According to a recent analysis of the November labor market data by the Center for Immigration Studies, an estimated 1.9 million more legal and illegal immigrants are working in the United States than before the pandemic.
Millions of Americans limit their personal consumption to conserve natural resources. But there is a movement afoot to ask Americans to sacrifice not for nature's sake, but in order to pack more people into the country, the states, cities and towns. We are being asked to conserve more individually so we can consume more collectively. With our total ecological footprint already well beyond our biocapacity, moderating immigration numbers back to the levels of even the 1980s would be among the top priorities of a sensible Congress.
Legendary wilderness warrior, rewilding pioneer, and NumbersUSA friend Dave Foreman died this past September 19 at the age of 75 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Mother Earth lost a diehard defender and the United States a formidable fighter for rational population and immigration policies cognizant of environmental limits.
Herman Daly, professor emeritus at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy and one of the leading ecological economists of his generation, passed away last week. Read NumbersUSA scientific director Leon Kolankiewicz's tribute to a brilliant thinker and a wonderful man.
There is no return from extinction - it is a permanent loss of something of inestimable value. Conventional economic thinking assumes that because immigration grows the population and the economy, more immigration-driven population growth is always good. But urban sprawl and habitat loss increases the risks of species extinction in America. Reducing immigration-driven population growth (e.g., limiting chain migration) is the best way to save our remaining habitat and wilderness areas and to preserve America's diversity of life.
The population boom in hurricane-prone Florida is an example of the "expanding bullseye effect": More development means more damage.
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the appeal of U.S. tech workers desperate for a fighting chance for a job today in the latest chapter of a 14-year lawsuit. The workers challenged the power of the Federal government to allow foreign students in the United States to work, while being exempt from Social Security and Medicare taxes, after they graduate from a U.S. university.
Immigration numbers must be a factor in policy decisions to ensure on-shore renewal of manufacturing jobs from the CHIPS and Inflation Reduction Acts go to American workers first.
Politicians and editorial boards in drought-stricken states continue to welcome and even champion high immigration rates that drive up the population. The growth didn't cause the water crisis, but it is exasperating the consequences.
A federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit may proceed against the Biden administration for violating the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) by failing to provide an environmental impact analysis of its border policies.