FOR URBAN SCHOOL CHILDREN

Across America, school overcrowding threatens the education of millions of children. Massive building programs at immense taxpayer costs have not been able to keep up.

Congress and its immigration policies are responsible for much of this primarily inner-urban tragedy. Since 1976, virtually all the increase in student enrollments in the U.S. has been due to the rise in the number of children of immigrants – immigrants who on average don't begin to earn enough money to pay the taxes to cover the education costs of their children.

Americans do not want their Congress to use immigration next year to add tens of thousands more students into inadequate schools? Americans are FOR compassion toward the nation's children – including those of recent immigrants.

FOR ACCESS TO OPEN SPACES

An integral part of the standard American ideal of a quality life is tied to the tradition of quick access to open spaces.

After the massive population growth of the last 50 years, the homes of most Americans now are in large urban areas. Each year, because of continued population growth, open spaces get farther and farther out of reach. It takes longer and longer for the average American to get to open spaces for hiking, fishing, birding, swimming, hunting, bicycling, camping, picnicking, boating and even gazing at the night sky.

Increasingly Americans find the "open spaces" so congested they fail to receive the psychological and spiritual refreshment they had sought.

Americans are FOR a continued link with the natural world for all citizens, not just for the wealthy who can buy their own retreats. But Congress forces endless urban sprawl that traps more and more Americans in urban congestion without daily – or even weekly – access to open spaces.

FOR THE AMERICAN WAGE-EARNER

For two decades, real wages for hourly workers have been stagnant or in decline. Income disparity has widened dramatically. The middle class is in a squeeze. Studies in top scholarly journals have shown that the flooding of the labor market with foreign workers has been a significant factor.

With tens of millions of Americans – native and foreign-born – currently unable to support a family at even lower-middle-class standards, should the federal government continue to import hundreds of thousands of new foreign workers to compete with the most vulnerable of our countrymen and women?

Most Americans want to stop such insensitive competition. They are FOR a life of dignity for even the lowest skilled of workers. Congress should show some compassion.

FOR MIDDLE-CLASS OPPORTUNITIES FOR IMMIGRANTS AND BLACK AMERICANS

Most economists are agreed that the workers hurt most by high immigration this year are the immigrants who came last year. They are exposed to the most direct labor competition.

The majority of Americans – who oppose high immigration – reject the idea of the federal government constantly reinforcing a semi-permanent under-class of foreign laborers.

Most Americans are FOR a society in which all Americans – including the foreign-born can live middle-class lifestyles. Congress should show some compassion toward the immigrants of this country.

And Congress should show some compassion toward the descendents of U.S. slavery who are only slightly less harmed by continued high immigration. The only time black Americans have made substantial economic progress in this country has been during periods of low immigration and tight labor markets.

FOR EASY PERSONAL MOBILITY WITHOUT TRAFFIC GRIDLOCK

Most transportation planners concede that Americans will never give up the incredible personal mobility freedoms offered by the automobile – unless forced by the government.

The auto would pose little problem today if we had the 203-million population of 1970.

But more than 80 million people (most of them immigrants and their descendents) have been added to the country since then. Americans in large urban areas now must spend a significant part of their lives in maddening rush-hour traffic.

Recent national studies concede that the experts do not have a good idea of how to break the gridlock we have under the current population.

Imagine the transportation nightmare with the more than 400 million Americans the Census Bureau says will be living in this country by 2050 if Congress doesn't change immigration numbers.

Most Americans are FOR the ability to travel anywhere they choose, without gridlock. Congress should have some compassion for American motorists.

FOR INDIVIDUAL LIBERTIES

Most Americans place an extremely high value on the American tradition of generous individual liberties and of limiting regimentation and regulation to as little as is necessary for the common good.

The growth of the U.S. from 130 million during World War II to nearly 285 million today has placed enormous pressures on individual liberty.

Americans have moved to small families to prevent a repeat of that. But Congress insists on overriding those decisions – intent on more than TRIPLING the World War II population by the year 2050.

FOR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

In 1970, we achieved a national consensus to stop squandering our natural resources and to restore and preserve the quality of our water, air, eco-systems, and bio-diversity for future generations. Americans are FOR the idea of meeting most of those goals by the 1990s.

After enormous expenditures, there have been great improvements. But largely because there are 80 million more people today flushing toilets, etc, 40% of our lakes and streams still don't meet the fishable and swimmable goal. Every day, urban sprawl gobbles up square miles of prime farmland, natural habitat and recreational spaces.

Until cherished environmental goals can be met and the destruction of eco-systems curbed under the current size of population, Congress is an environmental outlaw in its immigration program of coercive population growth.

FOR SURVIVAL OF THE LIFESTYLES OF SMALL CITIES, TOWNS, AND RURAL AREAS

Instead of many types of lifestyles and local cultures to choose from, Americans are finding all cities becoming more and more like New York City and Los Angeles.

Under current immigration policy, population growth adds the equivalent of another Detroit, Denver, Miami, and Washington, D.C. – EVERY YEAR!

Such federally-coerced massive population growth almost guarantees that mid-size cities without big-city traffic jams today cannot long escape them.

And any smaller cities, towns, and rural areas within 50 miles of the present outskirts of a large city are destined to be swallowed inside the ever-marching sprawl of the big cities.

It is not only the residents of those areas who will lose their ability for a lifestyle different from the congested urban one. Many small cities and towns throughout the Mountain West, Midwest, and South are finding their local cultures turned upside down almost overnight by one of two phenomenon: (1) brand new flows of immigrants who over barely a decade make up 20-30% of school populations, (2) even larger flows of American-born refugees who flee the immigration-confusion of the coasts and through sheer numbers transform the job markets and social mores of the locals.

Americans are FOR the ability of any resident to move around the country. But they also are FOR enough stability so that residents of every community are not in constant dread of seeing their way of life changed suddenly against their will.

How about some compassion for local communities?

Americans FOR Compassion Are
AGAINST High Immigration