Showing posts with label immigration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label immigration. Show all posts

Friday, November 24, 2017

$330 Billion/Year NET LEGAL IMMIGRATION plus INCREASING ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS


—A Great (Last?) Opportunity to Reduce Immigration & Make a Giant Step Toward U.S. Population Stabilization & Environmental Protection




“Open Borders? No!...It would make everybody in America Poorer—You’re doing away with the Concept of a Nation State.”

Bernie Sanders, 7/28/15
Vox/Ezra Klein Interview

Indeed, the Fact that NET LEGAL IMMIGRATION COST TO U.S. TAXPAYERS is $330 Billion per Year and $$3.3 Trillion NET for the next ten years if the Inflow is not Cut provides the Great (Last?) Opportunity to Reduce Legal Immigration of 1.5 Million per year and preserve our environment!

Immigration and the children born to recent immigrants account for 80 to 90 percent of US population growth. The just released “Net Costs of Legal Immigration” Study commissioned by our ASAP! Coalition Ally, Carrying Capacity Network and conducted by Noted Economist, John Williams***, not only shows that Legal Immigration alone costs Federal Taxpayers $330 Billion NET (after subtracting Taxes Immigrants Pay) per year!, but it also shows that Mass Immigration would cost $3.3 Trillion! in the coming decade if the flow is not Reduced. And this does NOT include Costs of Illegal Immigration or State and Local Costs. 
Going forward, immigration limited to the number which allows the US population to eventually stabilize — 150,000 per year (appx same # of emigrants as immigrants) which would only be achieved by a Zero-Net Moratorium on legal immigration — is BALANCE’s Goal and in the best interest of the U.S.A. and its citizens.
Indeed, THE ONLY WAY to Achieve U.S. Population stabilization is through a zero-net Moratorium in which all Categories of Immigration are counted under an all-inclusive Cap of 150,000 per year. That is what BALANCE and its ASAP! Coalition Allies Advocate. Thus ASAP! Coalition Allies are Genuine Immigration Reduction Groups. The 150,000 per year CAP is essential to maintaining environmental protection, prosperity per capita, quality of life, personal and public safety, National Cohesion and the freedoms we have enjoyed.
Regarding Environmental Protection, we reiterate: 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).
Since 1940, world population has grown from approximately 2 billion to 7.5 billion today and is growing at 80 Million per year.  The US population has grown from the 135 million with which we fought and won World War II to approximately 350 million today. The Earth is round and finite. Its resources and US resources cannot support unlimited numbers of people, It has a limited carrying capacity, in other words so it follows that population growth must stop.  When and how? Studies by Dr. Anne Brittain and others show that limiting immigration not only helps the U.S. move toward achieving Population Stabilization, but also drives down fertility rates in sending countries, to everyone’s benefit. And while Population Growth Often Increases Total GDP, it also always reduces Per Capita GDP. Thus all would benefit from U.S. Population Stabilization.

Consider, for example, the impact of Current legal immigration Inflow of 400,000 per year (U.S. Census) on California. It is absolutely unsustainable and not only from a fiscal perspective California is already exceeding its present and prospective potable water supplies; already-depleted underground aquifers will take decades to recharge and agriculture is suffering. And California loses tens of thousands of acres of precious farmland and natural habitat every year as that it is converted to developed uses. And the horrendous crowding on California freeways and in urban areas shows we are exceeding our carrying capacity. And should not California’s worsening housing shortage best be described as a population longage…with increasing numbers of families living homeless under freeways. Is not our first Moral Obligation to them?
And we emphasize that, NOW, is likely not only our last best Opportunity to save our Natural Environment but also our Personal Safety ENVIRONMENT and the safety of our loved ones!!! We reiterate, the ISIS Truck Driver who recently ran down Pedestrians and Cyclists in New York City was a LEGAL immigrant!!!

In sum, pushing for a Legal Immigration CAP of 150,000 per Year—Via the Zero-Net Moratorium is essential to achieving U.S. Population Stabilization and long-term Environmental Protection. Advocating for any higher level than that, as the Mass Immigration Management Groups do, is counterproductive because it assumes, and indeed validates, a continuation of Mass Immigration ad infinitum and thus creates virtually no political pressure for reductions.
Please distribute this to your friends who are genuinely interested in Environmental Protection and please Support BALANCE’s Efforts with a Tax-Deductible Donation Today at balance.org or, by check, to Population-Environment Balance, P O Box 268, San Francisco, CA 94104-0268

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***Noted Economist W. John Williams, proprietor of Shadowstats.com, the USA’s leading Independent Analyst and Reporter of Accurate Statistics regarding the U.S. Economy and Employment, was commissioned by Carrying Capacity Network to study the NET Costs of Legal Immigration to Federal taxpayers. Fact Summary of the Net Costs Study.

Thursday, March 17, 2016

61 MILLION IMMIGRANTS & ACCELERATING!—SUPPORT BALANCE'S REAL SOLUTION NOW—BALANCE ALERT!


POPULATION-ENVIRONMENT BALANCE
www.balance.org


61 MILLION IMMIGRANTS & ACCELERATING!—SUPPORT BALANCE'S
REAL SOLUTION NOW—BALANCE ALERT!


 Alert!
March, 2016

As of December, 2015, 61 MILLION!  Immigrants and their young children were living in the USA, and THREE-FOURTHS CAME LEGALLY!

And the Inflow is ACCELERATING with over half a million Visa Holders overstaying their Visas in 2015 alone…truly a Demographic Tsunami, but, given that the World's population is increasing by 80 Million/yr. the pressure to come to the USA will only INCREASE.

Fortunately,  BALANCE and its ASAP! Coalition Allies have a REAL SOLUTION—our 2016-2017 Initiative described below—which will work to diminish or eliminate key Threats if we all join to support it NOW.

