August is the month when federal offices start encouraging people to make charitable donations through the Combined Federal Campaign.

This year, for the first time, NumbersUSA, an orgainization dedicated to to reducing the overall numerical levels of annual legal and illegal immigration, is a federally approved charity in the CFC campaign. Oconus.com encourages military personnel to consider NumbersUSA in their CFC contributions as the organization works directly to preserve jobs for future military retirees through their actions.

The goal of NumbersUSA is to carry out the immigration-reduction recommendations from two national commissions of the 1990s:

1. The bi-partisan U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform. To fight economic injustice, the commission urged reduction in immigration numbers that are now so high as to harm the most vulnerable American workers and their families.

2. The President's Council on Sustainable Development. To achieve an environmentally sustainable society, it urged reducing immigration numbers to a level that will allow the U.S. population to stabilize.

Two Immediate Commission Objectives

1. Eliminate Chain Migration
2. Eliminate the Visa Lottery

The Barbara Jordan Commission recommended the elimination of these two immigration categories as the best way to protect vulnerable American workers and their families.

The President's Council on Sustainable Development, appointed by President Clinton, did not make specific recommendations about what to cut to get the numbers down to a level that would allow for population stabilization. But the cuts suggested by the Jordan Commission would go about half way toward the reductions needed.

NumbersUSA provides citizens the ability to fax Members of Congress (free of charge) with regards to their feelings on legislation affecting immigration and immigration reform. For more information about the common sense approach to immigration encouraged by NumbersUSA, please visit their website.