Thread: Open Borders and Hispanic Gangs

Open Borders and Hispanic Gangs

Hispanic youths, whether recent arrivals or birthright American citizens, are developing an underclass culture....Hispanic school dropout rates and teen birthrates are now the highest in the nation. Gang crime is exploding nationally—rising 50 percent from 1999 to 2002—driven by the march of Hispanic immigration east and north across the country. Most worrisome, underclass indicators like crime and single parenthood do not improve over successive generations of Hispanics—they worsen.

...gangs have become fully integrated into Hispanic youth culture; even children not in gangs emulate their attitudes, dress, and self-presentation. The result is a community in thrall. Non-affiliated children fear traveling into unknown neighborhoods and sometimes drop out of school for lack of protection. Adults are just as scared.

...Upward mobility to the suburbs doesn’t necessarily break the allure of gang culture. An immigration agent reports that in the middle-class suburbs of southwest Miami, second- and third-generation Hispanic youths are perpetrating home invasions, robberies, battery, drug sales, and rape.

....Open-borders apologists dismiss the Hispanic crime threat by observing that black crime rates are even higher. True, but irrelevant: the black population is not growing, whereas Hispanic immigration is reaching virtually every part of the country, sometimes radically changing local demographics. With a felony arrest rate up to triple that of whites, Hispanics can dramatically raise community crime levels.

..On the final component of underclass behavior—school failure—Hispanics are in a class by themselves. No other group drops out in greater numbers.

....The constant inflow of barely literate recent Mexican arrivals unquestionably brings down Hispanic education levels. But later American-born generations don’t brighten the picture much....Santa Ana police officer Mona Ruiz recounts a joke told by comedian George Lopez: “When a white person graduates, people say, ‘You did good.’ When a Mexican graduates, people say, ‘You think you’re better than us.’ ”


Immigration optimists, ever ready to trumpet the benefits of today’s immigration wave, have refused to acknowledge its costs. Foremost among them are skyrocketing gang crime and an expanding underclass. Until the country figures out how to reduce these costs, maintaining the current open-borders regime is folly. We should enforce our immigration laws and select immigrants on skills and likely upward mobility, not success in sneaking across the border.

http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_3_i ... _gang.html

This is really good, pertinent information and really shows what we all have been trying to say.

The mentallity that is brought across the border, is perpetuated in this ethnic group more so than in any other. It does not fade with subsequent generations.

The only thing that can be done to protect America is to do what is necessary, close the borders and do not allow any kind of amnesty and limit privelages for those here on work visa's.

We also need to work on this "birthright" citizenship issue. We need, finally, in this country, clarification of this supposed and arguable law that our government seems to think is allowable.

We should enforce our immigration laws and select immigrants on skills and likely upward mobility, not success in sneaking across the border

The last paragraph says it all.

The stats are there on the Hispanics who quit high school but some illeglas don't even send their teenagers to high school. In the condo complex I live in some of the cleaning people are teenagers who should be in school.
We do not need any more uneducated people in this country.