Roy:
I finally pulled up your blog today and now I know what you look like. You have a pleasant face. Thanks for your informative blog.

E-verify will work only if you can use it to prescreen applicants. Post-hiring checks are useless because there are other state laws that have to be considered.

Here in Wisconsin we are loaded with illegal immigrants. You don't hear anything about this in the media. Many thousands of our citizens have lost their jobs to the illegals. You can hardly make a telephone call to any business entity here without hearing a recorded message, "For English press '1', for Spanish press '2'." It absolutely infuriates me when that happens. My grandparents immigrated to Wisconsin from Denmark legally in the 1880s. My paternal grandfather was a journeyman sheet metal worker when he came and found work here in his trade. My maternal grandfather found a job in a factory as a laborer. He saved his money and after a few years he had enough to open a confectionary store, and later one of the first nickelodeon theaters in Wisconsin. All four of my grandparents learned to speak, read, and write English. They had a rule in their housholds that only English was to be spoken. This enabled them and their children to blend in more easily in Wisconsin every day life. They never became wealthy. They remained just plain hard working Wisconsin citizens all of their lives. If they were still living they would be outraged at this illegal immigrant problem we are suffering through. Also, they would feel sad for Wisconsin and for America.

Roy, at this point I'm grateful for the 5 years for E-Verify. I believe we can marshall our efforts in the future to make it a permanent requirement for all... if we can make believers of our senators. I thank God for all of you at NumbersUSA and all of my fellow Americans who continue to lend their time and effort and names to our ongoing efforts. Too many of those in Congress think they are above any accounting to We, The People and Menendez is one of them. Since Menendez has been in office he has NEVER responded to any of my faxes or calls (and there have been many)and his staffers are curt and uncomfortable listening to a constituent who points out that their boss is holding E-Verify hostage against the wishes of his constituents and abdicating his responsibility to We, The People who pay his salary and is not honoring his oath of office. I have made mention of the fact that his future hinges on our future and if he continues to flagrently disregard our wishes, we have remedies for that... There are actions and pronouncements being made which we might consider treasonous and anarchistic, not to mention seditious. Doesn't anyone remember that there are laws to deal with those things? Well, we'll continue to fight the good fight and make our voices heard and pray very hard that we'll prevail. We have to. We have honor and integrity on our side.

This is just the beginning we still need the senate to pass it. Keep the pressure on. Senator Boxer is my rep. a lost cause! Other things we need to work on is to get legal immigrants paid the same as Americans to prove that business is using immigration for one purpose only cheap labor! And impose a infrastructure tax on the employers of all immigrants legal or illegal.

Fantastic !!! The system stays alive. Hey why do we have to constantly keep propping up these idiots in Congress to do the right thing? Well, I suppose we could go on ad infinitum with all the sobering theories. But what happens when three states get serious about passing this worker ID system into law and one of them forgets to enforce it as in the case of good ole Georgia. Take a look at the story someone posted on Fire Society: http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/26884/Georgia---Governments-fail... The tide of Mexican incursion here in the Capitol is only rising higher. In fact, I heard one wise guy refer to this town as "Aztlanta." That got me pretty hot under the collar. So, I faxed the whole state legislation the following steam valve form letter:
Good Day Representative,
A recent evaluation of Georgia's adherence to the SAVE system revealed that thus far a total of nine Georgia employment entities have applied for the E-Verify program. We the Georgia citizenry find this severe and extreme lack of compliance and ENFORCEMENT of the expressed provisions of S.B. 529 completely OUTRAGEOUS. We insist that either you and your colleagues begin a realistic and comprehensive effort to making sure ALL Georgia employers comply with this LAW ON THE BOOKS or prepare to see a state wide "Grassroots" commitment to voting out all the incumbents in the Legislature who remain ineffective on the issue. Remember, a whole state full of new and generational Georgians held out big hopes on S.B. 529 for their personal solution to the growing problem of the overwhelming invasion of illegal immigrants throughout OUR country. Don't delude yourself into thinking we will accept apathy on your part in response. You'd be surprised how many of your constituents know the unsettling facts about this mass lethargy from our local government representatives. And we also know we expect better results in enforcement by the full effect date of 7/1/09. Enough said.

The telephone to reach the Washington office of New Jersy Senator Robert Menendez is 202 224-4744. I have phoned and emailed, suggesting that he could get a shock at the polls if he does not begin to consider the welfare of America and Americans over that of illegal aliens and wanna be H1B immigrants.

When I make my phone calls, I impress upon the office staffers that I consider things like a secure border and E-Verify and Real ID to be SECURITY ISSUES above all else. I am a Trade Tower widow and feel strongly about this.

Your responsibility as a citizen does NOT end the day you vote. It's your job to keep telling your elected representatives what you expect of them. They must be held accountable to the voters . The fate of the country is at stake. Never give up.

