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| 2005-07-07 |
| EFL: NEW YORK (AP) - Nearly 23 percent of all people born in the U.S. in 2002 had a foreign-born mother - the largest percentage since a wave of immigration more than 90 years ago, a study of birth records by a private nonprofit group shows. The Center for Immigration Studies said the country has not seen as large a share of its children born to immigrants since 1910, when the number reached 22 percent as shiploads of Italians and eastern Europeans crowded America's port cities. This time, Hispanics are the driving force, according to the study being released Thursday. Nearly 1 in 10 births in the United States in 2002 were to women born in Mexico. Hispanics, as a whole, accounted for 59 percent of all births by immigrants. The boom in second-generation Americans is bound to have an effect on the country that is equal, if not greater, than the sea-changes of the early 20th century, said Steven Camarota, the Center for Immigration Studies researcher who wrote the report. He said the influx of immigrants in the early 1900s was curtailed significantly by a tightening of entry rules and two world wars, and that no such cutoff appears imminent now. ``It just tells you that we are headed into uncharted territory,'' Camarota said. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #9 HISPANICS accor to US Census and other definitions embodies a wide variety of races or internat ethnic groups, except specific Asian types. Is no more a Achille's Heel than for the Scotch-Irish, Irish, Germans, Italians and later immigrant groups - Capitalism and freedom are the best catalysts for diversity and utopianism. Western and Asian Socialism is demographically shrinking and dying while America keeps getting bigger - will reverse to America's detriment iff keep PC accomo the Commie Clintons and Socialist World Order. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2005-07-07 22:04 |
| #8 In the whole article, the word "illegal" was only mentioned ONCE. With estimates of between nine to eleven million illegal immigrants on U.S. soil, those "1 in 10" births are more likely than not to be births to illegal immgrant women. ..and that no such cutoff appears imminent now. Nope, we'll just have to learn Spanish in order not to offend the sensitivities of illegal immigrants... |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-07-07 14:59 |
| #7 Agreed, Crazyfool! I can't believe how big an Achille's heel this could be to Bush, except that the Demos want them for votes. Could cause a rise in a competitive 3rd party, possibly? |
| Posted by: BA 2005-07-07 12:54 |
| #6 We need to only grant citizenship to newborns if *both* parents are here as legal residence (either as citizens or permanent residents) or if one parent is a citizen or PR and the other parent is here on a *valid* visa. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2005-07-07 11:41 |
| #5 it took me a minute, Frank. Maybe we can dust off the old instructions. |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-07-07 11:25 |
| #4 true, mm. |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-07-07 11:24 |
| #3 Yes, but how many of them are "undocumented aliens"? |
| Posted by: mmurray821 2005-07-07 11:23 |
| #2 "we just forgot to write it down" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-07-07 11:21 |
| #1 It just tells you that we are headed into uncharted territory,'' it's not uncharted if you've been there before. |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-07-07 11:20 |