Take a look at our special Earth Day Report Cards, with grades for all 535 Members of Congress. On this 40th Anniversary of Earth Day, a lot of politicians will claim to be champions of environmental sustainability. But many of them are actually champions of high immigration which is driving a U.S. population explosion that experts have said makes environmental sustainability impossible to achieve. Come look at those grades . . .
A philosophy professor with a focus on environmental ethics and policy explains how he found beauty in nature, and then found that immigration-fueled population growth was a major factor behind every major threat to nature.
No, I'm not suggesting that immigrants deliberately or inadvertently destroy more green space than U.S.-born residents. In fact, each immigrant on average destroys a bit less. But the numbers of immigrants (4 times the traditional average) are resulting in the clearing, scraping and developing of nearly a million additional acres of natural habitat and farmland every year. Is this not a crisis demanding urgent attention on this week of the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day?
Change the Numbers is an interactive tool that displays the impact of high immigration on population numbers, oil usage, carbon footprint, and available green space. Users can set their own annual levels of both legal and illegal immigration, and Change the Numbers will then recalculate the impact based on the entries.
Pres. Clinton's Task Force understood it. The Father of Earth Day understood it. You and I understand it. Why does Congress not understand that U.S. environmental sustainability is not possible unless we greatly reduce immigration numbers?
Australia's government has announced that the post of Minister for Population will be created to address the country's population worries
A new report from Progressives for Immigration Reform discusses the impact of high immigration levels on America's ecological footprint and depleting natural resources. The report, authored by Leon Kolankiewicz, says that "U.S. population currently exceeds the carrying capacity of our land and resource base."
British Conservative Party leader and likely future Prime Minister, David Cameron has called for a population stabilization in Great Britain. Cameron said the nation's population must stay below 70 million, which means they have to reduce net immigration.
The Census Bureau reported today that the U.S. population has increased by 1% in 2009, adding another 2.6 million people. According to the bureau, the population is now 308,400,408, and the 2009 increase is due to an increase in births, amounting to a new American every 14 seconds.
Under the current immigration law and enforcement regime, the United States is experiencing a higher rate of immigration, legal plus illegal, than ever before in our history, and it is driving a destructive population increase. At current levels, conservative estimates see our population reaching half a billion by mid-century and possibly 1 billion by 2100.
In the 1970s, the United States' fertility rate was at replacement level, but beginning in the 1980s, federal law began to allow more than 1 million new immigrants to enter our nation every year. Add to that an expanding illegal-alien population, and it adds up to a population that's growing at a rapid rate. According to figures from the U.S. Census Bureau, our population could come close to 500 million by mid-century. http://ChangeTheNumbers.org
Polls suggest that Americans are quite divided about what the climate change summit in Copenhagen ought to be doing. The big push there is to persuade nations to adopt goals of limiting carbon emissions. Governments such as China and the U.S. are resisting because of various kinds of giant costs. But check out our new interactive website feature that shows how our immigration policy is the single greatest contributor to the growth in the U.S. carbon footprint. . . .
The Senate voted to prevent consideration of an amendment offered by Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) that would have required the 2010 census to include a question asking about an individual's citizenship status. The Senate passed a cloture vote on the Commerce, Justice and Science spending bill, 60-to-39.
When the Senate returns to consideration of the Commerce, Justice and Science spending bill, Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) will offer an amendment that would require the 2010 decennial census to add questions regarding citizenship status. The Senate has temporarily set aside consideration of that bill to deal with other business.
The president has talked a lot since taking office about creating new energy guidelines, and the White House paid the usual lip service to Earth Day. But I’m wondering: How does this president square his energy and environmental concerns with his apparent willingness to continue fueling our population growth with a reckless immigration policy that benefits only vote-hungry politicians and companies fearful of losing their abundant supply of cheap foreign labor?
The father of the Green Revolution has just died. He made it possible for billions more people to live on the Earth without starving. Some people looking at the environmental long term have wondered if that was such a great deal. I've been in California all week and can't figure out how in the world 18 million more people are to be crammed into this state by 2050. There are things to be learned from Norman Borlaug. . . .
Australia's Department of Immigration and Citizenship wants to develop a 50-year immigration plan to ensure that future intakes consider a wide range of long-term issues.
I was dining in downtown Boston with a long-time acquaintance of Teddy Kennedy at the very time the Senator died a week ago. We had discussed what had caused Kennedy to pursue immigration policies that so fundamentally changed America. When I awoke the next morning to the Massachusetts TV stations doing their eulogies, I decided to wait until after burial to share my thoughts. . . .
According to U.S. Census Bureau projections issued in the year 2000, the United States is precisely on track to have a population of 1.182 billion in the year 2100.
