Illegal immigration is bad for the environment

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[WesternCulture]

Legal migration to the U.S. can be controlled, is necessary for our future growth, and it’s welcomed by all Americans. Its effects can be managed, and we can slowly adapt to newcomers and constantly assess our growing needs and the effect they will have on our resources.

But illegal immigration is by its nature uncontrolled, explosive and dangerous to our environment. Here are Five Reasons Why:

1. Explosive Population Growth Is Not Sustainable

Illegal Immigration at the current rate is not sustainable. How many people can the United States support? We stand at 300 million (plus 12-20 million here illegally.) Can we support 350 million? 400 million? A half billion?

Native-born Americans had slowed population growth by the 1980s, only to see illegal and legal immigration spike since then. We are in danger of reversing that trend towards sustainability.

2. Illegal Immigration Causes a Drain on Water Resources

How many resources will we have to devour to support a rapidly growing illegal population? When population growth explodes, so does the need for food, and the needfor land to grow it. Turning deserts into farmland is possible due to modern technology, but water resources are finite, and in some western states, are already at the limit. We need to do all we can to limit explosive growth that put demands on our waterresources, or we won’t have them.

3. Illegal Immigration Creates Urban Sprawl

Explosive urban growth has occurred in the past decade, causing cities to bulge out into suburbs, which themselves are spreading rapidly. Demographics show that this is caused by overpopulation, and almost all population growth has been caused by immigration. Illegal immigration is an increasingly higher percentage of that immigration. More and more housing projects, fewer and fewer trees. When will it end?

4. Illegal Immigrantsare Less Likely to Be Green Just as Western Nations are more likely to push for tighter environmental controls on factories and other polluters, legal citizens care more about their environment, often because they are better off financially and have a greater sense of well being. The converse is also true. Those nations which are living in poverty have fewer “Green” resources and are less likely to employ them in their desperate daily quest for survival. The same is true for illegal immigrants, many living in poverty.

5. Companies that Hire Illegal Immigrants Couldn’t Care Less for the Environment

If a company is hiring illegals, does it care about them? The fact is, companies who care only about the bottom line so much that they will hire those it can easily underpay and exploit show contempt for labor regulations. Do you trust them to care about environmental regulations, either?

Five Suggested Actions for Legal Citizen Activists:

1. Copy the first page of this campaign pamphlet and give it to local green activists and groups.

2. Urge local environmental organizations to come out against illegal immigration, because it does NOT represent a sustainable population growth strategy.

3. Tell businesses and corporations that employ illegal labor that you will BOYCOTT their goods and services until they cease doing so.

4. Write to your Representative in Congress and Senators and DEMAND that they start helping businesses by:

A. Tripling fines on businesses that employ illegal aliens in violation of U.S. law. as a disincentive to businesses thinking of hiring them in the future

B. Initiating a full-scale, immediate crackdown on businesses who employ illegals.

C. Building an effective border system that keeps out those who wish to sneak into the U.S. illegally

D. Create an effective tracking system that allows LEGAL migrants into the country and allows businesses to easily identify them as such

5. Tell all your friends, family, co-workers or fellow students to go to legalcitizens.org and jointhe campaign to tell others that Illegal Immigration is NOT Green, and is bad for the environment..

[WesternCulture]

I’m European, but I fully sympathize with these American activists.

In many ways, the US is in the same situation as Europe in the area of immigration.

We’ve heard the Environmentalists complain that tourism/men/economic growth/having children/Christmas/eating meat etc, etc is bad for the environment.

But what about immigration?

Take Europe. The thousands upon thousands of people that annually immigrate from Asia and Africa to my continent, don’t they have a negative impact on the environment?

Just consider the CO2 emissions of their journeys to Europe itself.

Wish me good luck on importing these arguments to PC Swedish soil and marketing them to environmentally concerned people over here!

[Clintonfatigued]

This pits environmental extremeists against politically correct activists.

[G8 Diplomat]

Illegal immigration causes global warming! Uh-oh, the Dems are in a quagmire!

[rbg81]

Funny, you never hear the tree huggers whining about illegal immigration. Its cause they’re indigenous peoples, and therefore have more of a right to this land than we do. In their mind, we are the problem, not them.

[Chode]

how bout the MILLIONS of plastic water jugs discarded by these rats along with all the other jetsam they dump here???

[steelyourfaith]

"Hot Air Cult"

~~Anthropogenic Global Warming ™ ping~~

[WesternCulture]

“Funny, you never hear the tree huggers whining about illegal immigration. Its cause they’re indigenous peoples, and therefore have more of a right to this land than we do. In their mind, we are the problem, not them.”

- Without reflection, PC people automatically side with whoever conceived of as “weak” instead of defending what is right and what is true.

[steveab]

If the parents of newborns are illegal immigrates, why on earth would you give the newborn automatic citizenship?

[CottonBall]

Funny, you never hear the tree huggers whining about illegal immigration. Its cause they’re indigenous peoples, and therefore have more of a right to this land than we do...

The first part is true - the Sierra Club will whine and snivel about someone using a dirt bike on BLM land, but will never complain about all the trash and crap left all over by illegals. But - illegals are NOT indigenous people. At least, not the majority of them. Most are the decendents of Spaniards, who conquered the indigenous indians. They like to think their ancestors had the land for generations - but they show their ignorance of history and of facts. That's what a 6th grade education got them.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

This will never work because the Green movement is just another western white man’s guilt movement.

[rbg81]

Yes, I agree they are mixed, though many of the ones from Southern Mexico are almost all of Indian descent. In any case, I am relating what these enviros are actually say and think.

My wife teaches part time at a local nature center. She is very environmentally conscious, but otherwise conservative. However, most of her coworkers are total moonbats. I have been to a few of their get togethers and find them simultaneously amusing and maddening. I have heard the “indigenous” argument being used several times to defend the right of illegals to migrate here.

I am convinced that many of these people want to return to 1491—as long as they get to keep THEIR houses, their 4WD SUVs....and maybe Starbucks & Wegmans. They want to be the country squires presiding over their grateful, idigenous serfs in a natural paradise. All the other white people can go back to Europe or die. Pretty sickening when you think about it.

[CottonBall]

In any case, I am relating what these enviros are actually say and think.

Oh, I knew that ;) I've heard that argument before also.

And even if it was their land from thousands of years ago - look what they've done with the land they have now. Mexico is a cesspool. They want to conquer the U.S. southwest, but keep all the positives living in the U.S. has to offer. Pretty stupid. It would become a 3rd world cesspool in no time. Many parts of Southern California are already there!