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I contacted Boehner on the link in #6, saying the following:

“Mr. Speaker,

I think that it would be a tremendous mistake to pass ANY immigration reform bill before the new Senate is seated in 2015. I refer to BOTH a comprehensive bill and ALSO any narrow bill dealing with immigration - because the Senate will attach a full amnesty amendment in conference, and it will pass in the House if only about 10% of Republicans join Democrats in supporting it and, of course, Obama will sign such a bill.

Either course of action would be a mistake for 2 significant reasons: First, on a political level, Republican cooperation with the Democrats on this issue would demoralize a significant part of the Republican base, and there is simply no way that enough moderates or Democrat voters would vote Republican to offset such losses - so our chances of regaining the Senate would disappear. Further, any amnesty or even “path to citizenship” would fundamentally and permanently change the political calculus in this country - in favor of the Democrats! Second, the whold idea of any kind of amnesty is abhorent to law-abiding ciizens. It will encourage far more illegal immigration in the future (as past amnesties have), and also undermines the economy by taking away jobs from American citizens. We suffer from no labor shortage, Mr. Speaker, quite the opposite is true. We need to improve our economy with our own workers, not import more foreigners who undermine the wage base in this country.

Speaking as someone whose wife is a legal immigrant (and now a citizen), I can tell you that not only do native-born Americans like me oppose ANY immigration reform before the border is ACTUALLY controlled, but legal immigrants are VERY unhappy over the prospect of illegals obtaining the same benefits as them without having bothered to act under the laws of this nation.

For the sake of this nation and the Republican Party, I strongly urge you to kill ANY AND ALL immigration bills until 2015.

Thank you very much.”

I don’t know that it’ll do any good, but at least I said it. I also contacted my Congresscritter...but I know that he’ll vote the right way on this issue.