Numbers USA
| Founder | Roy Beck |
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Key people
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Roy Beck, Executive Director; Rosemary Jenks, Government Relations Director |
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Revenue
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US$ 10.61 million (2016) |
| Endowment | US$ 8.97 million |
| Slogan | For Lower Immigration Levels |
| Website | www.numbersusa.com |
NumbersUSA is an immigration reduction organization that seeks to reduce both legal and illegal immigration to the United States. It advocates for immigration reduction through user-generated fax, email, and direct mail campaigns.
NumbersUSA was founded by Roy Beck while he worked for anti-immigration environmental activist John Tanton. Beck says that he started NumbersUSA after he wrote The Case Against Immigration. In the course of researching the book he tracked many of the problems in the US to immigration.
In 2004, NumbersUSA reported 50,000 members. In 2007, it claimed its website had 1.5 million visitors. The organization currently claims as of December 2011 1.1 million member activists.
On June 28, 2007, NumbersUSA claimed a victory after a sweeping immigration bill collapsed in the U.S. Senate. The organization's members used information and tools from NumbersUSA to contact legislators and voice opposition.
The Huffington Post reports "NumbersUSA has become something of a bellwether for Republican presidential candidates, who cite the organization's immigration report card to prove they oppose unauthorized immigration." The NumbersUSA 501c4s get 95 percent of its lobbying budget through member donations of $100 or less.
NumbersUSA ran an ad during the Fox News Republican presidential candidates debate in 2011 which included some of their minority activists and the statement. "The immigration debate should not be about the color of people's skin, or their country of origin, or their religion, or where their grandparents were born, The debate should be about the numbers."
NumbersUSA's says it is "pro-immigrant" and favors annual immigration of 200,000. On the group's website, Beck cautions against "immigrant bashing" and says, "Even illegal aliens deserve humane treatment as they are detected, detained and deported".
FactCheck.Org have said an advertisement released by NumbersUSA contained "inaccurate, inflated and emotionally charged claims."PolitiFact evaluated as false a NumbersUSA claim that, in an extreme case, the migration of "a single permanent foreign worker could result in the permanent immigration to the United States of 273" relatives through chain migration, noting widespread agreement among experts that such this was "likely impossible under quotas established under current immigration policy".
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