My apologies if this has already been diaried. I must first add this disclaimer: I am a frequent non-commenter and even less frequent diarist.
So after a hard day's work and another 5 hours on my roof last night, I finally sat down to dinner. As is my routine, I peruse the editorial page for the lastest nasty letters and hack columns.
I came across this gem by Mona Charen http://www.jewishworldreview.com/... To open her latest enlightened piece of wisdom:
In 1970, six percent of all births in the United States were to illegal aliens. In 2002, that figure was 23 percent.
WOW! I had no IDEA the problem was this bad! Do you know why? It isn't.
The current U.S. population is 72 percent non-Hispanic white; 12 percent African-American; 11 percent Hispanic; and five percent Asian and other http://www.prcdc.org/....
No I'm no math genius, but something just doesn't add up here. How can such a low percentage of the population make up such a large percent of all babies born in the U.S.? I don't know if it is even possible! Assuming 12 million illegal immigrants in America, carry the four, something around 4 percent of the population.
Hispanics have the highest fertility rate of any U.S. minority, with the average Hispanic woman giving birth to three children in her lifetime. The African-American fertility rate is 2.2 lifetime births per woman. Non-Hispanic whites have the lowest fertility rate of 1.8.
Ok. Interesting enough, but way to hard to extrapolate exactly what I need. But it's not looking good for Mona. This is closer: http://www.cis.org/...
As for legal status, we estimate that the birth rate of illegal alien women was 3.1 children on average in 2002, or about 50 percent higher than the two children natives have on average. The birth rate for legal immigrants is 2.6, or about one-third higher than that of natives.
Still, not quite what I need...
We have previously estimated from birth records that there were 380,000 births to illegal aliens in 2002, accounting for nearly 10 percent of all births in the United States.
AHA! Mystery solved. Mona is an ignorant, lying bitch. No surprise there, but you know, it just feels so good to prove it. But wait! It gets worse!
More from Mona:
The so-called "anchor baby" phenomenon is a hidden trap door beneath any guest worker program, because a significant number of guest workers will have babies while in the United States and will thus elude any effort to send them home.
Does anyone have a problem with the phrase "Anchor Baby"? I looked for the origin, but all I found was hate speech the like you would see on Free Republic. I don't think they mean it as a term of endearment. Whatever happened to the preciousness of life? Apparently it only applies if your parents are American.
And Mona makes two assumptions here: First, a significant number. What is a significant number Mona, 10,000? 100,000? Second, she assumes that every immigrant that has a child, that the child will want to stay forever. Well with the current "leadership", my guess would be a significant number wouldn't want to stay around in such an intolerant environment.
Best yet, Mona sez:
I happen to be a moderate on immigration.
Yep, we can see that alright! This is a classic case of shifting the unreasonable argument so far to the right, that any variation of that right wing wacko lunacy seems moderate by comparison. Nice try. If Mona is a moderate, then I, my fellow kossacks, am a watermelon.
Now she gets to the meat and potatos:
I believe that Republicans should tread carefully on reform lest they be perceived as anti-Hispanic. With the country divided so evenly between the two parties, Republicans cannot afford to alienate 12 percent of the electorate (and a group that is religiously and culturally open to the Republican message).
So I guess your values are valid only so long as you get re-elected. Let me share this little tid bit with you Mona. Too late. You are the party of anti-Hispanics. Good luck with that.
The United States absorbed proportionately more immigrants at the start of the 20th century than it is attempting to digest now. But our grandparents had one huge advantage: they believed in "Americanization."
Ok, now you are just making words up. I can't believe this shit flies! And what a way to make friends and influence people! Of course your grandparents are superior, just like you are.
Lastly, we are left with this gem:
If we cannot recapture the will to insist upon Americanization, immigration will be our undoing instead of what it has always been, a great strength.
And by you definition of "Americanization", I'm looking forward to my own "Canadaization".