To accommodate more than four million additional residents over the last four decades –mostly from other countries and other states – Arizona’s cities have sprawled over vast areas of fragile ecosystems, particularly the desert biomes surrounding Phoenix and Tucson.
Nineteen years after NumbersUSA published our first study, sprawl is still devouring valuable farmland and wildlife habitat, both in Oregon and nationwide. But national and state environmental groups, by and large, have shifted their focus to other issues and away from the loss of habitat and open space due to the unsustainable outward expansion of cities in America.
Sprawl Still a Problem After All These Years (and Americans and Oregonians Are Still Concerned).....
The protest by the group Doctors without Jobs at the D.C. headquarters of the AAMC last month garnered some well-deserved attention. The New York Times highlighted some of their stories. That's great. Would've be even better if the Times had acknowledge that bad immigration policy is a big part of the problem.
In immigration votes this week, we began to see which Senators feel their constituents want protections for American workers, and which ones are on the fence voting for American workers some of the time and against them others.
Human trafficking continues because the U.S. government refuses to take adequate steps to combat illegal immigration. Amnesty will only encourage more of the same. Border security and interior enforcement -- not lip service to the "rule of law" -- are necessary to end this scourge.
A Houston, Texas woman pleaded guilty to arranging at least 40 sham marriages so that foreign nationals could obtain U.S. green cards. Almost 100 others were charged in the scheme.
Andrew R. Arthur, Resident Fellow in Law and Policy at the Center for Immigration Studies, has looked at Joe Biden's immigration agenda and estimates that Biden's promise of amnesty and non-enforcement of immigration law could result in "millions — if not tens of millions — of aliens [who] will remain in and/or enter the United States illegally and stay forever."