Urgent! VERY Few Days Remaining to get Immigration Reduction!

BALANCE's Strategy can Succeed with your Help NOW! Here's how!

The House recently passed a Bill including funding for The Wall and other Immigration Reduction Provisions. But the Senate is gridlocked, with several Senators who formerly supported a Wall now opposing it. Result: Partial Government shutdown which could last until the New Year. The situation is NOT hopeless (cf. Leader McConnell's recent comments) But there is reason for hope if we all CONTACT and RECONTACT OUR SENATORS NOW and tell them the Key Reasons we need a Wall and a zero-NET Moratorium on LEGAL Immigration:

First, tell them the COSTS. For example, in the USA, over 63% of Non-Citizen-headed Households (i.e., by Green Card Holders, Temporary Workers & Illegal Aliens) use one or More Welfare Programs, according to the Center for Immigration Studies' [CIS] Analysis of U.S. Census Data.

For example, 429,000 Annual Immigrant Births Cost Taxpayers $5.3 Billion.

Specifically, 1 in 5 births in the U.S. are to Immigrant Mothers. U.S. Taxpayers pay for 67% of births to illegal immigrants, 47% of births to legal immigrants according to a new report by CIS, S. Camarota, Director of Research, 10/9/18.

Illegal alien mothers who give birth in the United States score a “citizen child”, an anchor that often results in immunity from deportation and also entitles them to participate in child-oriented welfare and bring relatives into the USA under the Chain Migration Provisions of current law.

In High-Immigrant Destination States like California (receiving 400,000 Legal Immigrants per Year) the Number and rate of using welfare is higher than the national average — 72% in California, and 70% in Texas. And other negative consequences of allowing this Mass immigration are clear — intensifying crowding of means of transportation, unaffordable housing for low and middle income citizens (some of whom are living under bridges), drawdowns of water aquifers far in excess of recharge rates in Agricultural areas, and the use of  “Toilet to Tap” water in Orange and other counties in California. and elsewhere.

Large Majorities of Non-Citizen Welfare Users are Legal Immigrants. Nearly two-thirds of the Annual 1.5 to 1.6 Million Legal Immigrant Cohort use Welfare. Even ten years after arrival in the United States, the majority continue to participate in one or more welfare programs.

Thus, it should be no surprise that LEGAL Immigration Costs U.S. Taxpayers $330 Billion per year NET (after subtracting Taxes Immigrants pay). That is over $6 Billion per Week (and over $1,000/year in tax for each U.S. Taxpayer) and this does Not include State and Local Costs.

See the Net Costs of Legal Immigration study at Carrying Capacity Network.

Adding insult to injury, if current LEGAL immigration Trends continue, Native Born U.S. Citizens are headed toward Demographic Minority Status in Major Receiving States. This Demographic Trend toward Minority Status for Native-Born Citizens is already evident in Key Counties in these Major Receiving States, from a variety of indicators. Orange County, California — long known for its Conservative leanings — just had all of its Congressional Seats Flip from Conservative Republican to Leftist Democrat mainly as a result from dramatic recent increases in immigrant residents.

Immigrants' demographic ascendancy is making itself felt in the policy arena in measures that favor their own ethnic group/s. For example, in California, illegal Immigrants — primarily Hispanic — have already been allowed to Vote in San Francisco Elections, and there is a push to make Illegals (already eligible for Drivers Licenses) Eligible for the Vastly Expensive Medicaid Healthcare Benefits, statewide.

But Perhaps the Best Evidence of Demographic Displacement is the Fact that the Entire State of California (and many major immigrant destination cities across the USA) is now a “Sanctuary State”, which means that lobbyists for Illegal Aliens are quite happy to thumb their noses at Federal Law for the benefit of Non-Citizens. One cannot help but remember the dying words of Kate Steinle “Help me dad” who was killed by an Illegal Alien as have scores of others (see The Remembrance Project) who had been deported, but returned to the Sanctuary State.

Bottom line: Native-Born & Immigrant Citizens are losing Political Power, Assets (e.g., Wealth Transfers via Taxes) and Legal and Personal Safety and Environmental Protections as a result of their Demographic Displacement.

Good News: We can stop, and to an extent reverse these Trends IF we All Act Together NOW.... When the House of Representatives “Flips” January 3, it will likely be Too Late!!!

Implementing the Trump Administration’s Admirable Proposal that No Green Cards (reflecting permanent Resident Status) would be issued to those who had accepted, or were likely to accept in the future, welfare or indeed any Taxpayer-funded Benefits, would reduce Immigrant Numbers significantly.

IMMIGRATION LEGISLATION IS BEING CONSIDERED NOW! And January 2 is the Deadline to pass a Budget and fund The Wall via the Lame Duck Congress. The new Congress to be seated January 3 will be much less likely to enact Immigration reduction.

It is highly likely that a Bill funding The Wall will contain other Immigration Reduction Provisions! So, we must ACT NOW! Emphasize that a Zero-Net Moratorium on Legal Immigration would save Taxpayers nearly $One-Half Trillion in the next Decade. See the Net Costs of Legal Immigration study at Carrying Capacity Network.

So CONTACT & RECONTACT Your Senators and demand funding for The Wall, an end to Catch and Release and Chain Migration and Anchor Baby citizenship, implementation of e-Verify, and above all, enactment of an all-Categories-included Zero-NET MORATORIUM (i.e., where Immigration equals Emigration) Legal Immigration!

