LIMITED RESOURCES: ENDLESS GROWTH
IN 2000, THE U.S. CENSUS BUREAU projected a possible population of one billion Americans in 2100 mostly due to high immigration and high birth rates for immigrants and their descendants. * (American women average 2 children each.)
Our infrastructure was built for a limited citizenry. Immigrants don't bring more: their numbers crowd Americans out of schools, colleges, emergency rooms, and roads. Newcomers make us more dependent on foreign oil and take jobs from the 25 million under-employed. With 46 million in poverty, importing more poor is a national outrage. (3/4 of poverty increase is Hispanic.*)
THE FOUNDER OF EARTH DAY, the late Senator Gaylord Nelson, wrote, "It's phony to say, 'I'm for the environment but not for limiting immigration.' " "In 2000, the U.S. population topped 280 million...We are headed at current rates toward ... 1 billion people within the next century."
PUTTING ON THE BRAKES - EASY AS 1, 2, 3
Immigration was average 250,000 pre-1965. Now million+ legal, ?? illegal yearly.
1. CONGRESS MUST END "CHAIN MIGRATION"
The Immigration Law of 1965 puts immigrants in charge of immigration. When they become citizens (even through Amnesty or Dream Act), they can sponsor their relatives in an endless "chain migration" which accounts for about 2/3 of legal (mostly poor) immigration.
2. CONGRESS MUST END THE 1990 VISA LOTTERY
Hundreds of thousands from under-represented countries apply for yearly drawing for 50,000 permanent immigrants. Egypt and Ethiopia were top winners in 2009. How many "luck-of-the-draw citizens" are terrorists?
3. END BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP
This attracts foreign illegal aliens, rich and poor, whose American-born babies attain immediate citizenship, with welfare benefits. It accounts for 10% of all U.S. births. When 18, child can sponsor illegal parents for citizenship. 65% of us oppose automatic citizenship per Rasmussen Report Nov. 2011.
THE FUTURE IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY
"It is the right and responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest." Committee on Immigration Reform 1995 (under President Clinton)
"TO DO" LIST FOR CONGRESS - as in Government "by the people"
TELL THEM TO SPONSOR THE BILLS ALREADY IN CONGRESS
1. End Chain Migration - H.R. 692 (H.R. House of Representatives)
2. End Visa Lottery - H.R. 704 and S. 332 (Senate)
3. End Birthright Citizenship - H.R. 140 and S. 723
E-Verify is out of House Committee. Insist they bring it to a vote.
Members of Congress need massive public demand for these bills to give them the courage to move them to law. Remind them of "solemn responsibility each generation has to the ones that follow," per Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-CA. Write letters, e-mail, or phone (free to Congress: 866 220 0044). www.NumbersUSA.com has free faxes as well as voting records.
Letters from young people are most impressive to lawmakers.
Letters to Editors, phone calls to talk shows, contacts to journalists spread the word.
Run ads locally before election to showcase politicians' voting report cards.
PASS THE WORD. A citizen army can bring amazing change in politicians in election year. We can overpower lobbies of "elites" and of special interests ("cheap" labor employers, Natl. Chamber of Commerce, ethnic groups).
Ronald Reagan, "Our country .. has a special obligation to work toward the stabilization of
our own population so as to credibly lead other parts of the world toward population
stabilization." Even now the world grows from 7 billion to 9 billion by 2050.
"We must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations," Iroquois Indian Confederation
* See Supporting Data, Page 2
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