I once was a member of the Sierra Club in the mid-1990s, back when their population policy included addressing mass immigration as the root cause of US Population growth. At that time, environmentalists had a lot of common sense.
The Sierra Club is pulling out of an Earth Day festival in Dallas, Texas scheduled for April 23 because groups that want to restrict immigration — whether legal or illegal — will be in attendance.
According to census reports, out of 8.4 million people living in New York City, nearly 40 percent of them arrived from foreign countries. The city features 800 different spoken languages other than English.
