The state has fewer than 2-percent blacks, and it’s around 14-percent for the Hispanic population. What the state is avoiding to say is that Hispanic kids who ‘just arrive’ by age 10 to 13...aren’t in shape to handle the US grade levels, and the state has never built a program to handle ‘new’ citizens.
So that Hispanic 18-year old kid is probably at best....at 8th or 9th grade level by the time they ‘graduate’ (fake-graduate is the better term).
Rather than admit this problem...they simple erased the certificate test. When the Hispanic kid shows up at some community college or state university...they will have to test the kid and then tell them they aren’t of the quality for the demands of the school....unless they do an entire year of college-high school to get them to the right level.
Adding to this farce...if the Pentagon guys come to test them for the ASVAB test...the Hispanic kids won’t test high enough for any Army entry requirements...so they can’t even go that route.
I agree with you distinguishing the Hispanics just arriving from second and third generation Americans. Today’s Hispanic “migrants” are coming from very underdeveloped countries. We need to shift legal immigration to merit, and end illegal immigration.