FSP advocates reducing and eventually halting Florida's excessive rate of population increase by taking action on measures aimed at all of population growth causes. However, the overwhelming cause of Florida's booming population growth is domestic and international immigration. (See Florida Growth Sources). The Center for Immigration Studies estimates that one-half to two-thirds of Florida's growth in the 1990's is attributable to foreign immigrants in that decade and the offspring of all foreign-born women in Florida.

Unlimited population growth is not inevitable!! Congress gave us mass immigration by policy changes in 1965. Congress can fix it by adopting policy changes that will return legal immigration to traditional levels of approximately 235,000 annually. And, Congress can require strict enforcement on illegal immigrants by adequately funding internal policing, by enforcing employer sanctions and by forsaking massive amnesties.

Reducing the flow of domestic migration is a thornier problem than reversing the tidal wave of foreign immigration and will have to depend on a wiser accounting of what our resource base can tolerate -- without degrading a decent standard of living with lower consumption levels.

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret Mead, the famous anthropologist

"Talk is cheap...It is the way we organize and use our lives everyday that tells what we believe in." -- Caesar Chavez, organizer and leader of the California lettuce and grape boycotts to improve working conditions for farm workers, 1970'a and 1980's

The first step in protecting our country's environmental integrity is awareness, then information gathering, and then a commitment to action -- unrelenting action.

Each of us is capable of doing more than fretting. Even YOU can make the difference.

Here is How:

• Write a letter to your local paper when you see news stories that you know are caused by or made worse by TOO MANY PEOPLE. Every time we connect rapid population growth to overcrowded schools, jammed roads and water shortages, we trigger awareness.
  
  
• Talk, talk, talk to your neighbors, your relatives, your social groups. Stick a piece of literature in their hands, schedule a program at your church or Rotary Club with one of Roy Beck's video tapes, or show the video at your home to a few friends. Urge them to become a free faxer at http://www.numbersusa.com/content/account/fax-center-register.html. Click here to read Joyce Tarnow's discussion of "Three most frequent objections to immigration reduction I encounter.."
  
  
• Help advertise U.S. Census Bureau projections - get projection from the census bureau at http://www.census.gov/population/www/popclockus.html
  
  
• See how illegal immigration impacts our country by actions in Congress at http://www.NumbersUSA.com and http://www.fairus.org
  
  
• Write letters to your U.S. Senators and Congressperson.
  For the voting record of your D.C. representatives visit http://www.numbersusa.com/content/my/tools/grades.
  For contact information for your members of Congress go to http://www.numbersusa.com/content/congress/phone-numbers-and-mailing-addresses-memb.html.
  You can also send prepared faxes on current legislation for free through NumbersUSA.com. Sign up and start making Congress pay attention.

U.S. Senators:

Senator Bill Nelson 202/224-5274
Fax 202/228-2183
716 Hart Office Building,
Washington, D.C. 20510

 

Sen. Marco Rubio 202/224-3041
Fax 202/228-0285
B40A Dirksen Building
Washington, D.C. 20510

U.S. Representatives:

Look at your voter registration card for your Congressperson's District if you do not know who your representative is. You may find contact information in the front of your local telephone directory, or go to http://www.numbersusa.com/content/congress/phone-numbers-and-mailing-addresses-memb.html.
Send a short letter with your Congressperson's report card from http://www.betterimmigration.com

• Send a letter to President Barack Obama
  The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
  Washington, D.C. 20500
  Call 202-456-1414 or 202-456-1111
  
  
• Send a letter to your Florida Senators and Representatives
  You can find your district on your voter registration card.
  For addresses of Florida Senators click here. (If you don't know what district you are in, click on the "Find Your Representative" icon.)
  For addresses of Florida Represenatives click here. (If you don't know what district you are in, enter your zipcode under "Find Your Legislators".)

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