Mass Immigration Outrages and Absurdities Continue While U.S. Population Hurtles towards One Billion
- But Momentum for Reduction Building -

BALANCE was a leader in the successful finght throughout the first half of the year to halt the Outrage-of-the-Year: Section 245(i) amnesty bills which would have granted legal residency to hundreds of thousands who entered and remain in the U.S. illegally. "Our side" has (temporarily, at least) defeated 245(i). Thus CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR THOUSANDS OF SUPPORTERS WHO HELPED US STOP 245(i) ONCE AGAIN!

Now, we must use momentum from this victory to get reductions.

The key to achieving reductions is reflected in the approach we used in stopping 245(i): it was our activists' insistence on a moratorium, coupled with our oppositions to 245(i), which ensured that the message was conveyed to Congress in a manner which lays the foundation for actual reductions. Pushing a moratorium not only allow members of Congress to know we want no more mass immigration , but also creates pressure against all immigration-increasing bills, regardless of the euphemism (e.g. "regularization") used to describe them.

But, by the time you receive this, we may be battling Senator Daschle's Senate 245(i) bill. If we continue to oppose these 245(i) amnesty bills in a politically effective way — by pushing a moratorium — we will lay the groundwork for success in achieving reductions.

When 245(i) resurfaces in the near future in the form of an amendment or a free-standing bill, we can use it to build momentum to shift attention to the moratorium bill H.R. 2712.

To further strengthen our cause, BALANCE must continue to gain grassroots support which multiplies our clout on Capitol Hill. Your efforts are critical in helping us stop bad bills and achieve our larger goals: U.S. population stabilization and the resulting enhanced environmental security. We urge you to give your friends the opportunity to increase their activism and stay on top of the issues. The most powerful way to increase grassroots support is by giving gift memberships to BALANCE.

Many reasons to impel us to push for a moratorium on all immigration in excess of 100,000/yr.

Not even one year has passed since last September 11; yet many of our elected represents are already losing their focus on the inherent threats posed by mass immigration. The sheer number of aliens in our society makes an almost impossible task of identifying those few who aim to do us harm.

If our out-of-control immigration policies are not changed, we will continue to witness mass immigration OUTRAGES AND ABSURDITIES SUCH AS THE ONES BELOW. We must not fail — otherwise, we can anticipate more outrages and absurdities like the following, (as of May 1, 2002):

Three hundred thousand (300,000) people who have been ordered are still in the U.S.A., because their deportation orders were not enforced. In many cases, after being ordered deported by a judge, the illegal immigrant simply walked out of the courtroom.

Studies estimate there are approximately 350,000 people ho have become illegal immigrants by overstaying their visas. Because of its failure to implement an entry-exit system as required by a 1996 law, the INS has no way to identify our locate them. If the new visa law is enforced, it may reduce this problem.

According to a recent study conducted by the Center for Immigration Studies, more than 700,000 illegal immigrants enter the U.S. per year — resulting in 1,918 per day, 80 per hour, and more than one per minute. In other words, since the September 11 attack, approximately 481,418 people have entered the U.S. illegally.

The temporary renewal of section 245(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act in 2001 legalized approximately 900,000 illegal immigrants in just four months — without adequate background or health checks. Yet this is the program that a bipartisan coalition in Congress and the Administration seeks to extend!

The State Department issued new visas to allow more than 140,000 visitors into the United States since September 1, 2001 from an arc of countries running from Pakistan, Sri Lanka, India and Nepal to Bangledesh.

For the current year, the Congress has authorized the admission of 70,000 "refugees" (many of whom are actually economic migrants) people who come outside of the regular immigration quota and are immediately entitled to all-government benefits available to citizens. In addition, approximately 35,000 asylees are granted admission each year.

Border Patrol agents at the Juarez/El Paso border sometimes ask border crossers to step through a "drug sniffing door", which is simply a wooden frame on wheels.

The Mexican government projects that mass immigration to the U.S. will continue at between 3.5 and 5 million people per decade until at least 2030! The Mexican government has issued "consular cards" which they urge U.S. banks, police, public authorities, and Vehicle Registration offices to accept, so that illegal aliens here may enjoy many of the same privileges as citizens. The Mexican government is attempting to take control of U.S. immigration law.

