• Executive director of the National Immigration Forum
• Open Borders advocate
• Refers to U.S. efforts to enforce immigrant visa compliance as "heavy-handed tactics [that] seem more like the old Soviet Union and South Africa."

Frank Sharry is the executive director of the National Immigration Forum (NIF), an organization that is part and parcel of the Open Borders Lobby that seeks to eliminate restrictions on immigration into the United States, and advocates amnesty for illegal aliens currently residing in the U.S. Prior to taking over this position in 1990, Sharry had been executive director of Centro Presente, a local agency involved in the Central American sanctuary movement in the greater Boston area that opposed the Reagan Administration's efforts to combat the spread of communism in the region. In 1994, Sharry took a leave of absence from the Forum to serve as Deputy Campaign Manager of Taxpayers Against Proposition 187, a California Initiative to deny social welfare benefits to the state's illegal aliens.

Sharry and the NIF have objected to the U.S. government's creation of a National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS) to monitor members of the following groups: nationals of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, and Syria who are in the U.S. on non-immigrant visas; certain non-immigrant visa-holders from other countries that are determined to pose an "elevated national security risk" by the State Department and the INS; and certain foreign national non-immigrant visa-holders in whom the Justice Department has a special interest. NSEERS requires that fingerprints and photos be taken from these individuals, along with other personal data, when they present themselves for admission to the U.S. The fingerprints are then run through intelligence and criminal records databases to identify people who are wanted criminals or suspected terrorists and keep them from entering the country. After 30 days in the United States and then on an annual basis, certain non-immigrant aliens will be required to present themselves at an INS office, where a review will be conducted to ensure that they are complying with the terms of their visas. To Frank Sharry, "these heavy-handed tactics seem more like the old Soviet Union and South Africa."