Thread: Immigrant Populations Soaring

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Immigrant populations soaring
County lost 84,000 whites from 2000 to 2004
By Brad A. Greenberg Staff Writer

With the number of whites shrinking as immigrant populations soar, a "racial generation gap" is opening in Los Angeles and cities nationwide, a study released today says.

The report by The Brookings Institution said Los Angeles led all metropolitan areas and Riverside-San Bernardino ranked second in population gains by Latinos, Asians and African Americans - increases attributed to higher birth rates among immigrants.

In addition, 30percent of Latinos nationwide live in Los Angeles and New York, the study said. And metropolitan Los Angeles, which includes Long Beach and Santa Ana, has 5.6million Latinos, about 43percent of its total population.

"Immigrants from Asia and Latin America still see Los Angeles as immigrants from the '20s did - as a place to fulfill their economic dreams," said Tom Hogen-Esch, director of policy studies at the Center for Southern California Studies at Cal State Northridge.

The study was authored by William Frey, a demographer at the University of Michigan, and based on U.S. Census figures.

He found that Los Angeles County's population of 9.9million grew by about 392,000 from 2000 to 2004. The population of Latinos and Asians increased by 356,200 and 102,100, respectively, while the number of whites decreased by about 84,000.

Other traditionally white parts of the United States also are seeing an influx of foreign-born immigrants, who are fleeing metropolitan areas in search of jobs, affordable housing and opportunity, the study said.

The study found that 35percent of the people leaving California in 2003 were white, compared with 78percent during the '90s.

Areas that experienced the fastest population growths for African Americans and Asians tended to be the fastest-growing cities in the country - Las Vegas, Phoenix and Orlando. The Brookings study also found record numbers of African Americans are moving back to the South.

Experts noted that other cities will find themselves facing the same challenges as Los Angeles and California in providing education and public serves to young families of new immigrants.

For the Los Angeles Unified School District, "it's about keeping them in school, keeping them connected," said Rowena Lagrosa, the district's executive officer of educational services.

The nation's second-largest school district has a dropout rate of about 33percent, according to the state.

Harvard University released a study last year pegging the dropout rate at 50percent, while the district claims a 24percent rate.

E. Richard Brown, director of UCLA's Center for Health Policy Research and head of the California Health Interview Survey, said that with growing low-wage populations - and a diminishing middle class - elected officials need to push reform that will make health care widely available.

"It doesn't take a genius to know that the system is already under tremendous strain," Hogen-Esch said.

"When you continue to add patients - and many of those are going to be uninsured - it is going to mean catastrophic consequences for health care in Los Angeles, particularly for the poor," Hogen-Esch said.

While immigrants historically have had roots in major cities, they have spread family by family to growing metro-

politan areas and suburbs - and they provide their relatives and friends abroad with a support network in the United States.

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Other traditionally white parts of the United States also are seeing an influx of foreign-born immigrants, who are fleeing metropolitan areas in search of jobs, affordable housing and opportunity, the study said.

Has anybody noticed that the places to which people are fleeing are rapidly becoming exhausted? What will happen when they are gone? Incidentally, it's not only the "foreign-born immigrants" who are fleeing places being overwhelmed and devastated too many "foreign-born immigrants", but the native-born residents of those places as well.

E. Richard Brown, director of UCLA's Center for Health Policy Research and head of the California Health Interview Survey, said that with growing low-wage populations - and a diminishing middle class - elected officials need to push reform that will make health care widely available.

Instead of attempting to conceal internal cancer by putting Band-Aids on exterior scrapes, maybe it would be better to focus on the cause of the cancer and prevent it.

"When you continue to add patients - and many of those are going to be uninsured - it is going to mean catastrophic consequences for health care in Los Angeles, particularly for the poor," Hogen-Esch said.

Actually, catastrophic consequences for far more than health care and in most everyplace, and most everybody will be poor except those very few who manage to stay on top of the wealth pyramid scheme that we are being duped into supporting.

The study found that 35percent of the people leaving California in 2003 were white, compared with 78percent during the '90s.

A whole bunch of my relatives are among those who left CA in the 90's. They couldn't afford to buy a house and CA's PROP 13 that prevents the younger generations from buying a house also prevents the elder generation from selling their houses because they can't afford to buy another one and they won't be grandfathered into that frozen property tax that is costing CA millions if they sell out.

For example: a house bought in the 60's in CA for less than 20K now goes for a whopping 450K! That is ridiculous! Yet if it was worth 50 K when prop 13 passed, the most anyone who owned that house then will ever have to pay in taxes is the mill rate for 50K. Even though the house is worth 450K. Get it?

As time progresses, as the people who own these houses die off and the kids who couldn't afford to live in CA inherit these over-priced houses, what is going to happen? There's going to be a housing glut, that is for sure. Where are the people who can afford a $2000 or $3000 a month mortgage payment going to come from? They ain't gonna pay that from flipping burgers, that is for sure! America, look out. CA is headed for a fall.

In time there isn't going to be enough tax base left to support all the stupid liberal programs the people of CA have decided were necessary in an attempt to appease all the "immigrants" legal and illegal, who migrated there over the last 30 years. They are already feeling the strain. This could become a major problem for the rest of the nation as the rest of the good jobs are passed on to foreign nationals or outsourced when there are no skilled workers left in CA.

35percent of the people leaving California in 2003 were white, compared with 78percent during the '90s.

guess where they moved? the pacific northwest- but the jokes on them- cause the illegals followed-
and you know every illegal brings the rest of the villiage with them

guess where they moved? the pacific northwest- but the jokes on them- cause the illegals followed-

the ones I know moved to AZ and to MO.