IMMIGRATION, WORLD POVERTY AND GUMBALLS - UPDATED 2010
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Pro-Amnesty Event on the National Mall Predictable, Unimpressive
Melanie and I joined two local groups in a counter-protest today near the Pro-amnesty “March for Dignity and Respect” on the closed National Mall. Then we headed down to the event organizers claimed would bring in tens of thousands of participants. Even with a top-name band playing – Los Tigres del Norte – they had a few thousand at best.
Group opposed to illegal immigration un-endorses Reps. Sam Johnson and John Carter
“ALIPAC’s support was based on these candidates signing pledges to oppose amnesty and their strong grades with the organization NumbersUSA.”
Carter and Johnson have an A+ with NumbersUSA. Carter’s 98 percent grade is the highest of any federal lawmaker from Texas.
August Recess Town Hall Stories from NumbersUSA Activists
Today marks the 19th day of August Congressional Recess in which the open-borders forces were supposed to have been able to change enough Republican Representatives' minds to get a full-scale amnesty and doubling of legal immigration to the floor of the House. I'm pleased to say that thus far there has been almost no sign of changed minds thanks in good measure to NumbersUSA activists who have attended more than 200 town hall meetings. These are constituents seeing their own Congressman and not a case of busing people in from the outside or staging political theatre as the other side has done so often.
New RNC Policy Promotes Amnesty Over Attrition Through Enforcement
At its Summer meeting last week, the Republican National Committee rejected the Attrition Through Enforcement policy established in its 2012 National Platform in favor of amnesty for illegal aliens. Since illegal aliens would be legalized but denied citizenship, the RNC’s spin suggests the new policy would cause no harm. But the work permits offered to illegal aliens cause the greatest damage. And since most voters do not support this shift in policy, the RNC has likely harmed itself.
Group pushes poll showing 2 percent support for immigration bill
“This poll frames the issue the way we want to frame it … in a jobs context,” said Roy Beck, head of NumbersUSA, which wishes to reduce the annual influx of 1 million immigrants and 650,000 non-agricultural guest workers.
“Americans don’t like the idea of increased immigration in the Senate bill … and a plurality of them would rather reduce immigration,” he said.
Poll: Majority Fear More Foreign Workers Under Immigration Reform
"The public, while having some sympathy for some amnesty under all those very tough conditions, isn't interested at all in increasing immigration and increasing the level of foreign workers," Roy Beck, the founder and president of NumbersUSA, told The Hill.
MAJORITY IN SURVEY OPPOSE MORE FOREIGN WORKERS IN REFORM BILL
The public, while having some sympathy for some amnesty under all those very tough conditions, isn’t interested at all in increasing immigration and increasing the level of foreign workers," said NumbersUSA executive director Roy Beck.
Beck said that many Americans are comfortable with the basic idea of allowing a path to citizenship for immigrants but are not at all happy with the idea of a wave of foreign workers flooding the country.
Poll: Majority oppose more foreign workers under immigration reform
“The public, while having some sympathy for some amnesty under all those very tough conditions, isn’t interested at all in increasing immigration and increasing the level of foreign workers,” said Roy Beck, the executive director of NumbersUSA.
“The business community has put hundreds of millions of dollars into trying to get these immigration increases through because it really goes against the basic thoughts and nature of the American voters,” he added.
King hits House leaders on immigration reform
Event coordinator, Roy Beck of NumbersUSA, made a point of saying that the rally spot was chosen because Cantor needed to hear from the "wage earners" who Beck said would be harmed by comprehensive immigration reform.
“We’ve got to make sure that Eric Cantor pays attention to the wage earners — that's why we're here looking over his district as we talk tonight,” Beck said.
TEA PARTY TO HOLD IMMIGRATION TOWN HALL IN VIRGINIA
NumbersUSA’s director of government relations Rosemary Jenks added in an email to Breitbart News that the event’s location is designed to put a focus on Cantor and Goodlatte specifically.
100 People to Watch This Fall
Roy Beck President of NumbersUSA
Beck was a leading force in the successful push to defeat comprehensive immigration reform under President George W. Bush, and he has not let up as President Obama attempts a similar overhaul this year.
The former journalist — Beck once headed the D.C.
