NumbersUSA
NumbersUSA is an anti-immigration advocacy organization that seeks to reduce both legal and illegal immigration to the United States. It advocates for immigration reduction through user-generated fax, email, and direct mail campaigns. In November 2022, the organization announced James Massa, a former Cisco executive, as its next chief executive officer following the retirement of founder Roy Beck. History 
Beck founded NumbersUSA in 1997 after working as a Washington editor for Tanton's white nationalist journal Social Contract, and considered "heir-apparent" to publisher Social Contract Press, which has been designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. NumbersUSA was promoted by co-founder Tanton as the "grassroots arm for the anti-immigrant movement". In 2004, NumbersUSA reported 50,000 members. In 2007, it claimed 1.5 million members. In 2007, NumbersUSA was influential in derailing a bipartisan comprehensive immigration bill. The organization's members used information and tools from NumbersUSA to contact legislators and voice opposition. NumbersUSA Action, which is a 501(c)(4), receives 95 percent of its lobbying budget through member donations of $100 or less. According to tax records from 2013, the single largest donor to NumbersUSA Education and Research Foundation, which is a 501(c)(3), was the Colcom Foundation, which contributed approximately $4.5 million out of an annual budget of $7-10 million. That budget is dwarfed by those of pro-immigration advocacy groups, which from 2008-2012 spent some $1.5 billion. Ideology and criticism 
Beck's interest in immigration was sparked by his work as a journalist covering the nascent environmental movement in the 1960s, and especially the effect of population growth. Beck says that he started NumbersUSA after he wrote The Case Against Immigration, which was published in 1996. In the course of researching the book he says that he came to see various problems in the US resulting from immigration, which he based on a study of crime in Wausau, Wisconsin. NumbersUSA founder Roy Beck gained unfavorable attention via a presentation where he used gumballs to show that immigration to the United States did not alleviate world poverty. The conclusion was that the United States should restrict immigration more and help the impoverished where they are, instead of allowing them to migrate to richer countries. David R. Henderson, an economist at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and the Naval Postgraduate School, countered that the presentation was misleading and insinuates Americans were doing immigrants a favor by letting them into the United States and that the net benefit of loosening immigration restrictions would be substantial gain for Americans. NumbersUSA has previously ran ads containing "inaccurate, inflated and emotionally charged claims" according to FactCheck.Org and PolitiFact, including a quote taken out of context from Texas Democrat Barbara Jordan, from a testimony given on a 1996 federal commission, which was used in an ad during the 2016 presidential primaries. Reception 
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) describes NumbersUSA as part of a network of "anti-immigration" organizations created by Tanton. In February 2009, NumbersUSA was called a nativist organization by the Southern Poverty Law Center's report "The Nativist Lobby", though the SPLC also stated that there is no evidence of explicit racism on behalf of Roy Beck or his organization. NumbersUSA firmly denies having any racist or extremist views. See also 
 Federation for American Immigration Reform

References

External links 
 NumbersUSA Education & Research Foundation

Immigration political advocacy groups in the United States
Non-profit organizations based in Arlington, Virginia
Organizations established in 1997
Population concern organizations
Anti-immigration politics in the United States