You won twice in Senate — more calls needed

   From:   Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
Date:   Wednesday 8JUL09     Noon EDT
 
Sessions E-Verify & DeMint fence amendments pass!!!!!! But need calls for 2 more amendments
 

FRIENDS, YOU WON!!!!!!!

Thanks to all of you who made emergency calls to Senators this morning. You won.

  • Sen. Sessions (R-Ala.) after multiple failures finally got approval of an amendment to require E-Verify for all employees on federal contracts. We got 53 votes.
  • Sen. DeMint (R-S.C.) won on an amendment to require the completion of 700 miles of fencing along the Mexican border. We got 54 votes.

    Let’s celebrate later because we have two more opportunities this afternoon to tighten enforcement against illegal immigration and to help unemployed Americans to get jobs.

    PLEASE CALL YOUR SENATORS NOW to urge that they vote for these two amendments to the Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill:

  • Sen. Grassley’s (R-Iowa) amendment to allow all employers voluntarily to use E-Verify to check the legal status of all their existing employees. Amazingly, federal law currently prohibits a company from checking on employees that were hired in the past before they started using E-Verify for new hires. There is no good reason to tie the hands of employers who want to make sure that all of their jobs are filled with U.S. citizens and legal immigrants.
  • Sen. Vitter’s (R-La.) amendment to re-instate the “no-match letter notification” system in which the Social Security Administration alerts all employers of all employees whose SS numbers don’t match records and orders the companies to fire employees who can’t resolve the discrepancies.

    202-224-3121

    Friends, we have very little time. Pick up the phone now and call your Senator to ask for YES votes on these two amendments which will open up hundreds of thousands of jobs over the next year alone to returning veterans and other unemployed Americans.

    Look on our home page to see if your Senator(s) voted against Sessions’ and DeMint’s amendments this morning.

    If so, you will want to lambaste the Senator for voting against returning veterans and other unemployed Americans. Then, say that the Senator can redeem him/herself this afternoon with YES votes on Grassley and Vitter amendments.

    I will be putting up an analysis of the votes today in my blog on the home page. At that time, I will talk about what is next. But for now, make those calls. Let’s pick up another couple of victories today.

    Be sure to check often on our home page as we keep you updated on the results of this exciting day.

    THANKS,

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