Executive Director Roy Beck says support has only grown since his group defeated comprehensive immigration reform in 2007. Five years ago, the group had just over 300,000 members. Today its ballooned to more than 1.4 million, Beck says.Beck says his group’s greatest asset is not connecting lobbyists with hill staffers, but connecting concerned constituents directly … Continued

Sen. Jeff Session (R-Ala.) said on Monday that the White House immigration proposal leaked over the weekend is very similar to the outline presented by the Gang of Eight last month. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) has tried to distance the Senate plan from the White House’s, but Sen. Sessions noted that both plans grant all … Continued

It was nice to see Republican Senators Rand Paul, Marco Rubio and Lindsey Graham indicate that the leaked White House amnesty outline over the weekend was far too radical to even consider.But — as many commentators have already noted — the Obama outline was pretty similar in key respects to what these pro-amnesty Republicans have been saying.For … Continued

The President’s State of the Union address and the Republican and Tea Party responses were supposed to focus on the need to put Americans back to work.  But I was not surprised to hear very little compassion for the jobless when they talked about immigration. Nonetheless, the sense of inevitability of an amnesty  passing this year seemed … Continued

Sen. Schumer’s PRO-amnesty petition had a big day today and seems to be picking up momentum.But the nation’s top ANTI-amnesty petition has even more momentum. My great thanks to all of you who were part of adding more than 30,000 new signers today!For the first time, the ANTI-amnesty petition has more signers than the one … Continued

Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) has introduced H.R. 477 that would would eliminate the extended family visa categories (e.g., married sons and daughters of citizens, etc.), thus ending “chain migration” as recommended by the bi-partisan Barbara Jordan Commission in 1997. Current immigration law allows U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents to sponsor non-nuclear, adult family members, creating an … Continued

Very slowly, more and more Members of Congress are starting to look at the practical consequences of the Senate Gang of Eight’s broad proposals for a “path to citizenship” for some 11 million illegal aliens.  Elected officials have to be forced to consider that a better phrase would be that they are being asked to provide the … Continued

“Grover is an extremely effective lobbyist … [and] the thing about Grover is that he has clients who make big money off of immigration,” said Roy Beck, founder of advocacy group NumbersUSA, a non-partisan group which helped derail previous efforts to expand immigration. “Grover is going to do everything in his power to prevent America having … Continued

A leading United States population lobbyist has questioned why Australia seems intent on copying the worst mistakes of his own country.Roy Beck, the executive director of powerful lobby group NumbersUSA, which has 1.4 million members, has visited the Sunshine Coast as part of an Australian visit which has included talks with politicians and advocates of … Continued