----- Original Message ----- From: Virginia Brooks To: Virginia Brooks Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 1:33 PM Subject: [FIREBASEVOICE] Act Now To Stop Congress From Importing over 500,000 Foreign Workers
Dear Friend, You would not believe the latest stunt that Corporate America is trying to pull! We just heard that nearly 600,000 Americans lost their jobs last month, and now they are trying to flood our country with 550,000 more foreign workers. This is not the first time they've tried this. Last month, they attempted to make us trade an increase in foreign worker visas to get E-Verify, and we stopped them. Now they are trying to shove even more foreign workers down our throat, and they aren't even offering us anything in return! Rep Zoe Lafgren is moving to push H.R. 5882. This add 550,000 more permanent green cards! According to our friends on the Hill, they might be trying to get the groundwork for the bill laid out now, so they can vote for it after the election! They just postponed it in the Judiciary Committee and we don't know when they will reconvene, so we need to act now to nip it in the bud! As usual they are trying to hide what this bill really does. With unemployment at a five year high, the "immigrants are doing the jobs Americans won't" line is wearing thinner and thinner. Nonetheless, they say that it only applies to skilled workers whose jobs aren't threatened. The truth is that they define skilled as anyone with a few years of experience in any field. This is not just Silicon Valley techs: it's waiters, sales clerks, construction workers and people across the country. And it's not like our high tech workers aren't suffering too! They also say this is just closing a bureaucratic loophole to clear up the backlog of unused visas. In reality, they are adding up every single green card that wasn't used in the last 18 years, and saying we need to add them to the over one million legal immigrants we let in this year! Help us stop this bill now! Call up your congressman and demand that they oppose this bill. Tell them that there is no way you will vote for them when they talk about creating jobs while importing foreigners to take our jobs. [You can either call the capital switchboard at (202) 224-3121 or toll free at 1 (866) 220-0044 and ask for your representative, or click here to enter your zip code and get the direct line to your congressman] If you have some extra time, you can also call these congressmen who were with us in the past, and are now cosponsoring this sellout! Sue Myrick (NC) (202) 225-3389 John Carter (TX) (202) 225-3864 Michael McCaul (TX) (202)-225-2401 Pete Sessions (TX) (202) 225-2231 Jim Sensennbrenner (WI) (202)225-5101 John Shadegg (AZ) (202)-225-3361 Be sure to thank them for their past work on the issue, but ask they would welcome over 550,000 foreign workers to take our jobs when Americans are suffering. Tell them if they do not remove their names from this bill, they have no right to claim to support immigration reform. I know it is discouraging that as soon as we swat down one of Corporate America's schemes, they come up with another. But remember: we keep swatting them down! Each time they lose, they get more and more desperate, and if we keep it up, we will prevail. Keep the faith, and keep up the good work, __._,_.___ Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "APFN" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/APFN?hl=en APFN-1 YahooGroups: Subscribe: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/apfn-1/join Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] APFN MSG BOARD: `In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.' http://disc.server.com/Indices/234999.html APFN CONTENTS PAGE: http://www.apfn.org/old/apfncont.htm "RADIO YOUR WAY" APFN POGO NETWORK (( WOW!! )) "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent" -- Thomas Jefferson http://www.apfn.net/POGO.HTM Find elected officials, including the president, members of Congress, governors, state legislators, local officials, and more. http://congress.org/congressorg/dbq/officials/ APFN, PMB 207, 6640 W. CACTUS RD. #A111, GLENDALE, AZ 85304 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
