Monday, December 7, 2009

PRO-AMNESTY JOBS PLAN: No Legal Need Apply!

THE NO-JOBS SUMMITS: Pro-Amnesty Movement Thinks Americans DESERVE To Be Unemployed


By Roy Beck, - posted on NumbersUSA

Wonder why Washington politicians gathering in Jobs Summits on Thursday show NO interest in pushing illegal aliens out of their jobs in order to put millions of unemployed Americans back to work? A major pro-amnesty coalition has just provided one answer.

An article promoted on its website says that illegal aliens are better workers than Americans. If somebody has to be unemployed, it should be the less-desirable American workers who don't have jobs, the article says.

Unbelievable? Read on . . .

The undocumented that still have jobs, are employed because they are the best workers at their respective companies.
-- National pro-amnesty coalition website.

Got that? The pro-amnesty crowd seems to be giving up on the "jobs Americans won't do" argument, since throngs of Americans line up immediately for the jobs opened up whenever ICE happens to bother to do a workplace enforcement that drives illegal aliens out of their jobs.

Now, the argument apparently is that illegal aliens do jobs that Americans aren't any good at.

You can find the article at http://standing-firm.com/, the website of FIRM (Fair Immigration Reform Movement). It is a national coalition of grassroots groups promoting "comprehensive immigration reform." (FIRM introduces the article, "Political Football and Immigration Reform: Is the GOP Playing Games With Our Economy?" as "Another great post from our guest blogger, Robert Gittelson." )

The article lashes out at 12 Republican Senators for signing a letter asking the Department of Homeland Security to enforce immigration laws so that jobless Americans can have the jobs currently held by illegal foreign workers.

(Read my much more aggressive immigration recommendations for putting Americans back to work at: http://www.numbersusa.com/content/nusablog/beckr/december-1-2009/my-tips-obama-jobs-summit-put-hundreds-thousands-back-work-free.html)

Now, more from your friendly pro-amnesty activists:

During this deep recession, virtually all companies have cut back their workforce to their best and most productive workers . . . These remaining workers are experienced, productive, and have proven their worth.
-- National pro-amnesty coalition website

Don't you see? The estimated 8 million illegal aliens holding down U.S. jobs are SOOOOO much better than American workers. Better in what way? I would say the one way that illegal workers are better is that it is easier for companies to abuse them by breaking over-time, minimum wage, safety and even anti-slavery laws.

The pro-amnesty argument also suggests that a national community's jobs belong to people who break into the community and steal them rather than to the members of the community.

OK, let's find out what the pro-amnesty crowd really thinks about the 15 million Americans looking for a job who can't find even part-time work:

The unemployed workers in this nation are unemployed for a variety of reasons . . . However, many were laid off because they were not deemed to be among the best and most productive workers at their downsized companies . . .
The Restrictionists would have us fire good, experienced, and proven – albeit undocumented workers, and replace them with citizen trainees that cannot find jobs in their respective fields . . .

-- National pro-amnesty coalition website

The article acknowledges that some American "replacement" workers might be as good as the illegal aliens booted out of their jobs.

However, this would be extremely unusual and rare. . . . Most of these new (American) workers will be less productive than the experienced and good (undocumented) workers that they will be replacing, especially in their first year of training . . . to varying degrees, most of these workers cannot possibly be expected to replace experienced (undocumented) workers without some level of productivity drop-off.

-- National pro-amnesty coalition website

Pretty degrading stuff. Does Pres. Obama really go along with it? I certainly can't see him or any other politician going to high-unemployment areas and making these points in public speeches!

Nonetheless, I will say that this nasty, demeaning attitude toward economically unsuccessful U.S. citizens is something I have encountered constantly in my 19 years of working full time on the immigration issue.

I don't think that Pres. Obama, Sen. Reid, Speaker Pelosi and a good share of the Republican national leadership really hate unsuccessful American workers. But I seriously suspect that they look upon them as losers and a drag on our society. The sad truth for unemployed Americans may be that the top elected leaders of their national community have a lot more admiration for the foreign thieves who stole their jobs.

