ProjectUSA and the Economics of Immigration

Peter Brimelow writes: I don't think I've ever seen a more powerful campaign email than this from Craig Nelsen's ProjectUSA. Just one awed note: Craig, re your piece in the State: PLEASE don't concede the economy argument!

Mike Scott replies

www.ProjectUSA.org
Brenda Walker, Editor
#25: Feb 18, 2000

+== PROJECT UPDATE ==+

ProjectUSA--The Home of Billboard Democracy

Working to Reverse America's Immigration Disaster

Greetings All,

We know these e-letters are coming fast and furious, but we think this is an especially important moment in the immigration struggle.

The South Carolina primary campaign is quickly drawing to a close and ProjectUSA has been in the thick of raising issues for the candidates.

First of all, we are grateful to everyone who contacted The State newspaper and urged it to run ProjectUSA's opinion piece written in response to an editorial they carried that we considered inaccurate and unfair. Success! Our piece was printed in the Wednesday (2/16) edition. Thanks to you and thanks to the editorial staff at The State.  Yet more proof:  Activism works! 

It is an important score to have an opinion piece on immigration printed in a major newspaper in the state three days before the presidential primary.

To read "Flood of immigrants could endanger American society" see:

http://www.thestate.com/opinion/opcolumn/nelsenc.htm

Remember that everyone likes their good work being noticed, so get out your thank-you notes and let The State know your appreciation. (Plain paper is fine, too.)

Email: stateeditor@thestate.com Fax: 803-771-8609

The State Op-ed Page Editor P.O. Box 1333 Columbia, SC 29202

Also on Wednesday, in addition to other radio appearances in South Carolina, Craig Nelsen of ProjectUSA was interviewed on the Andy Thomas Show during the 5-5:30 PM drive time slot about his South Carolina drive-about with the mobile billboard to inform Carolinians of the harm that mass immigration is creating in America. The radio talk show is carried on 11 stations throughout South Carolina.

Craig included in the interview many important facts about immigration and good, common sense arguments for lowering the numbers. He also recounted the story of George W. Bush shouting at him to sit down when he tried to ask a question about immigration in Newberry, SC last week. Is this any way for a man who wants to be President to treat a citizen who simply cares about his country?  See how the Boston Globe reported the incident: 

http://www.projectusa.com/press/bostonglobe2-10-00.html

For more details about ProjectUSA and Gov. Bush, see:

http://www.projectusa.com/bush.html

For more info on the injection of the immigration issue into the South Carolina primary, see the Stein Report:

http://www.fairus.org/html/stein/index.html

+== ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL ==+

True enough. And we would like to identify our readers by location.

If you care enough about your country and future Americans to write a letter or go to a Congressperson's town hall meeting to elucidate the immigration issue for your representative and fellow voters, we would like to know the following information about you in order of importance (give us only that information with which you feel comfortable):

+ State

+ City

+ Name

+ Address and Zip code

+ Phone number

+ Whether you are a Union member, student, law enforcement officer (including INS), or media person.

This information will help us in organizing local activities.  Amazing things can happen in the few months before elections -- Capitol Hill dwellers begin to rediscover their districts and those nearly forgotten beings, the Voters.  And the reps begin to care deeply (if briefly) about the Voter's needs. Take advantage of this window of opportunity.

Please send a short email with your information to: contact@ProjectUSA.org

+== CALL TO ACTION ==+

Along with the good news this week, there has been some very bad news -- namely the recommendation from the AFL-CIO that the six million foreigners presently living illegally in the US be amnestied. Union president John Sweeney hopes that the grateful illegal workers will join organized labor and thereby expand the power base of unions through the simple addition of members. The corrupt AFL-CIO hierarchy has apparently forgotten that the raison d'etre of an American workers' union is to advocate for American workers.

For a chart from Roy Beck showing how reduced immigration has historically been good for unions, see the following link. There is also excellent commentary.

http://numbersusa.com/cgi/text.cgi?UnionChart

Remember that in 1986, amnesty was offered to millions of foreigners who were in the United States illegally. In the end, around 2.7 million illegals were rewarded for their breaking in to the US by receiving legal status. Congress thereby sent the message that the legal immigration process is a sham and that only suckers follow the law. The Center for Immigration Studies found that the cost of the amnesty to taxpayers after 10 years was $79 billion (Measuring the Fallout:  The Cost of the IRCA Amnesty After 10 Years).

Congress promised that the 1986 legislation would be the last amnesty. Now there are more than twice as many illegal aliens as were amnestied then. And more millions will certainly come with this good news for the potential illegal immigrants of the world. The welcome mat will be out, if the AFL-CIO has its way.

We hope that angry union members will excoriate Sweeney and his crew for stabbing the American worker in the back:  It is unimaginable that rank and file members would approve of this treason. They should be enraged.

Express yourself to Mr. Sweeney:

AFL-CIO
Phone: 202-637-5000
Fax:   202-637-5058

Please write to the Los Angeles Times (and, as always, your local paper) about the horrendous message that another amnesty would send to hundreds of millions of desperately poor around the planet. The Times had a particularly chilling article, including the following sentence, which referred to the 1986 amnesty:

"The combination of amnesty for current residents and penalties for employers who hired undocumented workers in the future was intended to put an end to illegal immigration, but many researchers now believe the law actually fueled even more of it."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/20000217/
t000015668.html

Send your letter to: letters@latimes.com

We at ProjectUSA believe this flood of immigration, even more than an attack on the American worker, is ultimately an attack on America's children, young people and future generations of Americans.  Letter writers might mention to the Times that we have erected billboards in the LA area in an attempt to point that out.  There is a picture of the one between Palm Springs and Los Angeles at www.projectusa.org/pics.html

+== THE COMMERCIAL ==+

We think you can see just from these few items that we are entering a crucial time for immigration reform. On one hand, citizens across the country are beginning to see the connection between overpopulation-caused problems and immigration. On the other, the powerful forces that profit from endless immigration are more determined than ever to force their greedy programs through Congress.

Your much-appreciated contribution adds to our effectiveness. Please help with what you can.

ProjectUSA
38-11 Ditmars Blvd 544
Queens, NY 11105

[The fund for the special Michigan billboard (aka Spence's Backyard): 28.44%]

  +== EMAIL OF THE WEEK ==+

 Heartfelt thanks Craig --

We are very grateful for your incredible work here in the trenches of Miami.  To even murmur resistance to anything the pro-immigrants want is a sure way to be labeled racist or incite riot; i.e., the current kidnapping crisis.   

Thanks for a ray of hope --

 +== DESSERT ==+