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On March 30th, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration held a hearing at the Great Hall on Ellis Island.

Testimony from various scholars and immigration officials was heard, but what NPG considers to be the central issue with regard to immigration - its impact on our population size and growth -- was not addressed.

That is an astonishing omission given that immigration, both legal and illegal, is the driving force behind our disastrous population growth, which has caused our population to double to over 300,000,000 in the last fifty years. Our population grew by 33 million in the decade of the 90's alone. If present trends are allowed to continue, it may well reach 500 million by mid-century, and a billion by the end of the century.

Population growth is rapidly destroying our resources and environment, and will eventually destroy also our standard of living and the quality of our lives.

We at NPG believe that we urgently need a National Immigration Policy that should be an integral part of a National Population Policy aimed at stabilizing our U.S. population, after an interim period of negative population growth, at a level that would be sustainable for the very long term.

Together with many scientists, we judge that level to be in the range of 125 to 150 million, less than half our present size. That level could be reached in several generations if we stop illegal immigration and reduce annual legal immigration from over one million currently to not more than 200,000 a year, including all relatives and refugees.

For more information, see the following NPG publications:

·Zero Tolerance for Illegal Immigration: An Urgent Policy Need,
·Toward Negative Population Growth: Cutting Legal Immigration by Four-Fifths
·A Proposed National Population Policy