Suggested Talking Points – from NumbersUSA
March 19 Meetings with Local Congressional Representatives
Why is the United States continuing to issue 160,000 work permits to foreign workers each month while 25 million Americans are unable to find a full-time job?
[The latest federal data show that 75,000 permits go to working-age immigrants and 85,000 go to temporary foreign workers each month]
Will the Representative introduce legislation to temporarily halt all non-essential, non- nuclear-family immigration so that these 25 million Americans have a decent chance of finding a job? This would protect far more American workers than the hundreds of billions of dollars taxpayers have spent creating/protecting jobs.
Does the Representative realize that 7 million illegal aliens hold non-agricultural jobs? Does he/she understand that more than 7 million Americans are looking for those same jobs? Does the Representative support any amnesty “or a pathway to citizenship” for these illegal aliens. If so, why does he/she believe that lawbreakers should be at the front of the jobs line while 25 million Americans are behind them?
Does the Representative support mandating the E-Verify employment verification system? If not, why? Is the Representative in favor of employers being able to hire illegal aliens over U.S. workers or is he/she unaware that E-Verify has a 99.7% success rate (only .3% of new hires run through E-Verify are erroneously rejected, and no employees can be fired for being erroneously rejected).
Does the Representative believe that employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens should be punished to the fullest extent of the law? If not, are there any other laws the Representative believes should be ignored? Does the Representative fully support the bipartisan SAVE Act (H.R. 3308)? The SAVE Act would mandate the use of E-Verify, fully secure our nation’s borders, and increase interior enforcement. Does the Representative not support any of those goals?
If the Representative is not a sponsor of the SAVE Act, will he/she consider cosponsoring it?
Posted: March 22nd, 2010 under Amnesty.
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