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From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
Date: Sunday 10JUN07 11:45 p.m. EDT

You will need to advise your GOP Senators to resist Pres. Bush's amnesty appeal Tuesday

DEAR FRIENDS,

Pres. Bush will meet personally with Republican Senators on Tuesday to implore them to change their votes from last Thursday and support the Bush/Kennedy S. 1348 Comprehensive Amnesty Bill in a possible re-vote.

This will be perhaps the most dangerous moment for us this summer.

Please respond to my requests in this email for phoning and faxing so we can do all we can to prevent S. 1348 from being brought up for consideration in the Senate this summer.

PHONE your GOP Senators, plus last week's anti-amnesty Democratic Senators at:

202-224-3121

The pro-amnesty forces have worked diligently all weekend to overturn the Senate's rejection on Thursday of the Bush/Kennedy Comprehensive Amnesty Bill.

Bush Administration officials are saying that the President will thro! w all of his influence this week into persuading the 38 GOP Senators who voted against amnesty last week that they were wrong.

Senate Democratic leaders are waiting to see if the President can twist enough Republican arms before deciding whether to bring the S. 1348 amnesty back up for amendments and a final vote.

See how your two Senators voted when the Senate defeated cloture that would have allowed the amnesty bill to enjoy a final vote toward passage.

ACTION 1: Phone the Republican Senators in your state and urge them to stand firm against the President's entreaties on Tuesday.

ACTION 2: If your state has a Democratic or Independent Senator who voted NO on S. 1348 last week, phone them to resist any effort to persuade them to help Pres. Bush achieve his top domestic goal.

ACTION 3: For those of you who do NOT have a Senator in those first two groups, I urge you to look for one or two of the smaller states that are in your region of the country that do have have Senators in those first two groups, and call them.

ACTION 4: Watch for further Alerts today giving you links for new faxes and other actions.

Pres. Bush said this weekend that he understands that a lot of Americans and Senators have trouble with a deal that allows legalization of 12-20 million illegal aliens in exchange for heavy-duty enforcement in the future.

He says he understands that many Americans don't trust that the Federal government will live up to the enforcement end of the bargain because of past failure to do so.

But Pres. Bush says he will go to Capitol Hill Tuesday, look the Republicans in the eye and assure them that they can trust him to see that all enforcement happens.

There is something terribly strange about his whole argument.

It is as if the Pres! ident who has refused to enforce most immigration laws the last six years is somebody other than himself.

In addition, Pres. Bush appears to be saying, "You can trust me to enforce the law if you approve the amnesty" but he is suggesting that without passing the amnesty the illegal immigration problem is going to grow far worse because the President won't be enforcing the law!

And he wonders why people don't trust him?

When you are calling GOP Senators, you may want to remind them that they may not want to switch their immigration position to follow Pres. Bush's leadership since his unpopularity is the reason they are now in the Senate minority in the first place.

SOME SPECIFIC REASONS SENATORS SHOULD NOT CHANGE FROM 'NO' TO 'YES' ON S. 1348 AMNESTY

Of course, there are huge overall reasons why S. 1348 should be opposed. But here are a few reasons that even somebody in th! e Administration might be able to understand (all of them related to t he fact that illegal immigration will not be substantially reduced if this bills is passed).

AMNESTY-FIRST BILL: S. 1348 continues to offer legal status at the very beginning, before ANY new enforcement. The much-touted Triggers apply only to requiring enforcement before a new guestworker program and before the illegal aliens apply for a path to citizenship. But they can work and live in the U.S. legally for the rest of their lives, regardless of whether any new enforcement ever happens.

TRIGGERS ARE ABOUT MEANS AND NOT ABOUT RESULTS: The enforcement provisions are about certain levels of hiring and certain amounts of facilities. They are not about meeting particular goals about reducing illegal immigration.

FUTURE VISA-OVERSTAYING TO REMAIN EASY: An effort to require a full-scale Check-In/Check-Out system for foreign visitors was defeated by a 42-54 vote. This bill allows tourists, students and temporary workers to overstay t! heir visas without fear of being detected by a federal computerized system.

SANCTUARY CITIES WILL BE ALLOWED TO CONTINUE TO ENCOURAGE ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION: You would think that if anybody were serious about a grand bargain that included an end to future illegal immigration that they would agree to putting an end to sanctuary cities that encourage illegal aliens to settle there without fear of enforcement. But the Senate voted to continue to allow sanctuary cities to operate in the open.

In the end, it will be Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) who will decide whether to bring S. 1348 back up for another vote as early as the week of June 17.

We can be thankful that his enthusiasm for the amnesty has been cooling. His insistence that the bill's supporters needed to pass it or move on to other issues last week came in part from Sen. Reid's concern that the bill may be a political loser for him. A new Rasmussen poll shows that it apparen! tly is.

During the last month of Sen. Reid being a regular p ublic face for the Senate amnesty efforts, his "favorability" rating has dropped from 26% to 19%. And 45% of voters now have an "Unfavorable" view of Sen. Reid.

His ratings are even lower than for Pres. Bush.

When you call the Senators, you may want to note the effect of amnesty support on popularity.

GOOD LUCK,

P.S. Be sure to keep up with all amendments and votes during last week. We have all of them listed and explained at:

www.numbersusa.com/hottopic/senateaction0507.html

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