who care nothing for our country- WE Are ALREADY headed in that direction, its time the PEOPLE of AMERICA take back our country, re-gain our freedoms and get this country back to (IN GOD WE TRUST), then GOD WILL TRUST US and BLESS THIS COUNTRY AGAIN- we have drifted from the very values this Country was founded on, REMEMBER, our Congressman and Senators are working for you, you pay their salaries, you are their boss and can kick them out any time they do not do their job, The people of the United States are the BOSS of the UNITED STATES, even the PRESIDENT works for US, we pay his salary. EVERY PERSON IN AMERICA has a voice in what goes on here, let your Congressman and Senators know how you feel about what is going on,that you want America back to where it was founded on, Get God Involved Again in our School, our Colleges and our GOVERNMENT you can bet your last peso that they will listen if they think they will loose their office, Listen People- you are the boss, YOU SEND THESE PEOPLE THERE TO WORK FOR YOU- let them know this, its your money they spend, its your money they pay them, demand more for your money, you have a VOICE, you have a VOTE, these two things are the most powerful weapons in the world.

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Rogelio0075 of NV
Wed, 01/07/2009 - 7:46pm
I find it tough to

I find it tough to understand why our political leaders
have become blind t0 this 138,000 monthly foreign workers
coming to USA. All of these workers will become natural-
ized U.S. citizens even if they don't read, write, and
speak English. These 138K will petition their parents,
wives, and siblings who will in turn do the same never-
ending petitions. English will disappear as a national
language. Let us stop this foolishness of too many
foreigners coming monthly to USA.

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Rosanne3691 of NY
Wed, 01/07/2009 - 7:44pm
Re: Our Urgent Request of Obama -- Stop Importing Foreign Worker

I AGREE WHOLEHEARTEDLY and thank you, Roy, for fighting for the legal American workers and citizens! I just pray that President-elect Obama reads your letter and realizes you are 100% RIGHT on this immigration issue.

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Amber5132 of VA
Wed, 01/07/2009 - 7:44pm
Re: Re: Our Urgent Request of Obama -- Stop Importing Foreign Wo

Well stated Roy! Our country is a country of immigrants but if we let them all come then we won't be able to support ourselves or them. But I did have another thought, with all the GMO (genetically modified) foods in our Country maybe we should just let "them come" and we go somewhere else! God Bless America and hang those jerks who are trying to ruin it!

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MD2510 of MA
Wed, 01/07/2009 - 7:27pm
Ralph It is not hard to

Ralph
It is not hard to believe. Most people around me including my family believe that - the catch phrase is 'we are a country of immigrants'. I just don't see that many people distinguish at all between US citizens and other nationalities - though they are quick to ascribe full rights to other countries to maintain their borders, cultures, jobs, etc - just not us because 'we are a nation of immigrants'.

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Ralph7980 of CO
Wed, 01/07/2009 - 6:29pm
Re: Our Urgent Request of Obama -- Stop Importing Foreign Worker

I know it is hard for many to believe, but there are actually people think that we should eliminate all borders and allow all who inclined to do so, to enter our country. I can't even imagine the chaos that would result.

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Roger6542 of CO
Wed, 01/07/2009 - 6:23pm
Re: Our Urgent Request of Obama -- Stop Importing Foreign Worker

I have already sent you a letter with several enclosures and a donation. www.numbersusa.com/actionbuffet

roadreeler57 · Feb 8, 2009

roadreeler57 · Feb 9, 2009

Send them a Free Fax or call instead of sitting around griping about it

SOUP KITCHEN: Can Senators See the Face of Unemployed Americans Whose Jobs They Give To Illegal Aliens?

