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Beto drops out: His life along the border gave him little appreciation for boundaries

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It is hard to distinguish oneself among so many Presidential aspirants when everybody is rushing in the same direction. Beto O'Rourke tried but couldn't attract enough funding, dropping out of the race today.

Beto tried to beat his competition by advocating for the most leniency toward illegal immigration and for the most foreign workers to help business owners. (Take a look at his positions below.)

But Elizabeth Warren matched his nearly open-borders enthusiasm, and most of the rest of the candidates came very close.

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We Unveil First 2020 Rating for Top Democratic Candidates

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DEAR DEMOCRATS, INDEPENDENTS AND REPUBLICANS,


Let's get beyond impressions and general attitudes about the Democratic front-runners' positions on immigration issues.

We wanted to know how each candidate's immigration positions would loosen or tighten the labor supply and affect market pressures to raise wages and recruit from underutilized U.S. populatons.

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Democratic voters say make all businesses use E-Verify

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Will candidates agree with the Party's voters that immigration laws should favor recruiting -- and pay raises for -- American workers?

You wouldn't sense it from the candidates in the Democratic debates thus far, but most Democratic voters want the government to stop illegal migration.

And they want it done in a way that should be comfortable for Democratic candidates to espouse -- by clamping down on exploitative businesses that entice illegal migration with illegal jobs.

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

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Shouts such as "concentration camps" and "holocaust" from one side and "send her back" on another side make it impossible to have the civil conversation that a public policy like immigration must have if practical and just solutions are to be adopted.

I 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.

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Grading Congress on protecting our INDEPENDENCE from coerced congestion

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If you are finding your Fourth of July weekend diminished by over-packed highways, over-crowded parks, and ill-maintained infrastructures unable to keep up with the people growth, blame the Members of Congress. It is their immigration policies that bear the No. 1 responsibility.

Since the year 2000, nearly 50 million people have been added to our sprawling cities. And Congress' immigration policies caused most of it, according to Pew Research.

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Death of NY Times reporter who 'discovered' NumbersUSA is a reminder of Bill Clinton backing our agenda

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Veteran New York Times reporter Robert Pear, 69, is being extolled for his meticulous, fair-minded, no-nonsense approach to complicated policy topics. And that was the way that we at NumbersUSA experienced him in his occasional coverage of us and our policy topic.

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OUR NEW AD -- Real Wages Still Below 1970s Wages

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Don't let immigration slow down the momentum for U.S. wage increases. That's the key message and purpose of our latest cable TV ad campaign. A lot of people are celebrating that the recent strong economy of jobs growth has tightened the labor market enough that so that wages have been rising at every level of the employment ladder. But we're concerned that a lot of them are not aware that wages still have a long way to climb before most occupations are paying inflation-adjusted wages as high as they did 45 years ago.

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RAISE Act would continue momentum of U.S. workers finally getting raises

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The RAISE Act is exactly what a Congress would pass if it were committed to the idea of helping tens of millions of struggling Americans in stagnant jobs or outside the labor market altogether.

Here is my statement to the nation's news media on why this should be a compassionate mandate for the President and the Congress.

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NumbersUSA director Stuart Scott has died -- international business chief & Africa conservationist

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NumbersUSA has lost a powerful Board presence and a good friend with the death this week of Stuart L. Scott, 80. He has played an integral role since 2011 in guiding the institutional and policy directions of our organization as a member of our Board of Directors and as the chairman of our Independent Audit Committee.

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