With all kinds of Americans celebrating St. Patrick's Day last week, the news media have been almost aflutter with the storyline that the one pro-immigration bill that may be able to get by grassroots opposition this year is one that adds thousands of special new work visas for workers from Ireland. NumbersUSA President Roy Beck has been nearly the lone voice in public opposition, but his quotes have shown up widely in newspapers and radio across the country.

So, it wasn't surprising that CNN invited Roy on its national morning cable show to talk for several minutes about how silly -- and destructive -- the Irish worker bill would be.

Watch Roy's CNN interview here. . .

Roy on CNN to Discuss Irish Work Visa bill - YouTube

Meanwhile, you NumbersUSA activists have kept up your part of the counter-offensive, flooding the offices of all 100 U.S. Senators with faxes explaining why more Irish work visas would result in more American unemployment -- and how the bill would lead to one nationality group after another asking for their own special visas, all to the detriment of American workers and their families.

Two things Roy didn't get to discuss during his CNN appearance were the bill's definition of "high-skilled" workers (they don't even have to have a high school degree) and whether or not Irish nationals currently illegally present in the U.S. can qualify for the visas (they are the main intended recipient). We discussed both of these points during our Thursday webcast.

On our webcast, we also discussed our new campaign to urge House Majority Leader Eric Cantor to include a mandatory E-Verify bill on his new website that allows citizens to "sponsor" legislation. And Van Esser provided an update on some of the bills that are moving in state legislatures.

Watch a replay of our weekly webcast at NumbersUSA.tv.



Thanks to all of you who sent faxes from Roy's alert yesterday. More than 75,000 faxes have been sent over the last 24 hours. If you haven't sent that fax yet, please visit you Action Board today!CHRIS CHMIELENSKI
FRI, MAR 23rd

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Check your Action Board for a new fax to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. You'll also find new faxes to House Speaker Boehner and Ways & Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp.

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Watch our Thursday webcast. We show the clip of Majority Leader Eric Cantor's appearance on the Greta Van Susteren show on Fox News, plus reveal a quote from a Boston businessman that shows that the Irish bill is mainly about helping Irish illegal aliens.

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