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A New Latino Underclass
Manhattan Institute ^ | July 25, 2004 | Heather Mac Donald

Posted on 04/23/2006 4:25:13 PM PDT by HEMICRASHBOX

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1 posted on 04/23/2006 4:25:15 PM PDT by HEMICRASHBOX
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Rough stuff.


2 posted on 04/23/2006 4:25:40 PM PDT by HEMICRASHBOX
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Just the beginning folks, just the beginning.


3 posted on 04/23/2006 4:28:18 PM PDT by Uncle Hal
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4 posted on 04/23/2006 4:28:29 PM PDT by Vision Thing
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They're just committing the crimes Americans won't commit.


5 posted on 04/23/2006 4:29:27 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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The Open Borders Lobby wants to import Third World squalor and crime along with their cheap workforce. Of course they won't ever mention those aspects when they're pushing amnesty on the American people as the solution to the illegal immigration conundrum.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

6 posted on 04/23/2006 4:31:09 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: HEMICRASHBOX; Lurker; oceanview

Will it take the severed heads of American police officers on spikes on Rodeo Boulevard to make the OBL and WSJ editorial page question their positions ? Or will Bush still be saying they are 'doing jobs American's won't do' ?


7 posted on 04/23/2006 4:31:14 PM PDT by Sam the Sham (A conservative party tough on illegal immigration could carry California in 2008)
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To: HEMICRASHBOX

We are still fighting the Italian maffia, after 100 years.


8 posted on 04/23/2006 4:34:06 PM PDT by ClaireSolt (.)
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To: Paleo Conservative
They're just committing the crimes Americans won't commit.

When Rush Limbaugh commented on the large number of Hispanic protestors compared to those of the anti-war protestors, he said that the illegals are doing the protests that white liberals are no longer willing to perform.

9 posted on 04/23/2006 4:34:49 PM PDT by Vision Thing
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So what else is news?


10 posted on 04/23/2006 4:35:22 PM PDT by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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Good article:

1.These folks work.
However, since they drop out of school, usually to work, they will, for the most part, stay an underclass of entry level workers. They SAY education is important, but practically speaking they just don't mean it.

2. They are very family oriented.
However, the Hispanic family is breaking up. That is the worst possible news. We have seen what happens when families, especially minority families, break up: a new underclass of divorced women, uneducated to boot, emerges.

Result: look at the downward spiral of the black family: with 3/4 babies born out of wedlock, TOO many of their men in prison, TOO many of their young people on drugs, too many of all of them on welfare.

11 posted on 04/23/2006 4:44:18 PM PDT by starfish923 (Socrates: It's never right to do wrong.)
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"Just the beginning folks, just the beginning."

Yes it is.

On the final component of underclass behavior - school failure – Hispanics are in a class by themselves. No other group drops out in greater numbers. In 2000, nearly 30 percent of Hispanics between the ages of 16 and 24 were high school dropouts nationwide, compared with about 13 percent of blacks and about 7 percent of whites.

The constant inflow of barely literate recent Mexican arrivals unquestionably brings down Hispanic education levels. But later American-born generations don't brighten the picture much. Mexican-Americans are assimilating not to the national schooling average, observed the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas this June, but to the dramatically lower "Hispanic average." In educational outcomes, concluded the bank, "Ethnicity matters."

We keep lowering our standards in public schools to accomodate this. Soon they'll all be as screwed up as the group being discussed.

I say again:

GET YOUR KIDS OUT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

PUT THEM IN CONSERVATIVE PRIVATE SCHOOLS.



12 posted on 04/23/2006 4:57:51 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) !)
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To: Uncle Hal

"Just the beginning folks, just the beginning."

Yes it is.

"On the final component of underclass behavior - school failure – Hispanics are in a class by themselves. No other group drops out in greater numbers. In 2000, nearly 30 percent of Hispanics between the ages of 16 and 24 were high school dropouts nationwide, compared with about 13 percent of blacks and about 7 percent of whites."

"The constant inflow of barely literate recent Mexican arrivals unquestionably brings down Hispanic education levels. But later American-born generations don't brighten the picture much. Mexican-Americans are assimilating not to the national schooling average, observed the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas this June, but to the dramatically lower "Hispanic average." In educational outcomes, concluded the bank, "Ethnicity matters." "

Forgot the quotes above.

We keep lowering our standards in public schools to accomodate this. Soon they'll all be as screwed up as the group being discussed.

I say again:

GET YOUR KIDS OUT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

PUT THEM IN CONSERVATIVE PRIVATE SCHOOLS.



13 posted on 04/23/2006 4:59:10 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) !)
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To: Sam the Sham
Some folks just don't care how many Americans are beaten, robbed, burglarized, raped, forcibly sodomized, and murdered as long as they get cheap lettuce.

L

14 posted on 04/23/2006 4:59:57 PM PDT by Lurker (Anyone who doesn't demand an immediate end to illegal immigration is aiding the flesh trade.)
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A New Latino Underclass
Manhattan Institute ^ | July 25, 2004 | Heather Mac Donald


Posted on 04/23/2006 4:25:13 PM PDT by HEMICRASHBOX

This goes back to 2004!

Wonder how worse it has gotten?


15 posted on 04/23/2006 5:00:30 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) !)
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Mr. Ruiz thinks that today's Mexican immigrant is a "totally different kind of person" from the past. Rather than aggressively seizing the opportunities available to them, especially in education, they have learned to play the victim card, he thinks.

Bump that for sure.

16 posted on 04/23/2006 5:05:13 PM PDT by humblegunner (If you're gonna die, die with your boots on.)
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Hispanic gang violence is spreading across the country, the sign of a new underclass in the making.

And a fresh cry for social justice rings out.

Saved in the nick of time, America's international socialist elite thank their unlikely allies greedbag American businessmen who imported tens of millions of new illegal residents over the past twenty five years.

To think, without this latest & largest wave of poverty stricken newcomers seeking the 'American Dream' the racial grievance racketeers and welfare state pimps were in danger of fading away.

17 posted on 04/23/2006 5:10:30 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Vision Thing

When you're a Jet
You're a Jet all the way
From your first cigarette
To your last dying day!

Let's sing, I love that movie!


18 posted on 04/23/2006 5:47:10 PM PDT by jocon307 (The Silent Majority - silent no longer)
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"the pull to a culture of violence among Hispanic children begins earlier and earlier"

So much for that good Catholic upbringing that the Catholic Church is all a twitter about in forcing the country to accept ILLEGALS so their numbers can swell.


19 posted on 04/23/2006 6:07:57 PM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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I think the Hispanic immigrant's culture also is part of their problem. I dated a Salvadoran woman for a few months, and I noticed a strong anti-education current in her culture. That isn't say they all are that way, but there is an antipathy to those Hispanics who get an education from my observation.


20 posted on 04/23/2006 6:08:11 PM PDT by pravknight (Christos Regnat, Christos Imperat, Christus Vincit)
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