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Boarding house speed-rock
In Tatiana Whitlock’s “Spicy Disaster Drill” (Shooting Illustrated, October 2024, p. 24) she mentions Murphy’s Law but leaves out Vince Lombardi’s saying: “Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.” Her drill has would-be self-defense shooters training for one shot on the first target, two on the second, and three on the third. This would be horrible in a defensive situation. Instead, shooters should practice boarding house rules: Everyone gets firsts before anyone gets seconds. That is, shoot each target once before you shoot any target twice. In a boarding-house-rules drill, you shoot the first target(s) once each, the last target twice, and then go back to shoot the other target(s) once each, addressing them in order of the threat they pose in terms of weapons and proximity.
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You must veto AB 1840
I demand you veto AB 1840 and protect legally present California home buyers.
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Oppose HR 8771
I ask you to please oppose the United Nations’ so-called “Arms Trade Treaty.”
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Biden-Harris ‘root causes’ approach has failed
With Vice President Kamala Harris now the Democratic nominee, it’s important to look back at her attempts to end illegal immigration. In March 2021, the White House dispatched Vice President Harris to Mexico and the Northern Triangle countries to tackle migration “challenges” and the “root causes” of illegal immigration. Unfortunately, her “Migration Strategy” to end illegal immigration has been a resounding failure and already-high illegal immigration has ballooned into the current Biden-Harris border crisis.
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Mass immigration hurts Black and Hispanic workers
In his acceptance speech for the Republican nomination for president, Donald Trump reiterated a point he mentioned in his debate with Resident Biden: mass immigration was hurting Black and Hispanic workers.
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Support immigration reductions to help jobless Americans
I heard the Republican nominee for vice president say that welcoming immigrants is part of the American tradition. He also said limiting businesses’ access to foreign labor would expand economic opportunities to sidelined American workers.
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Working-class Black and Latino voters increasingly favor immigration limits
Donald Trump’s immigration policies are attracting more and more working-class Black and Latino voters for economic reasons.
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Reinstate Remain in Mexico and denounce Biden’s 2,500 daily illegal plan
Biden’s Proclamation on Securing the Border allows an average of 2,500 illegal immigration encounters per day. And that doesn’t count minors or any inadmissible alien who uses the Border Patrol app. That is deplorable.
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Biden’s unconstitutional amnesty worsens border crisis
I am outraged that President Joe Biden announced earlier this week his executive order giving amnesty for more than 500,000 illegal alien spouses of American citizens this week — the largest and most expansive executive amnesty in nearly a decade.
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Oppose efforts to expand H-2 visa programs
It is concerning that some of your colleagues attempted to use the DHS appropriations bill to raise H-2 visa caps. As H-2B visas typically cover seasonal, entry-level, or unskilled jobs, these visas disproportionately harm young Americans. Increasing H-2B visa numbers would prevent thousands more young Americans from entering the workplace.
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Oppose efforts to ‘staple’ green cards to university degrees
I was concerned to learn that efforts are being made to pass legislation that would “staple” a green card to four-year and two-year university degrees. There aren’t enough jobs for all American and legal immigrant graduates to work in their chosen fields. How would increasing the pool of workers help these new workers?
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Encourage the Biden administration to secure the border and enforce the law to end the border crisis
The ongoing crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border will not end unless you and your colleagues take steps to force the Biden administration to secure the border. As shown by USCBP data, the crisis is getting worse by the month; the most recent numbers show that the agency encountered more than 370,000 illegal aliens nationwide in December (an all-time high), nearly 250,000 in January, and more than 250,000 in February (each is a record high for its respective month)! It’s clear that the Biden administration’s current policies and priorities are driving the crisis and encouraging illegal immigration.
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Mass immigration makes no sense given desertification
I am concerned about farmland being overburdened in America and becoming desert. Almost a third of our nation’s land area is affected by desertification, and much of the southwestern United States is highly vulnerable.
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Mass immigration causes Black Americans to lose jobs
It is alarming how our border crisis over the past few years is enabling business interests to push Black and Hispanic workers to the sidelines in favor of bringing in citizens of other countries to compete with them.
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Support legislation to mandate E-Verify
Requiring employers to run new hires through the Chamber of Commerce-supported E-Verify system, would gently move illegal aliens out of U.S. jobs. Over time, more than 7 million illegal aliens in non-agricultural jobs would be replaced by unemployed Americans and legal immigrants. While not solving America’s unemployment or illegal immigration problems, mandatory E-Verify would certainly lessen their severity.
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Support our schools by adopting sensible immigration policies
Our border crisis is resulting in an unprecedented number of migrant children “adding financial and logistical strains in communities,” according to the recent Wall Street Journal article titled “The Massive Immigration Wave Hitting America’s Classrooms.”
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Nearly 2 in 3 Americans favor deporting all illegal immigrants
62% of Americans (nearly 2 in 3) favor a national program to deport all undocumented immigrants, according to a CBS News Poll conducted June 5-7. This number includes a significant 60% of Independents and 38% of Democrats.
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Mass immigration lowers wages and increases housing prices
The recent surge in immigration is worsening America’s affordable housing crisis. While Americans are being squeezed by rising housing costs due to inflation and elevated interest rates, our nation’s unprecedented influx of illegal immigrants is amplifying the demand for scarce housing.
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End the visa lottery
Our nation currently allows 50,000 immigrants to come to the United States through this program. These individuals need not possess special skills or extraordinary talents, they need only sign up for the lottery and have their name drawn. Once they come to the United States they are free to compete against unemployed Americans for U.S. jobs.
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To save nature, we must limit immigration
We lose a football field worth of nature every 30 seconds in the United States. We add an NFL football stadium worth of people every ten days. Even with our efforts to reduce our individual footprints, our collective feet are stomping out the natural world beneath us. Americans’ outsized consumption habits play a significant role, but the destruction of these natural spaces is primarily driven by the need for more space to accommodate more of us: more schools, roads, places of business, hospitals, water treatment facilities, farms, parking lots, etc. While there are many worthwhile efforts to protect our natural resources, wildlife habitats, and access to open space and nature, they are all undermined by Congress’ unsustainable immigration policies.