Posted on 11/22/2002 3:20:37 PM PST by Joe Hadenuf
The Mexican Consulate in Indianapolis will be open for business Monday. It's an office that will serve a group of people that's growing rapidly in our city and state. Mayor Bart Peterson's office has worked for about two years with the Mexican government and the state of Indiana to get this consulate opened.
You don't have to look hard to see why the consulate is needed. Drive down Washington Street a few miles west of downtown, and you'll see the fruits of our Hispanic and Latino community's labor. Shop after shop, sign after sign in Spanish. There are now some 34,000 Latinos and Hispanics in Indianapolis, and 60% of them are Mexican.
"We have an education system that welcomes the immigrants and we like the way we are treated because we find that the American community is welcoming in general," said Roberto Curci, La Guia Magazine.
The city even has two publications geared toward this growing community. "The Voice of Indiana," a bilingual newspaper and "The Guide of Indianapolis," a magazine for Hispanics and Latinos. There's even a new Hispanic and Latino yellow pages.
Local businesses are forging ties with that community. Kroger just donated a van to the Hispanic Center of Indianapolis to thank them for translation help that the center has provided for the grocery chain.
"As we change and we are changing as a city, I think it was important for business to recognize that and we have recognized it," said Jeff Golc, Kroger.
The change will continue. Just ask the woman who helps run the grocery store on West Washington Street. New Hispanic and Latino customers come in for her authentic products all the time.
"Like once in a while there will be somebody new that comes. You know, like, "Oh, we just moved here and we came to see how it is." So yeah, we always get new people that come here," said Irasema Delgado, store manager.
The Mexican Consulate will serve three states: Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky. It will serve as the Mexican government's primary link with those states on issues such as immigration, trade and economic development.
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Now it's your turn.
Yes, the wave of Irish immigrants did end after many years of basically open immigration and there were people stamping their feet and turned red in the face the whole time that was going on as well.
And they were right. The Irish took over whole communitys and in some cases basically whole cities; driving the God fearing honest real Americans out. And we see where that has brought the nation today! St. Patricks Day and our children eating Lucky Charms ceral.
Say what! You've got to be kidding, right? The Mexican government is indeed encouraging Mexican citizens to come to the United States. Last year, Mexican citizens living and working in the U.S. sent about 9 billion dollars back to Mexico, a very sizable source of revenue for that country.
Yeah, your babbling is kinda interesting too.
I think the distinction is that he is an American citizen.
Because of their much lower education levels, Mexican immigrants earn significantly less than natives on average. This results in lower average tax payments and heavier use of means-tested programs. Based on estimates developed by the National Academy of Sciences for immigrants by age and education at arrival, the lifetime fiscal impact (taxes paid minus services used) for the average adult Mexican immigrant is a negative $55,200.
• Although they comprise 4.2 percent of the nation’s total population, Mexican immigrants and their U.S.-born children (under 18) account for 10.2 percent of all persons in poverty and 12.5 percent of those without health insurance. Even among Mexican immigrant families that have lived in United States for more than 20 years, almost all of whom are legal residents, more than half live in or near poverty and one-third are uninsured
• Even after welfare reform, an estimated 34 percent of households headed by legal Mexican immigrants and 25 percent headed by illegal Mexican immigrants used at least one major welfare program, in contrast to 15 percent of native households. Mexican immigrants who have lived in the United States for more than 20 years, almost all of whom are legal residents, still have double the welfare use rate of natives.
The Constitution doesn't prescribe an official language. I'm not positive but it might have something to do with the fact that the original colonies were multi-lingual. Granted, English evolved into the common language but that was after the founders didn't find it necessary to make it a Constitutional requirement.
They also forgot to establish a national culture, religion or values system within the Constitution or Bill of Rights.
So under what authority do we take down signs not written in English...isn't that an immigrant language also?
Your point being?
If we cut all of your comical posts out of this thread, it would be a serious thread.
The Irish are an obvious illustration, it taking them several generations to work out of the situation. Much was the same with the Germans in Minnesota. My father-in-law had a difficult time in school because he had such a hard time with English. He was third generation but the first generation never learned English. His father learned some and mother refused to learn it. A very common situation in that area at the time but not anymore.
In this area we had a lot of Norwegian and Swedish immigrants who went through similar situations but again, it's not a factor today.
Understandable.
There's communities in some cities that went from German speaking neighborhoods, to Yiddish to black street talk and are now becoming rennovated neighborhoods for yuppies.
How do you know? Do you two live together? Anyway, he can read my posts when he wakes up in the morning!
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