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    Immigration and the Environment

    By EarthTalk
    Sep 13, 2008 - 12:18:26 PM


    (HealthNewsDigest.com) - What to do about booming legal and illegal immigration rates is one of the most controversial topics on Americans’ political agenda these days. More than a million immigrants achieve permanent resident status in the U.S. every year. Another 700,000 become full-fledged American citizens. The non-profit Pew Research Center reports that 82 percent of U.S. population growth is attributable to immigration.

    Meanwhile, the U.S. Census Bureau estimates that U.S. population will grow from 303 million people today to 400 million as early as 2040. While many industrialized nations, including Japan and most of Western Europe, are experiencing population growth slowdowns due to below replacement birth levels and little immigration, the U.S. is growing so fast that it trails only India and China in total numbers.

    Advocates for U.S. population stabilization, including some environmental organizations and leaders, fear that this ongoing influx of new arrivals is forcing the nation to exceed its “carrying capacity,â€
    287(g) + e-verify + SSN no match = Attrition through enforcement

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    but many mainstream green groups shun the highly divisive topic, preferring instead to encourage Americans, who are infamous around the world for their huge homes, gas-guzzling cars and extravagant consumption habits, to curb their unsustainable lifestyles, which they see as more fundamental to U.S. environmental problems than population pressures.
    Yes we are a bit excessive, and the McMansions and mega-mansions so large the residents need to Segway around to the kitchen are the most blatant examples. Probably this is what the rest of the world sees and remembers.
    I just wish that these leaders and the leaders-to-be would be a bit more concerned about the explosive birth rates by illegals in this country as we are soon going to run out of water, to start with.
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