We must end chain migration into America

By Frosty Wooldridge

Each year, year after year, decade after decade—the United States accepts over 1.2 million legal immigrants.  It absorbs them through legal immigration that multiplies when members who make it to the USA ask for family reunification that results in endless chain migration.

As it stands, the United States cannot continue absorbing millions from the third world.  Why? Because the third world adds 80 million desperately poor people annually so the line never ends. At some point, citizens of the world must take responsibility for their own fecundity.

In a five minute astoundingly simple yet brilliant video, “Immigration, Poverty, and Gum Balls”, Roy Beck, director of www.numbersusa.ORG, graphically illustrates the impact of overpopulation.  Take five minutes to see for yourself:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE&feature=player_embedded

“Immigration by the numbers—off the chart”by Roy Beck

This 10 minute demonstration shows Americans the results of unending mass immigration on the quality of life and sustainability for future generations: in a word “Mind boggling!”  www.NumbersUSA.org

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muw22wTePqQ

Roy Beck, director of www.NumbersUSA.org said, “Chain Migration refers to the endless and often-snowballing chains of foreign nationals who are allowed to immigrate because the law allows citizens and lawful permanent residents to bring in their extended, non-nuclear family members. It is the primary mechanism that has caused legal immigration in this country to quadruple from about 250,000 per year in the 1950s and 1960s to more than one million a year since 1990.”

The Nuclear Priority Act (H.R.692), introduced by Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) on February 14, 2011 would end chain migration as recommended by the bi-partisan Barbara Jordan Commission in 1995.

Rep. Gingrey’s bill would:

• eliminate the extended family visa categories (e.g., siblings, married sons and daughters of citizens, etc.);
• in a change from previous versions, eliminate the parents category and instead create a renewable 5-year visa class for parents of U.S. citizens;
• require U.S. sons and daughters to provide satisfactory proof that they can financially support their immigrant parents and include proof of health care coverage for the parents while they are residing in the United States;
• would reduce the annual number of family-sponsored immigrant visas by 111,800.

“Another key element to Rep. Gingrey’s 2011 bill is that immigrant parents residing in the United States through the renewable 5-year visa would not be eligible to work in the United States,” said Beck.

Finally, we must reduce all immigration to less than 100,000 annually if we hope to keep the United States as a viable and sustainable civilization.

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Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents – from the Arctic to the South Pole – as well as eight times across the USA, coast to coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece. In 2012, he bicycled coast to coast across America.  His latest book is: How to Live a Life of Adventure: The Art of Exploring the World by Frosty Wooldridge, copies at 1 888 280 7715/ Motivational program: How to Live a Life of Adventure: The Art of Exploring the World by Frosty Wooldridge, click:

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