There have been over 20 incursions by Mexican troops into the U.S. in the past few months! They claim to be pursuing drug smugglers. Some allege that they are protecting drug smugglers.
In the long run, such incredible-but-true stories will continue until we stop massive immigration into the United States. Mass immigration has caused the U.S. to have the highest population growth rates of any industrialized country in the world, comparable growth rates in Bangledesh, Inida, and China. The Census Bureau counted 32.7 million more in population in 2000 than in 1990, (a 13% increase in just 10 years) — over 70% of that growth resulted from immigration.

The last decade witnessed the largest population increase in U.S. history and the fastest population growth rate since the "baby boom" of the 1950s. In urban areas, population growth spurred development leading to traffic congestion and other quality-of-life problems like sprawl. The poverty rate increased in states and cities most impacted by immigration, whereas prosperity spread in other areas. Indeed, if mass-immigration generate United States population growth and related trends continue at current levels:

The U.S. population will continue to grow by about 3.3 million people each year — 66,000 every week.

U.S. population will double to 500,000,000 by 2050 and one billion in 2100.

Eight high immigration states will double in fewer than 35 years.

The resulting traffic jams, pollution, power and water shortages, infrastructure problems and budget deficits will be monumental.

Over 70% of this growth is a direct result of immigration — with the percentage increasing annually! Immigration accounted for 90% of population growth in California and Texas and for 100% of the growth in Florida and New York in the past decade. In the future, as the stock of immigrants grows and the current immigration levels persist, post-1990 immigrants and their decedents will account for at least 95% of U.S. population growth through 2050.

If we wish to preserve any reasonable standard of living and quality of life for ourselves and future generations, we can no longer afford to absorb the world's bourgeoning population–which expands by over 80 million a year! In fact, an alarming number of day-to-day problems faced by Americans can be traced to the root problem of our population explosion. Immigration-driven population growth is the primary cause of sprawl which devours our best farmland, the incessant depletion of natural open space from the once vast and beautiful American landscape, the increased pollution of our air and water supply, wage depression of American workers, over-crowding in schools and traffic congestion.

These further facts buttress our case for a moratorium:

For each person added to the U.S. population, about one acre of farm or wild land is lost resulting in a total yearly loss approximately 3 million acres.

Per capita energy consumption has been stable since 1970 . But total energy consumption has risen approximately in lock-step with the increase in population.

If current mass immigration and consumption trends continue, by about 2020 all domestic oil supplies will be effectively depleted, obligating the U.S. to import almost 100% of its oil.

If present levels of immigration continue, the U.S. will cease to have a surplus of food for export by about 2030. If nations that hold dollars bid up the price of food, some Americans will find themselves unable to afford the varied diet that is now almost taken for granted. The U.S. will have to forego approximately $40 billion a year from food export sales (at today's prices), or its own people will increasingly do without.

On average, each additional person added to a community burdens local taxpayers with a public infrastructure cos of 15, 378.

Mass immigration's net cost to U.S. taxpayers was $70 billion in 1997. If current trends continue, the costs for the 1998-2007 decade will be $932 billion–over 93 billion per year!

An estimated 2.3 million U.S. workers were displaced from their jobs as a direct result mass immigration in 1996 alone. U.S. workers los $133 billion annually because of job displacement and wage depression caused by mass immigration.

SOLUTION:

1. Push for a MORATORIUM on all immigration in excess of 100,00 per year, the highest number which would make U.S. population stabilization possible. Specifically the Mass Immigration Reduction Act of 2001 (H.R. 2712) places a moratorium on many categories of immigration and strictly limits others.

Bottom Line: Pushing for a moratorium has helped us defeat 245(i) so far and has given us a unique window of opportunity to get reduction. But we need your help more than ever before to capitalize on it.

2. We can win if we build critical grassroots clout. You can help us do this by giving gift memberships to BALANCE. Or just donate!

ACT NOW!

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