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Saturday, June 16, 2018
Help Stop Exploitation of Children at Border; Stop Amnesty of Two Million
Friday, February 2, 2018
Big Amnesty Plans Enable Continued Population Explosion – Help STOP IT!
The
White House proposal to Amnesty 1.8 Million “DACA-eligible” Illegal Aliens, in
return for limitations on Chain Migration and an end the Visa Lottery would
actually not have a beneficial Population
Stabilization effect for years.
(In
other words, the Legal Immigration
of 1.5 Million+ per year would not
be reduced much for years under the White House proposal and would greatly
increase under other proposals like the Durbin/Graham proposal.)
Consider the
White House plan which would give
“…an instant
amnesty for an estimated 1.8 million "DACA-eligible" illegal aliens.
… and make further cuts to chain migration after
those currently in line for other categories have been admitted.(emphasis
added)
“The bottom line
is that these cuts to chain migration would reduce total legal immigration by
about 18 percent in the short term, and 33 percent in the long term (after 10
years). However, the huge size of the amnesty means that under this scheme it
will take about 15 years for the chain migration cuts to offset the new green
cards awarded in the amnesty. In other words, there would be instant
deportation relief for 1.8 million illegal aliens, but a very long wait for
immigration relief for Americans.”
“White House Immigration Framework
Big Amnesty Now, Chain Migration Cuts Much Later,”
J. Vaughan, January 31, 2018, cis.org
Big Amnesty Now, Chain Migration Cuts Much Later,”
J. Vaughan, January 31, 2018, cis.org
In addition Amnesty Recipients would
be given a 10-year Path to Citizenship and
“The spouses of citizens (and their children) will continue
to enter in unlimited numbers and the spouses of Lawful Permanent Residents
(and their children) will be capped at about 88,000, as under current law.”
Ibid.
However, most unfortunately,
“All of the
approximately 3.9 million people on the waiting list for chain migration green
cards will be offered the opportunity to apply for admission under current
numerical limits, plus a few extra (see below). According to the State
Department, this will ultimately result in the admission of about 2.5 million
new immigrants, as some will decline the opportunity and a few will be found to
be ineligible for admission. I estimate that the admission of these applicants
would take approximately 10 years under the current numerical limits and
quotas….(emphasis added)
“Furthermore, the leading proposals being considered by the
Senate create a new non-immigrant residency visa for parents of citizens that
will replace the green card category…. And the parents of the "Dreamers"
who receive amnesty might become eligible for residency under such a program,
thus potentially more than doubling the size of the amnesty. (It has been
estimated that Dreamers have an average of 1.6 parents in the U.S.)
“…After 10 years, green card awards would settle to a number
that is about 33 percent lower than current levels, or about 775,000 per year.”
Ibid.
One consequence of enabling a
continued Migration near or above the current 1.5 Million LEGAL Immigrants per
year is that the NET (after subtracting Taxes Immigrants pay) Costs of that
LEGAL Inflow would remain near $330 Billion per Year! And the effects on the
Natural and Personal Safety Environments would remain.
Thus the White House and other Proposals
demonstrate how important it is to maximize downward pressure on the numbers by
pushing for a Zero-Net Moratorium as all ASAP! Coalition Member Organizations
do. Is it not, therefore, true that any group which refuses to push a
Moratorium is an Immigration Management Group, NOT a Genuine Reduction Group?
Only our Massive Grassroots Effort
can Succeed in reducing the Numbers! Phone Calls or Office Visits 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 all-categories included Zero-NET MORATORIUM, TODAY,
NOW!
TO MAXIMIZE OUR CLOUT PLEASE
DONATE 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 by credit card at
our website: BALANCE.ORG or, to donate by check via U.S mail, please send to:
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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.
Threat of Mass Immigration-generated population growth to our Environment, Nation, Budgets, and Personal Safety and Mobilizing Activists to Reduce it.
Tuesday, December 26, 2017
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,
Follow
BALANCE on Twitter @PEnvirons
Mailing
address:
Population-Environment Balance | P.O. Box 268 | San Francisco, CA 94104
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
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.
Threat of Mass Immigration-generated population growth to our Environment, Nation, Budgets, and Personal Safety and Mobilizing Activists to Reduce it.
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
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
________
***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.
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
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.
*********************
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
Thank you,
Population-Environment
Balance
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