Use this toll-free phone number:
888-226-4851
Just ask the switchboard for the Representative by name. (Or you can use your own dime and use the direct phone numbers provided in the list below.)
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
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