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Catching Up to Mexico - Illegal immigration is depleting California's human capital ...
National Review (print) ^ | August 24, 2009 | Alex Alexiev

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 ...

(Excerpt) Read more at 6.lexisnexis.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; US: California
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; california; education; hispanics; illegalaliens; illegalimmigration; illegals; immigrantlist; immigration; latinos; losangeles
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To: reaganaut1

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.


21 posted on 08/22/2009 8:01:02 AM PDT by GAB-1955 (I write books, love my wife, serve my nation, and believe in the Resurrection.)
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To: Bernard Marx

I agree with you entirely, except to say that California politicians are to a certain degree culpable, as well, if for no other reason than their consistent pandering. You left out Clinton and Algore’s Citizenship USA that gave citizenship to those 1.2 million former illegals, most of whom were “Califronians” so they could vote, without bothering to determine whether they had criminal records. The person who presided over that one, Doris Meissner, is BO’s “senior advisor” on immigration reform.


22 posted on 08/22/2009 8:04:25 AM PDT by La Lydia
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To: reaganaut1
Win the War On Poverty
Stop bringing in foreign reinforcements for the other side.


23 posted on 08/22/2009 8:43:15 AM PDT by Iron Munro (America's awkward stage: too late to work within the system, too early to shoot the bastards)
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To: reaganaut1
This is not an immigration problem, or even an illegal-immigration problem, per se

At first glance, that statement made my blood boil. Of course, it's an immigration problem and it was created by the traitors in control of our country.

Alex Alexiev's timid report on the termites gnawing away at our Culture, our Wealth and our Well-Being is just more useless blather.

Until these genius sycophants at National Review and throughout the media, start laying the blame and naming the names of the scurrilous low lifes who are destroying this once great bastion of freedom and explaining in detail how the two party's have worked together to bring us to this precipice of darkness, they should be considered part of the problem.

I don't need some phoney ass intellectual to tell me something that everyone who has been directly affected by has known for more than a decade.

24 posted on 08/22/2009 8:48:20 AM PDT by MurrietaMadman (Luke 23:31)
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To: La Lydia
You're trying to pick fly specks out of the pepper. Certainly CA politicians have been in this up to their necks, pandering to their increasingly Hispanic constituents -- thanks to the Feds' failure to enforce the law! If the Feds (ably assisted by Democrat Gov. Gray Davis) had allowed Prop 187 to stand, the flow of illegals would have been stemmed. But that wasn't the Federal game plan.

The failure of Republicans in the House to follow up on obvious voter fraud in the case of Bob Dornan vs. Loretta Sanchez was an absolute disgrace! Sanchez clearly "won" with illegal votes -- even the L.A. Times admitted it! -- but House Republicans rolled over. They couldn't offend those potential "Republican" votes, don't you know? It was absolutely sickening.

25 posted on 08/22/2009 9:10:40 AM PDT by Bernard Marx ("Civilizations die by suicide, not from murder" Toynbee)
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To: 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; 4ourprogeny; 7.62 x 51mm; ..

ping


26 posted on 08/22/2009 9:21:05 AM PDT by gubamyster
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To: Mister Da

Hollywood pretty much is now in Vancouver. So many productions you see on TV and movies are filmed now in Vancouver.


27 posted on 08/22/2009 9:26:28 AM PDT by UCFRoadWarrior (Illegal alien amnesty is anti-American bigotry)
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To: kabumpo

That is not so much the case now....Florida’s Hispanic immigrants/illegals are mostly non-Cuban...coming from South America and Domincan Rep. In agricultural areas, there are now a lot of Mexicans and Central Americans.

And, this is not including the US citizen Puerto Ricans, which have large populations in Central Florida


28 posted on 08/22/2009 9:29:47 AM PDT by UCFRoadWarrior (Illegal alien amnesty is anti-American bigotry)
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To: reaganaut1
Therefore, if California were to experience a wave of mass immigration from Asia, its long-term economic prospects would be improved

As if the dirt of California was the only thing about it that's American, and the characteristics of the inhabitants is irrelevant, other than their exchange value.

If California is predominantly Mexican, it isn't America, it's Mexico.

And those aren't my words. Those are the words of the Mexicans themselves, who at least have national consciousness.

And the same would be true of a predominantly Chinese population.

When the White people who settled California and their co-ethnics who followed them there in the 20th century are gone, it ain't gonna be "America", no matter how many people want to pretend that "it's just another immigrant group".

Look at the numbers. LAUSD is 9% non-hispanic white. Those numbers were reversed in 1960, and for the previous 100 years.

Such a thing has a name: Invasion.

And Invasion is not a civil right.

29 posted on 08/22/2009 9:51:49 AM PDT by Regulator (Welcome to Zimbabwe! Now hand over your property)
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To: reaganaut1

A depressing read for Saturday morning. Where is it going to end?


30 posted on 08/22/2009 10:01:58 AM PDT by Uncle Hal
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To: Citizen Tom Paine
A country which cannot control its borders is no longer a sovereign nation

Perhaps when a wsd goes off in Hollywood (capital of western decadence, as far as islam is concerned), they will get the message.

