VERBATIM POST
“Some things to ponder about Hispanic immigration, legal and otherwise.
1) Hispanics are entitled to hiring, promotion and college admissions advantages over similarly qualified whites. Retiring Senator James Webb in the Wall Street Journal:
“In an odd historical twist that all Americans see but few can understand, many programs allow recently arrived immigrants to move ahead of similarly situated whites whose families have been in the country for generations . . . The extrapolation [of racial preference programs] . . . to all ‘people of color’—especially since 1965, when new immigration laws dramatically altered the demographic makeup of the U.S.—moved affirmative action away from remediation and toward discrimination, this time against whites.”
SOURCE: “Diversity and the Myth of White Privilege,” by Senator James Webb, Wall Street Journal, July 22, 2010
2) Hispanic illegal aliens, put on a path to citizenship (Obama’s deportation exemption is a first step) can, on reaching age 21, apply for citizenship for their parents, thus doubly rewarding the original illegal entry of the illegal alien parents. They secure an American education for their child at taxpayers’ expense and, as a bonus, get to become citizens themselves.
3) Levels of educational attainment of Hispanic immigrants, after many generations, remain much lower than that of the white population. This means that, as a group, Hispanics will need disproportionately more governmental assistance. Senior researcher at the Educational Testing Service Irwin Kirsch, on the effect of increasing non-white immigration on the productivity of the American workforce:
“We have the possibility of transforming the American dream into the American tragedy. ” [This represents] “a threat to our democracy.”
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