But first, some of the Findings of the excellent study recently released by the Center for Immigration Studies

    • In December 2015 there were 61 million immigrants (legal and illegal) and U.S.-born children under age 18 with at least one immigrant parent living in the United States.
    • Immigrants allowed into the country legally and their children account for three-fourths (45.3 million) of all immigrants and their children.
    • Almost one in five U.S. residents is now an immigrant or minor child of an immigrant parent.
    • The numbers represent a complete break with the recent history of the United States. As recently as 1970, there were only 13.5 million immigrants and their young children in the country, accounting for one in 15 U.S. residents.
    • Just since 2000, the number of immigrants and their children has increased by 18.4 million.
    • The number of immigrants and their young children grew six times faster than the nation's total population from 1970 to 2015 — 353 percent vs. 59 percent.
    • In many states the increase in the number of immigrants and their minor children from 1970 to 2015 has been nothing short of astonishing:
 

  • In Georgia, this population grew 3,058 percent (from 55,000 to 1.75 million), 25 times faster than the overall state population.
  • In Nevada, this population grew 3,002 percent (from 26,000 to 821,000), six times faster than the overall state population.
  • In North Carolina, this population grew 2,937 percent (from 47,000 to 1.43 million), 30 times faster than the overall state population.
  • In Arkansas, this population grew 1,831 percent (from 12,000 to 228,000), 34 times faster than the overall state population.
  • In Tennessee, this population grew 1,823 percent (from 28,000 to 537,000), 27 times faster than the overall state population.
  • In Virginia, this population grew 1,150 percent (from 114,000 to 1.42 million), 15 times faster than the overall state population.
  • In Oklahoma, this population grew 1,139 percent (from 37,000 to 458,000), 22 times faster than the overall state population.
  • In Texas, this population grew 1,084 percent (from 582,000 to 6.89 million), 7 times faster than the overall state population.
  • In Arizona, this population grew 1,019 percent (from 131,000 to 1.46 million), four times faster than the overall state population.
 
"61 Million Immigrants and Their Young Children Now Live in the United States."  www.cis.org March, 2016

     First, just consider a few of the accompanying Negative Effects:
 

  • The major effect of immigration is that it redistributes income from labor to capital by competing down wages…

The idea that immigration creates new income for the majority of native-born Americans is a myth.

Prof. Borjas’ latest paper on this [Immigration and the American Worker: A Review of the Academic Literature, CIS, April 2013.] estimates the current “immigration surplus” to about $35 billion, or a miniscule 0.24% of GDP. This is not a gain to workers. In fact, this fairly modest surplus is the difference between an enormous $437 billion gain accruing to American employers and a slightly less enormous $402 billion wage loss suffered by native-born American workers.  Ed Rubenstein writing in vDare.com August, 2015
 

  • And Immigrant Job Growth was 40% above Americans in the past year
Ibid, March, 2016     

  — In 2015 the Obama Administration released some 90,000 Illegals deemed Criminal Threats into American Communities, according to DHS.   And there is evidence that many of these went to Sanctuary cities where they are protected from deportation.

    — 124 Criminal Aliens released by ICE since 2010 have subsequently been charged with HOMICIDE!  (Senate Judiciary Committee Rpt. March, 2016)
  
    — And, reported by Sovereignty Project, the Obama Administration recently lifted the ban on admitting immigrants with three Sexually Transmitted Diseases — Chancroid, granunala inguinale and lymphogranuloma venereum.
  
    — And DHS expanded its Refugee Admission program to help Central American Illegals qualify as Refugees.
     
Outrageously, Local Communities can be FORCED to accept refugees being resettled, under current law.
  
Related to this encouragement of mass immigration, housing "Shortage" and Crowding Crises intensify across the USA, from New York (where there is a battle over building on vacant lots) to California where the Working poor in Silicon Valley cannot find affordable housing within commuting distance of where they work.  And poor, short- sighted Sanctuary City, San Francisco, is attempting to remove the homeless who live under Freeway overpasses. Don’t we have a moral obligation to provide opportunities to our own poor, homeless and unemployed people first?
  
Yes, legal and illegal immigration add about 2 million people annually to the U.S. population! Their US-born children add more.
  
California alone receives some 400,000 legal immigrants per year (Census Bureau) yet its reservoirs are only 39% full and drought stricken California's Rainy Season is nearly over. One Scientist predicted California will run out of water for farming this year (see BALANCE Alert May, 2015).
  
And each 400,000 cohort requires an ADDITIONAL one million Acre-feet of water per year.
  
And thus another battle is brewing over demands that much of what little water there is be sent from Northern to Southern California, which of course would devastate the Salmon Fishery and other wildlife.
  
    — And it is not just loss of farmland from immigration-generated population growth (one acre used up as the result of each person added to the U.S. Population — Pimentel, Cornell University) but also lost biodiversity and whole ecosystems.
  
And of course there are the Threats to Budgetary Solvency from Mass Immigration.  Over 90% of Refugees are receiving taxpayer-funded public Assistance.  And over 50% of legal and Illegal Immigrant-headed households are on some taxpayer-funded welfare program (www.cis.org ) And all are eligible for essentially "free" (taxpayer funded) health care and education.
  
BALANCE's SOLUTION IS REAL:
  
BALANCE needs your help NOW to implement our 2016-2017 Victory Initiative Action Plan and to STOP the worsening Crisis! Encourage your Representatives to enact:
    

    1) THE ONLY SOLUTION: A Zero-Net All-Inclusive, i.e., including “Refugees” and “Aslyees”, Moratorium on Legal Immigration — this would still allow 100,000 to 150,000 thousand Immigrants to obtain legal residence annually. That number — still large — compares with an estimated 1.5 million  aliens now admitted to the USA annually. A Zero-Net Moratorium is Essential not only because of the extraordinary costs to Taxpayers saddled with providing Billions of Dollars’ worth of "Free" benefits to most of the Legal immigrants and illegal aliens, but also to protect our Natural Environment from Degradation and unsustainable resource use. Drastically Reduce or eliminate H1b and related programs that bring workers and their families into the U.S., taking more American jobs and further depressing wages.
  
