Your Calls on E-Verify working. More Needed Please

From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
Date: Friday 6MAR09 9:45 a.m. EST

Discontent stalled Omnibus bill yesterday -- another chance to force E-Verify vote today

Thanks to all of you who rose to the occasion and made emergency phone calls to the Senate yesterday. Partly because of that, the Senate could not reach 60 votes late Thursday to shut off debate on the giant Omnibus spending bill.

That means we have another chance to help our Senate allies to force a vote on Sessions amendment 604 to the omnibus (HR 1105) PLEASE PHONE YOUR TWO SENATORS IMMEDIATELY AND URGE THEM TO SUPPORT THE 'SESSIONS E-VERIFY AMENDMENT.' The Capitol Switchboard is 202-224-3121.

The Sessions amendment would authorize E-Verify for another 5 years and give states and businesses the assurance of stability in the program to move aggressively to use E-Verify to keep illegal aliens out of jobs so unemployed Americans can have the jobs. Majority Leader Reid of Nevada, on the other hand, continues to treat E-Verify as if it is on life support.

For the umpteenth time in the last six months, Reid yesterday blocked the Senate from voting on a long-term extension of E-Verify. Reid's staff -- and the staff of a lot of pro-illegal-immigration Senators -- are telling their callers that there is no need for an E-Verify vote because the Omnibus already has an E-Verify authorization in it. That is very misleading -- the authorization only takes E-Verify to the coming fall. This is what Reid did last fall when E-Verify was scheduled to die in November. When Reid was unable to link a long-term E-Verify with some kind of amnesty or big foreign worker increase, he had E-Verify extended only into this March.

Now, he sees he can't get an amnesty this spring, either. So, he is extending it only until this fall when all the open-borders groups are planning a giant push for an amnesty. It is time to stop this juvenile politics and show some real concern for the Americans who don't have jobs because illegal aliens do. YOU MUST CALL NOW TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

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Thank you for taking the time