And please help BALANCE MOBILIZE ACTIVISTS and contact Media and Congress to intensity our push for the aforementioned all-categories included Zero-NET MORATORIUM TODAY, NOW! Contact your representatives!

TO MAXIMIZE BALANCE's CLOUT PLEASE DONATE NOW! 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, Donations to BALANCE and its ASAP! Coalition Allies who push a Moratorium, create much more Political Clout for reduction in immigration numbers than Donations to Mass Immigration Management Groups, i.e., those who refuse to push for an all-categories-included Zero-Net Moratorium.

Indeed, such Refusal is counterproductive to genuine Immigration Reduction Efforts because these Main Management Groups advocate positions which ensure unending Mass Immigration.

The Next Few Days are Critical!

And please support our Crowd-Funding effort at Mass Immigration Hurts Environment.

But Most Important, Contact & Re-Contact your Senators today!

Thank you,

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429,000 Annual Immigrant Births Cost Taxpayers $5.3 Billion

Massive and increasing costs to Taxpayers are incurred (now $330 Billion per year NET of Taxes Immigrants Pay) as each Birth Cohort Matures. Mass Immigration is Very Costly, but BALANCE has The Solution (see below).

Of the Many Costs of Mass Immigration borne by U.S. Taxpayers, the Costs of Immigrant Births alone (via Medicaid or the Uninsured) is remarkable. Specifically, 1 in 5 births in the U.S. are to Immigrant Mothers. U.S. Taxpayers pay for 67% of births to illegal immigrants, 47% of births to legal immigrants according to a new report  by CIS, S. Camarota, Director of Research, 10/9/18.

“Based on an analysis of Census Bureau data, the Center estimates that nationally one in 13 births is to an illegal immigrant, totaling 300,000 births a year. One in eight births is to a legal immigrant. We also find that more than half of the births to immigrants (legal and illegal) are paid for by taxpayers, including 67 percent of births to illegal immigrants.

“Steven Camarota, the Center’s Director of Research and co-author of the report, said, ‘The enormous number of births to legal and illegal immigrants may hinder assimilation as children from immigrant families will largely interact with only each other.”  He also points out that “paying for so many births to immigrant mothers may be appropriate, but the large share who can’t provide for themselves without the help of American taxpayers raises serious questions about whether our current immigration system makes sense.’…

Given that Demography is Destiny, consider that since the aforementioned Facts are for one year only, what the costs and demographic consequences will be for each year projected into the future unless BALANCE’s Solution is implemented. Consider further that Taxpayer- and Immigrant-Funded Immigrant Births Total 791,000 per year.

National Picture from CIS Report:

·         …That legal immigrants accounted for 12.4 percent (494,000) of all births annually and illegal immigrants accounted for 7.5 percent (297,000) annually.

·         The 297,000 births per year to illegal immigrants are more than the total number of births to all mothers in any state except California and Texas. They are also more than the total number of births in 16 states combined, plus the District of Columbia.

·         The estimated 28,000 births to illegal immigrants in just the Los Angles metro area are more than the total number of births in any of 14 states or the District of Columbia. 

·         More than half (54 percent) of births to immigrants (legal and illegal) are entirely or largely paid for by taxpayers because the mother is on Medicaid or uninsured…

·         Illegal immigrants account for 11 percent (198,000) of all publicly funded births, and legal immigrants are another 13 percent (231,000). [Emphasis added]

·         We roughly estimate that the annual cost to taxpayers for births to immigrants (legal and illegal) is $5.3 billion — $2.4 billion of which is for illegal immigrants.

 
States:

·         In California, New Jersey, and New York, immigrants (legal and illegal) account for about one-third of all births. In Massachusetts, Nevada, Florida, Texas, Hawaii, Maryland, and Washington, immigrants account for one in four births. Immigrants account for one in five births in Virginia, Connecticut, Illinois, Arizona, Rhode Island, and Oregon.

·         The states with the largest numbers of births to illegal immigrants are California with 65,000, Texas with 51,000, Florida with 16,000, Illinois with 14,000, Georgia with 13,000, New York with 12,000, and New Jersey and North Carolina with 11,000 each….

·         In North Carolina, Texas, and Georgia, three-fourth of births to illegal immigrants were likely paid for by taxpayers. In California, Florida, and New York, two-thirds of these births were likely taxpayer-funded. In Illinois and New Jersey, more than half were likely funded by the public.”

BALANCE’s Solution: The U.S.A. needs a zero–net (i.e., 150,000 per year arrivals and 150,000 per year leaving) Moratorium applying to all immigrant categories, a Wall at our Southern Border, mandating use of eVerify in Hiring Decisions, elimination of anchor baby citizenship and an end to Catch & Release.

Enactment of all these would reduce the 1.6 Million Annual flow of Legal Immigrants (400,000 annually into California alone – U.S. Census) and thus greatly reduce the Annual NET (after subtracting Taxes Immigrants pay) Costs of Legal Immigration, now running at $330 BILLION per year.

Implementing the Trump Administration’s Admirable Proposal that No Green Cards (reflecting permanent Resident Status) would be issued to those who had accepted, or were likely to accept in the future, any Taxpayer-funded Benefits, would reduce Immigrant Numbers significantly.

IMMIGRATION LEGISLATION IS BEING CONSIDERED NOW! And December 7 is the Deadline to pass a Budget and fund The Wall.

