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« on: May 28, 2009, 07:56:07 PM »

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What will America stand for in 2050?
The US should think long and hard about the high number of Latino immigrants.


Palo Alto, Calif. - President Obama has encouraged Americans to start laying a new foundation for the country – on a number of fronts. He has stressed that we'll need to have the courage to make some hard choices. One of those hard choices is how to handle immigration. The US must get serious about the tide of legal and illegal immigrants, above all from Latin America.

It's not just a short-run issue of immigrants competing with citizens for jobs as unemployment approaches 10 percent or the number of uninsured straining the quality of healthcare. Heavy immigration from Latin America threatens our cohesiveness as a nation.


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The healthcare cost of the illegal workforce is especially burdensome, and is subsidized by tMany hospitals and clinics are going broke because of the constant stream of uninsured, many of whom are the estimated 12 million to 15 million illegal immigrants. This translates into reduced services, particularly for lower-income citizens. axpayers. To claim Medicaid, you must be legal, but as the Health and Human Services inspector general found, 47 states allow self-declaration of status for Medicaid.


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The US population totaled 281 million in 2000. About 35 million, or 12.5 percent, were Latino. The Census Bureau projects that our population will reach 439 million in 2050, a 56 percent increase over the 2000 census. The Hispanic population in 2050 is projected at 133 million – 30 percent of the total and almost quadruple the 2000 level. Population growth is the principal threat to the environment via natural resource use, sprawl, and pollution. And population growth is fueled chiefly by immigration.

Consider what this, combined with worrisome evidence that Latinos are not melting into our cultural mainstream, means for the US. Latinos have contributed some positive cultural attributes, such as multigenerational family bonds, to US society. But the same traditional values that lie behind Latin America's difficulties in achieving democratic stability, social justice, and prosperity are being substantially perpetuated among Hispanic-Americans.


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Latin America's cultural problem is apparent in the persistent Latino high school dropout rate – 40 percent in California, according to a recent study – and the high incidence of teenage pregnancy, single mothers, and crime. The perpetuation of Latino culture is facilitated by the Spanish language's growing challenge to English as our national language. It makes it easier for Latinos to avoid the melting pot and for education to remain a low priority, as it is in Latin America – a problem highlighted in recent books by former New York City deputy mayor Herman Badillo, a Puerto Rican, and Mexican-Americans Lionel Sosa and Ernesto Caravantes.

Language is the conduit of culture. Consider: There is no word in Spanish for "compromise" (compromiso means "commitment") nor for "accountability," a problem that is compounded by a verb structure that converts "I dropped (broke, forgot) something" into "it got dropped" ("broken," "forgotten").


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Obama should confront the challenges by enforcing immigration laws on employment to help end illegal immigration. We should calibrate legal immigration annually to (1) the needs of the economy, as Ms. Jordan urged, and (2) past performance of immigrant groups with respect to acculturation.

We must declare our national language to be English and discourage the proliferation of Spanish- language media. We should limit citizenship by birth to the offspring of citizens. And we should provide immigrants with easy-to-access educational services that facilitate acculturation, including English language, citizenship, and American values.


read more here - http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0528/p09s01-coop.html
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« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2009, 08:09:40 PM »

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Several new bills are being introduced in the U.S. Congress to eliminate automatic citizenship. The hope is to reform immigration by making it impossible to become a citizen just by going over the border and having a baby.

Rep. Nathan Deal, Republican of Georgia, has introduced HR1868 titled the Birthright Citizenship Act of 2009. This would amend the Immigration and Nationality act. Under this proposed legislation in order to gain citizenship an individual born in the United States must have at least one parent who is a United States citizen, lawful permanent resident alien with residence in the United States or an alien performing active service in the United States armed services.

Rep. Phil Gingrey has introduced HR 878 which will reduce the number of legal family-sponsored immigrants that are allowed to enter the country. This bill has been introduced before. The act called the Nuclear Family Priority Act would eliminate what is called "chain migration" which allows extended family visa categories that include married sons and daughters of citizens and others, which was recommended by a bipartisan commission in 1997. This "chain migration" allows endless numbers of foreign nationals to immigrate to the United States because the laws of the country allow citizens and lawful permanent residents to bring in members outside of the nuclear family, something that has quadrupled legal immigration since the 1960s. This would indirectly reduce immigration by more than 1 million people during the next 10 years.


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Rep. Heath Shuler's SAVE Act (E-Verify) would mandate the use of an Internet-based system to help employers determine employment eligibility of new hires and the validity of their Social Security numbers.


http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/273262
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