Progressives for Immigration Reform

Progressives for Immigration Reform is a nonprofit organization seeking to educate the public on the unintended consequences of mass migration. PFIR supports economic policies that protect workers' rights, increase wages for less affluent Americans and decrease economic inequality. Integral to our beliefs are backing environmental policies that pre... serve habitat for wildlife and conserve resources for future generations. PFIR agrees with the President's Council on Sustainable Development, which wrote in 1996: "Managing population growth, resources, and wastes is essential to ensuring that the total impact of these factors is within the bounds of sustainability. Stabilizing the population without changing consumption and waste production patterns would not be enough, but it would make an immensely challenging task more manageable. In the United States, each is necessary; neither alone is sufficient." We stand with David Brower, legendary conservationist and former executive director of the Sierra Club, who said in the 1960s: "We feel you don't have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy" as well.Read More