When we are discussing the issue of illegal immigration, cultural and demographic concerns are more pertinent, hence it is easier to lump Mexico in with the countries of Central America sub-region proper rather than keep saying "Mexico and South America."
Gibberish that has nothing to do with the actual discussion.
“Tectonic plate” to distract from the fact that they are overwhelmingly Catholic.
JFK and the left knew what they were doing, for instance California.
“During the 1920s and 1930s Los Angeles was a bastion of Anglo Protestantism, reflecting the values of Midwestern parishioners who had been carried to the Southland on the Southern Pacific Railroad. Well into the 1970s, Protestant denominational leaders enjoyed comfortable, influential ties with the city is still-strong “downtown business
establishment,” which itself was largely Protestant.
The Immigration Act of 1965, however, created the condition for a radically different religious future for the City of Angels-a future that would anoint Roman Catholicism as the area’s dominant religious group. Today Roman Catholicism is the single largest faith tradition in Los Angeles County, with 294 parishes and 3,631,368 adherents.
Among Christians, 71% are Catholics. Between 1980 and 1997, Roman Catholicism experienced a 36% growth.
According to Louis Velasquez, director of the Los Angeles Archdiocese Office of Hispanic Ministry, approximately 70% of Roman Catholics in Los Angeles County are Latino, mostly immigrants from Mexico and Central America.
Father Gregory Courier, speaking for the three-county Los Angeles Archdiocese, suggests that as many as one million undocumented immigrant Catholics probably remain uncounted. Sixty-percent of these Latino Catholics,
Valasquez says, speak Spanish as their primary language. Spanish masses are held at over two thirds of the Archdiocese’s 287 parishes, and in most of these parishes, Spanish language masses make up about 80% of the total number of masses offered.”