There are two reasons for the uncontrolled immigration that our country is experiencing.  First, 'Trade in Services' means the buying and selling of people and jobs.  The United States Congress is essentially selling American Citizenship to offset the trade deficit.  That is why India, China and Mexico have been so brazen about demanding entry to our country for their citizens.  Secondly, the massive inflow of people represent new consumers in a feeble attempt to prop up our consumer economy.  Obviously however, the more people come here, the less buying power consumers have because our shrinking job market won't support them causing wages to be driven down which further degrades the consumer market.   It is sheer insanity.  

1. SHOCKING/DISGUSTING REAL I.D. ACT. Did you wonder why the Real I.D. Act's Senate ride went from John McCain and other senators asking Bill Frist not to take up the Real I.D. Act this year, and Bill Frist saying he doubted if the Senate would take up this measure during 2004, to the Real I.D. Act passing the Senate 100-0? Thanks to the Senate and the House-Senate Conference Committee, the Real I.D. Act was amended to include:

A. REMOVAL of the annual cap (was 10,000) on the number of refugees who may become permanent U.S. residents.

B. REMOVAL of the cap (was 1,000) on the number of Chinese and others who may enter the U.S. as refugees based on their countries' one-child-per-family policy.

C. 50,000 new visas for foreign nurses (purportedly not used in 2001 and 2004).

D. Increase in the number of highly skilled Australian workers to 10,500.

AND THIS HAS TO BE YOUR FAVORITE:

E. ONE-YEAR ELIMINATION OF THE ANNUAL CAP (was 66,000) ON THE NUMBER OF H-2B VISAS BEGINNING OCTOBER 1, 2005.

Please let your U.S. Senators know they didn't fool you
and how furious you are.

2. CONGRESS – REALLY IGNORANT, REALLY STUPID, REALLY CORRUPT, OR WHAT?

There are dozens of meaningful bills in Congress that would/could dramatically decrease illegal immigration – bills to put troops on the U.S.-Mexico border (has passed the House), to prohibit paying Social Security benefits to illegal aliens, to encourage state and local law enforcement officers to enforce federal immigration laws, to stop including estimates of illegal aliens in determining population counts for U.S. House of Representatives, stop granting U.S. citizenship to babies of illegal aliens (anchor babies), etc.

There are also dozens of bills in Congress to create new, uesless guestworker programs (we already have 79 visa/guestworker programs now, none of which are enforced) or outright grant amnesty, as well as discriminatory bills like the Dream Act (H.R. 1684) which would make illegal alien 18-year-olds citizens and eligible for in-state college tuition. Rather than dial our fingers dumb, perhaps we should at least write and call our U.S. Senators and Congressmen and tell them in no uncertain words that we are watching their votes and actions carefully. Tell them that we want our current immigration laws enforced, including borders sealed, illegal aliens deported, and employers sanctioned for hiring illegal aliens – and we will accept no less, and that we are not buying their baloney that "we" need illegal aliens for any reason, that illegal aliens are doing jobs Americans won't do, that employers don't have the tools they need to be sure they're not hiring illegal aliens, etc. Then, each and every one of us has to bite the bullet, and regardless of how nice these bureaucrats may seem or how connected to them we may feel, and vote the bums out next year.

Phone numbers for your U.S. Congressmen and Senators are in the blue pages of your phone book. Otherwise you can call the Capitol Hill switchboard at 877-762-8762.



"It's a sad day for America, when law makers, side with
law breakers, against law-abiding citizens." -- Ezola Foster,
October 2001

Kathy McKee, Chairman
Protect Arizona NOW
P. O. Box 11000
Glendale, AZ 85318-1000
623.225.7122
www.pan2004.com