Main reason for poverty: massive illegal immigration

Robert J. Samuelson offers "Discovering Poverty (Again)":

...Given these trends, the overall poverty rate should be drifting down. It isn't. The main reason, as I've written before, is immigration. We have uncontrolled entry of poor, unskilled workers across our southern border. Although many succeed, many don't, and many poor Latino immigrants have children, who are also poor. In 2004, 25 percent of the poverty population was Hispanic, up from 12 percent in 1980. Over this period, Hispanics represented almost three-quarters of the increase in the poverty population...

Immigration2005b · Sat, 09/24/2005 - 22:40 · · Importance: 1

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When Bill Gates walks into a bar, the average net worth of all the people in the bar increases dramatically. But the respective net worths of the people have not changed

Posted by: Slim at Sep 26, 2005 5:41 AM

Exactly; we're importing poverty and it has to be deliberate. The census reports 'income per person by race' and it shows hispanic per capita incomes at less than half that of the majority. This has never happened on a large scale in America before, that an immigration category of size has come in so far below the others. Offcials know this and must want it, and the regulated media maintains an almost perfect news blackout on it.

Posted by: John S Bolton at Sep 25, 2005 2:47 PM

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