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To: JD86
people that have different requirements for white, english-speakers and latinos who speak spanish are making it a race issue.

free republic is famous for that.

while i'd agree that legality would be preferable, sadly, both parties, democrat and republican, have allowed the defacto immigration policy to build.

the need for immigration is due to the baby boomer generation and successive generations that have chosen not to have children. the u.s. birth rate dropped in the 1960s.

by the late 1970s, the u.s. birth rate fell to 1.8 or so, where 2.0 is replacement of two adults.

it was in the 1980s and 90s that illegal immigration grew as a result.

the american economy requires a slightly higher-than-replacement birth rate to function.

now, the birth rate has risen to 2.2 or so.

why blame other people for our choice not to have children?

41 posted on 11/17/2001 6:35:38 PM PST by ken21
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To: ken21
people that have different requirements for white, english-speakers and latinos who speak spanish are making it a race issue.

the reason I brought up the language is because it keeps people from assimilating....and the Latinos I have met make it an issue. You yourself think I am racist because I think people who immigrate should learn English. Why? When my great-grandfather immigrated from Germany, he learned English. Why should Latinos not? The US speaks English....if they want to be accepted here, they should learn to do the same. It is not our job to adapt to new arrivals.

51 posted on 11/17/2001 6:41:48 PM PST by JD86
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To: ken21
the need for immigration

The premise that is at the heart of argument. Many would argue that that time has long past.

53 posted on 11/17/2001 6:42:10 PM PST by Amerigomag
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