Posted on 06/05/2007 7:39:25 AM PDT by ZGuy
Republican open-borders advocates tirelessly promote the myth that Hispanics will save the American family from the rising tide of illegitimacy and disintegration. None of these myth-makers has spent any time, it would appear, in the Los Angeles Unified School District, undoubtedly the most illegal alien-impacted school district in the county. “Most of the people I used to hang out with when I first came to the school have dropped out,” observed Jackie, a vivacious illegal alien from Guatemala, who is getting her GED at Belmont High School in Los Angeles’s overwhelmingly Hispanic, gang-ridden Rampart district. “Others got kicked out or got into drugs. Five graduated, and four home girls got pregnant.”
Jackie’s observations have been confirmed by every teen I have spoken to while researching teen pregnancy and out of wedlock child-bearing in Southern California. “This year was the worst for pregnancies,” said Liliana, an American-born senior at Manual Arts High School near downtown Los Angeles a while back. “A lot of girls get abortions; some drop out.” Are girls ashamed when they get pregnant? I wonder. “Not at all,” Liliana responds. Among Hispanic teens the stigma of single parenthood has vanished. I asked Jackie, the Guatemalan GED student at Belmont High, if her pregnant friends subsequently got married. She guffawed. George, an 18-year-old of Salvadoran background who was kicked out of Manual Arts six months ago for a vicious fight, estimates that most girls at the school are having sex by age 16.
Social workers in Southern California are in despair over the epidemic of single parenting. Not only has illegitimacy become perfectly acceptable, they say, but so has the resort to welfare and social services to cope with it.
I spoke with an obstetrician at St. Joseph’s Hospital in the city of Orange, California, many of whose patients are Hispanic teenagers. A recent patient just had her second baby at age 17; the baby’s father is in jail. But what is “most alarming,” the doctor, herself Hispanic, says, is that the “teens’ parents view having babies outside of marriage as normal, too. A lot of the grandmothers are single as well; they never married, or they had successive partners. So the mom sends the message to her daughter that it’s okay to have children out of wedlock.”
One of the “Hispanic family values” that is thriving is the importance of having children early and often. “It’s considered almost a badge of honor for a young girl to have a baby,” says Peggy Schulze of Chrysalis House, an adoption agency in Fresno. (Fresno has one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in California, typical of the state’s heavily Hispanic farm districts.) This preference for early child-bearing is not ideal in a modern economy.
Statistics bear these personal observations out. Hispanic women have the highest unmarried birthrate in the country -- over three times that of whites and Asians, and nearly one and a half times that of black women, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Every 1,000 unmarried Hispanic women bore 92 children in 2003 (the latest year for which data exist), compared with 28 children for every 1,000 unmarried white women, 22 for every 1,000 unmarried Asian women, and 66 for every 1,000 unmarried black women. Forty-eight percent of all Hispanic births occur outside of marriage, compared with 24 percent of white births and 15 percent of Asian births. Only the percentage of black out-of-wedlock births -- 68% -- exceeds the Hispanic rate. But the black population is not going to triple over the next few decades.
As if the unmarried Hispanic birthrate weren’t worrisome enough, it is increasing faster than among other groups. It jumped five percent from 2002 to 2003, whereas the rate for other unmarried women remained flat. Couple the high and increasing illegitimacy rate of Hispanics with their higher overall fertility rate, and you have a recipe for unstoppable family breakdown.
The rate of childbirth for Mexican teenagers, who come from by far the largest and fastest-growing immigrant population, greatly outstrips every other group. The Mexican teen birthrate is 93 births per every 1,000 girls, compared with 27 births for every 1,000 white girls, 17 births for every 1,000 Asian girls, and 65 births for every 1,000 black girls. For a long time, conservatives have been uniquely willing to sound the alarm about the costs of illegitimacy. Children raised in single-parent homes, they have warned, are at far higher risk of school failure, juvenile delinquency, emotional problems, teen pregnancy, and poverty than children raised by married parents. Yet when it comes to Hispanics, open-borders advocates, fearless about decrying family break-down among blacks, suddenly go silent.
Ditto the other social problems that are showing up above all in the second and third generations of Hispanic immigrants. Hispanics have the highest school drop-out rate in the country -- a recipe for economic decline. In the Los Angeles Unified School District, which is 73% Hispanic, just 40% of Hispanic students graduate. Immigrant advocates have fiercely opposed in court a long-deferred California high school exit exam, which would require students to answer just over 50% of questions testing eighth-grade-level math and ninth-grade-level English. The California Research Bureau predicts that if the exam becomes a reality, Hispanic graduation rates would drop well below 30%.
