Christy Mullens-Shaw is the Director, Planned Giving & Member Retention for NumbersUSA. Christy provides a wide range of support to NumbersUSA’s millions of donors, activists, and members, keeping them engaged and informed on all matters related to the organization’s mission to empower voters to achieve sensible immigration policy. Prior to her arrival at NumbersUSA, Christy … Continued

What is, and where is, the American Dream for you? A dream of a better, richer, and happier life for all our citizens of every rank.” John Truslow Adams (JStorDaily.com, 2015) Is it Rural? Urban? Suburban? I offer that it doesn’t matter. “Better, richer, and happier” can happen in all three so long as we … Continued

Hope for the 6.5 million more Americans who would be working today if the Labor Force Participation Rate was as high as it was in the year 2000. Hope for the homeless, 40 percent of whom are Black, whose resources have been diverted to accommodate the record wave of illegal immigration. Hope for the world’s … Continued

In 1972, just two years before singer-songwriter John Denver was inspired to write Rocky Mountain High, the population of his favorite state of Colorado was 2.21 million. By 2021, the population had more than doubled to 5.8 million. And it is still growing rapidly. According to NumbersUSA’s new Colorado Sprawl Study, 53% of the growth … Continued

Senator Manchin was right to call out Vice President Harris’s delusional claim that the border is secure. His firm reproach of her false claim, saying she is “dead wrong,” is also timely given that just in this year alone the Department of Homeland Security has so far recorded an unprecedented 2.2 million southern border apprehensions. … Continued

Sensible immigration reform can pave the way for aligning economic “Made in America” production goals with assurances that those newly-created U.S.-based jobs would also prioritize a domestic American workforce. Now is a golden opportunity for Congress to reform immigration policy that would enhance the potential “boon” to workers predicted by several analysts who are cautiously … Continued

National security involves many things, including domestic food security. That is becoming increasingly more difficult as immigration policy is driven by the premise that the United States needs to add as many people as possible as fast as possible. Immigration policy reforms are needed to stabilize U.S. population growth and safeguard national security. And that … Continued

Immigration-driven population growth and its secondary pressure on state to state migration is leading to further development over habitat and further endangering already beleaguered wildlife. Loss of wildlife habitat is accelerating and now spreading well beyond the more widely reported coastal or dense urban areas. Since the year 2000, when NumbersUSA began conducting its sprawl … Continued

The story of Japan’s puzzling lower inflation rate, compared to that of the U.S., deposits a fly in the middle of an otherwise well-oiled U.S. corporate and mass media narrative to insist that fighting inflation, like every other issue facing our country, is solved by increasing immigration. But Japan seems so far uninterested in loosening … Continued