Roy Beck

Roy Beck (born July 12, 1948) is an American author and 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 for The Grand Rapids Press and The Cincinnati Enquirer. Beck is also known for his role as the Washington, DC editor of John Tanton's white nationalist magazine The Social Contract. He graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism and grew up in Marshfield, Missouri. Beck's interest in immigration stemmed from his work as an environmental journalist during the 1960s, where he observed the consequences of population growth on natural resources.