NUMBERSUSA DIRECTOR: PAUL RYAN 'IDEOLOGICALLY COMMITTED' TO OPEN BORDERS
Roy Beck said he believes Ryan is "ideologically committed to the idea of open borders" because he "comes out of an ideology that just does not accept that the law of supply and demand works when it comes to labor markets."
He said he was "not very hopeful" that Ryan would abandon those beliefs.
Beck said Ryan was not a part of the "patriotic libertarianism" wing that recognizes the importance of borders.
Immigration Restrictionists Prepare Again For Legislative Showdown
Roy Beck, and his organization, NumbersUSA, had succeeded in getting their attention.
Though the Senate ultimately passed the bill, with just enough Republicans to give it a comfortable bump over the 60 needed votes, Beck said he’s optimistic that his organization will succeed in defeating an all-out congressional embrace of the measure.
“Every single Republican is hearing from their grassroots,” Beck told Fox News Latino. “They have to say, for them, does the corporate wing or the wage-earning wing [of the Republican Party] prevail?”
Q&A: NumbersUSA's Roy Beck on the effort to kill immigration reform
The head of NumbersUSA believes the bill would double the number of foreign workers in the country, leading to lower wages
Roy Beck, executive director of NumbersUSA, an advocacy group that wants to roll back immigration to pre-1965 levels, discusses efforts to derail the comprehensive immigration reform being considered by Congress.
Why do you so fervently oppose the bill?
Immigration reform critics flood Senate with phone calls
The calls have stiffened the spine of GOP Senators who might otherwise bend to pressure from business groups and from influential people in their home state, such as editorial writers and clerics, said Roy Beck, executive director of NumbersUSA, which provides a free phone service for Americans who oppose the massive rewrite.
New poll shows little voter support for immigration deal
“The bill’s idea that more immigration will put more Americans to work was supported by only 24 percent of union households, 23 percent of Catholics, 14 percent of Evangelicals, 8 percent of high school grads, 14 percent of both conservatives and moderates, 18 percent of independents and 13 percent of Republicans,” read a statement from NumbersUSA, which sponsored the poll.
NumbersUSA is an advocacy group that seek to shrink the annual inflow of 1 million immigrants and 700,000 temporary guest-workers.
Media Still Struggling to Explain Legalization-First Foundation of Immigration Bill
In at least one critical aspect, the Gang of Eight's immigration bill passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee the same way it went in: there is no enforcement required before 11 million illegal aliens start to receive their legal status and work permits.
Senate immigration bill will 'collapse' U.S. occupations
An immigration reduction advocacy organization is running television and radio ads in 18 states to expose the dangers of the Senate immigration bill that would give amnesty to millions of illegal aliens.
NumbersUSA attacks Schumer-Rubio on unemployment in radio ad
NumbersUSA, the low-immigration activist group founded by Roy Beck, launched an 18-state radio ad buy today opposing the Schumer-Rubio immigration bill that was voted out of the Senate Judiciary Committee last week. The script of the ad, which will run continuously form now until the Senate either rejects or passes the immigration bill, is below:
NumbersUSA on the Dangers of an Irresponsible Immigration Policy
NumbersUSA Education & Research Fund provides a forum for Americans of all national, ethnic and political backgrounds to focus on the singular issue of the numerical level of American immigration. It works to educate policymakers, opinion leaders and members of the public on immigration policies and legislation and their consequences.
County board opposes immigration bill
Instead of the bill now under consideration, the resolution by the Surry County Board of Commissioners calls for support of recommendations by the national immigration group Numbers USA, including:
• Ending chain migration;
• A verifiable visa entry and exit system;
• Eliminating a visa lottery;
• Ending birthright citizenship, also known as the “anchor baby” phenomenon;
Quotes of the day
Roy Beck, president of Numbers USA, said his group plans to concentrate its messaging on Alaska, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania, hoping that voters will help push the senators in those states to oppose the bill.
“Our plan is that it does not get out of the Senate, and we still feel fairly confident of that. It’s a big battle,” he said.
Unveiling Immigration Measure, Senators Seek Distance From Effort on Guns
And NumbersUSA, a group that seeks to reduce immigration, has begun poring over the bill to enumerate how it believes the legislation could hurt American workers.
''There are a lot of parallels between our type of outreach and the N.R.A.,'' said Rosemary Jenks, the director of government relations for NumbersUSA. ''We're both grass-roots organizations with very large memberships, and the goal is always to make sure members of Congress are hearing directly from their constituents.''
