Majority of Americans Support Tough Action against Illegal Entry and Residence; Favor Lower Legal Immigration and Population Growth

Two Americans in three (68 percent) agree that the United States should set a goal of completely halting new illegal immigration. Over half (55 percent) support the related goal of reducing the population of 10 to 12 million illegal immigrants now residing in the United States “to near zero.” These were among the key findings of a new poll conducted …

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Zero Tolerance for Illegal Immigration: An Urgent Policy Need (An NPG Position Paper)

Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version. Zero Tolerance For Illegal Immigration: An Urgent Policy Need An NPG Position Paper Summary Statement NPG’s primary concern with immigration, both legal and illegal, is that it is the driving force behind America’s population growth. Our population grew by some 33 million in the decade of the 90s, and is on track …

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Americans Talk About Illegal Immigration – Poll Results (2006)

Table of Contents Introduction and Method Overview I. General Attitudes Toward Immigration II. Approval of Methods to Deal With Illegal Immigration Sample Demography Poll Questions Introduction and Method Overview This survey was undertaken on behalf of Negative Population Growth to explore several issues surrounding American attitudes toward illegal immigration and to gauge support for various measures to reduce it. Sample …

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Proposed National Population Policy

Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version  NPG believes that a national policy to turn U.S. population growth around is critically needed. (See the FORUM series in the Publications on our web site, www.npg.org.) In this paper, we offer a series of specific proposals as to how to accomplish that goal. We recognize the political resistances in the way of …

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SIX INCONVENIENT TRUTHS

In the film An Inconvenient Truth, ex vice-president Al Gore presents the facts about climate change. It is a bravura performance. He makes use of brilliant presentational techniques to put before us all relevant current knowledge about climate change. He lightens the factual burden with humour, and by including some interesting

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Should New Orleans be Rebuilt? (An NPG Internet Forum Paper)

by Walter Youngquist The environment on which we depend consists of energy resources, and the biological and mineral resources of the Earth. It involves biological processes such as species competition and adaptation to a changing physical environment. It includes the physical processes, which go to shape the Earth’s surface, as well as modify both the surface and the interior of …

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A Vast Social Experiment: The Immigration Act of 1965

Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version The United States had left regulation of immigration to the coastal states until the Supreme Court in 1875 declared that this was exclusively a national, not a state responsibility. Congress struggled through four decades to create a coherent policy that would bring under control the large-scale and essentially unregulated immigration that commenced …

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Spending Our Great Inheritance; Then What? (An NPG Internet Forum Paper)

by Walter Youngquist During more than 500 million years, geological processes accumulated a rich bank account for us – oil. The “account” actually was set up as numerous accounts – some large, some small – in various parts of the world. In 1859, Col. E. L. Drake initiated the modern search with his now-famous well near Titusville, Pennsylvania. Soon the …

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