It is highly likely that a Bill fully funding The Wall will contain other Immigration Provisions! So, we must ACT NOW! Emphasize that a Zero-Net Moratorium would save Taxpayers $One-Half Trillion in the next Decade. So CONTACT & RECONTACT Your Representatives!

And please help BALANCE MOBILIZE ACTIVISTS and contact Media and Congress to intensity our push for the aforementioned all-categories included zero-NET MORATORIUM TODAY, NOW! Contact your representatives!

TO MAXIMIZE BALANCE's CLOUT PLEASE DONATE NOW!

Dollar for Dollar, Donations to BALANCE and its ASAP! Coalition Allies who push a Moratorium, create much more Political Clout for reduction in immigration numbers than Donations to Mass Immigration Management Groups, i.e., those who refuse to push for an all-categories-included Zero-Net Moratorium.

Indeed, such Refusal is counterproductive to genuine Immigration Reduction Efforts because the Main Management Groups advocate positions which ensure unending Mass Immigration.

BALANCE very much needs your Tax-Deductible Donation TODAY.

So Please DONATE NOW by credit card at our website: BALANCE.ORG or, to donate by check via U.S mail, please send to:

Population-Environment Balance | P.O. Box 268 | San Francisco, CA 94104

And support our Crowd-Funding effort at Mass Immigration Hurts Environment.

The Next Few Days are Critical!

Thank you,

Population-Environment Balance
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"When the population of a species grows beyond the capacity of its environment to sustain it, it reduces that capacity below the original level, ensuring an eventual population crash.

"Extinction is the most serious, utterly irreversible effect of unsustainable human population."

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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 Safety and Mobilizing Activists to Reduce it.

Pressure Intensifying to Migrate to USA!!

 Pressure Intensifying to Migrate to USA!!
BALANCE Has The Solution to Stop Mass Immigration!!!!

Will Demography be Destiny? Consider the Population Reference Bureau [PRB] Projection:

“The world population will reach 9.9 billion by 2050,  up 2.3 billion or 29 percent from an estimated 7.6 billion people now, according to projections by Population Reference Bureau (PRB) included in the 2018 World Population Data Sheet….

“Among the population projections included in the 2018 Data Sheet:

·               The population of 26 countries, nearly all in Africa, will at least double. Niger in West Africa will see its population nearly triple….

·               The population of the United States will reach 390 million, up from 328 million in 2018. [Up to 90% of the Increase is projected to come from Immigration and the children of recent immigrants. Ed.]

·               China’s population will decrease by about 50 million from its current size to 1.34 billion. [The Decrease resulted from years of “one Child per Family” policy—But because this policy was recently Terminated, we expect a renewed surge in China’s  Population. Ed.]  India is on trend to supplant China as the world’s most populous country with 1.68 billion people.  

·               Nigeria will become the third most populous country as its population rises to 411 million, up 109 percent from 2018. Nigeria is currently the seventh most populous country. 

BALANCE does not put much stock in the PRB projection  that world population will ever reach over 9 billion.   A projection is not a prediction; it’s just a statistical exercise in carrying current trends into the future.

That said, one projection is especially concerning — that the USA’s population is on trend to grow by 62 Million in a mere 32 years, with virtually all of that growth coming from immigration (at least ¾ of which currently is legal immigration).

Also of Great Concern are the Trends from already overpopulated Nations, which will increase the efforts of their citizens to escape to the USA.

For example, the fastest growth is in various African countries.  That growth depends on the rest of the world’s willingness to rescue Africa from the famines and epidemics that are being brought on by that regions own explosive population growth.  How long will the rest of the world (and especially the USA) be willing to share their own dwindling resources to the extent required for repeated rescues and increasing immigration??

In this connection, it is important to recall the studies by Dr. Anne Brittain, which demonstrate that liberal immigration policies of countries like the USA actually increase birth rates in sending countries, and thus exacerbate their Overpopulation Problems, as well as the USA's.

Thus it is absolutely critical for the future environmental and economic health of the USA that we dramatically reduce legal immigration — now running at about 1.6 Million per Year — by enacting an all-categories included Zero Net MORATORIUM.

By Zero Net Moratorium, BALANCE means that the same number would be admitted each year as the number which voluntarily leave — about 150,000 per year. Limiting Immigration to that annual number would dramatically reduce the very substantial environmental and economic costs

Consider this summary of Environmental and Economic Costs:

LEGAL IMMIGRATION COSTS & CONSEQUENCES
— KEY POINTS & BALANCE'S SOLUTION

·         Background: world population increases by about 80 million/year. The population carrying capacity has already been exceeded in many parts of the world, as shown by mass poverty, environmental degradation, and civil strife. 

·         Pressure to come to USA will only increase—1.6 Million Legal Immigrants settle in the U.S.A. every year: Indeed the Average since 2005 is 1.6-1.7 Million Annually

o   California e.g. receives 400,000 legal immigrants per year! (U. S. Census)

ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCESFARMLAND & NATURAL HABITAT LOSS

“For every Person added to U.S. (or California's) Population, one Acre of precious Farmland or Natural Habitat is lost to Developed Uses” (e.g., Malls, Urban Sprawl, Tract Housing) (Pimentel et al, Cornell).