31 posted on 08/22/2009 10:32:47 AM PDT by jpsb
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To: Uncle Hal
"A depressing read for Saturday morning. Where is it going to end?"

It is going to take something really really big to wake up the liberals. One would have thought 9-11 would wake them up. But apparently not. 9-11 did not even wake Bush up! So if 9-11 did not wake up the GOP, no telling what it is going to take to wake up the Rats now running the government.

32 posted on 08/22/2009 10:36:47 AM PDT by jpsb
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To: BenLurkin
The left wing elites want to have large staffs of smiling brown servants.

I derive a deal of secret amusement imagining what those selfsame servants are thinking about their effete, snobbish bosses behind those smiling brown faces.

33 posted on 08/22/2009 11:35:31 AM PDT by thulldud (It HAS happened here!)
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To: reaganaut1; All

Illegal alien Mexican Drug Cartels just burned down 860,000 acres in California. Each of their pot farms cost 100’s of thousands of dollars to clean up, and the environmental damage is permanent...but the Calif. ecofreaks say NOTHING about that.

A forest service worker died this week trying to clean up one of these cartel pot farms this week.

Mexican Drug Smugglers Tied to California Fire
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2318750/posts

Californians!
Get On the Bandwagon!
Taxpayer Protection Act of 2010
Get The Petitions Pronto!
http://www.taxpayerrevolution.org/


34 posted on 08/22/2009 12:24:30 PM PDT by AuntB (First the government cripples you, then it tries to sell you a crutch!)
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To: Bernard Marx

“If the Feds (ably assisted by Democrat Gov. Gray Davis) had allowed Prop 187 to stand, the flow of illegals would have been stemmed.”

There were some other interesting GOP players in the destruction of Prop. 187...Grover Norquist and Stephen Moore & other ‘good’ republicans.
Norquist was the author of Bush’s amnesty. We’ve got traitors in the GOP to clean out before we can even think about the democrats.

[snips]
Working closely with Stephen Moore of the Cato Institute, Cesar Conda (former domestic advisor to Dick Cheney) circulated a statement against Prop. 187 of California in the nineties.
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/search?q=grover+norquist

“The letters were mainly the work of Cato’s Anderson and Paul Ryan, Brownback’s legislative director, whose ties to the pro-immigration mafia ran deep. A protégé of Conda and an ally of Swartz, Ryan was the staffer who had aided Jack Kemp and William Bennett in their crusade against Proposition 187.....
From the Republican side, the cavalry arrived courtesy of Grover Norquist, who had proved to be one of Swartz’s most significant conduits to the activist right.

Almost from the start, Norquist (who was on Microsoft’s payroll) had been trying to convince the Christian Coalition’s Ralph Reed that being pro family meant being against cuts in family immigration, and that Reed should therefore support split-the-bill. Reed had resisted, but shortly before the vote, at a dinner with Gingrich and Norquist, the Speaker had indicated that he was in favor of splitting the bill.”

http://www.adti.net/new_zuberi_uploaded/imm/wired_heilemann_08_04_1996.htm


35 posted on 08/22/2009 12:44:53 PM PDT by AuntB (First the government cripples you, then it tries to sell you a crutch!)
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To: Bernard Marx
We can also thank libtards on Scotus for ignoring the “and subject to the jurisdiction thereof” of the 14th Amendment.

This has allowed untold millions of pregnant moms to pop on US soil with the guarantee of citizenship for their children. That was not the intent of Congress and is another example of the harm our out of control blackrobed minor gods have screwed up our country.

36 posted on 08/22/2009 12:55:55 PM PDT by Jacquerie (Laws of Nature and Nature's God - The bedrock of our unalienable rights.)
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To: org.whodat
Free Prescription Discounts for Illegal Aliens (And other good stuff)

http://www.freemedicinefoundation.com/illegal_aliens.htm

I didn't realize these things were this easy.
37 posted on 08/22/2009 12:59:25 PM PDT by Gun142 (Where Will You Be When You Get Where You're Going? -- Jerry Clower)
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To: lakertaker
As goes CA. so goes the nation.

That why I'll be toughing it out here in Cal...


38 posted on 08/22/2009 1:24:02 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: kabumpo
The Hispanic influx in FL is completely different from the Hispanic influx in CA.

Yeah, I can see that.

The Hispanics in FL aren’t Mexican.

Uh...so what is causing all your crime in Miami?

Miami and Los Angeles Comparative Crime Ratios per 100,000 People

Latest 2006 Crimes per 100,000 People:

Miami, FL Los Angeles, CA National
Murder: 19.6 12.4 7
Forcible Rape: 25.7 27.3 32.2
Robbery: 537.2 370 205.8
Aggravated Assault: 926.9 377.2 336.5
Burglary: 1130.5 524.8 813.2
Larceny Theft: 3045.5 1539.2 2601.7
Vehicle Theft: 987.2 654.4 501.5

39 posted on 08/22/2009 1:28:29 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: dbrew2u
The Libs are now the ones moving out of California to states such as Nevada and Texas.

I read this all the time.

Fantastic news for California!

40 posted on 08/22/2009 1:46:44 PM PDT by dragnet2
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