Sealing Off the Borders

Anti-Immigration Groups Gear Up for Action

• By Matthew Murray
• Roll Call Staff
• March 23, 2009, Midnight

With Democrats hinting that the nation’s immigration laws could be in play, radio talk show hosts and anti-amnesty groups are preparing for a repeat of their grass-roots lobbying effort of two years ago, a campaign that clogged Congressional switchboards and ultimately doomed legislation that attempted to account for the roughly 12 million undocumented workers in the United States.
And they’re promising lawmakers that they ain’t seen nothing yet.