What a week!
Before we talk about what we need to do next to move these Senate victories into law, you may want to review what really was going on this week.
Most of you are shocked by the Senate's passage of 4 strong immigration enforcement amendments that would open up hundreds of thousands of jobs to unemployed Americans over the next year alone.
Rightfully, many of you are skeptical. You are asking us: Did the Senate Democratic Leadership -- that has opposed everything that favors unemployed Americans over illegal aliens -- suddenly "allow" us to win as a kind of trap? What's the trick?First, as I'll explain later, you really do need to take a minute to celebrate. Your pressure has caused the Democratic leadership to retreat a bit and set up its defenses in a more vulnerable place.
But, based on our information from inside Congress, we should expect that Senate Leader Reid, House Speaker Pelosi and Pres. Obama have every intention of killing these amendments in a backroom maneuver when the joint Conference Committee negotiates the final bill to be sent to the President.
YOU HAVE TO STOP A REPEAT OF THE MARCH R-O-P-E HANGING
In March, I told you about the R-O-P-E execution of really tough enforcement measures that had been passed by the House as part of the Stimulus Bill.
R-O-P-E is my short-hand for where all federal power is currently concentrated: Reid-Obama-Pelosi-Emanuel (White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel).
'WE CAN'T OPPOSE ENFORCEMENT IN PUBLIC -- WE'LL RIP IT OUT BEHIND CLOSED DOORS'
Basic message to Pres. Obama is that "I expect you to instruct your staff to refrain from gutting immigration enforcement during the Conference Committee process on the DHS appropriations bill. . ... In March, your people conspired with Speaker Pelosi and Leader Reid to kill the House E-Verify provisions. And you did it behind closed doors, without explanation. That isn't going to work again this time. The nation's eyes will be on whether you condemn hundreds of thousands of unemployed Americans to joblessness because you overturn the Senate's enforcement amendments this week which will be opening up hundreds of thousands of jobs otherwise held by illegal aliens."
ROY BECK is Founder & CEO of NumbersUSA
