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jay
Jul 31, 2004, 9:29:39 PM7/31/04
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jwa...@nospam.com (JWarner) wrote in message news:<JPGOYWOT38199.6067013889@anonymous.poster>...
> Politicians and cheap-labor seeking businesses are causing
> the growth of a cancerous tumor in our midst - a permanent
> criminally violent underclass.
> ------------------------------
>
>
> The Immigrant Gang Plague
> By Heather MacDonald
>
> July 26, 2004
>
> Before immigration optimists issue another rosy prognosis for
> America's multicultural future, they might visit Belmont High School
> in Los Angeles's overwhelmingly Hispanic, gang-ridden Rampart
> district. "Upward and onward" is not a phrase that comes to mind when
> speaking to the first- and second-generation immigrant teens milling
> around the school this January.
>
> "Most of the people I used to hang out with when I first came to the
> school have dropped out," observes Jackie, a vivacious illegal alien
> from Guatemala. "Others got kicked out or got into drugs. Five
> graduated, and four home girls got pregnant."
>
> Certainly, none of the older teens I met outside Belmont was on track
> to graduate. Jackie herself flunked ninth grade ("I used to ditch a
> lot," she explains) and never caught up. She is now pursuing a General
> Equivalency Diploma-a watered-down certificate for dropouts or
> expelled students-in the school's "adult" division. Vanessa, who
> sports a tiny horseshoe protruding from her nostrils, is applying to
> the adult division, too, having been kicked out of Belmont at age 18.
> "I didn't come to school very often," says this American-born child of
> illegal aliens from El Salvador. Her boyfriend, Albert, a dashing 19-
> year-old with long, slicked-back hair, got expelled for truancy but
> has talked his way back into the regular high school. "I have good
> manipulative skills," he smiles. After a robbery conviction, Albert
> was put on probation but broke every rule in the book: "Curfews,
> grades, attendance, missed court days," he boasts. "But they still let
> me off the hook."
>
> These Belmont teens are no aberration. Hispanic youths, whether recent
> arrivals or birthright American citizens, are developing an underclass
> culture. (By "Hispanic" here, I mean the population originating in
> Latin America - above all, in Mexico - as distinct from America's much
> smaller Puerto Rican and Dominican communities of Caribbean descent,
> which have themselves long shown elevated crime and welfare rates.)
> Hispanic school dropout rates and teen birthrates are now the highest
> in the nation. Gang crime is exploding nationally - rising 50 percent
> from 1999 to 2002 - driven by the march of Hispanic immigration east and
> north across the country. Most worrisome, underclass indicators like
> crime and single parenthood do not improve over successive generations
> of Hispanics - they worsen.
>
> Debate has recently heated up over whether Mexican immigration -
> unique in its scale and in other important ways - will defeat the
> American tradition of assimilation. The rise of underclass behavior
> among the progeny of Mexicans and other Central Americans must be part
> of that debate. There may be assimilation going on, but a significant
> portion of it is assimilation downward to the worst elements of
> American life.
>
> Asked about gangs, the teens proudly reel off their affiliations: SOK
> (Still Out Killing); HTO (Hispanics Taking Over); JMC (Just Mobbing
> Crazy). A cocky American-born child of Salvadoran parents says that
> most of his peers from the eighth grade are "locked up or dead." "Four
> are dead-three were shot, one was run over." Were you just lucky? I
> ask. "They were gangbanging more than me," says the 17-year-old, who
> won't give his name. "I try to control myself, respect my parents."
> That respect only goes so far. Asked if he's been in jail, he
> swaggers: "Yup, for GTA"-grand theft auto. And he has no intention of
> leaving his gang: "They're the homeys, part of the family."
>
> Eighteen-year-old Eric, born here to an illegal Mexican and
> Guatemalan, is one of the few students I talked to who doesn't
> gangbang, though he is on probation for second-degree robbery, his
> second conviction. Half his friends from elementary school are
> involved in crime, he says. Gang fights in some of L.A.'s high
> schools draw such crowds that youthful pickpockets have a field day
> working the spectators and participants. "People would steal your
> pagers and cell phones," reports one student who has bounced through
> several schools.
>
> The pull to a culture of violence among Hispanic children begins
> earlier and earlier. Researchers and youth workers across the country
> confirm this observation. In Chicago, gangs start recruiting kids at
> age nine, according to criminologists studying policing and social
> trends in the Windy City.
>
> Washington, D.C., reports the same "ever-younger" phenomenon.
