Our North Carolina report continues the secondary-migration theme of our Idaho study. Americans are leaving states with high immigration-driven population growth.

Imagine a policy proposal to add another state’s worth of people every three years without adding any additional resources to provide for all of the necessities of American life

Immigration contributes to inequality. America has a special obligation to our citizens. And America’s economy is not working for the majority of citizens today. Those are three of Sir Angus Deaton’s - recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Economics - boat-rocking conclusions in his recently published article, “Rethinking My Economics,” on the International Monetary Fund’s website.

Americans have grown increasingly efficient with our use of resources (i.e., our per capita ecological footprint). But we haven’t grown more sustainable  -- that is, the U.S. ecological deficit (gap between footprint and biocapacity) has increased -- because the amount of natural resources (i.e., our biocapacity) per person has also declined. Why? In part because we have converted them into urbanized areas to accommodate immigration-driven population growth.

Candidates who emphasize habitat and wildlife conservation have an edge in these Western states. But to fulfill campaign promises, conservation candidates will have to address immigration policy.

Today is Barbara Jordan’s birthday. She would have been 88 years old. Tragically, she died in 1996, just before Congress voted on the immigration recommendations she developed over the last years of her life.

“Idahoans want less, not more, population growth,” by Leon Kolankiewicz, Idaho State Journal

The Senate's $118 billion border bill fails to measure up to Barbara Jordan's simple yardstick to measure credible enforcement. Here are some of the details:

There is a long history of legislation siding with employers' preferences for foreign labor over Black Americans. We have the receipts.