It is time we did. The United States current rate of population growth is higher than that of any other industrialized nation. If our fertility rate does not remain low. a firm annual limit is not placed on all legal immigration into this country. and illegal immigration Is not ended. studies indicate that our population will grow by an amount equal to that of the present populations of California and Texas by the turn of the century. Environmental and psychological stresses already are evident as a result of our continuing population boom and the accompanying resource demands and congestion. Demographers project that. by the year 2000only 13 years awaythe New York metropolitan region will grow by another 11/2 million people. to well over 20 million.
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