Roy Howard Beck (born July 12, 1948) is an American author and the founder and president of the anti-immigration advocacy organization NumbersUSA.
[1] Beck was also the Washington, DC editor of John Tanton's white nationalist magazine The Social Contract.
He 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.
[3] Beck worked as the Washington editor of Social Contract Press, which has been designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
[7] David R. Henderson, an economist at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California,[8] 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.