Yeah I'll hire a humble Christian Latino hardworking immigrant over...
they eventually assimilated
Some of them also dramatically changed the culture. Most of NJ, New York City and Chicago's past character is lost. It was replaced by immigration. And although some sort of new identity has been formed, it is a new identity of white people/caucasian.
This has not happened in Latin America, where it is quite obvious there is a caste system. Go to somewhere like the Dominican Republic and you'll find there is "light supremacy". Pretty much everyone wants to build a wall to keep out the blacks, and the inherent nature of a caste system based on level of melanin is obvious.
There never will be an umbrella identity of Euro-Latino. There will be mulattoes indigenous, mezitos, white latinos, whites - as there are in all of their countries.
And just the same as there is no umbrella identity including blacks and any other group, even when they have lived together for 100s of years.
Chicago's beginning of becoming a city of abject corruption began with immigration. Before that it was one of the world's premier cities. Now it's well on the path to being a Latin-American city in America. Huge numbers of people have left Chicago and other cities, because what used to be a place they felt they belonged to - and probably took for granted - went through the process of becoming somewhere they didn't want to live. The phenomena of white flight is very obvious and at a 30-year high. This includes white liberals, who typically move out, saying something like - "Yeah. It got bad. The crime... But they are just suffering from racism..." If you happen to be one of the people who does not see why they move, you are in a minority. It's also difficult for me to see how someone could live in America and not see the effect black migration and Latin immigration has had. There are parts of California, which are basically Mexico. Places where people used to leave their doors unlocked, but now where hearing gunfire ins not unusual and the crime rate is 10-20x of what you might find in somewhere like Vermont.
We have a fertility rate problem in America, especially among whites.
All developed countries have this situation. I don't see it as an issue. It's an adjustment and reset. Part of this is that it's actually the white liberal fertility rate that is below replacement. The white Republican voting fertility rate in rural Trumpistan is around 3.0; while I imagine the white liberal city-dweller must be heading towards 0.5, and most unplanned and born in odd circumstances. A study from 2006 found the fertility gap between Republicans and Democrats was 41%. This is a problem that sorts itself out on its own without immigration.
Latino fertility rate is below replacement and falling.
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I have for a long time found the assertions that some made on this forum from 1.0 days that Latinos are conservative and had family values as extremely inaccurate. 50% of people in Colombia don't know who their father is. I've been there and it's just a never-ending trainwreck of people abandoning their children, having affairs, sexual perversion, getting flyered to become a cam girl...
Some stats -
Lower employment rate:
Add to that the considerably lower incomes and dramatically higher welfare use. The number of Latinos who will be net tax payers in the US in their lifetime is likely around 1-2%. It's about 7% on average. If you want to say it's economics and talk about immigration, you'd be looking at Indians, who are probably more like 50% net tax payers.
Then there is the crime rate. Variable, but with higher concentrations the rate goes up.
But the most poignant metric, in my opinion, on this topic is births out of wedlock. Hard to see the Christian values of Latinos when their births out of wedlock are double white. And there's never been a time when this stat wasn't about double for them,
The marginally higher Latin fertility is basically all these children they are having out of wedlock. And their abortion rate is about double too.
Add to that their dramatic voting for the Democrat Party to destroy America at the quickest pace possible, mutilate children, leave the borders open and throw billions at people whose first act in your country is a crime. Their alleged based Christian values in Chicago have led to Democratic supermajorities, insanse pension fund ponzis, unaffordable welfare state, very weak on crime policies, Illinois has the 2nd highest abortion rate in the country and I presume many other social ills.
Latinos are turning large parts of America into the countries they are fleeing from and I can't see anything that lends to Christianity, family values, community, safety, the economy being added by this group. It seems the only bonus, which you reference in this thread, is you get people who are more eager to work for wages that can probably barely support a family.
The only area where you will find considerable concentrations of the values you are referring to is among conservative, christian heritage white Americans; whose ability to maintain their culture is being destroyed, with the Latin voting blocking being the primary instrument.
It's not possible to keep a society moral unless its enforced. If a permissive liberal society is created, people will flake away to individualism etc. It's only this remnant that is holding the ship. And they aren't going to have a country they might be able to have a moral authority, because of immigration.