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Critics of this movement will often call it anti-immigrant or anti-immigration. However immigration reductionists insist that those terms are incorrect, since they claim that they support full legal protection and civil rights for recent legal immigrants, and continued legal immigration, only at drastically lower numbers. For this reason, they prefer the terms "immigration reduction" or "immigration restriction".

Among the claims that immigration reductionists use to support lower immigration numbers:

• A majority of U.S. population growth is now due to immigration. Advocates of zero population growth and others concerned with overpopulation and other environmental issues are often attracted to immigration reductionism because of this.

• High levels of immigration may be seen as providing a steady source of cheap or low-wage labor to corporations. This can be seen as detrimental to wage levels in the U.S., and as a threat to the ability of labor unions to organize workplaces, with the threat always present that if workers organize they can easily be replaced by cheaper legal or illegal labor.

• Sometimes, the reason is cultural. Some believe the high levels of legal immigration into the U.S., whether legal or illegal, are at rates too high to allow recent immigrants to assimilate into U.S. society, and especially discourages recent immigrants from learning the English language. The "Diversity Alliance" claims that excessive numbers of unassimilated immigrants may lead to a Bosnia-like civil war.

• Illegal immigration is often seen as symptomatic of widespread lawbreaking by employers, who hire workers illegally in the country in order to escape wage, workplace safety, and labor laws. This is especially a problem in the agriculture sector, where it is estimated that over 80% of workers are in the country illegally. However immigration reductionists do not explain how that work force will be replaced.

• Temporary work visas are often used to replace high-wage workers in industries such as computer programming and engineeringEngineering is the application of science to the needs of humanity. This is accomplished through knowledge, mathematics, and practical experience applied to the design of useful objects or processes. Professional practitioners of engineering are called en with lower-wage workers imported from other countries. This is seen by many as closely related to the practices of outsourcingOutsourcing is the delegation of tasks or jobs from internal production to an external entity (such as a subcontractor). Most recently, it has come to mean the elimination of native staff to staff overseas, where salaries are markedly lower. This is despi and offshoringOffshoring can be defined as relocation of business processes (including production/manufacturing) to a lower cost location, usually overseas. Offshoring can be seen in the context of either production offshoring or services offshoring. China has emerged of jobs.

Immigration reductionists differ on the ideal level of immigration they would like to see into the United States. Some believe the numbers should be set each year at whatever level would, in conjunction with the current fertility rateThe fertility rate of a population is the average number of child births per woman . The sub-replacement fertility rate is usually at 2. 1 births per woman; below this rate populations will not grow through reproduction. ERICKA DURAN Developed countries u, maintain zero population growth in the country. The most prominent immigration reductionist in government today is U.S. Congressman Tom TancredoThomas G. Tancredo (born December 20 1945), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1999, representing the 6th District of Colorado. He was born in Denver, Colorado, was educated at the Univers R-CO. Tancredo is pushing a bill that calls for a near-total moratorium on immigration, until such time as all illegal immigration ends, after which it would be set at a level of 300,000 persons per year. The organization, Carrying Capacity Network , goes further and argues for an annual cap of 100,000. Others may support higher numbers, with many immigration reductionists supporting a reduction to the legal immigration levels prior to 19891989 is a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). Events January January 7 Akihito becomes Emperor of Japan following the death of Hirohito. The Heisei period begins January 8 the Kegworth Air Disaster A British Midland Boeing 737 cra, estimated at 500,000 to 600,000. (Since 1989, the annual numbers have jumped to well over 1 million, not including illegal migration or temporary work visas). Many support a complete cutoff of legal and illegal immigration, though more reasonable proponents like Tancredo would eventually allow for immigration at about 15% of current levels.