QUESTION: Which elected leaders might be guilty of at least partly admiring illegal aliens more than unemployed Americans?

ANSWER: Look around at the White House and Republican Jobs Summits Thursday and see which leaders FAIL to mention immigration.

ROY BECK is Founder & CEO of NumbersUSA

MUSLIM TERRORIST IN THE UNITED STATES - So Why Are Our Borders Left Open & Undefended Again? OH, CHEAP MEX LABOR!

U.S. sees homegrown Muslim extremism as rising threat
This may have been the most dangerous year since 9/11, anti-terrorism experts say.
By Sebastian Rotella

December 7, 2009

Reporting from Washington

The Obama administration, grappling with a spate of recent Islamic terrorism cases on U.S. soil, has concluded that the country confronts a rising threat from homegrown extremism.

Anti-terrorism officials and experts see signs of accelerated radicalization among American Muslims, driven by a wave of English-language online propaganda and reflected in aspiring fighters' trips to hot spots such as Pakistan and Somalia.

Europe had been the front line, the target of successive attacks and major plots, while the U.S. remained relatively calm. But the number, variety and scale of recent U.S. cases suggest 2009 has been the most dangerous year domestically since 2001, anti-terrorism experts said:

* There were major arrests of Americans accused of plotting with Al Qaeda and its allies, including an Afghan American charged in a New York bomb plot described as the most serious threat in this country since the Sept. 11 attacks.

* Authorities tracked other extremism suspects joining foreign networks, including Somali Americans going to the battlegrounds of their ancestral homeland and an Albanian American from Brooklyn who was arrested in Kosovo.

* The FBI rounded up homegrown terrorism suspects in Dallas, Detroit and Raleigh, N.C., saying that it had broken up plots targeting a synagogue, government buildings and military facilities.

Last week, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano issued her strongest public comments yet on the homegrown threat.

"We've seen an increased number of arrests here in the U.S. of individuals suspected of plotting terrorist attacks, or supporting terror groups abroad such as Al Qaeda," Napolitano said in a speech in New York. "Home-based terrorism is here. And, like violent extremism abroad, it will be part of the threat picture that we must now confront."

Officials acknowledged that her tone had changed, though they said terrorism has been her focus since becoming Homeland Security chief.

In some of the 2009 cases, extremist leanings are suspected but motives are not known.

Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan -- accused of killing 13 people in a Ft. Hood, Texas, shooting rampage last month -- has apparently suffered emotional problems. But in interviews, officials and experts have also raised his Muslim beliefs as an alleged motive.

A previous attack on the U.S. military, a shooting in June by an American convert who killed a soldier and wounded another at an Arkansas recruiting center, was apparently a case of a lone wolf radicalized in Yemen, according to Homeland Security officials.

"You are seeing the full spectrum of the threats you face in terrorism," former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said.

"Radicalization is clearly happening in the U.S.," said Mitchell Silber, director of analysis for the Intelligence Division of the New York Police Department. "In years past, you couldn't say that about the U.S. You could say it about Europe."

Europe has suffered a militant onslaught: transport bombings in Madrid in 2004 and London in 2005, an assassination in the Netherlands in 2004, and close calls such as the fiery failed attack on the Glasgow airport in 2007.

Hard borders have helped the U.S. ward off the threat. But experts also said that Islamic radicalization is more widespread in Europe. Crime, alienation and extremism roil Muslim immigrant communities in places like tiny Denmark and the vast slums of France.

In contrast, American Muslims are wealthier, better educated and better integrated because the United States does a good job of absorbing immigrants and fostering tolerance, experts said. During the last decade, Americans have been a rare presence in the Al Qaeda-connected camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan that have trained hundreds of Westerners and thousands of recruits from Muslim-majority nations.

Nonetheless, recent investigations have run across Americans suspected of being operatives of Al Qaeda and its allies who were trained overseas and, in several cases, allegedly conspired with top terrorism bosses. They include a convert from Long Island, N.Y, who was captured in Pakistan late last year; a Chicago businessman accused of scouting foreign targets for a Pakistani network; and at least 15 Somali American youths from Minneapolis who returned to fight in their ancestral homeland.