Immigration Bill Gets Mixed Review
Roy Beck, executive director of Numbers USA, another organization favoring tough immigration curbs, said he could tap 1.8 million activists to help thwart the plan. "The way this bill's written is perfect for our plan to defeat it," he said. "It is adding more foreign workers at every turn, as if we have a labor shortage."
By Sarah Murray and Miriam Jordan in The Wall Street Journal
'Gang of Eight' immigration bill draws mixed reviews
When Roy Beck finally saw the details of an immigration deal brokered by a bipartisan group of senators on Tuesday, the outspoken opponent of granting legal status to the nation's unauthorized immigrants had a hard time finding the right words to express himself.
"I just never expected the bill to be this bad," said Beck, executive director of NumbersUSA, a group that helped sink the last attempt to change the nation's immigration laws in 2007 and is trying to do the same this time.
Pro-Amnesty Groups Demonstrate in Washington, D.C.
Pro-amnesty groups are holding a demonstration in Washington, D.C. today on the anniversary of the 2006 march, which brought out over 200,000 people. Organizers expect a much smaller crowd for today’s demonstration, which is dubbed the “Rally for Citizenship” or the "Time is Now Rally."
Conservative groups back immigration reform
The push comes as conservative critics have also begun to ramp up their campaign to scuttle the immigration overhaul, which makes efforts like these key if Congress is going to succeed in passing immigration legislation. Numbers USA is already up with ads in Alaska and South Carolina targeting Sens.
Evangelicals Use Bible to Sway Republicans on Immigration
NumbersUSA and an affiliated group, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), orchestrated a telephone-and fax-fueled public revolt against a 2007 immigration measure proposed by former President George W. Bush legalizing undocumented immigrants. They called the bill “amnesty” for lawbreakers. The day the proposal collapsed, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said the opposition campaign had “lit up the switchboard here for weeks,” and: “Your voice was heard.”
Lindsey Graham Targeted In Anti-Immigration Reform Ads
The group, NumbersUSA, began radio ads statewide and said television ads would follow on Wednesday. NumbersUSA opposes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants already in the U.S., a measure Graham supports.
"Who elected Graham to demand amnesty and welfare for millions of illegal aliens?" a voiceover says in the ad.
"Amnesty?" an unnamed man replies. "Not me."
Ad hits Sen. Lindsey Graham on immigration work
Numbers USA, a group that supports lower levels of legal and illegal immigration, released a new radio ad Tuesday criticizing Graham for supporting the plan, calling it "amnesty and welfare for millions of illegal aliens." The ad, backed by a six-figure buy, will start running statewide Wednesday in South Carolina on broadcast and cable outlets.
"Who elected Lindsey Graham to demand millions more immigrant workers when so many South Carolinians are jobless?" the ad asks.
Immigration group targets Sen. Graham
Numbers USA launched a series of radio and TV ads in South Carolina that asks “Who elected Lindsey Graham to demand millions more immigrant workers when so many South Carolinians are jobless?” and “Who elected Lindsey Graham to demand to insist on more green cards for foreign workers when returning veterans can’t find jobs?”http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-congress/2013/02/immigration-group-targets-sen-graham-157871.html
By Kate Nocera in Politico
Group hits Lindsey Graham on immigration in TV ads
"Who elected Lindsey Graham to demand millions more immigrant workers when so many South Carolinians are jobless?" asks the narrator in an ad from NumbersUSA.
NumbersUSA activists provide insightful town hall feedback
This week, lawmakers went home to their districts for Congressional recess or “constituent work week.” Many NumbersUSA activists hit the road to attend town hall meetings across the country. They asked tough questions and provided us with unbeatable insight to where politicians stand on the latest Gang of Eight amnesty proposal.
Anti-Amnesty Groups Prepare for Immigration Battle
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.
Anti-'Amnesty' Activists Prepared for Immigration Fight
"In 2007, when callers shut down the Senate phone lines and stopped the amnesty bill in its tracks, we had 350,000 members. We've now got 1.4 million," said Rosemary Jenks, chief lobbyist for NumbersUSA, which led the shut-down effort five years ago.
