population

What Is The Optimum Level Of Immigration To The United States?

The above question presumes that there is a rational immigration policy that serves the national interest. But, there isn’t. What…

Why Population Growth is an Issue

The U.S. Southwest is even more threatened with water scarcity that results from the overuse of the Colorado River than…

The Wall Street Journal Misleadingly Reports Immigration Statistic

The WSJ on January 23 provided this news story: “Fewer Immigrants Came to U.S. Last Year.”  To document that conclusion…

Immigration and Immigrants: The Forest and the Trees

News accounts deliver a steady stream of stories about individual immigrants. They may be class valedictorians, corporate executives, refugees, or…

Census Bureau Releases 2012 Foreign-Born Population Estimates

The U.S. Census Bureau this week released estimates of the 2012 foreign-born population for the country - 40,824,658 persons –…