New York City's welfare rolls are now 5 percent white, 33 percent black and 59 percent Hispanic -- with more Hispanic parents receiving public assistance there than in Miami, Los Angeles or the entire state of Texas.
http://www.ncpa.org/pi/welfare/pdwel/pdwel75b.html
Aid to black and Hispanic welfare recipients is greater in proportion to the size of their populations than is aid to white recipients. This can be seen by determining the average welfare expenditure per person for each ethnic group.
The higher rates of welfare receipt among blacks and Hispanics are largely the result of the erosion of marriage among those groups. In 1998, 69.1 percent of black children were born outside of wedlock. Among Hispanics the number was 41.6 percent, while among non-Hispanic whites the number was 21.9 percent.
http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=152
Latinos are among those populations at the greatest risk for contracting the hepatitis C virus.
Hispanic women are seven times more likely to contract AIDS and have higher rates of syphilis compared to non-Hispanic white women.
Among minorities, Hispanic women report the second highest number of cases of gonorrhea.
Nearly one in four cases of AIDS reported in children under the age of 13 is among Latinos.
http://www.ashastd.org/news/hisp.html
Hispanics are the target of a new anti-drug media campaign by the government.
Starting this week, the Office of National Drug Control Policy is taking its bilingual message to the nationÂ’s youngest and fastest-growing minority via TV, the Internet and an open letter slated to run in 84 newspapers.
According to the panelists, Hispanics use drugs at higher rates than other groups.
Walters cited the 2002 Monitoring the Future Study that found Hispanic eighth graders had the highest rates for using most illegal drugs, including marijuana, cocaine and heroin.
http://www.laprensa-sandiego.org/ar...r21-03/drug.htm
Looks like the reason so many mexicans are poor is because they use there money to buy drugs.