> "Recruitment is starting early in middle school," says Lori Kaplan,
> head of D.C.'s Latin American Youth Center. With early recruitment
> comes a high school dropout rate of 50 percent. "Gang culture is
> gaining more recruits than our ability to get kids out," Kaplan
> laments.
>
> Even as it reaches down to ever-younger recruits, gang culture is
> growing more lethal. In April, 16-year-old Valentino Arenas drove up
> to a courthouse in Pomona, California, and shot to death a randomly
> chosen California Highway Patrol officer, in the hope of gaining entry
> to Pomona's 12th Street Gang. The assassination wouldn't surprise
> Dennis Farrell, a Nassau County, New York, homicide detective. "We're
> amazed at the openness of shootings," he says. "When we do cases with
> Hispanic gangs, we often get full statements of admission, almost like
> they don't see what's the big deal."
>
> The constant invasion of illegal aliens is worsening gang violence as
> well. In Phoenix, Arizona, and surrounding Maricopa County, illegal
> alien gangs, such as Brown Pride and Wetback Power, are growing more
> volatile and dangerous, according to Tom Bearup, a former sheriff's
> department official and current candidate for sheriff. Even in prison,
> where they clash with American Hispanics, they are creating a more
> vicious environment.
>
> http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=14355
> Politicians and cheap-labor seeking businesses are causing
> the growth of a cancerous tumor in our midst - a permanent
> criminally violent underclass.
> ------------------------------
>
>
> The Immigrant Gang Plague
> By Heather MacDonald
>
> July 26, 2004
>
> Before immigration optimists issue another rosy prognosis for
> America's multicultural future, they might visit Belmont High School
> in Los Angeles's overwhelmingly Hispanic, gang-ridden Rampart
> district. "Upward and onward" is not a phrase that comes to mind when
> speaking to the first- and second-generation immigrant teens milling
> around the school this January.
>
> "Most of the people I used to hang out with when I first came to the
> school have dropped out," observes Jackie, a vivacious illegal alien
> from Guatemala. "Others got kicked out or got into drugs. Five
> graduated, and four home girls got pregnant."
>
> Certainly, none of the older teens I met outside Belmont was on track
> to graduate. Jackie herself flunked ninth grade ("I used to ditch a
> lot," she explains) and never caught up. She is now pursuing a General
> Equivalency Diploma-a watered-down certificate for dropouts or
> expelled students-in the school's "adult" division. Vanessa, who
> sports a tiny horseshoe protruding from her nostrils, is applying to
> the adult division, too, having been kicked out of Belmont at age 18.
> "I didn't come to school very often," says this American-born child of
> illegal aliens from El Salvador. Her boyfriend, Albert, a dashing 19-
> year-old with long, slicked-back hair, got expelled for truancy but
> has talked his way back into the regular high school. "I have good
> manipulative skills," he smiles. After a robbery conviction, Albert
> was put on probation but broke every rule in the book: "Curfews,
> grades, attendance, missed court days," he boasts. "But they still let
> me off the hook."
>
> These Belmont teens are no aberration. Hispanic youths, whether recent
> arrivals or birthright American citizens, are developing an underclass
> culture. (By "Hispanic" here, I mean the population originating in
> Latin America - above all, in Mexico - as distinct from America's much
> smaller Puerto Rican and Dominican communities of Caribbean descent,
> which have themselves long shown elevated crime and welfare rates.)
> Hispanic school dropout rates and teen birthrates are now the highest
> in the nation. Gang crime is exploding nationally - rising 50 percent
> from 1999 to 2002 - driven by the march of Hispanic immigration east and
> north across the country. Most worrisome, underclass indicators like
> crime and single parenthood do not improve over successive generations
> of Hispanics - they worsen.
>
> Debate has recently heated up over whether Mexican immigration -
> unique in its scale and in other important ways - will defeat the
> American tradition of assimilation. The rise of underclass behavior
> among the progeny of Mexicans and other Central Americans must be part
> of that debate. There may be assimilation going on, but a significant
> portion of it is assimilation downward to the worst elements of
> American life.
>
> Asked about gangs, the teens proudly reel off their affiliations: SOK
> (Still Out Killing); HTO (Hispanics Taking Over); JMC (Just Mobbing
> Crazy). A cocky American-born child of Salvadoran parents says that
> most of his peers from the eighth grade are "locked up or dead." "Four
> are dead-three were shot, one was run over." Were you just lucky? I
> ask. "They were gangbanging more than me," says the 17-year-old, who
> won't give his name. "I try to control myself, respect my parents."
