I spoke to the arrogant senators office yesterday and they hung up on me twice. I spoke to a male about the situation and he stated Durbin didn't have a position on the verification and went on to say " it's a complicated issue " and wouldn't let me get a word in. I then told him it wasn't and he still wouldn't let me talk. I asked him to let me talk and he told me " never call back " and then hung up. I called them back to complain about him at which time the female who answered the phone asked me for my zip code and hung up on me again when I was still speaking.

I speak to his office in Washington D.C. at least once a week and all of his staff are rude and never commit to an answer. They refuse to take the calls serious.

WHY?

WHY, do Maryland's Senators and Members of Congress and the General Assembly continue to to VOTE Pro-Illegal Immigration inspite of pledges to "Save American Jobs"?

WHY, do Maryland Citizens continue to re-elect Marlyand's Senators and Members of Congress that continue to VOTE against U.S. and Maryland Citizens?

WHY, do Maryland Citizens continue to re-elect Marlyand's Senators and Members of Congress that continue to VOTE against U.S. and Maryland Workers and saving their jobs?

WHY, is there no initiative about this in Maryland Newspapers and Media?

WHY is our State and Federal Taxes used to support Illegal Immigration, when those monies could be put to much better use on behalf of tax paying Citizens?

WHY?

I just sent a fax to my senator with this added comment:

P.S. I have noticed that the Oregon State job board, which also offers Spanish translation (even though no Oregonians speak this language), that the job board for Oregon went from 980 or so jobs listed two months ago, to about 500 listed today. It's well known that the dream of cheap labor for big contributors has driven illegal immigration, but it is now a dream that we, and you, can no longer afford. Regards.

My concern has suddenly spiked with the announcement of the DSCC being turned over to Menendez and Cecilia Muñoz of NCLR (La Raza) being appointed as Obama's Director of Intergovernmental Affairs. At the same time we have "Casa de Maryland" filing lawsuits to try and intimidate Montgomery County into releasing statistics on programs that allow the police to check the immigration status of people stopped for other reasons. I spent eight years in Latin America where by law in every country I lived in or traveled to you must carry identification with you at all times. When you depart the country, you go through immigration and if your visa is no longer valid you are detained, and they look up your information which is on file from when you entered the country: what a shame we have chosen not to use our own such system. The problem is not that we dare to ask one's immigration status but that our government has allowed illegal immigration to get completely out of hand. As a result, special interest groups are emboldened and hope to erode our will with lawsuits and attempts to insert this issue into any and every piece of legislation in an attempt to ram it down our throats piecemeal or in one large chunk. No one seems to see the irony in fighting wars on foreign soil while our own southern border is wide open, or in suggesting a supposed brilliant plan to create jobs which will undoubtedly only entice more illegal immigrants to arrive and try and take them for less than minimum wage. I'm with Roy - the jobs are already here. I am also tired of reading stories that point out how families are being separated when immigration raids occur - the stories should be re-worded to correctly state that family members have chosen to remain apart while one member is deported. This is the ultimate hypocrisy - if, as a parent, you were truly concerned about being together, wouldn't you all choose to go with the deported family member? If not, be responsible enough to admit YOU have made that choice. Military families go through this separation scenario time and time again as they protect the freedoms we all enjoy.
In closing I would also like to re-emphasize the no violence against immigrants - we must not become fodder for groups who would love to use such information/statistics. As a professor at an Historical Black College, a Latin Americanist and the parent of a son who is half Hispanic, I also resent the implications by such groups that if you are not for leaving the border wide open then you must be racist, but I will not stoop to that level. We must consistently and relentlessly use the facts!
Now more than ever, we all need to spread the word and increase our numbers. By not making the choice to act, we are, in fact, still making a choice - now is not the time to give up - our kids and their kids are depending on us.

Roy, I TOTALLY agree with everything you said in the above article. I am so utterly frustrated with our government at this point and I fear things are only
going to WORSEN. My question is, how many generations are going to pass before
the United States of America will BELONG TO AMERICANS again???? Certainly NOT in
my lifetime!!! Washington DC has borrowed SO MANY Billions of dollars from foreign
governments so far--basically, they are selling our country!!!! You can count on
those foreign governments eventually seeking to use their clout in DC!!!!

I would like to add that we are up against politicians and business groups that worship at the alter of gross domestic product. As the owners of capital, these people don't care about per capita gross domestice product (GDP/number of people) since as long as they syphon off the same percentage of an expanding economy, they are better off. However, with population growing much faster than our economy (and just wait as we delever to see a real slowing in our economy) the providers of labor (most people) will continue to get squeezed. It will not be pretty. Roy, you need to always turn the expanding economy argument into a per capita economic argument.

