Roy Beck

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Roy Beck is a former journalist and public policy analyst who has served as the Executive Director of NumbersUSA since 1997. Beck was a journalist for three decades before founding NumbersUSA. He is former Washington D. C. bureau chief of Booth Newspapers and one of the nation's first environment-beat newspaper reporters.[1] Beck was also the Washington DC editor of John Tanton's magazine The Social Contract, and a frequent speaker on population and immigration issues.

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. ^[1] The New York Times credited Beck's NumbersUSA organization with applying enough pressure to U.S. Senators to defeat a comprehensive immigration bill in June of 2007.^[2]

A June 24, 2007 Los Angeles Times story, "Immigration Bill Ignites Grass-Roots Fire" by Nicole Gaouette described the growth of NumbersUSA. A photo caption in the article noted, "In January 2001, [NumbersUSA] had 1,679 activist members. This January, the group had close to 244,000; by Friday, that number reached the current 419,000 activists." [2]

Beck has also served as the spokesperson of the Coalition for the Future of the American Worker and authored the book "The Case Against Immigration."