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Monday, November 18, 2013, 3:00 PM EDT - posted on NumbersUSA
Roger Daltrey, the lead singer of the Who, has blasted the former Labour-led government of the United Kingdom for allowing in large numbers of foreign workers. Daltrey, who has also criticized the current government for failing to tackle high immigration numbers said immigration has "undercut
Thursday, January 17, 2013, 2:58 PM EDT - posted on NumbersUSA
Water scarcity in the Western part of the country will be a pressing issue in 2013, predicts the General Accounting Office, and population growth fueled by high levels of immigration are partly to blame.
Friday, December 21, 2012, 9:46 AM EDT - posted on NumbersUSA
The U.S. Forest Service has released a report this week which outlines how a growing population and increased urbanization in the next 50 years will drain the nation's natural resources including water supplies, open space, and forests.
Monday, June 18, 2012, 9:41 AM EDT - posted on NumbersUSA
The unemployment rate for immigrant workers in the United States is lower than the unemployment rate for native-born workers, according to data from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS). BLS’s data show that unemployment among foreign born workers in May 2012 was 7.4 percent, while for native
Friday, March 23, 2012, 9:28 AM EDT - posted on NumbersUSA
A new study from the Migration Policy Institute shows the impact of
immigration on U.S. population growth. According to data, 17 million of
the nation's 70 million children under the age of 17 have at least one
immigrant parent. That equates to roughly one of every four children in
Wednesday, October 26, 2011, 10:47 AM EDT - posted on NumbersUSA
Great Britain's Office for National Statistics has released new
information that reveals that the nation's population will exceed 70
million people by the year 2027 and grow to more than 73 million within
25 years. The Office says new immigration and children born to new
Friday, January 29, 2010, 12:24 PM EDT - posted on NumbersUSA
British Conservative Party leader and likely future Prime Minister, David Cameron has called for a population stabilization in Great Britain. Cameron said the nation's population must stay below 70 million, which means they have to reduce net immigration.
Friday, September 4, 2009, 10:31 AM EDT - posted on NumbersUSA
Australia's Department of Immigration and Citizenship wants to develop a 50-year immigration plan to ensure that future intakes consider a wide range of long-term issues.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009, 10:49 AM EDT - posted on NumbersUSA
A recent essay posted on an environmental website at Yale University, YaleGlobal, discusses the touchy subject of immigration's impact on environmentalism. The positions that political liberals take on both issues can often contradict each other.
Updated Wednesday, July 1, 2009, 11:20 AM EDT - posted on NumbersUSA
Introducing an exciting new mapping system that will help Americans view at a glance where quality-of-life challenges are the greatest around the country.
Thursday, December 18, 2008, 1:12 PM EDT - posted on NumbersUSA
For the first time, the nation's most populated state has surpassed 38 million residents. California added 436,000 new residents between July 2007 and July 2008 due mainly to immigration and births to immigrants.
Updated Wednesday, January 9, 2013, 9:22 AM EDT - posted on NumbersUSA
NOAA has released a report showing that 2012 was the hottest year on record in the United States, and while immigration wasn't to blame, it certainly was a contributing factor.
Thursday, January 19, 2012, 4:47 PM EDT - posted on NumbersUSA
A new Gallup Poll shows that 42% of Americans say they wish immigration
could be lower. Only 6% say they want immigration levels to be higher.
Opinions were slightly different when broken down by political
affiliations, but overall, Americans ranked immigration the third most
Thursday, January 27, 2011, 12:28 PM EDT - posted on NumbersUSA
A new website established by the state of Arizona focuses on the environmental damage that is caused by illegal immigration. According to the new website, http://azbordertrash.gov/index.html, more than 2,000 tons of garbage are left in Southern Arizona due to illegal border crossings.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 9:46 AM EDT - posted on NumbersUSA
A new report from Progressives for Immigration Reform discusses the impact of high immigration levels on America's ecological footprint and depleting natural resources. The report, authored by Leon Kolankiewicz, says that "U.S.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009, 10:56 AM EDT - posted on NumbersUSA
The Census Bureau reported today that the U.S. population has increased by 1% in 2009, adding another 2.6 million people. According to the bureau, the population is now 308,400,408, and the 2009 increase is due to an increase in births, amounting to a new American every 14 seconds.
Tuesday, July 7, 2009, 10:14 AM EDT - posted on NumbersUSA
The population of the United States' larger and older cities saw a drastic rise in population with increased immigration levels playing a big role. The country's three largest cities -- New York, Los Angeles and Chicago -- all had population increases from mid-2007 to mid-2008.
