Perhaps the present representatives will be out of a job also when the members of USA will express their displeasure in their next election!

This is a very serious situation and Washington is very lax in rolling up their sleeves to do some real work to solve the problem. We are tired of lip service and excuses!

This is the USA -- not a third world country....YET!!

In my opinion, NumbersUSA has the most logical and effective approach to combat illegal immigration; however, they too are at a juncture that requires a surge of support in the effort to restore immigration law enforcement and integrity to the American workplace.
I suggest that this added surge of support must come from the Hispanic community, along with other Americans who remain virtually silent. I refer to the Hispanic community merely based on statistics indicating that over fifty-percent of the illegal population in the U.S. is comprised of Hispanics. Underlying tensions spurred by ethnicity must be dispelled and the inconsequential wall of race torn down. Twenty-three years of government apathy toward immigration enforcement is adversely affecting the livelihoods' and opportunities for ALL American, the Hispanic community inclusive.
The bottom line is; that the perpetuation of depressed wages, inequitable In-State tuition discounts, rising healthcare costs, excessive tax burdens, etc., are barriers to the future success of ALL Americans. The so-called 'jobs that Americans won't do' used to be an introduction into the 'real world' of working for high school students, graduates fresh from high school and jobs for college students to pay for their education. This stepping stone or introduction into the 'real world', at a young age, has all but disappeared.
Washington, DC and most politicians brush immigration enforcement support polls aside in fear or favor of their personal political aspirations. Unfortunately, the unintended consequences and their apathetic shoulder shrug leaves ALL Americans standing at an economic status quo, African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Hispanic-Americans and Euro-Americans. Enforcing America's immigration laws is of great consequence to us ALL.

NumbersUSA Moderator: Thank you for your many excellent points, Mark. As the Hispanic members of NumbersUSA can attest, the Hispanic community suffers from the same lack of leadership on this issue as others do. We must all work to change the mindset of the leaders within our own communities.

Been spreading the word!!!!

we need more members. Go to youtube.com and leave messages in the comment box of immigration related videos letting viewers know that they can join and send free faxes to their senator. Don't put the dot in the dot com address or youtube will not add the message. I use Numbersusa(dot)com to let people know the address and not have the message blocked. I leave messages in immigration videos that are likely to be viewed by people that would agree wit our position and join if they knew about numbersusa. I also balst my Senator and Rep that refuse to extend e Verify.

Thanks for your work everybody!! We don't have billions the opposition has but we have the truth and the love of our country!!!

It's time to act if every one of our numbers members and family joined the July 4th tea parties we could send a very strong message

I do not feel we are being heard in Washington. We need to highlight this issue with the average American. What we need is a commercial with the faces of real jobless Americans, each person saying "they don't care about me" or "they don't care about my family". "I'm an unemployed American, but my representative in Washington doesn't care about me".

Thanks Roy for standing up for the American worker.

Thanks, Roy! Really appreciate your efforts!

Tom, Lakewood, CO

Great letter, Roy. If our congressmen cannot be shamed into doing the right thing for their constituents, it's time we had new congressmen. That may be all they understand.

A real immigration summit would have had you Roy along with some of us and people who are out of work due to illegal aliens or out of state college students who are American who cannot get in state tuition while illegal aliens can invited to discuss. From what I have read today, only those who agree with amnesty alone were invited. There is no seriousness in meeting to discuss anything. It is just another smoke screen to hide the fact they only want amnesty or open borders.

Well done, Roy. The letter you distributed was a great idea; it reminded them that they will be held accountable for their actions. It is impossible for me to understand how anyone could even consider voting against job-seeking Americans. Where do their loyalties lie, anyway. Unfortunately, in many cases it is all about party, not patriotism. Thank you for all the work you do.

Thanks for making this available to send to my congressmen. I don't have much hope for them, however.

Thanks Roy, for the chance to send your letter once again to my reps, this time with my own comments on it. And thanks James of GA for suggesting that.

Since Roy hit the legislative points so thoroughly, I decided to focus on the practical realities of the situation.

Here's my PS:
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Gentlemen,
Tragically, with the new claims filed for unemployment this week again topping 620,000 (that's over half a million), the number of unemployed American voters now tops 15.1 million.
Imagine how these voters and their families feel watching illegal workers illegally working in our home. ALL of the aliens illegally in the US today are citizens somewhere already. They need to repatriate.

