From Think Progress: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/05/18/486574/top-conservative-group-minority-births-are-not-a-good-thing-because-immigrants-dont-share-american-values/
By Adam Peck
May 18, 2012
May 18, 2012
Yesterday, the New York Times reported
on new census data which showed, for the first time, that non-white
births made up over 50 percent of all births in the United States last
year.
It marked an important milestone, indicative of a changing
United States that has long been considered the world’s melting pot. Or,
if you’re the conservative, Phyllis Schlafly-backed Eagle Forum, it’s a
clarion call that America is in grave danger of being overrun by uneducated, un-American brown people:
It is not a good thing. The immigrants do not share American values, so it is a good bet that they will not be voting Republican when they start voting in large numbers.
[...]
Instead, the USA is being transformed by immigrants who do not share those values, and who have high rates of illiteracy, illegitimacy, and gang crime, and they will vote Democrat when the Democrats promise them more food stamps.
Setting
aside for a minute the offensive way in which the Eagle Forum dismisses
all of “the immigrants” as thoughtless criminals, it’s telling that The
Eagle Forum views this as simply a political problem. The Eagle Forum’s
political allies have long insisted on treating immigrants as
second-class citizens, and rather than pivot their policy proposals to
better accommodate the nation’s shifting demographics, the group seems
instead to want to curb minorities’ procreation.
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