SPECIES EXTINCTION

United States “Top 10 U.S. Endangered Species”, Center for Biological Diversity: As the human population grows we are crowding out, poisoning and eating all other species into extinction. With the world population hitting 7.6 billion, the Center is marking this milestone by releasing a list of species in the United States facing extinction caused by the growing human population. The 10 species represent a range of geography, as well as species diversity—but all are critically threatened by the effects of human population. Some, like the Florida panther and Mississippi gopher frog, are rapidly losing habitat as the human population expands. Others are seeing their habitat dangerously altered—like the small flowering sandplain gerardia in New England—or, like the bluefin tuna, are buckling under the weight of massive overfishing. (Control of Fisheries is one reason China is creating Militarized Islands to control the South China Sea.)

U.S. Taxpayers Costs—$330 BILLION PER YEAR NET (after subtracting Taxes Immigrants pay) from legal immigration alone, i.e., $3.3 TRILLION prospectively for the next Decade (see full study of NET Costs at carryingcapacity.org) Does NOT include Net COSTS to States and Localities = $758 MILLION per Year for Each Congressional District. That is, it costs on average $1000 per person in Federal Taxes per year! 62% of Costs for “free” (i.e., U.S. Taxpayer-funded) Health Care, & Welfare [The Numbers of Illegal Immigrants are about one fourth that of legal and generate about one-fourth the costs.]

EMPLOYMENT CONSEQUENCES

Professor Computer Science, U.C. Davis, Norm Matloff Blog “Vast Majority of H1B and related visa hires are Cheap Labor Hires”, i.e., there are American Workers who would do those jobs.

Confirmed by Williams / CCN Study—5.9 MILLION AMERICANS DISPLACED from JOBS SINCE 2005 by IMMIGRANT WORKERS. See carryingcapacity.org.

ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES

Population Growth usually increases Aggregate GDP but ALWAYS DECREASES PER CAPITA GDP—the True Test of Nations’ Wealth.

Compare Bangladesh and New Zealand with same size GDP BUT Bangladesh has 4 times the Population and thus is much poorer per capita.

The inverse relationship between population growth and individual wealth is seen in the U.S.  Since the Clinton Administration, an additional 44 million immigrants has arrived in the U.S. and the U.S. per Capita GDP has declined since the Clinton administration [Williams study at carryingcapacity.org].

PERSONAL SAFETY ENVIRONMENT

“Help me, Dad.” Kate Steinle’s dying words impel all of us to redouble our efforts to oppose Sanctuary Cities, Reduce Legal and Stop Illegal Immigration with inter alia a Wall. The Boston Bombers, San Bernardino Shooters and ISIS Truck Driver who ran down Pedestrians and Cyclists in New York City were all Legal Immigrants!

Solution: The U.S.A. needs a zero–net Moratorium applying to all immigrant categories, i.e., 150,000/year arrivals and 150,000/year leaving.

So please help BALANCE MOBILIZE ACTIVISTS to intensity our push for the aforementioned all-categories included zero-NET MORATORIUM TODAY, NOW! Contact your representatives!

IMMIGRATION LEGISLATION IS BEING CONSIDERED NOW! And September 30 is the Deadline to pass a Budget. Emphasize that a Zero-Net Moratorium would save $$One-Half Trillion in the next Decade. So CONTACT & RECONTACT Your Representatives!

TO MAXIMIZE BALANCE's CLOUT PLEASE DONATE NOW!

BALANCE very much needs you to make a Tax-Deductible Donation TODAY. Dollar for Dollar, Donations to BALANCE and its Coalition Allies who push a Moratorium, create much more Political Clout for reduction in immigration number than Donations to Mass Immigration Management Groups, i.e., those who refuse to push for an all-categories-included Zero-Net Moratorium.

So Please DONATE NOW by credit card at our website: BALANCE.ORG or, to donate by check via U.S mail, please send to:

Population-Environment Balance | P.O. Box 268 | San Francisco, CA 94104

Or support our CrowdFunding effort at Mass Immigration Hurts Environment.

The Next Few Days are Critical!

Thank you,

Population-Environment Balance

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Population Environment Balance

"When the population of a species grows beyond the capacity of its environment to sustain it, it reduces that capacity below the original level, ensuring an eventual population crash.

"Extinction is the most serious, utterly irreversible effect of unsustainable human population."

Follow BALANCE on Twitter @PEnvirons and GAB @PopEnvironmentBalance

Mailing address:

Population-Environment Balance | P.O. Box 268 | San Francisco, CA 94104

Washington, DC address:

Population-Environment Balance | 1629 K Street NW, Suite 300 | Washington DC, 20006

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 Safety and Mobilizing Activists to Reduce it.

GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR U.S. POPULATION STABILIZATION

& SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONS
—THE ONLY STRATEGY FOR SUCCESS—
BALANCE YEAR-END ALERT!

The next few weeks provide the Best (& likely Last?!) Opportunity to Achieve U.S. Population Stabilization and Sustainable Environmental Protection since BALANCE was founded 45 years ago, However, thousands of activists led by BALANCE activists are needed to push Congress to cooperate by implementing The Only Strategy for Success.

“Help me, Dad.” Kate Steinle’s dying words and the Deaths of Hundreds of others remind us of the importance of intensifying our effort.

