US House leaders have scheduled amnesty bill for Rules Committee on Tuesday with floor vote likely Wednesday.

Only massive phone calls can stop it. WE NEED A LOT MORE.

Dear Opponents of Amnesty and Indentured Servitude,

You can thank around 7,000 of your fellow citizens for answering Chris' email Alert this morning and making the quick phone call to their U.S. Representative.

Believe me, that is an impressive number of calls coming through the Capitol switchboard.

BUT IT ISN'T NEARLY ENOUGH TO STOP THE AMNESTY THAT IS ON A WELL-LUBRICATED TRACK TO PASS ON WEDNESDAY.

Of those of you reading this (and thank you for doing so), an extremely high percentage of you did NOT make that call.

If you have a chance before 6 p.m. (Eastern) today, make the call right now.

Click on the following link for NumbersUSA's toll-free number and for your easy talking point:

https://www.numbersusa.com/phones?ID=17840

Otherwise, look for Chris' update email Alert Tuesday morning and let's double Tuesday's phone calls into Congress over what we did today.

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As a reminder about what is at stake, I'm copying some things below that I wrote to you on Saturday.

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AG AMNESTY AND MUCH MORE

Our Hill Staff has prepared a wonderful summary of this terrible bill. Read it at https://www.numbersusa.com/sites/default/files/public/hr5038_facts.pdf

Here are a few key excerpts:

Amnesty -- H.R. 5038 would give amnesty--including work permits, green cards, and a path to citizenship--to illegal aliens who have been unlawfully employed in agriculture at least part time during the past two years. In fact, illegal aliens who spent just most weekends working in agriculture over two years would qualify.

H-2A Expansion -- Rather than providing incentives for mechanization to reduce the need for manual labor, or even just streamlining the existing H-2A program, the sponsors of H.R. 5038 decided that it is time to complete the hollowing out of several other industries, in addition to seasonal farm work. They kept the numerically unlimited H-2A category for seasonal work, but created a new, non-seasonal, year-round category so that at least 20,000 (and potentially many more) low-paid foreign workers can be imported each year to work at dairies, meat-packing plants, fish canneries, nurseries, and more.

Indentured Servitude -- Congress knows that giving amnesty to illegal agricultural workers will fail to produce a stable, legal workforce, because they've tried it before. Congress passed an agricultural amnesty in 1986, as part of the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA). But there was a catch: most of the amnestied ag workers left agriculture for better-paying jobs as soon as they got their work permits. The sponsors of the Farm Workforce Modernization Act decided to address this problem by regressing to the 17th Century practice of indenturing these newly amnestied agricultural workers for various durations, mainly four to eight years.

PHONING IS EASY -- AND POWERFUL

If you've never done this before, I beg you to relax and know that it is very easy. You don't have to make a speech. In fact, the staffer won't allow you to make a speech.

You will probably want to start with the key message:

I am calling to urge (or ask, request, insist) that Rep. [fill in name] vote NO on H.R. 5038.

That is most of what you need to accomplish because the staffers mainly are just keeping track of how many urge YES and how many urge NO.

Give the staffer your name and your city or county.

After that you can say thank you, or you can make one or two points about why you oppose the bill.

It is okay to show passion but remember that you are not angry at the staffer. Be polite.

MAKE SURE YOUR REPRESENTATIVE GETS ENOUGH CALLS TO NOTICE

We need every kind of Representative to be buried in these calls -- that includes those you are sure have made up their mind to vote NO and those you assume have made up their minds to vote YES.

The first goal Monday is for every office's staff to know that WE THE PEOPLE know the amnesty vote is coming. And that WE THE PEOPLE probably know more about what is in the amnesty bill that their boss the Representative knows. For example, do they know this is a bill that re-establishes indentured servitude in this country.

Let's cause those staffers to start scrambling to see what is actually in this bill.

This is a three or four day campaign that requires intensity and focus. Action cannot be put off until later. NOW IS THE TIME. Thanks.

roy beck, numbersusa FOUNDER & president