The MSM is not particularly comfortable with covering this topic, as shown by a passel of dumb articles celebrating diversity and ignoring genuine environmental and societal problems created by domestic overpopulation. This one from the Washington Post at least names some difficulties.

“When we hit 100 million, it was a celebration of America’s might in the world,” said Dowell Myers, a professor of urban planning and demography at the University of Southern California. “When we hit 200 million, we were solidifying our position. But at 300 million, we are beginning to be crushed under the weight of our own quality-of-life degradation.” [...]

In Los Angeles, the nation’s most densely populated metropolitan region and its most heavily Latino area, 300 million will be yet another confirmation that congestion is out of control, Myers predicted.

“I don’t think people view population growth as a plus anymore,” he said, noting that Angelenos are punished by it “every single day” when they go out in freeway traffic. [ America's Population Set to Top 300 Million , October 12, 2006]

Yes, that’s right. The people want limited growth and they want immigration to be legal, controlled and reduced. It’s only the greedy elites who want a borderless world, which they imagine will be more profitable for them.

The New York Times’ 300 Million editorial yesterday was particularly lame, as it attempted to downplay the negatives with a flippant dismissal of real concerns and an out-of-the-blue personal attack on Pat Buchanan.

Whenever the population odometer hits a huge round number, it creates unease, but we usually get over it. Predictions of planetary famine made the 1968 book “The Population Bomb” a raging bestseller, but today you find it only at garage sales.

The doomsayer’s torch has lately been grabbed by cultural sentinels like Patrick Buchanan, whose new bookwarns that the United States is being reconquered by disease-carrying Latinos. Unless Americans of white European descent can Ziploc the borders and start churning out babies, he says, their age of civilizing domination is done for.

My copy of “The Population Bomb” is not going to any garage sale because its core issue is more relevant than ever.

That’s what Michelle Malkin says about this WSJ story about banks pandering to illegals.

Acknowledging that many Mexicans sending money home are illegal immigrants, the Federal Reserve’s brochure [PDF] poses the following frequently asked question: “If I return to Mexico or am deported, will I lose the money in my bank account?” The answer: “No. The money still belongs to you and can be easily accessed at an ATM in Mexico using your debit card.”

[U.S. Banks Woo Migrants, Legal Or Otherwise By MIRIAM JORDAN, Wall Street Journal, October 11, 2006]

Actually, the Federal Government could grab these bank accounts by a process known as “asset forfeiture,” which they’re entirely too eager to use on Americans, but they won’t.

Jacob Sullum of Reason Magazine pointed out this story on Reason’s Hit and Run blog under the wonderful title:I Have a Dream…of a Nation Where the Sons of Former Slaves Practice Voting Fraud As Effectively As the Sons of Former Slave Owners

The Justice Department’s main focus is Ike Brown, a local power broker whose imaginative electoral tactics have for 20 years caused whisperings from here to the state capital in Jackson, 100 miles to the southwest. Mr. Brown, tall, thin, a twice-convicted felon, the chairman of the Noxubee County Democratic Executive Committee and its undisputed political boss, is accused by the federal government of orchestrating — with the help of others — “relentless voting-related racial discrimination” against whites, whom blacks outnumber by more than 3 to 1 in the county.

[U.S. Says Blacks in Mississippi Suppress White Vote - New York Times
By ADAM NOSSITER, October 11, 2006]