Immigration Fuels U.S. Population Bomb

Last month the Pew Research Center released a study which projects that U.S. population will grow by 48 percent between 2005 and 2050, and that 82 percent of this growth will come from immigration — both legal and illegal — to the United States. The report, authored by Jeffery S. Passel and D'Vera Cohn of the Pew Research Center, predicts that the population of the United States, which was 296 million in 2005, will be 438 million by 2050 if current trends continue.

Of these 142 million additional people, 67 million will be immigrants and 50 million will represent the children or the grandchildren of these immigrants. (Pew Research Center, U.S. Population Projections: 2005-2050, February 11, 2008) The findings of the Pew Research Study are similar to that of a 2006 FAIR study which found the U.S. population in 2050 would be a minimum of 445 million. 

Between 2005 and 2050, the foreign-born population will more than double from 36 million to 81 million. As a result, the foreign-born share of the population will rise from 12 percent of the population in 2005 to nearly 19 percent of the population in 2050. Pew Research also estimates that sometime between 2020 and 2025, the foreign-born percentage of the population will exceed its historic peak of 14.8 percent reached in 1890.

Commenting on these findings, Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies stated, "we need to ask ourselves if we want the 100 million more people immigration will bring. Do you want 80 million more cars on the road, or 40 million homes occupying what's now open space?" (Washington Post, February 12, 2008).

In Metro Washington and Prince George's County in particular, the growth rates of the foreign born will be even higher, and the damage caused by the population bomb will be much worse.  All of the efforts by well-meaning "progressives" to control growth and protect the environment will be literally steamrolled by waves of humanity who never knew what a sustainable environment or culture was like.  Without restriction of immigration, the rich and the poor will crowd out the middle class, along with the unique American environment and quality of life that the American middle class created on this planet. 

The foolish global warming globalists and the Ayn Rand libertarians will be stopped -- if not by prudent immigration controls, then by "100% natural" rises in human misery and death control.