Thus the Reps. Brat (R-VA) and Hice (R-GA) Bill, H.R. 604, which would end Chain Migration and enhance Enforcement, is definitely a step in the Right Direction, as is the Refugee Program Restoration Act (HR4731-Goodlatt R-VA) which would reduce the refugee cap to 60,000 annually, but we really do need a Moratorium!
  
BALANCE supports other excellent Bills as well:
  
S2266 Grassley (R-Iowa) Durbin (D-Ill) would prohibit replacement of American Workers by H1B or L-1 Visa Holders and prohibit more H1(B) if more than 50% of their workers are already on these Visas.  And the "Protection of Children" Act (S2561  — Sessions R-Ala and Johnson R-Wisc) would return children to their families in their Home Countries but pushing a Moratorium is priority #1.
  
    2) No More Amnesties or Sanctuary Cities — Amnesties reward Illegal Behavior with increasingly Tragic Consequences. "Sanctuary City" laws are de facto Amnesties and should be defunded and outlawed. Support "Mobilizing Against Sanctuary Cities Act", HR 3002 – Rep. Barletta (R-PA) and "Enforce the Law for Sanctuary Cities Act", HR 3309 – Rep. Hunter (R-CA) and HR 1148 – Gowdy (R-SC) which would empower local law enforcement to enforce Federal Immigration laws, as well as companion bills in the Senate. Were it not for Sanctuary City laws and Open Borders policies, those many victims murdered or injured by Illegal Aliens in San Francisco, San Antonio, Las Vegas, New Jersey, Arizona, and Laredo, Texas and elsewhere might be alive and well today.
  
For those who say it is already "too late" to save America, we respond that, unless we act NOW, the Situation will become Worse, MUCH WORSE. UNLESS WE ACT NOW! IF we do not succeed, a "Third World Hell Hole" is surely in our Future and the Paris Massacres are a Warning!
  
    3) Enforce Immigration Laws — Secure the Borders: Existing laws relating to Legal Immigration and Border Security are not being enforced, primarily because of the Obama Administration's Unconstitutional Executive Orders including tying the hands of our Border Patrol, as Arizona Sheriff Babeu has documented.
   
    4) No Citizenship for the US-born Offspring of  Illegal Aliens’ or Visitors’ : "Birth Tourism" has become a flourishing Industry in the USA, and, understandably so, since babies born in the USA are deemed (based on a judicial misinterpretation of the 14th Amendment) to be Citizens. As Citizens, they can bring their parents and other relatives into the USA as permanent legal residents — on average, seventeen relatives per Anchor Baby — eligible for Citizenship, as well as Billions in "free" Medical Care, Education, Welfare payments, Food Stamps and other taxpayer funded benefits.
  
    5) STOP the TPP TRADE DEAL! The TPP would not only require "free movement of persons" among member nations (of which Mexico is one), but also establish an International Commission which could Negate/Override the power of the USA to set its own immigration policy. As well Service Providing Companies in ANY of the Member Nations could send into the USA unlimited numbers of their service providing personnel to compete with American workers, thus depressing American workers wages and eliminating many of their Jobs. The Job-Killing TPP must be stopped!
  
The ONLY Solution to keeping the Mass Immigration-generated Crises from getting much, much worse is to push the Administration and Congress to enact a zero-net MORATORIUM on Legal Immigration and seal the Borders to stop Illegal Immigration. Eisenhower Administration policies showed that many illegal aliens self-deport when authorities get tougher, as President Eisenhower did when he deported nearly 2 Million Illegals in the 1950s. Thus the claim that Mass Deportation or Mass Legalization are the only options is a FALSE CHOICE. And we must push NOW so that we can generate increasing support for Bills to be enacted ASAP, but realistically no later than when a New President is in office in the Spring, 2017.
  
From a Political-Strategic Perspective, pushing a zero-net Moratorium is the ONLY WAY to delegitimize the whole Policy of Mass Immigration . Also, pushing a Moratorium is Essential to maximize Political Pressure to get some Reductions at least. BALANCE’s Moratorium Push MAXIMIZES Political Pressure NOW and thus is the most efficient use of our Activists’ time and money.
  
Refusing to push a Moratorium (as certain Inside-the-Beltway and other Mass Immigration [de facto ] Management Groups do), is a Recipe for Failure as the past three decades have shown, since that is merely Defensive.
  
Such a Refusal is, indeed, Counterproductive —merely pushing for “immigration reform,” legitimizes the continuation of Mass Immigration because it sends the message that Mass Immigration is OK if we just tweak it a little bit. And it is even worse to push for "Controlled Immigration for the National Interest" or for the two-decades old Jordan Commission Recommendation that Immigration be cut by a third, because that sends the message that Mass Immigration IS in the National Interest. We are far beyond the Point where pushing to merely cut Mass Immigration by a third or a half is an effective Political or Demographic or Security Strategy.
  
And a cut by a third or even a half does NOT put the USA on the path to Sustainability. Rather, it just delays the Inevitable Disintegration and Degradation for a very few years. As well, being merely Defensive increases the chances of passage of Bad Bills, e.g., Illegal Alien Amnesties, and the Issuance of Unconstitutional Executive Orders.
  
Pushing a zero-net Moratorium 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. We must Reverse Course NOW!
  
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!
  
Mass Immigration is thus NOT “Just about the Numbers” as one Management Group claims. WE ARE FACING A MANY-MONTHS-LONG SERIES OF BATTLES ON THESE ISSUES, extending well into 2017. So PLEASE Help BALANCE Intensify our push for a zero-net Moratorium and the other Victory Initiative Positions!
  
