Posted on 08/15/2008 10:58:10 AM PDT by AuntB
....Dallas County continues to see its demographic hue deepen....... More Latinos here are foreign-born than in other parts of the state and nation.
About half of the county's Latino population in 2006 was foreign-born. That was the case for only a third of Latinos in the state and about 40 percent nationwide.
"Diversity is happening faster than we thought," said the state's demographer.
The demographic shift already has meant changes for churches and commerce, which both offer services in Spanish. Schools, governments and workplaces, however, sometimes struggle with the changes and their effects.
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, for instance, has lagged behind in processing applications, after a record 1.4 million legal permanent residents who applied for naturalization last fiscal year. That was double the number of the previous year.
.... Michael Aytes, acting deputy director of Citizenship and Immigration Services, said that nearly all the backlog from before July 30, 2007, would be cleared up in time for the new citizens to register to vote and cast ballots in the Nov. 4 election.
"We understand that the right to vote is one of the most sacred rights of a citizen," Mr. Aytes said Thursday. But "we would be wrong to put voting rights ahead of making sure we are making the right decision to grant naturalization."
About a third of naturalizations came from Latin America in the 2007 fiscal year. It's expected that the pace of Latin American naturalizations will increase this fiscal year, due to the large numbers of Mexican legal permanent residents becoming U.S. citizens, Mr. Aytes said.
"We are delighted that more people will make it under the wire and vote in the elections," Mr. Vargas said. "But it isn't just about this one election," he said, promising more citizenship and voter campaigns after 2008.
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
Yes, more democrat voters. Isn't that special?
How special. Lets celebrate!
Sounds like these people went through the legal process of immigration. If that is the case "Welcome to America Fellow Citizens."
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury...
There won’t be 50 United States in 25 years, thanks to our open border traitors.
How do you become ‘more diverse’ by having more of the same people coming from the same places but in larger numbers????
Are there more Latvians showing up? More Laotians?
Or is it just the same foreign born ‘addresses’ from the same countries which have been feeding Dallas and the Southwest for the last two generations?
Yep. Same old story but with faster bureaucracy apparently.
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I can't say, but I doubt it. However as a Dallas County resident I can assure you that more Asians and Africans are also showing up in addition to Latinos. It truly is diverse, and not near as ugly a picture as some would paint.
I am familiar with what you quote.
As a nation, we have laws regarding immigration and it is unfortunate that so many violate those laws. However, the people that abide by the laws and become American citizens are just as much an American as you or I.
You obviously haven’t been to Dallas lately or you would have had a better understanding of my quote.
So much for the “you are what you drive” culture in Dallas.
As you pointed out....what's diverse about a flood of Mexicans?
So-called "immigration" from that country is the single largest mass movement of people from one country in human history, and dwarfs any other influx ever seen by this country.
The Southwest will be quite un-diverse in 20 years.
Anyone who isn't part of "la raza" will have fled by then, except for maybe Maricopa county, where Arpaio's successors might continue his policies.
If you wish to maintain influence in the political process, I suggest that you not only work on means and methods to understand the needs of the minority community but more importantly show that community that conservative ideology is their best vehicle to achieve political and economic success.
Otherwise, the Conservative movement in dead.
Oh Good.
So you have your choice of living in African tribal culture, or Asian totalitarian culture, or Hispanic autocratic, corrupt culture.
How diverse.
Actually, I live most of the year in Central Texas and understand the impact of immigration.
Sounds like the rushed in after 2006 and are seeking to be finalized in time for the 2008 election. Does that sound like the NORMAL time to become a citizen? 2 years?
Why bother?
Why not just deport those that don't belong here, ruthlessly assimilate those who we unfortunately let in (and by that I mean into Anglo-Saxon egalitarian norms), and then rabidly change the immigration laws to prevent further influx of massive numbers of nearly un-assimilable primitive peoples who have no relationship to Western Civilization or the people who created it?
I mean, who gives a damn what their "needs" are? They chose to come here, not the other way around.
Especially when Mexico’s government is encourging them to vote in both countries.
I do not know the entire process for becoming a U.S. citizen. However, I do know that one must enter the country legally and maintain employment or an educational path. I am not sure of the timeline but people I know who immigrated and became U.S. citizens on their own merit were here for at least seven years.
But again, if they followed the Legal Process to become a citizen they are citizens just like us and hopefully productive.
One has to understand a people before he attempts to influence him on his point of view. Thus, understand that most of the immigrants are Conservative and if understood by the GOP would vote Republican in large numbers.
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