Norquist: Immigration is good for the GOP
“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 a middle class … it appears he thinks oligarchy is a better way to go. … You can’t have a Republican Party when you have a voting base that is impoverished and needs government assistance.”
The Gang of 8 Proposal is Akin to Amnesty
The border enforcement group Numbers USA gives Jeff Flake, Lindsay Graham, and John McCain F grades for their support of amnesty. Rubio has not had a chance to vote for an amnesty yet, but he has been vocally supporting the policy for the last year.
Meet the Grover Norquist of the immigration debate
Roy Beck may not have a pledge, but he does have Numbers USA—an influential lobbying and grassroots group with 1.3 million members, which focuses on limiting and reducing the numbers of immigrants in the country.
Young undocumented immigrants apply to Obama program
Those who favor immigration restrictions accused Obama of imposing amnesty.
"It's the president violating the will of Congress," said Roy Beck, of Numbers USA in Washington.
Ryan's immigration shift leaves both sides uncomfortable
Roy Beck, president of Numbers USA, which advocates for tougher immigration laws, said this week that Ryan's overall record on immigration-related bills "is a rogue's list of pro-amnesty [positions]."
ALIPAC confident about Akin
He is also a champion for stronger border enforcement, receiving an "A" rating from Numbers USA for his position on the issue.
"We endorsed Todd Akin because of his very strong score with our allies and friends at Numbers USA," Gheen explains.
Mitt Romney's Pick Paul Ryan: What Latinos Need to Know
After the announcement about Ryan as Romney’s choice, Roy Beck, founder and CEO of NumbersUSA, wrote: “Paul Ryan's C-Grade puts him in the worst 10 percent of all current Republican Members of Congress when it comes to protecting workers and taxpayers from mass immigration and illegal immigration.”
“Romney has shown a weakness for listening to business leaders who claim they may need more foreign workers,” Beck said. “Ryan's voice in the inner circles will only magnify that weakness.
Ryan sparks split on immigration
“Although he has co-sponsored amnesties to give illegal aliens a path to citizenship, I can’t find examples of Ryan making speeches, writing op-eds or otherwise publicly advocating for the amnesty,” wrote Roy Beck, executive director of NumbersUSA, in an action alert to its members.
Mr. Beck said Mr. Ryan in recent years has “discarded most of his bad immigration habits from the Bush era.”
Still, NumbersUSA, which graded Mr.
The Congress may be out of session, but plenty of chances to make an impact at home in August
Today marks the start of the month-long recess in Congress. Things may be slowing down here in Washington, but around the country some lawmakers have a busy few weeks planned. August is prime time for town hall meetings. Everyday I send out alerts for town halls, mobile office hours, and campaign events. Little may be going on in Washington, but that doesn’t mean you can’t make an impact this month.
Rep. Ben Quayle Cosponsors Three Immigration Bills
Rep. Ben Quayle (R-Ariz.) has cosponsored three immigration bills from the list of bills that make up our "5 Great Immigration-Reduction Bills." Rep. Quayle has now cosponsored bills in 4 of our 5 categories only missing a bill to end the Visa Lottery. That bill, H.R.704 introduced by Rep. Bob Goodlatte, has already been approved by the House Judiciary Committee and can no longer add more cosponsors. Rep. Qualye serves on the Judiciary Committee and voted for H.R.704 during markup.
Webcast Shines Light on Wave of Bills That Will Hurt American Workers, Wages and College Graduates
This past week, three bills have been introduced by Senators from both sides of the aisle aimed at bringing more foreign STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) workers to the U.S. What the politicians and pundits are forgetting to mention is that there are eligible, U.S. workers out there to fill these jobs. I personally have friends who graduated this past week with engineering degrees and no job offers in sight.
Sen. Jeff Sessions Recognizes NumbersUSA in the Congressional Record
Former Ranking Member of the Senate Immigration Subcommittee, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), recognized the 15th anniversary of NumbersUSA on Monday by adding a statement to the Congressional Record. NumbersUSA was founded in 1996 by Roy Beck with the production and release of his original Gumballs video and the launching of NumbersUSA.com in December of 1996.
Rubio auditions for VP slot with call for hawkish foreign policy
Roy Beck, executive director of NumbersUSA, an advocacy group that has worked to defeat the DREAM Act in 2007 and 2010, said Rubio would find few GOP allies on immigration.
