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French House Passes New Immigration Bill to Bolster Enforcement Efforts

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The French National Assembly passed a bill over the weekend that shortens application deadlines for asylum-seekers and doubles the current detention timeline for failed asylum-seekers awaiting deportation. Pres. Emmanuel Macron's centrist party says the law will speed up the asylum claims process.

Survey Finds Americans Really Don't Like Expansionist Immigration Policies

Updated: March 25th, 2016, 12:00 pm

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  by  Eric Ruark

A March 7 story from Bloomberg Businessweek reported on a new poll that surveyed Americans on immigration. The Bloomberg lede was that 61 percent of Americans believe that “continued immigration into the country jeopardizes the United States.”

MAJORITY OF AMERICANS DISSATISFIED WITH IMMIGRATION LEVELS, JUST 7 PERCENT WANT MORE

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Breitbart News -- Caroline May

A majority of Americans are dissatisfied with immigration levels to the United States, according to a new Gallup poll.

The poll, released Thursday, reveals that 60 percent of Americas say they are dissatisfied with the current level of immigration into the United States. Just 33 percent said they were satisfied.

New York Times Readers on Inequality and Mass Immigration

Updated: July 15th, 2014, 9:35 am

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  by  Jeremy Beck

The New York Times concluded its "The Great Divide" series on inequality last Friday with a column by Joseph E. Stiglitz, who moderated the series. In "Inequality is Not Inevitable," Stiglitz pointed to countries like Sweden, Finland, and Norway to suggest that "our policies and our politics" -- not "the inexorable laws of economics" -- are responsible for economic inequality in the United States. Of the more than 600 comments to the article, some readers zeroed in on immigration policy.

Utah has second fastest rate of urban sprawl

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Utah has second fastest rate of urban sprawl
By Nicolas Walker -- Utah People's Post

A new study has found that Utah has the nation’s second-fastest rate of urban sprawl. The urban in Utah are moving to farmland and open space for new development, the study says.

According to the experts, this is the result of the fast growing population that is forcing people to leave the central urban areas.

Utah among states with greatest urban sprawl Life sprawled

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A new study shows Utah is second only to Nevada in its rate of urban sprawl over a 10-year period and is No. 7 in the country over the past 28 years for undeveloped land giving way to development.

Overall, undeveloped acreage equal to the size of Florida has been paved over in the United States from 1982 to 2010, with 11 million acres of cropland gone and 12 million acres of pasture and rangeland lost to buildings and highways, according to the study.

How Senate's 33 million green cards in single decade compare with all other decades -- SHOCKING

Updated: July 21st, 2017, 11:43 am

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  by  Roy Beck

Do you think your Senators realize that, in the hundred years between our country's first Census in 1790 and 1890, the numerical level of that incredible flow of immigration from Europe that filled the Eastern Seaboard and spread out across the continent was - - - - -  nearly  2 million immigrants per decade. The world had never quite seen a movement like that of masses of people fleeing a crowded continent and completely taking over another.

MSNBC profile ignores the influence of Barbara Jordan Commission on NumbersUSA's founding

Updated: December 4th, 2012, 10:32 am

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  by  Roy Beck

MSNBC today is suggesting that NumbersUSA's grassroots citizen army very well may stand in the way of the mass media's rush to proclaim "comprehensive immigration reform" (mass amnesty) a done deal in the next Congress. Thanks for the respect.

Zogby Poll Finds Few in Pew Agree With Their Pro-Amnesty Religious Leaders (almost nobody agrees immigration too low)

Updated: July 24th, 2017, 2:56 pm

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  by  Roy Beck

One of the largest polls on immigration ever conducted has proven what we suspected all along: National religious leaders who are lobbying Congress for ever-more immigration simply don't represent much of anybody. A good way for a Member of Congress to lose considerable votes back home would be to do on immigration what they are asked by the leaders of most national religious agencies. Most Christians and Jews want LESS immigration, not more, Zogby found.

Why I'm thankful for America, and what NumbersUSA is doing to protect what we're thankful for!

Updated: November 25th, 2009, 12:58 pm

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  by  James Robb

All of us at NumbersUSA can easily become focused on what's wrong with America. We believe immigration numbers are way too high and that illegal immigration is ruinous to the country.

Jobless Rate Hits 10.2%

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The unemployment rate rose to its highest level since 1983, with 10.2% of Americans out of work in October. About 190,000 jobs were cut during the month, while the federal government imported 125,000 foreign workers over the same period of time.

Immigration Decreased in 2007

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America's economic downturn and increased immigration enforcement has caused the number of immigrants entering the United States to drop significantly. According to new Census Bureau estimates, only 500,000 immigrants came to the United States in 2007 -- a marked decrease over 2006's total of 1.8 million.