Certain Well-Funded Cheap Labor Advocates on the Right, and Ethnic Power and Government Benefits Recipients on the Left, are pushing hard for further implementation of President Obama's Mass Illegal Alien Amnesty, AND FOR MASSIVE INCREASES IN LEGAL IMMIGRATION, including Refugees and Asylees!
  
Only our Massive 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 Intensify our push for the aforementioned ASAP! Coalition Initiatives, TODAY, NOW!
  
BALANCE very much needs you to make a Tax-Deductible Donation TODAY. Please DONATE at our website: www.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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Saturday, December 26, 2015

Real Immigration Reduction Solution



POPULATION-ENVIRONMENT BALANCE
ALERT
December, 2015

Real Immigration Reduction Solution — Only 6 Donation Days Left!

We BALANCE Activists have an excellent Opportunity to achieve Dramatic Reductions in Immigration and a Giant Step toward U.S. Population Stabilization before the end of 2017 if we all act NOW and encourage others to act as well.

And when you read this there will be only 6 or fewer days to make your Donation for our Real Immigration Reduction Solution Tax Deductible for 2015.

Indeed, the Specific Actions BALANCE and our ASAP Coalition Allies Recommend—(and which Immigration management Groups [see below] refuse to recommend)— including a zero-net Moratorium, are the ONLY ones which can achieve success! Read on to find out why.

Here's how: make the following points, and urge the following Actions, as appropriate, to Representatives, Candidates and friends:

    — Given that the World's population increases by some 80 Million per year, and Millions all over the World increasingly want to migrate to the USA, the pressure to migrate to the USA, whether as Legal or Illegal Immigrants or "Refugees" or Asylees, will CONTINUE to increase.

    — Already some 1.5 Million Legal and hundreds of thousands of Illegal Immigrants flood into the US each year. And for the rest of the Obama presidency that is likely to increase by at least the 200,000 Refugees he has promised to admit by Executive Order.

    — The increasingly Negative Environmental and Budgetary Consequences of this Mass Immigration are well known to BALANCE supporters...One acre of farmland or Wildlife habitat lost for every person added to the U.S. Population. (Pimentel et. al. Cornell)

    —Over half of Legal and Illegal Immigrant-headed households are on some welfare program. (cis.org)

    — Massive net Costs result from the generally "Free" Health Care and Education services provided to Immigrants

    — In 2014 Real Median Household income FELL 2.3% for the Native-Born, and ROSE 4.3% for foreign born! (U.S. Census 9/16/15 Poverty Report — see shadowstats.com for a complete analysis)


    — Mass Immigration is decreasing wages and taking jobs from Americans. In November, 2015 alone total employment rose by 244,000 but Native-born American employment fell by 163,000 while immigrant employment rose by 407,000 (Rubenstein, VDare.com)

    — Threats to our Personal Safety are intensifying since those who are admitted or who enter legally or illegally and unopposed (due to Obama Adm. de facto Open Borders and Sanctuary City policies) are not thoroughly vetted or vetted at all

The Massacres in the USA and Europe have sent us several Warning Messages:

Perpetrators in Europe included both Legal Immigrants living in France and at least one Terrorist who falsely claimed he was a Syrian Refugee.

Message: France and the U.S. have for years permitted both Mass Legal and Illegal Immigration. Both must be stopped.

More such attacks can happen, including in the USA. Indeed, they already have. The Boston Bombers’ families were legal immigrants supported in part by benefits provided by the Massachusetts and U.S. taxpayers.

Message: Stop or dramatically reduce welfare and other benefits. They simply provide magnets for more to come.

As the Paris and San Bernardino Massacres have shown, it is impossible to “vet” hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants annually. The San Bernardino Murderer Malik supposedly extensively vetted when she came to the U.S. on a “Fiancée” Visa in 2014.

Message: Only by pushing a zero-net Moratorium on legal immigrants can we achieve Reduction to numbers which could possibly manageably be vetted.

Message: Open Borders and Sanctuary City policies only result in injury and even death to Americans. And not just from previously deported Illegals but also from resource competition and crowding. Our Urban Infrastructure is already overtaxed are Crumbling and Major Urban Centers swamped with Traffic.

Consider

    "...aggressive human behaviors derive from the stress of overcrowding in a world of rising human population" — W.H. Schlesinger. Prof. & Dean Emeritus, School of the Environment Duke University

Indeed, are we not compelled to conclude that:

    "The only thing that stands between America and oblivion is a total immigration moratorium. No other fix will work...” — Ann Coulter, ¡Adios America! … 2015

Indeed, the USA, Canada, and Western Europe are in Great Danger from the Great Immigration Crisis of which Jean Raspail prophetically warned in his 1974 Classic Novel, The Camp of the Saints!

Couple that with increased Wage Depression and Job loss suffered by American workers as a result of Mass Immigration. These harms to Americans have been repeatedly documented.

For example, there has been a "Stunning" rise in Death Rates and Pain Levels for Middle Aged, Less Educated Whites. And tripling the H2B (low-skilled) admittees in the recent spending bill increasing the pain.

Nobel Laureate in Economics Angus Deaton and his wife Anne Case found that from 1999 to 2013, the death rate among non-Hispanic whites aged 45 to 54 with a high school education or less rose, while it fell in other age and ethnic groups. This is a silent epidemic of HIV proportions AIDS killed an estimated 650,000 from the mid-1980s to present, compared to an estimated half-million less educated whites dying prematurely in half that long a period. From the New York Times:

The big culprits are linked to despair, namely “poisoning” which is opioid abuse first and alcoholism second, and suicides. Case and Deaton dug into the underlying statistics, and found distressingly high levels of pain and impaired health in this age group.

