We Won, Bill Gates loses big time!
We Won, Bill Gates loses big time!
Date: Saturday, December 09, 2006 11:59 PM
<<<<< JOB DESTRUCTION NEWSLETTER No. 1606 -- 12/10/2006 >>>>>
One thing you won't have to worry about this Christmas is having to start
the new year with a massive increase of H-1B visas.
Despite an intense lobbying campaign by the likes of Bill Gates, Congress
didn't pass an H-1B increase or any other escalation in immigration.
Bill Gates started lobbying for the Skil bill months ago. He personally
went to Washington D.C. twice, and an army of his paid K-Streeters swarmed
Capitol Hill to buy votes. Bill Gates was so salient that the Skil Bill was
nicknamed "Bill's Skil Bill". In addition Gates spent untold millions to
sway Congress.
Gates wasn't the only one to get slapped in the face. Hundreds of companies
and dozens of think tanks, political action campaigns, and immigration
lawyer groups failed to open the flood gates to cheap labor.
Congress had one last chance to slip in an increase when both the House and
Senate voted in favor of the "United States-India Peaceful Atomic Energy
Cooperation Act", which I call "Nukes for Mangos". There was an attempt to
attach an H-1B increase to this bill but that too failed.
It's time to celebrate!
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http://www.numbersusa.com/index
Victory! Congress Leaves Town Without Increasing Immigration
(December 9) The Senate and House worked through the night and left town
early this morning, finishing this two-year Congress without increasing
immigration above its already historic peak levels.
The swarms of industry lobbyists were unable to beat the combination of the
clock pressure and the unrelenting phone/fax opposition of NumbersUSA
members and other voters back home. The lobbyists fought desperately for an
increase of around 100,000 additional nurses next year and a near-doubling
of visas and greencards for skilled workers, especially programmers and
engineers. It appears they lost on all counts.
The NumbersUSA Capitol Hill Team must still go through the minutia of all
that passed in the final day of Congress. But Members of Congress who stood
beside American workers against unfair foreign labor competition say the
bills are clean of the kind of immigration mischief that Congress often
passes in its final flurry of legislation.
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Date: Saturday, December 09, 2006 6:38 PM
Date: Saturday 9DEC06 7:00 p.m. EST
Congress went home -- No immigration increases!!!! Thanks to all of you
WE WON!
This two-year Congress came to a close early this morning.
Everything looks good.
Your NumbersUSA Capitol Hill Team must still go through the minutia of all
that passed in the final day. But we feel confident -- based on assurances
from our ally Members of Congress -- that you and we beat back all attempts
to increase immigration.
The swarms of industry lobbyists were unable to prevail over the
combination of clock pressure and the unrelenting phone/fax opposition of
voters back home.
The Associated Press reports that Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) gaveled the
House to a close for his last time about 3:15 a.m. The Senate adjourned at
about 4:40 a.m.
As Will Rogers might have said, "America was safe again at 4:41 a.m."
NO EXTRA
FOREIGN NURSES!
Hutchison NURSE CURSE Fails
Sen. Hutchison (R-TX) made a last-ditch attempt Friday afternoon to sneak
through an increase of around 100,000 in next year's importation of
permanent foreign nurses.
Amazingly, even though we didn't reach most of you "Total Activists" with
word of the threat until around 5 p.m., your phone calls so swamped Senate
offices that everybody involved in the anti-American-nurse initiative
pulled back.
Because of your actions, American nurses next year are less likely to see
their working conditions deteriorate -- and more nurses who have been on
the sidelines may re-enter the job market.
in this email:
1. Victory on foreign nurses
2. Victory on H-1B visas
3. Victory on Vietnam free trade agreement
4. Victory in blocking acceleration of congestion & population growth
5. No AMNESTY
6. Strategy: Why defensive victories are starting to reduce illegal
immigration
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NO EXTRA H-1B VISAS
OR PERMANENT FOREIGN PROGRAMMERS & ENGINEERS!
Cornyn HEX ON TECHS Fails
Sen. Cornyn (R-TX) apparently used up nearly all of his energy this week
doing the bidding of the nation's high-tech industry (rather than the
nation's high-tech workers) to keep it supplied with cheap foreign
programmers and engineers.
Publicly and privately, he proclaimed his dire warning that tech businesses
were withering on the vine because of a huge shortage of workers.
