Anti-‘Amnesty’ Activists Prepared for Immigration Fight

“In 2007, when callers shut down the Senate phone lines and stopped the amnesty bill in its tracks, we had 350,000 members. We’ve now got 1.4 million,” said Rosemary Jenks, chief lobbyist for NumbersUSA, which led the shut-down effort five years ago.”Our goal is to make sure that every one of those 1.4 million people, plus anyone else we can find, will be faxing their members of Congress, calling their members of Congress, emailing their members of Congress, and making it absolutely clear that the American people are not onboard with this,” she said.NumbersUSA and FAIR have called for the mandatory electronic employment verification, whereby employers would check the immigration status of all hires through a federal system. They also seek a national entry/exit system at every port of entry and border crossing to better track visa overstays.”All employers have to verify the status of their workers. Period. That is the only way to prevent the next inflow of illegal aliens,” said Jenks. “Until you do that, you can’t talk about amnesty for those who are here.”http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/immigration-reform-opponents-prepare-fight-amnesty/story?id=18468175By Devin Dwyer in ABC News