The significance of these findings can hardly be overstated: “It is difficult to find modern settings with survival losses of this magnitude,” wrote two Dartmouth economists, Meara and Skinner.

For us at BALANCE a Primary Cause of the despair, pain and impaired health is the various effects associated with Mass immigration. Most at risk of competition for jobs are Americans with labor force characteristics similar to those of most immigrants: Low skills and low education.

Mass immigration adds injury and insult to other policies that negatively impact Americans, including jobs going overseas as some companies search for cheaper labor or Replacement of Americans with Immigrants as Disney and Toys-R-Us did are just two examples.

But together, we can reverse all of this. Start with the easy one; easy because it has the support of the grassroots: STOPPING MASS IMMIGRATION by enacting a zero-Net Moratorium, which would still allow Admission of some 150,000 Legal Migrants including some legitimate refugees, per year.

Regarding "Refugees"

Putting aside the fact that many “Refugees” are actually Economic Migrants, consider that

Each and every “Refugee” becomes instantly entitled to all the Taxpayer-provided benefits of a similarly situated American including Social Security, Welfare, Food Stamps, Cash grants, and

Each "Refugee" costs Taxpayers a net $64,370 in the first five years of resettlement, 12 times what it would cost to resettle them in a neighboring Mideast Country according to the UN.

Refugees are instantly inducted into a culture of dependency: 91% are on food stamps and 68% get cash grants. Over 90% of Middle Eastern Refugees are on some form of welfare.

Worse, “Refugees” can be and are being forcibly resettled in any community in the USA according to the dictates of the Refugee Resettlement Agency and no community can refuse to take them. The Governors of Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, and Michigan and others are resisting this and all Governors should do so.

Neither Refugees nor other Illegal Aliens are properly ‘vetted’, or vetted at all thus making us vulnerable to violent extremists who seek to harm us [by the way, over 50% of the “Refugees” moving into Austria and Germany are young single mostly Muslim males!]

A large majority of all the “Refugees” and Asylees are from Muslim countries

Many Illegal Aliens head for “Sanctuary Cities” as did the Killer of Kate Steinle, a five-time Felon with Multiple Deportations, who admitted he went to San Francisco because it was a Sanctuary City

And many, many more examples of “Refugee”/ Illegal Alien Crime are not reported by the Main Stream Media.

Worse yet, an Outline of the Trans Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement on the U.S. Trade Representative's website reveals that the TPP, soon going to Congress for a vote, would Completely Eliminate Caps on the "Movement of Natural Persons" across Borders, thus on track to exceed limits set by current immigration law.

So we need your help NOW to implement our 2016-2017 Victory Initiative Action Plan and to STOP the worsening Crisis! Encourage your Representatives to enact:

    1) THE ONLY SOLUTION: A Zero-Net All-Inclusive, i.e., including “Refugees” and “Aslyees”, Moratorium on Legal Immigration — this would still allow 100,000 to 150,000 thousand Immigrants to obtain legal residence annually. That number — still large — compares with an estimated 1.5 million legal aliens now admitted to the USA annually. A Zero-Net Moratorium is Essential not only because of the extraordinary costs to Taxpayers saddled with providing Billions of Dollars’ worth of "Free" benefits to most of the Legal immigrants and illegal aliens, but also to protect our Natural Environment from Degradation and unsustainable resource use. Drastically Reduce or eliminate H1b and related programs that bring workers and their families into the U.S., taking more American jobs and further depressing wages. Thus we urge support of the Reps. Brat (R-VA) and Hice (R-GA) Bill, H.R. 604, which would end Chain Migration and enhance Enforcement, is definitely a step in the Right Direction, but support for HR604 should be coupled with a push for a Moratorium!

S2266 Grassley (R-Iowa) Durbin (D-Ill) would prohibit replacement of American Workers by H1B or L-1 Visa Holders and prohibit more H1(B) if more than 50% of their workers are already on these Visas…but support for S2266 should be coupled with a push for a Moratorium.

    2) No More Amnesties or Sanctuary Cities — Amnesties reward Illegal Behavior with increasingly Tragic Consequences. "Sanctuary City" laws are de facto Amnesties and should be defunded and outlawed. Support "Mobilizing Against Sanctuary Cities Act", HR 3002 – Rep. Barletta (R-PA) and "Enforce the Law for Sanctuary Cities Act", HR 3309 – Rep. Hunter (R-CA) and HR 1148 – Gowdy (R-SC) which would empower local law enforcement to enforce Federal Immigration laws, as well as companion bills in the Senate. Were it not for Sanctuary City laws and Open Borders policies, those many victims murdered or injured by Illegal Aliens in San Francisco, San Antonio, Las Vegas, New Jersey, Arizona, and Laredo, Texas RECENTLY might be alive and well today. Unfortunately, the recent spending bill failed to defund Sanctuary Cities.

For those who say it is already "too late" to save America, we respond that, unless we act NOW, the Situation will become Worse, MUCH WORSE. UNLESS WE ACT NOW! IF we do not succeed, a "Third World Hell Hole" is surely in our Future and the European and U.S. Massacres are a Warning!

    3) Enforce Immigration Laws — Secure the Borders: Existing laws relating to Legal Immigration and Border Security are not being enforced, primarily because of the Obama Administration's Unconstitutional Executive Orders including tying the hands of our Border Patrol.

    4) No Citizenship for Illegal Aliens’ or Visitors’ Offspring: "Birth Tourism" has become a flourishing Industry in the USA, and, understandably so, since babies born in the USA are deemed (based on a judicial misinterpretation of the 14th Amendment) to be Citizens. As Citizens, they can bring their parents and other relatives into the USA as permanent legal residents — on average, seventeen relatives per Anchor Baby! — eligible for Citizenship, as well as Billions in "free" Medical Care, Education, Welfare payments, Food Stamps and other taxpayer funded benefits.

