Cut through political ads for where Prez hopefuls really stand on immigration

By Roy Beck

We’ve just reviewed all 14 remaining Presidential candidates and posted the new ratings in 10 immigration categories: https://www.numbersusa.com/content/elections/races/presidential/2016-presidential-hopefuls.html With the Iowa caucuses barely a week away, our new ratings are likely to stir up almost everybody who likely will think we’ve graded everybody but their favorite too high. (At least, that is the usual feedback … Continued

This week’s changes in Prez Hopefuls’ immigration ratings

By Roy Beck

What changed this week in {text} We brought out our giant immigration grid for Presidential Hopefuls just two weeks ago. As promised, our Ratings Committee has met each Friday to consider all new statements, as well as any other information that you readers have brought to our attention. Each week, we look to see whether … Continued

More self-censoring by media of wage & immigration connections

By Roy Beck

“U.S. Workers Ask: Where’s My Raise?” proclaims the Wall Street Journal in a serious June 3 analysis of many reasons for the stagnant wage situation for millions of Americans. But, as usual for mainstream media, the Journal totally ignored one of the most obvious factors: out-of-control immigration that adds to the country’s giant labor surplus … Continued

1st Edition of Immigration Grades for 20 Presidential Hopefuls

By Roy Beck

After weeks of work, our NumbersUSA team is ready to show you our evaluations of the 20 politicians who Real Clear Politics show are polling at 1% or higher for the 2016 Presidential Election. {text} We’ve chosen a really easy url for the Grade Cards for the 2016 Presidential Hopefuls. THE SAD RESULTS OF FIRST … Continued

Does your favorite Presidential Hopeful have a lousy immigration grade? Don’t blame us.

By Roy Beck

We will very soon be posting our every-four-year Presidential Hopefuls Immigration Grade Cards on the 20 candidates who are polling at 1% or higher. And we will update their ratings and grades every week until the 2016 election is held. Every election cycle, we get hammered by people who think we have gone too hard … Continued

Should foreign citizens be given U.S. citizenship because their parents decided to visit Disney World?

By Roy Beck

Over the next several days, we are encouraging the public to press their Members of Congress to answer the following question: H.R. 140 (the Birthright Citizenship Act). Of course, most of the hundreds of thousands of births to foreign citizens in the U.S. each year are not to Disney visitors. But the Disney scenario is … Continued

We join unions, environmentalists and more in broad coalition against threat of anti-worker trade bill

By Roy Beck

We are opposing the corporate lobbies, Pres. Obama and Republican congressional leaders who together are trying to pass a Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) bill that would likely lead to cutting the American people out of future decisions about certain flows of foreign workers. We have a chance for victory primarily because most Democrats in Congress … Continued

We urge Senate to reject Lynch for Attorney General

By Roy Beck

NumbersUSA has notified every U.S. Senator that our Immigration Grade Cards will score a vote for Loretta Lynch as a vote for amnesty and against American workers. As explained below, urging the rejection of a presidential nominee is something we have done rarely and not a decision we made lightly in this case. We are … Continued

OUR NEWEST SPRAWL STUDY: If you ever want to visit natural Florida, do it soon before it disappears under federal immigration policies

By Roy Beck

Natural Florida is disappearing fast.  More than 4,000 square miles of unique Florida nature and its special agricultural land that you could have visited in 1982 no longer exists.  They have been cleared, drained, paved and developed into parking lots, streets, shopping malls, housing tracts, water and sewage facilities, and infrastructure of all sorts to … Continued