Jordan’s Blueprint for Sensible Immigration

By Jeremy Beck

“If you want to know heat in its actuality,” Jordan – a proud Texan – remarked, “chair the bipartisan commission on immigration reform.”

Ruy Teixeira’s 10 rules of “immigration realism”

By Jeremy Beck

Many more people want to come to a rich country like the United States than an orderly immigration system can allow.

An immigration ideal for Veterans Day

By Jeremy Beck

We’ve displayed Barbara Jordan’s quote on our homepage for years as a reminder of this simple but profound truth: every democratic nation has both the right and the responsibility to craft an immigration policy that serves its own national community.

A humane immigration policy would consider these people

By Roy Beck

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.

What do we want? Audacity.

By Jeremy Beck

As is often the case, it’s easy to know what we don’t want. We don’t want to continue the cycle of on-again-off-again enforcement. We don’t want another “one time” amnesty with promises of future enforcement. We don’t want another four years of false debate about whether immigrants or Americans opposed to mass immigration are to be feared or loathed. What do we want? Audacity. We want … Continued

The Essential Barbara Jordan

By Jeremy Beck

Today is Barbara Jordan’s birthday. She would have been 88 years old. Tragically, she died in 1996, just before Congress voted on the immigration recommendations she developed over the last years of her life.

We Say it Often, Numbers Count. And Here’s An Example of Why

By Christy Shaw

Add Ecuador to a growing list of South American countries beginning to close or significantly restrict mass migration spilling over their borders, a tragic consequence of the chaos and corruption that has plunged over 90% of Venezuela’s population into poverty. It is estimated that by the end of this year, over 5 million Venezuelens will … Continued

We regard all U.S. citizens — foreign-born & natives — the same. THIS is home.

By Roy Beck

Shouts such as “holocaust” from one side and I want to urge all who seek a restored order at the border and a reduction in immigration numbers to avoid even a hint of nativism in response to the challenges at hand. {text} NUMBERSUSA OPPOSESnativist policies that favor native‐born U.S. citizens over foreign‐born U.S. citizens.”– From … Continued

EarthX 2019: Having Necessary Conversations about Population Growth, Sprawl, and Vanishing Open Spaces

By Christy Shaw

It was my first year joining the NumbersUSA team at Fair Park in Dallas, TX for the annual EarthX event! In general, it was fun and rewarding to be able to share important information with our booth visitors about the impacts of urban sprawl and population growth, both locally and nationally. Most passersby agreed that … Continued