Reasons to Support a Moratorium

1. Impact on wages and working conditions of U.S. citizens;

2. Achievement or maintenance of federal environmental quality standards;

3. The huge tax burden of mass immigration, public schools, hospitals, and other public infrastructures;

-- In 1997, mass immigration cost American taxpayers $70 billion. If current trends continue, the costs for the 1998-2007 decade will be $932 billion;

-- On average, one person added to a community burdens each taxpayer in the locality with infrastructure costs of over $15,000. This number is distinct from annual operating costs;

-- Native-born workers lose $133 billion annually due to job displacement and wage depression caused by immigration;

-- If current trends continue, the U.S. will cease to be a food exporter around the year 2030, thus losing approximately $40 billion in annual income from export sales (in today's prices);

-- Mass immigration-generated population growth is depleting our aquifers at a rate of 24% faster, on average, than they are being recharged;

-- Mass immigration-generated population growth is overburdening our infrastructure (including schools, healthcare services, waste disposal services, transportation, and electric grid systems);

-- A Guestworker Program does not offer a solution to the supposed "labor problems" in the U.S. The costs associated with unskilled guestworkers, namely wage depressions and job displacement for the lowest-paid American workers, would make matters worse. Unskilled workers would not only [overwhelm] the American workers, but would also pay very little in taxes, thus increasing the burden on the welfare system with benefits for their U.S. born offspring.

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