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...In 2000, California added a breathtaking 571,000 people, a 1.7 percent growth rate that outpaces that of Bangladesh.



Immigration has also contributed to California having one of the highest fertility rates in the United States: 2.4 births per woman (up from below replacement level, 2.0, in the 1970s). The state, already 40 percent more densely populated than Europe, now has a birth rate comparable to that of Sri Lanka or Chile.

This huge increase did not occur because Californians decided to have large families or because people moved there from other states. Of California's 34 million people, 9 million of them are immigrants. California is the destination of one-third of the immigrants who enter the United States every year. Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) estimates that, when all factors are weighed, immigration accounted for an incredible 96 percent of California's population growth from 1990 to 1997. Largely because of immigration, the U.S. Census Bureau says the state will have nearly 54 million people by 2025.

What's true for California is true for the nation as a whole. As The New York Times recently wrote, citing United Nations' population projections, "Alone among major industrial countries, the United States will continue to grow markedly in population during the next half century, a result of the largest intake of immigrants anywhere."

Fertility is also a factor, since it is higher in the United States than in other developed nations, although the national fertility rate is still just above 2.0. Without immigration, Census figures show, the United States would achieve the zero population growth that is much sought after by environmentalists.



For all intents and purposes, California is being literally eaten by Mexico. They are pouring in here, many illegally, with demands to alter our way of life to fit them, demands often cheerfully met by our state government. Our school principal, at parent meetings, repeats everything in Spanish during her speeches. Nothing wrong with that, on its own, but it's just one more thing. It's not that they come here, it's that they then expect it to be Northern Mexico. And once they're here, they churn out new little citizens as fast as humanly possible. It ain't Yuppies generating that birth rate.

It takes a lot to make an environmentalist come out with concerns about immigration, since the current low or nonexistent controls are a leftist sacred cow that provides the Democratic party with huge loads of new voters every year.