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"Thank You George Bush" <BunnERabbit@verizon.hutch.net> wrote in message
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> Gee, I wonder why all the social services are breaking down, the taxes
> doubling in communities and crime infecting once safe areas of my
> state.  Two words: George Bush  Thanks for all the storefronts in
> Espanol, the rapes, the murders, the destroyed school systems, the
> loss of jobs, the gutting of services for the disabled to pay for the
> hard workers, the overt racism, the forcing of elderly Americans out
> of their homes, the paying higher car and business insurance, the
> trashing of the local Y, the pollution, the traffic jams and the
> fucking drunken BBQ's at 2am in the morning with 100's in
> attendance..ad nauseam.
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> And the assimilation:
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> -- 
> Keith
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> "Family values don't end at the Rio Grande", George Bush.
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http://www.nj.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news-0/1120800729241200.xml&coll=1&thispage=2
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> 32% of births in N.J. are to immigrant moms
> Education and health care feel impact
> Friday, July 08, 2005
>
> BY BRIAN DONOHUE
> Star-Ledger Staff
>
> 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."
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> 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.
>
> According to the study, 55.6 percent of all children born in Hudson
> County in 2002 were to immigrant mothers, the highest level in the
> state. Middlesex County was second, with 50.8 percent.
>
> Nationwide, the researchers found, 22.7 percent of all births in 2002
> were to foreign-born women.
>
> The study also found that the mothers were increasingly likely to be
> in the United States illegally and lack a high school education, two
> factors experts say make it more difficult for their children to
> succeed in the U.S.
>
> In New Jersey, 11,608 children, or 10 percent of all births, were to
> illegal immigrant mothers, according to the study. Those women were
> twice as likely as native born mothers to lack a high school
> education, the study found.
>
> Camarota, whose group lobbies for lower immigration levels and tougher
> enforcement of immigration laws, said the numbers were the inevitable
> product of U.S. immigration policies.
>
> "We (the U.S.) don't put any more importance on education level and we
> don't enforce our immigration laws," he said, referring to the
> government's immigration policy. "The question is, is this good public
> policy? It's not a comet headed to Earth, it's not inevitable. It's a
> choice."
>
> The study attributed the growth nationally in the number of births to
> immigrant women to several factors.
>
> First, the number of immigrants has skyrocketed over the past 30
> years, with the largest percentage of new arrivals coming from Mexico,
> where fertility rates are relatively high. Second, the average age of
> immigrants has dropped so that more are now arriving in their prime
> childbearing years.
>
> Immigrant advocates in New Jersey said the numbers appeared to be an
> accurate reflection of the foreign-born population and the second
> generation. However, they drew a starkly different assessment of how
> the state and the nation must address the challenges the numbers pose.
>
> Latino leaders said the numbers underscore the importance of making
> sure the children of immigrants receive a strong education, health
> care and other services. With an aging native-born work force, the
> nation's economy will rely on the second generation, advocates said.
>
> "We can cut off our nose to spite our face by making life difficult
> for them or we can accept the fact that they are part of that youthful
> population we need to make our work force come back to balance," said
> Daniel Santo Pietro, executive director of the Hispanic Directors
> Association of New Jersey, a consortium of nonprofits serving Latino
> communities.
>
> "Once you've arrived at this situation, you're clearly better off that
> they be in schools and get an education and join the work force and
> don't join gangs," he said.
>
> Santo Pietro said the numbers are further evidence that a massive
> buildup of border patrols has backfired.
>
> Studies show that stepped-up border patrols have disrupted what had
> been an annual pattern that Mexicans had followed for decades in which
> they would enter the United States, find work, then return home with
> their savings to start a business or build a home.
>
> But since it has become more difficult to cross the border, many of
> those immigrants now stay here and wind up raising families here.
>
> "The more we try to restrict the border, the more we create a
> situation where these people who used to go back and forth have
> figured out they'd better stay," said Santo Pietro. "We've created
> this tinderbox situation and it does have a downside."
>
> The study compared the number of births in 2002 numbers with that from
> 1910, the peak year of the last great wave of migration. Current
> numbers show the percentage of babies born to immigrants is 1 percent
> higher than it was 95 years ago.
>
> The report comes at a time when Congress is beginning debate on
> several immigration reform measures that could grant legal status to
> some or all of the estimated 11 million immigrants who are living the
> United States illegally.
>
> Among those proposals -- including one idea embraced by President Bush
> -- is a new category of temporary worker visas. Camarota said the
> latest study shows that even temporary foreign workers become
> permanent immigrants.
>
> "They are not simply workers; they are fully formed human beings who
> will have hundreds of thousands of children," he said. "If we think of
> them just as workers, we miss the most important impact on our
> society, which is all the children they are going to have."
>
> _____
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> "Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death
> of a sparrow in the corner of a barn." -Anouk Aimee, French Actor
> _____
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> "Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny", Aeschylus (525BC-456BC),
> Agamemnon
> _____
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