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tion was slashed to under 250,000 a year beginning in 1920, an average that held through 1965—not coincidentally a time, despite the Great Depression, of huge labor advancement and the civil rights movement. (During the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt and others insisted that immigration be kept below 10,000 a year, despite the humanitarian crisis in Europe, a difficult but necessary stand given a nation teetering on the brink of disaster.)

In contrast, immigration during the today's Great Tsunami averages 700,000 legal immigrants. That is at five times historical averages and is the highest rate in our history with almost as many arriving in one year as all immigration between 1776 and 1826. An estimated half-million additional people arrive each year via illegal border crossings. That translate to 1.2 million added to our population each year just from immigration, with most arriving from less industrial, less high-impact cultures to become part of the most high-consumption, destructive economies in world history!

Family Owned & Operated since 1967

Specializing in Old Fashioned Sausages from your wild game. We also make the best jerkey & sausage sticks in North America.

United States growth is linked to

both immigration

at the highest rate,

by large margins, in our history and,

despite media depictions to the contrary,

a rising birthrate.

The Zephyr editor has been addicted for decades!

Immigration was slashed to under

250,000 a year

beginning in 1920, an average that held

through 1965

—not coincidentally a time, despite the

Great Depression,

of huge labor advancement and the civil rights movement.

The other growth source is births. The media hype a basically replacement-level birth rate of about 2.1 children per woman, albeit up from a low of 1.7 in the 1970s. Again, strictly speaking, true, but absolutely ignoring a staggering demographic force called momentum.

Put as simply as possible, it means that while each woman is having fewer children, more women than ever are of reproductive age and are having children, meaning a high annual birth rate! That's a trend common in all rapidly growing nations and it means that it can take decades, after achieving a replacement-level birth rate, for population to stabilize.

As a result—and absolutely lost on the media—more babies, 4,317,000, were born in 2007—than during the 1957 peak of the baby boom! Over 4 million babies continue to arrive each year. Subtract roughly 2.4 million deaths and the upshot is that births add just under 2 million to our population each year, while immigration adds 1.2 million.

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Each year the nation adds another 3 million high-impact, high-carbon, high-consumption Americans with global and domestic implications of staggering— and undisguised—proportions.

(Parker, ajournalist, publisher and longtime environmental and population activist is a native of the Four Corners area. She earlier served on the national Population Issues Committee of the Sierra Club and currently sits on the Board of Advisors of Population-Environment Balance. She often writes nationally about population and water issues. During her lifetime, she has seen cities, such as Las Vegas, Phoenix and Denver, grow from populations of tens of thousands to millions. She lives in the Albuquerque suburb of Rio Rancho.)

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	tion was slashed to under 250,000 a year beginning in 1920, an average that held through 1965—not coincidentally a time, despite the Great Depression, of huge labor advancement and the civil rights movement. (During the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt and others insisted that immigration be kept below 10,000 a year, despite the humanitarian crisis in Europe, a difficult but necessary stand given a nation teetering on the brink of disaster.) In contrast, immigration during the today's Great Tsunami averages 700,000 legal immigrants. That is at five times historical averages and is the highest rate in our history with almost as many arriving in one year as all immigration between 1776 and 1826. An estimated half-million additional people arrive each year via illegal border crossings. That translate to 1.2 million added to our population each year just from immigration, with most arriving from less industrial, less high-impact cultures to become part of the most high-consumption, destructive economies in world history! *Family Owned* & *Operated since* *1967* Specializing in Old Fashioned Sausages from your wild game. We also make the best jerkey & sausage sticks in North America. United States growth is linked to both immigration at the highest rate, by large margins, in our history and, despite media depictions to the contrary, a rising birthrate. The Zephyr editor has been addicted for decades! Immigration was slashed to under 250,000 a year beginning in 1920, an average that held through 1965 —not coincidentally a time, despite the Great Depression, of huge labor advancement and the civil rights movement. The other growth source is births. The media hype a basically replacement-level birth rate of about 2.1 children per woman, albeit up from a low of 1.7 in the 1970s. Again, strictly speaking, true, but absolutely ignoring a staggering demographic force called momentum. Put as simply as possible, it means that while each woman is having fewer children, more women than ever are of reproductive age and are having children, meaning a high annual birth rate! That's a trend common in all rapidly growing nations and it means that it can take decades, after achieving a replacement-level birth rate, for population to stabilize. As a result—and absolutely lost on the media—more babies, 4,317,000, were born in 2007—than during the 1957 peak of the baby boom! Over 4 million babies continue to arrive each year. Subtract roughly 2.4 million deaths and the upshot is that births add just under 2 million to our population each year, while immigration adds 1.2 million. REMEMBER...ALL WEB SITE LINKS ARE HOT...JUST CLICK & GO... Each year the nation adds another 3 million high-impact, high-carbon, high-consumption Americans with global and domestic implications of staggering— and undisguised—proportions. (Parker, ajournalist, publisher and longtime environmental and population activist is a native of the Four Corners area. She earlier served on the national Population Issues Committee of the Sierra Club and currently sits on the Board of Advisors of Population-Environment Balance. She often writes nationally about population and water issues. During her lifetime, she has seen cities, such as Las Vegas, Phoenix and Denver, grow from populations of tens of thousands to millions. She lives in the Albuquerque suburb of Rio Rancho.)

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