When is enough immigration?

Article by Frosty Wooldridge

Januaty 19, 2004

Published in the Albany Herald.

Have you ever gone to a New Year's eve bash that was so big and so crowded that everyone at the party stood in each other's faces?

Did you try to dance but it felt like dancing in thick pancake batter with too many people bumping into you?

Did you enjoy yourself? Did you leave early? Did you vow to never do that again?

Get ready for that party coming into your country at full force. The only difference is — you can't go home.

You're already home. You can't leave your country because it is your country.

Last week, the Federation for American Immigration Reform, in Washington, D.C. stated, "Another 1.1 million legal immigrants will enter the U.S this year. The immigrant population doubled from 19.8 million in 1990 to 31.1 million a decade later."

Another 800,000 illegal aliens will also cross into the U.S, which will total two million, give or take a few.

The latest figures showing six large U.S. cities now consist of a majority of foreign-born inhabitants. "America's immigration policies have launched us into a risky experiment never tried by modern day countries," said Dan Stein, director of FAIR. Hialeah and Miami, Fla., along with Glendale, Santa Ana, Daly City and El Monte, Calif., have been 'swamped' with immigration.

Mexico is moving its excess population, wholesale, into America with 9.2 million so far and millions more crossing at 2,000 per day. The Philippines at 1.5 million and China at 1.4 million follow them.

These numbers grow with immigrants from India, Vietnam, Cuba, Korea, Canada, El Salvador and other Latin American countries. At current rates of immigration, both legal and illegal, will add 45 million foreign born into the USA.

"What remains to be seen is if this country has the capacity to accommodate and assimilate an unending wave of mass immigration. The failure to do so will result in a balkanized, fragmented, strife-torn and dysfunctional America," Stein said.

It's already happening. Last year, with over 10 million legal and illegal immigrants causing a crisis in every sector of the Golden Bear State, 800,000 Californians left the party. It's now $38 billion in debt, can't hire enough teachers in a broken educational system and struggles with 18-hour gridlock.

More people from California now reside in Idaho than natives of that state. Over a million people fled the West and East coasts to take up residence in Colorado in the past decade.

California will gain a whopping 20 million people in 30 years. Colorado will add four million.

Tom Ridge said, "The bottom line is, as a country we have to come to grips with the presence of 12 million illegals, afford them some kind of legal status, but also as a country decide what our immigration policy is and then enforce it."

One has to wonder how ridiculous that statement sounds. If he refuses to uphold and defend our borders now, what will he do later, serve milk and cookies as they make their way through the desert?

That begs the question of how many more people we can invite to the party before our party (country) is bumper to bumper and running out of resources. Do we have unlimited water? Unlimited clean air? Do we like being stuck in bumper to bumper traffic? Do we have enough food?

What about standard of living? Do we want to live like they do in China or India?

Every American citizen and even the immigrants who are here need to ask the most basic questions: "When is enough immigration enough?"

When are too many people too many? When will our society turn against itself with conflicting languages? How will it incorporate conflicting religions?

What will it do with conflicting cultures? How will it clean the air over the cities? Where will it grow food as sprawl eats up farmland?

The sobering reality of immigration is — the line never ends. The world grows by 10,000 per hour, 240,000 per day and 80 million annually.

As a nation, we stand at a critical juncture. Too many people at any party make for a bad time.

Too many people with dissimilar interests, languages and conflicting cultures will make the party untenable. But once they are here, you can't leave.

Whether it's an overloaded carrying capacity or loss of quality of life, the United States is in trouble.

We need a 10-year moratorium on all immigration. We can and must enforce it for the very existence of our nation.

If we fail, we are in so much trouble environmentally, carrying capacity-wise, lack of water, lack of clean air, species extinction, schools, hospitals and infrastructure.

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