[WBL 1952]

The immigration debate has left many people pointing the finger of blame at one another. My finger is pointed at...... The Catholic Church.

Catholicism is the most prevalent religion in Mexico. Catholicism views contraception as a sin. Mexico had a population of 40 million in 1940, now it has over 120 million people. I don't blame Mexicans for wanting to make a better life for their families. If you have a wife and 2 kids to provide for in a country like Mexico it’s very difficult, if you have a wife and 8 kids, it’s impossible. -------------------- Holmey Producer Ed Schultz Show

[Dallas59]

Ooo.....This ones a hornets nest...

[kinoxi]

dude, like bad pr man....

[atomicpossum]

Mexico is an oil-rich country with a population slightly over 1/3 of the US. They AREN'T overpopulated. The government there is incredibly, irredeemably corrupt, though, and they have a large number of billionaires and a huge, destitute poverty class because of it...but I don't suppose a leftist would think that THAT could have anything to do with it, would they?

[catholicfreeper]

The guy is clueless. As I have stated numerous times in my view the sin of Contraception(in my view) has hit Mexico and Central America big time. Birthrates are falling at a alarming rate and the the media age will be 5 years higher than the US in the future

The only places where birthrates are exploding is Muslim Countries. NOt in the west

[Mikey_1962]

The Catholic Church...right!

It could not have anything to do with the fact that 1/2 of 1% of the population owns everything and there is NO possibility of class mobility. NO.

I work with about 150 to 200 Mexicans every day. Most of them quit school after 6th grade. Why? Because it doesn't how educated you are or how hard you work if you are from the wrong side of the tracks you won't marry up or live up. Upward mobility is almost impossible.

[T.L.Sink]

I don't know anything about Schultz but it's been documented (and televised) that the Cardinal of Los Angeles (Mahoney) has been urging parishoners to violate the law by aiding illegal aliens in their invasion of the country.

He's also spoken in his ecclesiastical capacity against HR4337.

He's entitled to those views but his tax-exempt status means that you and I are subsidizing this nonsense -- Is it time for a closer examination of religious institutions that are tax-exempt but clearly engaging in secular, partisan politics? To try to hide this illegality in the guise of "morality" is ludicrous.

[catholicfreeper]

I will refrain that conservative evanglicals are starting to turn away from birth control in some areas or if being pro birth control is "conservative.

Any way the facts. This conclusions have been repeated in numerous articles



From the article Global Baby Bust
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20040501faessay83307-p10/phillip-longman/the-global-baby-bust.html




"Another constraint on immigration to the United States involves supply. Birthrates, having already fallen well below replacement levels in Europe and Asia, are now plummeting throughout Latin America as well, which suggests that the United States' last major source of imported labor will dry up. This could occur long before Latin nations actually stop growing -- as the example of Puerto Rico shows. When most Americans think of Puerto Rico, they think of a sunny, over-crowded island that sends millions of immigrants to the West Side of New York City or to Florida. Yet with a fertility rate well below replacement level and a median age of 31.8 years, Puerto Rico no longer provides a net flow of immigrants to the mainland, despite an open border and a lower standard of living. Evidently, Puerto Rico now produces enough jobs to keep up with its slowing rate of population growth, and the allure of the mainland has thus largely vanished."

and
"Now the developing world, as it becomes more urban and industrialized, is experiencing the same demographic transition, but at a faster pace. Today, when Americans think of Mexico, for example, they think of televised images of desperate, unemployed youths swimming the Rio Grande or slipping through border fences. Yet because Mexican fertility rates have dropped so dramatically, the country is now aging five times faster than is the United States. It took 50 years for the American median age to rise just five years, from 30 to 35. By contrast, between 2000 and 2050, Mexico's median age, according to UN projections, will increase by 20 years, leaving half the population over 42. Meanwhile, the median American age in 2050 is expected to be 39.7."
"

[Robertsll]

It is not the corruption or the vast divide between rich and poor. No, not at all. Because Mexicans are having children the country becomes corrupt and poor.

In the United States, we abort our children and will experience a population problem: not enough young people as compared to the number of the retired elderly. Again, this is the Catholic Church's fault for some odd reason.