Posted on 08/22/2009 6:01:45 AM PDT by reaganaut1
California's financial unraveling has prompted a long-overdue debate about taxes, regulation, and government spending, but the state's media and government continue to ignore what could be an even greater problem: the irreparable damage to California's human capital that nearly 30 years of unrestrained illegal immigration has achieved.
This is not an immigration problem, or even an illegal-immigration problem, per se. A strong case could be made that, in terms of educational achievement, industriousness, and entrepreneurial acumen, Asian immigrants to California have proven superior to white natives of the state. Therefore, if California were to experience a wave of mass immigration from Asia, its long-term economic prospects would be improved. Today's Hispanic immigrants would probably have the same effect if they came from the top 10 to 20 percent of their society -- according to those same measures of human capital -- rather than from its bottom rungs. But the influx has instead been composed mainly of the poorly educated, the unskilled, and the illiterate. Such immigrants will likely soon dominate the state's overall population and politics.
In 2005, the California K-12 school system was 48.5 percent Hispanic, compared with 30.9 percent white. By now it is above 50 percent Hispanic. Two-thirds of kindergarten students were Hispanic, most of them unable to speak English.
For a closer glimpse of what's in store for California, look at the Los Angeles Unified School District, the largest in California and the second largest in the country. Of its roughly 700,000 students, almost three-quarters are Hispanic, 8.9 percent are white, and 11.2 percent are black. More than half of the Latino students (about 300,000) are "English learners" and, depending on whether you believe the district or independent scholars, anywhere between a third and a half drop out of high school ...
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As goes CA. so goes the nation.
The primary beneficiaries of ObamaCare, I presume.
unchecked illegal invasion
it is an infection that has become malignant, consuming every facet of American life
does mexico wish to purchase the state? cheap?
Any ideas?
Because they don't smoke nearly as much Marijuana.
The left wing elites want to have large staffs of smiling brown servants.
Their distaste for American employees was one reason they encourage illegal immigration.
btt
Gee, who would EVER have guessed that allowing millions and millions of illiterate, unskilled, non-English-speaking peasant breeders (many of whom are unfamiliar with the concept of indoor plumbing) to settle in your state would have a negative impact on the economy, not to mention the public education system? California has been ruined, sucked dry by parasites. It is now a poor Mexican state. Shame on those who allowed this to happen, and may they rot in hell.
It’s far to late for California. The Libs that ran the state into the ground are now the ones moving out of California to states such as Nevada and Texas. Libs are like Cancer Cells.They move to these states and right away start trying to destroy the state they moved too.Florida is another good example of Lib destruction.The hispanic influx has ruined South Florida the same way they are ruining California.Now they are migrating north. We too shall soon be over run.Don’t ya just love diversity ?
Asians tend to be entrepreneurs and scientists. The Hispanics who came here are the peasants, with little education and who have never been taught to value education. If the Mexicans were sending us rocket scientists, we’d be complaining less.
The Hispanic influx in FL is completely different from the Hispanic influx in CA.
The Hispanics in FL aren’t Mexican.
Remember that when Miami was a run-down decaying beach resort in the 1960s, Cuban refugees came and built it up.
I'll remind you and others on this thread that control of immigration is a FEDERAL responsibility. The CA voter-approved attempt to stem the illegal flow by cutting off welfare and other government freebies for illegals (Proposition 187), was nullified by a FEDERAL judge.
Anyone who can count could see the demographic handwriting on the wall. But Democrats are intent upon buying votes and deconstructing traditional America by any means necessary. And large corporate employers have been concerned only with lowering payroll costs by hiring illegals. Thanks to Ted Kennedy, George W. Bush and other myopic D.C. politicians, the same barbaric mess will be coming to your states soon.
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