BALANCE URGENT ACTION ALERT
Immigration, the Environment & the
Election
The
fundamental fact is that for every person added to the U.S. population one acre
of precious farmland (i.e., with rich topsoil) or natural habitat
for wildlife, is converted to developed uses, de facto permanently
(Pimentel, et. al. Cornell). And as Dr. V. Abernethy and Dr. Anne Brattain’s
Research has shown, reducing immigration into the USA reduces the fertility
rates in the sending countries, thus reducing the over-population pressures on
Wildlife in those countries.
Unchecked
population growth and over-population are clearly negatives for environmental
protection.
Population
growth and density also have negative effects on our Public Health and Personal
Safety Environments.
Thus,
it is no accident that New York City and Environs and other major population
centers were Ground Zero of the Coronavirus in the USA.
New
York City is the most Densely Populated City in the USA and is
a Major Hub for International Travel and Destination for Immigrants. Consider:
“‘There
is a strong correlation between the risk of pandemic and human population
density. We’ve done the math and we’ve proved it,” said Dr. Peter Daszak, a
disease ecologist and the president of Eco Health Alliance, who examined the
link in a 2008 study published in the journal Nature…. Looking at
contemporary outbreaks since the mid-20th century, Daszak and colleagues found
that the emergent diseases caused by pathogens new to humans has increased
significantly with time, even when controlling for progress in diagnosis
techniques and surveillance ….”
“Pandemics,
Population Growth, and Globalization,” Scientific American, via capsweb.org.
04/11/2020
Many of
the newly threatening pathogens emerge where exploding human populations have
intruded on the habitat of non-human species. Separation that formerly
characterized human/animal interactions shifts into more intimate contacts. The
pathogens jump from animal to human. The intensity of travel and population
mixing then spreads disease globally.
The
foregoing are Key Reasons BALANCE pushes for an all-categories included
Zero-NET Moratorium LEGAL Immigration Policy (about 150,000 out thus 150,000 in
per year) —a de facto Moratorium. That would reduce Legal Immigration into the
USA, which is currently about 1.5 to 1.6 Million per year.
That would reduce the USA’s and the World’s Population Growth Rate (Fertility
rates in countries allowed to send immigrants to the USA elevate because of the
Opportunities that Immigration provides to the Migrants to the USA and to their
families in the home country).
Other
benefits would accrue if a Moratorium were enacted because a number of
additional costs flow from continuing to allow Mass Immigration.
Costs: U.S. Taxpayers Pay $330 BILLION PER
YEAR NET (after subtracting taxes Immigrants pay) to pay for the federal costs
of LEGAL Immigration alone (cf CCN Cost Study). That’s about $758 Million per
Year Net (i.e., after subtracting Taxes Immigrants pay) per
Congressional District for Health Care, Welfare, and many other Costs and does
not include Net State and Local Costs.
So
where do the Candidates stand on Immigration [Before answering that we must add
that as a 501c3 Nonprofit BALANCE does NOT support or oppose candidates or
parties, but certainly can and does take a position on their
positions on Key policy issues such as Immigration. Therefore,
consider:
This
year: President Trump
has ordered a Moratorium (albeit temporary) on admission of some Categories
of Immigrants, arguing, correctly, that Jobs and support should be
reserved for the 30 Million+ unemployed Americans.
Unfortunately, the
Joe Biden/Kamala Harris Team is pushing a de facto Open Borders Agenda. To help
us stop it, See Below. Their Agenda would:
·
allow
work permits for Illegal Aliens and Not Require the Use of E-Verify
·
allow
Chain Migration and the Visa Lottery to Continue
·
not
deter Border Surges or Asylum Abuse
·
cause
American Taxpayers to continue to pay for Health Care, Welfare for a majority
of Legal Immigrants and Illegal Aliens
·
continue
to allow Mass Immigration which would force millions of unemployed Americans to
compete with Immigrants for Jobs
Worse,
the Addition of Harris to V.P. Biden’s Ticket will magnify the pressure both
before (and after!?!) the November 3rd Election to Enact an Expanded Open
Borders Agenda, which
would increase legal immigration and eliminate
immigration enforcement!
Consider
Harris’s Record:
·
cosponsor
of Dick Durbin’s (D-IL) Keep the STEM Talent Act which would
exempt any foreign student who earned an advanced degree in a
STEM major from any numerical limits. As CCN and other studies have shown, the
USA does not need foreign STEM workers…they just displace
qualified Americans
·
cosponsor
of Senator Lee’s (R-UT) Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants
Act which would eliminate per-country caps on employment Visas and thus
greatly benefit Silicon Valley’s policy of Hiring Low Paid Indian
Workers (No wonder Big Tech has taken a pro-Biden position via Censorship).
