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So as a Hispanic American myself, how am I contributing to the US becoming a 3rd world socialist hellhole???? I really want to hear this.
Sure, I can probably clear that up if you're curious. Now, when I say "you", keep in mind that I don't mean you, individually. I don't know you, but if your hobbies include posting on a forum like this you're probably a pretty cool guy. For all I know, you may have 15 PhDs and your hobby might be curing cancer while developing nuclear fusion. So when I say "you" below, I mean "You, a completely average immigrant from Mexico or South America."
1.) Your presence here makes it harder for the people here to find a job, and if they do find a job, they're going to be paid less. There are times when having a lot of immigration is good for the economy; when you have a shortage of workers that can't be filled domestically. The US in 2014 does not have any shortage of low-skilled workers like you (With "you" again referring to the average Hispanic.) It has an absolute glut of them. One of the first things you learn in any economics class is that a person's wage is the price of their labor, and labor is a good like any other. It's subject to supply and demand. More immigrants means more workers, and more workers means lower wages and a higher unemployment rate. It has nothing to do with your race, we'd face the same problems from a sudden influx of Canadians, Irish, or Martians. But your coming here makes life demonstrably worse for American workers. And since you generally come here with no real skills, you're driving down wages for the other low-skill workers in the market: the poorest and most disadvantaged of us. I've got a fairly high skill job in obscure specialty, and I'm in no danger of losing it to competition. A guy who grew up on a farm in say, Akron, Ohio, whose family in the 5th percentile for income? A generation ago he could've done well enough to support a family on his own, and now both he and his wife have to work full time, and take government benefits on top of that. Some poor black kid in the inner city? A generation ago, he could've made enough to live manning the counter at the grocery store. Now he's probably on welfare, and maybe turning to drug dealing to supplement his income. There are a lot of reasons why that's happened, but some of the blame rests on you.
2.) A multicultural society is a distrustful one, with lower levels of civic involvement. In other words, your presence is causing a social breakdown across the United States, and it's having disastrous effects.. That's the finding of a liberal political scientist named
Robert Putnam. In the 90s he came out with a book called "Bowling Alone", which documented a huge collapse in social trust and civic involvement that had occurred in the US across the past generation. I've got a copy, and it's huge. It's chapter after chapter detailing the horrible effects that a breakdown in social and community involvement has on a society. Increased crime. Increased corruption. Increased rates of depression. Increased rates of divorce. Hell, it even causes an increase in deadly heart attacks! The interesting thing about the book, though, is that when it came out, he had not the slightest idea what was causing this. There's at least a hundred and fifty pages devoted to examining every potential cause he could think of, and rejecting them all. Well, a few years ago, he finally found the answer, or at least, one of them: having a lot of people from another culture hanging out in your country is very bad for you. People are happiest in a monoculture, and they suffer badly when they're in a "diverse" environment. Before I go any further, I should point out that Putnam is a serious liberal; he met with President Clinton, President Obama likes to name-drop him, and he held off publishing his findings for 6 years because they offended his sensibilities. So no trying to write this off by saying he's a racist tea-partier.
From the wiki I linked, if you're a white person living in an area with a lot of Hispanics, you're likely to suffer the following:
Lower confidence in local government, local leaders and the local news media.
Lower political efficacy – that is, confidence in one's own influence.
Lower frequency of registering to vote, but more interest and knowledge about politics and more participation in protest marches and social reform groups.
Higher political advocacy, but lower expectations that it will bring about a desirable result.
Less expectation that others will cooperate to solve dilemmas of collective action (e.g., voluntary conservation to ease a water or energy shortage).
Less likelihood of working on a community project.
Less likelihood of giving to charity or volunteering.
Fewer close friends and confidants.
Less happiness and lower perceived quality of life.
More time spent watching television and more agreement that "television is my most important form of entertainment".
3.) You like to vote for socialists who turn your country into hellholes. If you're from Venezuela, for example, you may well have voted for a government which is so incompetently run they can't even keep their citizens supplied with
TOILET PAPER. They're the worst of the lot, but none of the other countries are much more competently run. If you want to vote for the guys who haven't figured out how the whole toilet paper thing works, that's completely within your rights in your home country, but I'm sure you'll understand if we'd rather not have you voting here.
There are any number of other reasons, but I think that covers the big ones. Notice that none of the things I listed have the slightest bit to do with racism. They'd apply just as well to any other racial group.. It doesn't matter if Hispanics are smart, stupid, hard-working, or lazy. If you're Hispanic and you come to the United States, you're making things worse for the people who live here.