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"Norm???" <storman3@nospam.net> wrote in message news:<d_f89.32331$%P3.1822218@e3500-atl2.usenetserver.com>...
> It's Official: U.S. Importing Poverty
> By Sam Francis
> 
> For the last year, the discussion of immigration policy in this country has
> understandably focused on the connection between the mass immigration so
> beloved by the Open Borders lobby and the terrorism that so pulverized the
> American psyche last September.
> 
> Nothing has so dramatized the folly of Open Borders than Sept. 11, but
> despite its importance and its drama, terrorism by immigrants is not the
> only-or even the main-reason for keeping the borders shut.
> 
> The cultural impact of Third World immigration-on language, on manners, on
> crime and political institutions-is the main reason to keep American borders
> tight, but there are economic (and therefore also cultural) reasons as well.
> The New York Times a couple of weeks ago specified a few of them.
> 
> "The surprising drop in median income in New York City that has puzzled
> demographers studying the results of the 2000 census appears to be traceable
> in large part to immigration,"
> 
> the Times reported, using 2000 Census Bureau figures. Those parts of the Big
> Apple in which income dropped just happen to be the same ones where the most
> immigrants have settled, often in neighborhoods
> 
> "where longtime residents have moved out and been replaced by immigrants."
> 
> The same pattern was apparent in New Jersey as well. There the biggest jump
> in income came in Hunterdon County,
> 
> "a heavily white county at the heart of what has been called the state's
> flourishing wealth belt. Meanwhile, median incomes dropped in Newark,
> Paterson, and Trenton, and in smaller cities where less educated, less
> skilled immigrants have moved in."
> 
> Nor is it only New York and New Jersey. About 25 percent of the nation's
> Hispanic population live below the poverty line, with 27 percent of Puerto
> Rican families and 24 percent of Mexican families. Only Cubans, 11 percent
> of whom are in poverty, depart from the norm-mainly because they consist of
> the Cuban upper classes and their descendants who felt the brunt of Fidel
> Castro's "liberation."
> 
> Teenage Latino girls
> 
> "have the highest teenage birthrate of all major racial and ethnic groups in
> the nation,"
> 
> the Los Angeles Times reported last spring.
> 
> "Recent immigrants make less money, own fewer homes and are less likely to
> become citizens than foreigners who came to the United States in decades
> past,"
> 
> the Houston Post reported that a study from the Center for Immigration
> Studies found last year. The Center has estimated that Mexican immigration
> has reduced the wages of native unskilled workers (mostly black) by some 5
> percent.
> 
> Of course, the only reason these patterns should be "surprising" or that
> demographers should be "puzzled" is that both the surprised Times and the
> puzzled demographers have swallowed the Big Lies of the Open Border
> crowd-that more immigrants create wealth and "have saved our cities."
> 
> What the 2000 Census tells us is that the Big Lie is just that.
> 
> But we should not have had to wait for the Census to know that. It ought to
> be pretty obvious that masses of low-skill, low-income, low-education people
> from cultures radically different from those of this country or its parent
> civilization would not typically become millionaires overnight.
> 
> It should have been obvious that masses of such people would not only not
> assimilate to a culture (including an economic culture) in which they
> remained, literally, alien, but also that the presence of millions of them
> would simply replicate their old culture here.
> 
> The reason it wasn't obvious is that the Open Borders lobby has cleverly
> exploited the myth of Economic Man to insinuate into the American mind the
> unexamined premise that immigration today means Asian computer geniuses and
> Korean store owners.
> 
> There are such immigrants, obviously, but they're not typical of the
> millions who have entered this country during the last 30 years.
> 
> The Open Borders lobby has also managed to get many Americans to believe
> that the economic impact of immigration is the only way to evaluate it and
> the policies that created it.
> 
> Even by that standard, as the figures cited here show, we'd have to grade it
> with an "F." But what figures show is seldom the whole truth.
> 
> The larger truth is that by importing not only low-skills but also the
> culture that produced the low-skills, the immigrants may endanger the whole
> cultural foundation of an advanced economy-an economy whose high technology,
> work ethic, and managerial and organizational skills distinguish it from the
> burros and grindstones that drag the economies of Latin America, the Middle
> East, Africa and most of Asia.
> 
> What we are now beginning to learn the hard way is that the immigrants may
> not only have imported themselves; they may also have imported the culture
> that impoverished them and their countries in the first place.
> 
> COPYRIGHT CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC.
> 
> August 19, 2002

Is it not amazing that we continue to import those elements that will
cause our destruction?

Keith