ACTION ALERT
STOP 245(i)
NPG has learned that President Bush is pressuring congressional leaders to pass an extension of Section 245(i).
Section 245(i) is a loophole that, if extended, would allow illegal immigrants to pay a $1000 fine and apply for legal residence without first having to return to their home countries and undergo more thorough screening there. (Eligible illegal immigrants must have found legal resident sponsors through marriage or employment.) This effectively nullifies measures in place to discourage illegal immigration and signals that there is no real penalty for violating U.S. immigration laws.
Please call the Congressional leadership and express your strong opposition to any extension of 245(i). Contact:
House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) (202) 225-0600
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) (202) 225-5951
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) (202) 225-4965
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) (202) 224-3344
Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) (202) 224-2321
You can make a difference by educating your legislators and the general public about how population growth is harming our environment and quality of life. Through letters, phone calls, and other actions, you can help spread the message that the U.S. needs a smaller, more sustainable population size.
What You Can Do
Call or write your local and federal officials and tell them that immigration-driven population growth is making problems such as suburban sprawl, overcrowded schools, and pollution worse.
Call radio talk show hosts and ask them to feature a debate on U.S. overpopulation and/or immigration and its effects in your community.
Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper about overpopulation’s destructive effects in the U.S. (see our tips on writing an effective letter).
Read local papers and magazines for fuel for letters to the editor. Respond to articles about immigration, environmental damage, or population changes.
Attend local town hall meetings and ask policymakers about their positions on your area’s population growth.
Become a member of NPG.
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Contact school and city libraries in your area and ask the librarians to write on library letterhead to receive NPG's free library pack of books and factsheets. Requests should be sent to: NPG Library Pack, 1717 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Suite 101, Washington, DC 20036.
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“Family planning, to relate population to world resources, is possible, practical and necessary. Unlike plagues of the dark ages or contemporary diseases we do not yet understand, the modern plague of overpopulation is soluble by means we have discovered and with resources we possess. What is lacking is not sufficient knowledge of the solution, but universal consciousness of the gravity of the problem and education of the billions who are its victims." –Martin Luther King |
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