By Roy Beck, Sunday, February 8, 2009, 4:44 PM

My wife and I recently spent an evening assisting more than 600 people in families racked by unemployment and poverty.
They were given a hot meal, bags of groceries, bus tokens, coupons and advice/counseling if requested. They needed a band-aid, and we gave them one. But most of all, these households need a job.
The majority of U.S. Senators have decided that illegal foreign workers deserve a job as much as the Americans in our soup kitchen, meaning more of these Americans will remain jobless. Can the Senators even see these faces?
Honestly, I don't know what these Senators think when they read the phone logs of their staff who tabulate all the faxes and phone calls from the readers of this blog. What could cause them to decide over this last week that several hundred thousand of the Stimulus jobs are to go to illegal aliens?
The U.S. House of Representatives in its Stimulus bill prohibited Stimulus jobs to illegal aliens by requiring use of E-Verify. But the Senate rejected this. That means that several hundred thousand unemployed Americans who would have gotten jobs will remain unemployed (based on current hiring patterns under current enforcement).
I wish those 60 Senators who told Majority Leader Reid that he could shut off amendments could stand in the basement of our church across the Potomac River in Arlington, Virginia and look into the faces of the working-age men and women who have been cast off as unneeded by our economy. Many of these men and women live near our church in one of the oldest free-black neighborhoods in the state. Their families have been in this country for 10-16 generations. Most of their ancestors endured slavery and Jim Crow, gaining full political rights only in the last four decades. But the Senate has decided that these unemployed Americans -- as all unemployed Americans of all races and ethnicities -- are not allowed to move to the front of the line ahead of illegal foreign workers who were enticed here by unscrupulous businesses.
Why can't most Senators see these faces of America's unemployed?
Is it because they are too busy looking into the faces of the lobbyists for the greedy industries that insist on hiring illegal aliens?
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David3782 of OR
Mon, 02/09/2009 - 7:32pm
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I just sent in some faxes to my senators with this attached note:
This is unbelievable. You people in Washington just don't get it. I won't try to threaten you with getting you unelected because we both know you people have the votes fundamentally rigged. How else could one "noble lord" sit in the same elected seat for 30 years!? But I do believe we must repeal the 17th Amendment. When each county of each state must fight over those seats change will be frequent.

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Elena9645 of OR
Mon, 02/09/2009 - 7:17pm
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The Senators only care about the illegals and their children, since their children represent a huge future voting block. And who cares what happens to the rest of us?? Ugh...

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Carolyn7670 of UT
Mon, 02/09/2009 - 7:09pm
New Re: SOUP KITCHEN: Can Senators See the Face of Unemployed Ameri

Is it going to have to come to a tax revolution for those of us who are not being represented in Congress? I hate to even think of it, but perhaps that is the only way we can get the attention of our so-called representatives. Is that our duty?
I might be showing my ignorance here but isn't there still a chance that when the House and Senate bills are combined E-Verify will be included?

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Doris 2419 of NJ
Mon, 02/09/2009 - 6:48pm
New Re: SOUP KITCHEN: Can Senators See the Face of Unemployed Ameri

Our "elected officials" don't give a sh_t as long as their fat stomachs and wallets are full. What do LEGAL AMERICAN CITIZENS have to look forward to next, tent cities??? NO DOUBT

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Thomas8762 of GA
Mon, 02/09/2009 - 3:46pm
New Re: SOUP KITCHEN: Can Senators See the Face of Unemployed Ameri

I know a family where the husband is an unemployed construction worker. Unable to find a job he has been going to day labor centers to try to find a job. He has yet to be hired. He was told that employers prefer illegals because they are willing to work for less pay. Also some employers will hire illegals and then not pay them because there is nothing they can do about it. Our elected representatives do not have to face the same problems we have to deal with.

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Gordon3720 of WA
Mon, 02/09/2009 - 2:30pm
New What we need is a powerful

What we need is a powerful volunteer citizens lobby - we just need many citizens lobbying our Reps at Capitol Hill. We need lots and lots of citizens lobbying our congressional offices - enough to force the congressional reps to spend their time listening to citizens. If enough citizens made appointments with legislative aides, the congressional offices will have much less time with professional lobbyists (which there are over 30+ thousand of them representing special interests).
That said, I understand most of us don't have the luxury of traveling to DC to lobby.
NumbersUSA Moderator: You have come to the right place. Help us reach 1,000,000 members this year. Invite your friends and family to join NumbersUSA in the right column of our homepage. Send them a link to our American jobs ad.
You do not have to travel to D.C. Visit a local office individually or in small groups. Most of you live within one hour of a local Congressional office.

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C.1809 of FL
Mon, 02/09/2009 - 12:37pm
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I am totally surprised all Dem Senators are voting on the stimulus pkg. without E-Verify included.I know several Dem Senators such as Byrd of W. Va. voted against Amnesty in the past so why are they not standing with us now ????

