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Date February 6, 2024

How America’s immigration surge is linked to wetlands loss

Legal and illegal immigration now amount to the rough equivalent of a new Los Angeles every year - a factor in the loss of 60,000 acres of wetlands every year.

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Date February 6, 2024

Senate Immigration Deal Fails to Measure Up Against Barbara Jordan’s Credibility Yardstick

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:

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Date February 5, 2024

Senate Border Bill Codifies Biden Border Policies

If one thing is certain today, it is that President Biden’s border policies have been a disaster. He came into power rescinding policies like Remain in Mexico and expanding parole for aliens entering the United States illegally. With each policy step he takes, border numbers increase. As the numbers increase, more states and localities declare … Continued

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Date February 2, 2024

Arizona: This population trend is not sustainable

Arizonans are living more densely than ever before but have lost over 1 million acres of open space over a 35-year period due to population growth.

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Date February 2, 2024

Texas Sprawl Study Unveiled at EarthX, 2023

NumbersUSA sent a team to the Texas State Fair grounds in Dallas, TX, home of the largest Earth Day exposition in the world, EarthX. We presented our new study on Texas sprawl, and shared our exhibit with over a fifteen hundred people, most of whom were not surprised to learn that Texas has lost more … Continued

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Date February 2, 2024

The Illusion of Limitless Texas Habitat

Condensed from the full, 40-minute presentation of NumbersUSA's key findings in its 2023 study of Texas urban sprawl and loss of open space. Roy Beck, one of the study's three authors, presented the findings at the largest Earth Day exposition in the world in Dallas, April 2023.

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Date January 30, 2024

“Worker Shortage” or Employer Preference?

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

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Date January 25, 2024

Treat Essential Workers Better

Most of the people celebrated as “essential workers” during the pandemic were part of the working classes whose interests had been ignored and devalued for decades by the makers of immigration policies -- policies that had steadily depressed their wages and their labor participation rates. And, of course, many of them were immigrants themselves who now found their climb up the economic ladder depressed by each annual legal arrival of a million more permanent competitors, not counting the unauthorized foreign workers.

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Date January 25, 2024

Immigration and the 54th Anniversary of NEPA

The month of January marks the 54th anniversary of when the modern environmental movement started. In the 1970s major environmental protection initiatives became law starting with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which requires that all federal agencies evaluate the environmental impacts of their actions.

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