Dear Candidate or Senior Staff,

Please print the immigration survey below. Fill it out, sign it and mail it to the address below.
ABI "Immigration Grade Cards" and "Immigration Candidate Pages" are the most viewed sources on the Internet for citizens wanting to know the immigration actions of Members of Congress and the immigration positions of people seeking to be elected to Congress.

If you want voters to know your immigration positions, you will want to return this survey to us as soon as possible. I hope the page for your race will have information from your survey.

ABI never endorses candidates. We recognize that voters mark their ballot based on many issues and judgments about the character and leadership of a candidate. What we offer on our Grade Cards and Candidate Pages is a way for voters to know which candidates are most likely to reduce overall immigration and which are most likely to increase it so they can factor that into their voting decisions.

As for our stance: See our positions at the bottom of this page.

Thank you for returning the survey,

Roy Beck

FOR CANDIDATES AND STAFF ONLY: Using campaign letterhead, please sign and mail or fax your candidate's intentions to be included on the Americans for Better Immigration Candidate Surveys website to:

Roy Beck, President, Americans for Better Immigration
1601 North Kent Street, Suite 1100
Attention: Candidate Surveys
Arlington, Virginia 22209

Phone: 703-816-8820 Fax: 703-816-8824
Website: www.CongressGrades.org Email: survey@CongressGrades.org

1. Do you OPPOSE offering a path to citizenship and/or long-term residency to the 12-20 million people illegally in the U.S. (whether through a blanket amnesty or an "earned legalization" or other form)?

[    ] YES    [    ]  NO    [    ]  NOT TAKING A POSITION    

2. Should Congress fund an Attrition Through Enforcement campaign to cause illegal aliens to self-deport back to their home countries over time?

[    ] YES    [    ]  NO    [    ]  NOT TAKING A POSITION    

3. Should all businesses be required to use the Federal government's automated, rapid-response system (E-Verify) to verify the legal status of new and existing employees to remove the jobs magnet from illegal immigration?

[    ] YES    [    ]  NO    [    ]  NOT TAKING A POSITION

4. Should the federal government be required to cooperate with local officials and pick up all illegal aliens detained by local law enforcement?

[    ] YES    [    ]  NO    [    ]  NOT TAKING A POSITION

5. Should Congress reduce funding to state and local governments that adopt sanctuary policies and other rewards for illegal aliens?

[    ] YES    [    ]  NO    [    ]  NOT TAKING A POSITION

6. Should Congress fully fund the completion of the entry/exit system at all borders and points of entry in which every person entering and leaving the U.S. is logged into a database which would notify law enforcement, businesses and others when a foreign tourist, student, worker or other fails to leave on-time? *(U.S. Visit was approved by Congress in 1996 and has never been sufficiently funded and is largely incomplete.)

[    ] YES    [    ]  NO    [    ]  NOT TAKING A POSITION

7. Should Congress fund and provide oversight for the full implementation of border security measures already signed into law?

[    ] YES    [    ]  NO    [    ]  NOT TAKING A POSITION

8. Should Congress stop the policy of giving automatic citizenship to children born to illegal aliens?

[    ] YES    [    ]  NO    [    ]  NOT TAKING A POSITION

9. Should Congress implement the bi-partisan, national Jordan Commission recommendation to limit family-based immigration to the nuclear family of  spouse and minor children, thus eliminating the "chain migration" categories of extended family that are the key reason immigration has quadrupled since the 1960s?

[    ] YES    [    ]  NO    [    ]  NOT TAKING A POSITION

10. Should Congress stop using a lottery to give away permanent greencards to 50,000 randomly chosen foreign citizens each year (an elimination suggested by the Jordan Commission)?

[    ] YES    [    ]  NO    [    ]  NOT TAKING A POSITION
 

11. Should Congress institute safeguards that will prevent importation of foreign workers any time they would threaten the jobs or depress the wages of American workers?

[    ] YES    [    ]  NO    [    ]  NOT TAKING A POSITION
 

12. Until 1976, U.S. immigration tradition was an average of 250,000 a year; since new legislation in 1990, it has averaged 1,000,000 a year. More than 37 million foreign workers and dependents now live in the U.S. At current rates, immigration will add another 105 million by 2060. Do you favor reducing overall immigration numbers toward the traditional levels?

[    ] YES    [    ]  NO    [    ]  NOT TAKING A POSITION

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Americans for Better Immigration, a project of NumbersUSA, supports the numerical immigration recommendations of (1) the bi-partisan U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform that called for immigration reductions to protect vulnerable American workers and their families and of (2) the President's Council on Sustainable Development that said immigration numbers had to be reduced to achieve an environmentally sustainable future.

With more than 14 million American workers unable to find a full-time job and with U.S. population growth (87% related to immigration) destroying approximately 1 million acres of natural habitat and farmland each year while further congesting American communities, ABI believes Members of Congress should be looking for ways to greatly reduce the current flow of nearly 2 million foreign workers and family members into the United States each year.

The Census Bureau states that U.S. communities -- which had 203 million people in 1970 and more than 300 million today -- will have to handle a half-BILLION people after mid-century, if immigration is not substantially reduced. Nearly all the growth will be the result of post-1970 immigration. ABI opposes the federal government forcing that kind of congestion and infrastructure over-load on local communities and the American people.

ABI believes any amnesty (reward-of-residency) for illegal aliens encourages a lot more illegal immigration. Many small enforcement efforts have proven that illegal aliens will buy their own bus and plane tickets back home if they can not find a job, can not receive major public services and can not move freely without fear of a random arrest. Requiring that all employers use the E-Verify system of workplace verification, fully funding the entry/exit system to go after visa overstays, and full federal cooperation with local government attempting to push illegal aliens out would achieve successful Attrition Through Enforcement.

On the matter of birthright citizenship, this is a gift currently offered to illegal aliens for their babies because of a federal law requiring it. ABI favors Congress eliminating that law. Some people believe the Constitution requires citizenship for illegal aliens' babies, but no court has ever ruled that is so. ABI believes the Supreme Court would rule in favor of a new law banning citizenship for illegal aliens' babies.

Those are our opinions. We will display your opinions fairly and accurately on our website. Please send us your opinions soon.