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Immigration policy is habitat policy

Habitat loss, despite mitigation efforts, is an inevitable result of adding more than 3 million people per year.
Habitat loss, despite mitigation efforts, is an inevitable result of adding more than 3 million people per year.
Illegal immigration is far outpacing green cards since the border system collapsed two years ago. The E-Verify bill, H.R. 2, would get us back to a more credible system, but is that something our elected officials want?
Purple plains, prairies, and croplands are giving way to urban megalopolises that most people don't want to live in. Those are two of the emerging findings from the over 20 years of studies that NumbersUSA has produced, including our latest:
Changing the technologies by which we consume is unlikely to reduce overall impact as long as we continue to increase the number of consumers. The United States has one of the highest per capita consumption rates in the world. Population growth here has a greater impact than in other countries. Unsustainably-high levels of legal and illegal immigration undercut any good-faith effort to reduce overall consumption and emissions.
Rocky Mountain High, written about the natural beauty of his beloved adopted state, is one of John Denver's most recognizable songs. A staunch conservationist during his life, one wonders what Denver would have to say today about rapidly disappearing open space in Colorado.
National security involves many things, including domestic food security. That is becoming increasingly more difficult as immigration policy is driven by the premise that the United States needs to add as many people as possible as quickly as possible.
Immigration-driven population growth and its secondary pressure on state-to-state migration is leading to further development over habitat and further endangering already beleaguered wildlife.
Using immigration to grow the economy is a short-term vision with long-term consequences, some of which we're just beginning to pay attention to.
With strong public commitment and political support for immigration reduction, aggregate water consumption could be reduced even more, allowing still more water to remain where it belongs — in natural streams, rivers, and lakes — where it furnishes ecological benefits to habitat, wildlife, and society.
Water is quickly being depleted by a growing U.S. population. This is placing an increased demand on rivers, reservoirs, and groundwater for drinking water, farming, and industrial production. This precious resource deserves our protection, stewardship, and care. Yet, our government officials have turned a blind eye to the crucial component of doing so, which is to cut immigration to the U.S.