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Julia1183 of CA
Mon, 02/09/2009 - 11:18am
New Re: SOUP KITCHEN: Can Senators See the Face of Unemployed Ameri

I am still pounding on the 3 Republican senators who are betraying the rest in the senate by saying they plan to vote "yes" to a Stimulus bill without the E-Verify amendments attached to it!
One of them I checked this morning has a "crashed" web site. And a full-up voice mail box....leading me to think I am not the only one!

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Gene Nelson
Mon, 02/09/2009 - 8:40am
New Re: SOUP KITCHEN: Can Senators See the Face of Unemployed Ameri

Contrary to the employer-interest portrayals that illegal aliens fill low-skill jobs like lettuce pickers, first note this 1997 report from the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
1997 INS Report indicates overstaying illegal aliens hold white-collar jobs
Couple this with the fact that the illegal alien population is much higher than the figures the Administration circulates.
Illegal Aliens Estimated at 20 to 38 Million in November, 2007
Those illegal aliens holding highly - skilled jobs tend to be work, student, and tourist visas.
Half of all illegal aliens are visa overstayers
It should be no surprise that "high tech" employers like Microsoft oppose the use of E-Verify, which the SAVE Act of 2007 proposed to make mandatory.
Microsoft - funded front organization opposes the SAVE Act of 2007 - Pelosi letter 27 February 2008
These facts make it even more reprehensible that the U.S. Senate has so far opposed the common sense requirement that E-Verify be required for all entities hiring people with Economic Stimulus funds.

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BL8203 of TX
Mon, 02/09/2009 - 8:17am
New Re: SOUP KITCHEN: Can Senators See the Face of Unemployed Ameri

This news is absolutely baffling and heart breaking. We must remain proactive!

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Cynthia2502 of TX
Sun, 02/08/2009 - 11:28pm
New Re: SOUP KITCHEN: Can Senators See the Face of Unemployed Ameri

It is time to march and protest. As an attorney, the number of my criminal appointed cases of American citizens has gone through the roof in less than six months since they have resorted to selling drugs and theft to support themselves and their families. They have been displaced from their jobs at WalMart, McDonalds, Burger King, construction, and landscaping. Now it seems illegal aliens are now holding positions in these "low level" places that make hiring decisions and are not hiring Americans. Not all of us have four degrees and speak six languages and need these jobs to survive. This is an direct assault on American citizens and Congress doesn't seem to care one bit. And my clients who voted for President Obama are now realizing no one is hearing us about the illegal alien and job thefts occurring and are becoming disllusioned. When does the madness stop?

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Henry9466 of FL
Sun, 02/08/2009 - 7:38pm
New I am so sick and tired of

I am so sick and tired of listening to the talking heads in Washington. It is time that the working, tax paying, family supporting productive LEGAL memebers of our society march on Washington by the MILLIONS and demand our laws be enforced, the Constitution honored and our sovereignty maintained.
The second American Revolution needs to begin!
NumbersUSA Moderator: NumbersUSA considers itself as a virtual march - a continuous one on Washington. The simple fact is that that the other side can always bus in more people for marches than we can. Then again, Congress cannot close the blinds on our faxes and phone calls. Pour it on.

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Laurel6425 of IL
Sun, 02/08/2009 - 5:42pm
New Re: SOUP KITCHEN: Can Senators See the Face of Unemployed Ameri

It's not only your blog, Roy, but other groups as well like Center for Individual Freedom, people that are motivated by conservative talk radio to e-mail and phone, and other groups mentioned by your readers who provide links. Even though you are non-partisan, in this instance the Democrats, who claim to be "for the little guy," are the ones refusing to consider E-verify. What I don't understand is how they expect anyone to follow the law when they blatantly encourage businesses to avoid it. Isn't it interesting also that the states with the biggest budget deficits also happen to be sanctuary states (California, Illinois, New York, Florida).

