Costs of Mass Immigration
Mounting

— Business, Workers, and Environment Increasingly Taxed —
— A Solution on the Horizon —

Illegal/Legal Immigration Connection

Legal, and thus controllable, immigration actually fuels illegal immigration as family members and countrymen bypass legal channels to gain entry into the United States. The Center for Immigration Studies found that: "communities of recently arrived legal immigrants help create migration networks used by illegals and serve as incubators for illegal immigration, providing jobs, housing, and entree to America for illegal-alien relatives and countrymen." Thanks to 245(i) and other amnesty programs, today's illegal alien is tomorrow's potential legal permanent resident — a situation that allows and encourages even more of both legal and illegal immigration.

Bottom Line: Mass Legal Immigration Encourages Mass Illegal Immigration with Devastating Consequences.

Mass Immigration and Our
Threatened Natural Environment

Immigration-caused population growth continues to swallow our land, choke our clean air, guzzle our water supplies, and exhaust our natural resources. Massive legal immigration is a magnet for massive illegal immigration. Over 80% of the United States' 3.3 million annual population growth results from immigration. Our border environment has paid a heavy price, including forest fires, weakened border security, and increased cross-border crime.

Massive immigration results in:

1) fires and other environmental damage. For example, this year alone in the Coronado, along the Mexico border near Tucson, Arizona, over 91,940 acres have burned in the 1.8 million acre National Forest due largely to the more than 8 major fires allegedly started by illegal aliens, as the attached Coronado Report shows; and
2) business and workers pay an increasingly high price in taxes, lost jobs, and depressed wages — over $93 billion a year in taxes (net after subtracting taxes immigrants pay) and $152 billion in annual wage depression as more fully described in the attached Economics Report.

Mass Immigration Continues while Millions Lose Jobs

The bottom line is that mass immigration means more competition for the limited resources in the "resource pie," whether one is talking about good jobs, room on the freeway, potable water, open space, or cheap energy. It drives up costs of all these desirable and necessary goods. Paying for immigration takes an ever increasing proportion of the family budget, which means that the consumer has less disposable income. Immigration, which makes the average American poorer, is ultimately very BAD for the economy and businesses since — as we hear ad nauseum — economic health depends on continued consumer spending. Even as millions of people have lost their jobs in the U.S. in recent years, we continue to allow more than a million aliens permanent resident status each year in the U.S., forcing increased competition for jobs, health care, education, welfare benefits, and housing at a time when Americans desperately need these resources.

Stop Increasing Taxes, Job Loss,
and Environmental Degradation

A Solution on the Horizon — Act Now!

Remember: One Act of Congress is all it takes!

  • Call, write, or fax your representative today, urging them to cosponsor H.R. 2712, still the best immigration reducing bill in Congress today! The all-inclusive moratorium on legal immigration which would be enacted by H.R. 2712 is the best way to address Post 9/11 security concerns, alleviate environmental degradation, and put the U.S. on the path to population stabilization, all in one congressional act! Ask your Senators to sponsor a similar bill in the Senate.
  • Ask other groups you support if they are pushing the moratorium bill H.R. 2712 as their first priority. Ask them if they have signed onto the ASAP Coalition's 4-point program. (If they have not signed on, they may well be a "Reform Lite" group!) Ask for written confirmation they have signed on.
  • You have made a difference! Act now, and make even more! Recently, CCN immigration reduction activists have been an increasing presence on the Hill. CCN and our ASAP Coalition allies' intensified lobbying has had results defeating 245(i) and, with your continued support, our gains can multiply! Use Paypal to give a special donation today!

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    Note: CCN is anti-mass immigration but NOT anti-immigrant.

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