Thread: Despite Adversity, Latino Population Continues to Rise

Despite Adversity, Latino Population Continues to Rise
By Daryl C. Hannah

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September 22, 2008

Which state has the largest Latino population? Which is witnessing the biggest influx of Latino immigrants? The answers to these questions could be the deciding factor in the presidential election come November.



"The Hispanic population is growing; whites and Asians are not replacing themselves," says Jane Dye, the U.S. Census Bureau demographer who wrote the latest study on birth rates.



According to the National Council of La Raza, Arizona, California, Colorado and Florida have the largest Latino populations. And while those state's numbers continue to swell, North Carolina is the state with the fastest Latino growth rate, growing an astounding 393 percent between 1990 and 2000.



So what's fueling such exponential growth? High birth rates and, of course, immigration.



Consider this: The average woman in the United States produces 1.9 children. Broken out by ethnicity, the numbers are 1.7 children for Asian Americans, 1.8 children for whites, 2.0 children for Blacks and 2.3 children for Latinos. American Indians were not included in the report. The fertility rates are sufficient, combined with immigration, to keep the U.S. population growing.


"It's the Hispanic population that is keeping us above water in terms of growth, in terms of births," said William Frey, a demographer for The Brookings Institution, a center-left policy-research organization in Washington, D.C., in an article in The Miami Herald.


Immigration, on the other hand, is less easily tracked. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that one of every two people added to the nation's population between July 1, 2006, and July 1, 2007, was Latino. In addition, the bureau also estimates that by 2050, 30 percent of the U.S. population will be Latino.


"A momentum is built into this as a result of past immigration," Jeffrey S. Passel, senior demographer at the Pew Hispanic Center, told The New York Times. "In the 1970s, '80s and '90s, there were more Hispanic immigrants than births. This decade, there are more births than immigrants. Almost regardless of what you assume about future immigration, the country will be more Hispanic and Asian."



States are now cracking down hard on undocumented workers. During the past year alone, there have been high-profile raids in companies in Iowa and Mississippi, including a raid on a chicken factory in Iowa that netted 300 arrests of undocumented workers. And last month, police seized more than 600 undocumented workers in an immigration raid in Mississippi.



Meanwhile, the Arizona appeals court recently upheld a ruling that made it illegal for business owners to "knowingly" employ undocumented workers. Click here to find out what the immigration laws are in your state.



But the fate of immigration depends on who takes office in November. Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama have vastly differing views of on immigration.



While McCain supports tightening the borders and sending undocumented immigrants "to the back of the line" for citizenship, he steers clear of the issue during campaign rallies and press events. Obama supports tightening the borders and sending undocumented immigrants "to the back of the line" for citizenship and addresses immigration at campaign rallies and press events.



For more information on how both candidates stand on immigration and other key issues, check out the October issue of DiversityInc.



Click here to visit DiversityInc's special coverage of Hispanic Heritage Month.


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As far as I`m concerned thats their plan, to have as many children they can to over run us

Time to absolutely slam the borders shut, guard every inch of our borders and to redefine the 14th amendment, or throw it out altogether.

According to the article, the two candidates DO NOT have vastly different views.

McCain just doesn't want to state up front his pro-amnesty stance.

Originally Posted by pjwishes

As far as I`m concerned thats their plan, to have as many children they can to over run us

I don't think it's a plan, as much as it is ignorance. Intelligent people have as many children as they can afford.

We have a critical alert today folks from NumberUSA. E-verify is almost lost we need your help. Call your senators and Reid's office. Demand a clean bill and tell you understand that the Democrat party is NO LONGER the party for the American worker.

http://www.alipac.us/ftopicp-774235.html#top

Yes vortex I agree thats the problem, the 14th admendment. I want to start a petition to clarify the admendment. (But I really don`t know how). Many people think if your just born here that makes you a citizen, but that`s not what the Constitution says."ALL PERSONS BORN AND NATURALIZED IN THE USA (THATS THE BORN ON THE SOIL PART) AND SUBJECT TO THE JURISDICTIONS THEREOF ARE CITIZENS. it`s the subject to the jurisdiction claus that most people today over look. It means that your owning allegiance to this country, that you`ve become apart of our system in government and you recognize the Rule of Law and consent of the governed. People here temporary wether legal or illegal don`t meet those requirments for automatic citizenship, period.

North Carolina is the state with the fastest Latino growth rate, growing an astounding 393 percent between 1990 and 2000.

Originally Posted by nntrixie

According to the article, the two candidates DO NOT have vastly different views.

McCain just doesn't want to state up front his pro-amnesty stance.

Well, he's certainly up front about his mass "pathway" amnesty scheme now. He's not trying to hide this anymore.

I am a lifelong resident of North Carolina and I think I speak for most Tar Heels when I express utter disgust at what this invasion has done to our great state.
Our schools were made to go mandatory year round due to the huge growth of elementary age children, many, many of them starting kindergarten not speaking a word of English. Our neighborhood parks are filled with Spanish speaking moms(many pregnant), and their children ,and at night the Hispanic gangs congregate there. There seems to be no let up in sight and it is a tragedy what has happened to this state.