Needs Saying
Virginia Abernethy
Population growth combined with immigration will lead to ethnic divisions
May 1, 2008
CIA Director Michael V. Hayden said in a speech yesterday that rising population around the world will lead to immigration into Western societies as well as increased racial and ethnic division.
But it doesn't have to be that way. Irresponsibly growing populations worldwide are a US problem only if we allow them to become so.
Civil wars abroad are a US problem only if we continue seeing ourselves as the world’s policemen. World policeman is an unrealistic role for us. Our resources are stretched too thin while unmet needs at home continue growing.
Immigration pressure is also a problem that we can deal with expeditiously. The laws to protect the border and monitor airport and port arrivals and departures are in place. Only ICE and Homeland Security incompetence prevent the US from stopping the illegal alien invasion of our country, and ridding ourselves of illegal aliens now here. Given the Bush Administration's record on immigration, this incompetence is quite possibly a deliberate strategy to undermine the popular will.
Congressional action to legislate a 10-year immigration moratorium would complete the required legal foundation for keeping worldwide population pressure from impacting the United States.
None of the three front-running presidential candidates come close to recognizing the worldwide population emergency or what the U.S. must do to protect itself, its people, jobs, environment, and standard of living. Congressman Ron Paul, GOP dark horse, is very close to solutions.
Today, Congressman Ron Paul’s newly-published book, Revolution: The Manifesto, reached No. 1 on Amazon. The last chance to select him as the GOP standard bearer will come at the National Convention in Minneapolis.
CIA Chief Sees Unrest Rising With Population
Washington Post
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Swelling populations and a global tide of immigration will present new security challenges for the United States by straining resources and stoking extremism and civil unrest in distant corners of the globe, CIA Director Michael V. Hayden said in a speech yesterday.
The population surge could undermine the stability of some of the world's most fragile states, especially in Africa, while in the West, governments will be forced to grapple with ever larger immigrant communities and deepening divisions over ethnicity and race, Hayden said.
Hayden, speaking at Kansas State University, described the projected 33 percent growth in global population over the next 40 years as one of three significant trends that will alter the security landscape in the current century. By 2050, the number of humans on Earth is expected to rise from 6.7 billion to more than 9 billion, he said.
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