New Study Confirms Mexican Immigration is a Disaster
By • 3/25/08This review of Generations of Exclusion, a new book-length study of Mexican immigration, confirms the facts presented in Hispanics: A Statistical Portrait, which I worked on while I was employed at American Renaissance. Bottom line: Mexican immigrants assimilate neither culturally nor economically into American society. Even Mexican-Americans whose families have been in America for four generations are much less likely to graduate from high school and college than whites. They also continue to live in ethnically segregated neighborhoods and consider themselves Mexicans rather than Americans. Of course the authors attribute the failure to assimilate to America’s exclusion of Mexicans, but we know better.
Even worse, Mexicans are fans of bilingual education, affirmative action, open borders, and the Democratic party.
Here’s an extract from the review detailing some of the findings of the study:
The educational levels of second-generation Mexican Americans improved dramatically [over those of the first generation]. But the third and fourth generations failed to surpass, and to some extent fell behind, the educational level of the second generation. Moreover, the educational levels of all Mexican Americans still lag behind the national average.
Economic status improved from the first to second generation but stalled in the third and fourth generation. Earnings, occupational status and homeownership were still alarmingly low for later generations. Low levels of schooling among Mexican Americans were the main reason for lower income, occupational status and other indicators of socioeconomic status.
Intermarriage increased with each generation. Only 10 percent of [first-generation] immigrants were intermarried. In the third generation, 17 percent were married to non-Hispanics, as were 38 percent in the fourth generation.
Adult Mexican Americans in the third and fourth generation lived in more segregated neighborhoods than they did as youths. This was due to the high number of Latinos and immigrants moving into these neighborhoods, the researchers said.
Most Mexican Americans identified as “Mexican” or “Mexican American,” even into the fourth generation. Only about 10 percent identified as “American.” Moreover, many Mexican Americans felt their ethnicity was very important and many said they would like to pass it along to their children.
Third- and fourth-generation Mexican Americans supported less restrictive immigration policies than the general population and generally supported bilingual education and affirmative action.
In the 1996 presidential election, 93 percent of first-generation Mexican Americans voted Democratic. The percentage of Democratic voters declined in each subsequent generation. By the fourth generation, 74 percent voted Democratic.
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The study has shown that part of Mexican’s slow assimilation is because they are deemed and labeled as unwelcomed/and excluded from the dominant society. Their (Note:the Journalist biased conservative view is clearly present in this article ) legal status (Not all Mexican’s are illegal), and a self-fulfilling prophecy message that is given to them by society, all combined, contributes to their slow assimilation. However, as you can see from the comments above the points being made about stereotypes, exclusions, and labeling are overwhelmingly present. To ignore this, one would have to be in denial.
Also, it is safe to note that many americans are not familiar with American foreign policies or the aggressive neoliberal movement to fully dismantle government. These tax dollars are not being eluted by illegals but rather by our own multinational corporations that negotiated the free trade agreements across the globe, which is a big contributer to jobs going abroad. Not many people are informed about the role of the WTO or the IMF and their model of developing third world countries (in reality looking for countries to open up and provide cheap labor). Mexico, and many Latin American countries have recently went on a vigorous campaign to cease the NAFTA agreement and that is why you have seen a rise in Latin American Presidents being democratically elected (9 total) with the promise to end U.S. influences on their country. However, since the U.S. is becoming increasingly aware of the need for Mexico’s resources a “Plan Mexico” has been put in place. When we hear “we are spreading democracy” it means we are setting up a country to be dependent and democratic in the U.S. Elite’s favor.
The real blame for economic hardships is not an immigration issues, it is those that have cut taxes (for the higher incomes) and have altered foreign trade policies that have enabled businesses to go elsewhere to produce things at a lesser cost. Even if immigration was cut back, jobs will still go abroad. Unless policy makers are held accountable, and we stop buying the bullsh** of less gov., less taxes then the U.S. can progress. However, for every tax break that is made, programs are cut, basic maintenance (think hurricane Katrina disaster and the slow response from FEMA ) our government dwindles. If they (neo-conservative) activist had it their way everything would be privatized out. Their main goal is to head back to a 1920’s era before the depression. A model of “Hands Off” government; and we all know how that ended with the great stock market crash and the depression. We are at the same levels of disproportion incomes as we were a hundred years ago and it’s not due to immigration, it’s due to globalization and economic policy (housing market, job loss/jobs going abroad). Read the book “No Nonsense to Globalization” its an easy read and explains many things that are going on today and the reason behind it. The solution is not in tightening boarders and immigration, this is a scapegoat and it is easily being eaten up.
By on 8/13/08 at 5:52 am
It appears that the typical mexican is more Latin American Indian than Spanish in terms of ethnicity, and thus not primarily European extraction at all. Of the ones I have talked to about this matter, they usually want to play down any Spanish heritage in favor of their Indian heritage. They want to play up their “native American” status, as if this buys them something.
If we look at mexico, it is apparent why it is a failure. The value system in place there is all skewed, the social structure does not promote the construction of society, and corruption is rampant and accepted. This is a recipe for disaster. (Note: We are moving toward this in the US as well; the only difference is that we started in a different place. Philadelphia is a prime example of this.) With this sort of a system, society fails.
Now these people want to come here, but worse yet, they want to bring their system with them. It was easy, it made few demands upon them, it appealed to human weakness. Do we want to wind up like mexico? It will be very easy, and we have all the natural tendencies. It takes no effort, none! That is the problem. It is so appealing and easy, and we are getting morally weaker and weaker, just like the mexicans.
By on 3/25/08 at 7:52 pm