Roy, you sent a great letter to Congress. However, in addition to the jobs issue, there are many other topics that need to be discussed. They are:

A. Is it time to get out of NAFTA? NAFTA has allowed 3 million jobs to be exported to Mexico and 20 million illegal aliens to be imported into our country. I bet every politican in Mexico is laughing at us.

B. What about the effect of illegal aliens on our natural resources? Here in central Texas, we have water restrictions due to a sever drought. Illegal aliens just make the situation worse. Why doesn't the Sierra Club say something about over population?

C. Why am I forced to pay taxes so that illegal aliens can get free educations, free health care, free food stamps, etc?

D. Has any one questioned the congestion caused by illegal aliens on our streets and highways?

E. Why did Congress include $30 million in the stimilus bill to protect the San Francisco marsh rat but did not include E-Verify to protect your job?

The madness never ends!

You are so right that there are many more issues.  I always have to weigh whether to hit on several or keep it simpler.  Yesterday, I decided to stick with the jobs issue since it is the one most likely to give these politicians the most immediate political heartburn.

-- ROY

Is there any way that your (Roys) letter can be put into the Action Buffet? Addressed to all members of govt? for US to sign and send???? This letter might get some attention if all of us sent it to EVERY elected representative.....

Good suggestion.  Around noon on Friday, we will be putting on the corkboard for a limited time the ability for a limited number of faxers in each District to send my letter with your comments on it in the PS field.

-- ROY

Excellent letter Roy! Though I do wonder if the language you used might not have been a bit more incisive. But then you're in DC and probably know best what phraseology to use to cater to elected officials.

Here's some good news, what we like to call the "Daily Dead Fish Wrapper", the Oregonian Newspaper, posted a hopelessly unfair and inaccurate characterization of the immigration debate, centering on a group of fed up Oregon citizens who actually went out and protested an illegal labor hiring site!

The reporter-ette was completely biased and the article is showered with straw men, unfounded implications against opponents, and other mischaracterizations. However the good part was in the taking-to-the-woodshed that the posters gave to the article and author.

Especially posters lena22, headphones81, and MaryJay. Of course the usual number of drive-by posters run through and screech "racism!", but they are firmly challenged and most only make one post then disappear back into the ethers.

One poster who tries to "prove" the racism argument, "flaque" I think, promises that he will post a racist comment from the thread, but in the end he claims no one will understand it if he does, so he leaves without posting any "racist" quotes.

At the end someone named HumanLeague dumps large numbers of pre-assembled open borders links with wacky claims from sources like New York Times, the Southern Poverty Law Center (today a very biased political group), and Berkley! With predictable conclusions. That spamming pretty much ends the thread, but it might be good for our members to read some of the pseudo arguments the open borders lobby is floating around out there.

Along the way many topics and interesting points are discussed.

The debate shows that people are no longer accepting the labels put on them by some in the media, or the lawlessness, or shallow pronouncements previously pinned on the rule of law supporters. They are fighting back.

Everyone at NumbersUSA should hit the news and blog threads and have at it. It's a good pressure release, it's fun, and it feels great to speak up for truth and fairness.

Plus lots of other Americans will read our arguments and think about this important issue.

And also, on the thread NumbersUSA gets many, many mentions!

Here's the link to "A Tide Of Anger On Immigration":
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/06/a_tide_of_anger_on_i...

I worked as a warehouseman on the Long Beach, Los Angeles Ports from about 1976 to 1990. During that time I watched our Union take in ever increasing amounts of fresh illegal alien workers. Today those good paying jobs are long gone.
They are gone the way of the Union drywall worker, the Union janitors, construction workers. It is a long list of industries that in Los Angeles have become mostly if not totally run over by illegal aliens. The Union contracts have been lost and the wages and working conditions ruined.
These were American jobs, that family breadwinners could raise their families on. Now they are minimum wage jobs held by the invaders. The very idea that we are labelled racists because we object to being treated like this is apalling to me. Well in California we are the "canary in the coal mine." What happened to us is now happening nation wide. My advice to the rest of America if you want to preserve your job, your pay, your working conditions, your way of life, stand up and work against this invasion. Send the faxes, make the phone calls. We can turn this thing around. We still have enough freedom left to do it. If enough of us stand up we will save the nation.