"A larger trend has emerged that is not surprising, but is disturbing," Chertoff said. "You are beginning to see the fruits of the pipeline that Al Qaeda built to train Westerners and send them back to their homelands. . . . This underscores the central significance of disrupting the pipeline at its source."

A campaign of U.S. airstrikes launched last year has pounded Al Qaeda hide-outs in Pakistan. But the flow of trainees gathered momentum in 2007 when Pakistani security forces ceded turf to militant groups, officials said. The suspect in the New York plot, Najibullah Zazi, and the Long Island convert, Bryant Neal Vinas, allegedly met in Pakistan in 2008 and discussed attacks on U.S. targets with Al Qaeda chiefs.

Vinas and Zazi are the first Americans to be accused of joining Al Qaeda in several years.

Meanwhile, Silber said in recent congressional testimony: "There have been a half-dozen cases of individuals who, instead of traveling abroad to carry out violence, have elected to attempt to do it here. This is substantially greater than what we have seen in the past, and may reflect an emerging pattern."

Some feel radicalization in the United States has been worse than authorities thought for some time.

"People focused on the idea that we're different, we're better at integrating Muslims than Europe is," said Zeyno Baran, a scholar at the Hudson Institute, a think tank in Washington. "But there's radicalization -- especially among converts [and] newcomers, such as the Somali case shows. I think young U.S. Muslims today are as prone to radicalization as Muslims in Europe."

In proportion to population, extremism still appears less intense in the United States. But the Internet functions as the global engine of extremism. Websites expose Americans to a wave of slick, English-language propaganda from ideologues such as Anwar Awlaki, the Yemeni American described as a spiritual guide for the accused Ft. Hood shooter and other Westerners.

And socioeconomic success will not necessarily prevent Americans' radicalization. Studies suggest that a quest for identity and the bonding process among small groups often drive militants more than personal hardship does.

"The profile in Europe is in general quite different [from U.S. extremists]: more working-class or even underclass," said a European intelligence official who requested anonymity for security reasons. "But it's a bit simplistic to make assumptions. We have seen everything in Europe -- educated people, doctors involved in terrorism. The underclass argument is not enough."

The Obama administration began the year with gestures to the Muslim world. President Obama promised to shut down the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and made a historic speech in Cairo.

The Homeland Security Department leads the administration's counter-radicalization effort. The Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, which works with Muslim leaders, held summit meetings with Somali communities this year in Minnesota and Ohio, said David Heyman, assistant Homeland Security secretary for policy.

But that office still lacks a director, critics point out, and the department has yet to fill other key posts as well.

"We don't do enough about fostering a counter-narrative," said Matthew Levitt, a former anti-terrorism official for the Treasury Department now with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. "Competing for space with the radicalizers and challenging their radical ideologies is the key."

In contrast to the heightened extremist activity in the United States, Europe has remained relatively calm this year. But the West needs to keep up its guard on both sides of the Atlantic, said Farhad Khosrokhavar, an Iranian French scholar who interviewed jailed extremists for his book "Inside Jihadism."

"You can be middle-class and have bright prospects but become a jihadist," he said. "We have to broaden the analysis. This idea of American exceptionalism, the comparison with Europe, should not blind us to the fact that we are going toward a broader participation in jihad."

