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NumbersUSA
NumbersUSA is an immigration reduction organization Founded in 1997 by environmental journalist Roy Beck. According to its website its goals are to "examine numerical levels of annual legal and illegal immigration" and to "educate the public about the immigration-reduction recommendations." [1] Numbers USA advocates for an end to birthright citizenship, [2] a reduction in current immigration numbers, and stronger laws on employers of illegal immigrants. [3]
Strategic Focus
Since its foundation, NumbersUSA has explicitly distanced itself from "race based" arguments on immigration policy, claiming to strictly be "about the numbers." Roy Beck has stressed this aspect of NumbersUSA on many occasions, stating "Not only is it ethically wrong to engage in...stereotyping, it is tactically short-sighted. There is much to suggest that most immigrants already among us would support reductions in immigration numbers."[4].
NumbersUSA differs from many other immigration reduction groups by focusing on the environmental and humanitarian costs of immigration, claiming that America's current immigration levels will dramatically affect the nation's carbon footprint and amount of arable greenspace. [5]
Connections to Tanton, CIS and FAIR
Various groups including the Center for International Policy and the Southern Poverty Law Center have criticized NumbersUSA for maintaining close ties to more traditional immigration reduction groups including the Center for Immigration Studies and FAIR. [6] [7] Both groups were founded by John Tanton an environmentalist and immigration reduction advocate with direct financial connections to several hate groups including the Pioneer Fund the Social Contract Press and Federation for American Immigration Reform. Roy Beck worked for John Tanton as a journalist from 1994-2001, and authored many articles for The Social contract. [8] Roy Beck has distanced his organization from John Tanton in recent years. [9]
Roy Beck has personally stated that NumbersUSA "doesn’t get a penny from any foundation or the government.” However, their research branch, which shares office space and a website with the foundation, has taken donations from at least two "Foundations", The Colcom Foundation in 2007 and the Sarah Scaife Foundation in 2008. [10] The Sarah Scaife foundation has donated millions to fund far-right groups such as the Center for Security Policy and the American Legislative Exchange Council.[11]
2011-2012 Ad Campaign
In 2011, NumbersUSA began a national ad campaign, advocating the reduction of legal immigration. the first ad aired during the October 13th Republican Presidential Nomination debated in Las Vegas, Nevada. the second aired in South Carolina in the weeks leading up to the June 21st, 2012 South Carolina Republican Presidential primary. Both ads claimed that legal immigrants were being brought in to the country "to take American jobs"
Staff
- Roy Beck - Executive Director
- Anne Manetas - Deputy Director
- Rosemary Jenks - Director, Government Relations
- Jim Robb - Director of Technology / Director of Membership Development
- Van Esser - Chief of Membership Services
- Mark Wills - Chief Legislative Analyst
- Caroline Espinosa - Media Coordinator
Board
Accessed September 2010: [12]
Advisors and Other Experts
Population and Sprawl Data
- U.S. Bureau of the Census
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Natural Resources Conservation Service
Congressional Voting Records and Legislative Descriptions
- Library of Congress, Congressional Record, and U.S. House and U.S. Senate websites
- Rosemary Jenks, J.D. Harvard Law School
Immigration Data
Federal Commissions
Analysis of Sprawl Urban Planning Oversight
Statistical Oversight
- Alan J. Truelove
- Ben Zuckerman
- David Simcox
- Dick Schneider
- Leon Bouvier
- Mark C. Thies
- Marshall Cohen, Ph.D., professor emeritus of astronomy, California Institute of Technology
- Paul Nachman, Ph.D., physicist
- Scott Briles, Ph.D., engineer, Los Alamos National Laboratory, University of California
- Steven A. Camarota, Ph.D., public policy analyst
- William E. Murray, Jr., Ph.D., physicist
- Michael J. Mueller, Ph.D., natural resource economist
Environmental and General Oversight
- Albert Bartlett, Ph.D., professor emeritus of physics, University of Colorado
- Betty B. Davis, Ph.D., psychologist
- Bill Smith, Ph.D., dean, College of Global Economics, EarthNet Institute
- Craig Diamond, adjunct faculty, environmental studies, Florida State University; technical advisor to the Sierra Club carrying capacity campaign
- David Pimentel, Ph.D., professor of ecology and agricultural sciences, Cornell University
- Diana Hull, Ph.D., behavioral scientist, retired, Baylor College of Medicine
- Edward G. Di Bella, adjunct faculty, Grossmont Community College (CA); president, Friends of Los Penasquitos Canyon Preserve
- George Wolford, Ph.D., president, EarthNet Institute
- Herbert Berry, Ph.D., retired associate professor of computer information systems, Morehead State University (KY)
- James G. McDonald, attorney, civil engineer
- Jeffrey Jacobs, Ph.D., National Academy of Sciences
- John Bermingham, former Colorado state senator
- John Rohe, attorney; board, Conservation News Service
- Linda Thom, retired government budget analyst, Santa Barbara County (CA)
- Michael Hanauer, member, Vision 2020, growth management project of Lexington, (MA)
- Ross McCluney, Ph.D., principal research scientist, Florida Solar Energy Center, University of Central Florida
- Steve Miller, former Las Vegas councilman, Clark County (NV) Regional Transportation Commissioner
- Stuart Hurlbert, Ph.D., professor of biology, San Diego State University
- Terry Paulson, Mayor Pro-tem, Aspen (CO) City Council
- Tom Reitter, Livermore (CA) City Council
Economics
"Most economics information on this website either is taken directly from government data, has been analyzed by the Center for Immigration Studies (a Washington-based think tank), was edited by W.W. Norton & Company (the prestigious New York publisher), or was reviewed by labor economist Vernon Briggs of Cornell University. In most cases, citations are provided to allow you to do your own checking.
Environmental
"Contributing, reviewing or endorsing various parts of the website that deal with the role of U.S. population growth and environmental issues are:
- Leon Kolankiewicz
- Douglas La Follette
- Gaylord Nelson (1916 - 2005)
- Stuart Hurlbert
Criticism
- Alfredo Martin Bravo de Rueda Espejo, “The charming racism of NumbersUSA,” Daily Kos, June 6, 2009.
Contact
Articles and Resources
Sources
- ↑ NumbersUSA, "Our goals", accessed December 2007.
- ↑ Numbers USA: Issues: Birthright Citizenship accessed on February 22nd, 2012
- ↑ NumbersUSA the 2 biggest lies about e-verify arguments accessed February 23rd, 2012.
- ↑ Numbers USA: no immigrant bashing Accessed February 23rd, 2012
- ↑ NumbersUSA: Change the Numbers accessed February 23rd, 2012
- ↑ Transborder Project: Profile of Numbers USA Accessed February 23rd, 2012
- ↑ Heidi Beirich: NumbersUSA: the grassroots organizer Southern Poverty Law Center, Accessed February 23rd, 2012
- ↑ The Social Contract: articles by Roy Beck Accessed February 23rd, 2012
- ↑ Heidi Beirich: NumbersUSA: the grassroots organizer Southern Poverty Law Center, Accessed February 23rd, 2012
- ↑ Eric Ward: NumbersUSA excuses are a dime a dozen Imagine2050, accessed February 23rd, 2012
- ↑ Financial Disclosure from the Sarah Scaife foundation: [1]
- ↑ Board, NumbersUSA, accessed September 13, 2010.
Related SourceWatch Article
External Article
John Tanton is the Mastermind Behind the Organized Anti-Immigration Movement - Southern Poverty Law Center, Intelligence Report, Summer 2002, Issue Number: 106
