How should we balance the interests of prospective immigrants against those of citizens? NumbersUSA is one of the country’s most prominent immigration-reduction advocacy organizations. Its founder and president Roy Beck and HBCU Engagement Director Andre Barnes will present their case for a more restrictive immigration policy, arguing that poorly calibrated mass immigration has harmed and continues to harm disadvantaged Americans. 

Roy Beck is the founder and president of the anti-immigration advocacy organization NumbersUSA. He 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. He is the author of 'The case against immigration : the moral, economic, social, and environmental reasons for reducing U.S. immigration back to traditional levels' (1996) and 'Back of the hiring line: a 200-year history of immigration surges, employer bias, and depression of Black wealth’ (2021).

Andre Barnes is the HBCU Engagement Director for NumbersUSA. Barnes obtained a Bachelor of Arts in African American Studies from the University of Virginia and a Master in Education with a concentration on early childhood from Moreland University. He is the father of 4 and lives in Woodbridge with his wife of 13 years. Barnes has been featured on Fox News, completed a week-long tour of the Texas border with the Center of Immigration studies, and travels across the United States to discuss mass immigration policy with students and community members.

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