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College a waste on some immigrants

Full story: Chicago Sun-Times

A new study, according to the New York Times, concludes that Hispanic "children fall behind their peers in mental development by the time they reach grade school, and the gap tends to widen as they get older.

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I agree 100%.
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agree but why are the tax payers having to educate immogrants.

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This is gonna' hurt. But, think about it rather than just react - or scream "racist". It means something to ALL of us who are Americans. We've gotta' get back on track and help our OWN American minorities rather than just keep taking in wave after wave of illegals:

California Illiteracy; Legal AND Illegal Immigrants

“According to a 2007 report from the Migration Policy Institute, an estimated 400,000 legal immigrants and 350,000 illegal immigrants were illiterate in their native languages, much less English. This contributed to the first decline in literacy in California’s history. In 2003, its adult illiteracy rate of 23 percent— up 50 percent in the most recent 10 years— put it last among all states.”

Please note that California suffers an estimated five (ten ?) million illegal immigrants and five million recently arrived legal immigrants. It suffers a gigantic, untaxed underground economy resulting in $24 ($47 ?) billion in debt. Across the USA, immigrants cost taxpayers, according to economist Edwin Rubensetin, www.thesocialcontract.com —$346 billion annually across 15 federal agencies.

“The California Dropout Research Project at U.C. Santa Barbara estimated in 2009 that because high school dropouts commit more crime than students who stay in school, dropouts cost California $1.1 billion annually in law enforcement costs and victim damages while they are still minors,” said Taylor.“This estimate did not include lost productivity costs as adults or continuing public outlays for adult criminals and indigents.”

“For the U.S. economy, the implication of these trends is really stark,” said Patrick Callan, president of the center.

Andrew Sum of Northeastern University in Boston works with ETS on research projects said,“There is no time that I can tell you in the last hundred years,” he says, when literacy and numeracy have declined,“but if you don’t change outcomes for a wide variety of groups, this is the future we face.”

“If blacks, Hispanics, and immigrants are excluded from the American results, our performance rises from 12th, to 2nd in reading and 5th in math,” said Taylor.“This means immigrants, blacks, and Hispanics are dragging our rating down to 12th from 2nd and 5th. Likewise, the oldest Americans (56 and older) came in second in reading whereas younger Americans, those 26-35 and 16-25 years old, ranked 11th and 14th, respectively.

Migration Policy Institute FUNDING:

http://www.migrationpolicy.org/about/funders....

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College a waste for many Americans as well...
At least from what I have been hearing from people that have gone...
The money helps though...
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And they just figured this out ?.
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