If American jobs, businesses, and communities are to be saved from this devastation, American middle-class white collar and blue collar workers, together with independent business owners, must combine to force Congress to reverse the destructive policies that are importing foreign workers and exporting our productivity. That means abolishing the H-1B and L1 visa programs, drastically reducing all other levels of immigration, and insisting on credible INS and Border Patrol enforcement levels. It also means defeating all proposals to grant yet another amnesty to millions of illegal aliens who have come to the U.S. since the last amnesty.

Equally important, it also means cutting off federal funding to the many agencies and programs providing loans, credits, subsidies, and loan guarantees to U.S. corporations to move to foreign countries. This especially includes U.S. funding to the World Bank and its sister institutions, which enable the financing of many of these harmful transfer projects. Finally, it means defeating the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and the separate “free trade” treaties that the Bush administration is negotiating between the U.S. and Latin American countries. If these individual treaties are ratified, the FTAA becomes a piecemeal fait accompli, and importing foreign labor and exporting U.S. jobs and companies will accelerate.