Is Racism Fueling the Immigration Debate?

On May 10, 2006 there was an article posted by the Washington Post which stated that “45% of the nation’s children under the age of five are racial or ethnic minorities…” (Washington Post). They also stated that the percentile of minorities having children in America is increasing largely. The vast majority is Hispanic immigrants. The very next day on May 11 a reporter from Fox News developed a story about this article. John Gibson the reporter had the audacity to tell American citizens to start having more babies, his exacted words were “Do your duty. Make more babies… half of the kids in this country under five years old are minorities.” He is a racist bigot. His statement was taken completely out of context. He rounded up the percentile of Hispanic population from 45% to half the population of America. He makes a hasty generalization, he states that twenty-five years from now the Hispanic population will be over half, which is incorrect. The Census bureau published an outlook for the population in 2030; it stated that the Hispanic population will be around 20%. I believe his reasoning for broadcasting this report was derived from racism.
There has been talk about sealing the American border from invasion by Hispanics. But no one has mentioned sealing the Canadian border. The Millennium Bomber crossed the Canadian border into America and was planning to bomb the LA Airport. But he was intercepted and thrown into prison for terrorist activity.
A way to solve terrorist and illegal immigration would be to close off all borders and make immigrants go through an intensive process to even come into America. But this would hurt our economy and our growing culture. America would not be what it is today if we didn’t have the cultural differences from all of the immigrants who have ventured into this great country, The United States of America.

Time Magazine
17 May 2006
Massimo Calabresi
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