Census: Immigration adds one person to US population every 30 seconds

[one...two...tree 2,762]

The real cause of hunger

If we have plenty of food to feed today's population and to support population growth for the foreseeable future, why do 800 million people still go hungry every day? One basic cause is food dependence. The industrial system has, over centuries and in virtually every area of the globe, "enclosed" farmland, forcing subsistence peasants off the land, so that it can be used for growing high-priced export crops rather than diverse crops for local populations. The result of enclosure was, and continues to be, that untold millions of peasants lose their land, community, traditions, and most directly their ability to grow their own food -- their food independence. Removed from their land and means of survival, the new "landless" then flock to the newly industrialized cities where they quickly become a class of urban poor competing for low-paying jobs and doomed to long-term hunger or starvation. The victims of enclosure are becoming ever more numerous. Just 50 years ago, only 18 percent of the population of developing countries resided in cities; by the year 2000 the figure jumped to 40 percent. Unless current policies change, by 2030 it is estimated that 56 percent of the developing world will be urban dwellers. A United Nations report has found that close to 50 percent of this urban population growth is due to migration, much of it forced, from rural to urban communities.

After enclosure, both the urban and rural poor are completely food dependent. Their access to food is solely by purchase. Very often they simply do not have enough money to buy food, so they starve. Increasing agricultural output has little effect on the hungry because it fails to address the key issues of access to land and purchasing power that are at the root of hunger. As summarized in a Food First report, "If you don't have land on which to grow food or the money to buy it, you go hungry no matter how dramatically technology pushes up food production."

http://www.alternet.org/story/13900/?page=entire

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[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Not when most colonized countries switched to cash crops like coffee beans and sugar cane. Hard to feed people on coffee and sugar.

That's what I essentially live on.

[NavarreMan 10]

As our nation prepares to ring in the new year, the U.S. Census Bureau today projected the Jan. 1, 2008, population will be 303,146,284 -- up 2,842,103 or 0.9 percent from New Year’s Day 2007.

In January, the United States is expected to register one birth every eight seconds and one death every 11 seconds.

Meanwhile, net international migration is expected to add one person every 30 seconds. The result is an increase in the total U.S. population of one person every 13 seconds.

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/re...ion/011108.html

One thing is for sure, they're not doing that through the CSC!

[HAL 9000 96]

As our nation prepares to ring in the new year, the U.S. Census Bureau today projected the Jan. 1, 2008, population will be 303,146,284 -- up 2,842,103 or 0.9 percent from New Year’s Day 2007.

In January, the United States is expected to register one birth every eight seconds and one death every 11 seconds.

Meanwhile, net international migration is expected to add one person every 30 seconds. The result is an increase in the total U.S. population of one person every 13 seconds.

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/re...ion/011108.html

One thing is for sure, they're not doing that through the CSC!

Can someone work out the fractions (I'm tired of crunching numbers today) for all Service Centers and how much of that yields the USCIS-portion of this increase in population before it becomes part of someone's propaganda drive? Thanks!

[peejay 327]

The real cause of hunger

If we have plenty of food to feed today's population and to support population growth for the foreseeable future, why do 800 million people still go hungry every day? One basic cause is food dependence. The industrial system has, over centuries and in virtually every area of the globe, "enclosed" farmland, forcing subsistence peasants off the land, so that it can be used for growing high-priced export crops rather than diverse crops for local populations. The result of enclosure was, and continues to be, that untold millions of peasants lose their land, community, traditions, and most directly their ability to grow their own food -- their food independence. Removed from their land and means of survival, the new "landless" then flock to the newly industrialized cities where they quickly become a class of urban poor competing for low-paying jobs and doomed to long-term hunger or starvation. The victims of enclosure are becoming ever more numerous. Just 50 years ago, only 18 percent of the population of developing countries resided in cities; by the year 2000 the figure jumped to 40 percent. Unless current policies change, by 2030 it is estimated that 56 percent of the developing world will be urban dwellers. A United Nations report has found that close to 50 percent of this urban population growth is due to migration, much of it forced, from rural to urban communities.

After enclosure, both the urban and rural poor are completely food dependent. Their access to food is solely by purchase. Very often they simply do not have enough money to buy food, so they starve. Increasing agricultural output has little effect on the hungry because it fails to address the key issues of access to land and purchasing power that are at the root of hunger. As summarized in a Food First report, "If you don't have land on which to grow food or the money to buy it, you go hungry no matter how dramatically technology pushes up food production."

http://www.alternet.org/story/13900/?page=entire

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(Cause and effect)

So what does that have to do with the quality of life Americans traditionally have enjoyed and many of us wish to maintain? There are roughly 6.6 billion humans on earth in 2007 and projections for another another 2.4 billion by mid century to push it up to 9 billion. Nothing to celebrate there IMO. In fact, I find that appalling.

The O/P is rather vague as to the actual number that immigration (legal or otherwise) contributed to the nearly 3 million increase in US population in 2007. I cannot see anything to celebrate if that continued trend pushed the US population to 423+ million by 2050 [(2.8 million X 43 years = 120 million)(303 million + 120 million = 423 million)]. I find that appalling too. Along with alarming.

The graph below says it all and it correlates the figures above:

Is this the country we wish to leave to our descendants? I think not! Why do this to our children and grandchildren?

Many countries doom themselves with Third World birthrates. The USA does it with mass uncontrolled immigration. Why go there? I sure as hell see no reason to go there. It doesn't benefit the vast majority of Americans. The only reason this is happening is because it enriches the corporations. It lowers the overall quality of life for the vast majority of us. The American people need to wake up to reality.

We slammed the door in 1924 to 1965. History needs to repeat itself.

Edited December 29, 2007 by peejay

[natty bumppo 297]

Combined with the fact that birth rates among native born citizens is in decline helps explain a lot of the fear.

Actually ... I'm adding two ... for the same hospital visit ... and you?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Combined with the fact that birth rates among native born citizens is in decline helps explain a lot of the fear.

Actually ... I'm adding two ... for the same hospital visit ... and you?

Well, I think the Census Bureau would count our babies as immigrant births.