Thread: CO: Latino economic power

Latino economic power
Report: Legals, illegals a boon to economy; critic says they’re a drain
Peter Marcus, DDN Staff Writer
Thursday, August 6, 2009


A report released yesterday by the Immigration Policy Center states that Latinos, whether legal or illegal immigrants, act as an economic boom to the state.

But an immigration critic says supporting immigrants outweighs any benefit. Read more about that below.

The report released yesterday states that purchasing power of Latinos in Colorado last year totaled $21 billion. Latino-owned businesses had sales and receipts of $5.1 billion and employed more than 32,000 people in 2002 — the last year data is available — the report states.

Meanwhile, immigrants and their children are growing. Foreign-born Coloradans grew from 4.3 percent in 1990 to 10 percent in 2007, making Colorado home to 485,170 immigrants that year — about the population of Sacramento, Calif.

About one in 10 Coloradans is an immigrant, and one in five is Latino. Nearly one-third of all immigrants living in Colorado is a naturalized U.S. citizen, according to the report.

New Americans — defined as immigrants and their children — account for about 5.4 percent of all registered Colorado voters.

The Immigration Policy Center report also states that immigrants are “integral to Colorado’s economy.â€

Illegals cause a large financial drain on every state in our country.

sure as hell didn't keep all the automobile dealerships that catered to them (with no licenses) from crashing and burning. Sure didn't keep hospitals from closing around the country. Sure didn't help when the schools did not have the money to hire all the teachers needed to handle the influx of non English speaking kids, nor did they raise the money to pay for all the extra people hired who could speak Spanish.

Who pay7s for that?? Why all the Americans who no longer have jobs--of course.

Wasn't CIRC involved in the amnesty rallies around the Democratic Convention?