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10 Reasons to Rethink the Immigration-Overpopulation Connection

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59 ~ Immigration
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By Priscilla Huang

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Editors' Note: Priscilla Huang, policy and programs director for the

National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum, examines the past and present rhetoric of the U.S. anti-immigrant movement, which, she argues, unfairly paints immigrants as conniving, resource-gobbling drains on the economy and environment. She debunks these ideas by giving readers ten reasons to rethink the immigration-over-population connection. -Co-editors Elizabeth Barajas-Roman & Betsy Hartmann

Priscilla Huang is NAPAWF’s Policy and Programs Director, where she oversees their reproductive justice, anti-trafficking and emerging immigrant rights programs. She is a lifelong social justice activist and has worked for various women’s rights organizations. Priscilla was a Georgetown Women’s Law and Public Policy fellow, and the recipient of Choice USA’s 2007 “Courting Justice” Generation Award. She holds a law degree from American University, Washington College of Law, where she was a Public Interest/Public Service Scholar.