LOS ANGELES - Santa Muerte Cult WORSHIP NARCOTICS TRAFFICKERS STYLE

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CATHOLICISM IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE MEXICAN CULTURE OF ABUSE OF WOMEN, RACISM, FASCISM, AND THE DRUG CULTURE!
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The sect is linked to narcotics trafficking in Mexico. As it moves north, it takes on the benign glow of virtue.
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LOS ANGELES IS THE CAPITAL OF MEXICAN OCCUPIED AMERICA. ITS MAYOR, ANTONIO “TACO RUNT” VILLARAIGOSA IS A RACIST MEXICAN WITH A LONG HISTORY OF LA RAZA MEMBERSHIP. TACO RUNT WAS RECENTLY REELECTED WITH ONLY APPROXIMATELY 15% OF THE VOTERS TURNING OUT, AND THESE OVERWHELMINGLY FROM SOUTH-CENTRAL LOS ANGELES, WHERE ILLEGALS POCKET $50 MILLION PER MONTH IN WELFARE.
LOS ANGELES HAS BEEN CHARACTERIZED BY THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR AS THE “MEXICAN GANG CAPITAL OF AMERICAN”. LOS ANGELES HAS 500- 1,000 MURDERS BY MEXICAN GANGS EVERY YEAR, MORE THAN THE ENTIRE EURO UNION! 95% OF ALL WARRANTS FOR ARREST ARE FOR ILLEGALS.
DESPITE THE SOARING UNEMPLOYMENT, FORECLOSURES CAUSED BY FEINSTEIN’S BANKSTER PAYMASTERS, LA RAZA DONORS WELLS FARGO AND BANK OF AMERICAN, THE LA RAZA DEMS, AND THEIR HISPANDERING PRESIDENT ARE WORKING ON NEW ANGLES FOR OLD AMNESTY.
THE SLOGAN OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS THAT CORPORATE PROFITS SIMPLY CAN’T BE HIGH ENOUGH! WAGES SIMPLY CAN’T BE LOW ENOUGH. AND THE VOTES OF ILLEGALS WILL MAINTAIN THE STATUS- QUO OF CORPORATE RAPE AND PILLAGE, AND THE EXPANSION OF THE MEXICAN WELFARE STATE.
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Santa Muerte in L.A.: A gentler vision of 'Holy Death'
The sect is linked to narcotics trafficking in Mexico. As it moves north, it takes on the benign glow of virtue.
By Jill Leovy
December 7, 2009
The prayer in Spanish sounded like one from an ordinary Catholic Mass. But the man who led it wore a coyote-skin headdress and called himself the last of 13 generations of brujosbrujos -- witch doctors -- in his family.

The name the worshipers invoked was not that of the Virgin Mary but of Santa Muerte, or "Holy Death," a Mexican folk saint linked to narcotics trafficking, a kind of female grim reaper with a skull for a face.

About two dozen devotees recited a rosary and stood and sat on cue to offer praise to this unconventional icon one Sunday at a storefront shrine near MacArthur Park.

"Angel created by faith," they chanted, "allow the power in me to be released."

Santa Muerte is not a Catholic saint, and in recent decades her popularity in Mexico, especially among the poor and criminal classes, has led to clashes with church officials and government authorities. Her first adherents included Mexican prisoners, drug dealers and prostitutes, and those in legitimate but dangerous nighttime work, such as security guards and taxi drivers.

"It's sort of like the Virgin for people on the edge," said Patrick A. Polk, a folklorist and curator at UCLA's Fowler Museum.

But in and around Los Angeles, where Santa Muerte services are held in at least three storefront shrines, a dash of pop theology and Southern California sunshine seems to have given the movement a mild New Age flavor.

Followers, many of whom call themselves Catholics, talk less about death than about cleansing the spirit and developing inner strength.

"Everything depends on oneself," said Miguel Velasco, a former administrator and a "spiritual guide" at the 3-year-old Sanctuario Universal de la Santa Muerte on Alvarado Street. "You can believe in God, or a saint, or even a tree. But what really matters is the faith you have. Faith can move mountains."

Leaders here characterize the practice as benign, and devotees appear to draw from a broad cross section of people in immigrant neighborhoods -- manual laborers, public employees, couples with children, laid-off factory workers.



Despite the startling imagery, these worshipers say, their cult is centered on love and virtue and is becoming accepted.

"Years ago, they used this for witchcraft, to get certain things: money, revenge," said Santiago Guadalupe, who dons piles of wooden beads in addition to the headdress to give the weekly sermon at Sanctuario Universal. "Now it is more religion. It is about health, prayer."

Guadalupe wears a ponytail and possesses classic Aztec features: beaked nose, prominent brow, a wisp of a beard. He is from Catemaco, a town in Veracruz state where a Mexican subculture of alternative religion thrives. He said he began his training in the shamanistic arts as a child.

