Who doesn’t want a tight labor market?

By Jeremy Beck

A few days after the Twitter Spaces event “How Does Immigration Benefit Black Americans” trended #1 on the social media site, Pamela Denise Long hosted Roy Beck for two sessions to discuss his book Back of the Hiring Line: A 200-year history of immigration surges, employer bias, and the depression of Black wealth. The two … Continued

Black history informs every month of our work

By Roy Beck

Since the NumbersUSA website began in 1996, Black American history has been one of the elements integral to our mission and message. We don’t reserve it for February. Reducing immigration is NumbersUSA’s sole legislative issue. And our attention to that part of American history that is “Black history” has taught us that no large demographic … Continued

The future belongs to nations who embrace stabilization

By Jeremy Beck

Who Said It? “Slower population growth, including less legal immigration and stopping illegal immigration, would reduce pressures on the environment and the depletion of resources as well as gain time to find solutions to the nation’s problems.” A) Former director of the U.N. Population Division Joseph Chamie? OrB) Fox News host Tucker Carlson?   The … Continued

Unpacking the true intent of the propaganda from mass immigration pushers

By Christy Shaw

“In the end, the only way wealthy states can ‘solve’ the problem is to make regular avenues of migration easier.”–Kelsey Norman, Foreign Affairs, 2022 Let me get this straight. According to Norman, more mass immigration is the solution to already having too much immigration??? It is vitally important that we Americans continue to stand against … Continued

Lower wages are a feature of immigration expansion, not a bug

By Jeremy Beck

Stop me if you’ve heard that immigration has no effect (or minimal effect) on wages. Yes, the last half century of mass immigration coincides with the stagnation of real wages for most workers, but you’ve no doubt read or heard that the two aren’t related. Increasing the supply of labor, we’re told, just doesn’t lower … Continued

Lower wages are a feature of immigration expansion, not a bug

By Jeremy Beck

Stop me if you’ve heard that immigration has no effect (or minimal effect) on wages. Yes, the last half century of mass immigration coincides with the stagnation of real wages for most workers, but you’ve no doubt read or heard that the two aren’t related. Increasing the supply of labor, we’re told, just doesn’t lower … Continued

Best of 2021: Immigration Reads You May Have Missed

By Andrew Good

As the curtain closes on 2021, the NumbersUSA staff who work as part of the Media Standards Project have each pulled together a list of noteworthy media items from the year that advanced a healthy, civil, productive conversation on immigration-related issues. These pundits and reporters provided their consumers with high-quality commentary and information, allowing the … Continued

Best of 2021: Immigration Reads You May Have Missed

By Andrew Good

As the curtain closes on 2021, the NumbersUSA staff who work as part of the Media Standards Project have each pulled together a list of noteworthy media items from the year that advanced a healthy, civil, productive conversation on immigration-related issues. These pundits and reporters provided their consumers with high-quality commentary and information, allowing the … Continued

Expansionist policies are unpopular, but why?

By Jeremy Beck

Pamela Denise Long views mass immigration as part of a larger betrayal of Black Americans, and Darvio Morrow piles on: From support for educational equality and freedom of speech to opposition to defunding the police and mass immigration, we Black voters hold views on a number of issues that many white progressives would consider “problematic.” … Continued