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Cantaloupe Growers Lobby Congress on Immigration Reform

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“The vast majority of Republicans in the House do not have any kind of electorate that is pushing for this,” said Roy Beck, president of NumbersUSA, a group that opposes a path to citizenship. If a House Republican supports an immigration-law rewrite “it would be the perfect opportunity for a challenger” in a primary in 2014, he said.http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-24/cantaloupe-growers-lobby-congress-on-immigration-reform.html

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Border Patrol Officers Want House to Drop Amnesty for Illegal Aliens

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The National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO) issued a press release yesterday urging Republican House leadership to forgo plans to provide amnesty for the 11 million illegal aliens in the United States. The organization instead, calls for the House to focus on enforcing the nation's laws. 

"The NAFBPO urges the American public to directly request Congressmen John Boehner, Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan to abandon their dreams of amnesty, by whatever name, and get on a realistic track to ensure national security and public safety. That track leads to effective interior enforcement in every jurisdiction in all fifty states. Only then can actual border security and control become possible," the group wrote in the release.

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Poll: Support Has Fallen For Senate Immigration Bill, 39% Support Plan That Only Cuts Illegal Immigration by 50%

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A recent Rasmussen poll finds that support for the Senate immigration bill has dropped. Only 50% of likely voters now favor a plan to give legal status to illegal aliens, even if the border is secured to prevent future immigration. This figure is down from 60% less than three weeks ago. The figure drops to 39% when voters were asked if they support a plan that only cuts the flow of illegal immigration by 50%. 

These results come after the Congressional Budget Office estimated last week that the Senate immigration bill would only stop the flow by 50%.  

 

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Immigration Restrictionists Prepare Again For Legislative Showdown

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Roy Beck, and his organization, NumbersUSA, had succeeded in getting their attention.
Though the Senate ultimately passed the bill, with just enough Republicans to give it a comfortable bump over the 60 needed votes, Beck said he’s optimistic that his organization will succeed in defeating an all-out congressional embrace of the measure.

“Every single Republican is hearing from their grassroots,” Beck told Fox News Latino. “They have to say, for them, does the corporate wing or the wage-earning wing [of the Republican Party] prevail?”

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Analysis sees Senate bill curbing illegal entries

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"CBO says that the Senate bill with all its promises about extra enforcement would still allow half the illegal immigration flow to continue," said Roy Beck, head of NumbersUSA, in a statement. "This CBO finding suggests that by 2020 the illegal population will have grown big enough that presidential candidates will once again be pressed to promise yet another amnesty."

By ERICA WERNER, Associated Press

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Q&A: NumbersUSA's Roy Beck on the effort to kill immigration reform

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The head of NumbersUSA believes the bill would double the number of foreign workers in the country, leading to lower wages

Roy Beck, executive director of NumbersUSA, an advocacy group that wants to roll back immigration to pre-1965 levels, discusses efforts to derail the comprehensive immigration reform being considered by Congress.

Why do you so fervently oppose the bill?

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Immigration reform critics flood Senate with phone calls

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The calls have stiffened the spine of GOP Senators who might otherwise bend to pressure from business groups and from influential people in their home state, such as editorial writers and clerics, said Roy Beck, executive director of NumbersUSA, which provides a free phone service for Americans who oppose the massive rewrite.

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'Average Wage Across the Economy Would Decline for the First Decade', Says Analysis on Immigration Reform CBO Report

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CNBC's senior editor, John Carney, analyzed the Congressional Budget Office's immigration bill report and found that wages across all skill levels would decline for the first ten years after comprehensive immigration reform passed. 

Along with a nationwide wage decline, Carney says that according to the CBO report, unemployment would initially rise after a CIR would pass.

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