call your senator to support family immigration

Got this email forwarded along to me from the OCA National Office, regarding the controversial immigration legislation currently under consideration in Congress:

Action Alert
June 2, 2007
Contact: Stephanie Kao, Program Manager
skao@ocanational.org
202-223-5500

URGENT: Call your Senator to Support Family Immigration

The Senate could be holding a VOTE on the Comprehensive Immigration Bill next week Thursday ! This means OCA needs to pressure our senators to make the bill more family reunification friendly. We need to make sure that we have as many votes as possible in case the Senate requires a 60 vote minimum to pass the Family Based Amendments.
What you can do:

- Call your Senators District and Hill Office and encourage them to support family reunification amendments, especially if your senators is listed below. You can find the phone script here and contact information here.

- Edit and Fax a Letter to your Senators Hill Offices with a letter to support the amendments to make the bill more family reunification friendly. If you don't have access to the fax, edit it and send it back to jtsang@ocanational.org with the names of your senators and OCA will fax it in for you. Click here for the fax letter.

Phone Numbers:
+ Find contact information for Hill & District Offices:
- http://www.vote-smart.org/index.htm
- Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 to be directly connected to your senator
- Or in this spreadsheet of targeted Senators.

Papers:
+ Phone Scripts: http://www.ocanational.org/images/stories/docscenter/phone%20scripts.doc
+ Letter to be edited and faxed to Senator: http://www.ocanational.org/images/stories/docscenter/chapter%20letter.doc
+ Fax numbers: http://www.ocanational.org/images/stories/docscenter/senator%20contact%20information.xls
+ 2 Page summary of the basic bill
+ Actual Bill S. 1438: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:SN01348:

Targeted Senators
Alaska
Lisa Murkowski
Ted Stevens

Arkansas
Blanche Lincoln

Indiana
Evan Bayh
Richard Lugar

Kansas
Sam Brownback

Louisiana
Mary Landrieu

Maine
Susan Collins
Olympia Snowe

Michigan
Carl Levin

Minnesota
Amy Klobuchar
Norm Coleman

Missouri
Claire McCaskill

Montana
Max Baucus
Jon Tester

Nebraska
Ben Nelson

Nevada
Jim Ensign

New Mexico
Jeff Bingaman
Pete Domenici

North Carolina
Elizabeth Dole

North Dakota
Byron Dorgan

Ohio
George Voinivich

Oregon
Gordon Smith

Pennsylvania
Bob Casey

Rhode Island
Sheldon Whitehouse

Tennessee
Lamar Alexander

Texas
John Cornyn
Kay Bailey Hutchison

Utah
Orrin Hatch

Virginia
James Webb
John Warner

For more possible action go to OCAs Action Center.

And there you have it. If you don't know, now you know. It requires you to do a little work, but it's important and urgent enough to the make the effort. Spread the word.