Thread: Updated Immigration ratings on Pres Cand. Numbers USA

From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
Date: Wednesday 23JAN08 12:45 p.m. EST


Congress is back .... start sending faxes ... And know where Prez candidates stand on immigration

DEAR AMERICANS,

More than half of you will be voting in Presidential Primaries over the next few weeks.

To the right are my latest overall assessments of each candidate based on immigration promises and past actions.

I hope that you will be placing significant weight in your choice based on a candidate's commitment to protect American workers, communities and the environment from current immigration levels that are set to add another 100 million people over the next few decades.

The point totals are the sum of four ratings:


All immigration actions in the past while in political office.


Promises to oppose amnesty for illegal aliens and to cause them to go back to their home countries over time.


Promises in many specific areas of enforcement to stop future illegal immigration.


Promises to reduce future legal flows of foreign workers to protect American workers, communities and natural resources.
We are most interested in what the candidates are promising most recently, how publicly they have made the promises and in what kind of specificity.

We encourage all candidates to turn away from bad or poor positions of the past. And we reward them with improved ratings when they adopt the preferences of the majority of Americans for far less overall immigration.

Nonetheless, it matters what a candidate has done in the past, so 25% of these ratings is based on past actions while in office, since a longer term commitment to less immigration suggests consistency and perhaps a deeper commitment to the promises being made.

As the campaign has progressed, the poor immigration candidates have gotten worse, promising to use high levels of legal and illegal immigration to do more ha rm to America's poor, its middle classes, its natural environment and its taxpayers. (You see their names in the list to the right printed in black and red.)

The fair-to-good immigration candidates have been growing progressively better in their promises, although none yet qualify as excellent on the issues (now that Fred Thompson, Duncan Hunter and Tom Tancredo have withdrawn).

So, what you now see are two clearly defined groups of candidates at the upper and lower ends, with nobody in the middle.

Be sure to look at all 16 of the immigration ratings for each candidate at: www.CongressGrades.org.

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Please note that our ratings do NOT amount to endorsements. Nor do they convey anything about the character, the strength or any other positions about the candidates. We know that every one of these candidates has supporters among the users of NumbersUSA for a lot of different reasons. ***************************

SINCERELY,
in this email:
Latest OVERALL Presidential Candidate Ratings On IMMIGRATION
How Good Are The Promises of Each Candidate to PROTECT Workers, Communities and Taxpayers FROM OVER-IMMIGRATION?
(SEE TEXT TO LEFT AND BELOW FOR HOW POINTS WERE ASSIGNED ON 36-POINT SCALE ... NumbersUSA does NOT endorse candidates.)

EXCELLENT


None

VERY GOOD

Mitt Romney
(28 points)

GOOD

RON PAUL
(24 points)

MIKE HUCKABEE
(24 points)

POOR

RUDY GIULIANIA
(7 points)

BAD

JOHN McCAIN
(5 points)

JOHN EDWARDS
(5 points)

HILLARY CLINTON
(4 points)

BARACK OBAMA
(4 points)

Look at full ratings in 16 categories at Presidential Candidate Ratings website.

Points were assigned to the ratings for the first four overall categories:
0 points for "abysmal" rating, 1 for "bad", 3 for "poor", 5 for "fair", 7 for "GOOD" and 9 for "EXCELLENT".


actions in brief:
Please make sure your Members of Congress know that you expect them to start fixing the immigration mess as soon as possible.

You have new faxes to send that are on your Action Buffet corkboard right now.
www.NumbersUSA.com/actionbuffet

Watch your email for new Alerts from us as we give you several new opportunities to push Congress to act for the public good and the national interest on immigration.

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So this is in effect and overall rating?

Interesting

Very good development. At least Huckabee's past has dropped him in the rankings. We all know that his current position is a sham.

Wow. Romney's record is better than Paul's.

I am glad that he has changed Huckabee's rating!!!!!

SEE- ROMNEY'S SCORE IS THE BEST SO FAR!

Originally Posted by butterbean

SEE- ROMNEY'S SCORE IS THE BEST SO FAR!

don't forget to vote in the poll at the top of this page!!!

This is a fair and equal rating

I'm glad Beck redeemed himself

In my eyes anyway