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Roy Beck founded NumbersUSA in 1996 to facilitate civil debate on immigration recommendations from two prominent Commissions. Harnessing internet technology as it emerged and NumbersUSA’s focus solely on immigration, it grew its membership to become the largest single-issue, grass roots, advocacy group in the United States.
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Condensed from the full, 40-minute presentation of NumbersUSA's key findings in its 2023 study of Texas urban sprawl and loss of open space. Roy Beck, one of the study's three authors, presented the findings at the largest Earth Day exposition in the world in Dallas, April 2023.
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Roy Beck founded NumbersUSA in 1996 to facilitate civil debate on immigration recommendations from two prominent Commissions. Harnessing internet technology as it emerged and NumbersUSA’s focus solely on immigration, it grew its membership to become the largest single-issue, grass roots, advocacy group in the United States.
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With Pope Leo XIV's views on U.S. immigration policy subject to recent public interest, we are reposting these in hope that they will contribute to the public understanding of different approaches to a humane policy.
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The worst border crisis in U.S. history overwhelmed schools, broke the asylum system, displaced vulnerable Americans, killed a record number of migrants, swamped local budgets, diluted Democracy, strained natural resources, exacerbated housing prices, drove working-age Americans to the economic sidelines, and created a new era of forced and child labor not seen since the 19th century. Most Americans believe this was deliberate.
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On Tuesday, March 25, Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) introduced the Fairness for High-Skilled Americans Act (H.R. 2315) that would end the Optional Practical Training program (OPT) that gives U.S. employers a discount for NOT hiring American workers. The bill is one of NumbersUSA's "Great Solutions" for fixing immigration policies in the 119th Congress.
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Adapted from a January 22, 2025 newsletter from NumbersUSA Co-CEOs Anne Manetas and Roy Beck THIS REALLY IS A BIG DEAL.We have to go back to the Secure The Fence Act of 2006 to find the kind of bipartisan support for a new law to address enforcement failures. Back then, bipartisan support came from the likes of … Continued
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President Trump signed a bevy of immigration-related executive orders on his first day in office. We’ll have more to tell you about these orders in the days ahead. You’ll see in our short explanations below that Trump’s first actions focus on ending what NumbersUSA Co-CEO Roy Beck calls “the federal government’s recent practice of the … Continued
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Before he left office in January 2021, President Trump issued a regulation to end the H-1B visa lottery and replace it with a system that awarded the controversial visas based on salaries (highest to lowest). The aim was to make it harder to use the visa program to bring in entry level workers. H-1B visas … Continued
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