{"id":1883,"date":"2012-10-23T16:39:39","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T20:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=1883"},"modified":"2016-02-23T13:48:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T18:48:24","slug":"%e2%80%9cjournalist%e2%80%9d-declares-any-discussion-of-population-growth-off-limits-for-sane-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2012\/10\/23\/%e2%80%9cjournalist%e2%80%9d-declares-any-discussion-of-population-growth-off-limits-for-sane-people\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cJournalist\u201d Declares Any Discussion of Population Growth Off-limits for Sane People"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Amsterdam News ran an article attacking FAIR\u2019s report<\/a> on the chronic water shortages emerging across the United States.\u00a0 The headline was \u201cFAIR\u2019s Extreme Madness<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 Our insanity, in the view of Felicia Persaud who penned the article, is that we brought attention to the reality that U.S. population growth driven by mass immigration has negated the tremendous gains in water conservation made over the last thirty years.\u00a0 Ms. Persaud seems to think that since \u201cimmigrants have made a significant contribution economically to the United States\u201d that limits don\u2019t matter and that environmental considerations concern only the lunatic fringe.<\/p>\n

There is an ongoing and lively debate about how \u201csignificant\u201d the economic contributions of immigrants are, but that is beside the point.\u00a0 We cannot continue to grow by almost three million people every year, overwhelmingly due to immigration, and not run up against the limits of our national resources.\u00a0 We have long passed the point where we are using water faster than it can be replenished naturally.\u00a0 The key now is to not reach the point of no return, where a supply of clean water is something that can not be made available to all Americans.<\/p>\n

Take New York City, for example, where the average age of city water pipes is 76 years and raw sewage is regularly released into surrounding waterways.\u00a0 Where are the billions of dollars going to come from to repair the city\u2019s water and sewer infrastructure?\u00a0 I doubt Mayor Bloomberg\u2019s soda tax is going to cover it.\u00a0\u00a0 Ms. Persaud\u2019s article perfectly illustrates the intellectual bankruptcy of the ever-more-immigration crowd.\u00a0 FAIR asks questions about how this will affect America\u2019s future.\u00a0 Ms. Persaud labels any discussion of population growth \u201claughable.\u201d\u00a0 Wherein doth the madness lie?<\/p>\n

FAIR was unsurprisingly not contacted for comment before the article was published, but you may do so on the paper\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The New York Amsterdam News ran an article attacking FAIR\u2019s report on the chronic water shortages emerging across the United States.\u00a0 The headline was \u201cFAIR\u2019s Extreme Madness.\u201d\u00a0 Our insanity, in the view of Felicia Persaud who penned the article, is that we brought attention to the reality that U.S. population growth driven by mass immigration<\/p>\n

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