The Only Strategy is simple. Inform your Representatives of The Facts and provide them with and push for The Solution described below. So first, The Facts:

The Economic Environment

— Legal Immigration is very costly—$330 Billion per year NET (after taxes Immigrants Pay) or $3.3Trillion for 10 years in Federal taxpayer Costs alone to support the 1.5 Million Annual Legal Immigrant Flow! (J. Williams, CCN/Shadowstats.com). We must reduce Legal Immigration to Reduce the Deficit.

— A substantial majority of Legal and Illegal Immigrants have low education levels. The  average newcomer from Central America has less than an eighth grade education. And if 10 Million Illegals alone were Amnestied, the NET cost to Taxpayers would be $1.29 TRILLION or about $15,000 including State and Locals Costs for each and every Household in the USA! (R. Rector—National Academy of Sciences, November 2016). This study also found no evidence that low-skill workers are a net economic benefit.)

The Personal Safety Environment

— Over 90,000 Criminal Illegal Aliens were released into U.S. Communities in 2015 alone! (DHS data)into the relatively Safe (for them!) Environments of “Sanctuary Cities”!

“Help me, Dad.” Kate Steinle’s dying words impel all of us to redouble our efforts to oppose Sanctuary Cities, Reduce Legal and Stop Illegal Immigration. The Boston Bombers, San Bernardino Shooters and ISIS Truck Driver who ran down Pedestrians and Cyclists in New York City recently were all Legal Immigrants!

The Employment Environment

— During the Obama Years Immigrant Employment has risen 4.3 times faster than Native-born employment, and large companies like Disney and Abbott Labs have laid off American workers so they can hire cheaper foreign labor under the H1b program, while typically requiring American workers to train their replacements as a condition to receiving their Severance packages (Rubenstein, vDare.com)

The Natural Environment

— And the USA's long-term sustainability is being seriously damaged by the Mass Immigration of about 1.5 Million Legal and hundreds of thousands of Illegals every year. We reiterate that for every person added to the U.S. Population, one acre of Wildlife Habitat or Prime Farmland is converted to developed uses (Pimentel et. al. Cornell)

— The USA is paving the world's Breadbasket (i.e., the USA) at a rate of 39,000 square miles (25 Million Acres) every 15 years! Periodically Drought stricken California alone receives 400,000 Legal Immigrants per year who consume an ADDITIONAL Million Acre-feet of water per year, water that could be used for water-short California Agriculture! And this inflow exacerbates California’s housing, budget and transportation crises. Do the Major Urban Areas across the USA really need increasing demand for housing and more vehicles on the roads?!

— Mass Immigration constitutes about 90% of U.S. Population Growth, and since the World's population increases by about 80 Million/Year the pressure to come to the USA will only increase. We must stop Mass Immigration to protect our environment long-term.

Legislation

The RAISE Act S354 (Cotton R-AR, Perdue R-GA) is a Good Bill But contains Three Serious Flaws.

It would:

¾    Reduce Legal Immigration by at least half to about 500,000 per year

¾    Require that Legal Immigrants speak English

¾    Require that Legal Immigrants NOT receive Welfare for 5 Years

¾    Limit "Refugees" to 50,000 per year

¾    End the Visa Lottery, and, above all…

¾    Reduce Chain Migration from appx 480,000 per year to appx.  88,000 per year by limiting family- sponsored Immigrants to spouses and minor children of US Citizens or Legal Permanent Residents.

It is Seriously flawed because:

1)      It would still allow over half a million Legal Entrants annually and thus Validates a continuation of Mass Immigration ad Infinitum—clearly Not Sustainable.

2)      By adopting a piecemeal Multi-Category approach is extremely vulnerable to Many Weakening Amendments

3)      It fails to push an all-categories-included 150,000 CAP.  BALANCE’s Push for a Zero-Net Moratorium would not only impose such a CAP but it also maximizes Political Pressure to get Reductions. The RAISE Act  Fails this Test

And, one of the RAISE Bill's alleged strong points, the Merits-based system for admitting skilled workers (H1bs) is well-intentioned but would allow far too many admissions. It is based on flawed data that American workers to not have the necessary skills, it lends itself to “gaming”, and would result in continuing job loss and wage depression among American workers.

¾    The Bill also would allow admission of too many “Refugees” (what about addressing the Needs of the USA’s hundreds of thousands of homeless first?) and allows  H2b low skilled workers, many of whose prospective jobs should either go to Americans or are, in any case, disappearing because of automation.

THE MAJOR CHALLENGE FOR THE RAISE ACT AND OTHER GOOD REDUCTIONIST BILLS IS THAT MOST OF THEIR SUPPORTERS DO NOT HAVE A CLUE MUCH LESS A STRATEGY FOR ACTUALLY GETTING THEM PASSED!

Indeed, ONLY ONE STRATEGY maximizes political pressure to achieve dramatic Reductions in Immigration, including the RAISE Act, ONLY BALANCE and its ASAP! Coalition Allies push this Strategy—push a Zero-Net Moratorium on Legal Immigration and bring Illegal Immigration to a Halt!

Pushing a Zero-Net Moratorium (which would still allow Legal Immigration of 150,000 per Year because Immigration would then equal Emigration) is key as an objective because it is reasonable and Essential for long-term Environmental and Personal Protection and for providing Sufficient Resources, INCLUDING WATER and FOOD and Money, for survival. Today, we are in the process of exceeding our long-term Carrying Capacity.

