Kill-Lottery bill vote tomorrow -- your final phone calls needed‏

An urgent post from http://www.numbersusa.com/ about the Visa Lottery. This follows this post about Congressional E-Verify. This follows this post about immigration enforcement in Texas. This follows this post about congressional redistricting and this follows this post which shows that there are 30,000 openly illegal immigrants in the border town of El Paso, where President Barack Obama recently bashed immigration enforcement! 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!

And Remember when contacting public officials to please be firm but respectful. Any over the top messages could result in law enforcement action against you. Just let these senators know that you are aware of what they have done and that you intend to remove them from office in the 2012 elections.

Kill-Lottery bill vote tomorrow -- your final phone calls needed‏



DEAR SUPPORTERS OF OVERALL IMMIGRATION REDUCTIONS,




The U.S. House Judiciary Committee votes tomorrow (Thursday) on what would be the first law to REDUCE immigration since 1924!!!!



It would be a small but significant step of killing the Visa Lottery and ending the practice of randomly selecting more than 50,000 new permanent immigrant workers every year from countries that have the least ties with the United States.



ACTION: Please call the Member(s) of the Judiciary Committee (in the list below) with whom you have the closest geographical or political connection.



Call Wednesday afternoon (or leave a voice mail message this evening).



Or call first thing Thursday morning.



HERE'S THE BASIC THRUST OF WHAT YOU NEED TO SAY:



"Please vote for H.R. 704, the bill to end the Visa lottery. This bill will reduce by 50,000 the immigrants that Congress brings in each year to compete with unemployed Americans.



"I urge you to OPPOSE every amendment that is being offered.



"Most of the amendments would just re-allocate the lottery visas to other categories. The effect would be the same number of immigrant workers competing with unemployed Americans.



"Do NOT re-allocate any of the 50,000 lottery visas."



Remember, the most important thing is to REDUCE overall immigration numbers. It is those astronomical numbers (one million legal immigrants a year) that drive most of our immigration problems in terms of jobs, the environment, congestion and government costs.



H.R. 704, the bi-partisan SAFE for America Act of 2011, has a great chance of passing the House and a decent chance of passing the Senate this year. But it has to get through committee without people re-allocating the visas. If the lottery is killed but the visas increased elsehwere, we would have to oppose the bill. Reducing the numbers is the most helpful thing we can do for the American people right now.



PHONE NUMBERS for JUDICIARY COMMITTEE MEMBERS



ARIZONA



REP. TRENT FRANKS 202-225-4576

REP. BEN QUAYLE 202-225-3361



ARKANSAS



REP. TIM GRIFFIN 202-225-2506



CALIFORNIA



REP. HOWARD BERMAN 202-225-4695

REP. JUDY CHU 202-225-5464

REP. ELTON GALLEGLY 202-225-5811

REP. DARRELL ISSA 202-225-3906

REP. ZOE LOFGREN 202-225-3072

REP. DAN LUNGREN 202-225-5716

REP. MAXINE WATERS 202-225-2201



GEORGIA



REP. HANK JOHNSON 202-225-1605



FLORIDA



REP. SANDY ADAMS 202-225-2706

REP. TED DEUTCH 202-225-3001

REP. DENNIS ROSS 202-225-1252



ILLINOIS



REP. MIKE QUIGLEY 202-225-4061



INDIANA



REP. MIKE PENCE 202-225-3021



IOWA



REP. STEVE KING 202-225-4426



MICHIGAN



REP. JOHN CONYERS 202-225-5126



NEW YORK



REP. JERROLD NADLER 202-225-5635



NORTH CAROLINA



REP. HOWARD COBLE 202-225-3065

REP. MELVIN WATT 202-225-1510



OHIO



REP. STEVE CHABOT 202-225-2216

REP. JIM JORDAN 202-225-2676



PENNSYLVANIA





REP. TOM MARINO 202-225-3731



SOUTH CAROLINA



REP. TREY GOWDY 202-225-6030



TENNESSEE



REP. STEVE COHEN 202-225-3265



TEXAS



REP. LOUIE GOHMERT 202-225-3035

REP. SHEILA JACKSON LEE 202-225-3816

REP. TED POE 202-225-6565

REP. LAMAR SMITH 202-225-4236



UTAH



REP. JASON CHAFFETZ 202-225-7751



VIRGINIA



REP. RANDY FORBES 202-225-6365

REP. BOBBY SCOTT 202-225-8351



WISCONSIN



REP. JIM SENSENBRENNER 202-225-5101



With 22 million Americans unable to find a job, there is no need for the Visa Lottery that randomly doles out 50,000 visas to individuals with no special skills. These people will invariably compete with America's unemployed for the few jobs our economy is creating.



The visa lottery promotes massive illegal immigration by people who think they may some day win the lottery and be allowed to stay in the United States. The late Barbara Jordan, as Chair of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, recommended the elimination of the visa lottery.



Although the Democrats are most likely to vote against this bill, don't let them off the hook. Demand to know why they would support giving away 50,000 U.S. jobs a year through the lottery instead of letting the unemployed in their own District have those jobs.



PLEASE PHONE AS SOON AS YOU SEE THIS.



AND THANKS TO ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE BEEN PHONING IN SUPPORT OF THE BILL SINCE YESTERDAY.



WHAT'S NEW ARE ALL THE AMENDMENTS TO RE-ALLOCATE THE LOTTERY VISAS TO CHAIN MIGRATION AND BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT CATEGORIES. WE HAVE TO KILL THOSE AMENDMENTS.



THANKS.



-- ROY