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roadreeler57 · Feb 10, 2009

Texas man cleared in fatal shootings of suspected burglars

A grand jury decides not to indict Joe Horn, 62, after he killed two illegal immigrants who were leaving his neighbor’s house.
By Miguel Bustillo
July 01, 2008
A grand jury here today cleared a Pasadena, Texas, man in the shooting deaths of two suspected burglars as they left his neighbor’s house – a case that stirred a national debate over whether the man was a vigilante or a hero.
Joe Horn, 62, shot the men on Nov. 14 after calling authorities and declaring his intention to kill them with his 12-gauge shotgun.
The 911 audiotape captured multiple warnings by the dispatcher, asking Horn to stay inside and telling him that “property’s not worth killing someone over.” However, Horn grew agitated because the men looked like they were going to get away before police arrived. As the tape rolled, Horn went outside, shouted “Move, you’re dead!” and fired his weapon.
The incident outraged some Houston activists, who staged protests in the neighborhood and argued that if Horn – who was not arrested – was not white and his victims were not dark-skinned, he would have been taken to jail immediately. The controversy grew when authorities disclosed that the two victims, Diego Ortiz, 30, and Hernando Riascos Torres, 38, were illegal immigrants.
Harris County Dist. Atty. Kenneth Magidson said today that he understood “the concerns of some of those in the community regarding Mr. Horn’s conduct,” but added that the grand jury had thoroughly reviewed the evidence and testimony before deciding not to recommend any charges.
Many defense attorneys had predicted that a grand jury indictment would be unlikely in Texas, where many citizens strongly believe in a right to fire weapons in defense of home and property.
“This office will continue to aggressively prosecute anyone who illegally engages in the use of force, deadly or otherwise, against another,” Magidson said in a statement. “In this case, however, the grand jury concluded that Mr. Horn’s use of deadly force did not rise to a criminal offense.” http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jul...tion/na-shoot1

roadreeler57 · Feb 10, 2009

Since our last update, users have added 24 new "alleged" illegal alien employers to the WeHireAliens.com website.

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roadreeler57 · Feb 12, 2009

roadreeler57 · Feb 12, 2009

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Some states, cities and counties that plunged into the immigration debate are having second thoughts.
In Texas, Alabama and elsewhere, lawmakers have repealed or modified measures that cracked down on illegal immigrants or made English the official language. In Iowa and Utah, legislators are proposing similar reversals.
They cite various reasons, including the time and expense of fighting legal challenges, the cost of implementing the measures while tightening their budgets and the barrage of publicity and accusations of racism that come with such laws.
"For us to spend our time pitting neighbor against neighbor was a sacrilege," says Judith Camp, a city councilwoman in Oak Point, Texas, about 35 miles north of Dallas, who voted to kill the city's English-only resolution in December. The measure, adopted in 2007 on a 3-2 vote, was rescinded on a 3-2 vote. "We're just a tiny little city and we were getting a lot of negative publicity."
Muzaffar Chishti of the Migration Policy Institute, which analyzes immigration trends and policies, says some states and communities are "taking a more skeptical view" of immigration laws because of the legal costs and attention.
FIND MORE STORIES IN: Texas | Alabama | Dallas | Iowa | Utah | Madison County | English-only | Migration Policy Institute | Farmers Branch | Lisa Roskelley
Most state and local laws that passed as federal reform failed remain in place, and some communities have mounted expensive campaigns to keep them. Farmers Branch, Texas, has steadfastly defended its ordinances despite legal challenges and public protests.
Chishti nonetheless expects more lawmakers to reconsider."The cost of enforcing and defending these ordinances is enormous," he says. "The appetite for these things is going down."
Rob Toonkel, spokesman for U.S. English, a group that wants to make English the official language of the USA, counters that English-only proposals remain popular. Thirty states have such laws, he says, and there are far more states and communities proposing new laws than attempting to repeal them.
"The momentum is still on the side of assimilation," he says.
In Iowa, Democratic state Rep. Bruce Hunter wants to repeal a law that makes English the state's official language and requires most government documents to be in English. "It's really sent out the wrong message about the state of Iowa," he says.
The Madison County (Ala.) Commission last August toned down a policy that requires businesses bidding for contracts to sign a pledge saying they don't knowingly employ illegal immigrants. The change was part of a settlement with a company that was late in submitting the pledge and did not win the contract.
The new pledge no longer says county officials can inspect contractors' personnel records.
"I would prefer it to be much stronger," says Commissioner Mo Brooks, author of the original policy. After studying legal opinions and federal law, though, the commission had no other choice, he says.
In Utah, two legislators, one from each party, have proposed delaying implementation of a law set to take effect in July. The bill's provisions include a requirement that government agencies check the legal status of new hires against a federal database.
Republican state Rep. Stephen Clark, author of one proposal, wants to delay the bill for a year to study the economic impact of illegal immigrants on the state.
Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr., a Republican, supports a delay, says spokeswoman Lisa Roskelley.
"We are in the process of making major cuts all across the board in government, including public education," says Clark, who puts the cost of implementing the immigration law at $1.7 million. "We believe now is not the time to invest that money into this issue, especially when we don't know whether illegal immigration is a financial plus or minus to the state."
In Farmers Branch, legal bills haven't kept the city from sticking with its immigration law. Farmers Branch has spent $1.6 million so far to fight lawsuits challenging its effort to prevent illegal immigrants from renting apartments and houses, says finance director Charles Cox. In one case, it will have to pay up to $900,000 in plaintiffs' legal fees.
The $1.6 million represents 1.5% to 2% of the city's budget, but residents approved one of its ordinances with more than two-thirds of the vote and want lawmakers to fight, Cox says.
"We can certainly find other uses for the money," he says. "By the same token, the residents have made their voices heard that this is a priority http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-02-10-revisit10_N.htm."
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Michigan Restaurant Owners Sentenced for Harboring Illegal Aliens

