Congress Get your Act Together! Vote On SAVE Act [H.R. 4088]

May 9, 2008 | By PA Pundits |

Your calls and faxes this week are creating quite the stir on the Hill — UPDATE on SAVE campaign

UPDATE NO. 1: We’ve added another signer of the SAVE Discharge Petition — Rep. Mark Souder (R-Ind.) Three cheers for NumbersUSA activists in Indiana!

UPDATE NO. 2: That makes 188 signers. We now need only 30 more to force a House vote on the SAVE Act [H.R. 4088] to start driving perhaps a million illegal aliens home each year!

UPDATE NO. 3: Your faxes and phone calls this week have overwhelmed many offices. NumbersUSA is getting a lot of complaints from harried congressional staffers begging us to make the phone calls and faxes stop. We tell them that we will be more than happy to make a halt — as soon as their boss signs the SAVE Discharge Petition. I told you Monday that many offices were saying their Members felt no pressure to sign the SAVE Discharge Petition because they said they were hearing very little support from the voters. I think you all are starting to change their minds about that!

UPDATE NO. 4: You sent 77,905 faxes into congressional offices on Wednesday. That was after 174,922 faxes on Tuesday, the day that the House Social Security subcommittee tried to kill the SAVE Act with a string of right-wing industry lobbyists and left-wing open-border groups at a hearing. You put everybody on notice that they are being watched and that large numbers of voters don’t like their efforts to allow outlaw businesses to continue to hire illegal aliens.

PLEASE TAKE THIS ACTION — NO. 1: Make sure that you have sent all the faxes posted for you on your customized Action Buffet corkboard. It is essential that congressional offices see their fax machines continue to churn out pro-SAVE appeals every day.

AND TAKE THIS ACTION — NO. 2: Every time you see an email from NumbersUSA, please open it. Most will have links for new faxes and other actions you can take to keep the pressure on to improve enforcement this year against illegal immigration.

AND THIS ACTION — NO. 3: Call as many offices as possible on our list of U.S. Representatives who are refusing to sign the Discharge Petition. The Members are listed by state. You may want to concentrate on Members from your state and from neighboring states or from areas with which you have some special connection. Of course, the most influential call is always to your own Representative.

202-224-3121

AND ONE MORE — NO. 4: If your own Representative is on that list of NON-signers, please forward this email around to everybody you know in your home area with a note telling them that their Member of Congress is standing in the way of the only chance we have this year of taking jobs away from illegal aliens and pushing them to go home.

WHAT TO SAY WHEN YOU CALL

Simply express your disappointment that the Representative is refusing to sign the “Discharge Petition on the SAVE Act — H.R. 4088.” Note that the Discharge Petition is the only way to bring immigration enforcement to the floor of the House this year and that by NOT signing, the Representative is siding with outlaw businesses and protecting their ability to continue to hire illegaL aliens instead of American workers. Or give some other reason why the non-signing is harmful.

It is as simple as that. Say “thank you” and hang up.

The main argument these offices will give you is that E-Verify relies on a Social Security database that has lots of errors and, thus, large numbers of American citizens will lose their jobs through mistakes.

You should tell the congressional staffers that Democratic Rep. Heath Shuler from North Carolina testified Tuesday that while E-Verify has been in voluntary use for a decade, the government is unaware of a single instance of an American citizen losing a job because of it.

Yes, there are mistakes in the database, but those are mistakes that the worker needs to clear up anyway. Once a worker is run through E-Verify and notified that there is a match problem, the worker is given time correct the record. Only illegal aliens are unable to correct the record — and they DO lose their jobs.

SOMETHING SPECIAL IN INDIANA

I want to especially praise our Indiana activists who now have persuaded all four of the state’s Republican Representatives to sign the Discharge Petition (Souder, Burton, Buyer and Pence) and also two of the 10 Democrats from the entire nation (Ellsworth and Donnelly).

It would be tough to gain a clean sweep for Indiana, but keep the pressure on Democrats Hill, Carson and Visclosky.

WHEN YOUR REPRESENTATIVE SEEMS HOPELESSLY NEGATIVE …

I know that many of you get very discouraged while repeatedly contacting your U.S. Representative and always getting negative responses. You often ask me why you should continue to try at all.

It is true that many of these Members are unlikely to ever be our champions, or even warrant a B or A grade. But it really is helpful to continue to pound these kind of opponents. Even if they don’t vote our way, they may behind the scenes ask their Party leadership to just let Heath Shuler get a vote on his bill. We are trying to wear down the opposition, as well as put some fright into them — and occasionally inform the ones who have the slightest interest in the facts.

THANKS FOR KEEPING THE FIRE HOT UNDER THE PROTECTORS OF OUTLAW BUSINESSES AND THEIR ILLEGAL FOREIGN WORKERS,