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Fewer Babies Born is Bad News for America

Carl469 Wrote: Nov 30, 2012 12:53 PM

Actually, data assembled by the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Immigration Studies shows that Hispanics, especially the most recent arrivals, are not learning English as well as earlier immigrant groups. Part of the problem is bilingual education, which is an ethnic separatist employment program. But also part of the problem is that the newest crop of immigrants just isn't assimilating well.

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Fewer Babies Born is Bad News for America

The old adage "be careful what you wish for" is an apt reminder in light of this week's news that the U.S. birthrate has dropped to its lowest level on record. For years, population hysterics have tried to convince Americans to aim not just for zero population growth in the U.S. but its complete reversal.

Many of the groups pushing this view have also been in the forefront of the anti-immigration movement -- NumbersUSA, Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) and Negative Population Growth (NPG). They don't like immigrants -- even legal ones -- because immigrants, especially Hispanic immigrants,...