    5) STOP the TPP TRADE DEAL! The TPP would not only require "free movement of persons" among member nations (of which Mexico is one), but also establish an International Commission which could Negate/Override the power of the USA to set its own immigration or environmental policy. As well Service Providing Companies in ANY of the Member Nations could send into the USA unlimited numbers of their service providing personnel to compete with American workers, thus depressing American workers wages and eliminating many of their Jobs. The TPP must be stopped!

The ONLY Solution to keeping the Mass Immigration-generated Crises from getting much, much worse is to push the Administration and Congress to enact a zero-net MORATORIUM on Legal Immigration and seal the Borders to stop Illegal Immigration. Eisenhower Administration policies showed that many illegal aliens self-deport when authorities get tougher as President Eisenhower did when he deported nearly 2 Million Illegals in the 1950s. Thus the claim that Mass Deportation or Mass Legalization are the only options is a FALSE CHOICE. And we must push NOW so that we can generate increasing support for Bills to be enacted ASAP, but realistically no later than when a New President is in office in the Spring, 2017.

From a Political-Strategic Perspective, pushing a zero-net Moratorium is the ONLY WAY to delegitimize the whole Policy of Mass Immigration . Also, pushing a Moratorium is Essential to maximize Political Pressure to get some Reductions at least. BALANCE’s Moratorium Push MAXIMIZES Political Pressure NOW & thus is the most efficient use of our Activists’ time & money.

Refusing to push a Moratorium (as certain Inside-the-Beltway and other Mass Immigration [de facto ] Management Groups do), is a Recipe for Failure as the past three decades have shown, since that is merely Defensive.

Such a Refusal is, indeed, Counterproductive —merely pushing for “immigration reform,” legitimizes the continuation of Mass Immigration because it sends the message that Mass Immigration is OK if we just tweak it a little bit. And it is even worse to push for "Controlled Immigration for the National Interest" or for the two-decades old Jordan Commission Recommendation that Immigration be cut by a third, because that sends the message that Mass Immigration IS in the National Interest. We are far beyond the Point where pushing to merely cut Mass Immigration by a third is an effective Political or Demographic or Security Strategy. As well, being merely Defensive increases the chances of passage of Bad Bills, e.g., Illegal Alien Amnesties, and the Issuance of Unconstitutional Executive Orders.

Pushing a zero-net Moratorium is key as an objective because it is reasonable and Essential for long-term environmental 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. We must Reverse Course NOW!

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 Cohesion and Personal Safety… and for protection of our Food and Water Supplies! Mass Immigration is thus NOT "Just about the Numbers" as one Management Group puts it.

WE ARE FACING A MANY-MONTHS-LONG SERIES OF BATTLES ON THESE ISSUES, extending well into 2017.

So PLEASE Help BALANCE Intensify our Mobilizing Activists for a zero-net Moratorium and other Victory Initiative Positions!

Certain Well-Funded Cheap Labor Advocates on the Right, and Ethnic Power and Government Benefits Recipients on the Left, are pushing hard for further implementation of President Obama's Mass Illegal Alien Amnesty, AND FOR MASSIVE INCREASES IN LEGAL IMMIGRATION, including Refugees and Asylees!

Only our Massive 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 Intensify our push for the aforementioned ASAP! Coalition Initiatives, TODAY, NOW!

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Monday, November 16, 2015

2016-2017 IMMIGRATION MORATORIUM VICTORY INITIATIVE





POPULATION-ENVIRONMENT BALANCE
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November, 2015



2016-2017 IMMIGRATION MORATORIUM VICTORY INITIATIVE
PARIS MASSACRES — A WARNING TO US

We BALANCE Activists have an excellent Opportunity to achieve Dramatic Reductions in Immigration and a Giant Step toward U.S. Population Stabilization before the end of 2017 if we all act NOW and encourage others to act as well.

Indeed, the Specific Actions BALANCE and our ASAP Coalition Allies Recommend—and which Immigration management Groups (see below) refuse to recommend— including a zero-net Moratorium, are the ONLY ones which can achieve success! Read on to find out why.

Here's how: make the following points, and urge the following Actions, as appropriate, to Representatives, Candidates and friends:

— Given that the World's population increases by some 80 Million per year, and Millions all over the World increasingly want to migrate to the USA, the pressure to migrate to the USA, whether as Legal or Illegal Immigrants or "Refugees" or Asylees, will CONTINUE to increase.
— Already   some 1.5 Million Legal and hundreds of thousands of Illegal Immigrants flood into the US each year.  And for the rest of the Obama presidency that is likely to increase by at least the 200,000 Refugees he has promised to admit by Executive Order.
— The increasingly Negative Environmental and Budgetary Consequences of this Mass Immigration are well known to BALANCE supporters...One acre of farmland or Wildlife habitat lost for every person added to the U.S. Population. (Pimentel et. al. Cornell)
—Over half of Legal and Illegal Immigrant-headed households are on some welfare program. (cis.org)
— Massive net Costs result from the generally "Free" Health Care and Education services provided to Immigrants
— In 2014 Real Median Household income FELL 2.3% for the Native-Born, and ROSE 4.3% for foreign born!  (U.S. Census 9/16/15 Poverty Report — see shadowstats.com for a complete analysis)
— Increased Threats to our Personal Safety as those who are admitted or who enter legally or illegally and unopposed (due to Obama Adm. de facto Open Borders and Sanctuary City policies) are not thoroughly vetted or vetted at all

