My father was born in Texas. I was born in Milwaukee. Young Hispanic boys join gangs because they feel alienated. Their parents should asssimilate as fast as possible. Please forward this to Linda Chavez.

A Mexican Baby Boom in New York Shows the Strength of a New Immigrant Group by Nina Bernstein, New York Times, June 4, 2007.

A new analysis by city demographers showed a 28 percent increase in births to Mexican women living here from 2000 to 2005, with 8,234 babies born in 2005, the last year for which statistics were available. For the first time, the number of babies born to Mexican women surpassed births to Dominican-born women, which dropped by more than 10 percent in the same period.
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“They’re fresh immigrants,” Dr. Hoskins said. “Girls are having babies, becoming wives and mothers at a far earlier age. They tend to have more children because they bring their Mexican culture with them.”
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Census data show that Mexican immigrants in New York have the least schooling, the lowest per-capita income and the lowest rate of English proficiency of the city’s immigrant groups.

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The article is illustrated with a photo of a 19-year-old Mexican Indian girl with a baby. All the medical services to the Mexicans is provided for free, ie, paid for by American taxpayers.

Is it too much for a sovereign nation, a great country like America, to expect assimilation from people who desperately want to be here — so badly that 12 million are here illegally? Speak English, adopt our customs, be proud of your heritage, but prouder of being American. Fly the Mexican flag at home, or if you prefer it so much, go home. It’s easy if you try. And would you not expect the same from us if we were invading Mexico?

What that tells me is that the parents could care less about assimilating into our culture and land, that they’re here just for what they can get out of it, and would raise Cain if we went to their land of origin and acted the same way.

I know a lot of folks who have come here, assimilated reasonably, and yet kept their children aware of their own traditions and customs. Nothing wrong with that,it adds richness to our society.

But when they come here illegally, then expect those who’ve worked to keep our rich culture to change just to please them, they can get off on the next Hades express…

Vipers, and the ones who pander to them, too.

Gotta disagree with you on the assumption with the kids there. My best friends, that I’ve known since the 1st grade, were born in Mexico. Their family came here when they were 4 and 5 (legally) and they’ve been here since. All of the kids (3 total brothers and 1 sister) speak flawless English, and Spanish. Their English is clear enough that back when we were 18 a bunch of us had traveled down to vacation east of Ensenada we passed through the border by them saying they were US citizens even though they weren’t (they still had green cards but had forgotten them). Since then, all the kids (not sure on the parents) have become naturalized citizens.

However.. their mother still has a very thick accent when she speaks English and has a hard time with remembering a lot of words. This is mainly because they’ve all spoken primarily Spanish at home and she’s always been a work at home mother; she’s run a day-care for ages.

That said… doesn’t mean you’re not right in a lot of cases. It does seem like a lot more people these days coming here don’t want to assimilate like they did just a couple decades ago.

My town is now split in half. The Mexican side of town (which I cannot safely travel)and which caters exclusively to Mexicans in Spanish language and the “white” side which caters to everyone else, including Mexicans.

People like Linda Chavez (and many former friends) have sided with Mexicans at the expense of Americans and thats the real problem. In the distant past Mexicans WANTED to become Americans first. Now they just WANT what America has to offer all the while remaining a Mexican natl first and an American second or third or fourth.

Perhaps if these fools like Chavez would make ANY attempt to find the REAL issue here which reality dictates is the corrupt Mexican Government and its minions of corruptacrats, which is driving their people to America, which in effect is turning America into a 3rd world country just as Mexico has always been, Chavez types would see the real villain in this equation and that wouldnt be white America.

I don;t want MEXICANS in charge because the evidence is absolutely clear how well that works, just look at Mexico and how our Cal gov is trying to emulate them and there failures.

Dang! What a knuckle-dragger.

Viper.