He helps run the sect from a pink office in the back of a tiny botanica up the street from the shrine. The walls are decorated with a sentimental painting of an Indian shaman in wolf skin, a sunset calendar and shelves containing incense and a bottle of Tapatio hot sauce.

From here, Guadalupe, who cited spiritual reasons in declining to give his age, works three phones at once, taking calls from clients all over the region seeking blessings or help with love affairs -- part of the all-inclusive spectrum of Santa Muerte devotion. There are also those requesting the more basic Shamanistic services: healing herbs, potions and readings of tarot cards and foreheads.

One recent afternoon, Guadalupe barked into one phone while reading the screen on a second, periodically cupping his hand over the mouthpiece to call out to customers in the botanica.

The customers wanted their fortunes told, and Guadalupe asked them to wait as he turned back to his phones, impatiently tapping a pen on the desk.

A large stack of tarot cards sat on the desk near him. Behind him, a large, glossy statue of the Virgin Mary caught the glare from the single lightbulb.

"People come for their jobs, for good luck at the casinos or for problems with a husband or wife," Guadalupe said.

"In Mexico, more came because they were having problems in their family. Here, they come because they feel alone."

Santa Muerte "accepts them no matter their age, creed or color. She is accepting of all religions," he said.


At the weekly Santa Muerte Mass, Guadalupe takes turns with several other spiritual guides to lead a long and somber service that resembles traditional Catholic Masses in Mexico and includes the recitation of a special rosary that incorporates the traditional Lord's Prayer and appeals to Santa Muerte in place of Mary.

Sneakers and cowboy boots thump on the laminate floor as the crowd stands for long stretches, then kneels for blessings. They inhale incense smoke, and raise their arms to the figure of Santa Muerte wearing a security guard's badge. Paper notes are safety-pinned to the skirt of her white satin gown -- petitions from devotees seeking favors.

Offerings are piled at her feet: orange carnations, white chrysanthemums, pink roses, a goblet of Snickers bars and peanut butter cups, beer, tequila and baskets of bananas, grapes and loaves of bread. Signs in felt pen urge visitors to be quiet.

Guadalupe offers prayer for those in jail or in trouble with the law -- a nod to Santa Muerte's origins among the marginal. But mainstream preoccupations rule. His sermon stresses the importance of family, the evils of envy and gossip.

MEXICAN’S MISS THEIR FAMILIES AND TRANDITIONS? THEN WHY DON’T THEY GO BACK TO NARCOMEX WHERE THEY WILL FEEL COMFORTABLE. MOST OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE SICK OF PAYING THE COST OF THE MEXICAN WELFARE STATE TO ILLEGALS THAT HAVE CONTEMPT FOR OUR BORDERS, LAWS, CULTURE, FLAG AND LANGUAGE.
FAMILY AND TRADITION? READ HISPANIC FAMILY VALUES BOTTOM. THERE ARE 38 MILLION OF THESE IN OUR COUNTRY THAT HISPANDERING BARACK OBAMA WANTS TO HAND “AMNESTY” TO. THEN THEY ALREADY HAVE IT. THE LA RAZA DEMS, PELOSI, FEINSTEIN, BOXER, REID, LOFGREN and WAXMAN, MAKE SURE NO LAWS ARE ENFORCED IN THE HIRING OF ILLEGALS (47% OF THOSE EMPLOYED IN MEX OCCUPIED LOS ANGELES ARE ILLEGALS), THEY CONDEMN I.C.E. FOR DOING THEIR DUTY, SABOTAGE E-VERIFY, WORK FOR OPEN AND POROUS BORDERS WITH NARCOMEX TO ASSURE THEIR BIG BIZ PAYMASTERS THAT WAGES ARE DEPRESSED!
"People miss their families and traditions," Velasco explained. "In the U.S., they face a lot of changes. The youth seem very lost. This society is very advanced with technology and security, but in human principles it remains low."

A similar scene plays out three times a week at the Templo Santa Muerte on Melrose Avenue, where about 20 people gather for services. "Blessed and glorious mother, Angel of Death," they pray. "We ask you to protect us."

