Deputy Director’s Corner NPG Deputy Director Tracy Canada can be reached by email at tcanada@npg.org. I was deeply dismayed to see that earlier this month, President Obama chose to reinstate the infamous (and dangerous) “Catch and Release” program along our nation’s borders. According to Congressional testimony given by Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council: “The willful failure …
Continue ReadingDeputy Director’s Corner NPG Deputy Director Tracy Canada can be reached by email at tcanada@npg.org. As the world prepared to ring in the New Year with celebration, the U.S. Census Bureau seemed to be celebrating something else: the January 1, 2016 release of new U.S. and world population projections, which are at the highest levels in human history. Census estimates …
Continue ReadingDeputy Director’s Corner NPG Deputy Director Tracy Canada can be reached by email at tcanada@npg.org. As the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) continues its latest immigration raids, a new wave of fierce debate on America’s immigration crisis has ensued. According to The Washington Post: “The raids were the first in a broad operation by the Obama administration that is …
Continue ReadingDeputy Director’s Corner NPG Deputy Director Tracy Canada can be reached by email at tcanada@npg.org. On December 7th, CNN reported: “Smog in China closes schools and construction sites, cuts traffic in Beijing.” According to the article, “Much of the Chinese capital shut down Tuesday after Beijing’s city government issued its first red alert for pollution… According to the U.S. Embassy …
Continue ReadingDeputy Director’s Corner As 2015 comes to a close, immigration and population growth seem to have taken center spotlight of the international stage. NPG Deputy Director Tracy Canada can be reached by email at tcanada@npg.org. On December 2nd, CNN reported this breaking news: “Texas files suit in federal court over Syrian refugees.” Ken Paxton, the state’s Attorney General, filed …
Continue ReadingDeputy Director’s Corner Recent headlines have been unusually full of population-related discussion. Is America finally waking up to our most critical issue? NPG Deputy Director Tracy Canada can be reached by email at tcanada@npg.org. On November 9th, CNN ran a story titled “Climate change could create 100 million poor, over half a billion homeless.” As you know, NPG has …
Continue ReadingDeputy Director’s Corner NPG Deputy Director Tracy Canada can be reached by email at tcanada@npg.org. On Thursday, October 29th, China’s state-sponsored news agency Xinhua ran the following headline: “China to allow two children for all couples.” According to the article, the nationwide policy proposal was announced “after the Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th Communist Party of China (CPC) Central …
Continue ReadingDeputy Director’s Corner NPG Deputy Director Tracy Canada can be reached by email at tcanada@npg.org. On October 15th, immigration expert Dr. Peggy Sands Orchowski released an Op-Ed piece titled “Having to Choose: A Nation’s Agonizing Immigration Duty.” The thoughtful, well-written piece begins: “It’s a universally acknowledged truth that no nation can sustain open borders. Even the wealthiest, most popular ‘nations …
Continue ReadingAs I review the headlines on all of the global media networks, I cannot help but see a disturbing trend. I read story after story of the devastating social, economic, and environmental crises happening all over the world… and they all have something in common. Whether it’s a direct cause – or simply a contributing factor making things much, much worse…
Continue ReadingDeputy Director’s Corner Is America finally listening? If you haven’t read it already, I encourage you to review Paul A. Murtaugh’s strong Op-Ed in The New York Times titled “Paul Ehrlich’s Population Bomb Argument Was Right.” Murtaugh, an associate statistics professor at Oregon State, strongly refuted The Times’ recent Retro Report called “The Unrealized Horrors of Population Explosion.“ Thankfully, Murtaugh …
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