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Overview

ProjectUSA is an immigration restrictionist organization whose slogan is: "For a moderate and democratic immigration policy." It advocates: "ending illegal immigration;" "reducing legal immigration to traditional, sustainable levels;" and "a ten-year time-out while the country reassesses immigration in terms of the long-term consequences of the present policy."

"We believe a modern immigration policy will be one that places more importance on the long-term consequences of current policy on our grandchildren, and less importance on the mythologized nation of our grandparents."

While some restrictionist groups insist that immigration flows harm the U.S. economy by taking jobs, lowering wages, and sapping tax revenues, ProjectUSA has adopted a more nationalistic and socially conservative approach. According to ProjectUSA, "We believe the United States is a country, not a market, and we believe a country should do its own work. We believe that it is possible to advocate a moderate immigration policy without being anti-immigrant in the same way it is possible to be on a budget without being anti-money. We believe the advocacy of mass immigration on economic grounds is inherently evil: humans are not packaged goods." (1)

ProjectUSA, directed by Craig Nelsen, is a policy advocacy organization that sponsors anti-immigration faxes to congressional members, produces political ads and billboards in congressional races, and produces an ezine. Its annual budget is, according to a newspaper report, approximately $70-80,000. (5)

Origins and Impact

Founded in 1999 by Craig Nelsen with support from John Tanton's U.S.Inc, ProjectUSA is closely associated with such other anti-immigration groups as the Center for Immigration Studies, VDARE, and Friends for Immigration Law Enforcement. (6)

According to ProjectUSA, Nelsen founded ProjectUSA after his "eyes were opened to the severe problems associated with overpopulation and the dangerous naivet