March 31, 2003

!!!URGENT ALERT!!!
MORATORIUM BILL
INTRODUCED

— Great Opportunity to Reduce Numbers —

A superb bill, which would "effect a moratorium" on many categories of immigration and set strict limits on others, was introduced by House Immigration Caucus Chairman Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO).

H.R. 946 would reduce legal immigration from an average of over 1 million per year (1.5 million were admitted in 2001!) To about 300,000 per year for 5 years. Since the legal immigration flow is more than twice the estimated annual illegal immigration flow of 500,000, if passed this bill would reduce the total flow by about half.

This opportunity to push a moratorium bill is not to be missed because it addresses legal immigration across the board (and not just a few categories–an approach which plays right into the opposition's hands).

Pushing a moratorium is critical because it:

1. Increases the pressure to reduce all immigration numbers.

2. Increases the pressure on Congress to stop bad bills such as the proposed bill granting Social Security benefits to illegal aliens.

3. Helps resist illegal alien amnesty bills. Immigrant admissions of any kind serve as a magnet for more family members to come illegally.

4. Increases our National Security: Consider that the National Commission on Terrorism said, "The massive flows of people across U.S. borders make exclusion of all foreign terrorists impossible". (June 2000) Reducing numbers is essential to ensuring National Security.

5. Is another tool to stop the de facto "stealth" amnesty of illegals being pushed by the Bush administration and Mexican officials through the acceptance of matricula ID cards.

TO MAINTAIN MOMENTUM ON THIS BILL, IT IS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE ACT NOW AND PUSH AN IMMIGRATION MORATORIUM AS OUR FIRST PRIORITY. We need this bill not only to pressure for numbers reduction, but to generate counterpressures on the immediate threats posed by the illegal alien amnesty and a bill which would give Social Security benefits to illegals and the "stealth amnesty" in the form of the matricula consular ID cards.

Pushing H.R. 946 and H.R. 502 (which outlaws matricula ID cards), coupled with opposing illegal alien amnesty bills, provides a potent combination to stop mass immigration.

In describing the approach toward the amnesty of 3 to 5 million Mexican illegal aliens, a top official in Mexico's foreign ministry said "How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time". And they are trying to do just that...taking one bite at a time out of Congressional support for reducing immigration, one bite at a time out of our health care system, and one bite at a time out of our environmental and national security.

Don't let mass immigration continue to eat away at our nation. Take a stand and say "No more of our "resource pie" for mass immigration". Back Congressman Tancredo's moratorium bill H.R. 946

THESE THREE SIMPLE ACTS WILL MAXIMIZE OUR CLOUT

1. Fax and call your Representative and Senators and ask them to co-sponsor the moratorium bill H.R. 946 with an amendment to cap the numbers at 100,000 per year (100,000 is the highest number which would allow U.S. population ever to stabilize), as well as to co-sponsor H.R. 502 outlawing the acceptance of the matricula ID.

2. Fax and call other organizations you support to make sure they support this moratorium bill as their first priority. Ask for their written statements of support.

3. It is really important that you help BALANCE intensify our efforts to move the moratorium bill by making a special contribution right away. Visit our website at www.balance.org and click Join Us, or mail your special contribution payable to Population-Environment Balance.