The True Immigration Issue

In less developed countries, population growth is driven primarily by high fertility (children per woman). Growing numbers of people in these countries wish to leave their home countries in search of greater financial opportunity in more developed countries. Like all of us, they are looking for a better life.

In developed (Westernized) countries, native fertility is already at or below replacement level (2.1 children per woman). Families in these countries are on average much smaller than families in less developed countries.¹ American women voluntarily reached replacement level fertility in 1972, while in developing countries, population is still growing dramatically.^1,2

Amazingly, United States population is still projected to double within the lifetimes of children born today - thanks to mass immigration, both legal and illegal.^3,4,9,10 Whether or not Americans want this unending growth should certainly be a matter for educated and informed open discussion.

Special interests benefit immensely from mass immigration. Businesses benefit from cheap foreign labor. Political parties benefit from mass immigration: Republican corporate constituents benefit from cheap labor and the Democratic Party benefits from a major source of new potential Democratic voters.

Ethnic special interests see an increasing power base resulting from increasing numbers, while many Americans are becoming increasingly concerned about Balkanization of their country.⁵

Globalists envision a free flow of goods and people across present national borders and the formulation of global trading hemispheres.

Mass immigration is a major component of all of these issues. It is a major component of the major problems facing the United States. It should be discussed factually, openly and honestly, without the name-calling and personal attacks that are typical of the open borders network. (For example, see the case study of attacks against John Tanton.)