> That respect only goes so far. Asked if he's been in jail, he
> swaggers: "Yup, for GTA"-grand theft auto. And he has no intention of
> leaving his gang: "They're the homeys, part of the family."
>
> Eighteen-year-old Eric, born here to an illegal Mexican and
> Guatemalan, is one of the few students I talked to who doesn't
> gangbang, though he is on probation for second-degree robbery, his
> second conviction. Half his friends from elementary school are
> involved in crime, he says. Gang fights in some of L.A.'s high
> schools draw such crowds that youthful pickpockets have a field day
> working the spectators and participants. "People would steal your
> pagers and cell phones," reports one student who has bounced through
> several schools.
>
> The pull to a culture of violence among Hispanic children begins
> earlier and earlier. Researchers and youth workers across the country
> confirm this observation. In Chicago, gangs start recruiting kids at
> age nine, according to criminologists studying policing and social
> trends in the Windy City.
>
> Washington, D.C., reports the same "ever-younger" phenomenon.
> "Recruitment is starting early in middle school," says Lori Kaplan,
> head of D.C.'s Latin American Youth Center. With early recruitment
> comes a high school dropout rate of 50 percent. "Gang culture is
> gaining more recruits than our ability to get kids out," Kaplan
> laments.
>
> Even as it reaches down to ever-younger recruits, gang culture is
> growing more lethal. In April, 16-year-old Valentino Arenas drove up
> to a courthouse in Pomona, California, and shot to death a randomly
> chosen California Highway Patrol officer, in the hope of gaining entry
> to Pomona's 12th Street Gang. The assassination wouldn't surprise
> Dennis Farrell, a Nassau County, New York, homicide detective. "We're
> amazed at the openness of shootings," he says. "When we do cases with
> Hispanic gangs, we often get full statements of admission, almost like
> they don't see what's the big deal."
>
> The constant invasion of illegal aliens is worsening gang violence as
> well. In Phoenix, Arizona, and surrounding Maricopa County, illegal
> alien gangs, such as Brown Pride and Wetback Power, are growing more
> volatile and dangerous, according to Tom Bearup, a former sheriff's
> department official and current candidate for sheriff. Even in prison,
> where they clash with American Hispanics, they are creating a more
> vicious environment.
>
> http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=14355
"Taco Breath" Bush has failed to protect the USA from the increasing
flow of illegals. For that reason alone he must be removed from
office. Bring to Washington, DC a fresh piece of dung!
Jay
General Sam
Aug 1, 2004, 12:12:17 AM8/1/04
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jay wrote:
> "Taco Breath" Bush
FUCK YOU RACIST!
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邢 唷��
Hijo de la Changa
Aug 1, 2004, 12:30:18 PM8/1/04
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"General Sam" <pat...@americans.biz> wrote in message
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> jay wrote:
>
> > "Taco Breath" Bush
>
> FUCK YOU RACIST!
While I wholeheartedly concur with and endorse your sentiment, I feel
compelled to offer a technical correction.
Hispanics are Caucasians, so the word "racist" isn't entirely correct.
KF/AKA AH#49
Aug 1, 2004, 12:41:28 PM8/1/04
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It most certainly is totally correct, therefore you are not even
"technically" correct either.
After all, you don't know what "race" that Jay is...or G.S for that
matter.
And being a racist doesn't JUST mean a person fearing or being
prejudiced against others of a different race.
gavnook
Aug 2, 2004, 6:29:46 PM8/2/04
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KF/AKA AH#49 <AH#4...@your.net> wrote in news:410D1D68...@your.net:
> Hijo de la Changa wrote:
>>
>> "General Sam" <pat...@americans.biz> wrote in message
>> news:5t_Oc.151795$%t6.7...@roc.nntpserver.com...
>> > jay wrote:
>> >
>> > > "Taco Breath" Bush
>> >
>> > FUCK YOU RACIST!
>>
>> While I wholeheartedly concur with and endorse your sentiment, I feel
>> compelled to offer a technical correction.
>>
>> Hispanics are Caucasians, so the word "racist" isn't entirely correct.
>
> It most certainly is totally correct, therefore you are not even
> "technically" correct either.
> After all, you don't know what "race" that Jay is...or G.S for that
> matter.
Is it safe to say he's racist against caucasians, even if he's white?
> And being a racist doesn't JUST mean a person fearing or being
> prejudiced against others of a different race.
Whatever. Tacos are certainly not a racial thing.
--
gavnook
If they didn't need us, they wouldn't bother lying to us.
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