The services are run by a Mexican wrestler turned missionary who calls himself Sisyphus, who set up the shrine three years ago. Their tone is more improvised and folksy than at the shrine on Alvarado Street, and there are personal testaments and singing.

"We search for spiritual evolution," Sisyphus said. He said he sees himself more as a counselor than a priest.

At both locations, devotees talk of Santa Muerte's power to perform miracles. They share stories of unexpected blessings -- an airline ticket procured, a baby's lung infection cleared. Santa Muerte is said to have particular powers over love.

But guides don't make guarantees. Their mission is to help people only with their faith, Guadalupe said, adding: "I don't like problems."

Marta Mendes, a Salvadoran grandmother who calls herself a devout Catholic, said she has attended the Melrose Masses for more than a year. She credits Santa Muerte with helping her vision, which had begun to fail because of diabetes.

"I am always a Catholic," Mendes said. "But my faith is here."

Catholic church officials in Los Angeles have made no official statements on the sect, said an archdiocese spokeswoman.

Local devotees say they feel more accepted than they used to.

"At first, people would attack us. They saw this," Velasco said, fingering a Santa Muerte pendant he wears around his neck, "and they would start yelling. But now, there is more tolerance."

Still, among enthusiasts, there is a sense that acceptance of Santa Muerte remains fragile.

They are quick to dissociate themselves from rumors of black magic and Satanism that circulate south of the border, and they dispute connections to drug traffickers. Allegations of such a connection have fueled bitter debate in violence-torn Mexico, where earlier this year a military campaign against narcotics culture was reportedly behind the destruction of several Santa Muerte shrines.

The sect's emergence here may not be especially surprising.

Los Angeles has been an incubator for all manner of fringe religions since the 19th century, a tradition fanned equally by rich Hollywood seekers and storefront-church disciples.

Mexico, too, has an enthusiastic tradition of tarot card reading and other forms of divination and also of healing herbs and potions.

Rick Nahmais, a photographer who has documented immigrants' Santa Muerte worship, said the practice fills serious needs among the marginalized, citing a group of transgender prostitutes he photographed in San Francisco. They sought Santa Muerte's protection from AIDS and even conducted marriages in her name, he said.

Southern California's version of the practice may contain "a little shtick," as is typical of L.A.'s New Age dabblings, he said. But the creed's striking imagery sets it apart. Nahmais called it genuine spiritual questing by people trapped in highly dangerous lives whose poverty, need or underworld occupations leave them feeling exiled from conventional faith.

"What I love about Santa Muerte worship is that it deals with the shadow very openly -- the Jungian shadow, the archetype of darkness in all of us," he said. "It embraces that."
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City Journal
Hispanic Family Values?
Runaway illegitimacy is creating a new U.S. underclass.
Heather Mac Donald
Autumn 2006

