All in the Family: Preferences for Relatives Drive U.S. Immigration and Population Growth

By Jessica Vaughan Introduction and Key Findings The United States has just concluded the largest decade of immigration in its history. From 2000-2009 more than 10 million legal immigrants settled here.1 This surpasses the levels of both the early 20th century, which for a long time was the high water mark of immigration to the United States, and the 1990s, …

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NPG Condemns Lame-Duck Action on Amnesty

Declares Voter by Defeated Members of Congress to be an “Insult to Democracy” Alexandria, VA (November 16, 2010)—Negative Population Growth (NPG) President Don Mann called on Congressional leaders to put off any vote on immigration reform until January 2011 when the newly elected members of the 112th Congress take office. Working to derail a move by Senate Majority Leader Harry …

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NPG’s Earth Day Message: Population Must Be Top Environmental Concern

Declares Population Level of 450 Million will Wipe Out Environmental Gains Alexandria, VA (April 22, 2010)—Negative Population Growth (NPG) President Don Mann called on America’s elected leaders and policymakers today to use the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day to make a commitment to a national population policy that will rein-in population growth. Mann noted that failure to make population growth …

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The Great Silence: U.S. Population Policy

Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version My attention was called recently to a Department of State position paper that said simply that “The U.S. does not endorse population ‘stabilization’ or ‘control.’ The ‘ideal’ family size should be determined by the desires of couples, not governments.” That is not just a major retrograde step; it is a particularly bad …

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