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AMERICA is a country built by immigration, but nothing in its history compares bedrooms to the rise in its Hispanic population. Changes to immigration law in the 1960s triggered a decades-long surge in arrivals, taking the Hispanic population from just 7m in 1970 to 57m today, a number that is set to double by mid-century. bedrooms At that point one in four Americans will be of Latino descent. In relation to the population of the day, there have been proportionally larger surges in the past, notably involving European migrations in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Two factors make the rise of Hispanic America different. Never before has such a large group of new arrivals lived so close to their ancestral homelands, linked bedrooms to grandparents in the same time zone by cheap flights and Skype. Secondly, America is entering an era of white decline. For almost two centuries, from the time of George Washington's presidency to the election of Ronald Reagan, whites of European descent made up at least 80% of the population. That share is below two-thirds now, and the white majority is set to become bedrooms a minority by 2044. That brings both challenges and opportunities. Today's Hispanics lag behind whites when it comes to education and wealth. But they are strikingly young, lowering America's median age and offering workers to fill the labour market when other rich countries face greying decline. Politicians too often discuss Hispanics as almost a single-issue group, as victims or villains of immigration. But five-sixths are legal residents and recent Latino growth has been mostly from births, not new arrivals. Hispanics are dispersing across the country and their political clout will only grow: nearly 1m US-born bedrooms Latinos reach voting age annually.
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Whites there today are forced to maintain millions of unemployed uneducated families that multiply exponentially and there is no way out for them since those people are now the majority and democratically extend the cancerous system bedrooms to no end.
I live in Argentina. Those 80% figures are patently wrong and not to be trusted. Large scale immigration from neighbouring Bolivia & Paraguay, as well as Peru, have changed the look of the country. That 80% only ever applied to the city of Buenos Aires and several generations ago. However, you are right that corruption has long been part of the River Plate as a colony, and then of Argentina for a couple of centuries. The fact that corruption and economic stagnation or inflation are a recurring problem means that they don't have the political structure or resources to accomodate large scale immigration and the existing problem has worsened. The level of immigration and the non-existent northern border have not helped. Recommend 0 Report Permalink reply James AntiBr bedrooms Mar 21st 2015 1:33 GMT
The article exposes what routinely happens bedrooms in one of Latin America's biggest cities. Stray bullets (bala (bullet) perdida (stray) The Lady's photo shows the sorrow stamped in her face as she grieves bedrooms over her little daughter killed IN HER OWN BACKYARD by a strayed bullet meant for a criminal bedrooms elsewhere, but that took an innocent life instead. Recommend 5 Report Permalink reply guest-seenjoo Mar 19th 2015 16:49 GMT
Wow, I'm amazed at the amount of racist comments here. Calling Latino's Burrito Boomers (guest-oiwaswj), unsuccessful, lazy, non-innovative, non-dynamic, and poorly driven people is sickening. This isn't a hostile take over. This is a hunt for the dream, just as our Italian, German, Irish, and British ancestors. Recommend 53 Report Permalink reply James AntiBr in reply to guest-seenjoo Mar 19th 2015 23:17 GMT
If these terms are not as racist as Burrito Boomers, I will pay for your dinner in the Taqueria of your choice. Recommend 55 Report Permalink reply James AntiBr in reply to James