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He keeps grade cards for every member of Congress, deploys three million activists to blast lawmakers with anti-immigration-reform telephone calls, faxes and emails, and runs a website where his followers have called undocumented immigrants “criminal invaders” and “wolves at the door.”

But for Roy H. Beck, the 66-year-old driving force behind a small but powerful organization that has helped scuttle every effort at an immigration overhaul for nearly two decades, the fight is only beginning. Over the next year, his goal is to cut off funding for President Obama’s executive actions that have shielded five million people from deportation and will allow many of them work permits.


“There’s a good chance that we’ll roll back a good share of this,” Mr. Beck said in a recent interview in his Rosslyn, Va., office, a mostly threadbare space with sweeping views of the Potomac River and the Capitol dome. “We did as much as possible to make immigration radioactive in as many places as possible.”
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