Ap case Study finds that Diversity Prompts Increased Isolation

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Diversity Prompts Increased Isolation

So much for the melting pot. This is illegal immigration run amok.

News from The Associated Press

Rising immigration hasn’t made Watsonville more diverse; it is a community heading toward racial isolation, a growing phenomenon in a state that offers one possible look at how the nation may change as non-Hispanic whites become a minority in the coming months.

Rios came into office after a landmark voting rights case 25 years ago deemed Watsonville’s at-large election system discriminatory and mandated district elections to end all-white political leadership. At the time, 50 percent of the residents were Hispanic.

Today, 82 percent are either immigrants, or descendants of immigrants, mostly from Mexico but also elsewhere in Latin America.

“Communities where Latinos live are becoming more and more Latino over time,” said Brown University sociologist John Logan. “And as more Latinos arrive, they’re still living in very separate neighborhoods.”

Watsonville, where 40 percent of the residents are foreign born, is in the early phase of the transformation. The community has a 23 percent unemployment rate, and poverty rates twice as high as the rest of California.

At the courthouse on the corner, interpreters are at work in all four courtrooms, helping judges and lawyers communicate with clients dealing with everything from divorce settlements to murder charges. At the public library, laughter, stories and music ring out from Bilingual Toddler Time.

 

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Mexicans don't get any smarter when they cross the boarder

 

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Mexicans don't get any smarter when they cross the boarder

They actually do. The problem is that the children of illegals who are attending our schools are gumming up the public education system with their inability to understand the curriculum. What happens is that US English speaking citizens get a lower quality education as their classes advance more slowly than most. But that's social justice for ya!

If you look up the worst schools in the United States you will find two trends. Large amounts of black/Hispanic students. This does not include the schools with a large legal Hispanic population who do fairly well.

 

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People self-segregate. European immigrants in the 19th- and early 20th-centuries did it. Whites do it. Blacks do it. Asians do it. Hispanics do it. The elites want us to stop doing it, but no one self-segregates more than the elites do, in their exclusive neighborhoods and gated communities.