Posted on 03/20/2006 5:47:43 AM PST by spintreebob
Harvest of help: Study shows too few Latinos visiting food pantries
Estudio demuestra que pocos latinos visitan las despensas.
(excerpts) Although there are myriad food pantries in Chicago and the suburbs, not enough Latinos take home the free food (that the pantries) offer, according to a 2006 America's Second Harvest study.
Last year the Chicago network of almost 600 food pantries, soup kitchens and shelters served almost 500,000 people, but only about 14 percent of them were Latinos, according to GCFD spokesman Bob Dolgan.
In the collar counties the situation is similar - only 13.2 percent of its 187,500 yearly clients are Latinos, said Northern Illinois Food Bank Executive Director Dennis Smith. The network has a network of 521 food pantries, soup kitchens and group homes.
We are very much aware that there are many more folks out there who are inneed of help." Smith said.
What's stopping many Latinos from frequenting food pantries is the fear that if they are illegally in the United States, they will be reported to immigration. . . . "
We just want to get the word out that we are here to help, and of course we always need help too," Smith said.
They're not too proud in California - illegal immigration costs us 10 billion dollars every year, and that's not even counting the jobs they have taken from blue collar workers by working cheap and working for non-taxed cash.
If the authors want to find them, they should visit my local community food bank.
Hmmmm...yet the welfare rolls, the emergency rooms (for non emergency medical treatment) are full of illegal/legal immigrants. Not to mention the free schooling (by way of non payment of municipal/state taxes by illegal immigrants. Seems to me that many immigrants are surely not too proud to 'take' these services.
There is some truth in both observations, and I'm not sure what it means. I have occasion to visit local soup kitchens as well as local emergency rooms. I rarely see Mexicans at the soup kitchens, but they fill the emergency rooms.
"There is some truth in both observations, "
I think you've got it. There are problems with immigration, both legal and illegal. They also provide some benefits to us that we otherwise would not enjoy.
But immigrants are not the anti-christ and neither angels nor devils.
There are major problems with the incompetent government bureaucracies. They can't handle their current duties. Turning them into the next BIG GOVERNMENT program to throw money at will solve nothing.
The irrational statements on both sides do not help us move toward either more freedom nor more security.
I live in Northern Virginia, in the Washington, D.C. area, and listen to Spanish language radio. They run ads for Food Stamps and the WIC program constantly. Apparently there are not enough parasites living here to take advantage of all that our government wants to give them, so the government has to advertise, and taxpayers have to pay for the ad in addition to the programs.
My expertize is living 9 miles from the Mexican border for the last 20 years.
Approximately 8 out of 10 latinos use food stamps here. We don't need govt. stats as all you haveto do is stand in line and watch. Not only do they use food stamps at groceries, they are also used at Circle K for hotdogs, potato chips and soft drinks. (American fattening food}. Circle K also sells burittoes and nice greasy tacos. (Mexic an fattening foods) Of course down here they can get the Mexican candy or American candy. But they probably buy the American candy as according to your "scientific" rational it is the American food that causes diabetics in latinos. You are one of those that blames Americans.
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Most of 'em are workin' off the books AND gettin' welfare. They ain't stupid - they're gonna game the system for all its worth.
That's the sickening part about it!
But, I thought from your comment that I responded to that you were for illegal immigration. Or at least didn't see how they take from the taxpayers.
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