“Pearce would have retained his seat in a regular election,” said Roy Beck, president of NumbersUSA, adding, “Probably the key factor to keep in mind is that the recall election occurred when only a half-dozen states were having elections. That allowed open-border forces to concentrate most of their money and energy on Pearce’s tiny Arizona district.

There were few competing requests for the money that was used to buy signatures to create the recall election and then run the outside-group advertising.”

Beck also surmised, “If the challenge to Pearce had happened during a regular election year, it is doubtful that nearly as much open-borders money and energy could have been funneled solely to this recall effort,” and said that alone might easily have made the difference in the outcome.

He noted the fact that the rules are different in a recall election than in a regular Primary, whereas non-Republicans were allowed to choose between two Republican candidates.
Beck said, if this had been a regular Primary election, “Pearce most likely would have easily defeated Republican Lewis,” adding, “By all news accounts, the assumption is that Pearce easily won the Republican votes in this recall ballot.”

“All of this is to say that it took some very special circumstances to engineer Pearce’s defeat,” said Beck.

Roy Beck of the reform group NumbersUSA sees it as much more than that, calling the ruling "a tremendous victory for unemployed Americans."



"There are about 7 million illegal aliens estimated to be working in non-agricultural jobs. There are many Americans unemployed and lined up to get those jobs," Beck claimed.



Also supporting the ruling is the Latino advocacy group known as the League of United Latin American citizens (LULAC).



Luis Vera, LULAC's general counsel, says the law should expose businesses that utilize underpaid immigrants in unsafe conditions.



About a dozen states have laws similar to Arizona's.



"There are at least a dozen other states that have held back," Rob Beck said, "I think we're going to see those states passing those laws in the next year."



Further, he predicts the business community's concerned for a single uniform system will send it from the Supreme Court across the street to Congress, to push for a standard nationwide eVerify requirement.