Political Advocacy Groups

"The American Immigration Control Foundation (AIC Foundation) is a non-profit research and educational organization. Our primary goal is to inform Americans of the need for a reasonable immigration policy based on the nationís interests and capacity to assimilate newcomers." (http://www.aicfoundation.com)

"It is the Center's mission to expand the base of public knowledge and understanding of the need for an immigration policy that gives first concern to the broad national interest. The Center is animated by a pro-immigrant, low-immigration vision which seeks fewer immigrants but a warmer welcome for those admitted." (http://www.cis.org/aboutcis.html) THINK TANK

"The mission of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is to examine immigration trends and effects, to educate the American people on the impacts of sustained high-volume immigration, and to discern, put forward, and advocate immigration policies that will best serve American environmental, societal, and economic interests today and into the future." (http://www.fairus.org/about)

"Founded in 1982, the National Immigration Forum advocates for the value of immigrants and immigration to our nation." (http://www.immigrationforum.org/about)

"The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR) is a national organization composed of local coalitions and immigrant, refugee, community, religious, civil rights and labor organizations and activists. It serves as a forum to share information and analysis, to educate communities and the general public, and to develop and coordinate plans of action on important immigrant and refugee issues. We work to promote a just immigration and refugee policy in the United States and to defend and expand the rights of all immigrants and refugees, regardless of immigration status." (http://www.nnirr.org/~nnirrorg/drupal/about-us/mission)

"NumbersUSA.com is a non-profit, non-partisan, public policy organization that favors an environmentally sustainable and economically just America. It opposes efforts to use federal immigration policies to force mass U.S. population growth and to depress wages of vulnerable workers. NumbersUSA.com is pro-environment, pro-worker, pro-liberty and pro-immigrant. Activists in the NumbersUSA.com network are Americans of all races and include many immigrants and the spouses, children and parents of immigrants." (https://www.numbersusa.com/content/about-us.html)

"Our mission is to see to it that America establishes a comprehensive border and immigration policy in order to control the illegal immigration which has caused so many problems and is chiefly responsible for animosity against all immigrants in this country." (http://www.usbc.org/mission-statement/)