Immigration is cause of growth

Last week's opinion piece "Don't marginalize immigrants" by Jim Ramlow completely misses the big picture.

If your children are in their teens or younger, at current U.S. population growth, which is entirely due to immigrants, your children will be living with 1 billion fellow Americans within their lifetimes.

The problem is not whether immigrants are good or bad, legal or illegal. The problem is that immigrants are driving U.S. population growth.

If you've watched Al Gore's "An inconvenient truth," now out in DVD, the last thing this country needs to do is double its population, let alone more than triple U.S. population in less than 70 years.

It's not really a question of whether our children's quality of life is more important than more and more immigrants. It's the fact that the U.S. has to stabilize its population growth now in order that there is some hope that our world's humanity has a chance to survive.

Ward McCartney

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