Congress is on a fast track to passing a seriously flawed, un-American bill that could deny millions of U.S. citizens of their right to work. The "Secure America through Verification and Enforcement" (SAVE Act) is a poor attempt at immigration “reform” through employer mandates and federal databasing as a way of identifying and deporting undocumented workers. It also throws good money after bad on failed enforcement and detention programs that have been tried without success for the last twenty years.

Contact your Representatives TODAY and demand they reject the SAVE Act.

The SAVE Act would:

• Require mandatory use and rapid expansion of the government’s "E-Verify" program for every employer in the United States. "E-Verify" is now used by only a fraction of the nation’s employers because of its high error rates and technical problems.
• Expand the Social Security Administration’s “no match” letter program, a system plagued by human errors and actually halted in 2007 by a federal judge.
• Make it easier for the government to put religious and humanitarian workers behind bars for so-called "alien smuggling."
• Waste millions of taxpayer dollars on border area stop gap measures that don't address the real problems with our immigration policies.

One would think that a bill that could put the jobs of over 12.7 million US citizens in direct jeopardy, force a possible 2.5 million a year to be classified as unauthorized to work, criminalize the work of nuns, priests and humanitarian groups and force all local law enforcement to become immigration agents would be rejected by this Congress.  But we're in an election year and the "immigration issue" attracts a vocal but tiny minority of Americans. Rather than offering sensible solutions to our broken immigration system, the SAVE Act sponsors are pandering to irrational and angry activists, not the majority of Americans, in order to look "strong" on immigration.
 
Contact your Representatives TODAY and demand they reject the SAVE Act.

We need rational, workable and humane immigration laws, not election year political games. Please help us demand that Congress stop pandering to angry anti-immigration activists and offer real solutions to our immigration crisis.

Make sure your voice gets heard!

Dear [ Decision Maker ] ,

I'm writing as your constituent to voice my objection to the SAVE Act (H.R. 4088), now fast tracked in congress. Our immigration crisis needs solutions, but this bill is not the answer. It puts too much of a burden on businesses and employers in a weak economy, it risks workers being misidentified as unauthorized for employment, makes it easier for the government to jail priests, nuns and humanitarian workers for reaching out to those in need and wastes tax dollars on failed detention and deportation programs.

Please work to stop this cynical and politically motivated attack on immigrant families.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

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March 13, 2008