Statistics on ‘Hard-Workin’ Immigrants
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William H. Calhoun, The Conservative Voice, Aug. 10, 2006
The vast majority of illegal immigrants in America are Mexican, who were once proverbial for laziness and crime, but now are championed by the liberal media (NY Times) and neoconservative media (Wall Street Journal) as hard-working Americans.
Statistics, however, show otherwise. A recent study by the Pew Hispanic Center reveals the following:
(1) Hispanics are 3 times more likely than non-Hispanics to receive welfare
(2) Hispanics account for 3/4 of the increase in poverty in the USA
(3) 45% of Hispanic children are born out of wedlock
(4) Hispanic women are 2.54 times more likely to than white women to have abortions
(5) Hispanic men are 9 times more likely than white men to beat their partners
(6) Hispanics are 3 times more likely than whites to die of AIDS
(7) They are 4 times more likely to die of tuberculosis
(8) Hispanics are 2 times more likely to be incarcerated than non-Hispanics
(9) They are 3.8 times more likely to be in prison for murder than non-Hispanics
(10) Hispanic youth are 19 times more likely to be in gangs
(11) Hispanics are 3 times more likely than non-Hispanics to drop out of high school
(12) 55% of Mexican-Americans consider themselves to be Mexican first
How could such statistics be overlooked by the liberal media? Intentionally. They are inconvenient. They contradict the myth that liberals and neoconservatives wish to propagate: the “proposition nation.”
Since the liberal Enlightenment, liberals and (more recently) neoconservatives have championed the idea of a “proposition nation,” which is a radical break from Western Civilization. What is the proposition nation? It is an abstraction with no real place in culture, time or history. It is the view that by merely believing in a few abstractions (e.g. the American flag is good) one can achieve national identity. If Sanchez believes in X, Y, Z, then, By God, he can be a citizen too!
Prior to recent times, traditionalists have always felt that much more was involved in the composition of a country: a common history, regional loyalty and localities, common bloodlines and genealogy, blood and soil, kin and kith. The ancient Greeks certainly felt this way. So did Medieval Europeans. And so did George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson—who wanted citizenship only for people of European bloodlines.
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(Posted on August 10, 2006)