IMMIGRATION’S ONSLAUGHT: AIR POLLUTION

By Frosty Wooldridge
September 12, 2011
NewsWithViews.com

Last month, Barack Obama bequeathed a defacto amnesty to 20 million illegal aliens. At that moment, he placed himself above the law and violated his oath of office. With the complicit weakness of the Congress, he usurped the U.S. Constitution by not enforcing our laws created to protect the sovereignty of our nation.

But he ensured that our nation will grow by another 75 million immigrants and their children by 2035. Their presence in our country will stack our cities with buildings and add millions of cars. We will have to generate more electricity and exhaust millions of tons of carbon particulate. Here is another very little addressed issue when it comes to adding that many immigrants.

Recent estimates show more than 100 million Americans breathe polluted air in major cities across America. Air pollution increases lung cancer and asthma susceptibility while injecting tiny particles coated with chemicals into human beings' bodies. Pregnant women breathe poisonous air into their fetus' delicate and developing tissue. Many other health consequences cascade from air pollution.

Every day in America (on average):

• 40,000 people miss school or work due to asthma.

• 30,000 people have an asthma attack.

• 5,000 people visit the emergency room due to asthma.

• 1,000 people are admitted to the hospital due to asthma.

• 11 people die from asthma.

• An estimated 20 million Americans suffer from asthma (1 in 15 Americans), and 50 percent of asthma cases are "allergic-asthma." The prevalence of asthma has been increasing since the early 1980s across all age, sex and racial groups.

• Asthma is the most common chronic condition among children.

• Annual cost of asthma is estimated to be $18 billion.

• 400,000 Americans die of lung cancer annually.

Data source: Center for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA 2008

If you live in Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, Houston and other large cities, you can 'see' the air you breathe. It's brown, yellow or tan in color. It shifts in layers over the skyline. Tall smoke-stacks belch unending streams of poisons from power plants—diesel trucks spew toxic smoke ribbons along the expressways—cars by the millions emit tons of particulates into the air. Millions of homes burn wood, oil and natural gas that exhausts into air over our cities. Sewer systems spew toxic air into our once clean environment. Massive bovine herds emit methane gas by the millions of metric tons.

Do you smoke tobacco products? Why? Why not? Whether you do or not, if you live in a large city, you smoke the equivalent of a pack of cancer producing cigarettes every 24 hours. Your children absorb the same toxins with every breath of their young lives. Your health stands at risk with every breath—because you breathe thousands of toxic particles every day.

In cities like Denver, Colorado, the ‘red-warning’ flag flies scores of days during the October through April period, typically. No one can burn wood in their fireplaces on red flag days!

During the many summer ‘temperature-inversion days’ in Denver, as you drive toward the city on I-70 out of the mountains, you can see the ‘brown soup’ that you are about to breathe. When I return home from a weekend in the pristine air of the Rockies, I'm sickened that I'm back to breathing that toxic air with every breath I take.

“The tiny particulate pollution from cars, power plants and factories does more than clog your lungs. It leads to development of heart disease, according to a BYU researcher. While exposure clearly impacts the lungs, "long-term, chronic exposure to air pollution seems to manifest more in cardiovascular disease than it does in respiratory disease." The link between air pollution and increased deaths has been shown in research by Pope and others. His most recent study, however, shows the biological mechanism by which long-term exposure to tiny-particle pollution can actually lead to ischemic heart disease, which causes heart attacks, as well as irregular heart rhythms, heart failure and cardiac arrest.â€