- We knew this was coming:
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- "We must keep them from attaching the Dream Act
Amnesty to the Department of Defense authorization bill."
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- . When you call your senator about my column (if ya do),
tell him/her that we the people have caught them again trying to hookwink
us and we will not stand for it. Please network this far and wide. We beat
them down last time and we must do it again.
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- Devvy
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- From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
- Date: Thursday 13SEP07
- 11:30 p.m. EDT
- Senate will try again next week to pass an amnesty --
URGENT to phone & fax Friday -- Don't wait OPEN-BORDERS SENATORS
PLAN END-RUN DREAM ACT AMNESTY
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- Friends, this is not a do-it-if-you-have-time request.
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- This is the most urgent kind of request for your action
Friday -- and again Monday.
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- Please send free
faxes to your Members of Congress. You'll see some faxes on your Action
Buffet corkboard immediately. We'll be sending you links to other new faxes
during the day Friday.
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- In the middle of actions on Defense next week, the open-borders
Senators are going to attempt to attach three proposals that would give
amnesty to millions of illegal aliens and dramatically increase the importation
of additional foreign labor for American jobs.
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- Many of the Senators who helped us kill the Comprehensive
Amnesty in June are indicating they are in favor of these preferences for
illegal foreign workers and new foreign workers over American workers.
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- We must keep them from attaching the Dream Act Amnesty
to the Department of Defense authorization bill.
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- And we also must keep them from taking hundreds of thousands
of our high tech jobs from American students and middle-age American workers
and giving them to foreign workers.
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- Our NumbersUSA legislative department outlines these
three threats in<#100>sections below.
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- THE QUICK MESSAGE YOU CAN GIVE TO SENATE OFFICE FRIDAY
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- 1. Call the Senate switchboard at:
- 202-224-3121
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- 2. Ask for your Senator. (You can find the names of your
Senators and all their contact info Here
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- 3. Tell the person who answers that you are calling to
ask the Senator to vote NO next week on three measures that are being considered
for the Defense Authorization bill.
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- a. Vote NO on Amendment 2237 that would attach the Dream
Act Amnesty.
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- b. Vote NO on any measure to increase H-1B visas and
permanent greencards for foreign workers to take jobs from skilled American
workers and students.
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- c. Vote NO on any attempt to increase H-2B visas for
seasonal foreign workers to take jobs from America's most vulnerable workers.
- in this email:1. <#1>A short script on what to
say on phone to your Senators
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- 2. Talking points against<#2>DREAM Act Amnesty.
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- 3. Talking points against<#3>taking jobs away from
American skilled workers and students
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- 4. Talking points to <#4>stop expansion of visas
for unskilled seasonal workersactions in brief:1. Phone your two Senators.
Use
talking points in this email -- or click on the phone note that will
be placed on your corkboard Friday morning.
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- 2. Send
free faxesto your Senators to stop the amnesty and the increase in foreign
workers.donate now:This faxing system is 100% financed by the voluntary
generosity of the 445,000-plus Americans who use it.
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- THE OPPOSITION PLANS TO BEAT US ON PHONE AND FAX THIS
TIME
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- All summer since the media gave you credit for moving
the Senate with your faxes and phone calls to kill the Comprehensive Amnesty
bill, we have seen open borders groups telling their members that they
would beat NumbersUSA at our own game this fall.
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- Some open borders groups said that they would be studying
our NumbersUSA grassroots mobilization system carefully and would imitate
it to generate more faxes and more phone calls FOR amnesty than we can
AGAINST amnesty.
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- There have been reports of open-border billionaires so
angry at the NumbersUSA success in June that they have pledged to provide
enough money to the open-borders groups for them to generate more faxes
and phone calls than our side.
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- Just one problem with all the bravura of the open-borders
crowd: There are a whole lot more of us than them.
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- Thanks to the generosity of about 10% of you, we have
the funds to pay for an avalanche of faxes over the next several days.
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- Please take the actions and forward this email to as
many Americans as you know.
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- The opposition hopes that these three measures will seem
so much smaller than the Comprehensive Amnesty that the American people
will largely sit this one out.
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- Talking Points to Stop the DREAM ACT AMNESTY
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- The DREAM Act (Amendment 2237 to the Defense Authorization
bill) is a nightmare. It is a massive amnesty that extends to the millions
of illegal aliens who entered the United States before the age of 16.
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- There is no upper age limit. Any illegal alien can walk
into a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office and declare that
he is eligible. For example, a 45 year old can claim that he illegally
entered the United States 30 years ago at the age of 15. There is no requirement
that the alien prove that he entered the United States at the claimed time
by providing particular documents. The DREAM Act's Section 4(a) merely
requires him to "demonstrate" that he is eligible-which in practice
could mean simply making a sworn statement to that effect. Thus, it is
an invitation for just about every illegal alien to fraudulently claim
the amnesty.
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- The alien then has six years to adjust his status from
a conditional green card holder to a non-conditional one. To do so, he
need only complete two years of study at an institution of higher education,
including any vocational school. If the alien has already completed two
years of study, he can convert to non-conditional status immediately (and
use his green card as a platform to sponsor parents and other family members).
As an alternative to two years of study, he can enlist in the U.S. military
for two years. This provision allows Senator Durbin to claim that the DREAM
Act is somehow germane to the defense authorization bill.
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- An illegal alien who applies for the DREAM Act amnesty
gets to count his years under "conditional" green card status
toward the five years needed for citizenship. On top of that, the illegal
alien could claim "retroactive benefits" and start the clock
running the day that the DREAM Act is enacted. In combination, these two
provisions put illegal aliens on a high-speed track to U.S. citizenship-moving
from illegal alien to U.S. citizen in as little as five years. Lawfully
present aliens, meanwhile, must follow a slower path to citizenship.