In sum, a Zero-Net Moratorium is The Necessary Condition for achieving U.S. Population Stabilization, long term Environmental Protection, Budgetary Solvency in State and Local Government (especially for our Health Care and Educational Institutions), Tax Reduction, Unemployment Reduction, Social and Cultural Cohesion and Personal Safety ... and for protection of our Food and Water Supplies!

Only our Massive Grassroots Effort can Succeed! Phone Calls or Office Visits followed by Snail Mail letters are most effective (emails are often ignored and fax machines can be turned off). And please consider that BALANCE is greatly outspent by the Cheap Labor Lobby and various Ethnic Power Lobbies.

So Please Help BALANCE MOBILIZE ACTIVISTS to Intensify our push for the aforementioned ASAP! Coalition Initiatives, TODAY, NOW!

BALANCE very much needs you to make a Tax-Deductible Donation TODAY. Dollar for Dollar, Donations to BALANCE and its ASAP! Coalition Allies who push a Moratorium, create much more Political Clout than Donations to Mass Immigration Management Groups.

So Please DONATE NOW at our website: BALANCE.ORG or, to donate via U.S mail, please send to: Population-Environment Balance | P.O. Box 268 | San Francisco, CA 94104

The Next Few Weeks are Critical!

Thank you,

Population-Environment Balance
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Mailing address:
Population-Environment Balance | P.O. Box 268 | San Francisco, CA 94104

Washington, DC address:
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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 Safety and Mobilizing Activists to Reduce it.

The ONLY Way to Pass the RAISE & Other Immigration Reduction Acts

The RAISE Act S354 (Cotton R-AR, Perdue R-GA) is a Good Bill albeit not without flaws.

It would:

¾    Reduce Legal Immigration by at least half to about 500,000 per year

¾    Require that Legal Immigrants speak English

¾    Require that Legal Immigrants NOT receive Welfare for 5 Years

¾    Limit "Refugees" to 50,000 per year

¾    End the Visa Lottery, and, above all…

¾    Reduce Chain Migration from appx 480,000 per year to appx.  88,000 per year by limiting family- sponsored Immigrants to spouses and minor children of US Citizens or Legal Permanent Residents.

It is flawed because it lacks the commanding, coherent logic of the Bill that BALANCE and its ASAP! Coalition Allies propose, below and many of the RAISE Act’s NGO supporters lack a Strategy to actually get it passed, a Strategy which BALANCE also describes below.  

But specifically, one of the Bill's alleged strong points, the Merits-based system for admitting skilled workers (H1bs) is well-intentioned but would allow far too many admissions. It is based on flawed data that American workers to not have the necessary skills, it lends itself to “gaming”, and would result in continuing job loss and wage depression among American workers.

¾    The Bill also would allow admission of too many H2b low skilled workers, many of whose prospective jobs should either go to Americans or are, in any case, disappearing because of automation. Legitimate needs for Low-skilled workers could be fulfilled by a revival of the Bracero program.

Finally, the Bill does not adequately guard against Visa Over-stayers and others. And worst of all, by pushing for an annual level of 500,000 its supporters are pushing FOR a de facto continuation of Mass Immigration!! —a Level which is, in no way, acceptable for the medium or long run (see below).

But all in all, the RAISE Act would be an improvement over what we have now. However...

THE MAJOR CHALLENGE FOR THE RAISE ACT AND OTHER GOOD REDUCTIONIST BILLS IS THAT MOST OF THEIR SUPPORTERS DO NOT HAVE A CLUE MUCH LESS A STRATEGY FOR ACTUALLY GETTING THEM PASSED! 

FORTUNATELY BALANCE & ITS ASAP COALITION ALLIES DO HAVE A STRATEGY WHICH WILL WORK IF ALL SUPPORTERS OF RAISE WILL BACK IT......The Strategy depends on information and logic: First, the NET costs of mass immigration to American tax-payers. And Second, the logic of carrying capacity, that every territory is limited om the long run by its resources, and that no territory can sustainably support an unlimited number of people.

Regarding the Logic of BALANCE's position, first consider excerpts from the article The ASAP! Coalition circulated a decade ago “The Only Way to Win the Immigration Reduction Battle,” by Selwyn Duke.   

The Only Way to Win the Immigration Battle

By Selwyn Duke

Friday, September 28, 2007

It's hard to think of a battle that has been won by being defensive. You may be most skilled at blocking and slipping punches, but if that is all you do, sooner or later your opponent will land a few and enjoy victory. This occurs to me as I watch the latest amnesty battle.

As you may know, the DREAM Act — the latest Scamnesty scheme — is being debated in Congress at this moment. And it may be the Mexican dream, but it's our nightmare. But that isn't what I want to address today. 

We may defeat this proposal as we did the last, but so what?

 Are you surprised? Do I sound overly cavalier or a tad defeatist? Here is my point: Until we transform this debate and talk about the true remedy for our problem — namely, halting legal immigration — we will labor in vain.

As I have said before, illegal immigration isn't the problem, but merely an exacerbation of the problem. As long as we perpetuate our current immigration scheme — a formula dictating that 85 percent of immigrants will hail from the Third World and Asia — the demographic revolution we have witnessed will continue, attended by descent into Third World status.

This is the third rail of the American immigration debate, the emperor-has-no-clothes-issue, the untouchable element. It gets at a truth that no one even dares contemplate because, by golly, we're a nation of immigrants. That is what we're told and it's not to be questioned; it is dogma. Why, I can almost hear Zero Mostel bellowing "Tradition!"

