“This is not a serious plan for comprehensive immigration reform; it is a comprehensive special-interest New Year’s wish list, in which everyone gets something except the American people,” said Rosemary Jenks, government relations director for Numbers USA. “Unfortunately, all Americans get is the bill, which they will have to pay with their jobs and their … Continued

Others are less worried. Rosemary Jenks, director of governmental relations for the Numbers USA, a group that favors tightening immigration restrictions, said the same popular rebellion that deadlocked Congress over Bush’s immigration proposal also will stop Obama’s, regardless of demographic trends and the November’s election results. She noted that some Democrats, too, oppose a big … Continued

“People in Montana don’t want amnesty,” Rosemary Jenks, a lobbyist for NumbersUSA, which seeks to lower the nation’s immigration level, told The Washington Examiner.Jenks believes Baucus and other Democratic senators up for re-election next year, including Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, will join with a majority of Senate Republicans to help … Continued

While the current proposal is short on details, Rosemary Jenks has reviewed it and tells me it is basically the same sweeping amnesty we defeated in 2007 with “updated” language to re-brand the amnesty. We had hoped that the new voices of Senators Rubio (R-FL) and Lee (R-UT) [both members of the so-called Senate “Gang of Eight”] … Continued

NumbersUSA, a group that helped kill the last immigration reform push in 2007, came out against the Senate proposal on Monday and vowed to mobilize its supporters against it.“If the Senate were serious about reforming our failed immigration system, the first step of their plan would be immediate, mandatory use of E-Verify — the workplace … Continued

The U.S. Congress ultimately will fail to adopt an amnesty plan that Barack Obama is seeking, and the real “victory” will rest on “red state Democrats” who will oppose it, according to a spokeswoman for NumbersUSA, which supports immigration reform as an education and research foundation.Spokeswoman Rosemary Jenks says Sens. “Mark Pryor, Mary Landrieu and … Continued

Rosemary Jenks, director of government relations at NumbersUSA, which advocates for tougher immigration laws, characterized Goodlatte as a “very solid, pro-enforcement” voice who picked “very solid, pro-enforcement” lawmakers to represent his Immigration subcommittee.”There’s not a chance the House will introduce or move a comprehensive bill,” Jenks said Thursday in a phone interview. “Congress has tried … Continued

“It is unfortunate that these groups have abandoned the base to support immigration reform that is not in the best interest of Americans,” said Rosemary Jenks, director of government relations for NumbersUSA, a Virginia-based advocacy group that lobbies to reduce immigration levels and grades members of Congress. “We have 20 million Americans unemployed who can’t … Continued

Advocates of a compromise reform of immigration law say their efforts are being hampered by President Barack Obama’s policy of ignoring unwanted portions of previous immigration-law compromises. “It would be ridiculous for Republicans to actually believe that the Obama administration is going to uphold its end of any compromise,” said Rosemary Jenks, the director of … Continued