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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, JANUARY 31, 1986
resettlement twice M many immigrants M do all the other
countries of the world combined. Legal immigration is three
times as high as it was in the early 1960s1 there are now
well over 600,000 legal immigrants in an average year••••
Illegal aliens pour into the United States through Swiss
cheese borders.
Legal and illegal immigration combined
contribute nearly half of the population growth of the United
States••••
For most of our history, the extraordinary population growth
of the
United States has actually been from natural
increases--from the high rate of fertility of relatively
small numbers of immigrants [Joseph was prophesied to receive
"blessings•••of the womb"] •••• Yet the Population Reference
Bureau ominously reminds us that immigration will add more
than fifty million people to the population of the United
States by the year 2025, if today's levels continue without
increasing.
In North, South, and Central America, especially in Mexico,
the population pressure builds up, compounds, and threatens
to explode•••• Mexico, with 70 million people, has 300,000
more babies born every year than does the United States� with
230 million people. There is a flood of people rising right
outside our door.
The remainder of the Lamm-Imhoff book tackles the issues of eroding
national identity, language and bilingualism, pressures on employment
and social services, and frustrated efforts to develop an immigration
reform policy.
--Gene H. Hogberg, News Bureau