The Paris Massacres have sent us several Warning Messages:
  • The Perpetrators included both Legal Immigrants living in France and at least one Terrorist who falsely claimed he was a Syrian Refugee.
  • Message: France and the U.S. have for years permitted both Mass Legal and Illegal Immigration. Both must be stopped.
  • More such attacks can happen, including in the USA. Indeed, they already have. The Boston Bombers’ families were legal immigrants supported in part by benefits provided by the Massachusetts and U.S. taxpayers.
  • Message: Stop or dramatically reduce welfare and other benefits. They simply provide magnets for more to come.
  •  As the Paris Massacres have shown, it is difficult if not impossible to “vet” hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants annually.
  • Message: Only by pushing a zero-net Moratorium on legal immigrants can we achieve Reduction to numbers which can managably be vetted.
  • Message:  Open Borders and Sanctuary City policies only result in injury and even death to Americans. And not just from previously deported Illegals but also from resource competition and crowding.
Consider

"...aggressive human behaviors derive from the stress of overcrowding in a world of rising human population"

W.H. Schlesinger. Prof. & Dean Emeritus, School of the Environment Duke University

Indeed, are we not compelled to conclude that:

"The only thing that stands between America and oblivion is a total immigration moratorium. No other fix will work...”

Ann Coulter, ¡Adios America! … 2015

Indeed, the USA, Canada, and Western Europe are in Great Danger from the Great Immigration Crisis of which Jean Raspail prophetically warned in his 1974 Classic Novel, The Camp of the Saints!

  • Couple that with increased Wage Depression and Job loss suffered by American workers as a result of Mass Immigration. These harms to Americans have been repeatedly documented.
  •  For example, there has been a "Stunning" rise in Death Rates and Pain Levels for Middle Aged, Less Educated Whites.

Nobel Laureate in Economics Angus Deaton and his wife Anne Case found that from 1999 to 2013, the death rate among non-Hispanic whites aged 45 to 54 with a high school education or less rose, while it fell in other age and ethnic groups. This is a silent epidemic of HIV proportions AIDS killed an estimated 650,000 from the mid-1980s to present, compared to an estimated half-million less educated whites  dying prematurely in half that long a period. From the New York Times:

The big culprits are linked to despair, namely “poisoning” which is opioid abuse first and alcoholism second, and suicides. Case and Deaton dug into the underlying statistics, and found distressingly high levels of pain and impaired health in this age group.

The significance of these findings can hardly be overstated: “It is difficult to find modern settings with survival losses of this magnitude,” wrote two Dartmouth economists, Ellen Meara and Jonathan S. Skinner.

For us at BALANCE a Primary Cause of the despair, pain and impaired health is the various effects associated with Mass immigration.  Most at risk of competition for jobs are Americans with labor force characteristics similar to those of most immigrants: Low skills and low education.

Mass immigration adds injury and insult to other policies that negatively impact Americans, including jobs going overseas as some companies search for cheaper labor or Replacement of Americans with Immigrants, as Disney and Toys-R-Us did, are just two examples.

But together, we can reverse all of this. Start with the easy one; easy because it has the support of the grassroots: STOPPING MASS IMMIGRATION by enacting a zero-Net Moratorium, which would still allow Admission of some 150,000 Legal Migrants including legitimate  Refugees, per year.

Regarding "Refugees"

Putting aside the fact that many “Refugees” are actually Economic Migrants, consider that   
  • Each and every “Refugee” becomes instantly entitled to all the Taxpayer-provided benefits of a similarly situated American including Social Security, Welfare, Food Stamps, Cash grants, and
  • Each "Refugee" costs Taxpayers a net $64,370  in the first five years of resettlement in the USA, 12 times what it would cost to resettle them in a neighboring Mideast Country according to the UN.
  • Refugees are instantly inducted into a culture of dependency:  91% are on food stamps and 68% get cash grants.  Over 90% of Middle Eastern Refugees are on some form of welfare.
o   Worse, “Refugees” can be forcibly resettled in any community in the USA according to the dictates of the Refugee Resettlement Agency and no community can refuse to take them. The Governors of Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, and  Michigan are resisting this and all Governors should do so.
  • Neither Refugees nor other Illegal Aliens are properly ‘vetted’, or vetted at all thus making us vulnerable to violent extremists who seek to harm us [by the way, over 50% of the “Refugees” moving into Austria and Germany are young single, mostly Muslim, males!]
  •  A large majority of all the “Refugees” and Asylees are from Muslim countries   
  • Many Illegal Aliens head for “Sanctuary Cities” as did the Killer of Kate Steinle, a five-time Felon with Multiple Deportations, who admitted he went to San Francisco because it was a Sanctuary City
 
And many, many more examples of “Refugee”/ Illegal Alien Crime are not reported by the Main Stream Media.

Worse yet, an Outline of the Trans Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement on the U.S. Trade Representative's  website reveals that the TPP, now going to Congress for a vote,  would Completely Eliminate Caps on the "Movement of Natural Persons"  across Borders, thus on track to exceed limits set by current immigration law.

So we need your help NOW to implement our 2016-2017 Victory Initiative Action Plan and to STOP the worsening Crisis!  Encourage your Representatives to enact:

1) THE ONLY SOLUTION: A Zero-Net All-Inclusive, i.e., including “Refugees” and “Aslyees”, Moratorium on Legal Immigration — this would still allow 100,000 to 150,000 thousand Immigrants to obtain legal residence annually. That number — still large — compares with an estimated 1.5 million legal aliens now admitted to the USA annually. A Zero-Net Moratorium is Essential not only because of the extraordinary costs to Taxpayers saddled with providing Billions of Dollars’ worth of "Free" benefits to most of the Legal immigrants and illegal aliens, but also to protect our Natural Environment from Degradation and unsustainable resource use.

Drastically Reduce or eliminate H1b and related programs that bring workers and their families into the U.S., taking more American jobs and further depressing wages. Thus the Reps. Brat (R-VA) and Hice (R-GA) Bill, H.R. 604, which would end Chain Migration and enhance Enforcement, is definitely a step in the Right Direction, but we really do need a Moratorium!

