I like to be in America!
O.K. by me in America!
Ev'rything free in America
For a small fee in America!
A quote from Heather MacDonald's The Republicans' Hispanic Delusion at City Journal:
Even Republican Hispanics are not particularly conservative on economic issues. A 2002 poll by the Pew and Kaiser foundations found that 52 percent of registered Latino Republicans supported a higher-taxing, larger state sector, a higher percentage for big government than one finds among white Democrats, reports Steve Sailer. As for the majority of Latinos—poor and poorly-educated—the more government services, the better. Mexican consulates across the country are busily signing up illegal Mexicans for all the free government-funded health care that the consulates can find—that would be American - not Mexican-funded health care, mind you. “We have the right to health services,” an illegal Mexican in Santa Clarita, California, told the Los Angeles Times.
This attitude of entitlement—not only among illegal aliens but also among legal Hispanic immigrants and their children—extends to the full array of welfare programs. In fact, welfare use actually increases between the second and third generation of Mexican-Americans—to 31 percent of all third-generation Mexican-American households.
This wave of immigration arrives with different hopes from America than previous waves who, we are told, sought only opportunity and/or political freedom. Of course, that might have been different if there had been government programs at the time of the Southern Italian and Irish immigrations.
