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| Sierra Club rejects immigration proposal |
| 2005-04-26 |
| Sierra Club members on Monday rejected a change in the group's immigration policy that would have advocated reducing migration to the United States as a way to lessen the environmental consequences of population growth. Of the 122,308 members who voted, nearly 84 percent voted to defeat the proposal, the club said in a statement. About 16 percent of the club's more than 750,000 members cast ballots during voting that began in early March... Sierrans for U.S. Population Stabilization, a network of club activists seeking to limit immigration, backed five of their own candidates and pushed a "yes" vote. None of the group's candidates won board seats... |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #12 JH: good exercise - good lifestyle. Apppreciation for ownership - I live in a condo now and miss it, big time |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-04-26 8:01:05 PM |
| #11 I'd be one of the 16% of tree huggers who voted yes on this. I like mowing my own lawn btw. Good exercise. |
| Posted by: Chase Unineger3873 aka Jarhead 2005-04-26 7:58:30 PM |
| #10 Yep, Lex, thats the flip side of controlling illegal immigration, you can crank up legal immigration and get skilled educated workers which is what Australia is doing at the moment. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2005-04-26 7:52:57 PM |
| #9 More Asians, fewer illiterate latinos. We should triple or quadruple immigration quotas for anyone from any non-muslim majority country who has a hard sciences PhD. |
| Posted by: thibaud (aka lex) 2005-04-26 7:07:13 PM |
| #8 I was on a bus stopped by the INS. All the Hispanics just whipped their out, knowing the drill. A German national was very disappointed that he didn't want to look at his ID, then thrilled when he finally gave it a cursory glance. Finally, he asked a Vietnamese family, in Spanish, for their identity papers. When they looked at him, puzzled, he asked them louder, in Spanish. Finally somebody leaned over and said, "He wants to look at your IDs", in English, to which they replied, "Oh, okay. We were wondering what he wanted." |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-04-26 6:56:03 PM |
| #7 OTM is a phrase Border Parols use = Other Than Mexicans. Mexicans are so overwhelmingly a number of the illegal flood that all other nations have a single category. The pretense is that OTM's can be identified and caught before they do their "mischief" killing Amricans. Swarthy little fellows tend to learn the language and fit in, though..... What a fuckup. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-04-26 6:45:48 PM |
| #6 Given the current situation, the national breakdown of immigrants into this country must be pretty uneven. I wish I knew what it was... probably something like 10% from Europe, 20% from Asia, 20% from various Latin American countries, and 50% documented or not from Mexico. _As currently enforced (or more to the point, not enforced)_, Mexican immigrants seem to have special priveliges compared to others. |
| Posted by: Phil Fraering 2005-04-26 6:40:48 PM |
| #5 granted lex, but the same moonbats who've taken over the Sierra Club (which once pursued needed reforms) are open-border moonbats. Try and raise controlled-burn or logging of diseased trees with them and you'll see.... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-04-26 4:59:24 PM |
| #4 The problem is illegal immigration and the absence of effective border control, not immigration per se. We need and should increase legal immigration by those with valuable skills. Otherwise, given the native-born population's increasing reluctance to bear and raise children, we're on a slower version of the same down escalator that Europe's on. |
| Posted by: thibaud (aka lex) 2005-04-26 4:56:57 PM |
| #3 same ideological purity driving Kyoto over realistic goals |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-04-26 4:55:35 PM |
| #2 nearly 84 percent voted to defeat the proposal Whaaaat? Like you expect me to mow my own yard! |
| Posted by: Dreadnought 2005-04-26 4:48:55 PM |
| #1 What about all those undocumented migratory waterfowl crossing the border, huh? |
| Posted by: Mike 2005-04-26 4:43:19 PM |