CARRYING CAPACITY NETWORK

NATIONAL ALERT

245(i) STILL A THREAT

...And likely will be until the last hour of the last session

Our well-placed sources tell us that Section 245(i)* could still be attached to an omnibus bill, or another appropriations bill, or could still be passed as a freestanding bill up to and including the very last hour Congress is in session this year.

Therefore, we recommend that you not follow advice -- such as was sent around by one national organization about three weeks ago -- to "STOP CALLING...Our side won...," just because 245(i) had been removed form one appropriations bill in one conference committee session. That organization did subsequently warn that 245(i) might come up for a vote in another form, but let us emphatically add that 245(i) could also return in the same form again before the end of the session -- that is, attached to some appropriations bill.

Remember what happened with the 1990 Immigration Act which increased legal immigration by 40%! At noon on the very last day of the 1990 Congressional Session the bill was defeated, but it went back into conference committee that afternoon, and was passed literally at the last moment of the last day of that Congressional Session. The battle against such legislation is not over until Congress adjourns.

Therefore, continue calling and writing and ask that:

1) neither 245(i) or any other immigration-increasing bill be passed; and

2) Members support a moratorium on mass immigration. Asking for a moratorium is especially important since, like in 1990, 245(i) could appear in a form and manner which we do not now anticipate. Asking for a moratorium covers all contingencies, and has the additional benefit of putting great downward pressure on the numbers.

* 245(i) would legalize hundreds of thousands of illegals now residing in the USA without adequate background or medical checks.

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