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Immigration-driven population growth is impacting America’s waters.

By Henry Barbaro

Despite the Clean Water Act, many of America’s rivers are suffering, with no relief in sight, as our population continues to soar to unprecedented levels.  The Census Bureau projects America’s population will grow by another 75 million in the next 40 years, with roughly 90% of that caused by immigration.  It’s significant that this projection was made before the immigration surge at the southern border, where illegal immigration has become more than twice as high as legal.

Al Bartlett’s prescience on how immigration makes America less sustainable.

By Henry Barbaro

Bartlett points out that immigration, both legal and illegal, is the largest component of population growth in the U.S., and that continued immigration is the largest threat to sustainability of the United States. “Indeed, members of the two political parties vie with each other to see which party can produce legislation that will let in the largest annual flow of legal immigrants,” he writes.

The New “State” Of Illegal Immigration

By Jeremy Beck

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

A talk about trade-offs in Texas

By Rob Harding

In a state where 95% of the land is privately owned, the trade-off between unchecked population growth and open space preservation in Texas is clear.

An Economist Changes His Mind: Immigration Does Contribute to Inequality

By Jeremy Beck

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.

America’s overshoot is magnified by mass immigration

By Henry Barbaro

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.

Conservation Candidates’ Immigration Challenge

By Jeremy Beck

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.

Lines in time tend to rhyme: How John Waller Jr’s experiences with immigration is eerily similar to today in Sanctuary Cities.

By Andre Barnes

John Waller Jr’s quote clearly illustrates what was happening with mass immigration during the 19th century.

Laken Riley Act Empowers States to Stop Biden

By Jared Culver

The House of Representatives is considering H.R. 7511, the Laken Riley Act. The legislation empowers state governments to challenge the plainly illegal actions of presidents.