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

NumbersUSA Endorses Legal Workforce Act

By Roy Beck

EDITOR’S NOTE: Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) introduced the Legal Workforce Act, H.R. 1147, that would require all businesses to use E-Verify to check the eligibility of all new hires. The following is a letter of endorsement written by NumbersUSA President Roy Beck. NumbersUSA – the nation’s largest grassroots organization for controlled immigration, with a network … Continued

JEB: Illegal aliens should be at the front of the jobs line

By Roy Beck

As for jobless Americans, I suppose the answer is: Let them eat pie, or let them eat when there is a bigger pie. Despite saying some pretty sensible things about immigration at the big CPAC conservative activists conference last Friday, presidential hopeful Jeb Bush displayed zero awareness that immigration issues affect working-class Americans. FOX host … Continued

Democrats hold DHS hostage and demand ransom of work permits for illegal aliens

By Roy Beck

Thus far, every single Democrat in the Senate and nearly all in the House are taking the position that they will not allow funding for the Department of Homeland Security unless their Republican colleagues pay a ransom in the form of millions of work permits for illegal aliens. The headlines should read: “Democrats hold DHS … Continued

Federal court injunction against Obama amnesty gives more reason for Senate to debate DHS funding bill

By Roy Beck

The fact that the judicial branch has joined the House of Representatives and a majority of states in questioning the constitutionality of the President’s executive actions on immigration should make it obvious that the Senate needs to proceed to a debate on the Department of Homeland Security funding bill and add its voice to this … Continued

WORK PERMITS banned from his speech tonight but not from the Obama amnesty. DECEPTION?

By Roy Beck

In a 2,200-word speech, he didn’t mention “work permits” or “work authorization” even once. Pres. Obama’s huge prime-time TV speech about his big fix of the “broken immigration system” somehow left out the fact that he would be rewarding millions of unlawfully present foreign citizens with three-year work permits to compete directly with struggling American … Continued

Focus on Obama amnesty should be on the work permits, not the deportations

By Roy Beck

Pres. Obama’s and the mainstream media’s focus on “relief from deportation” is a distraction from the real issue which is the work permits that the President’s executive immigration action would provide in the millions. It is the giving out of work permits that most strongly challenges the Constitution. And it is the work permits that … Continued

POLLS: More S.C. voters drop approval of Gang Sen. Graham and oppose his work permits for illegal aliens

By Roy Beck

Since NumbersUSA began running TV and radio ads in February highlighting the amnesty leadership of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), his popularity among South Carolina voters has dropped rapidly, according to a new Winthrop University poll.Although he retains majority support among Republicans, his approval rating among them fell from 71.6% in February to 57.5% in April.That’s … Continued

Rush (and other Talk Radio) dump Rubio’s amnesty for lack of guaranteed enforcement

By Roy Beck

The effort to build more conservative support for Sen. Schumer’s latest giant amnesty began to crumble over the last 24 hours.No development was bigger than Rush Limbaugh’s backing away.Now that there’s an actual bill to read, Rush wasn’t so charmed by Sen. Marco Rubio’s promises of immigration enforcement on his show today.The fact that Rush … Continued