| From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA |
| Date: Wednesday 3nov04 6 a.m. |
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Good morning,
Overall, we can find good news for the immigration-reduction cause in results from yesterday's elections.
Many of you have a number of other reasons to be disappointed by election results over the night, as well as reasons for satisfaction. Here at NumbersUSA, we concern ourselves only with how the elections changed opportunities for enacting dramatic reductions in legal and illegal immigration.
These elections produced mixed results for us. They are adding some very hopeful additions to Congress but also a few new Members who are likely to do worse than their predecessors. Both major Presidential candidates were so bad on immigration issues that we could give no opinion about whether one would be better than the other.
Overall, though, our chances for immigration reductions in the next Congress appear significantly improved by the results of yesterday's elections.
1. DASCHLE & FROST.......Stunning Defeats for 2 Big Leaders Hostile to Immigration Reduction
The Senate's top Democratic leader, Tom Daschle, and one of the House's top fund-raisers for Democrats, Martin Frost, were thrown out of Congress by the voters Tuesday.
Both Sen. Daschle (South Dakota) and Rep. Frost (Dallas) have been big promoters of massive amnesties for illegal aliens.
Their downfall should provide a powerful cautionary tale to those at the top of the Party who have insisted on opposing the majority opinion of Democratic voters (as well as Independents and Republicans) who oppose amnesties and prefer immigration reductions.
A coalition of immigration-reduction groups ran major TV and radio ad campaigns about Daschle's and Frost's pro-amnesty records (along with similar ads exposing some major Republicans, as well). The ads asked constituents to contact these Members of Congress and urge them to withdraw their names from amnesty bills.
These ads were the first issue ads that ran in Daschle's and Frost's areas last spring.
The two men did not withdraw their support for amnesties.
The ad campaigns continued.
Both Daschle and Frost hired major national law firms to try to intimidate TV and radio stations to pull the immigration ads. Both men also conducted disinformation campaigns that attempted to claim that efforts to combat illegal immigration are racist, anti-Catholic and undemocratic.
Instead of speaking to the wisdom of their open-borders stances, they tried to deflect attention through smear campaigns against groups seeking immigration reductions.
And both Daschle and Frost repeatedly tried to convince the public that giving illegal aliens a pathway to U.S. citizenship is not an amnesty.
Their constituents chose to give both of them a pathway to U.S. civilianship.
For decades, no Majority or Minority Leader of the Senate has lost an election anywhere in the country. But Sen. Daschle managed to do that, with his continuous radical support for illegal aliens contributing to the South Dakota voters' decision that he was out of touch and needed to be replaced.
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