·
enact
a Mass Amnesty of DACA Aliens and implement DAPA to protect DREAMERS and their
parents and give Temporary Protected Status for some foreign
nationals who are not yet in the country
·
enact
Senator Feinstein’s S175 the Agricultural Worker Program Act which
would give illegal Farm Workers Amnesty
·
Harris
has consistently opposed efforts at Border and Interior Enforcement by, e.g.,
supporting Senator Cory Booker’s (D-NJ) S144 which would halt local law
enforcement cooperation with ICE for enforcement purposes
·
and
she has pushed to decriminalize illegal border crossings
Unfortunately,
all the foregoing will add clout to the Open Borders Crowd, but with your help
we can stop them again. By comparison, consider the Trump
Administration’s Immigration Accomplishments:
·
Trump
Bars Federal Contractors from Displacing American Workers with Foreign Guest
workers
·
265
Miles of Border Wall System Completed
·
President
Trump Marks the Construction of 200 Miles of Border Wall
·
Protecting
American Workers, Halting Foreign Guest Worker Admissions
·
Continuing
Progress on the Border Wall
·
Trump
Imposes Anti-Coronavirus Travel Ban on China and Europe
·
Trumps
Signs Coronavirus Relief Package Excluding Illegal Aliens
·
More
Travel Restrictions on Iran
·
Trump
Administration Takes Action Against Sanctuary Jurisdictions
·
Legal
Immigration Reduced
·
Trump
Blocks Travel to China to Stem COVID-19
·
Trump
Administration Cracks Down on Birth Tourism
·
Southwest
Border Apprehensions Decline for 8 Consecutive Months
·
Travel
Ban Expanded to Six More Countries
Support
BALANCE’s Activist Initiative for a Solution: BALANCE pushes a Zero-Net all-categories-included
Moratorium on Legal Immigration which would still allow 150,000 inflow to match
typical annual outflow. BALANCE is a genuine MASS Immigration Reduction Group
(certain other National Groups not pushing a Moratorium are
merely Mass Immigration MANAGEMENT Groups, a position counterproductive to
achieving any immigration reductions at all as we have repeatedly pointed out).
·
Most
Important, Contact & Re-Contact your Senators and Representatives and the
2020 Candidates! and Media, and Influencers to oppose Senators Harris and Lee’s
(R-UT) S386 and
Senator Durbin’s (D-IL) RELIEF Act as well as the outrageous “New Way Forward
Act”.
·
Above
all, every organization and individual should contact Senators, Media and
Influencers and push an all-categories-included Zero-Net Moratorium on Legal Immigration
and emphasize that it would remove the Legal Immigration Magnets (e.g.,
the uncapped Asylee Category) attracting ever more Illegal Aliens.
·
It
is difficult if not impossible to stop most illegal immigrants unless one
reduces the Magnet of Legal Immigration “Slots” such as the Uncapped Asylee
Category.
·
And
focus on Specifics, e.g., How can communities and the nation ever ameliorate
our intensifying Homelessness Crisis OR our COVID Crisis, by annually welcoming
in 1.5 Million Legal Immigrants per year with Taxpayer-funded
Section 8 Housing, Health Care, Welfare and many other Benefits, PLUS
Amnestying 1.5 Million Illegals, many of whom would be provided with
Taxpayer-funded Housing Assistance, as H.R.5038 does?! Or HR 6 which would
Amnesty (i.e., legalize) Hundreds of Thousands of Illegal Aliens.
Please
make a Tax-Deductible DONATION to BALANCE NOW to help Save our
Environment and our Nation, by Credit Card on our website: BALANCE or by check
to: Population-Environment Balance | P.O. Box 268 | San Francisco, CA
94104
Dollar for Dollar, Tax-Deductible Donations to BALANCE and its ASAP! Coalition
Allies who push a Moratorium, create actual Political Clout for
reduction in both Legal and Illegal immigration numbers than Donations to Mass
Immigration Management Groups, i.e., those who refuse to push for an
all-categories-included Zero-Net Moratorium. Such Donations are
COUNTERPRODUCTIVE because they de facto endorse a continuing unsustainable
Immigration Flow.
Help
BALANCE intensify its Media, Public Education, Activist Mobilization and
Lobbying Efforts with a Tax-Deductible Donation NOW.
Please
forward this Alert to your friends who may be concerned about the Environment,
the Budget and Personal & Health Safety. The World’s Wildlife, and your
fellow Citizens will Thank You.
And we
Thank you,
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BALANCE is anti-Mass-Immigration, not anti-immigrant.
BALANCE is the leading National Organization publicizing information regarding the Threat of Mass Immigration-generated population growth to our Environment, Nation, Budgets, and Personal & Public Health Safety and Mobilizing Activists to Reduce it.