Californians for Population Stabilization

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Californians for Population Stabilization, Inc.

Abbreviation	CAPS
Formation	March 12, 1979 (1979-03-12)
Tax ID no.	94-2581509
Registration no.	C0912758 (California)
Website	capsweb.org
Formerly called	Zero Population Growth - California, Incorporated^[1]

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 human population". CAPS was the former Californian branch of the Zero Population Growth (ZPG) organization.^[2]

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 quality of life for all Californians".^[3] It asserts that the current growth of population is "unsustainable" and contributes to a growing strain on the environment and infrastructure.^[4]

Immigration

CAPS supports immigration reduction. In 1993, CAPS filed a lawsuit against Hewlett Packard 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 60 Minutes. CAPS claimed that such wage practices would drive down wages for U.S. workers.^[5] CAPS ultimately lost the lawsuit.^[6]

CAPS has been described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an "anti-immigrant hate group".^[7] Until 2017, CAPS' director of public affairs was a documented neo-nazi.^[8]^[9]

Notes

^ Name change, March 5, 1986, California Secretary of State.
^ Coates, A. Peter (2006). American Perceptions of Immigrant and Invasive Species: Strangers on the Land. Univ. of Calif. Press. p. 237. ISBN 9780520249301.
^ CAPS website
^ "Environmental Concerns". CAPS.
^ Computerworld, October 11, 1993 p. 110
^ Californians for Population Stabilization v. Hewlett Packard Company (Court of Appeal, Sixth District, California 1997), Text.
^ "Dustin Inman Society". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
^ "Californians for Population Stabilization Hired Documented Neo-Nazi Parker Wilson". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
^ "Identity Revealed: Bay Area neo-Nazi hid in plain sight". El Tecolote. 9 February 2017. Retrieved 29 August 2024.

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

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