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“Through love of having
children, we are going to take over.”
City Journal
Hispanic Family Values?
Runaway illegitimacy is creating a new U.S. underclass.
By Heather Mac Donald
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.”
The most powerful Hispanic family value—the tight-knit
extended family—facilitates unwed child rearing. A single mother’s relatives
often step in to make up for the absence of the baby’s father. I asked Mona, a
19-year-old parishioner at St. Joseph’s Church in Santa Ana, California, if she
knew any single mothers. She laughed: “There are so many I can’t even name
them.” Two of her cousins, aged 25 and 19, have children without having
husbands. The situation didn’t seem to trouble this churchgoer too much.
“They’ll be strong enough to raise them. It’s totally okay with us,” she said.
“We’re very close; we’re there to support them. They’ll do just fine.”
As Mona’s family suggests, out-of-wedlock child rearing among
Hispanics is by no means confined to the underclass. The St. Joseph’s
parishioners are precisely the churchgoing, blue-collar workers whom
open-borders conservatives celebrate. Yet this community is as susceptible as
any other to illegitimacy. Fifty-year-old Irma and her husband, Rafael, came
legally from Mexico in the early 1970s. Rafael works in a meatpacking plant in
Brea; they have raised five husky boys who attend church with them. Yet Irma’s
sister—a homemaker like herself, also married to a factory hand—is now the
grandmother of two illegitimate children, one by each daughter. “I saw nothing
in the way my sister and her husband raised her children to explain it,” Irma
says. “She gave them everything.” One of the fathers of Irma’s young nieces has
four other children by a variety of different mothers. His construction wages
are being garnished for child support, but he is otherwise not involved in
raising his children.
The fathers of these illegitimate children are often
problematic in even more troubling ways. Social workers report that the
impregnators of younger Hispanic women are with some regularity their uncles,
not necessarily seen as a bad thing by the mother’s family. Alternatively, the
father may be the boyfriend of the girl’s mother, who then continues to stay
with the grandmother. Older men seek out young girls in
the belief that a virgin cannot get pregnant during her first intercourse, and
to avoid sexually transmitted diseases.
The tradition of starting families young and expand- ing them
quickly can come into conflict with more modern American mores. Ron Storm, the
director of the Hillview Acres foster-care home in Chino, tells of a
15-year-old girl who was taken away from the 21-year-old father of her child by
a local child-welfare department. The boyfriend went to jail, charged with
rape. But the girl’s parents complained about the agency’s interference, and
eventually both the girl and her boyfriend ended up going back to Mexico,
presumably to have more children. “At 15, as the QuinceaƱera tradition
celebrates, you’re considered ready for marriage,” says Storm. Or at least for
childbearing; the marriage part is disappearing.
But though older men continue to take advantage of younger
women, the age gap between the mother and the father of an illegitimate child
is quickly closing. Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino Counties
tries to teach young fathers to take responsibility for their children. “We’re
seeing a lot more 13- and 14-year-old fathers,” says Kathleen Collins, v.p. of health
education. The day before we spoke, Scott Montoya, an Orange County sheriff’s
deputy, arrested two 14-year-old boys who were bragging about having sexual
relations with a cafeteria worker from an Olive Garden restaurant. “It’s now
all about getting girls pregnant when you’re age 15,” he says. One 18-year-old
in the Planned Parenthood fathers’ program has two children by two different
girls and is having sex with five others, says health worker Jason Warner. “A
lot of [the adolescent sexual behavior] has to do with getting respect from
one’s peers,” observes Warner.
Normally, the fathers, of whatever age, take off. “The father
may already be married or in prison or doing drugs,” says Amanda Gan, director
of operations for Toby’s House, a maternity home in Dana Point, California.
Mona, the 19-year-old parishioner at St. Joseph’s Church, says that the boys
who impregnated her two cousins are “nowhere to be found.” Her family knows
them but doesn’t know if they are working or in jail.
Two teen mothers at the Hillview Acres home represent the
outer edge of Hispanic family dysfunction. Yet many aspects of their lives are
typical. Though these teenagers’ own mothers were unusually callous and
irresponsible, the social milieu in which they were raised is not unusual.
Irene’s round, full face makes her look younger than her 14
years, certainly too young to be a mother. But her own mother’s boyfriend
repeatedly forced sex on her, with the mother’s acquiescence. The result was
Irene’s baby, Luz. Baby Luz has an uncle her own age, Irene’s new 13-month-old
brother. Like Irene, Irene’s mother had her first child at 14, and produced
five more over the next 16 years, all of whom went into foster care. Irene’s
father committed suicide before she was old enough to know him. The four
fathers of her siblings are out of the picture, too: one of them, the father of
her seven-year-old brother and five-year-old sister, was deported back to
Mexico after he showed up drunk for a visit with his children, in violation of
his probation conditions.
