Posted on 07/08/2005 8:13:38 AM PDT by KeyesPlease
Nearly one-third of all births in New Jersey in 2002 were to immigrant mothers, the most ever, according to a new study that examines how the massive influx of immigrants is transforming communities and posing new challenges for the nation's education and health care systems.
"We've never been here before," said Steve Camarota, director of research for the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington, D.C., think tank that conducted the study. "We're headed into uncharted territory in terms of the size of the second generation."
In New Jersey, immigrants make up 18 percent of the total population and accounted for 31.9 percent of all births in 2002, the study found. By comparison, just 9.6 percent of babies were born to foreign-born mothers in 1970.
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Whenever I come across a well-to-do couple with 0 or 1 kids, I tell them "stop F-ing around and start F-ing, BREED".
For some couples, it's a matter of can't not won't.
Protect our borders and coastlines from all foreign invaders!
Be Ever Vigilant!
Minutemen Patriots ~ Bump!
Excellent ideas. I hope you see them come to fruition.
A soft stance on illegals is what politicians do to woo hispanic voters. Hispanics clearly are in favor of massive illegal immigration.
Really? I don't see too many East Indians intermarrying in New York, New Jersey, or even her in liberal Seattle. Meanwhile, half of the middle class/upper class South Americans (and I know many) I know are married to Anglos.
Cover of today's Businessweek magazine, an Hispanic immigrant, legal or not doesn't matter -- businesses are waking up to their buying power. (Businesses don't give a hoot about anything but the bottom line.) They'll sell the country down the river without batting an eye.
In Texas we have kept immigrants in school longer by offering more vocational education programs and flexible schedules that allow them to continue in school while working.
It seems to be working. Because of our workplace ready labor pool Texas has been ranked the number one state for businesses to start up or relocate to. It also helps keep businesses from having to move overseas or outsource parts of their production to foreign countries.
The people who oppose allowing immigrant children to attend school are ignorant of why we even have public schools to begin with.
Oh, of course. And the couples I am talking about I know fairly well, I didn't mean to suggest that I say it to strangers or something, that could be a major blunder.
Those that we have to support with our tax dollars
I thought so. Believe it or not, people do feel it necessary to comment on the childless status of couples they don't know, not realizing that for some it's not a choice we made, it's just the way it worked out.
Boy am I glad I didn't post my first repsonse to your post..... LOL
"Blacks and Hispanics continue to have disproportionately high abortion rates. Blacks make up about 14 percent of women age 15 to 44 but account for 32 percent of abortion. Hispanics make up about 13 percent of that age group but account for 20 percent of abortions. Pregnancy rates are historically higher among minority women."
Source: http://www.concordtx.org/wrldnews/aborrts.htm
Again, I can't speak to anecdotes: from what I've read Indians are intermarrying. Incidently, a big part of assimilation is learning and speaking English. Are there many Indians demanding we speak anything other than English? Have there been any Chinese or Indians demanding their holidays be celebrated in the schools?
2. Indians come to this country already speaking English. The overwhelming majority of Indian immigrants who come here are at least upper middle class status.
3. Come to Brooklyn sometime (Sunset Park especially). You will see plenty of Chinese speaking only Mandarin.
Different groups of people adapt to America in different ways. The children of the Colombian immigrants who lived in my nabe in Miami didn't seem to have any problem speaking English. Then you have old folks in Brighton Beach who can barely speak the language. It all depends on whether you were born here, your level of education before you came here and/or how old you were when you came here.
The fear of Latinos on this site is absolutely laughable. I say this as a non-Hispanic opponent of illegal immigration. Afraid that you will be forced to watch Sabado Gigante?
Jews didn't intermarry until recently? Well, then perhaps they were among the others. It is a given that young people will learn the language, unless they are in a bilingual program.
Bilingual education is asinine. My ex-girlfriend's parents were wise enough, despite haveing seventh grade education themselves, to pull my ex out of the bilingual program at her school in Astoria.
Yes, and we ought to target those that adapt easily. For instance, I'd bet Africans of European descent would have no problems integrating. Nor would Australians, New Zealanders, Canadians, or those from the British Isles. Similar culture, same language, etc.
Time to shut down immigration and have a review.
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