Sunday, September 14, 2008, 10:32 PM EDT - posted on NumbersUSA
The global population is skyrocketing and depending more and more on the United States to help provide a stable source of food as it has done for over one-hundred years.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 2:33 PM EDT - posted on NumbersUSA
The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) released a new analysis that establishes a causal relationship between high levels of U.S. immigration and significantly higher world-wide CO2 emissions.
"Population does not necessarily equal economic growth anymore," says Bill Fulton, vice president for policies and programs at Smart Growth America, a coalition of environmentalists, planners and others working to slow sprawl.
He points to Las Vegas' population boom, which created low-paying jobs that disappeared when the housing market collapsed. By contrast, he says, cities such as Pittsburgh lost population but household wealth went up.
"We're still talking about adding a lot of people," Fulton says. "We know we can't environmentally sustain those people living in sprawled locations. … Local governments are not going to be able to afford sprawl anymore."
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he didn't return because he had realized the dream of many immigrants:
earning enough money in the United States to start a new life at home.
He gave up on California because he became convinced that booming Brazil
offered much more opportunity than the crisis-ridden U.S.
And, like many others who have increasingly made the return journey, he found that reality far exceeded his expectations.
Following a pair of recent studies that exposed man-made and climate-caused deterioration at those two iconic American attractions, environmentalists are raising new concerns about the future health of all 58 U.S. national parks in a time marked by barren budgets, rising energy cravings and warming skies.
An estimated 300,000 illegal immigrants traversed Buenos Aires' 118,000 acres in 2007, leaving tons of trash, rusting abandoned cars, biologically hazardous waste and vehicle tracks that reduced parts of the landscape to a dusty wasteland.
That hurts just about every aspect of the refuge's mission, which was established in 1985 to try to preserve the endangered masked bobwhite quail, one of seven endangered species on the refuge.
Droughts make matters worse, but the real problem isn't shrinking water levels. It's population growth. Since California's last major drought ended in 1992, the state's population has surged by a staggering 7 million people. Some 100,000 people move to the Atlanta area every year. Over the next four decades, the country will add 120 million people, the equivalent of one person every 11 seconds.
More people will put a huge strain on our water resources, but another problem comes in something that sounds relatively benign: renewable energy, at least in some forms, such as biofuels. Refining one gallon of ethanol requires four gallons of water. This turns out to be a drop in the bucket compared with how much water it takes to grow enough corn to refine one gallon of ethanol: as much as 2,500 gallons.
Water shortages, which used to be limited to the dry western states, now plague just about the entire United States. Even regions that once seemed to have limitless supplies of water are facing predictions of shortages and imposing water restrictions on residents...
Depletion of water supplies is a problem of global proportions, driven in part by climate change. But a worldwide human population boom is also driving climate change. Here in the United States, the doubling of the U.S. population during the past five decades --driven largely by massive legal and illegal immigration and the children of legal immigrants -- is putting particular strains on the water supply. Why is no one discussing the relationship between these two phenomena?
When California's budget impasse is settled, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will have to deal with the state's other big crisis: fresh water.
Gov. Schwarzenegger and other top lawmakers have already drafted plans to attack a severe water shortage in the state, which has suffered a three-year drought.
As soon as the stalemate over how to bridge California's $26.3 billion budget gap is resolved, the governor and legislative leaders plan to introduce a package of water-related measures calling for more water conservation and an estimated $10 billion bond measure to finance more fresh water storage.
The D.C. area was among the most popular regions for legal immigrants in 2008, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
The Washington region ranked fourth among metropolitan destinations for immigrants in fiscal 2008, and Virginia and Maryland were in the top 10 in state rankings, according to DHS’s annual flow report.
In a high-stakes battle that could affect California's share of federal funding and political representation, immigrant activists are vowing to combat efforts by a national Latino clergy group to persuade 1 million illegal immigrants to boycott the 2010 U.S. census.
The Washington, D.C.-based National Coalition of Latino Clergy & Christian Leaders, which says it represents 20,000 Latino churches in 34 states, recently announced that a quarter of its 4 million members were prepared to join the boycott as a way to intensify pressure for legalization and to protect themselves from government scrutiny.
"Deterred by immigration laws and the lackluster economy, the population growth of Hispanics and Asians in the United States has slowed unexpectedly, causing the government to push back estimates on when minorities will become the majority by as much as a decade.
Census data being released today also showed that fewer Hispanics are migrating to suburbs and newly emerging immigrant areas in the Southeast, including Arkansas, Tennessee and Georgia. Instead, Hispanics are staying in traditional gateway locations such as California...."