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| founder = [[Roy Beck]]<ref name="nyt_littleknown_tanton">{{cite news |first= Robert|last= Pear|title= Little-Known Group Claims a Win on Immigration|url= https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/15/us/politics/15immig.html|work= New York Times|date= July 15, 2007|accessdate=August 22, 2008|quote=Numbers USA is one of many organizations fostered by John H. Tanton, an ophthalmologist from Michigan who has also championed efforts to protect the environment, limit population growth and promote English as an official language. }}</ref><ref name="not_tanton" >{{cite news |title= NumbersUSA staff comment to News21 description (See Comment below the entry|url=http://news21blog.org/2008/09/03/immigration-organization-of-the-week-numbersusa/|accessdate=April 10, 2009|quote=After Roy Beck started NumbersUSA with Roy Beck’s own money, John Tanton made some small contributions amounting to less than 0.3% of the total funding of the organization. ... Roy Beck did start NumbersUSA while he worked for John Tanton. But people often start businesses and non-profits while they are working for somebody else. After all, you need to have money coming in while you set things up. }}</ref>
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'''NumbersUSA''' is an [[immigration reduction]] organization that seeks to reduce both legal and illegal immigration to the United States.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/us/17immig.html|title=The Anti-Immigration Crusader|last=Deparle|first=Jason|date=2011-04-17|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-03-29|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> It advocates for [[immigration reduction]] through user-generated fax, email, and direct mail campaigns.
'''NumbersUSA''' is an [[immigration reduction]] organization that seeks to reduce both legal and illegal immigration to the United States.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/us/17immig.html|title=The Anti-Immigration Crusader|last=Deparle|first=Jason|date=2011-04-17|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-03-29|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> It advocates for [[immigration reduction]] through user-generated fax, email, and direct mail campaigns.

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NumbersUSA
FounderRoy Beck[1][2]
Location
Key people
Roy Beck, Executive Director; Rosemary Jenks, Government Relations Director [3]
RevenueUS$ 10.61 million (2016)[4]
EndowmentUS$ 8.97 million [4]
Websitewww.numbersusa.com

NumbersUSA is an immigration reduction organization that seeks to reduce both legal and illegal immigration to the United States.[5] It advocates for immigration reduction through user-generated fax, email, and direct mail campaigns.

History

NumbersUSA was founded by Roy Beck while he worked for anti-immigration environmental activist John Tanton.[6] 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.[7]

In 2004, NumbersUSA reported 50,000 members.[8] In 2007, it claimed its website had 1.5 million visitors.[9] 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.[6]

Activities

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."[10] 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."[11]

Policies

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".[6]

Criticism

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) describes NumbersUSA as part of a network of "anti-immigration" organizations created by Tanton.[12] A Wall Street Journal Opinion section article, also identifies NumbersUSA as one of a half dozen groups founded or funded by Tanton in order to stop immigration and promote population control.[13] In February 2009, NumbersUSA was called a nativist organization by the Southern Poverty Law Center's report "The Nativist Lobby",[14] though the SPLC also stated that there is no evidence of racism on behalf of Roy Beck or his organization.[15] NumbersUSA firmly denies having any racist or extremist views.[16]

FactCheck.Org have said an advertisement released by NumbersUSA contained "inaccurate, inflated and emotionally charged claims."[17] 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,[18] noting widespread agreement among experts that such this was "likely impossible under quotas established under current immigration policy".[19]

References

  1. ^ Pear, Robert (July 15, 2007). "Little-Known Group Claims a Win on Immigration". New York Times. Retrieved August 22, 2008. Numbers USA is one of many organizations fostered by John H. Tanton, an ophthalmologist from Michigan who has also championed efforts to protect the environment, limit population growth and promote English as an official language.
  2. ^ "NumbersUSA staff comment to News21 description (See Comment below the entry". Retrieved April 10, 2009. After Roy Beck started NumbersUSA with Roy Beck's own money, John Tanton made some small contributions amounting to less than 0.3% of the total funding of the organization. ... Roy Beck did start NumbersUSA while he worked for John Tanton. But people often start businesses and non-profits while they are working for somebody else. After all, you need to have money coming in while you set things up.
  3. ^ "NumbersUSA 2016 Annual Report" (pdf). NumbersUSA. December 31, 2016. Retrieved March 30, 2017.
  4. ^ a b "NumbersUSA 2016 Annual Report" (pdf). NumbersUSA. December 31, 2016. Retrieved March 30, 2017.
  5. ^ Deparle, Jason (April 17, 2011). "The Anti-Immigration Crusader". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 29, 2017.
  6. ^ a b c Pear, Robert (July 15, 2007). "Little-Known Group Claims a Win on Immigration". New York Times. Retrieved July 24, 2008.
  7. ^ "Roy Beck", Joseph A D'Agostino. Human Events. Washington: August 25, 2003. Vol. 59, Iss. 29; pg. 16
  8. ^ Pear, Robert (July 15, 2007). "Little-Known Group Claims a Win on Immigration". The New York Times.
  9. ^ http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2007/12/05/4435261-more-oh-eight-rise-of-the-non-profits
  10. ^ Huffington Post: NumbersUSA runs ads in South Carolina Primary
  11. ^ North County Times REGION: Groups' TV ad campaigns advocate reducing legal immigration http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/sdcounty/article_abd27527-9d58-5efb-9fbf-6732b1ca9246.html
  12. ^ SPLC's overview of John Tanton's Fundraising Network Archived June 24, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
  13. ^ "Borderline Republicans". Opinion. The Wall Street Journal. June 17, 2004. Archived from the original on December 31, 2014. Retrieved December 31, 2014.(subscription required)
  14. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20091018002339/http://www.splcenter.org/intel/nativist_lobby.jsp. Archived from the original on October 18, 2009. Retrieved August 3, 2009. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  15. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20091007132838/http://www.splcenter.org/intel/nativist_numbersusa.jsp. Archived from the original on October 7, 2009. Retrieved October 5, 2009. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  16. ^ "'The Nativist Lobby'". Opinion. The New York Times. February 4, 2009. Retrieved May 20, 2010.
  17. ^ "A Puffed-up Appeal to Job Fears - FactCheck.org". FactCheck.org. June 12, 2013. Retrieved March 29, 2017.
  18. ^ Jenks, Rosemary. "https://www.numbersusa.com/content/print/resources/publications/attrition-through-enforcement/legal-immi/chain-migration-under-current-us-law?popup=true". www.numbersusa.com. {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help)
  19. ^ "Marietta Republican says a single immigrant can lead to more than 270 others". @politifact. Retrieved March 29, 2017.

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