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NumbersUSA Action
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Basic facts
Location:Arlington, Virginia
Type:501(c)(4)
Top official:Roy Beck, Executive Director
Website:Official website

NumbersUSA Action is an 501(c)(4) nonprofit advocacy group seeking to limit the overall number of immigrants that enter the U.S. each year. The organization is based in Arlington, Virginia.[1]

  • NumbersUSA Action also operates the 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, NumbersUSA Education and Research Foundation, which serves as the group's educational arm seeking to educate policymakers on immigration.[1]
  • NumbersUSA Action spent nearly $510,000 in 2015 on immigration bills in Congress.[2][3]
  • Mission

    According to the NumbersUSA website, the organization's mission is as follows:[1]

    Based in Washington D.C. and Arlington, Virginia, NumbersUSA Action is the nation's largest grassroots immigration-reduction organization with more than five million participants in all 435 congressional districts. Members act to persuade public officials to support immigration policies that protect all Americans—especially the most vulnerable and including the foreign-born—from losing wages, individual freedoms, quality of life, and access to nature due to excessive immigration numbers that indiscriminately enlarge the U.S. population, the laborforce and government costs.[4]

    Background

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    To learn more about immigration policy
    in the United States,
    see this article.

    NumbersUSA was founded by Roy Beck as an advocacy group seeking to limit the number of immigrants allowed in the U.S. each year.[5] The group was organized as a response to arguments made in 1996 by two national commissions. The first, the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, was a bi-partisan commission that sought to reduce annual immigration levels to about 500,000, half of the 1 million immigrants allowed in the U.S. at the time. The commission was led by civil rights advocate Barbara Jordan.[1] The Presidential Task Force on Population and Consumption, the other national commission, was established under President Bill Clinton (D) and sought to reduce immigration numbers by more than the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform had proposed.[1] The primary argument made in defense of immigration limits was based on both economic needs and the limited natural resources it would take to support such growth in the population.[1]

    Work

    NumbersUSA is a pro-immigration organization, but the main goal of the organization is advocating for limits on annual immigration numbers. The group advocates for "continued permanent immigration" under three main provisions:[1]

    • "The nuclear family of spouse and minor children, including overseas adoptions and marriages by U.S. citizens."
    • "Our fair share of internationally recognized special needs refugees with no long-term prospects of returning home or settling in their native regions."
    • "Immigrants with truly extraordinary skills in the national interest."

    At the same time, the group advocates for the elimination of the following:[1]

    • Extended-family "chain migration."
    • "The visa lottery."
    • "Employment-based visas for foreign workers of non-extraordinary skills that can be supplied by our own population. (When a true spot labor shortage arises, it should be met by temporary—not permanent—work visas.)"

    The group also seeks to eliminate illegal immigration and, in its place, introduce an open visiting policy, which would allow people from outside of the U.S. to "legally study, tour and visit relatives" in the U.S. for long periods of time.[1] According to the NumbersUSA website, this would entail introducing "electronic verification systems that would effectively deny jobs and taxpayer-provided benefits to foreign citizens who are visitors or who are illegally present;" an automated tracking system that would notify the government when someone has violated their visa; and elimination of "birthright citizenship births to both legal and illegal visitors."[1]

    Lobbying

    Below is a list of the bills NumbersUSA has lobbied on since 2015:[3][6]

    NumbersUSA Congressional lobbying
    Year Bill number Bill title
    2016 S 208 Secure the Border First Act of 2015
    2016 HR 191 Repeal Executive Amnesty Act of 2015
    2016 HR 4086 Security Verification for Refugees Act
    2016 S 129 Repeal Executive Amnesty Act of 2015
    2016 S 1814 Stop Sanctuary Cities Act
    2016 S 2123 Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015
    2016 HR 399 Secure Our Borders First Act of 2015
    2016 HR 4038 American SAFE Act of 2015
    2016 HR 3009 Enforce the Law for Sanctuary Cities Act
    2016 S 2300 American SAFE Act of 2015
    2015 HR 191 Repeal Executive Amnesty Act of 2015
    2015 S 129 Repeal Executive Amnesty Act of 2015
    2015 HR 399 Secure Our Borders First Act of 2015
    2015 HR 240 Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2015
    2015 HR 1149 Protection of Children Act of 2015
    2015 H.CON.RES 28 Expressing the sense of Congress that the President's executive amnesty is illegal notwithstanding passage of HR 240, the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act of 2015.
    2015 HR 1153 Asylum Reform and Border Protection Act of 2015
    2015 HR 3009 Enforce the Law for Sanctuary Cities Act
    2015 S 2300 American SAFE Act of 2015
    2015 S CON.RES 11 An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025.
    2015 HR 1148 Michael Davis, Jr. in Honor of State and Local Law Enforcement Act
    2015 HR 140 Birthright Citizenship Act of 2015
    2015 S 178 Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015
    2015 HR 1735 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016
    2015 HR 4086 Security Verification for Refugees Act
    2015 HR 604 Nuclear Family Priority Act
    2015 S 208 Secure the Border First Act of 2015
    2015 S 1814 Stop Sanctuary Cities Act
    2015 HR 4038 American SAFE Act of 2015
    2015 HR 1147 Legal Workforce Act

    Finances

    (Note: NumbersUSA's fiscal year begins in October and ends in September.) The following is a breakdown of NumbersUSA's revenues and expenses as submitted to the IRS for the 2011/2012 to 2014/2015 fiscal years:

    Annual revenue and expenses for NumbersUSA, 2011/2012–2014/2015
    Tax YearTotal RevenueTotal Expenses
    2014/2015[7]$1,257,419$2,018,568
    2013/2014[8]$1,351,897$1,058,661
    2012/2013[9]$1,807,665$1,991,336
    2011/2012[9]$1,039,623$1,016,178

    NumbersUSA Education and Research Foundation

    The educational arm of the NumberUSA Action organization is the NumbersUSA Education and Research Foundation, a nonprofit 501(c)(3). According to its website, the group "provides a civil forum for Americans of all political and ethnic backgrounds to focus on a single issue, the numerical level of U.S. immigration."[1] The nonprofit also seeks to educate policymakers on immigration issues.[1]

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