Friends, I tried to drive that point home this morning in my OPPOSING VIEW op-ed on the editorial page of USA Today (the nation's largest circulation paper).
Please help me get that message to your U.S. Representative. Click to see your Action note with name, phone number and options for a short message to give your Rep.
My request is simple and will take you no more than 3-8 minutes. We desperately need to make sure that your Rep's staffers in the local offices know how voters in your District feel about immigration numbers.
Call and say this -- or something like it:
"I want less immigration. A million a year is too high. Please tell Rep. (NAME) to cut annual immigration numbers. Thank you.
That's all you have to say if you feel timid. I need you to make that phone call if we are to have any chance that the immigration bill that gets a House vote in June helps America rather than makes things worse.
Or you can give something like this message:
I want Rep. (NAME) to insist that any immigration bill that gets a vote this month reduces annual immigration. If it doesn't cut immigration numbers it won't be good for America or our District."
The message they are getting from most of the news media and from fellow politicians and political consultants is muddled. Most of them are missing the fact that the one thing that unites most American voters is:
A desire for lower immigration numbers.
Every poll that asks voters what level of immigration they want shows they want a lot less than a million.
Please make that phone call right now as you are reading this. Find the phone number and name of your Representative by clicking here.
Thanks.
FYI, HERE'S SOME OF WHAT I WROTE IN USA TODAY THIS MORNING
The USA Today editorial board wrote in strong support of the Renegade Republicans who have signed a Discharge Petition designed to pass a no-strings amnesty. The editorial praises them as humanitarian in their attempt to get a path to citizenship for so-called DREAMer illegal aliens.
I pointed out that the discharge leaders are really about something very anti-humanitarian:
The discharge effort is an end run to do the bidding of corporate lobbies that want to protect the ability of outlaw employers to hire an illegal workforce. And they want the government to continue to issue more than 1 million lifetime immigrant work permits each year to allow employers to avoid having to recruit from the huge non-working U.S. population, which is disproportionately American minorities and people without college degrees.
First-quarter government data reveal about 50 million working-age Americans who have no job. Millions more Americans who do have jobs are stuck in stagnant and even declining incomes. Discharge petition signers would increase their labor competition; Goodlatte bill supporters would give them some relief.
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(O)n one side are Republicans who believe that a legalization bill that adds competitors to the legal workforce should also show concern for American workers by preventing hiring of future illegal workers and by reducing some other immigration.
On the other side are the discharge participants who focus on helping only illegal immigrants -- and the employers who hire them.
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(The Goodlatte bill mandates) E-Verify for all employers to reduce illegal hiring. And it ends the chain migration and visa lottery channels that pour foreign workers into this country.
The reforms in the Goodlatte bill (introduced by four House chairmen) are supported not only by the majority of House Republicans but also by large margins of likely midterm voters.
Read Full Op Ed Here:
http://hub.numbersusa.com/route/9/5b0ee60a74e18a6549141ed6/2486247/9