Sadly, you are correct. I lived in Southern California for seven years and many laudable things about Mexican Americans are destroyed within a generation. The Dems get their hooks in the Mexicans and welfare destroys the family unit and the work ethic — both of which are strong among most legal and illegal Mexicans when they first arrive in the USA. Once the family and the work ethic are gone, their allegiance to the Catholic Church also goes — or may as well go because the Mexican Americans who remain Catholic become just another group the Catholic bishops use to justify bleeding the rest of us - in the Church and via taxes.
Yup. Heard the same thing living in rural Northwest Ohio where many Mexicans had settled.
Immigrants themselves were hard-working, decent, traditional Catholic family people. First generation discovered there was this thing called welfare where the government pays you not to work (and even more to produce babies out of wedlock), and it’s all out the window.