Comment on CIS Report on Global Warming

The new report from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), “Immigration to the United States and World-Wide Greenhouse Gas Emissions,” tries to claim that immigration to the United States is a driver of climate change and global warming. Yet the study is little more than a thinly-veiled attempt try to advance an anti-immigration agenda by appealing to Americans’ concerns over other issues.

Below is a statement from Paco Fabián, Communications Director of America’s Voice, on the new CIS report:

“We eagerly await the next CIS report, blaming immigrants for high gas prices, steroids in baseball, and the decline of the network sitcom. No matter the day, no matter the subject, their one-size-fits-all approach to policymaking conveniently blames immigration for all of society’s ills. If CIS was so concerned about the environment, you’d think they wouldn’t have wasted the paper to print this drivel. Wrapping anti-immigrant sentiment in pseudo-academic research doesn’t disguise the extreme absurdity and agenda of CIS.”

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