Now even far left Politico and National Review agree with Trump: vast majority of Mexican immigrants coming illegally are uneducated, do not have health insurance and become a burden on all social programs. Other candidates are afraid to speak the truth
Posted on | July 2, 2015 | 5 Comments
Excerpts from National review
“When Mexico sends its people,” Trump said, “they’re not sending their best.”
This is obviously correct. We aren’t raiding the top 1 percent of Mexicans and importing them to this country. Instead, we are getting representative Mexicans, who — through no fault of their own, of course — come from a poorly educated country at a time when education is essential to success in an advanced economy.”
“It’s just that a lack of education is an anchor around even the hardest-working person in modern America. This is illustrated in an exhaustive report based on government data, by Steven Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies, which favors a lower level of immigration. I rely on it for the figures that follow.
Immigrants here from Mexico — which has sent more immigrants than any other country for decades — have the lowest levels of education. Nearly 60 percent of them haven’t graduated from high school. Only about 10 percent have some college and nearly 6 percent have a bachelor’s degree or higher.
By way of comparison, the situation of immigrants from Korea, for instance, is almost exactly reversed. More than 50 percent of them have a bachelor’s degree or higher, and less than 4 percent failed to earn a high school diploma.
This puts Mexican immigrants at an inherent disadvantage, and it shows. Nearly 35 percent of immigrants from Mexico and their U.S.-born children are in poverty; nearly 68 percent are in or near poverty. This is the highest level for immigrants from any country (the Philippines is the lowest, with 5.5 percent in poverty).
Fifty-four percent of immigrants from Mexico lack health insurance. A higher proportion of Mexican immigrants uses means-tested government programs than immigrants from any other country—more than 57 percent. As Camarota notes, this is “even higher than for refugee-sending countries like Russia and Cuba.” By contrast, the lowest percentage is for immigrants from the United Kingdom at just over 6 percent.
Immigrants make progress on almost every indicator over time, but are still far behind natives after two decades. (The exception to the general progress is welfare use, which actually increases among immigrants here for 20 years compared with immigrants here fewer than five years.)
For all its crassness, Trump’s rant on immigration is closer to reality than the gauzy clichés of the immigration romantics unwilling to acknowledge that there might be an issue welcoming large numbers of high school dropouts into a 21st-century economy. If we don’t want to add to the ranks of the poor, the uninsured and the welfare dependent, we should have fewer low-skilled immigrants — assuming saying that is not yet officially considered a hate crime.
The point surely could be made much more deftly by anyone not named Donald J. Trump. In the meantime, he fills the vacuum, and enjoys the whirlwind.
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July 2nd, 2015 @ 6:47 am
Great that even those publications see the truth. However, here is the same story, over and over, National Review doesn’t mention the word Illegal, or even Undocumented when speaking about immigrants. I am an immigrant myself. (It took a lot to become a legal immigrant.)
What is it that is so hard to acknowledge that the people causing the burden, are those who broke in to this country, starting out their life here “without legal” entry. Is it a hate crime to call something for what it is? The two groups, those with legal papers and those who sneak in, are not equal.
July 2nd, 2015 @ 6:48 am
A coinable phrase: “immigration romantics”
July 2nd, 2015 @ 9:53 am
Yes, but will he prosecute those in this administration who have blatantly committed illegal and criminal acts???
July 2nd, 2015 @ 10:23 am
CDC official calls Obama worst president..amateur marxist after influx of illegal alien minors.
https://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2015/07/cdc-official-calls-obama-worst-president-amateur-marxist-after-influx-of-illegal-alien-minors/
July 2nd, 2015 @ 3:16 pm
Go Trumper, Go!!!!!!!!!!!!!