Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) is a non-profit California organization founded in 1986 which works to "preserve California's future through the stabilization of our state's

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". CAPS was the former Californian branch of the

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(ZPG) organization.

Overview

Its aim is to help advance state policies and programs designed to stabilize the population at a level which they feel "will preserve a good

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for all Californians".CAPS website
/ref> It asserts that the current growth of population is "unsustainable" and contributes to a growing strain on the environment and infrastructure.

Immigration

CAPS supports immigration reduction. In 1993, CAPS filed a lawsuit against

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alleging that HP was violating California labor laws and paid residents of India who came to the U.S. below-market wages as contract programmers. The lawsuit was first publicized on CBS's ''

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''. CAPS claimed that such wage practices would drive down wages for U.S. workers. CAPS ultimately lost the lawsuit. CAPS has been described by the

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as an "anti-immigrant hate group". Until 2017, CAPS' director of public affairs was a documented

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Notes

External links

Californians for Population Stabilization website
* David M. Reimers (1998
''Unwelcome strangers: American identity and the turn against immigration''
Columbia University Press, portion of book regarding CAPS {{authority control Anti-immigration politics in the United States Immigration to the United States Environmental organizations based in California Sustainability organizations Organizations promoting population moderation Human overpopulation think tanks Political and economic think tanks in the United States Population concern advocacy groups Population concern organizations Non-profit organizations based in California 1986 establishments in California