I believe that your deluge of Senate offices with the truth about
unemployed and underemployed American tech workers must have been the key
reason why H-1B visas and worker greencards were not increased.
VIETNAM FREE TRADE AGREEMENT
FREE OF EXTRA FOREIGN VISAS
Free TRADERS No Longer
Immigration TRAITORS
Our staff did NOT find troublesome immigration provisions in the Vietnam
trade agreement approved by Congress Friday.
If we're right, this represents quite a milestone: A free trade agreement
that deals with movement of goods without forcing the movement of foreign
workers into U.S. job occupations.
NumbersUSA mobilized its members against the Chile and Singapore free trade
agreements in 2003 because they included mandates for more immigration from
those countries. Once such immigration provisions are included in trade
agreements, international bodies are given control on any disagreements
with those aspects of immigration. The power to reduce that immigration is
taken out of Congress' hands (and, thus, U.S. citizens' hands) in the
future.
We led many of you in heavy protests that led to actions and promises in
both the House and Senate that trade agreements in the future should NOT
have immigration provisions.
When CAFTA came up in 2005, the most egregious immigration provisions of
the Chile and Singapore agreements were gone. But there were enough
remaining problems that NumbersUSA again rallied its members against it.
CAFTA passed by only 2 votes.
Finally, in the Vietnam trade agreement, we appear to have gotten the
"immigration-clean" version we've been seeking. (NumbersUSA does not take a
position on any other aspect of trade agreements.)
NO INCREASE IN RATE OF WORSENING CONGESTION
& FEDERALLY COERCED
POPULATION GROWTH
More PACK 'EM, STACK 'EM, RACK 'EM Fails
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, many other business lobbies, President Bush,
most leftist "immigrant rights" lobbies and the majority of newspaper
editorial boards across the country have waged a public disinformation
campaign trying to persuade Americans that there are NOT ENOUGH people in
the United States.
They push for more coercive population growth by the federal government,
despite the fact that America's current population boom is the largest in
an already explosive-growth history.
Unfortunately, our network did not succeed in this Congress in reducing
immigration and, thus, reducing the level of federally coerced human
congestion and destruction of natural habitat, farmland and open spaces.
But we DID stop all efforts in Congress to increase immigration, including
the McCain/Kennedy and the Hagel/Martinez and the Specter/Kennedy plans to
triple immigration levels over current immigration which already is on pace
to add more than 100 million people to our local communities in less than
40 years.
NO AMNESTY!
You've heard me say it repeatedly. But I'll say it again:
Nearly every national elite force in America was pushing for an amnesty
legalization of some 12 million illegal aliens this year.
Only public sentiment stood in the way.
Through you members of the NumbersUSA network, we were able to leverage
that public sentiment and -- combined with efforts by dozens of other
groups -- help stop what was supposed to have been a politically inevitable
amnesty this year.
President Bush's amnesty failed.
Sen. Kennedy's (D-MA) amnesty failed.
Sen. McCain's (R-AZ) amnesty failed.
The amnesty of the ACLU, the National Council of La Raza, the U.S. Catholic
Bishops, the National Council of Churches and most mainline Protestant
national offices, most national Jewish groups -- that amnesty failed.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's amnesty failed, as did that of national
restaurant, agricultural growers and hotel associations.
The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles
Times amnesties failed.
But YOU won!
Local communities won.
As did
families, farmland,
nature & nurses,
techies, Ph.Ds,
wages & workers.
ALL AMERICANS HAVE
YOU TO THANK
I think all of our many friends on the staffs of Congress would say that
the wealthy, powerful cheap-foreign-labor lobbyists would have won if it
had not been for your efforts.
I apologize for being so slow to deliver the good news to you. I stayed up
until 3 a.m. this morning following the Senate and House action, but
finally had to go to bed. My sleep deficit for the whole week caught up to
me, and I was in bed 'til noon. Because I had strong assurance that we had
won at 3 a.m., I felt safe sleeping -- and allowing the rest of the staff
to sleep, also. (But don't wait for me to email me in these situations. You
can always check our home page for updates and developments that often
appear there before I send you an email about them -- www.NumbersUSA.com.)
I hope you were able to rest last night, knowing you had done what you
could as part of the nation's largest citizen network protecting American
workers from foreign labor competition.
More than 1.1 million of you have joined the NumbersUSA network to receive
our emailed information.