Irene is serene and articulate—remarkably so, considering
that in her peripatetic early life in Orange County she went to school maybe
twice a week. She likes to sing and to read books that are sad, she says,
especially books by Dave Pelzer, a child-abuse victim who has published three
best-selling memoirs about his childhood trauma. She says she will never get
married: “I don’t want another man in my life. I don’t want that experience
again.”
Eighteen-year-old Jessica at least escaped rape, but her
family experiences were bad enough. The large-limbed young woman, whose long
hair is pulled back tightly from her heart-shaped face, grew up in the
predominantly Hispanic farming community of Indio in the Coachella Valley. She
started “partying hard” in fifth grade, she says—at around the same time that
her mother, separated from her father, began using drugs and going clubbing. By
the eighth grade, Jessica and her mother were drinking and smoking marijuana
together. Jessica’s family had known her boyfriend’s family since she was four;
when she had her first child by him—she was 14 and he was 21—her mother
declared philosophically that she had always known that it would happen. “It
was okay with her, so long as he continued to give her drugs.”
Jessica originally got pregnant to try to clean up her life,
she says. “I knew what I was doing was not okay, so having a baby was a way for
me to stop doing what I was doing. In that sense, the baby was planned.” She
has not used drugs since her first pregnancy, though she occasionally drinks.
After her daughter was born, she went to live with her boyfriend in a filthy
trailer without plumbing; they scrounged food from dumpsters, despite the
income from his illegal drug business. They planned to get married, but by the
time she got pregnant again with a son, “We were having a lot of problems. We’d
be holding hands, and he’d be looking at other girls. I didn’t want him to
touch me.” Eventually, the county welfare agency removed her and put her in
foster care with her two children.
Both Jessica and her caddish former boyfriend illustrate the
evanescence of the celebrated Hispanic “family values.” Her boyfriend’s family
could not be more traditional. Two years ago, Jessica went back to Mexico to
celebrate her boyfriend’s parents’ 25th wedding anniversary and the renewal of
their wedding vows. Jessica’s own mother got married at 15 to her father, who
was ten years her senior. Her father would not let his wife work; she was a
“stay-at-home wife,” Jessica says. But don’t blame the move to the U.S. for the
behavior of younger generations; the family crack-up is happening even faster
in Latin America.
Jessica’s mother may have been particularly negligent, but
Jessica’s experiences are not so radically different from those of her peers.
“Everybody’s having babies now,” she says. “The Coachella Valley is filled with
girls’ pregnancies. Some girls live with their babies’ dads; they consider them
their husbands.” These cohabiting relationships rarely last, however, and a new
cohort of fatherless children goes out into the world.
Despite the strong family support, the prevalence of single
parenting among Hispanics is producing the inevitable slide into the welfare
system. “The girls aren’t marrying the guys, so they are married to the state,”
Dr. Sanchez observes. Hispanics now dominate the federal Women, Infants, and
Children free food program; Hispanic enrollment grew over 25 percent from 1996
to 2002, while black enrollment dropped 12 percent and white enrollment dropped
6.5 percent. Illegal immigrants can get WIC and other welfare programs for
their American-born children. If Congress follows President Bush’s urging and
grants amnesty to most of the 11 million illegal aliens in the country today,
expect the welfare rolls to skyrocket as the parents themselves become
eligible.
Amy Braun works for Mary’s Shelter, a home for young single
mothers who are homeless or in crisis, in Orange County, California. It has
become “culturally okay” for the Hispanic population to use the shelter and
welfare system, Braun says. A case manager at a program for pregnant homeless
women in the city of Orange observes the same acculturation to the
social-services sector, with its grievance mongering and sense of victimhood.
“I’ll have women in my office on their fifth child, when the others have
already been placed in foster care,” says Anita Berry of Casa Teresa. “There’s
nothing shameful about having multiple children that you can’t care for, and to
be pregnant again, because then you can blame the system.”
The consequences of family breakdown are now being passed
down from one generation to the next, in an echo of the black underclass. “The
problems are deeper and wider,” says Berry. “Now you’re getting the second
generation of foster care and group home residents. The dysfunction is
multigenerational.”
The social-services complex has responded with barely
concealed enthusiasm to this new flood of clients. As Hispanic social problems
increase, so will the government sector that ministers to them. In July, a New
York Times editorial, titled young latinas and a cry for help, pointed out the
elevated high school dropout rates and birthrates among Hispanic girls. A
quarter of all Latinas are mothers by the age of 20, reported the Times. With
the usual melodrama that accompanies the pitch for more government services,
the Times designated young Latinas as “endangered” in the same breath that it
disclosed that they are one of the fastest-growing segments of the population.
“The time to help is now,” said the Times—by which it means ratcheting up the
taxpayer-subsidized social-work industry.
