RESOLUTION

 REDUCTION OF IMMIGRATION LEVELS

WHEREAS, illegal immigration levels have accounted for the explosive growth of the American population which will reach over 300 million in 2006; and

 WHEREAS, continued illegal immigration coupled with drug trafficking, and the potential for terrorist infiltration and overwhelming the U.S. Border Patrol, Homeland Security and law enforcement agencies and have been overtaxing local social services, schooling, medical and housing services as well as county and state government services; now

 THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that The Military Order of the World Wars at its Annual Convention in Burlingame, California, August 2-7, 2005, urges the President of the United States and the United States Congress to curtail the continue influx of illegal immigrants through increased deportation and border enforcement, and the immigration levels be regulated at a moderate scale so as to reduce the threats of terrorist infiltration and drug trafficking as well as the heavy drain on local and state governmental resources and services.