US_ Wooing Congress: New group uses social media to disrupt immigration compromise

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Wooing Congress: New group uses social media to disrupt immigration compromise

Migrants depart from Tapachula, Mexico, Dec. 24, 2023. Former President Donald Trump is seizing on his party’s frustration with the recent surge of illegal crossings at the southern U.S. border to churn up fears around voter fraud. (AP Photo/Edgar H. … more >

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Saturday, January 20, 2024


When senators tried to power through an amnesty for illegal immigrants in 2007, the bill was met with an avalanche of phone calls and faxes from angry voters who helped doom the measure to defeat.

The Senate’s internet server shut down at one point, and on the day of the vote, the phone system overloaded. NumbersUSA, a grassroots pressure group, said it alone accounted for 1.5 million faxes during the weeks of debate.

Fast-forward to today. Congressional offices can ignore faxes, delete emails and send callers straight to voicemail. The one place they can’t escape constituents is on social media, and that’s just where a new immigration pressure group plans to hound them.

The Immigration Accountability Project, founded last year by two veterans from NumbersUSA, says it wants to help constituents slip into lawmakers’ feeds with posts demanding a get-tough approach to border security, and to arm voters for in-person conversations with lawmakers at grocery stores and town halls.

“One thing they can’t turn off is they can’t turn off their social media. So we hold members of Congress accountable by really targeting their social media handles,” said Chris Chmielenski, president of the IAP.

The IAP had its first major battle this month, taking to social media with leaked details of the Senate negotiations over a border security deal. The results were a firestorm online and a wave of anger among House Republicans who vowed to reject the deal if it looked like what the IAP said.

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