In response to the editorial, Carmen Barroso, regional
director of International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere
Region, proclaimed in a letter to the editor the “urgent need for health care
providers, educators and advocates to join the sexual and reproductive health
movement to ensure the fundamental right to services for young Latinas.”
Wherever these “fundamental rights” might come from,
Barroso’s call nevertheless seems quite superfluous, since there is no shortage
of taxpayer-funded “services” for troubled Latinas—or Latinos. The schools in
California’s San Joaquin Valley have day care for their students’ babies,
reports Peggy Schulze of Chrysalis House. “The girls get whatever they
need—welfare, medical care.” Advocates for young unwed moms in New York’s South
Bronx are likewise agitating for more day-care centers in high schools there,
reports El Diario/La Prensa. A bill now in Congress, the Latina Adolescent
Suicide Prevention Act, aims to channel $10 million to “culturally competent”
social agencies to improve the self-esteem of Latina girls and to provide
“support services” to their families and friends if they contemplate suicide.
The trendy “case management” concept, in which individual
“cases” become the focal point around which a solar system of social workers
revolves, has even reached heavily Hispanic elementary and middle schools. “We
have a coordinator, who brings in a collaboration of agencies to deal with the
issues that don’t allow a student to meet his academic goals, such as domestic
violence or drugs,” explains Sylvia Rentria, director of the Family Resource
Center at Berendo Middle School in Los Angeles. “We can provide individual
therapy.” Rentria offers the same program at nearby Hoover Elementary School
for up to 100 students.
This July, Rentria launched a new session of Berendo’s
Violence Intervention Program for parents of children who are showing signs of
gang involvement and other antisocial behavior. Ghady M., 55 and a “madre
soltera” (single mother), like most of the mothers in the program, has been
called in because her 16-year-old son, Christian, has been throwing gang signs
at school, cutting half his classes, and ending up in the counseling office
every day. The illegal Guatemalan is separated from her partner, who was “muy
malo,” she says; he was probably responsible for her many missing teeth. (The
detectives in the heavily Hispanic Rampart Division of the Los Angeles Police
Department, which includes the Berendo school, spend inordinate amounts of time
on domestic violence cases.) Though Ghady used to work in a factory on Broadway
in downtown L.A.— often referred to as Little Mexico City—she now collects $580
in welfare payments and $270 in food stamps for her two American-born children.
Christian is a husky smart aleck in a big white T-shirt; his
fashionably pomaded hair stands straight up. He goes to school but doesn’t do
homework, he grins; and though he is not in a gang, he says, he has friends who
are. Keeping Ghady and Christian company at the Violence Intervention Program
is Ghady’s grandniece, Carrie, a lively ten-year-old. Carrie lives with her
26-year-old mother but does not know her father, who also sired her 12-year-old
brother. Her five-year-old brother has a different father.
Yet for all these markers of social dysfunction, fatherless
Hispanic families differ from the black underclass in one significant area:
many of the mothers and the absent fathers work, even despite growing welfare
use. The former boyfriend of Jessica, the 18-year-old mother at the Hillview
Acres foster home, works in construction and moonlights on insulation jobs;
whether he still deals drugs is unknown. Jessica is postponing joining her
father in Texas until she finishes high school, because once she moves in with
him, she will feel obligated to get a job to help the family finances. The
mother of Hillview’s 14-year-old Irene used to fix soda machines in Anaheim,
California, though she got fired because she was lazy, Irene says. Now, under
court compulsion, she works in a Lunchables factory in Santa Ana, a condition
of getting her children back from foster care. The 18-year-old Lothario and
father of two, whom Planned Parenthood’s Jason Warner is trying to counsel,
works at a pet store. The mother of Carrie, the vivacious ten-year-old sitting
in on Berendo Middle School’s Violence Intervention Program, makes pizza at a
Papa John’s pizza outlet.
How these two value systems—a lingering work ethic and
underclass mating norms—will interact in the future is anyone’s guess. Orange
County sheriff’s deputy Montoya says that the older Hispanic generation’s work
ethic is fast disappearing among the gangbanging youngsters whom he sees. “Now,
it’s all about fast money, drugs, and sex.” It may be that the willingness to
work will plummet along with marriage rates, leading to even greater social
problems than are now rife among Hispanics. Or it may be that the two
contrasting practices will remain on parallel tracks, creating a new kind of
underclass: a culture that tolerates free-floating men who impregnate women and
leave, like the vast majority of black men, yet who still labor in the
noncriminal economy. The question is whether, if the disposition to work
remains relatively strong, a working parent will inoculate his or her
illegitimate children against the worst degradations that plague black ghettos.
