The myth of the redemptive Hispanic is finally cracking.?

Question

For years, conservative open-borders advocates have touted Hispanic “family values” as a prime reason to increase immigration. Hispanic immigrants, these conservatives say, will save America from itself. At a time when Anglo and black families are disintegrating, when society is becoming increasingly atomized and alienated, Hispanics will bring the traditional values that the country so desperately needs. In a classic iteration of the theme, Larry Kudlow wrote on NRO last May that Hispanic immigrants would "become a much-needed churchgoing blue-collar middle class . . . that is crucial to a healthy America."

The truth is now supplanting the fiction. Last Friday, the New York Times ran an editorial, "Young Latinas and a Cry for Help," that laid out the real state of the Hispanic family. A quarter of all Latinas are mothers by the age of 20, few of them married, reported the Times. This out-of-wedlock teen-birth rate is three times that of white teens, and significantly more than that of blacks as well. The Hispanic dropout rate is also the highest in the country — the Manhattan Institute’s Jay Greene puts it at 47 percent...This is the reality of the way things are going. What think you ?

angela R ‘Facts are stubborn things.’” More stubborn still, however, is the unwillingness of open borders proponents like you to acknowledge social facts that undercut your cause(.I found it strange your resume included everything but a husband ?)

Talk to any social worker and she will tell you that illegitimacy has become completely normalized among her Hispanic clients. And the usual explanation for this epidemic of illegitimacy — an unresolved culture clash between young people and their traditional parents — is equally bogus. The mothers of teen mothers are themselves completely on board with single parenting, say the social workers, having often been single parents themselves. And they have no qualms about hooking their daughter and grandchildren into the public-benefits apparatus: “It’s now culturally OK for that population to be served by the welfare system,” says a case manager in a Santa Ana, Calif., home for teen mothers.

Far from exercising a brake on the erosion of traditional values, as conservative immigration advocates claim, the growing Hispanic population will provide the impetus for more government alternatives to personal responsibility.

Answer 1

Damn good question Zoe, and well researched .... yet another nail in the coffin for the pro illegals and their nonsense ... keep chipping away at them, as we all know, they're in the wrong, they KNOW they're in the wrong ... but they prefer to live in denial ... go figure ...

Answer 2

Great post Zoe, you kick pro butt. It amazes me how some on here take this so personal. I'll tell you if 47% of my people's young ladies were in this boat I'd be trying to do something constructive about it, not defending them. I certainly could not, as a true American, say that this is a benefit to our society. This is a problem no matter what country it's happening in or what people it's happening to. Keep up the good fight girl, we're getting there, the myths are cracking.

Answer 3

The nuclear family, irrespective of ethnicity, has always been a myth. Perhaps Americans, in general, need to get real about what practical "family values" would be and put their money where their big mouths are...like into affordable daycare for the poor and into reviving our archaic 19th century public school system into something that creates workers for this century, not the horse and buggy era.

Answer 4

Hey, I posted an article with statistical anaylses on the same subject and everyone wanted to tar and feather me!

Answer 5

I already knew part of what you said. If our government does not do something about all illegals we will become a 3rd world country.

Answer 6

I lived most of my life in Texas, anyone that is around them very much will not be surprised at these facts!

Answer 7

Lets talk about myths, since you bring it up.....What about the myth you are promoting about Latinos??

I am Latina, I am not on welfare and never been, I have one child, I have a college education and I am middle class? And I have many hispanics friends in that the same demographic.....

Do you think it is "myth"? I am a myth too?

Answer 8

move over, the Cubans are coming

Answer 9

I agree. I have seen this with my own eyes.

Answer 10

Yeah, they're a real example!!!! A BAD example!!!!!