Many Hispanics Are Hit Hard by Economic Slump

New York Times ^ | 13 May | Peter S. Goodman

[flowerplough]

In his first years in the United States, Carlos B. Jacinto endured the itinerant life of a Guatemalan migrant worker, from picking fruit in Florida to moving logs at a sawmill in Washington. Eventually, he settled here in northern Georgia and erected a middle-class American life.

The carpet factories that sustained this town were desperate for workers to supply a nationwide boom in home construction. The wages Mr. Jacinto earned over the last decade were enough to buy a minivan and a brick house with a yard and a swing set for his four young girls. It was a long way from his childhood home in Guatemala, a wooden shack without electricity or plumbing.

But last month, amid the shrinking fortunes of the American economy, Mr. Jacinto, 37, was laid off. Everything he has achieved is suddenly at risk.

“Am I going to be able to keep up the payments on my house?” he asked. “I never believed this could happen. Now, we don’t know the future.”

[flowerplough]

"Now, we don’t know the future.” While, before, he did "know the future"? What bleeding-heart, liberal fools publish such drivel?

[pabianice]

"Economy Slows; Women, Minorities Hardest Hit"

[imintrouble]

Is he a citizen yet or even a legal alien?

Will he begin collecting welfare no questions asked?

This makes me sick - why do we continue this farce at benevolence when it is constantly abused.

[Mark was here]

How is the economy affecting right handed men with blue eyes?

[popdonnelly]

If you think there’s a slump now, wait’ll you see what happens if the Democrats enact their platform.

[Slapshot68]

“But last month, amid the shrinking fortunes of the American economy, Mr. Jacinto, 37, was laid off. Everything he has achieved is suddenly at risk.”

Sorry, how is his plight any more problematic than any other American?

[BallyBill]

Hit Hard? Go sell that in China or Burma.

[L,TOWM]

Oooohhh, that’s so sad. Maybe he should go back to Guatemala and consult a good fortune teller there.

[Red Badger]

“Am I going to be able to keep up the payments on my house?” he asked. “I never believed this could happen. Now, we don’t know the future.”

As a "typical white person" I'm glad I don't have to worry about such things..........

[Tennessee Nana]

Oooooooooooooooooooooooo

20 years ago carpet mills in Dalton, GA, laid off many American citizen workers and hired illegall alien s in their place...

nobody cried for the Americans then...

[Tennessee Nana]

Oooooooooooooooooooooooo

20 years ago carpet mills in Dalton, GA, laid off many American citizen workers and hired illegal aliens in their place...

nobody cried for the Americans then...

[Slapshot68]

““Am I going to be able to keep up the payments on my house?” he asked. “I never believed this could happen. Now, we don’t know the future.”

As a “typical white person” I’m glad I don’t have to worry about such things..........”

I was thinking the same thing. So glad I’m white...the bank won’t foreclose my house if I can’t make my mortgage payments. /s off

[stainlessbanner]

I posted recently about the illegals employed at carpet mills in Dalton, GA. Nearly half of the town is hispanic.

Article fails to mention the legal American workers that lost jobs to illegal immigrant labor.

[Resolute Conservative]

How is a high GDP and low unemployment equate to a bad economy? The only bad thing right now is inflation and high energy costs. Granted it is a house of cards but the economy is fairing quite well for most who watch their wasteful spending.

Is he sad because he is not getting $25 a hour to mow someone’s friggin’ yard or because he is not getting a stimulus check?

If you don’t like it Paco get your butt south where you and your ilk belong.

[stainlessbanner]

same though, a minute apart

[ontap]

Others in his situation have returned to Mexico, he said, discouraged by the deteriorating job market and a recent surge in crackdowns against illegal immigrants. If things do not improve soon, so will he

Bingo! Enforce laws and things start to improve! Get that damn fence built and this ahole won't be back.

[IamConservative]

If you think there’s a slump now, wait’ll you see what happens if the Democrats enact their platform.

Exactly. Hillary and Obama both want to do implement import controls and raise taxes.

The name of the last President that did those exact things to improve the economy was J. Edgar Hoover; architect in principle of The Great Depression.

[Tennessee Nana]

I had good friends who lived in Dalton and worked in the carpet mills in 1986-7

Dalton is only about 30 miles from me..

(In fact several local Tennesseans worked in the mills there too)

We went down just about every weekend to visit our friends..

So I heard a lot over some time about what was going on there..

My friends and many others they knew were laid off and they knew that illegal aliens were being brought into Dalton to take their places...

There was nothing they could do about it at the time...

And looked what has evolved from that...

[ken21]

“news” articles like this are just plain

racist.