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Reduce immigration to strengthen resilience to extreme climate
During the past 20 years, America has lost more than 11.5 million acres to development. A majority of the loss was a result of the U.S. population growing by nearly 40 million people. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, our country is poised to add another 75 million people by 2060 — with roughly 90% due to immigration.
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Population growth undermines efforts to protect open space
The Biden Administration’s “Conserving and Restoring America the Beautiful” plan aims to protect 30 percent of America’s land from development by 2030. The more-ambitious “Nature Needs Half” movement argues for stopping the destruction of natural habitat before the ratio falls below 50 percent (already too late for many countries, but not the United States).
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Population growth is putting pressure on America’s farmland
We are witnessing the dramatic loss of farmland in America. Plus, the farmland remaining is being degraded due to fragmentation, salinization, and/or topsoil erosion. This permanent loss of the means to produce food has been driven by our own population growth. What makes America unique among rapidly-growing countries is that our high growth in numbers is facilitated primarily through permissive immigration policies.
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Please support mandatory E-Verify
The simplest way to end illegal immigration is by requiring all employers to use E-Verify. I hope you’ll support this commonsense solution and push for a vote on legislation that would mandate E-Verify nationwide.
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Pass legislation to end illegal immigration and secure the border
Due to the actions (or inaction) of the Biden administration, the border is out of control and illegal immigration is rampant. Congress must make securing the border and tackling illegal immigration a priority during the remainder of the 117th Congress and during the 118th Congress. Legislation must include:
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It’s past time to end birthright citizenship
Often lost in the immigration debate is the issue of Birthright Citizenship. Birthright Citizenship is an outdated practice that lures foreign nationals to the United States so their unborn children can become U.S. citizens. Please work to end this ridiculous policy!
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Immigration hurts minority workers, especially American descendants of slavery
I’m deeply concerned that legislators are waging an immigration offensive that will worsen the job prospects for American descendants of slaves, working class Americans, and U.S.-born STEM professionals. Please make helping the American middle-class your primary legislative focus. More immigration means fewer jobs for the American citizens that need them the most.
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I’m glad you support mandatory E-Verify
H.R. 78, the Legal Workforce Act would, within three years, require all employers to run new hires through the E-Verify system. Isn’t this great news? Instead of unscrupulous employers being able to drive down wages and take advantage of illegal aliens, they will now be obliged to hire unemployed Americans and legal immigrants.
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I oppose green cards for unvetted Afghan evacuees!
A handful of bipartisan U.S. Senators have introduced S. 4787 to give green cards to more than 100,000 Afghan evacuees who don’t qualify for refugee status or special immigrant visas. I oppose this legislation!
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How Democrats are making it harder to save biodiversity
I am writing to you because I am concerned about our unsustainable population growth, driven primarily by your immigration policies, which add more than one million per year (more than two million since the current border crisis began). America is inexorably losing its open spaces and wilderness areas, along with a wide array of wildlife.
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End the border crisis
Border Patrol agents are on pace to make more than 2 million apprehensions of illegal border crossers during the current fiscal year. It’s past time for Congress to take action to end this historic border crisis!
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Democratic cities are being overwhelmed by border surge
New York City Mayor Adams is overwhelmed by busloads of migrants coming from the border. Cities closer to the border have been overwhelmed for months. There is nothing “compassionate” about facilitating a border crisis. End asylum fraud, catch and release, and the abuse of parole authority. Reinstate and mandate the Migration Protection Protocols program.
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Back the Freedom Caucus’ border plan!
It is incredibly disappointing that the White House has taken no steps to address the Biden Border Crisis. The situation at the border represents a threat to our national security, and you and your fellow Republicans need to keep it front and center.
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Americans need access to untrampled open space
Nature-lovers such as myself care most about biodiversity/species extinction and the incremental loss of America’s dwindling open spaces, e.g., wildlife habitat and wilderness. These problems are a direct and readily-observable result of our nation’s population growth.
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SB 918 — Letter of opposition
I am writing in strong opposition to S.B. 918, which will make significant changes to Concealed Carry Weapons (CCW) procedures that will do nothing but complicate the process and increase the costs of obtaining a permit by law-abiding citizens. It is apparent that this bill is an attempt to circumvent the ruling from the United States Supreme Court in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v Bruen, which legally established California as a “shall issue” state.
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SB 1384 — Letter of opposition
I am strongly opposed to S.B. 1384, which requires licensed firearms dealers to have a digital video surveillance system, burglary alarm system, and a keyless entry system on their premises.
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A.B. 2552 — Letter of opposition
I am in opposition to A.B. 2552 which requires notices to be posted at each public entrance of every gun show in California on the storage, handling, purchase, and theft of firearms.
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A.B. 1227 — Letter of opposition
I am in strong opposition to A.B. 1227, which seeks to impose an excise tax on each new gun purchased in California.
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A.B. 1227 — Letter of opposition
I am writing in strong opposition to A.B. 1227, which seeks to impose an excise tax on the gross receipts on the sale of all firearms, ammunition, and so-called precursor parts, purchased in the state. I oppose this bill for the following reasons:
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The Constitution for the United States of America
I just received unsolicited in the mail a booklet with the title “The Constitution of the United States & The Bill of Rights and all Amendments.”