Unless the life chances of children raised by single mothers suddenly improve, the explosive growth of the U.S. Hispanic population over the next couple of decades does not bode well for American social stability. Hispanic immigrants bring near–Third World levels of fertility to America, coupled with what were once thought to be First World levels of illegitimacy. (In fact, family breakdown is higher in many Hispanic countries than here.) Nearly half of the children born to Hispanic mothers in the U.S. are born out of wedlock, a proportion that has been increasing rapidly with no signs of slowing down. Given what psychologists and sociologists now know about the much higher likelihood of social pathology among those who grow up in single-mother households, the Hispanic baby boom is certain to produce more juvenile delinquents, more school failure, more welfare use, and more teen pregnancy in the future.
The government social-services sector has already latched onto this new client base; as the Hispanic population expands, so will the demands for a larger welfare state. Since conservative open-borders advocates have yet to acknowledge the facts of Hispanic family breakdown, there is no way to know what their solution to it is. But they had better come up with one quickly, because the problem is here—and growing.
The dimensions of the Hispanic baby boom are startling. The Hispanic birthrate is twice as high as that of the rest of the American population. That high fertility rate—even more than unbounded levels of immigration—will fuel the rapid Hispanic population boom in the coming decades. By 2050, the Latino population will have tripled, the Census Bureau projects. One in four Americans will be Hispanic by mid-century, twice the current ratio. In states such as California and Texas, Hispanics will be in the clear majority. Nationally, whites will drop from near 70 percent of the total population in 2000 to just half by 2050. Hispanics will account for 46 percent of the nation’s added population over the next two decades, the Pew Hispanic Center reports.
But it’s the fertility surge among unwed Hispanics that should worry policymakers. Hispanic women have the highest unmarried birthrate in the country—over three times that of whites and Asians, and nearly one and a half times that of black women, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Every 1,000 unmarried Hispanic women bore 92 children in 2003 (the latest year for which data exist), compared with 28 children for every 1,000 unmarried white women, 22 for every 1,000 unmarried Asian women, and 66 for every 1,000 unmarried black women. Forty-five percent of all Hispanic births occur outside of marriage, compared with 24 percent of white births and 15 percent of Asian births. Only the percentage of black out-of-wedlock births—68 percent—exceeds the Hispanic rate. But the black population is not going to triple over the next few decades.
As if the unmarried Hispanic birthrate weren’t worrisome enough, it is increasing faster than among other groups. It jumped 5 percent from 2002 to 2003, whereas the rate for other unmarried women remained flat. Couple the high and increasing illegitimacy rate of Hispanics with their higher overall fertility rate, and you have a recipe for unstoppable family breakdown.
The only bright news in this demographic disaster story concerns teen births. Overall teen childbearing in the U.S. declined for the 12th year in a row in 2003, having dropped by more than a third since 1991. Yet even here, Hispanics remain a cause for concern. The rate of childbirth for Mexican teenagers, who come from by far the largest and fastest-growing immigrant population, greatly outstrips every other group. The Mexican teen birthrate is 93 births per every 1,000 girls, compared with 27 births for every 1,000 white girls, 17 births for every 1,000 Asian girls, and 65 births for every 1,000 black girls. To put these numbers into international perspective, Japan’s teen birthrate is 3.9, Italy’s is 6.9, and France’s is 10. Even though the outsize U.S. teen birthrate is dropping, it continues to inflict unnecessary costs on the country, to which Hispanics contribute disproportionately.
To grasp the reality behind those numbers, one need only talk to people working on the front lines of family breakdown. Social workers in Southern California, the national epicenter for illegal Hispanic immigrants and their progeny, are in despair over the epidemic of single parenting. Not only has illegitimacy become perfectly acceptable, they say, but so has the resort to welfare and social services to cope with it.
Dr. Ana Sanchez delivers babies at St. Joseph’s Hospital in the city of Orange, California, many of them to Hispanic teenagers. To her dismay, they view having a child at their age as normal. A recent patient just had her second baby at age 17; the baby’s father is in jail. But what is “most alarming,” Sanchez says, is that the “teens’ parents view having babies outside of marriage as normal, too. A lot of the grandmothers are single as well; they never married, or they had successive partners. So the mom sends the message to her daughter that it’s okay to have children out of wedlock.”
Sanchez feels almost personally involved in the problem: “I’m Hispanic myself. I wish I could find out what the Asians are doing right.” She guesses that Asian parents’ passion for education inoculates their children against teen pregnancy and the underclass trap. “Hispanics are not picking that up like the Asian kids,” she sighs.
Conservatives who support open borders are fond of invoking “Hispanic family values” as a benefit of unlimited Hispanic immigration. Marriage is clearly no longer one of those family values. But other kinds of traditional Hispanic values have survived—not all of them necessarily ideal in a modern economy, however. One of them is the importance of having children early and often. “It’s considered almost a badge of honor for a young girl to have a baby,” says Peggy Schulze of Chrysalis House, an adoption agency in Fresno. (Fresno has one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in California, typical of the state’s heavily Hispanic farm districts.) It is almost impossible to persuade young single Hispanic mothers to give up their children for adoption, Schulze says. “The attitude is: ‘How could you give away your baby?’ I don’t know how to break through.”
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