Update on phoning on House immigration votes today‏

An interesting post from http://www.numbersusa.com/ updating Immigration Bills before the House of Representatives. This follows this previous post about Immigration Bills before the House of Representatives and this post which shows that there are 30,000 openly illegal immigrants in the border town of El Paso. On a related note, you can read about Miss Kentucky Latina here, an interesting article about Jessica Alba here or another article about Salma Hayek here. For more that you can do to get involved click HERE and you can read a very interesting book HERE!

Update on phoning on House immigration votes today‏

DEAR FRIENDS,







HERE'S AN UPDATE ON THE VOTING ON 4 IMMIGRATION AMENDMENTS TODAY






No word yet when the first of the immigration amendments will come up for a vote. So, your phone calls are still needed -- and very helpful.






Thanks to all of you who already have phoned your U.S. Representative. Our Hill Team is getting great feedback from congressional staffers that of the scores of amendments on H.R. 1, the four on immigration are generating the most calls. Hmmm, wonder why that would be!!!






If you haven't made your phone call yet, please click here for your Phone Action Note with phone number, talking points and background info.






CONFUSION BY STAFFERS ABOUT THE AMENDMENT NUMBERS






Our Helpdesk has gotten a lot of inquiries from many of you about whether the amendment numbers we are giving you are correct. Many staffers are suggesting they aren't correct.






Jonathan Osborn of our Hill Team (and a former congressional staffer) says our information is indeed accurate but that a lot of the staffers are new and experienced and confused by the numbering systems on the Hill.






To make sure that your message gets through, we have slightly modified the Phone Action Note's Talking Points.






Here is a good way to refer to the amendments quickly and to be sure they aren't confused with other amendments:


On Amendment No. 225 by Rep. Goodlatte to suspend the Visa Lottery, please vote YES.










On Amendment No. 199 by Rep. Poe to stop the federal government from suing Arizona over its immigration laws, please vote YES.










On Amendment No. 277 by Rep. Price of North Carolina to ban funding for REAL ID, please vote NO.










On Amendment No. 188 by Rep. Polis to cap the number of detention beds for illegal aliens, please vote NO.


If you have never phoned Congress before, here are the easy steps I outlined in my Alert this morning. Otherwise, please go to your Phone Action Note now.






FOLLOW THESE STEPS:






STEP 1 -- Go to your customized Phone Action Note with the info about your own Representative.






STEP 2 -- Read the Talking Point in the middle of the page that we suggest you use on the phone. If you want more info, read the text in the left-hand box.






STEP 3 -- See if somebody else in your District has left a tip about your Congressman. This tip is on the lower right part of the page.






STEP 4 -- Call the phone number on the page.






STEP 5 -- Tell the staffer your name and your city or county name (so they will know you are a constituent).






Say you are calling about amendments on the Continuing Resolution.






Then, give your talking point or points.






You can be as quick as you like. You won't have to debate the staffer. Just leave your information and thank the staffer.






Always be polite. Staffers will treat your requests with much more respect if you are.






STEP 6 -- On the Phone Action Note, click on the red bar at top -- YES, I MADE THE CALL.






That will take you to a page where you can leave information that you think may be helpful to the next person who calls your Representative.






THANKS FOR KEEPING THE PRESSURE ON THESE OFFICES