Study Finds Fertility Is Higher Here than in Home Countries;
Illegal Aliens Have Birthrates 50% Higher than Native-BornWASHINGTON (October 12, 2005) — A new report from the Center for Immigration Studies finds that women from the top ten immigrant-sending countries collectively have higher fertility than women in their home countries. As a group, immigrants from these countries have 23 percent more children than women in their home countries….
* In 2002, immigrant women (legal and illegal) from the top 10 immigrant-sending countries had 2.9 children on average, compared to a fertility rate of 2.3 children in their home countries — a 23-percent difference.
* Mexico immigrants in the U.S., for example, had 3.5 children per woman compared to 2.4 children for women in Mexico. Among Chinese immigrant fertility is 2.3 in the U.S. compared to 1.7 in China, and immigrants from Canada have 1.9 children compared to 1.5 children in Canada.
I’m just wondering what is the point of sending young women to college if afterwards they are still too clueless to grasp the probability that children raised by non-English speaking immigrants from unfree countries are not exactly likely to share the preferences – from food to form of government – of those they are expected to replace.
I mean, if you can’t figure that out, just what benefit are you likely to offer society anyhow?
What Bear and others who point to the melting pot of yore don’t seem to have considered is how modern communications and travel technology now obviates the need for immigrants to adapt to their new home. Believe me, you can live almost anywhere in the world and as long as you have a satellite and an Internet connection, you wouldn’t even realize you were on a different continent unless you left the house.
Immigrants now face a choice to abandon their cultural traditions or to maintain them, and it increasingly appears that they are electing to retain them. It’s worth noting that “the rights of Englishmen” have never been instilled anywhere except by force; they will not likely be preserved here by those who have no interest or traditional connection to them.