Roy Howard Beck was born on July 12,1948 and is an American author and the founder and president of the anti-immigration advocacy organization NumbersUSA.
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Roy Beck is a former Washington, DC bureau chief of Booth Newspapers and an environment-beat newspaper reporter, formerly with The Grand Rapids Press and The Cincinnati Enquirer.
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Roy Beck is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
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Roy Beck was raised in Marshfield, Missouri and delivered milk and collected cans for pocket money in his youth.
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Roy Beck has claimed that the consequences of population growth on natural resources which became a concern during the 1960s environmental movement led to his interest in immigration.
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Roy Beck worked as the Washington editor of Social Contract Press, which has been designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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Roy Beck left journalism during the 1990s and founded NumbersUSA.
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Roy Beck has gained notable attention in 1996 via a disputed presentation recorded on a VHS tape where he used gumballs to show that immigration to the United States did not alleviate world poverty, because so many remained impoverished outside of the United States.
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David R Henderson, an economist at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, noted that Beck makes it seem as if allowing immigration is done at a cost to Americans, but that is not what research on the issue indicates.
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That same year, Roy Beck authored the book The Case Against Immigration which was released in the lead-up to the 1996 elections in the United States.
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Roy Beck has been described as a "tutor" for US Representative Tom Tancredo on immigration issues.