Immigration into the United States fluctuated throughout the 20th century because of varying economic conditions. But the changes made by the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 drastically increased the number of immigrants allowed into the United States. The chart below depicts the increase in population per decade during the 20th century with a brief description below of how immigration numbers affected the growth.
A recent story in the Wall Street Journal identified states that could have fewer Representatives in the House if the 2010 census doesn't ask about citizenship status. The Constitutionally mandated count not only impacts the reapportionment in the House, but also the Electoral College.
Last year, demographer Arthur C. Nelson of the University of Utah predicted that the population of the United States would hit 1 billion sometime during the years 2100-2120. After analysis, it looks like a perfectly reasonable estimate to me.
Illegal aliens could cause California to gain nine seats in the House of Representatives as a result of the 2010 census, according to an op-ed written in the Wall Street Journal. LSU law professor John Baker and demographer Elliott Stonecipher wrote the article and say that both California and Texas could see large seat gains if the Census Bureau uses a short form that doesn't ask about citizenship status.
A new Gallup Poll reveals that more Americans are favoring lower immigration numbers as compared to this time last year. Fifty percent of Americans believe that immigration numbers should be reduced from their current rate of more than 1 million immigrants per year, while only 14 percent think that number should be increased.
A recent essay posted on an environmental website at Yale University, YaleGlobal, discusses the touchy subject of immigration's impact on environmentalism. The positions that political liberals take on both issues can often contradict each other.
As summer interns from Duke University, we have spent most of our summer working on NumbersUSA’s new “Quality of Life” maps indicating where in the country the effects of high immigration and population growth are most acutely felt.
The population of the United States' larger and older cities saw a drastic rise in population with increased immigration levels playing a big role. The country's three largest cities -- New York, Los Angeles and Chicago -- all had population increases from mid-2007 to mid-2008. New York's population increased by 53,000 in one year's time.
When I say I love America, I’m not talking about just an idea or ideal or a form of government. I’m talking about the actual land within the U.S. borders – the contours, the vegetation, the critters, the roads, the streams, the towns, the communities, the local cultures and . . . . . THE PEOPLE. I’m talking about 3,141 counties where all of America takes place. It is with great joy that I announce today that NumbersUSA is rolling out its QUALITY-OF-LIFE MAPS project on our website so that all Americans can track the overall health of our 3,141 counties and all inhabitants thereof.
Introducing an exciting new mapping system that will help Americans view at a glance where quality-of-life challenges are the greatest around the country. The United States is undergoing the biggest population explosion in its history,and some 400 metro, state and national maps show where population growth has been highest since 1980, in nearly all cases either directly because of immigration or because Americans have fled there from a high-immigration locale.
A new poll conducted by Progressives for Immigration Reform reveals that progressives believe that high immigration levels have negatively impacted the quality of life in the United States. They also believe that high immigration levels negatively impact the environment and hurt American workers.
Typically, my highly visible calls last week to reduce immigration for the sake of the U.S. environment have been met by attempts to say that my/our environmental concerns are just cloaks to cover up true racist motives. Nothing could be further from the truth. I want to say a few things about NumbersUSA's position on race, and also to appeal to all readers to challenge these words of false witness wherever you encounter them on the internet.
A majority of Hispanic children are now U.S.-born children of immigrants, primarily Mexicans who came to this country in an immigration wave that began about 1980, according to a report released yesterday.
"Deterred by immigration laws and the lackluster economy, the population growth of Hispanics and Asians in the United States has slowed unexpectedly, causing the government to push back estimates on when minorities will become the majority by as much as a decade.
Census data being released today also showed that fewer Hispanics are migrating to suburbs and newly emerging immigrant areas in the Southeast, including Arkansas, Tennessee and Georgia. Instead, Hispanics are staying in traditional gateway locations such as California...."
Over the past 20 years, the United States has granted legal permanent residence (green cards) to an average of more than 1 million persons per year. And compared to other nations, the United States is above average in terms of immigrants per thousand population.
One of Gordon Brown's leading green advisers issued a warning that Britain risks sustainability issues if their population is not reduced. Jonathon Porritt will show in a report to the Optimum Population Trust that if the nation doesn't cut its population to 30 million then it risks not being able to feed itself.
For the first time, the nation's most populated state has surpassed 38 million residents. California added 436,000 new residents between July 2007 and July 2008 due mainly to immigration and births to immigrants.
The rotating banner ads in the left column of our home page are from a national campaign that NumbersUSA is running this fall. You probably have seen them on the home pages of national internet providers and national news sites.
Generous donors specifically designated that we use their contributions to try to expand understanding among those in the American public who may have been a little bit afraid to examine immigration issues -- especially younger Americans.
As soon as we take a single skilled immigrant from a developing nation, around 17 different families may be put in line to follow because of our reckless Chain Migration policies. Our immigration policies literally "take a village" every time a new Anchor Immigrant is admitted to this country.
