Thread: Question re North Carolina

Could someone please give me an estimate as to how many illegals are believed to be in North Carolina? And didn't I read that it started to become a problem in the 1990's?
I'm working on informing someone in your state who use to be involved but has gotten soft living in a small town in your state.
Thanks!

Jean,

The newspapers will cite the lowest sources they can find and say "approaching half a million"

I believe we are above half a million. This problem may have started in the 90's or the 80's or the 70's but nothing compares to what we have seen here in the last 5-6 years.

W

Thank you W.
I'll do my best.

I visit New Bern Craven county area 3-4 times a year & I see plenty of them doing Const,Landscaping among other jobs. I'm retiring to area in 22 months LORD willing! NC way to friendly to Illegals,whole lot of work to do down there for sure!

I come in and out of NC each year and the numbers are rising each year. Our place is on the coast. I was at my sisters in the western part of the state a week or so ago and I was really shocked at the number of them in the grocery stores and at Lake Lure on Sunday evening. In my area, they all go to Walmart on Sunday and let their kids run wild while they maul over everything in the store.

Also, I notice that there are some sort of foreigners who I don't believe are hispanic working at the local MacDonalds. I'm going to try to find out where they are from and what they are doing here. I'm pretty sure they aren't Arab but there are lots of Arabs on the beach working in the surf shops. I'd be willing to bet that some of them are visa overstays.

http://www.newsobserver.com/125/story/477470.html

Hispanics in push to permanence

Kristin Collins and David Raynor, Staff Writers
In the Triangle and statewide, growth in the Hispanic population continues to outpace all other ethnic groups, the latest census estimate shows.
North Carolina's Hispanic population grew to more than 550,000 between 2000 and 2005, a 46 percent rise. It was the fifth-largest jump in Hispanic population in the nation, behind Arkansas, Georgia, South Carolina and South Dakota.

Overall, the state's population grew by a more modest 8 percent.

Many Triangle counties saw even stronger growth. Franklin's Hispanic population grew by more than 70 percent, and Wake's jumped nearly 63 percent. Johnston, Harnett and Durham saw growth of well more than 50 percent.

The new numbers, part of the U.S. Census Bureau's annual population estimates, show that Hispanics are no longer a largely migrant population, here to work and send money home, say experts, advocates and industry leaders. Today, they are making permanent homes, bringing their families and having children here.

And with North Carolina's strong economy and low cost of living, the growth is not likely to slow, said Jim Johnson, a professor and demographer at UNC-Chapel Hill. "Hispanics are spread throughout our economy now," he said. "People are taking up roots here in North Carolina. They have children that are born here."

Since an influx in the early 1990s, Hispanics have become a key part of the state's work force.

Paul Wilms of the N.C. Home Builders Association said Hispanics now make up about one-fifth of the state's construction work force. "What we're seeing now are Latino workers that are forming their own businesses," he said. "They're not just laborers any more."

Advocates said census numbers probably underestimate the numbers of Hispanics in the state. The most recent estimates, released this month, don't take into account illegal immigrants, who make up about half of North Carolina's Hispanic population.

Thank you all for the info.

Originally Posted by JuniusJnr

I come in and out of NC each year and the numbers are rising each year. Our place is on the coast. I was at my sisters in the western part of the state a week or so ago and I was really shocked at the number of them in the grocery stores and at Lake Lure on Sunday evening. In my area, they all go to Walmart on Sunday and let their kids run wild while they maul over everything in the store.

Also, I notice that there are some sort of foreigners who I don't believe are hispanic working at the local MacDonalds. I'm going to try to find out where they are from and what they are doing here. I'm pretty sure they aren't Arab but there are lots of Arabs on the beach working in the surf shops. I'd be willing to bet that some of them are visa overstays.

Yep! They are multiplying. I see it everywhere just about everywhere I go in NC. Today was "Meet the Teacher" day and this Friday is the first day of school. Noticeable here too. I'm glad I had my ALIPAC and another bumper sticker on my car. :P In the process of writing a much more in depth post thread here about the Wake County school system - I had the chance to speak with a couple of teachers today. Seems (and the principal said) there are at least 40 new students this year in the elementary and my daughter is attending already a temporary modular complex for school starting her second year before she goes to middle school. I wonder what that will be like?

It also seems that many of these new students are relocating with their families from the West coast, i.e. namely California. I guess Mexifornia is becoming too crowded. Why not make NC El Norte de Carolina de Mexico, now?

I haven't gotten around to a more in-depth school report yet. My kids, one in High School and one in the last year of elementary, just started today - the first day of classes.

There's a gadzillion forms/handbooks sent home the first day or two and many of these are also printed in Spanish. Same as last year and I posted something then. Went to lunch at the elementary school today and my child's 5th grade class has at least double the Hispanics they did last year. One kid doesn't speak hardly any English. Ditto for the other 5th grade class.

More later.

Annie, I'll be interested to hear about how the teachers in NC cope with the kids who don't speak or really understand English. In El Paso, it is very disruptive because the kids can't communitcate with one another. Some American kids don't trust their teachers because they feel like they are being ragged on when the anchor baby teachers talk to the anchor baby and illegal students in Spanish. When the teacher teaches in English, the Spanish kids raise hell and when the teacher teaches in spanish the American kids raise hell. Nobody learns much of anything.

Even though kids understand a few words and even phrases, they don't actually know what is going on. Most don't care to sit around while the teacher is talking some other language. I don't know what happens to the kids whose first language is something other than one of those two languages! And I sure hope we don't start trying to accomodate them as well!

I wish they would go back to teaching English only and the kids who don't speak English can either go to schools in their own country or else learn outside of the public schools AT THEIR PARENTS' EXPENSE. It is definitely a disservice to Americans to have all these foreigners in our schools. And just think, these half-educated kids will run this country one day.