Immigration group pushing for discharge petition on ‘SAVE Act’
Chad Groening

Roy Beck of Numbers USA is urging members of the House of Representatives to sign on to a discharge petition in order to get an important piece of legislation known as the SAVE Act to the floor for a vote.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) has been holding up the bill — and Beck, president of the grassroots immigration organization Numbers USA, says his organization is about 33 votes short of the needed discharge petition. Beck believes the Secure America through Verification and Enforcement (SAVE) Act would go a long way to curb illegal immigration by mandating that employers use an “E-Verifyâ€