We have no idea about all that all of you have done to help the cause. But
we have specific knowledge of direct action from more than 200,000 of you
during this Congress.
You PHONERS were PHANTASTIC this week!
I know that the phoning that we have required the last three days is not
something that all of you yet feel comfortable doing. But the rest of you
also played an important role in this week's defensive victories.
You FAXERS prepared the groundwork for victory over the last two years!
The Members of this Congress have received literally MILLIONS of faxes from
the NumbersUSA network members. Thus, when congressional offices get a
sudden onslaught of phone calls on a particular day about a particular
immigration subject, they know this is not just a shallow flash in the pan
phenomenon. They KNOW that there is a deep, tenacious corps of citizens in
their district or state which generally feels the same way as the phoners.
WINNING ON DEFENSE
NOW STARTING TO HELP US
WIN ON OFFENSE GOALS
'Attrition Through Enforcement
& Self-Deportation' Is
Reducing Illegal Alien Population
Before you fill my mailbox with complaints that all of what I wrote above
is too cheery, let me say to you that I am well aware that our legislative
victories were nearly all on defense.
We stopped a ton of really bad stuff.
We passed almost nothing that gives relief from our immigration nightmare.
For years, the other side has had the luxury of just blocking us and
knowing that every year legal and illegal immigration will add another 2.5
million people to our communities. Their desire to clog every aspect of
American life with millions of new foreign workers and dependents just
keeps winning even while we win defensive victories.
If we win every single defensive battle, our quality of life still will
deteriorate the next year with the addition of another 2.5 million foreign
workers and dependents (new arrivals and births).
But ...
Our fight against illegal immigration is starting to bring us some tangible
results.
Every year, the Bush Administration is slowly beginning to implement more
and more of past laws against illegal immigration. Progess is painfully too
slow. But it is happening. More enforcement on the border, in workplace, at
entry/exit points, etc. All of this is making life marginally less
attractive for illegal aliens to stay and for new ones to come in the first
place.
You may have seen news reports this weekend that the Border Patrol is
indicating that illegal traffic on the Mexican border is far below a year
ago, more than 60% reductions in some places.
More and more local and state governments are passing their own laws to
take away incentives and to make life less comfortable for illegal aliens
and the ones who make money off them.
In many cities and states, illegal aliens are moving out even before the
new laws take effect. The exodus is sure to accelerate once enforcement
hits its stride.
The news media will become almost hysterical with human interest stories of
illegal aliens moving and claiming that their lives are untenable, as well
as overstating how tough enforcement is becoming. All of this will feed
even larger hysteria on immigrant radio stations, creating an even greater
climate of fear for illegal aliens.
All of this will attack, weaken and perhaps kill the myth long perpetrated
by the open borders lobby that mass illegal immigration is inevitable and
there is nothing the government can do to slow it down or to make people go
home.
The chances are slim that we can get passed immigration reductions over the
next two years under open-borders promoters House Speaker Pelosi (D-CA) and
Senate Majority Leader Reid (D-NV). But if we can continue to stop all bad
things from passing, trends to make life miserable for illegal aliens will
snowball.
The Census Bureau estimates that last year about 180,000 illegal aliens
voluntarily deported themselves out of the United States. They paid their
own bus and plane fare.
The trends mentioned above could conceivably raise that number to as much
as 500,000 a year during this next Congress.
This can especially be true if the news from Washington is a constant
drumbeat of failure of the open-borders lobbies to pass amnesties and
massive new guestworker programs.
So, our victories this fall and this Congress set us up well for a strategy
over the next two years of:
primarily defensive victories in Congress
aggressive offensive victories in city councils and state legislatures
offensive victories in voter referenda
offensive victories through congressional and other oversight that speeds
the pace of Bush Administration implementation of laws already on the
books.
In the meantime, don't think for a moment that the incredibly powerful
forces that we have just defeated aren't regrouping and planning more
frontal, flank and aerial assaults as soon as the new Congress convenes in
January.
But that is January. You all deserve to enjoy the holidays for a few weeks.
I will come back to you next week in our monthly request for voluntary
donations to cover another month's expenses. I hope you will open that
email and take the time to read the appeal. Our successes this week were
made possible by all those who in previous months read those appeals and
sent a small donation. This is a mass movement of citizens, for citizens
and funded by citizens.
SAVOR THE VICTORY,
-- ROY
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