The Bush Depression is taking a terrible toll on our immigrant communities, according to an article in the O.C. Register. Here are a few excerpts from that article:
The information revealed the unemployment rate for foreign-born Hispanics — legal and illegal — increased by nearly 3 percent in 2008, according to the report.
During the same period, unemployment rose for all people in the labor market by 2 percent. Although unemployment rates for foreign-born Hispanics and blacks are about the same, other factors such as higher employment rates for blacks meant foreign-born Hispanics were hardest-hit by the economic downturn.
“The reason the decline is disproportionately affecting Latino immigrants has to do with their greater reliance on the construction sector for jobs,” the report’s author Rakesh Kochhar said.
I guess the Republicans will be happy to hear this – and it is ironic that Bush finally found a way to get rid of immigrants. He tanked the global economy and sure enough many of them have gone back home.
The Minutemen will certainly crow about this – they don’t care if families are hurting. They just want Mexicans out of the U.S. Who knows how many of these racists live in homes built by Mexican labor?
And Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido will no doubt be very happy to hear that his fellow countrymen are hurting. In fact the Register has previously reported on the dire straits of many businesses in the Santa Ana downtown area. Unfortunately for Pulido, his developer friends are also hurting and cannot take advantage of the situation.
Wow, you really are slow, ignorant, and a sad sad person. Bush hates immigrants? Republicans hate Mexicans? The amnesty bill was written by McCain (Republican) Supported by Bush (Republican). Are you insane, Put down the La Raza, MALDEF and Mecha Propaganda, and open your eyes! YOU ARE THE ONE WHO IS RACIST! You won’t answer honest questions, just post more hatred! Once again I will ask you. WOULD YOU BE HAPPY IF THE UNITED STATES ADOPTED THE MEXICAN LAWS WHEN IT COMES TO IMMIGRATION, AND ITS TREATMENT OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION?
Bigmarkod I have said similar statements in the past, you are wasting your breath. Although my sister asked if I posted your comment, which I thought that was kind of funny.
RIGHT ON POST 1 this is the the thing art is always posting on here . reps =hates mexicans he is so racist and one sided that he is from the taliban side of his party . bush found a way to get rid of immigrants . NO ART THE ILLEGALS who should not be here in the 1st place went home . JOBS SHOULD GO TO AMERICANS FIRST . if they are mexican american = afro american -aisan american . NOT ILLEGALS .. OR AS YOU PUT THEM immigrants because you cant never say that the two are different you ALWAYS PUT THEM TOGETHER .
I guess the question is
Who is crazier, the crazy person, or the person who argues wth that person?
I think Art throws out a post like this once in a while just to stir things up when it is a realtively slow news day. Looks like it worked!
#5,
You are very observant!
Been There –
Oh if only if Art didn’t believe what he posts to be true. He does we know it enough said.
It is true that the Republican party early on in the Nov. 2008 election used undocumented Immigrant misinformation to strengthen their campaign. It failed.
It is true that the economic problems produced by the Bush Presidency has slowed the construction industy as well as general maintnance and the food service industries.
It is true that this has cuased the decline in Undocumented employment and many have returned to Mexico for lack of work.
According to the USC Center for the study of Immigrant Integration:
– Immigrants make up nearly half of the Los Angeles workforce.
– Immigrants contribute %40 of the County’s gross regional product.
– Despite lower than average wages, Immigrants account for over one third of the County’s spending power.
– Immigrants show a higher rate of intrepreneurship than their native born counterparts.
– %45 of Immigrants arriving to the region within the last decade speak English.
The point is, that like it or not, our nation (some regions more than others) and Immigrants are directly intertwined.
They directly are connected with the stimulas of the nation’s economy.
Those that minimize, ignore or dismiss these facts have agendas like the ones Art Pedroza suggests.
Yes they are here because we give them work. Work not beign available – they leave. Who is the responsible party here?
When here, they are directly tied and to a large degree stimulate positively the health of our economy.
perhaps on the next slow day art will post whites hate mexicans to get more hits on this site .
Funny post and reactions. I wonder what we all will do once the drug lords finish taking over the Mexican government.
post 8 a nice write up but you left out the key word are those immigrants you where talking about . OR ILLEGAL.. THE TABOO WORD EVERYONE LEAVES OUT IN THESE CONVERSATIONS .
#11,
Some are undocumented I believe ,others are not. Some were originally undocumented and are now citizens.
For the sake of argument, %100 of these Immigrants beign undocumented does not change the facts outlined and the point of the message.
We allow the undocumented Immigrant to work because we see economic benefit. We should then take responsibility for the negatives that come with them being here to keep our economy healthy.
These poor immigrants fled socialism in their home countries to come to free America, only to find that America now is socialist, too. It reminds me of the unemployed Americans in the 1930s who fled to the Soviet Union, only to end up in the Gulag.