The post-mortems marking the 25th anniversary of Watergate earlier in 1997 overshadowed another quarter-century milestone of the Richard Nixon era – one of even greater long-term consequences for the nation’s future.
Continue ReadingRoy Beck The Case Against Immigration New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1996. Journalist, immigration scholar and active protestant layman, Roy Beck is pro-immigrant but anti-immigration- at least immigration at its present level of one million-plus yearly. His book is a powerful case against today’s mass immigration that is compassionate, racially-sensitive but not racist, and profoundly moral. Steering clear of …
Continue ReadingTwo years ago the world badly needed William Hollingsworth’s tough-minded but humane prescription for urgent reduction of human fertility.
Continue ReadingPope John Paul H’s visit to the United States in October was a critical stage in the lobbying campaign for high immigration that the U.S. Catholic hierarchy has waged for three decades.
Continue ReadingClick here for a downloadable, printable PDF version by David Simcox Immigration of 1.1 million persons a year perpetuates population growth and dims prospects for a smaller, environmentally sustainable U.S. population. Since the 1970s the vast majority of Americans have voted by their fertility rates to stabilize population. But immigration has nullified their choice. Humanitarian immigration — refugees, asylees and …
Continue ReadingWashington’s agreement with Castro last fall to increase Cuban immigration to at least 20,000 a year once again sacrifices much needed immigration restraint for foreign policy quick fixes.
Continue ReadingThis is the fifth of a series of NPG FORUM papers exploring the idea of optimum population.
Continue ReadingSecure Identification: The Weak Link In Immigration Control An NPG Forum Paper by David Simcox May 1989 Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version David SimcoxDavid Simcox is a former NPG Senior Advisor. From 1985 to 1992 he was executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. From 1956 to 1985, Simcox was a …
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