[Spiff]

Sky-is-falling arguments against the Mexicans this time instead of the neocons (Jews). Buchanan loses all credibility with this cr@p. Yes. Control the borders. Yes. Deport illegals. But bogus statistics undermine efforts to do just that.

From the Migration Policy Institute:

Mexico represents the largest source of immigration to the United States. Of the 32.5 million foreign born covered in the March 2002 Current Population Survey, 9.8 million or 30 percent were from Mexico.

From the Migration Policy Institute:

The largest immigrant group in the United States is composed of people born in Mexico, according the Census 2000. This group is also growing rapidly. And while Mexican immigrants are still settling in "traditional" destination states, such as California and Texas, over the last decade the foreign born from Mexico, like other immigrant groups, have begun moving to "non-traditional" settlement areas such as Georgia.

• There are approximately 9.9 million foreign born from Mexico in the United States.
• There are more foreign born from Mexico in the United States than any other immigrant group.
• Between 1990 and 2000, the number of foreign born from Mexico in the United States more than doubled.
• The foreign born from Mexico make up three percent of the total US population, but 12 percent of the total population of California.
• Mexico continues to be the leading source of unauthorized immigration into the United States.
• About one in every five immigrants who obtained legal permanent resident status in 2002 was from Mexico.

Bogus statistics, my ass.

[peyton randolph]

The largest immigrant group in the United States is composed of people born in Mexico

Snapshot in time does not hold 45 years into the future as claimed by Patsy. By this rationale, we've been overrun by the Germans (how is your Deutsch these days?), the Irish (kiss the Blarney Stone lately?), and the Chinese (use chopsticks for all your meals?).

Two examples. My friend's family immigrated to the U.S. from Hong Kong back in the 1940s. He speaks with a Texas drawl, wears cowboy boots, and is also fluent in Cantonese and Spanish. He's conservative Republican and married to a red-headed lass who is an FBI special agent. My mother's family immigrated to this country from Mexico about the same time. Two generations later, I'm the only one in the family who speaks Spanish...and I learned it in school. No one in my family has the slightest inclination to give anything to Mexico. We're Americans. We've assimilated.

[planekT]

Bogus statistics, my ass. Looks like Pats' estimate might actually be on the conservative side.

[fallujah-nuker]

Excellent post.

[Constantine XIII]

That's an awful pessimistic curve, there.

Why do they think that we'll stop having kids after this year?