California, We Hate to Say We Told You So, But …

By Leon Kolankiewicz

If federal immigration policies driving national population growth continue, California’s environment and residents’ quality of life will pay an ever higher price. There can be no sustainability in a context of ever growing human populations.

Ruy Teixeira’s 10 rules of “immigration realism”

By Jeremy Beck

Many more people want to come to a rich country like the United States than an orderly immigration system can allow.

Community Safety or Immigration Enforcement? A False Choice.

By Jeremy Beck

An ICE officer shot and killed a U.S. citizen last week during an enforcement operation in Minneapolis. Protesters continue to clash with ICE nationwide, especially in sanctuary cities where local officials like Mayor Frey of Minneapolis have called on federal agents to leave. This doesn’t have to be a choice between community safety and law … Continued

Salt Pollution Is Another Cost of Unsustainable Immigration

By Henry Barbaro

Road salt causes long-term water contamination. Mass immigration expands roads and salt use. Population growth makes the damage unavoidable.

Sanctuary Policies Push Immigration Enforcement Into the Streets

By Joe Jenkins

The New York Times reports that these arrests are more common in states with sanctuary policies limiting cooperation with ICE. A Washington Post analysis found that ICE is now making more than four times as many at-large arrests per week than during President Trump’s first term. Sanctuary policies do not stop enforcement–they shift it into less controlled environments.

NumbersUSA’s public comment on biometrics rule for immigration benefits

By admin

December 31, 2025 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration ServicesU.S. Department of Homeland Security5900 Capital Gateway DriveCamp Springs, MD 20746 RE: DHS Docket No. USCIS-2025-0205Collection and Use of Biometrics by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services NumbersUSA welcomes U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ (USCIS) Notice of ProposedRulemaking (NPRM) related to the collection and use of biometrics, and submits … Continued

2026 will determine the legacy of a historic 2025

By Jeremy Beck

The Laken Riley Act became the first bill to address enforcement failures to be passed by Congress on a bipartisan basis since the 2006 Secure Fence Act. Twenty years ago, the bipartisan support came from the likes of Senators Jeff Sessions (R-AL), John McCain (R-AZ), Joe Biden (D-DE), Hilary Clinton (D-NY) Barack Obama (D-IL), and Charles “Chuck” Schumer (D-NY).

An Overcrowded Nation Under Strain: A Year-end Roundup of U.S. Environmental News

By Philip Cafaro

Overall environmental conditions in the United States deteriorated in 2025, as the nation continued to add more people to already overburdened ecosystems. As the U.S. population reaches 345 million, the country’s environmental problems increasingly reflect a basic mismatch between human numbers and ecological capacity.

Visa lottery in spotlight after university shooting

By Jeremy Beck

There’s already a bill to end the lottery: H.R. 1241 – The SAFE Act (by Mike Collins, GA) would eliminate the visa lottery, which raffles off 55,000 green cards each year without regard to employment skills or family ties. As of this writing, 32 representatives have signed on to H.R. 1241.