Credibility and Nature
of the Grades ABI Provides

Americans for Better Immigration provides the country’s only comprehensive immigration grade cards.

ABI has no ideology and is supported by liberals, moderates and conservatives — Republicans, Democrats and Independents.

Our Grade Cards are about as objective as you can get in that they rate how much the actions of each Member of Congress would either increase or reduce total legal and illegal immigration.

The Grade Cards are subjective in that we give high grades for actions to reduce and low grades for actions to increase.

But they are objective in that a person who favors massive population growth and foreign labor importation would know that Members with an F grade are their champions, and Members with an A grade are their opponents.

Those who favor LESS congestion, sprawl and foreign labor competition can use the grades in the opposite way by knowing that Members with an F are working against them and Members with A are working for them. Those with a C grade are voting about half the time for more immigration and about half the time for less immigration.

Each action is graded by how much it would reduce or increase illegal or legal immigration.

Issues of race, religion, nationality, culture are never part of the ABI grading. The grades reflect only the numerical effects of congressional actions.

We analyze the numerical effect of each action, enter it into the computer and then let the computers spit out the grades without bias.

The grades in no way judge whether a Member is anti-immigrant. ABI does not grade any anti-immigrant actions — those would be actions that have nothing to do with the numerical level of future immigration but with the treatment of immigrants (not illegal aliens) who already are in our midst.

ABI’s attitude about immigration is that it should not be used to drive down wages of American workers, to bust unions, to force population growth to the detriment of the environment and quality of life just so land speculators, developers and mortgage institutions can make more money.