NumbersUSA’s Roy Beck Assesses Republican Presidential Candidates On Immigration Issues

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[Man50D]

NumbersUSA's Roy Beck has revised his ratings on 15 Presidential candidates of both Parties. Although every candidate wants voters to think he/she would end future illegal immigration, Roy finds that only six are making promises that rate as "good" or "excellent" in this category. Likewise, only four of these 15 are making promises that rate them as “good” or “excellent” on reducing legal immigration, which is at its highest level in history.

In the Republican race, former Senator Fred Thompson (Tenn.) and former Governors Mitt Romney (Mass.) and Mike Huckabee (Ark.) are outdoing each other to adopt policies to try to look as good as Representatives Tom Tancredo (Colo.), Duncan Hunter (Calif.) and Ron Paul (Tex.). Take a Look

[Ron in Acreage]

I believe NumbersUSA is a Clinton front group. Big backers of Bill and Hill. They sell your phone numbers to campaigns. Lowlife telemarketers who have been accused of scamming seniors.

[mnehring]

to try to look as good as Representatives.... and Ron Paul (Tex.).

Apparently, he likes to ignore Paul's constantly voting against putting the military on the border or his comments on immigration that (the US)should welcome everyone who wants to come here and work.

I also notice that NumbersUSA still hasn't corrected the errors for Thompson regarding misrepresenting several bills (claiming he voted for when he voted against- they ignore the final vote and only look at procedural votes to move from committee to committee)

[ansel12]

Thompson comes out very well. Romney? not so good.

Pretty hard to believe a new crusader when you have to walk around his own illegals to get into his mansion.

[mnehring]

The original NumbersUSA founder was a big Gore guy environmentalist who advocated 0 immigration along with more abortions in order to get the US to negative population growth to ‘save the world’.. I’ll see if I can find that article by him, last time I checked, it was still on their site.

[TomGuy]

Past performance is a good indicator of future performance.

NumbersUSA seems to have become somewhat generous with Huckabee recently by upgrading his rating -- based on what????? Future promises????

Assessment of Past Immigration Actions in Political Office
Based on Congressional, Gubernatorial and Mayoral actions	Giuliani bad	Huckabee bad	McCain bad	Thompson fair	Romney good	Paul good	Tancredo excellent	Hunter excellent

[ckilmer]

NumbersUSA was at the front of the congressional battle lines to stop the last congressional attempt to give amnesty to illegal aliens.

[TomGuy]

Gore had an A- rating, which is even higher than most of the Pubbie wannabes.

http://grades.betterimmigration.com/testgrades.php3?District=TN&VIPID=744&retired=1

[mnehring]

I disagree, there were a lot of groups on the front line, NumbersUSA is primarly just a website. I wouldn’t give them that much credit.

[Greg F]

believe NumbersUSA is a Clinton front group. Big backers of Bill and Hill. They sell your phone numbers to campaigns. Lowlife telemarketers who have been accused of scamming seniors.

Basis for this?

[org.whodat]

There whole thing is bogus BS, all you need to do is read the Mike Wallace interview with the dope from hope to know the man is full force open borders.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,316253,00.html

[VU4G10]

Democrat candidates:

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[BohDaThone]

It may not affect the soundness of particular immigration views, but the NUMBERSUSA site shows that they have a very strong enviro-wacko component. Their "advisors" list from their site

http://www.numbersusa.com/about/advisors.html

includes Sen. Gaylord Nelson and AG Doug LaFollette, liberal Wisconsin Dems, Lindsay Grant, one of the key backers of the infamous Carter "Global 2000 Report", David Pimentel, a Cornell Prof who has authored many "we're doomed" studies. In short, I think this is more "anti-immigration" in service of enviro-ism, than "let's be a strong and confident nation that takes control of our own borders and destiny," which I think is the right line.

[ckilmer]

Maybe so but I saw their representatives on Lou Dobbs show frequently before the senate ruled on amnesty.

[Kevmo]

Outdoing each other trying to look as good as Hunter...

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According to Intrade, the winner of yesterday’s GOP debate was... Duncan Hunter.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938773/posts

[Coleus]

if they gave gore an A rating then i think this organization needs some looking into.

[ruination]

Hmmm. They’ve had my number for almost two years now and the only campaign calls I’ve gotten have been GOP.

[CottonBall]

They’ve had my number for almost two years now and the only campaign calls I’ve gotten have been GOP.

Same here.