Created: 1995. Updated: 19 October, 2002
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U.S. Domestic
Overpopulation and Sustainability

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By the year 2020, if current population trends continue, the U.S. will add enough population to create another New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore, San Fransisco, Indianapolis, San Jose, Memphis, Washington D.C., Jacksonville, Milwaukee, Boston, Columbus, New Orleans, Cleveland, Denver, Seattle, and El Paso - plus the next 75 largest cities in the U.S.- if we don't act now to stabilize U.S. population. - Population-Environment Balance

If current immigration policy is not changed, the population of our country will double within the lifetime of the average American child, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

This forced immigration policy mandated by Congress is burdening future generations with an overcrowded and polluted future, not to mention the very real possibility of political balkanization.

This is unfair, and we should no longer sanction the dogma of "profits before people". The immense wealth of greedy, globalist corporations must not be permitted to corrupt our political process to the point where we jeopardize the environment and the future of the most vulnerable Americans of all -- the young and future generations.

-- Craig Nelsen
www.ProjectUSA.org

The graph

I have no doubt that some kind of country will still exist even when there are 570 million or more people in it and that they will live reasonably decent lives by the standards of the third world today. But it will not be America in any way that most of us have thought of the concept. There can be no honor denying the world of the future even the possibility of living in that concept of America (because it will have been destroyed forever) just so that a certain segment of the business community can lower wages to increase profits or so that the development industry can have the people to fuel the massive conversion of farmland and natural habitat (to increase their profits).

-- Roy Beck
www.NumbersUSA.com

Pitkin County, Colorado, passes passes population stabilization resolution. City of Aspen, Colorado, passes population stabilization resolution.
Numbers USA Send a free fax to Congress! This site presents facts and graphics which show that the constantly increasing congestion and sprawl in the US are not inevitable. Congress has a choice of whether to create a future we really want. Visit this site to find out how your own elected representatives have voted on the issue of mass immigration, and to them your opinion.
Also see The Missing Population Angle - media stories that leave out U.S. population growth and what you can do to teach the media how to count!
Mass immigration accounts for 70% of U.S. Population growth! Specifically, according to environmental journalist Roy Beck (www.NumbersUSA.com), 70% of U.S. poplulation growth in the 1990's resulted from mass immigration, comprised of approximately 1.1 million legal permanent additions and 300,000 to 400,000 illegal additions annually. Immigration will be responsible for 90% of America's population growth in the next 50 years.
As its population soars, California's environment approaches a crisis, ENN article.
Sierrans for US Population Stabilization, acting to return the Sierra Club to its traditional comprehensive U.S. population policy.
The high-tech H-1B foreign worker temporary visa program directly causes displacement and age descrimination of American workers, for the benefit of corporate interests. Although this is not directly related to U.S. overpopulation, it is a clear indication of a population/immigration policy gone awry. And once again, everyday Americans pay the bill for Congressional prioritization of corporate profits over American well-being and the future we are leaving to our children.
Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus - working toward sound immigration policies for America
American Immigration Control Foundation PO Box 525, Monterey, VA 24465, 540.468.2022, email: aicf at cfw dot com, publishes monographs and books by respected authors and scholars on many aspects of immigration including history, law, culture and demography.
Affirmative Action for Immigrants? A site dedicated to the strange-but-true proposition that although Affirmative Action was originally designed to right the wrongs of slavery, it is now being enjoyed by recent immigrants to the U.S. - a group never intended to benefit.
Aztlan - the reconquered Western United States.
Center for Immigration Studies "...to expand the base of public knowledge and understanding of the need for an immigration policy that gives first concern to the broad national interest."
Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS), U.S.
Colorado Alliance for Immigration Reform - also contains links to other state-based organizations
DesertInvasion.us - destruction of our border wildlands
Diversity Alliance for a Sustainable America is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to the education of the media, policymakers and the public about the impact of population and immigration.
English First
The Federation for American Immigration Reform is a national, membership-based, educational organization working to educate the American public about the need to reform our nation's immigration laws. Also see their quiz and poll.
How Many Americans Can the Earth Support? by David Pimentel.
How Many People Should the Earth Support? by Ross McCluney.
IGC's Feature Article addresses Linking Immigrants and Environmentalists for Sustainability and Justice.
IllegalAliens.US - correct terminology is paramount
Immigration and Naturalization Service statistics.
The Immigration Forum serves to remedy lack of in-depth coverage of the overimmigration problem, by assembling a collection of articles on various aspects of overimmigration, written by specialists in the field.
The Midwest Coalition to Reform Immigration. High levels of immigration are being supported by the biggest Corporations and Foundations in America. Yet every poll shows that 75% to 80% of Americans favor reducing mass immigration to more sustainable levels.
Migration Dialogue from University of California at Davis promotes an informed discussion of the issues associated with international migration.
Population, Immigration and Global Ethics, a talk by Jonette Christian.
Programmer's Guild oppose increasing H1-B visas which are essentially a form of age discrimination in the U.S. computer industry.
ProjectUSA is a patriotic, grassroots organization dedicated to reversing America's disastrous immigration policy. ProjectUSA intends to buy billboards across the U.S. advertising the facts on immigration and stirring public debate.
The Environmental Impact of Immigration into the United States by Jason DinAlt.
The Environmental Impact of U.S. Babies by Charles A. S. Hall, Ph.D., R. Gil Pontius Jr., Lisa Coleman and Jae-Young Ko.
The Population-Environment Connection: Who Makes It? lists migration and population positions of the leading U.S. based environmental and population organizations.
The Social Contract Press, Petoskey, MI 49770, 800.352.4843, carries books and articles covering the facts, ethics and social consequences of U.S. overpopulation.
Reining-In a Rogue Policy: The Imperative of Immigration Reform, Vernon M. Briggs, Jr., Cornell University, Cennter for Advanced Human Resource Studies
Voice of Citizens Together focuses on legal and illegal immigration issues.

We disagree with those who would label efforts to control immigration as being inherently anti-immigrant. Rather, it is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.

-- the late constitutional and civil rights attorney,
Congresswoman Barbara Jordan

Myths, Facts, and Frequently Asked Questions

Top ten reasons to swamp the country from ProjectUSA.
Frequently Asked Questions from Diversity Alliance for a Sustainable America
Frequently Asked Questions from Sierrans for U.S. Population Stabilization
Myths and Facts from Sierrans for U.S. Population Stabilization
Myths and Facts from Diversity Alliance for a Sustainable America
Debunking the Myth of a Desperate Software Labor Shortage, by Professor Norm Matloff, exposes how the high-tech H1-B visa system directly causes displacement and age descrimination of American workers.

The Author's Position U.S. population is increasing at a rate of
58,000 per week!

Unless U.S. population growth is curtailed

"We must become more and more accustomed to sprawl, congestion, wilderness losses, ethnic enclaves, families locked in an underclass for generations, lopsided school costs, battles over bilingualism, demeaning of citizenship and -- perhaps most important of all -- a continued lessening of the chance that an ordinary American will ever converse with any member of Congress."

-- John Bermingham
President, Colorado Population Coalition

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