Here’s a prediction of the Brave New America with a few hairy details of what domestic overpopulation will include in the near term, as we rapidly approach the next hundred million mark. The Press-Enterprise of Riverside, California, gets local about the future of central SoCal with In life of a child lies path to next milestone.

Recycled water. Traffic nightmares even worse than today’s. Agriculture almost dead as an industry. Lines of high-rise buildings. No one knows what the Inland area will look like in 2043, the year the nation is expected to add its 400 millionth resident, but experts agree on one thing: It will be radically different from today.

“Recycled water” is a polite term for ALL household water being reprocessed for repeat use, as described in a 2000 Salon futurist snapshot, L.A. to serve toilet water.

David Czamanske of the Sierra Club told Los Angeles’ Daily News, “The water that we drink every day has been around for millions of years and circulated through who knows what — dinosaurs, black bears and panthers. The water becomes purified through natural processes or it can be purified through reclamation processes.” But Lori Dinkin, president of the Valley Village Homeowners Association, said, “This is human waste. I’m very uneasy about that.”

But hey, the future is now. The San Fernando Valley is full steam ahead with its “toilet to tap” program to meet “the needs of the surging population.” Unlimited growth is good for the economy we hear, and recyled toilet water is hailed by its advocates as a sign of progress. Orange County residents have apparently been convinced that reclamation makes them “drought proof.”

Bear in mind that the Census has 2043 targeted as the year in which the American odometer will flip over another hundred million. That’s 37 years in the future.

However, if US population growth continues at the rate of the 1990s (13.1 percent per decade), the 400 million mark will arrive just 24 years from now by 2030. Do the math.

Not too surprising: From the AP:

Immigrants flocking to GOP districts

Republican congressional districts are becoming magnets for immigrants — legal and illegal — but GOP lawmakers are not exactly embracing their new constituents.

Of the 50 House districts nationwide with the fastest-growing immigrant communities, 45 are represented by Republicans. All but three of those lawmakers voted for a bill that would make illegal immigrants felons.

Overall, GOP districts added about 3 million immigrants from 2000 to 2005, nearly twice the number that settled in districts represented by Democrats, according to an Associated Press analysis of census data.

The numbers help explain why illegal immigration is such a big issue in rural Georgia, eastern Pennsylvania and in suburbs throughout the United States…

For generations, most immigrants settled in big cities, attracted by fellow countrymen and by social service networks that catered to them. But immigrants increasingly are chasing jobs to fast-growing suburban and rural communities in Middle America — areas that have elected a lot of Republicans to Congress.

It’s one of those natural processes, like the locust. Illegal immigrants go to prosperous places, raise the cost of living, lower wages, drive out the Republicans, increase the number of government jobs needed to take care of their social traumas, and then, when the place is Democratic voting, crowded, unattractive, and electing lots of corrupt anti-business Democrats so jobs are scarce, they move on to new Republican districts. Rinse and repeat.[Cross-posted at Isteve.com]

Marriage scams present an unlimited opportunity for fraud whether they involve matchmakers who send U.S. citizens abroad to get fiancee visas or U.S. American citizens who are paid to marry illegal aliens. As a single man, I have been approached three times asking if I could like to make some quick and easy cash.

Earlier this week, the Associated Press reported that federal immigration authorities say that green card marriages are a common and growing crime perpetrated by sophisticated moneymaking rings.

Among identity and benefit fraud investigations, 21 percent involve bogus marriages.

To help cut down on the immigration abuses, the government has created special marriage fraud task forces.["Officials Crack Down on Phony Marriages," Associated Press, October 20, 2006]