Posted on 04/29/2008 8:05:34 AM PDT by SmithL
Forty-nine percent of California's children between 12 and 17 have at least one immigrant parent, a phenomenon that could dramatically change the composition of the state's electorate within several years, according to a report released Tuesday.
Of these 1.2 million kids, 84 percent are U.S. citizens, either because they were born here or were naturalized, said Rob Paral, a Chicago-based demographic researcher who prepared the report, "Integration Potential of California's Immigrants and their Children."
The report predicts that as these children turn 18, they could help fuel a rise in immigrant voters by 2012.
About 6.5 million immigrants in California are already U.S. citizens or could be, according to the report. By 2012, these adults and citizen children who have become adults could total 7.7 million "potential future voters," or 29 percent of the electorate if they register.
Paral is a research fellow at Notre Dame University's Institute for Latino Studies and at the American Immigration Law Foundation in Washington, D.C.
His firm prepared the report for Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees, a national network that advises foundations and communities interested in policies to incorporate immigrants into civic life.
"It's jaw-dropping," Paral said of the number of California kids who are close to "the immigrant experience."
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
No records necessary ????????????
They’re all in on the schemes........probably getting kickbacks and campaign contributions for okaying the funds.
California used to be a Republican state, or at least contestable. It's over, and the day will come when Feinstein and Boxer, kong out of office, will look “moderate.”
Actually, Boxer and Feinstein have been able to get elected only because of the remote threat from the evvvvvvvvvvil Republicans. At some point, the Latino majority will discard these two elderly Jewish women like old shoes and the contest in California will be between the PRI and the Democrats. The Republicans will have either all fled the state or perhaps split off and left the densely populated sewer ring of counties around SF Bay and LA to stew in the third world hellhole they’ve created.
And a tip of the fedora to Jorge who by his failure to do his constitutionally mandated duty to protect the republic from invasion will have helped to make this all possible.
Could? Wrong auxiliary verb.
Any wonder that California is in economic crisis?
ugh. News articles like this make being teetotal hard.
It is the sort of article that makes you want to open up a beer and forget how stupid liberals are.
I’ll have to look up this article, but I’ve long suspected that the younger generations will flip Texas, probably after NM, AZ and NV.
The southwest is being annexed by Mexico.
What do these idiots think we’ve been warning them about?
Thats why Bush needs to get the troops home and invade CA!
Hispanics aren’t going to do anything about gays. Their children are being brainwashed in public schools at this very moment.
And can arnoldfornia get worse? Probably but no by much.
Will the last white folk leaving California please turn out the lights?.....
The Hispanic Family: The Case for National Action (excerpt)
In the March 19 issue, the magazine reports the bad news from California: The vaunted Latino family is coming to resemble the black family. The magazine has the temerity to offer facts that are fighting words in some precincts of the right:
Half of all Hispanic children were born out of wedlock last year. The birth rate among unmarried Latinas is now much higher than the rate among black or white women.
In 1995 the unmarried teenage birth rate for Latinas was 20% lower than the rate for blacks. It is now 12% higher.
More than half of all young Hispanic children in families headed by a single mother are living below the federal poverty line, compared with 21% being raised by a married couple.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NmI3Yjk0ZjMxNmEyMjI1ZWU3Y2MwNTBlMTUyYWVmMmE=
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