NumbersUSA Names Veteran Immigration-Reduction Leaders to Key Positions

ARLINGTON, Va., Feb. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of NumbersUSA Education & Research Foundation has named long-time immigration-reduction leaders Anne Manetas and Roy Beck as co-CEOs. The two had already been jointly leading the organization on an interim basis since October after the departure of the previous CEO. In addition, former Congressman Alex Mooney has joined NumbersUSA as a Senior Advisor. 

Manetas, a history graduate of William and Mary, has devoted 24 years to NumbersUSA, with the last 20 of them as the second in command involved in every aspect of the organization. The Board has long charged her with managing the NumbersUSA brand to keep it consistent with the Board's agreed upon pluralistic and civil style in pursuing goals of immigration reduction (both legal and illegal). She began working full-time on immigration issues 30 years ago.

A veteran of more than two decades in newspaper journalism, Beck began working full time with immigration issues in 1991. He founded NumbersUSA in 1996 following publication of two books and numerous high-profile articles on the subject, and led the organization until stepping down in 2022. Since then, he has continued to write for NumbersUSA on habitat-loss studies and last year's monograph, Emancipation Reclamation, which amplified part of his longer Black American history in the 2021 book, Back of the Hiring Line. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism. 

Mooney, a Dartmouth graduate, represented the 2nd district of West Virginia from 2015 until his retirement last month. Throughout, Mooney was a "NumbersUSA Grade-A Congressman," consistently acting for the interests of American workers, as measured by the NumbersUSA Immigration-Reduction Grade Cards. 

"Alex's record makes him an excellent fit to work with our organization to expand its educational and activist outreach," Beck said. "We are honored to have a leader with Alex's insider knowledge of Congress join our team to boost our efforts.".

The NumbersUSA Board of Directors expressed confidence that these veterans of the lower-immigration movement will provide strong leadership at a time when voters of both parties have expressed a desire for better immigration policies: "This team will guide the organization's excellent staff and millions of grassroots followers in advancing the recommendations of bipartisan national commissions for lower immigration."

About NumbersUSA

NumbersUSA is a nonpartisan organization that for 28 years has educated voters – particularly its more than 8 million online followers – about immigration policies and has provided them easy-to-use tools to make their voices heard. It advocates for lower immigration levels to protect America's wage-earners, natural habitats, and local communities.

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