I must agree with my fellow Americans. I do not understand the problem some have with E-Verify use on legal U.S. citizens.

If you are legally allowed to work here, than why should you fear E-Verify? Sure there might be some bugs in the system, but they can only be fixed if we use the system.

Once an error is found you should have no more trouble. I know if someone were using my Social Security number illegally, Than I would certainly want it stopped.

Thanks, Roy, and everyone else who called and faxed.

I am always amazed when we have a victory, because for so long the interests of the American citizen were ignored after the election in favor of corporate $$$ America.

Finally, members of Congress, who believe they know what's best for us "mere" voters, are awakened to our views. Organized through NumbersUSA, we have POWER.

Glad we didn't lose it all,yet!! The american citizen has been accepting less than we deserve on all issues to the point that if we lose now, nothing is left to lose.I have walked the halls of congress and know how they operate.It is a shame that we have to work so hard,plead and beg for our elected officials to do what's right for america and it's workers. Big oil,big drug and other companies run this country.Our government has become an arm for them. WE have a government problem and both political parties are at fault. It hasn't happened over night and it will be hard to change washington's mindset. I will not vote for any candidate who steps on our citizen's and helps destroy our country. We have given away so many of our freedom's that we don't have any more to give. Yesterday I saw where buisness's owe 58 billion in S.S. taxes over the last 10 years.Wonder if they will go after them like they do individuals. I will keep calling,writing,faxing ,pleading and beging our congress to do what's right. We can't give up , we have to fight harder.GOD bless america and I pray we can turn things aroud before she is destroyed by our own government.

I am thankful Oklahoma has Randy Terrill! Don't know what is wrong with Pelosi and Mendendez, other than they must have their own interests at heart? The citizens of New Jersey should get rid of Mendendez whenever they can and certainly flooding Pelosi's office with phone calls and faxes couldn't hurt!! I voted yesterday, it felt good to know at least my vote counts. I also donated for the first time this month and plan on doing that each month. Have you? Even small amounts help....P.S. If Dave ever decides to run for President, he'll get my vote!

Senator Menendez needs to be removed from the Senate.

Any elected person who is willing to make it hard for the American citizen to get a job, by allowing or demanding visas for foreigners. Is not a representative of the People. Therefore, Menendez is in violation of his oath of office pledge and so are any others who vote for visas.

"We the People" are the sovereign government of America,

The President,Senators,Congressmen/Congresswomen,and the elected are SERVANTS, not bosses of the "Government by the People, and of the People."

When they do not represent "WE the People" they have violated the Honest intent of the Constitution of the United States of America.

Roy, thank you for providing a way for my voice to be heard by the lobbyist-infected elected officials that seem otherwise deaf, dumb and blind to constituents.

i have a particular feeling of satisfaction that we are able
stop the freight train of the left. i will respond to
every email that numbers usa sends to me. the other
week i called a group of the congressman and really
made a difference. i feel that i am continuing the
combat of my father in WWII, and it is a glorious
feeling. he paid a huge price, and suffered all his
life purchasing the library of my freedom. this is the
smallest thing i could do, so little compared to what
he went through.

Who would not be grateful for this victory whose purpose is to protect Americans from being stampeded by purely Un-American initiatives like Immigration,coming out of our Congress?..We need to keep fighting hard for the rule of law vs. illegal entry into the USA.We need to work for a system that makes it virtually impossible for illegal aliens to enter the USA. E-VERIFY can help identify those in the job market but what about those day-laborers and those working under independent contractor status? We know from experience that they can and will find a way to beat the system either themselves or with the guidance of citizens within who believe in and are working for amnesty....

Great job it really is gratifying to see how much influence an informed citizen can have. Now onto the Senate and let Senator Menendez know who he works for, its the American people not foreign workers.

Good but not good enough for us in IL. I have been and will continue to hammer away at Durbin. My U.S. Rep is already on board however we need to shake the marbles from Durbin's head.

Roy,

Sometimes we have to take half a loaf. But that is better than nothing at all. I am glad that I checked my e-mail before I started calling again this morning. Over the past few days, I have sent the requested faxes and made calls. As of last night, I had prepared my "speeches" to make calls again this morning. Then I saw your e-mail. Thank you and Numbers USA for all that you do! If you were not there to lead us, I am afraid of where things would be. God bless you.

I have called Menendez' office to let him know that I think his actions reflect badly on the Democrats, who are, after all, supposed to help American workers. Is there anything else you want me to do?

Yes, we held off some more bad news, but we didn't "win" anything here. We just didn't "lose" as badly as we could have.

We need to go on the offensive and get the SAVE Act passed. We have a half million members, we should be able to effectively shut down the capitol switchboard with calls. Pelosi's office should not be able to call out for pizza!

Let's step up this fight!