Then again, I can also hear that apocryphal saying: "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result."

Advocating a moratorium on legal immigration would be a return to sanity that could turn the tide. We would finally be taking the offense and proposing a change in the traditionalist direction, as opposed to making proactivity the province of the left. We would finally be pushing back, demanding some of the adversary's territory instead of just defending ours. Of course, we do have one other choice.

Certain defeat.

We may end this bad DREAM, but the left will be back, maybe in a few months, maybe in a year. And then they will return again and again and again and again; they will continue to make their proposals and propagandize, cajole and coerce, until one of their nail-in-the-coffin laws passes. It's not a matter of if, only when; one of those big punches will eventually land. This is the consequence of being defensive.

Thus, proposing the elimination of immigration is not only the right thing, it's the only thing. The present course of action guarantees eventual defeat, as the traditionalist side gets worn down through constant attack and people become acclimated to the idea of scamnesty-by-another-name. But if we finally start making the proposals — if we finally say to the left, "No! You no longer drive the agenda, we have a say now" — we'll be pushing back. Then, at worst, maybe we will, to use apropos terminology, be in a Mexican stand-off. And then perhaps, just possibly, we will have the time to alter the American consciousness and muster up the popular will to save our republic.

It's push back or be pushed around.

End immigration now, before it ends us.

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Selwyn Duke is a columnist, public speaker, and Internet entrepreneur whose work has been published widely online and in print. His articles appear at RenewAmerica, American Thinker, The Conservative Voice, and Blogcritics, as well as many other sites. He has been featured in The American Conservative co-founded by Pat Buchanan, on the Rush Limbaugh Show, and has a regular column in Christian Music Perspective. Selwyn can be reached at: letters@canadafreepress.com. 

Mr. Duke has been proven right, of course, and his call for pushing a Moratorium as an Essential Effective Strategy as well as an Excellent Public Policy, has more recently been echoed by Noted Leaders on the issue.

Indeed, two Decades ago BALANCE and the 46 other Organizational Members of the ASAP! Coalition laid out The Strategy for Achieving Substantial Immigration Reduction. These Organizations all agreed on the following 4 Point Program:

          #1  Immigration  Moratorium                                 

ASAP Supports immediate enactment of a zero-net immigration moratorium with an all-inclusive, firm cap of 150,000 immigrants (including refugees and Asylees) per year.  

#2  No More Amnesties

ASAP opposes any more amnesties granting legal status or citizenship or Extended Voluntary Departure to illegal aliens. Amnesties reward illegal behavior...

#3  Enforce Immigration Laws

Existing laws requiring apprehension and deportation of all illegal aliens in the U.S. must be enforced. Officials failing to enforce our laws must be replaced.

#4  No Citizenship for Illegal Aliens’ Offspring

Offspring of illegal aliens should not be granted automatic U.S. citizenship. A misinterpretation of the 14th Amendment leads to granting citizenship to anyone born here.  A reading of congressional debate as this Amendment was being considered shows that the clause, "and under the jurisdiction thereof...," shows that this stipulation must be given equal weight with all other language in the Amendment. The Fourteenth Amendment does not guarantee citizenship to offspring of illegal aliens.

A zero-net all-inclusive MORATORIUM was and is the First Priority because it communicates the Necessity of stopping Mass Immigration altogether and maximizes Political leverage as well.

Amazingly, a couple of self-styled Immigration Reduction Groups (de facto Mass Immigration MANAGEMENT Groups) refused then and STILL REFUSE to Adopt The ASAP! Coalition’s Strategy.  Believe it or Not, as Ripley would say.

And even more Amazing is that the “strategy” these MANAGEMENT Groups did adopt was and still is Counterproductive (Yes, COUNTERproductive!!) as we shall explain, and has therefore undermined the ASAP! Coalition’s otherwise unified Coalition, and helped suffocate any chances for immigration reduction for two decades.

Is it too much to hope that the utter Failure of their "Strategy" to achieve Substantial Reductions for over two decades will encourage them as a FIRST PRIORITY to join ASAP! and push  ALL the Key Points of ASAP!’s 4 Point Program including especially the MORATORIUM, which these immigration-MANAGEMENT groups have in the last 20 years failed to do.  They are hereby invited, again, to join.  Shall we hold our breath?!

Indeed, the next few Months of The Trump Administration may well be our LAST BEST CHANCE (Hello Management Groups, are you listening?!!) to get substantial reductions. And here’s how specifically...

Supporting Good Bills and Actions such as the following eight is important.  But pushing those Bills/Actions ALONE has often been proven to be futile, and will likely continue to be, unless also COUPLED WITH PUSHING A ZERO-NET ALL-INCLUSIVE MORATORIUM AS FIRST PRIORITY!!

That said, BALANCE supports:

·         Senator Cotton's RAISE Act

·         Rep. Brian Babin’s Criminal Alien Deportation Enforcement Act (HR 82) to enforce the Deportation of the 820,000 Criminal Aliens which Obama released into American communities.

·         Rep Barletta’s bill to Defund Sanctuary Cities (HR 83).

·         Rep. King’s Birthright Citizenship Act (HR 140) to end Birthright Citizenship and defeat the Anchor Baby Tactic.

·         Rep. Culberson’s bill, HR 546 which requires the Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement “to obtain the approval of the Governor of a State before placing or resettling a refugee” with the State.