From an intellectual standpoint, this is a fascinating social
experiment, one that academicians are—predictably—not attuned to. But the
consequences will be more than intellectual: they may severely strain the
social fabric. Nevertheless, it is an experiment that we seem destined to see
to its end. Tisha Roberts, a supervisor at an Orange County, California,
institution that assists children in foster care, has given up hope that the
illegitimacy rate will taper off. “It’s going to continue to grow,” she says,
“until we can put birth control in the water.”
President Trump reveals plan to use executive order to end birthright citizenship for children of illegals
Expect an explosion of media outrage and high powered lawsuits, especially in jurisdictions with Trump-hating federal judges. President Trump has launched an October surprise.
Last night in an interview granted to Jonathan Swan of Axios, President Trump announced his plans to use an executive order to end birthright citizenship for children born on American territory to illegal immigrants and foreign citizens, presumably at least those “not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States” as required by the 14th Amendment.
Swan does not seem pleased, at least to my eyes (HBO screen grab)
“We’re the only country in the world where a person comes in and has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen of the United States for 85 years with all of those benefits,” Trump said during an interview with Axios scheduled to air as part of a new HBO series starting this weekend. “It’s ridiculous. It’s ridiculous. And it has to end.”
Trump, who has long decried “anchor babies,” said he has discussed the move with his legal counsel and believes it can be accomplished with executive action, a view at odds with the opinions of many legal scholars.
“It was always told to me that you needed a constitutional amendment. Guess what? You don’t,” Trump told Axios.
When told that view is disputed, Trump asserted: “You can definitely do it with an act of Congress. But now they’re saying I can do it just with an executive order.”
“It’s in the process. It’ll happen . . . with an executive order,” he said, without offering a time frame.
The move, which many legal experts say runs afoul of the Constitution, would be the boldest yet by a president elected to office pledging to take a hard line on immigration, an issue he has revived in advance of next week’s midterm elections.
The Constitution says nothing about the children of illegal immigrants – or tourists on vacation in the US -- being entitled to citizenship. The Fourteenth Amendment reads:
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
The key words are “subject to the jurisdiction.” As far as the “many experts” that the WaPo cites, the only experts that will matter in the end are those in the majority of the 9 justices of the Supreme Court.
Although Trump is not detailed in his remark, I assume that children of immigrants who are in the process of obtaining US citizenship would have citizenship passed along to their children, either immediately upon birth, or when their parents are naturalized. I leave it to legal eagles in the White House to work out the exact wording of the executive order/
This lengthy and detailed article by P.A. Madison explores the meaning of “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” as understood by the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment and by subsequent legislators who drafted citizenship legislation. There is no evidence that they wished to grant citizenship to children anyone who wandered across the border, however temporarily or illegally.
Trump’s dropping of this bombshell 8 days before the election is obviously intended to fire up both his base and his opponents, who will denounce him and – we can safely assume – go over the top and say things that defy common sense.
The stakes could not be higher. With millions of illegals, poorly educated and unable to obtain lucrative employment, in this country and having children who will be set up for a lifetime of dependency, the Democrats’ plans to change the electorate to a majority of dependents is succeeding.
The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on United States Taxpayers
A continually growing population of illegal aliens, along with the federal government’s ineffective efforts to secure our borders, present significant national security and public safety threats to the United States. They also have a severely negative impact on the nation’s taxpayers at the local, state, and national levels. Illegal immigration costs Americans billions of dollars each year. Illegal aliens are net consumers of taxpayer-funded services and the limited taxes paid by some segments of the illegal alien population are, in no way, significant enough to offset the growing financial burdens imposed on U.S. taxpayers by massive numbers of uninvited guests. This study examines the fiscal impact of illegal aliens as reflected in both federal and state budgets.
The Number of Illegal Immigrants in the US
Estimating the fiscal burden of illegal immigration on the U.S. taxpayer depends on the size and characteristics of the illegal alien population. FAIR defines “illegal alien” as anyone who entered the United States without authorization and anyone who unlawfully remains once his/her authorization has expired. Unfortunately, the U.S. government has no central database containing information on the citizenship status of everyone lawfully present in the United States. The overall problem of estimating the illegal alien population is further complicated by the fact that the majority of available sources on immigration status rely on self-reported data. Given that illegal aliens have a motive to lie about their immigration status, in order to avoid discovery, the accuracy of these statistics is dubious, at best. All of the foregoing issues make it very difficult to assess the current illegal alien population of the United States.
However, FAIR now estimates that there are approximately 12.5 million illegal alien residents. This number uses FAIR’s previous estimates but adjusts for suspected changes in levels of unlawful migration, based on information available from the Department of Homeland Security, data available from other federal and state government agencies, and other research studies completed by reliable think tanks, universities, and other research organizations.
