A network of volunteers from all across the country led a call-in effort to members of the US Senate this week and prevented Senate Bill S386 from passing in the senate – but the fight is far from over.
The bill was originally submitted under Unanimous Consent rules, meaning that the bill was going to be voted on WITHOUT DEBATE!
Can you imagine that? From the way this bill is written, over 90% of the Green Cards awarded by the US over the next 10 years will be awarded to one country – India. This is the most sweeping immigration legislation proposed to our representatives in DC ever and they were going to sneak it through without debate!
But that’s when a group, led by US Techworkers member Steve Pushor took action. He organized a list of Americans of all colors, races and religions to call into the Senate to voice their displeasure.
Things were looking bleak until Wednesday afternoon when one of our members identified Senator Perdue of Georgia as having the intestinal fortitude to stand up and object to the Unanimous Consent vote. And after we barraged his office with calls and emails, he actually took to the Senate floor and showed how a courageous American gets things done.
It was a huge sigh of relief for all of us – but the fight is not done.
The sponsor of this bill – Sen. Mike Lee of Utah – is planning on pushing this bill through to the Senate floor again next week under Unanimous Consent rules again. (It appears they don’t want to have to debate this one.)
This is going to be an important week – and we need your help! Call up Senator Blumenthal (860) 258-6940 and Senator Murphy (860) 549-8463 and tell them to vote NO on this bill, which awards 90% of all green cards over the NEXT 10 YEARS to India, is an ANTI_DIVERSITY bill.
Tell them they don’t want to be on the wrong side of history. Never before has the US tilted their immigration laws in favor of one country like this!
Because we will be giving almost all of our Green Cards to people from India, we will be missing out on smart people from all of Europe, the entire continent of Africa, Canada, Mexico, all of South America, Australia … the entire rest of the world!!!!
If you ever considered helping, please do it now. This is really important – and it literally only takes a few minutes.