THE PARTY OF DEATH CAN'T LONG SUPPORT IMPORTING MILLIONS OF LIVE CHRISTIANS:

De-greening immigration (Valerie Richardson, October 1, 2006, THE WASHINGTON TIMES)

These responses exasperate environmentalists such as Dick Lamm, the former Democratic governor of Colorado and a 30-year member of the Sierra Club. Mr. Lamm broke ranks with the movement years ago by insisting that a responsible environmental policy has to include population and immigration controls.

He is among the most prominent of a small-but-hardy band of environmentalists who have tried for years to push the movement toward an anti-immigration stance. So far, they haven't had much luck.

"The environmental movement refuses to acknowledge that immigration and population are environmental issues," Mr. Lamm said.

Why? Politics, he said.

"The environmental movement has gone politically correct," Mr. Lamm said. "They're committing political malpractice by ignoring population."

But Jenny Neeley, Southwest representative for Defenders of Life, said her group hasn't taken a stance on immigration reform in Congress because "I don't think we're knowledgeable enough to say, 'This will stop the illegal crossings.'"

Faced with a difficult choice, critics said, the environmental movement has abandoned its primary mission -- protecting the planet -- rather than deviate from the liberal establishment.

"They're still pretty much ignoring it [illegal immigration] because it's politically sensitive or because they perceive it to be politically sensitive," said Ira Mehlman, spokesman for the Federation for Immigration Reform. "Nobody denies that environmental degradation is due in part to population growth, and nobody denies that the biggest reason for population growth is immigration.

"But somehow, when they put together A and B, it doesn't lead to C," he said.

Combine that hatred of humanity with the effect on unions and thedawning realization that the immigrants are socially conservative and you can see why anti-immigration will naturally become an issue of the Left over the next few years.

Posted by Orrin Judd at October 1, 2006 9:58 AM