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| NumbersUSA Action | |
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| 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]
Mission
According to the NumbersUSA website, the organization's mission is as follows:[1]
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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] |
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Background
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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 | ||
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| 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 Year | Total Revenue | Total 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]
Recent news
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See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 NumbersUSA, "About Us," accessed October 17, 2016
- ↑ Open Secrets, "NumbersUSA Summary," accessed October 17, 2016
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Open Secrets, "NumbersUSA Bills Lobbied, 2015," accessed October 17, 2016
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ NumbersUSA, "History," accessed October 17, 2016
- ↑ Open Secrets, "NumbersUSA Bills Lobbied, 2016," accessed October 17, 2016
- ↑ Guidestar, "IRS Form 990, NumbersUSA (2014/2015)," accessed October 17, 2016
- ↑ Guidestar, "IRS Form 990, NumbersUSA (2013/2014)," accessed October 17, 2016
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Guidestar, "IRS Form 990, NumbersUSA (2012/2013)," accessed October 17, 2016
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