The Cost of Illegal Immigration to the United States
At the federal, state, and local levels, taxpayers shell out approximately $134.9 billion to cover the costs incurred by the presence of more than 12.5 million illegal aliens, and about 4.2 million citizen children of illegal aliens. That amounts to a tax burden of approximately $8,075 per illegal alien family member and a total of $115,894,597,664. The total cost of illegal immigration to U.S. taxpayers is both staggering and crippling. In 2013, FAIR estimated the total cost to be approximately $113 billion. So, in under four years, the cost has risen nearly $3 billion. This is a disturbing and unsustainable trend. The sections below will break down and further explain these numbers at the federal, state, and local levels.
Total Governmental Expenditures on Illegal Aliens
Total Tax Contributions by Illegal Aliens
Total Economic Impact of Illegal Immigration
Federal
The Federal government spends a net amount of $45.8 billion on illegal aliens and their U.S.-born children. This amount includes expenditures for public education, medical care, justice enforcement initiatives, welfare programs and other miscellaneous costs. It also factors in the meager amount illegal aliens pay to the federal government in income, social security, Medicare and excise taxes.
FEDERAL SPENDING
The approximately $46 billion in federal expenditures attributable to illegal aliens is staggering. Assuming an illegal alien population of approximately 12.5 million illegal aliens and 4.2 million U.S.-born children of illegal aliens, that amounts to roughly $2,746 per illegal alien, per year. For the sake of comparison, the average American college student receives only $4,800 in federal student loans each year.
FAIR maintains that every concerned American citizen should be asking our government why, in a time of increasing costs and shrinking resources, is it spending such large amounts of money on individuals who have no right, nor authorization, to be in the United States? This is an especially important question in view of the fact that the illegal alien beneficiaries of American taxpayer largess offset very little of the enormous costs of their presence by the payment of taxes. Meanwhile, average Americans pay approximately 30% of their income in taxes.
“Through love of having children we're going to take
over."
Augustin Cebada, Information Minister of Brown Berets,
militant para-military soldiers of Aztlan shouting at U.S.
citizens at an Independence Day rally in Los Angeles, 7/4/96
Anchor Baby
Population in U.S. Exceeds One Year of American Births JOHN BINDER
La Voz de Aztlan has produced a video in honor of the
millions of babies that have been born as US citizens to Mexican undocumented
parents. These babies are destined to transform America. The nativist CNN
reporter Lou Dobbs estimates that there are over 200,000 "Anchor Babies"
born every year whereas George Putnam, a radio reporter, says the figure is
closer to 300,000. La Voz de Aztlan believes that the number is approximately
500,000 "Anchor Babies" born every year.
The video below depicts the many faces of the "Anchor
Baby Generation". The video includes a fascinating segment showing a group
of elementary school children in Santa Ana, California confronting the
Minutemen vigilantes. The video ends with a now famous statement by Professor
Jose Angel Gutierrez of the University of Texas at Austin.
The US should think long and hard about the high number of
Latino immigrants.
By Lawrence Harrison
It's not just a
short-run issue of immigrants competing with citizens for jobs as unemployment
approaches 10 percent or the number of uninsured straining the quality of
healthcare. Heavy immigration from Latin America threatens our cohesiveness as
a nation.
MEXICO WILL DOUBLE U.S.
POPULATION
By Tom Barrett
At the current rate of invasion (mostly through Mexico, but also
through Canada) the United States will be completely over run with illegal
aliens by the year 2025. I’m not talking about legal immigrants who follow US
law to become citizens. In less than 20 years, if we do not stop the invasion,
ILLEGAL aliens and their offspring will be the dominant population in the
United States.
Open the floodgates of our
welfare state to the uneducated, impoverished, and unskilled masses of the
world and in a generation or three America, as we know it, will be gone. JOHN
BINDER
But many less-skilled migrants play their largest
role by simply shifting small slices of wealth from person to person, for
example, by competing up rents in their neighborhood or by competing down wages
in their workplace. The crudest examples can be seen in agriculture.
"Critics argue that
giving amnesty to 12 to 30 million illegal aliens in the U.S. would have an
immediate negative impact on America’s working and middle class — specifically
black Americans and the white working class — who would be in direct
competition for blue-collar jobs with the largely low-skilled illegal alien
population." JOHN BINDER
The U.S.-born baby is,
of course, a U.S. citizen, whose illegal alien parents are eligible to receive,
on the baby’s behalf, food stamps, nutrition from the Women, Infants, and
Children (WIC) program, and numerous tax benefits, including the EITC.
Most importantly, the
newborn is deportation insurance for its parents. Illegal aliens facing
deportation can argue that to deport one or more parents would create an
“extreme hardship” for the new baby. If an immigration officer agrees, we’ve
added a new adult to the nation’s population. At age 21 the former birthright
citizen baby can formally apply for green cards for parents and siblings, and
they, in turn, can start their own immigration chains.
