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Triple Threat Looms...
We are waging 3 battles, and we MUST win them all.
If we run out of support, we
lose it all.
Dear
Larry,
NumbersUSA
has never lost an amnesty battle in Congress in 15 years. But this year, the open borders
coalition is fighting us on three different fronts. We absolutely must win all three battles,
or the largest Illegal Alien Amnesty in
history could become law.
How would you feel
personally about 12 million
illegal aliens voting in our elections, collecting public benefits, and
bringing millions more family members to America within a few short years? Disaster,
right?
Our opponents in
Big Business, Big Labor, Organized Religion, Elite Media, and just
about every politician with a "For Sale" sign around his neck
is working day and night to pass a total amnesty and DOUBLE legal
immigration. Double disaster! The other side has spent around $2 BILLION
since 2008 to force this amnesty down American throats. But with our
modest budget and enormous people power, we've held them off.
But if we run out
of ammunition ($$ for faxing, toll-free phone calling, Capitol Hill
operations), we'll be defeated the next day. I hate to be so blunt, but
it's quite true. If
citizens like you don't help us financially now, a SUPER-SIZED Amnesty
will probably pass this year.
Let me tell you
the three battles we're fighting at once.
1) Amnesty tacked on to the Defense bill
Our opponents are
desperately working to stick a get-out-of-jail-free amnesty on the
National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The amnesty, known as the
ENLIST Act, gives certain illegal aliens the right to join our military
and a path to citizenship if they do. The proposed amnesty is
outrageous enough on its own: at a time when our military is
drastically scaling back its personnel and turning away highly
qualified American recruits, Congress is seriously considering
rewarding illegal aliens with citizenship if they take Americans'
places in the military. Could
any sane person really think that replacing our own soldiers with
foreign citizens is good for national security?
Last week, after
being deluged by messages from our members, the House Armed Services
Committee REFUSED to add the military amnesty to the defense bill. GREAT!! Congratulations,
members! This is a significant victory. HOWEVER, we
can't rest a second. The
House Rules Committee, chaired by Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), is
considering allowing the military amendment to be offered when the bill
hits the House floor. This would happen as early as NEXT WEEK.
We must force the Rules Committee to hold its ground. If we don't
succeed there, then we have to wage war to stop the amendment on the
floor.
But that's not
all! Simultaneously, Sen.
Harry Reid is considering attaching the military amnesty to the defense
bill on the Senate side. Our long-time opponent Sen.
Dick Durbin (D-IL) is championing that effort. That decision will be
made in the next two weeks. Then, the battle goes to the Senate floor.
And even THAT isn't the end of it. Once the NDAA has been passed (in
whatever form) by House and Senate, it would go to a House-Senate
conference committee to add more goodies onto it. If one chamber attaches a military
amnesty onto the underlying bill, the conference could ramp the amnesty
way up--maybe even to resemble S.744, which triples life-time immigrant
work permits over the first decade. Obviously, WE HAVE TO WIN THIS BATTLE!
Fortunately,
our activists' early response has been strong. We've sent 700,000 faxes
to Congress in the past few weeks. As the battlefront continues to expand,
we need to send Congress two million or more faxes. We need all our
members to clear their Action Boards, and keep a look-out for further
alerts from us.
But this minute,
what I need you to do is keep us equipped for battle. Without that, our
hopes are dead.
The military
amnesty is only the FIRST of THREE battles this year. Very briefly,
here are the other two. They're both so scary they make my skin crawl.
2) The second battle will be an August Surprise.
House Speaker John
Boehner told the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce this week in San Antonio that he is wanting to pass several small
immigration bills this year if his GOP Representatives will let him.
Republican House leader Rep. Cathy McMorris-Rodgers said that House leaders want immigration
legislation to pass by August. These bills will include an illegal
alien amnesty and a huge hike in legal immigration. This would be a
total disaster.
The only
thing to stop the August surprise is you! NumbersUSA has legions of
grassroots activists ready to swat the August Surprise down. But that only works if we have the money
to pay for the millions of free faxes and the hundreds of thousands of
free phone calls to Congress that probably will be required by year's
end. Larry, need your financial support to stop it.
3) The third battle this year is the Lame Duck Disaster.
For me, this the
scariest battle of all. News reports out yesterday quote top open
borders business leaders Tom Donahue of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
and Jay Timmons of the National Association of Manufacturers as saying
that Boehner's secret plan
is to hold a Lame Duck (after the election) session of Congress in
December and push through the giant immigration-increasing bill
(amnesty plus doubling of legal immigration) as the last bill of the
Lame Duck Session!
Can you imagine?
Since Boehner is now broadly hinting that this will be his last term as
Speaker of the House, a Lame Duck Session would be the perfect time to
plant the knife in America's back and saunter away into the
twilight. Outrageous, YES!!
NumbersUSA
is committed to stopping this, but YOU have to support us financially now. Remember, when we run out of ammo, we
lose immediately.
Don't
delay. Please, give right now.
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Keep
the faith, and don't ever give up!
Jim Robb
Vice
President, Operations
jimrobb@NumbersUSA.com
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