Actually, the typical migrant we have here is exactly what I’m talking about. Their skills are way above those of Americans willing to take low-end jobs.
Latin American countries have very little economic freedom because they are very socialist in their structure (thanks to a combination of early 20th century Marxist influences that turned these countries into oligarchies ... Pemex is still a state owned company...and 1960s university Marxist “revolutionaries”). So if they want economic freedom, they come here.
But the reason that Latin Americans are hated by blacks is that even with the language barrier, Latin Americans do better because they have a basic foundation. They can read Spanish, and they learn to read and speak the English they need very quickly because they actually want to make money here. They can also do basic math, which is something I can attest - from personal experience working with lower income kids, both black and white - is something not learned anymore in American schools.
Sounds like you’re speaking of kids from the neighborhood I grew up in. I speak Spanish fluently livius and I can tell you these MFs coming into America don’t have the Democracy you or I believe in. They broke their own country. They are complete sponges and you’d better wake up! Keep dreaming!
Having worked in several countries in latin america I’ll agree with you that the education is often better. It is infected with a leftist bias, but softened by the overall catholic assumptions. (If leftism undermines catholicism, the reverse is also true...) The kids are smart.
The left bias guarantees that they can’t change the direction of their governments, though.
As you say, the ones who want economic freedom go far and wide looking for it (especially these days) and tend to do well. I work with quite a number of south american exiles and they tend to be our star performers. Technically well prepared and determined to prove it.
Another difference: Here, kids don’t for the most part grow up wanting to study engineering. There, engineering is a prestige job. They have a different self-image.
I don’t know what planet you’re living but the illegal aliens I’ve come in contact with when I was in construction couldn’t read or write their own language and most of them had never set foot in any classroom.