Hispanic population growth probably will continue, study says

modesto bee ^ | 10-15-03 | genaro armas

[wheelgunguru]

WASHINGTON (AP) - The population surge that has made Hispanics America's largest minority shows no sign of slowing in the next 20 years, according to a study released Tuesday by a Latino research group. The Pew Hispanic Center found that much of the growth will be from children born to parents who arrived during the immigration wave that began in the 1980s. Because they are native-born, many of those youngsters will have an easier time than their parents, freed of language barriers that made it harder to find work and fully assimilate into American society.

[Aetius]

Of course if legal immigration were reduced, like most polls show the majority of Americans want, then that would cut down on the growth directly and indirectly. This is because cutting the number of immigrants will reduce the number of children born to immigrants.

These things are usually left out of the discussion. Its as though people want the booming Hispanic population ( as well as Asian, and Middle Eastern) to seem as an irresistable force of nature, beyond the control of mortal man.

But of course we could reduce immigration, and all projections would significantly change.

[wheelgunguru]

My wife is an ER/OR nurse in CA. She's also back in (med) school. She pointed out that in America, we had all but wiped out certain diseases, such as TB.

But now, with the open door policy of, first the dims (under Klintoon), and now, under Bush, the medical community is rediscovering diseases we thought we eradicated.

She said it is infecting us, again, through immigrants. Yet, if anyone points it out, they're charged with hate crime/discrimination.