The surge in Mexican breeders in America’s open borders.
MEXICO'S BIGGEST EXPORTS ARE: DRUGS, POVERTY, CRIMINALS and
ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS FOR 18 YEARS OF GRINGO-PAID WELFARE.
2003: Mexican population in U.S. reported to have increased
10 percent in just three years, mostly as a result of illegal immigration.
Mexicans encouraged to breed at all costs. "A baby a year" Mexican
pride slogan emerges …EVERY ANCHOR BABY GETS MORE WELFARE FOR 18 YEARS. THAT
CHILD IS ALSO STILL A CITIZEN OF MEXICO!
The birthrate among illegals is more than double that of
legal US residents. The Pew Hispanic Center calculates that within seven years,
the children of immigrants, legal and illegal, will account for one in nine
school-age children in the US.
Heritage: Amnestied Illegals Will Get $9.4T in Benefits;
Increase Debt $6.3T'
"The amnesty alone will be the largest expansion of the
welfare system in the last 25 years," says Robert Rector, a senior analyst
at the Heritage Foundation, and a witness at a House Judiciary Committee field
hearing in San Diego Aug. 2. "Welfare costs will begin to hit their peak
around 2021, because there are delays in citizenship. The very narrow time
horizon [the CBO is] using is misleading," he adds. "If even a small
fraction of those who come into the country stay and get on Medicaid, you're
looking at costs of $20 billion or $30 billion per year."
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY HANDS THEIR LA RAZA PARTY BASE OF HEAVY
BREEDING ILLEGALS MUCHO WELFARE!
IMMIGRATION BILL TO BRING IN AT LEAST 33 MILLION PEOPLE IN
ONE DECADE
By Frosty Wooldridge
NewsWithViews.com
If the S744 amnesty bill passes, we can expect 33 million
added immigrants within 10 years. That’s for starters. When you add their
progeny, chain migration and our own population momentum of one million
annually, we face the most profound explosion of humanity within our borders
ever in the history of humanity.
It’s the equivalent of
adding one additional New York City, Los Angeles, Houston, Philadelphia,
Phoenix, San Antonio, San Diego, Dallas, San Jose, Jacksonville, Indianapolis,
Austin, San Francisco, Columbus, Fort Worth, Charlotte, Detroit, El Paso,
Memphis and Boston. If the bill passed, it would be the same as adding ALL of
the Top 20 cities in the United States in a short 10 years. That of course does
not include additional population growth driven by birth rates.
“The pending Senate immigration bill would bring a minimum of
33 million people into the country during its first decade of operation,” said
Roy Beck, director of www.numbersusa.org. “By 2024, the inflow would include an
estimated 9.2 million illegal immigrants, plus 2.5 million illegals who arrived
as children — dubbed ‘Dreamers’ — plus roughly 3.4 million company-sponsored
employees with university degrees, said the unreleased analysis.
“The majority of the inflow, or roughly 17 million people,
would consist of family members of illegals, recent immigrants and of
company-sponsored workers. The estimate is likely the first of several that
will be produced by advocates as the Senate grapples with the immigration bill
developed by the “Gang of Eight” senators.
“The 844-page bill was released last week, and was scheduled
for debate and amendment in the Senate’s judiciary committee starting April 25.
However, the amendment process was held up for a week by Republican Senators.
Advocates for the bill have yet to release any estimates of the future inflow.”
“Nobody has a number that is based on the bill right now
that’s accurate,” Lynn Tramonte, deputy director of the pro-immigration
America’s Voice Education Fund, told the Christian Science Monitor in an April
25 article. “It’ll take a bit more [analysis] to get a specific number about
how things will change.”
“An April 20-22 Fox News poll of 1,009 registered voters
showed that 55 percent of respondents want a reduction in the current number of
legal immigrants,” said Beck. “Currently, the country accepts 1 million
immigrants and 700,000 temporary company-sponsored workers each year. The bill
would boost that to roughly 3 million immigrants and 1 million
company-sponsored workers per year. Forty-five percent of non-whites, 53
percent of independents and 62 percent of people without college degrees, favor
a reduction in legal immigrants. Only 18 percent of Republicans and 29 percent
of independents favor an increase in legal immigration, the Fox poll reported.”
The current population of the United States is 316 million.
That estimate includes 40 million immigrants, both legal and illegal. Opponents
of the immigration bill are already highlighting the potentially large inflow.
“I believe the interest that needs to be protected is the
national interest of the United States, and that includes existing workers
today, workers whose wages have been pulled down, without doubt, by a large
flow of low-wage labor into the country,” Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions
said during one of three hearings on the pending bill. “This bill would
continue that in a way that’s very disturbing to me.”
