Good News? Congress Might Blink on Plan to Surrender Tech Industry to Foreign Labor

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Dear John,

Last month, NumbersUSA sounded the alarm about a bill designed to strengthen America's technology industry that had been hijacked. The House of Representatives' passed a version of the bill, called the America COMPETES Act, that would flood the U.S. labor market with foreign technology workers. These workers would come mostly from China and India.

The good news is that the immigration clauses could very well get stripped from the bill when a final version is negotiated with the Senate. Congress seems to have been very taken aback by the strong response of our members! Yes, sometimes members of Congress LEARN from their constituents. The main thing Congress can learn is that voters are watching! NumbersUSA makes sure Congress hears from more than just open-borders industry lobbyists.

It's not time to pop the champagne cork just yet. We expect that both parties in both houses very strongly want to pass a technology-industry bill. The war in Ukraine has sobered all of official Washington, and we have good hopes that Congress will now be too intent on countering China to risk this bill over controversial immigration language. But we need to continue to press hard to make sure negotiations don't go wrong.

We cannot win this battle without you. You make this possible. We need all our members to make the phone calls, send the letters, and make sure Congress considers the real effects of its legislation. But we also urgently need someone to pay for our office space's rent, our computers, our programming, our tech support, our voter education programs, our media outreach and our research.

Our own polling shows that people hadn't heard much about this bill before they heard from NumbersUSA. From the media coverage or the President's statement about the bill, you'd think the bill was all about standing tough to China; you'd never guess that the House bill would allow China to send an unlimited number of tech workers to entirely dominate the American technology industry from within!

I've got some more very interesting polling news from our members below, but first I must implore you to consider what you can afford to help NumbersUSA keep up the fight:

We've written to you before about how various bills could ruin America's middle class, leave tens of millions unemployed or underpaid, harm our nation's finances, damage our efforts to protect our natural resources, or contribute to overcrowding.

Lately, we're talking about national security and our nation's self-reliance. As a nation, we must not rely on hiring foreign workers for our technology industry. We need to provide our own students with the skills they need... and the confidence that there will be a rewarding job opportunity for them when they graduate.

We've succeeded in bringing some attention to this issue. Maybe it will be enough. But there is so much more we could do. Look around the world today, and think about what this nation means to you, and what you would do to preserve it.

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We knew you had our back: In our poll of our members, 99% OF YOU AGREED that "America's technology industries and educational system should educate and recruit AMERICA'S OWN WORKERS." 89% STRONGLY agreed.

99% also agreed that "our worker visa policy must PROTECT America's trade and defense secrets from foreign infiltration." 93% STRONGLY agreed.

John, of course there's a lot of issues related to immigration: unemployment, wages, crime, E-Verify, school overcrowding, government spending, amnesty, fiscal responsibility, national security, who should qualify for asylum, refugees... even resources conservation and housing costs!

We don't expect our members to agree on every single issue... so we were very pleased to know how strong of a consensus we have among our members that our tech industry needs to rely on American workers. Here's what you had to say on various statements:

Right now, your greatest concern is that "the border is out of control." 99% of you agreed, and 97% STRONGLY agreed.

95% said that U.S. reliance on foreign nationals for technology workers, even in private industry, represents a potential THREAT to America's economic and military security; 2% disagreed.

By 95% to 2%, you supported a national mandate for E-Verify. 87% agreed.

By 95% to 3%, you opposed amnesty, but (37%) agreed that "An amnesty for select illegal aliens MIGHT BE OK IF legal immigration is cut and enforcement strengthened first."

90% agreed that high rates of immigration result in LOWER wages and HIGHER housing prices.

Only 2 1/2% of you thought importing workers could lower inflation.

We are still interested in reading what you have to say. If you haven't yet done so, you can still take the poll, here. Feel free to leave a comment.

You do have a voice in Washington, and there are people listening.

We need more people speaking up. You can make our collective voice louder. Over the years, American voters have heard from us literally billions of times! And members of Congress have received tens of millions of letters from our members, and we know our members have received millions of responses. Help us continue being your voice.

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Dan Marsh
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