FROM ROY:  No question that you are right.  Even per capita GDP is suspect as a measure but certainly better than gross GDP.  Don't hesitate to remind me when I have missed an opportunity to talk in per-capita talk.

Here is my nickel worth on this issue as it stands now. For the last couple of years we all here have been fighting very hard to stop any type of amnesty in any shape or form. Now that we have a change in the guard, we also have additional factors that will take precedence over any legislator pushing hard for any form of amnesty until the current economic situation has been resolved. The current estimate I have heard that the situation we are currently in will not go away until 2010 or even later. That means we will not be trying to give an additional 10-20 million people any type of citizenship BECAUSE it would place a very large additional drain on the employment system, health care, social security and various other types of social services that the current unemployed American average Joe the plumber needs to survive for the next 2+ years.

The wacky leftists like Reid and Boxer and Feinstein will always continue to push these issues, that is their agenda, the ONLY way to get them to stop is to VOT them out of office and replace them with a more cent eristic person who gets the picture. Now I am sure many of you will say I am crazy, but it is all about staying on ones current political position, or climbing up the political ladder. So with that said it is all about VOTES, a vote against them is better than two for them, that is the best threat we can currently offer along with good people who will run against these wack jobs.

Now, with that being said, IF by some chance the issue comes up again, we MUST be so well co-ordinate and united that it would be squashed in less than a week! My suggestions would be to watch very closely, what bills are being introduced in both houses VERY carefully! Have teams read EACH and EVERY one of the bills, dissecting them line by line! Create groups of members who are ready to jump at any warning notice to get the word out, think of it as the “Swarm Affect”, members and non-members must be ready willing and able to spend time to fight this battle in the fastest way possible. Take how kids create chat or text sessions with many of their friends about a concert that is going to happen in just hours, they all text message their friends and then thousands of them show up in a matter of hours! Such an idea could be created in this effort also, just to have the right people in-place working on the same page in a combined effort we can stop anything in a very short time!

With the unemployment rate today at 6.5% we cannot afford additional burdens on our economy, we need Americans to do jobs here in America and that message must be instilled back into our way of thinking.

I would think that just passing the SAVE Act would have a favorable effect. Out of an estimated seven million working unauthorized foreign residents here there would be two and a half million leaving just from the tighter job eligibility inspection. Roy I hope that you will be putting something together for the day after inauguration that makes national headlines. There are still a lot of people who support more enforcement but do not even know the group and the system exist.

FROM ROY: You are so right about the SAVE Act.  Mandatory workplace verification -- phased in over 4 years -- would probably open up at least 2 million jobs that otherwise would be filled by illegal aliens.  The SAVE Act starts by requiring every large corporation to run all NEW hires through E-Verify. Each year, the requirement expands to smaller and smaller firms.  In the fourth year, it requires E-Verify for all new hires PLUS running it on all EXISTING employees.  It is in the fourth year that we probably would see more than 2 million jobs open up in a single year.  

Roy, I have to tell you...I think you are living la la land! The politicians don't care about your ideas nor the negative effect illegal immigration has and will continue to have on this country! You think the liberals won't shove amnesty down our throats? They see potentially 20 million votes as low hanging fruit that will possibly keep their rear ends in power for decades. Do you really think that Washington cares a wit about the rule of law, or chain migration or for that matter, you?? This is about votes and money big guy! Patriotism has taken a hike and all that matters to politicians is putting into law those bills that get them re-elected (amnesty)!! So...I ask again, what land do you call home? Surly you see what is happening in this country. Surly you see that the political cry for multiculturalism is the death nell for what we know as America. The statistics pointing to the negative impact on the economy and the culture regarding illegal immigration are very clear. Then why do you think that the Democrats will give amnesty within a year of taking over? POWER! GREED! MONEY! Politicians care less about this country than anybody else living here!! Their only concern is re-election and staying in power. As soon as they hit Washington, their character and integrity vanish!!

FROM ROY:  Gee, Rollie, thanks for the vote of confidence. I understand your frustration but my hope is built on your final sentence:  "Their only concern is re-election and staying in power."

For the worst of them, that is correct ... and that is why we can win this amnesty battle. What we have done in stopping more than five dozen amnesties since 2000 is mobilize enough public opposition in each congressional district and each state to persuade enough Members of Congress that they may not stay in power if they vote for an amnesty. Yes, you are right, that Democrats may see long-term political gain from importing lots of poor people who will mostly vote Democratic. But our job is to show them that they face short-term political danger.  I am so pleased with the tens of thousands of NumbersUSA faxers who are already making the points of my blog to their Members of Congress. KEEP IT UP, EVERYBODY!