- Roy Beck
Roy Beck is a former journalist and public policy analyst who has served as the Executive Director of
NumbersUSA since1997 . Beck was a journalist for three decades before founding NumbersUSA. He is former Washington D. C. bureau chief ofBooth Newspapers and one of the nation's first environment-beat newspaper reporters. [http://www.businessweek.com/bios/Roy_Beck.htm] Beck was also theWashington DC editor ofJohn Tanton 's magazine "The Social Contract", and a frequent speaker on population and immigration issues. Critics have often pointed out his use of unscaled charts to recruit members for NumbersUSA.Beck's April 1994 article in the
Atlantic Monthly , "The Ordeal of Immigration in Wausau," brought national media attention and commentary to the issue of mass immigration. [This article is available to Atlantic Monthly subscribers at http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/immigrat/beckf.htm A reprint is available at http://www.numbersusa.com/interests/ordeal.html] TheNew York Times credited Beck's NumbersUSA organization with applying enough pressure to U.S. Senators to defeat a comprehensive immigration bill in June 2007. [Citation
last = Pear
first = Robert
title = Little-Known Group Claims a Win on Immigration
newspaper = New York Times
year = 2007
date = July 15
url = http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/15/us/politics/15immig.html?ex=1342152000&en=1ae26b0602e196d3&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss] He has been described as a "tutor" for U.S. RepresentativeTom Tancredo on immigration issues. ["Protecting their own ; Reform caucus a barometer of GOP schism on immigration."; Jonathan Tilove. "San Antonio Express-News". San Antonio, Tex.: Jun 9, 2002. pg. 1G]Beck has also served as the spokesperson of the
Coalition for the Future American Worker and authored the book "The Case Against Immigration" (ISBN 0393039153).External links
* [http://www.numbersusa.com/content/learn/about/roy-beck-executive-director.html Biography at NumbersUSA]
* [http://www.numbersusa.com/PDFs/The%20Case%20Against%20Immigration%20--%20Roy%20Beck.pdf The Case Against Immigration by Roy Beck]
* [http://www.numbersusa.com/PDFs/Re-Charting%20America%27s%20Future.pdf Re-Charting America's Future by Roy Beck]
* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5871651411393887069 Immigration Gumballs]
* [http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?sid=175 SPLCenter.org: Anti-Immigration Groups]References
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