Like Byron King indicates in his statement we haven't even addressed
the profound national issues of "borders, language and culture" that will be affected by new waves of mass immigration. 438 million? That number is just too many to allow any sort of society to function on half a continent, mostly near the coastlines. But one could also focus on the "depletion" of the traditional American concepts of national boundaries, or the decline of the nation's common English language and some assemblance of an "American" culture based on a shared history.

An important requirement should be they must speak the English language within an allotted time frame. We should not have to pay for a translator or additional classes to provide for the language conversion which we already are doing. This also takes money from our federal budget. If we are concentrating on only family members, it should be the responsibility of the family member already in the US to see their family member does speak our language otherwise they do not qualify for benefits and would have to return to their own country. I know it seems harsh, but no other country would put up with what we have been taking. Before long we will be on the outside looking in.

I know our ancestors were also immigrants. However, they were eager to start a new life, many had suffered horrendous strife, lost family members and friends. Still they were not discouraged. They struggled through the severe depression, unemploymet, and some various forms of famine. They didn't look to the government for hand outs. They didn't have health care, medicare, welfare or social security. Yet today,as soon as the immigrants and some other groups are not provided with these benefits they go on the defensive and protest.

Increased U.S. population from whatever source will lead to massive shortages of food, water and energy. And the public infrastructure will simply break down. Vast swaths of the country will become unrecognizable slums filled with broken-down housing, bad transportation, and hungry and thirsty people living on the squalid edge of human survival.

Our most important issue should be securing our borders to eliminate the tremendous flow of illegal immigrants coning into our country and the amount we allow in should be based on a ratio determined on realistic factors. Our country has tremendously cut back on the size of our families being realistic that we need to feed, cloth, shelter and educate them. However, I do not see this being a concern on most of the immigrants coming into our country.

We need people who are concerned about improving conditions for their children, as opposed to a society that uses their children to solve their poverty. Immigrants wanting to have larger families to gain more benefits certainly do not help us or themselves in the long run.

I also see the immigrants that come into our country start trying to take over our country by making demands for things they feel they should have(although they probably never had them in their country) and refusing to speak our language.

Another point we should give consideration to is almost all the time the immigrants coming into our country always move into states long the coastline like Florida and California. I feel these two states alone are becoming over saturated. If immigrants want to come into this country, we should be designating what state they must reside in.

We have to take back our country. If they abide by the rules they should have no problem. But they must abide by our rules not theirs.

By bringing in more immigrants, it reduces the benefits that many of the low income families today are receiving. Many Americans feel that bringing in millions of mostly impoverished people from third world nations is a generous and ethical thing to do, a way to share the wealth. But this generosity is having unintended consequences hich are very destructive to this country and to the rest of the world. Importing unskilled workers helps fill menial jobs at low wages, but these immigrants also impose substantial costs, mainly by being disproportionately on welfare.

The National Academy of Sciences estimated in 1997 that the typical native household pays somewhere between $195 and $265 in additional taxes (in 2003 dollars) because of immigration. Since the number of households has increased to over One Hundred and Twelve billion during 2008 this puts the national fiscal burden somewhere between $21 billion and $29 billion per year or more if we were to increase the above additional tax figures per household . According to Peter Brimelow, there is little support for the argument that immigration is a great boon for the country. One solution would be to have a ten-year residency requirement for welfare recipients; those who planned to immigrate for welfare would then be much less inclined to do so. Welfare reform legislation passed in 1996 prohibits immigrants from receiving welfare as long as they are non-citizens. Becoming naturalized takes at least five years. I am uncertain as to whether this legislation has remained in tact.

It is obvious that immigrants in this country who are on welfare would communicate the tremendous benefits this provides to them so they encourage family members to jump on the bandwagon. Obama is interested in keeping familes together (this should be only husbands, wives, and children not every other individual under the sun.) I hope we would be checking whether the individual already in our country isn't a long time resident on welfare and therefore we certainly would not want to approve other family members outside of the country like cousins, aunts, uncles, etc. to keep them company.

Immigration levels are determined solely by Congress, and Congress is free at any moment to alter the number of immigrants. For example, the current level of immigration is about four times greater than we averaged throughout most of this century.

Immigration laws have usually been written in response to the demands of special interests who profit in some way from this policy. Their profit is extremely expensive for the rest of us. Many immigrants and recently naturalized citizens are using: Medicaid, SSI, Social Security, subsidized housing, fuel assistance, food stamps, TANF, bilingual education, subsidized legal aid, and earned income tax credits. The disparity between what immigrants pay into these programs and what they use in services runs into billions of dollars every year. Can any of us imagine living in America when every city has double its present population, and is still growing? Double the traffic, double the number of houses, schools, prisons, etc? Is this the future we want to leave to our children?

Last year, in a speech on immigration, President Clinton stated, "No other nation in history has gone through demographic change of this magnitude over so short a time". "Mark my words: Unless we handle this well, immigration of this sweep and scope can threaten the bonds of our union."

Our current immigration policy is making it increasing difficult for our most vulnerable populations—blacks, minorities, recent immigrants, and the poor to earn a living wage. Immigration on our current scale has been hugely profitable to certain sectors of our population, but never have we seen such disparity between rich and poor as we see in America today. Our natural resources cannot sustain an infinite population growth without seriously impacting our quality of life and that of our children and future generations. Government must begin weighing the impacts of unabated population growth and we must become more involved to make sure this is accomplished.

Do we have an obligation to protect the living standard of unskilled workers in this country, or are we going to require them to compete with third world wages? And if we decide not to protect our workers, then who are we as a nation and what are the values we stand for? There is nothing more powerful than putting our own house in order, stabilizing our population, lowering our consumption, planning for the welfare of our descendants, and setting an example of enlightened self government for the world.

Western nations pouring massive aid into Africa over the previous three decades has done very little to improve the condition of that country. By providing aid to Africa, It does nothing to empower third world people to solve the problems in their native land. Saving people is not the same thing as empowering people to save themselves. By contract, China, during the same period and with virtually no Western aid at all, dramatically ended hunger, lowered infant mortality rates, increased life expectancy and delivered basic education and health care to 1.2 billion people.

If we are motivated by true compassion for mankind, then it is time to step up to the plate—fore go the empty humanitarian gesture of "saving" a handful of outsiders—and commit ourselves to a world in which all people are empowered to provide for their families. This is the future we should want.

Some of the feelings expressed above by Jonette Christian are what i also agree with and think we should be considering.

How about a realignment of priorities at the government level, i.e. abandon global combat and space programs which consume hundreds of billions of dollars annually in tax payer dollars? Modern technology potential could easily develop clean energy (solar, hydro, wind), water (extracted from the atmosphere) and food production alternatives (green houses), however if the majority of funds continue to be squandered on a perpetual terrorist war which subsequently increases terrorist activity, well then, maybe the people should take the power out of the officials' hands who manipulate this hegemony. Or, remain complacent and stay the course. Humane solutions are undoubtedly available, it's merely a matter of prioritizing objectives.

Unfortunately the above is rubbish. I wish it wasn't.
Peak Oil means that we have a dwindiling(or gone) window of opportunity to create infrastructure to offset post oil economies.
Mexicans in the USA or Afghani's in Australia will suffer the same if not worse than where they came from when the fall happens.
Consumer apathy will rule out the revolution required to correct things before it's too late.
Peak everything is coming. MRE's, Rifles and horses will be the new currency.