Gang life is thriving in L.A.’s schools, and is spreading across the country with the migration of Hispanic immigrants. The incarceration rate of Mexican-Americans is 3.45 times higher than that of whites. Sociologists Alejandro Portes of Princeton and Rubén G. Rumbaut of the University of California, Irvine, followed the children of immigrants in San Diego and Miami from 1992 to 2003. A whopping 28% of Mexican-American males between the ages of 18 and 24 reported having been arrested since 1995, and 20%reported having been incarcerated -- a rate twice that of other immigrant groups. Anyone who speaks to Hispanic students in immigrant-saturated schools in Southern California will invariably hear the estimate that 50% of a student’s peers have ended up in gangs or other criminal activities.
These are the social facts about which open-borders conservatives never speak. If the current level of immigration flows continues, they will only get worse.
When we say that we are a nation of immigrants too many overlook the fact that the pillars of a community seldom pull up stakes and go to other countries and start a new life. The misfits are the ones who do, for the most part. That may well help explain the individualism and creativity of America, but it also explains why our prisons are full and always have been.
How many times, and how many ways can it be said? The Democrat party and the utopian left support this because they are cynical and exploitative. The Republican party and the libertarian right are simply craven and stupid. Collectively we are embracing a snake that will certainly bite us.
Hispanics tend to dress their little girls up like sluts.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
AMNESTY is poisonous.....
TURN THE ENEMIES WEAPON AGAINST HIM
Call the “Senate Immigration Reform Hotline” at 1 800 417 7666
Press 1 for your senior senator, 2 for your junior senator.
This will connect you DIRECTLY to your senator without going through the congressional switchboard.
JAM THE LINES. LET THEM HEAR OUR ANGER AND FURY.
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thanks for the post, Z. This hasn’t hit home yet, but I’m not sure why not.
Last year in Texas, half of all babies born were to illegal aliens. Seventy percent of all babies born at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, TX last year were born to thesse free loaders. The seventy percent totaled 11,200!!! Each and ever one was paid for by taxpayers in Dallas Co., Medicaid through the state of Texas, and a little bit by the federal government.
twenty-five percent of Texas’ state budget has to be devoted to Medicaid!!! Any wonder why we don’t get any of the tax relief promised?
Call (888) 534-6226 and you can talk to both Senate and House...the House has a stake in this ..because part of the AMNESTY Bill involves money it should have gone to the House first...
I finally got through to a real person at Harry Reid’s office this morning after leaving several messages over the last 2 weeks...
Mel Martinez’s office screen the calls and insists on a Florida Zip Codes...Florida FReepers keep calling Martinez..
Watching “The Shield” every Tuesday night on FX shows you never to go to LA.
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Oh, well, by all means let's toss AMNESTY to 30 million of the little pinheads so chain migration can boost the number to over 120 MILLION that will "resort to welfare and social services to cope with" squirting out even MORE bam-bean-os.
Brilliant idea Mr. Kennedy, really "defines" your open commie values.
I spoke with an obstetrician at St. Joseph’s Hospital in the city of Orange, California, many of whose patients are Hispanic teenagers. A recent patient just had her second baby at age 17; the baby’s father is in jail. But what is “most alarming,” the doctor, herself Hispanic, says, is that the “teens’ parents view having babies outside of marriage as normal, too. A lot of the grandmothers are single as well; they never married, or they had successive partners. So the mom sends the message to her daughter that it’s okay to have children out of wedlock.”
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BTTT!
The U.S. is not Australia, we were not founded as a penal colony. The first immigrants to America were people of courage and conviction. Some came here to avoid religious persecution, some came here as entrepreneurs to seek their fortune, some came just for the adventure. The poem now inscribed on the Statue of Liberty is just a socialist's dream. America was not founded nor built into the greatest nation in the world by poor, huddled masses, quite the opposite. The record already established by the illegal invaders from Mexico as far as learning English, working, government dependency, criminal activity and the lack of any effort to assimilate, show that they are not to be equated with those who founded and built this Great Country.
I wouldn’t have said it that way, but just about every time my daughter’s middle school does a program where the kids get to pick acts, they have to throw out one or more of the hispanic acts because they are too racy.
Also, there are a lot of pregnancies for a school that covers 6-8th grade (that’s 11-14 years of age). When your 7th-graders are getting out of PE class because they are pregnant, you’ve got some serious problems.
Well, Mel is the RNC chair, so we should be able to talk to him in THAT capacity — so find some florida zip codes.
People of courage and conviction can also be misfits. Puritans and Pilgrims escaped religious percution and sought freedom because they were not conforming. Often, European inheritance laws produced landless second sons who sought their fortunes in the New World.
Please correct your commentary to refer to the Libertarian Party lest the simple become confused.
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