Do We Need More Hispanics?

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By Jared Taylor

[VDARE.COM NOTE: This is adapted from the New Century Foundation's report Hispanics: A Statistical Portrait]

There are now 43 million Hispanics living in the United States. At 15 percent of the population, they have displaced blacks as the largest racial minority. There used to be so few Hispanics that until 1980 the Census Bureau did not make a category from them. Since then, mass immigration and high birthrates explain the explosion in their population: they increased at 14 times the white rate from 2000 to 2005, for example, and at more than three times the black rate.[1] Of the estimated 11 to 12 million illegal immigrants in this country, the best guess is that 78 percent are Hispanic.[2] The amnesty President Bush and a Democratic Congress are planning will legalize them and, because of the "family-reunification" chain-migration feature of current immigration law, ensure we get more in the future.

Is this good for America?

The way to answer the question is to look at the Hispanics who are already here and see how they are doing. We should do this before we open the door to their brothers and cousins and aunts and nephews. That is the purpose of the report, Hispanics: A Statistical Portrait, recently published by New Century Foundation (NCF).[PDF|HTML] It is a carefully documented compilation of all the standard social indices: income, education, crime rates, welfare use, illegitimacy rates, and much more.