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"We are 150 feet from 25 million Americans losing access to the Colorado River"

The water shortage in the West is very real and is intensifying. Our leaders need to confront the crisis being exacerbated by their own immigration policies.
The water shortage in the West is very real and is intensifying. Our leaders need to confront the crisis being exacerbated by their own immigration policies.
The mid-20th century immigration system got the numbers right but the openness wrong, while the current system gets the openness part right and the numbers wrong. These are some of the influential voices who are pointing toward the future.
Mayorkas and company are at it again with perhaps their most brazen attempt to dismantle immigration enforcement yet. This time it is a United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) policy memo that effectively repeals a statute designed to deter illegal immigration into the United States. Because, of course, we all know the best time to remove all deterrence of illegal immigration is when you are experiencing the worst immigration crisis in the country’s history.
The greatest wave of immigration in history is on a collision course with dry land in the Southwest. Or, as the authors of NumbersUSA's report, "From Sea to Sprawling Sea," put it: population growth increases the "number of "straws" (or pipes and pumps) sucking on that diminishing pool of water. Growing demands are being placed on a shrinking resource."
No one can logically argue that the quality of life, long-term economic stability, and the health of the environment will not worsen if the current level of migration into the United States continues. And, yet, the Biden Administration is intent on letting in even more people, legally or not.
Americans are living more densely, on average, but we've paved over more than eleven-and-a-half million acres over the past two decades. Most of the loss is a result of the U.S. population growing by nearly 40 million people – a result of Congressional immigration policy.
The Biden Administration's latest budget request includes a reduction in detention beds and in its place they primarily rely on Alternatives to Detention (ATD) where aliens are released and supposedly monitored with technology like ankle bracelets or even smartphone apps. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a new report detailing that the lax enforcement across the immigration policy sphere extends to internal oversight of their own programs. The report details that while ATD use has more than doubled in the past few years, oversight of the released aliens and the contractors running the program has seen no such expansion.
The Supreme Court's decision this week on the Remain in Mexico program does not have to be the final word on Pres. Biden's dismantling of most border enforcement.