Beck said, “Estimates of a 33 million inflow are conservative
… [because they do] not attempt to project increases in these categories that
are certain to occur in future years,” once many of the new immigrants seek
green cards for their overseas relatives. Also, some categories of immigrants
are uncapped, and the analysis does not attempt to project increases in these
[family unification] categories that are certain to occur in future years.
“The pending bill allows illegal immigrants to bring their overseas
spouses and children into the country. If that provision is implemented, it
could more than double the [illegal immigrant inflow] number shown in the
chart, bringing the total inflow to 40 million by 2024.”
The analysis shows an inflow of roughly 3.4 million
university trained immigrants. That estimate does not include graduates who get
green cards under the family unification route, or the uncapped inflow of
doctors and PhD-carrying scientists. Roughly 1.8 million Americans graduate
from college each year, including 300,000 with degrees in science and
engineering. Population-growth forecasts will also contribute to the emerging
fight over the bill’s cost, because the award of a green card — or the right to
live in the United States — confers access to some government benefits.
“It is important to note here that each of the individuals
represented in this chart becomes eligible for Obamacare on the day a green
card is issued,” said Beck. “Most of those on the chart will then have to wait
five years before they become eligible for all US welfare benefits … [but some]
will actually become eligible for welfare immediately upon being issued a green
card.” Enrollment in Obamacare is expected to spike the cost of the immigration
bill, partly because federal subsidies are used to offset the annual Obamacare
cost of $20,000 for a family of four. All totaled, The Heritage Foundation
estimate the total cost of this amnesty from a low of $3 trillion to as high as
$5 trillion.
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NEWS & VIEWS This Just In
Stepfather of '9-Year-Old' Girl Who Gave
Birth Admits to
Fathering Baby
Posted by Lindsay Mannering
The 9-year-old girl who allegedly gave birth last month in a
Mexican hospital may not be as young as originally reported. After authorities
dug a little deeper, it's now believed Dafne is at least 12 or 13, or even as
"old" as 15, says one doctor.
It was Dafne's mother who first claimed her daughter was
impregnated when she was 8-years-old by her 17-year-old boyfriend, but it's
becoming more and more clear that may not be the case. The mother's husband,
Dafne's 44-year-old stepfather, has admitted to having sexwith the girl on a
couple of occasions and has revealed he's the father of her child.
He's now in police custody and will be charged with child
molestation for the alleged rape of his step-daughter.
The circumstances under which Dafne's birth certificate were
obtained are shady -- her mother filed for one in 2011, claiming Dafne was born
in 2003, making her 9. The validity of that claim is still under investigation.
Dafne's story continues to get sadder, though, believe it or
not. Neighbors told MailOnline that Dafne's mother may have lied about her
daughter's age for two reasons: One, because Dafne was never in school, and her
mother wanted to enroll her daughter for the first time -- a feat more likely
accomplished if her daughter was 8 or 9.
Or two, because Dafne's mother, an alleged prostitute, wanted
to sell her daughter as a 9-year-old in the sex trade and was motivated to
shave off a few years since, apparently, there's a bigger prize for girls
younger than 12 or 13-years-old.
Anyone else sick to their stomach right now?
To say Dafne's story is heartbreaking or gut-wrenching is an
understatement. Even though she may not have been 8 when she was impregnated,
is 12 or 13 any better? Doctor's still deemed her body too young to handle a
vaginal birth and had to perform a C-section. This girl was still, in fact, a
child, no matter how you calculate it.
It's hard to find a silver lining to this story, but I
suppose the fact that the stepfather is behind bars is a small one, and the
fact that international light has been shed on Dafne's story is perhaps a
slightly bigger one.
Because the more people invested in learning more about what
happened and how to consequently keep this child who had a child safe from
further abuse and danger, the better.
Do you think it makes a difference whether she's 9 or 12?
Anyone understand why Mexicans fail at a successful culture?
Ever wonder why millions of them invade the United States in search of a better
life? Have you noticed that once they arrive, they create the same kind of
‘society’ in the United States? Unconsciously, they create the same conditions
they left behind. You can take the boy out of the ghetto, but you can't take
the ghetto out of the boy. For example, in Denver in December, illegal alien
Navi dragged his girlfriend to death behind his car. Illegal alien Cruz shot
his girlfriend dead in the back because she wouldn’t reconcile with him.
Illegal alien Ruizz ran over and killed Justin Goodman, but Ruizz drove away
from the scene leaving Goodman to die. In Greeley, Colorado they suffered 270
hit and run accidents in one year. Over 80 percent of hit and run wrecks in
Denver involve illegal aliens. Denver boasts the drug smuggling capital of the
West as well as the people smuggling mecca of the country. Illegals cheat,
distribute drugs, lie, forge documents, steal and kill as if it’s a normal way
of life. For them, it is. Mexico’s civilization stands diametrically opposed to
America’s culture. Both countries manifest different ways of thinking and operating.
