It's not like those 65-68 are going to be picking oranges and grapes for the wages an illegal will work for....
Futhermore, look at the actual birthrate data: It ain't white women keeping us at replacement levels, and it's not the more educated reproducing. Successful educated white folks are afraid of having kids.
Tell that to the 8.5% of blacks who are unemployed in this country and the number is in double digits in the cities. And then there is matter of wage depression caused by illegal immigration, the growing gap between the rich and poor, and very low savings rates. 80% of Americans pay more in payroll tax than they do income tax. And we are not "importing tons of illegals," they are breaking in.
It's not like those 65-68 are going to be picking oranges and grapes for the wages an illegal will work for....
Those aren't the only jobs available to illegals nor is it where the bulk of them work. We already have non-immigrant work visas for agricultural workers [H2A visa] so we don't need to have 65-68 year old grape pickers.
Futhermore, look at the actual birthrate data: It ain't white women keeping us at replacement levels, and it's not the more educated reproducing. Successful educated white folks are afraid of having kids.
We have immigrants, legal and illegal, doing the job Americans won't do. Actually, what is happening in terms of the demographics of this country should give everyone some cause for concern. We are creating a permanent underclass that is having most of the children out of wedlock and the highest high school dropout rates. Unless the life chances of children raised by single mothers suddenly improve, the explosive growth of the U.S. Hispanic population over the next couple of decades does not bode well for American social stability.
The dimensions of the Hispanic baby boom are startling. The Hispanic birthrate is twice as high as that of the rest of the American population. That high fertility rate – even more than unbounded levels of immigration – will fuel the rapid Hispanic population boom in the coming decades.
By 2050, the Latino population will have tripled, the Census Bureau projects. One in four Americans will be Hispanic by midcentury, twice the current ratio.
It's the fertility surge among unwed Hispanics that should worry policymakers. Hispanic women have the highest unmarried birthrate in the country – over three times that of whites and Asians, and nearly 1 ½ times that of black women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Every 1,000 unmarried Hispanic women bore 92 children in 2003 (the latest year for which data exist), compared with 28 children for unmarried white women, 22 for unmarried Asian women, and 66 for unmarried black women.
Forty-five percent of all Hispanic births occur outside of marriage, compared with 24 percent for whites and 15 percent for Asians. Only the percentage for blacks – 68 percent – is higher. But the black population is not going to triple over the next few decades.
The only bright news in this demographic disaster story concerns teen births. Overall teen childbearing in the U.S. declined for the 12th year in a row in 2003, having dropped by more than a third since 1991. Yet even here, Hispanics remain a cause for concern. The rate of childbirth for teens from Mexico, part of the fastest-growing immigrant population in the U.S., greatly outstrips every other group.
With half of the children ages 0-5 in America being minorities [as classified by the USG], demography is indeed destiny. If we don't do a better job of educating our people and cleaning up the urban cesspools that are creating this permanent underclass, our nation's future is bleak indeed.