Traffic Congestion Gobbles Up Holiday Time
Each Thanksgiving, we say we’re “going home for the holidays.” But more and more, it feels like we’re running the gauntlet through an endless traffic jam. The culprit? Rampant population growth.
Each Thanksgiving, we say we’re “going home for the holidays.” But more and more, it feels like we’re running the gauntlet through an endless traffic jam. The culprit? Rampant population growth.
Our nation’s immigration-driven population growth is fueling urban and suburban expansion, which has become the principal factor contributing to deforestation in the United States. As development spreads outward irreplaceable forest functions are lost, leaving communities more vulnerable to flooding, pollution, extreme heat, declining biodiversity and declining quality of life. Unless excessive immigration rates are reduced, urban sprawl and deforestation will continue.
Urban wastewater overflows are caused by different design limitations, but are driven by the same force: immigration-driven population growth.
By Jeremy Beck
These 13 Representatives and one Senator are the true leaders in Congress when it comes to dialing down mass legal immigration.
By Jeremy Beck
On September 26th, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested an illegal alien in Des Moines, Iowa. The man had an existing final order of removal, no work authorization, and a criminal history. This wouldn’t be news on its own, but the man was working as the Superintendent for the largest school district in Iowa at … Continued
Even better would be for Congress to pass legislation to replace the H-1B lottery with a system where visas are awarded based on employers’ willingness to pay the highest wages. NumbersUSA’s Great Solutions bill S. 2821, the American Tech Workforce Act, would do just that. Visit our Action Board to ask your Senators and Congressional Representative to co-sponsor this pro-worker legislation.
Two thirds of Arizona’s population growth between 1982 and 2017 was due to immigration into the state, both internationally and from Californians fleeing crowding and the high the cost of living.
With human demands on nature continuing to increase, the future looks grim for America’s butterflies, and for our nation’s biodiversity in general. According to the Census Bureau, the U.S. population is on track to soar to 385 million by 2060, with immigration accounting for almost 90% of that growth. Increased human numbers will drive more and more species off the landscape and toward extinction.
The United States is still home to a rich heritage of biodiversity, including a stunning array of unique and beautiful butterflies. If we hope to bequeath this legacy to our children and grandchildren, Congressional leaders will need to reduce America’s primary, yet discretionary, source of population growth — mass immigration.
By Jim Robb
Although I did not know Charlie Kirk, I met him once in the summer of 2019. Through the kindness of a mutual donor, I was seated with Charlie at the head table at a Turning Point USA dinner at the Trump International Hotel in Washington. Charlie, at that time only 25 years old, struck me … Continued