Friday, April 08, 2005

Illegal Mexican immigration and multiculturalism

Steven Sisson:

Recently, The Washington Times reported that more than 6 million illegal-immigrant Mexicans now live in the United States, making up more than half of the nation's nearly 11 million illegal aliens, citing a new study by the Pew Hispanic Center.

The Pew Hispanic Center study found that between 80 percent and 85 percent of Mexican-born people now in the United States came here illegally.

The Times also reported that a recent estimate by Bear Stearns Asset Management put the figure (illegal immigrants in the U.S.) as high as 20 million.

The Blue Dog says America has 20 million reasons stop apologizing and take on the challenge of addressing the issue of the undocumented. No doubt, every United State citizen should learn and speak English, and we, as a country, need to stop pandering to illegal immigrants under the guise of diversity issues and multiculturalism.

Unfortunately, the Democrats are going to keep on pandering to illegals because it means more votes for them in the future while the Republicans will support the illegals because it provides a source of cheap labor that will keep corporate America happy.

1 Comments:

At 6:45 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

From the post:

[The Pew Hispanic Center study found that between 80 percent and 85 percent of Mexican-born people now in the United States came here illegally.]

fatman wrote:

[Thats quite different than saying 80-85% of all mexicans in the US are illegal.]

It should be clear this isn't what was posted: the posting says that 80+% of those born in Mexico and currently living in the US originally entered the US illegally (or overstayed perhaps). Many of them may indeed be here legally now, e.g. as a result of the Reagan amnesty and/or whatever other 'adjustments' have since taken place, but how did they get here originally ("came here illegally")?

I don't know whether, as posted, 80+% of them originally entered illegally (or overstayed), but it is also not so difficult for me to believe this -- it does not seem so outrageous as to be impossible.

Anyway, I'm not interested enuf to read the link.

As for "pandering", I am not so sure Republicans don't hope for some votes as well.

 

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