Americans do not want to live in a country of half a billion people, but that is exactly where we’re headed if President Bush gets the immigration increases he is seeking.

We have paved over 1.65 million acres of farm land in the last 10 years. How long can we sustain that kind of sprawl? Our current immigration/population is already destroying our rich environmental tradition. The proposal to add another 200 million people to our population by 2050 via immigration will spell the end of the American ideals of open spaces and individual freedoms.

Even without the massive increase that President Bush and Senate Republicans are proposing, we can expect massive population growth in the next forty years. We should reach something between 443 million and 495 million people by 2050. We can expect enough problems trying to find enough housing, roads, classrooms, and hospitals to provide for these people without you making the problem worse.

Even without increasing legal immigration by 50 percent, we can expect an energy crisis as we exceed our ability to produce enough oil and gas for our own citizens. California and New York are already growing accustomed to brownouts and blackouts every summer.

The cheap labor that President Bush and the big business lobby salivate over would come at a great price. I hope you will oppose the president’s plan.

Phone me if you would like to talk about this,

Greg Raven, Apple Valley, CA

P.S. We need to preserve America!

Sent to:
Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, Jerry Lewis