S2266 Grassley (R-Iowa) Durbin (D-Ill) would prohibit replacement of American Workers by H1B or L-1 Visa Holders and prohibit more H1(B) if more than 50% of their workers are already on these Visas…but we really do need a Moratorium.

2) No More Amnesties or Sanctuary Cities — Amnesties reward Illegal Behavior with increasingly Tragic Consequences. "Sanctuary City" laws are de facto Amnesties and should be defunded and outlawed.  Support "Mobilizing Against Sanctuary Cities Act", HR 3002 – Rep. Barletta (R-PA) and "Enforce the Law for Sanctuary Cities Act", HR 3309 – Rep. Hunter (R-CA) and HR 1148 – Gowdy (R-SC) which would empower local law enforcement to enforce Federal Immigration laws, as well as companion bills in the Senate.  Were it not for Sanctuary City laws and Open Borders policies, those many victims murdered or injured by Illegal Aliens in San Francisco, San Antonio, Las Vegas, New Jersey, Arizona, and Laredo, Texas RECENTLY might be alive and well today.

For those who say it is already "too late" to save America, we respond that, unless we act NOW, the Situation will become Worse, MUCH WORSE. UNLESS WE ACT NOW! IF we do not succeed, a "Third World Hell Hole" is surely in our Future and the Paris Massacres are a Warning!

3) Enforce Immigration Laws — Secure the Borders: Existing laws relating to Legal Immigration and Border Security are not being enforced, primarily because of the Obama Administration's Unconstitutional Executive Orders including tying the hands of our Border Patrol.

4) No Citizenship for Illegal Aliens’ or Visitors’ Offspring: "Birth Tourism" has become a flourishing Industry in the USA, and, understandably so, since babies born in the USA are deemed (based on a judicial misinterpretation of the 14th Amendment) to be Citizens.  As Citizens, they can bring their parents and other relatives into the USA as permanent legal residents — on average, seventeen relatives per Anchor Baby — eligible for Citizenship, as well as Billions in "free" Medical Care, Education, Welfare payments, Food Stamps and other taxpayer funded benefits.

5) STOP the TPP TRADE DEAL! The TPP would not only require "free movement of persons" among member nations (of which Mexico is one), but also establish an International Commission which could Negate/Override the power of the USA to set its own immigration policy. As well Service Providing Companies in ANY of the Member Nations could send into the USA unlimited numbers of their service providing personnel to compete with American workers, thus depressing American workers wages and eliminating many of their Jobs. The TPP must be stopped!

The ONLY Solution to keeping the Mass Immigration-generated Crises from getting much, much worse is to push the Administration and Congress to enact a zero-net MORATORIUM on Legal Immigration and seal the Borders to stop Illegal Immigration.  Eisenhower Administration policies showed that many illegal aliens self-deport when authorities get tougher as President Eisenhower did when he deported nearly 2 Million Illegals in the 1950s.  Thus the claim that Mass Deportation or Mass Legalization are the only options is a FALSE CHOICE. And we must push NOW so that we can generate increasing support for Bills to be enacted ASAP, but realistically no later than when a New President is in office in the Spring, 2017.

From a Political-Strategic Perspective, pushing a zero-net Moratorium is the ONLY WAY to delegitimize the whole Policy of Mass Immigration. Also, pushing a Moratorium is Essential to maximize Political Pressure to get some Reductions at least. BALANCE’s Moratorium Push MAXIMIZES Political Pressure NOW and thus is the most efficient use of our Activists’ time and money.

Refusing to push a Moratorium (as certain Inside-the-Beltway and other Mass Immigration [de facto ] Management Groups do), is a Recipe for Failure as the past three decades have shown, since that is merely Defensive.

Such a Refusal is, indeed, Counterproductive—merely pushing for “immigration reform,” legitimizes the continuation of Mass Immigration because it sends the message that Mass Immigration is OK if we just tweak it a little bit.  And it is even worse to push for "Controlled Immigration for the National Interest" or for the two-decades old Jordan Commission Recommendation that Immigration be cut by a third, because that sends the message that Mass Immigration IS in the National Interest. We are far beyond the Point where pushing to merely cut Mass Immigration by a third is an effective Political or Demographic or Security Strategy. As well, being merely Defensive increases the chances of passage of Bad Bills, e.g., Illegal Alien Amnesties, and the Issuance of Unconstitutional Executive Orders.

Having a zero-net Moratorium goal is key as an objective because it is reasonable and Essential for long-term Environmental 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.  We must Reverse Course NOW!

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 Cohesion and Personal Safety… and for protection of our Food and Water Supplies!  Mass Immigration is thus NOT "Just about the Numbers" as one Management Group puts it.

WE ARE FACING A MANY-MONTHS-LONG SERIES OF BATTLES ON THESE ISSUES, extending well into 2017.
So PLEASE Help BALANCE Intensify our push for a zero-net Moratorium and the other Victory Initiative Positions!

Certain Well-Funded Cheap Labor Advocates on the Right, and Ethnic Power and Government Benefits Recipients on the Left, are pushing hard for further implementation of President Obama's Mass Illegal Alien Amnesty, AND FOR MASSIVE INCREASES IN LEGAL IMMIGRATION, including Refugees and Asylees!

Only our Massive 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 Intensify our push for the aforementioned ASAP! Coalition Initiatives, TODAY, NOW!

BALANCE very much needs you to make a Tax-Deductible Donation TODAY. Please DONATE at our website: www.balance.org or, to donate via U.S mail, please send to:

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

Population-Environment Balance
populationenvironmentbalance.blogspot.com
balance.org
Mailing address:
Population-Environment Balance | P.O. Box 268 | San Francisco, CA 94104
BALANCE is anti-Mass-Immigration, not anti-immigrant.