Issue 75: May 23, 2001
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Ed Abbey
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Last December, in a Los Angeles Times story, reporter Robin Wright asked Bangladeshi President Sheika Hasina:
"At independence, Bangladeshi women averaged six to seven children. Today, that rate has been halved by a [...]

Issue 74: May 18, 2001
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Last September, Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack announced his support for a plan that would exempt Iowa from federal immigration limits.
A combination of national ridicule and strong local opposition has since caused Vilsack to backpedal on the issue, but an early champion of his cheap labor scheme, [...]

Issue 73: May 7, 2001
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In a new Gallup poll released Thursday (May 3, 2001), more Americans (43%) want to see immigration levels lowered from current levels, than to remain the same (41%). (http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr010503.asp )
To those who object to current U.S. immigration policy — which will drive 90% of the country’s [...]

Issue 71: April 30, 2001
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On an issue that continues to divide the Sierra Club, an important ballot initiative was narrowly beaten back this month. The referendum would have forced Club leaders to stress population growth as a major factor in sprawl. (This would seem an obvious connection, but the sprawl/population issue [...]

Issue 69: April 16, 2001

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Last year, Iowa Governor Tom Vilsak made national news by suggesting his state exempt itself from federal limits on mass immigration and turn Iowa into another Ellis Island. A condition exists in Iowa in which some businesses are reluctant to pay wages high enough to [...]

Americans deserve tuberculosis says Star Tribune
Issue 67: March 30, 2001
Immigration is doubling U.S. population within the lifetime of today’s college students.
(source: Census Bureau)
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In a March 23 editorial timed to coincide with something called World Tuberculosis Day, the Minneapolis Star Tribune wrote, "One in three people around the [...]

Issue 65: March 7, 2001
Advocating an immigration time-out is no more "anti-immigrant" than family planning is "anti-child."
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Dressing up self-interest in the garb of altruism is one of humanity’s least attractive, but most enduring, habits.
For example, China has been engaged in the systematic destruction of the Tibetan culture for the last half [...]

Sierra Club: immigration can save rain forests
Issue 66: March 19, 2001
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In a March 16 Las Vegas Sun article, Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope suggests that the recent destruction of an Indonesian rain forest due to ethnic war in that country could have been prevented by importing some of [...]

Issue 62: February 11, 2001
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On February 9, the Contra Costa Times wrote, "Teaching Spanish to California kids makes sense, given the increasing Hispanic population and the gradual blurring of the border, fueled by NAFTA and helped along by new presidents in Mexico and the United States." (Speaking to the future http://www.contracostatimes.com/opinion/stories/xxfrilead_20010209.htm)
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