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- It would be absurdly easy for just about any illegal
alien-even one who does not qualify for the amnesty-to evade the law. According
to Section 4(f) of the DREAM Act, once an alien files an application-any
application, no matter how ridiculous-the federal government is prohibited
from deporting him. Moreover, with few exceptions, federal officers are
prohibited from either using information from the application to deport
the alien or sharing that information with another federal agency, under
threat of up to $10,000 fine. Thus, an alien's admission that he has violated
federal immigration law cannot be used against him-even if he never had
any chance of qualifying for the DREAM Act amnesty in the first place.
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- The DREAM Act also allows illegal aliens to receive in-state
tuition rates at public universities, discriminating against U.S. citizens
from out of state and law-abiding foreign students.
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- The DREAM Act also makes the illegal aliens eligible
for federal student loans and federal work-study programs-another benefit
that law-abiding foreign students cannot receive-all at taxpayer expense.
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- A consistent theme emerges: Illegal aliens are treated
much more favorably than aliens who fol¬low the law. There is no penalty
for illegal behavior.
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- Talking Points to Prevent Attaching Provisions of the
SKIL Act
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- Increase the annual cap for "temporary" nonimmigrant
visas from 65,000 to 115,000. But that's just the first year (after that,
if the cap is met in any year, it can be further increased by 20 percent
for the next year with a ceiling of 180,000 per year)
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- Establishes more exemptions from the cap, thus rendering
the cap virtually meaningless (as it is, approximately two-thirds of all
current H-1Bs have been exempted)
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- Instead of capturing "unused" EB visas (as
claimed by proponents) from previous years, adds new EB visas by an amount
coinciding with the number not issued in those years
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- As with the H-1B provisions described above, establishes
additional exemptions to the annual EB visa cap that do nothing but make
it easier for U.S. employers to import cheap labor rather than hiring American
workers.
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- "Expedites" and "streamlines" the
processing of millions of new applications (and requisite background checks)
for "temporary" workers and for LPR status, which, to an agency
(U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services [USCIS>) that has shown itself
to be unable to adequately implement current immigration laws, is both
untenable and reckless
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- Authorizes employers to propose a prevailing wage of
their own choosing if the Labor Department is too swamped with labor certification
applications to respond within 20 calendar days, thus allowing existing
wage stagnation in high-tech fields to become further entrenched
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- Allows greater abuse of the L-1 "intracompany transferee/specialized
knowledge" visa, which, unlike the H-1B, may be issued without numerical
limitation and without the employer being required to pay the alien employee
the prevailing wage, or meet other labor condition requirements, and they
are valid for longer periods of time
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- Puts L-1 nonimmigrants in line for lawful permanent resident
(LPR) status, which, for all intents and purposes, would make their employment
permanent and would take yet more jobs away from U.S. workers
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- Expands eligibility for F student visas shown to
be an effective method for terrorist elements to lawfully enter, and then
remain in, the United States to aliens wanting to study in high-tech
fields and, in concert with other high-tech-related provisions, affords
them the opportunity to be "fast-tracked" toward LPR status and
permanent placement in the job market as more cheap, foreign labor
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- Talking Points to Stop Expansion of Visas for Seasonal
Workers
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- H-2B visas are for temporary or seasonal non-agricultural,
unskilled workers. Employers who want to hire H-2B workers must obtain
a labor certification from the Department of Labor (DoL) stating that qualified
American workers are not available to fill the jobs. Unfortunately, the
"certification" process is less certification and more rubber
stamp, since DoL is not permitted even to verify the truthfulness of the
information on petitions. If the employer filled in all the blanks, DoL
approves the petition.
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- H-2B visas were created so that employers could fill
temporary labor shortages until U.S. workers can be found. Employers of
H-2Bs are required to look for American workers first, but the requirements
for advertising job openings are minimal. At the least, employers should
be required to post job openings on an internet-based system like DoL's
"America's Job Bank."
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- Since H-2B visas are renewable for up to three years
and family members are allowed to accompany the workers, these visas often
end up providing semi-permanent residency. After three years, the foreign
worker and his family must go home for six months before returning for
up to three more years.
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- The United States economy is not facing a shortage of
unskilled workers; in fact, it has an oversupply
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- 14 million Americans are unable to find full-time jobs
in the current economy (Bureau of Labor Statistics-BLS);
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- The unemployment rate among the 12 million American adults
who do not have a high school diploma is almost 9 percent (BLS);
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- An astonishing 40 percent of working-age African-American
men are unemployed (BLS);
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- The percentage of 16- to 19-year-olds holding jobs in
the United States is the lowest it has been since the government began
tracking statistics in 1948 (Prof. Andrew Sum, Center for Labor Market
Studies, Northeastern University).
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- At least 40 percent of the illegal-alien population came
to the United States on a temporary visa, like the H-2B, and then overstayed
after the visa expired. Congress should not even consider increasing the
numbers of temporary visas until DHS has fully implemented an entry-exit
system, based on biometric identifiers, to ensure that visa holders leave
the United States when their visa expires. Otherwise, Congress will simply
be facilitating illegal immigration.
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- Friends, the business lobbies have bought off most of
the Democratic leadership that is in control of the Senate in order to
radically increase the importation of foreign workers and keep American
wages from rising.
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- Because Republican party leaders have traditionally been
helpful to business lobbyists, we face incredible odds in trying to stop
this triple threat next week.
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- We stopped an amnesty for all illegal aliens in June.
But these actions next week not only will provide amnesty to several million
of them but is designed to soften up the politics to pass other amnesties
later this fall. We must overwhelm the Senate with our opposition starting
Friday.
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