Fanatical Factions

NumbersUSA - Virginia

Founded by John Tanton and directed by Roy Beck, who has written extensively on environmental and financial issues, NumbersUSA is the most reasoned of the anti-immigration groups, offering information on the relationship between immigration and the environment.

In fact, Beck makes a statement on his website that NumbersUSA is not intended to bash immigrants or have racial overtones. Still, his group supported FAIR and the American Immigration Control Foundation in their immigrant-bashing billboard campaign.

Beck also has been the Washington editor of The Social Contract, a quarterly journal that has published articles by "white nationalists" such as Samuel Francis, who was fired from the conservative Washington Times after writing a racially inflammatory column, and James Lubinskas, a contributing editor for the racist American Renaissance magazine.

Beck's website has included an extensive listing of other anti-immigration groups.