·         S179 Grassley (R-IA) Mandatory e-Verify Mandatory so employers can be sure they are hiring only American workers.

·         Rep Goodlatte (R-VA) and nine cosponsors H.R. 3003  No Sanctuary for Criminals Act which would  deny federal grants to sanctuary jurisdictions, shield local law enforcement who cooperate with federal immigration detainers, and permit victims to sue for heinous harms caused by sanctuary policies.

·         Suspension of the UN/US Refugee Program (USRAP) until Congress has a chance to overhaul it.

·         We support these Bills/Actions and also reiterate that pushing any or all of these alone is NOT sufficient to get any of them enacted.

ONLY BALANCE and the ASAP! Coalition’s MORATORIUM Strategy below creates sufficient Political Pressure NOW to achieve Substantial Reductions in Legal Immigration?

Why?

Pushing a Zero-Net Moratorium, i.e., (inclusive of all immigrant categories) is key as an objective because it is reasonable and Essential for long-term Environmental and Personal Protection and for balanced Budgets, as well as for providing Sufficient Resources, INCLUDING WATER and FOOD and Money, for Personal and National survival. For every person added to the U.S. Population One Acre of Prime Farmland or Natural Habitat is converted to developed uses (Pimentel et al, Cornell).

The World's population increases by 80 Million per year, and the USA simply cannot accommodate all who wish to come.  Today, the USA is in the process of exceeding our long-term Carrying Capacity and deconstructing our Nation. (Hello, Management Groups!) We must Reverse Course NOW! Noted author, Ann Coulter, is correct—Only by enacting “a Moratorium” on Immigration can the USA survive (see Adios America!, A. Coulter).

In sum, a Zero-Net Moratorium is The Necessary Condition for achieving a Sustainable Future by promoting the goals of U.S. Population Stabilization, long-term Environmental Protection, Budgetary Solvency in State and Local Government (especially for our Health Care and Educational Institutions), Tax Reduction, Unemployment Reduction, Social and Cultural and Environmental Protection and Personal Safety and protection of our Food and Water Supplies as BALANCE has documented in its many Alerts!

Mass Immigration is thus NOT “Just about the Numbers” as one Immigration Management Group INCREDIBLY claims.  Indeed, their goal of reducing legal immigration to 500,000 per year not only will never achieve Population Stabilization or long-term Sustainability, nor will it stop Demographic Aggression (see BALANCE's recent Alert) nor will it stop  the Multi-Hundred Billion$$$ ANNUAL NET costs to Taxpayers. But one must say that their Ultra-Soft approach appeals to Funders who do not like to take Controversial Positions.

Worse, Management Groups’ Target of the RAISE Act's 500,000 per year is COUNTERPRODUCTIVE because the message it sends is that Mass Immigration is OK if we just cut it in half.  Also, it is COUNTERPRODUCTIVE because it loses the political Leverage to get lower numbers and good bills passed. Therefore, any Immigration “Reform” group which refuses to advocate an Immigration Moratorium cannot really be serious about reducing Immigration!  In fact it appears they are de facto at the "Beck" and call of the Open Borders lobby which wants to continue Mass Immigration.

Indeed, it is highly unlikely we will ever get Immigration Reduction unless all Major Reduction supporters push for a MORATORIUM.

Are these MANAGEMENT Groups Bona Fide Washington D.C. "Swamp Critters"?? :):):(:(

Well, BALANCE and our ASAP! Coalition Allies are no Swamp Critters!

WE ARE FACING A SERIES OF INTENSE BATTLES ON THESE ISSUES, beginning with the Great Budget Battle coming in September, 2017 and extending well into 2018.

The upcoming Budget Battle provides a Unique Opportunity to reduce Immigration because legal Immigration is so Costly, costing a NET several Hundred Billion$ per year (National Academy of Sciences Report – Rector et al). So PLEASE Help BALANCE Intensify our push for a Zero-Net Moratorium and the other Victory Initiative Positions NOW!

Certain Well-Funded Cheap Labor Advocates on the Right, and Ethnic Power and Government Benefits-Recipients and Power-seeking Marxists on the Left, are pushing hard for further Mass Illegal Alien Amnesties, AND FOR MASSIVE INCREASES IN H1B visas and LEGAL IMMIGRATION including Refugees and Asylees!

Only our focused Grassroots Effort can stop them! Phone Calls or Office Visits followed by Snail Mail letters are most effective (emails are often ignored and fax machines can be turned off). And please consider that BALANCE is greatly outspent by the Cheap Labor Lobby and various Ethnic Power Lobbies.

So Please Help BALANCE MOBILIZE ACTIVISTS to Intensify our push for Zero-Net MORATORIUM, TODAY, NOW!

And whether or not you donated recently, NOW IS THE TIME TO DONATE FOR MAXIMUM EFFECT.

BALANCE very much needs you to make a Tax-Deductible Donation TODAY. Dollar for Dollar, Donations to BALANCE and its ASAP! Coalition Allies who push a Moratorium, create much more Political Clout than Donations to Mass Immigration Management-only Groups. We reiterate, Refusal to Push a Moratorium and instead merely pushing for piecemeal Immigration Reductions can be Counterproductive because it sends the message that Mass Immigration itself is OK!

So Please DONATE at our website: BALANCE.ORG or, to donate via U.S mail, please send to:

Population-Environment Balance | P.O. Box 268 | San Francisco, CA 94104

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