With George Bush’s push to create the “Security and Prosperity Partnership of
North America” by dissolving our borders with Mexico, he places all Americans
at risk. Would you become friends with neighbors who throw their trash on city
streets and parks, create ghettoes wherever they enclave their numbers, promote
corruption, deal in violence, encourage drug use, manifest poverty, endorse
exism and downgrade education? America’s culture and Mexico ’s culture remain
diametrically opposed to one another. America’s fought Mexico and won. Today,
Mexico invades America with sheer numbers of poor. However, cultures rarely
change and neither do their people. As you can see from the ten points below,
everything about Mexico degrades everything about America. For further
information, you may visit www.immigrationshumancost.org and
www.limitstogrowth.org where you will find a plethora of information by a
brilliant journalist Brenda Walker. Her original report may be viewed on
www.Vdare.com on January 17, 2007 under the title: “Ten Reasons Why America
Should Not Marry Mexico.” I suggest you read more of her work. She exemplifies
incisive, sobering and shocking information. These ten point stem directly from
Brenda Walker’s work. Let’s examine why America must not entangle itself by
merging with Mexico. The legal age of sexual consent in Mexico is 12 years old.
Sex with children at this age and younger is socially acceptable in Mexico. For
example: A Mexican Lopez-Mendez pleaded guilty to sexual assault on a 10 year old
girl in West Virginia. His excuse: sex with young girls was common with his
people. He said, “I was unaware that it was a crime.” Mexicans remain the most
sexist males next to Islamic men. Both boast the most misogynous cultures in
the world. Rape and other violence toward women are not treated as serious
crimes. In Mexico, a custom known as “rapto” whereby men kidnap women for sex
is regarded as harmless amusement. Mexican society regards women little more
than objects. Crime and violence remain mainstays of Mexican culture. Drug
cartels and the Mexican army coordinate their massive efforts to promote drug
distribution not only in Mexico but into the USA. Mexico City suffers the
second highest crime rate in Latin America. Kidnapping remains second only to Columbia
for ransom money. Beheadings, killings and gun fire erupt at drug distribution
points on the US/Mexican border. Spontaneous hanging continues in Mexico. A mob
beat up and burned to death two policemen on live television in 2004 in Mexico
City. As Brenda Walker wrote, “Mexicans do not have the same belief as
Americans that the law is central to the equitable functioning of a complex
nation. It’s the Third World.” Mexicans abhor education. In their country,
illiteracy dominates. As they arrive in our country, only 9.6 percent of fourth
generation Mexicans earn a high school diploma. Mexico does not promote
educational values. This makes them the least educated of any Americans or
immigrants. The rate of illiteracy in Mexico stands at 63 percent. Drunk
driving remains acceptable in Mexico. As it stands, 44,000 Americans die on our
nation’s highways annually. Half that number stems from drunken drivers. U.S.
Congressman Steve King reports that 13 American suffer death from drunken
driving Mexicans each day. Alcoholism runs rampant in Mexican culture. They
suffer the most DUI arrests. Mexicans set the benchmark for animal cruelty.
Mexicans love dog fighting, bullfighting, cock fighting and horse tripping.
Those blood sports play in every arena and backyard in Mexico. They expand into
America as more Mexicans arrive. They also engage in “steer-tailing” where the
rider yanks the animal’s tail in an attempt to flip it to the ground. In horse
tripping, they run the animals at full gallop around a ring, then, use ropes to
trip them at full speed. It’s a death sentence as the horses break their legs,
teeth, shoulders and necks—all to the delight of the cheering Mexican fans. As
La Raza confirms,
Mexicans maintain the most racist society in
North America .
“For the Hispanic race,
everything; for anyone outside the race,
nothing!”
Guadalupe Loaeza, a journalist,
said, “Mexican society is fundamentally racist
and classist. The color of your skin is a key that either opens or shuts doors.
The lighter your skin, the more doors open to you.” Corruption becomes a
mechanism by which Mexico operates. Corruption remains systemic. The Washington
Post wrote, “Mexico is considered one of the most corrupt countries in the
hemisphere.” They feature drug cartels, sex slave trade, people smuggling, car
theft cartels, real estate scam cartels, murder for money and, you must bribe
your mail man to get your mail. Last, but not least, Mexicans are Marxists.
They promote a one party government. As with any kind of Marxism, brutal totalitarian
rule keeps the rich in power and everyone else subservient. As we allow
millions of Mexicans to colonize our country, we can’t help but be caught up in
these ten deadly cultural traits of Mexicans. With over 12
million Mexicans
here today, the predictions
grow to as many as 20 even 40 million
Mexicans in a
few decades as they come here
for a better life. The fact remains, as they come
to America for a better life, they make our lives a living hell.