Blog

Drought, Population Growth, and Big-Ag: California's Future Looks Bleak

Melanie Oubre's picture

Published:  

  by  Melanie Oubre

If you were to do a quick Google news search of “California drought and population growth,” you’d be lucky to find more than a few passing statements buried deep within articles regurgitating the same information.  All of the news coverage on the devastating drought focuses on short-term problems and shallow solutions. Most writing about the drought assume that population growth is a factor that won’t help California’s water shortage.  Unfortunately, I have yet to find any news coverage that attempts to come up with real solutions to rapid population growth in the We

Blog

Summer Recess Activism Recap

Melanie Oubre's picture

Published:  

  by  Melanie Oubre

Summer Recess is over and Congress is now gearing up for a busy fall schedule.  During the Congressional break, NumbersUSA activists attended over 400 town halls with nearly 150 lawmakers!  Even though we dampened the momentum for amnesty during August, we still have a lot of work ahead of us.

Blog

Unemployed flock to job fairs this summer while lawmakers continue to argue "labor shortage"

Melanie Oubre's picture

Published:  

  by  Melanie Oubre

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle frequently tout the “labor shortage” line when pushing for comprehensive immigration reform.  Some of these same lawmakers actually hold job fairs, knowing well that their state or district has unemployment problems.  While others may not hold their own job fairs, they continue to say that “jobs” is their number one priority in Congress.  Why then, are these politicians focused on making the unemployment and wage depression problems even worse in this county by passing amnesty and further increasing the flow of foreign workers into our labor market?  

Blog

August Recess Town Hall Stories from NumbersUSA Activists

Melanie Oubre's picture

Published:  

  by  Melanie Oubre

Today marks the 19th day of August Congressional Recess in which the open-borders forces were supposed to have been able to change enough Republican Representatives' minds to get a full-scale amnesty and doubling of legal immigration to the floor of the House.  I'm pleased to say that thus far there has been almost no sign of changed minds thanks in good measure to NumbersUSA activists who have attended more than 200 town hall meetings.  These are constituents seeing their own Congressman and not a case of busing people in from the outside or staging political theatre as the other side has done so often.    

Blog

Americans Remember 1986 from Coast-to-Coast

Melanie Oubre's Picture

Published:  

  by  Melanie Oubre

This past Tuesday, grassroots groups around the country took part in a national day to remember 1986.  At least 50 separate organizations banded together under the banner "Remember 1986 Coalition."  With a unified voice they asked Senators, the press, and fellow Americans to remember the broken promises of the 1986 amnesty bill and warned to not let it happen again.

News

Obama Administration reverses itself, admits it did release thousands of illegal aliens from jails

Published:  

The director of U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement admitted today during a House appropriations subcommittee hearing that the Obama administration did indeed release thousands of illegal aliens from immigration jails in February, some of whom were categorized as the highest level criminal offenders. 

Blog

Lindsey Graham doing everything possible to avoid constituents

Melanie Oubre's picture

Published:  

  by  Melanie Oubre

Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina has been leading the charge for amnesty since the beginning of the year.  He is a member of the Senate's Gang of 8, which laid out their amnesty proposal- calling it a "pathway to citizenship"- in January.   Since all of this immigration reform talk started, Lindsey Graham has not held a town hall in South Carolina to get his constituents' views on the issue.  He has not done a survey through his Congressional website on immigration either.  The reason for this is obvious: Senator Graham already knows where his constituents stand on amnesty.  They don't want it.  And he doesn't care. 

Blog

NumbersUSA activists provide insightful town hall feedback

Melanie Oubre's picture

Published:  

  by  Melanie Oubre

This week, lawmakers went home to their districts for Congressional recess or “constituent work week.”  Many NumbersUSA activists hit the road to attend town hall meetings across the country.  They asked tough questions and provided us with unbeatable insight to where politicians stand on the latest Gang of Eight amnesty proposal.

News

States With High Immigration Rates First to Face Critical Water Shortages

Published:  

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. In 2003, the GAO issued a report warning that by 2013 at least 36 states could face water shortages. But, states have been dealing with chronic water shortages for years with California, New Mexico and Arizona topping the list- proving that conditions are worse than the GAO's 2003 predictions.

Blog

Prominent Conservationists Call for Immigration Reductions in New Book

Melanie Oubre's picture

Published:  

  by  Melanie Oubre

Some of the most prominent immigration-reduction voices in the country are featured in a new book titled Life on the Brink: Environmentalists Confront Overpopulation.  The new book, a collection of essays about the environmental consequences of overpopulation, includes some significant voices for reducing immigration in order to stabilize U.S. population.  

Pages