Thursday, February 12, 2009, 11:21 AM

Guan and Hoa Le Chen were both sentenced on Wednesday for harboring illegal aliens in their home near Ann Arbor, Mich. The couple owns a Chinese restaurant and were charged with providing work, transportation and a place to live for illegal aliens.
Guan Chen received seven months in prison, seven months in a community corrections facility and another 23 months of supervised release. Hoa Le Chen was released with time served but will also be under supervised release for the next two years.
Officials said the couple harbored three Mexican nationals who were later deported.
More on this story can be found at the Ann Arbor News website.

roadreeler57 · Feb 16, 2009

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Dobbs Spotlights Rising Protest of Anti-American-Worker Aspect of Stimulus Bill

Friday, February 13, 2009, 3:39 PM

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While most mainstream media outlets are ignoring the fact that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-NC) have removed American worker protections from the economic stimulus bill (the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009), CNN's Lou Dobbs has not. His show is highlighting the removal of the House's E-Verify amendments.
The House version of the bill had two amendments relating to E-Verify: the first amendment would reauthorize E-Verify for 5 years while the second would mandate its use by any business or locality that receives stimulus funds.
Dobbs had Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA), a sponsor of one of the House E-Verify amendments, on his program, Lou Dobbs Tonight on Thursday night. Kingston said (when asked about the Democratic Leadership's refusal to have E-Verify language in the final bill):

I think it's outrageous. When you think about somebody whose house has been foreclosed or somebody who's been laid off and they've got kids going to college, and their savings had been wiped out, they need a job right now. They're not going to be too picky. And if they hear that illegal aliens are taking some of these jobs that are going to be created from the stimulus package, it will be outrageous. And they should be.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce lobbied hard to have the E-Verify language removed from the final bill and it appears that Sen. Reid and Rep. Pelosi kowtowed to their demands. On Lou Dobbs Tonight, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), who attempted to introduce an E-Verify amendment to the Senate stimulus package, said (in relation to the Democratic Leadership's refusal to accept the House or Senate E-Verify language):

[T]here's no principle cases or argument they can make against this proposal [to mandate the use of E-Verify]. I just flatly reject the idea that this is going to cause extraordinary delay and expense. It's being done voluntarily by 100,000 different employers in America today voluntarily. They wouldn't do it if it were a burden. I reject that argument.

Dobbs also had Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) on his program, who had this to say about the Democrat's refusal to support American workers:

They're literally putting illegal immigrants ahead of American workers. That's what is most disappointing. I think there will be a public outrage over their refusal to protect American workers and try to reduce illegal immigration. Because of that public outrage and I think all true reform starts with the people, I expect and hope that the Democrats will respond and we'll be able to continue this program and even make it mandatory for those who are getting federal contracts with the government.

You can read the entire Lou Dobbs Tonight transcript here. http://www.numbersusa.com/content/n...light-anti-american-worker-stimulus-bill.html