Allowing for the term race to creep on this discussion (there is not such a thing as human races from a proper scientific point of view), Hispanics share one thing and one thing only: we speak Spanish.
There are people of African, European, Amerindian and Asian (Salma Hayek is of Lebanese descent fro example) descent who are Hispanic.
So I would say that those "statistics" are just providing the racist propaganda some people in US society want to know, in order to provide an ideological base to avoid addressing the real issues (poverty, lack of oportunity).
People in Europe were saying exactly the same thing when countries like Spain, Portugal and Greece (oh, those latin peoples, I am noting a trend here?) joined the EU. And more recently when Eastern European countries from the former Soviet block did.
Although there was an initial influx of workers from these countries (to fill positions that locals didn't want to fill), eventually the immigration leveled out, and there have been years in which the net immigration has reversed from "rich" countries to poor ones.
Now Spain is one of the strongest economies in the world (after the quasi feudal mismanagement of the fascist Franco), Portugal and Greece are more prosperous, and rich countries are not overcome by Portuguese and Spanish low income workers (in the contrary, now the influx is of highly educated people).
Even East Europeans are benefiting now from this dynamics, and the numbers of them moving to the UK for example have leveled out.
So if Europe can cope, is the US in such bad shape that can't come with a creative humane solution to the control of immigration?
Is the best the leading light of democracy and freedom can offer a replication of the Berlin Wall?
... and stop worrying about controling the natural economic flows.
The US may have an initial flood of Mexican immigrants if borders were fully open, but a situation in which immigrants fully contribute to the economy and compete in a fair basis for jobs with the locals is far more desirable than the mess of human and economic wastage that exists now.
And one more little secret: most Mexicans moving to the US for the first time don't like it there and would prefer to go back home to their extended families.
If people could go to the US freely, they would eventually settle back in Mexico, making their towns more prosperous in the process.
Why the US insists on these irrational border controls, against the US's best interests, is proof about how completely irrational racism is (because it is racism, there is no other reason for the US reticence to deal with this matter appropriately).
Do you see any traffickers between France and the UK?
Or poorer countries like Poland and Germany or the UK?
No, Why? Because people can come and go as they please.
If the US was remotely serious about stopping trafficking of people they would just stop extensive border controls scaling back to reasonable controls, based mostly on proper intelligence and policing work.
Mexico had an elected President in 1910 after ousting Porfirio Diaz, a modernizer but dictatorial , criminal and authoritarian figure.
A traitor, supported by the US, deposed the legitimate Mexican government.
After that we had 70 years of certainly self inflicted pain, but do not forget that when we tried to give ourselves a democracy the US wasn't there to lend us a hand.
You have not been even remotely close to a big datacentre, have you?
If I cold get a penny for every penguin's OS installation that has replaced a Sun machine, I could pay myself a holiday to the Antartic to watch the eponymous live birds.
In the other hand I have seen projects dropped and moved to Sun's ware because MS was found unsuitable for the task.
A compiler of English (that is an interpreter of natural language) is the holly grail of computer programming.
Pretty much any sane person agrees that if you are programming it would be beter to write:
Add 5 to the variable a, please.
or
Add 5 to a.
Rather than
a+=5 or a=a+5
which are both ugly and cryptic (a=a+5 is not even consistent with regular algebraic conventions).
I programmed in both ALGOL and COBOL in the early 90s, the programs were acting in big volumes of data, while the COBOL programs were easily understood by novice programmers, you needed people with Engineering level education to understand ALGOL.
There is a reason mathematicians don't work in plain language, which has nothing to do with how we program computers.
Instead try "Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture" which is immensely more interesting thanks to its brevity, touches many of the same points in a more succinct manner and is actually quite a well written book.
Hawking reaches this conclusion after rigorous scientific work.
Darwin discovered that life could progress without divine intervention, Hawking found that the only place where there could be a god is in the singularity, which for all practical matters, is of no importance to us.
These people don't intend to antagonize religion, the physical world and the logical conclusions they reach show them that gods and religions are the dreams of a species that eventually will know better.
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Allowing for the term race to creep on this discussion (there is not such a thing as human races from a proper scientific point of view), Hispanics share one thing and one thing only: we speak Spanish.
There are people of African, European, Amerindian and Asian (Salma Hayek is of Lebanese descent fro example) descent who are Hispanic.
So I would say that those "statistics" are just providing the racist propaganda some people in US society want to know, in order to provide an ideological base to avoid addressing the real issues (poverty, lack of oportunity).
... had similar levels of poverty to Mexico at the time they joined the EU.
People in Europe were saying exactly the same thing when countries like Spain, Portugal and Greece (oh, those latin peoples, I am noting a trend here?) joined the EU. And more recently when Eastern European countries from the former Soviet block did.
Although there was an initial influx of workers from these countries (to fill positions that locals didn't want to fill), eventually the immigration leveled out, and there have been years in which the net immigration has reversed from "rich" countries to poor ones.
Now Spain is one of the strongest economies in the world (after the quasi feudal mismanagement of the fascist Franco), Portugal and Greece are more prosperous, and rich countries are not overcome by Portuguese and Spanish low income workers (in the contrary, now the influx is of highly educated people).
Even East Europeans are benefiting now from this dynamics, and the numbers of them moving to the UK for example have leveled out.
So if Europe can cope, is the US in such bad shape that can't come with a creative humane solution to the control of immigration?
Is the best the leading light of democracy and freedom can offer a replication of the Berlin Wall?
... and stop worrying about controling the natural economic flows.
The US may have an initial flood of Mexican immigrants if borders were fully open, but a situation in which immigrants fully contribute to the economy and compete in a fair basis for jobs with the locals is far more desirable than the mess of human and economic wastage that exists now.
And one more little secret: most Mexicans moving to the US for the first time don't like it there and would prefer to go back home to their extended families.
If people could go to the US freely, they would eventually settle back in Mexico, making their towns more prosperous in the process.
Why the US insists on these irrational border controls, against the US's best interests, is proof about how completely irrational racism is (because it is racism, there is no other reason for the US reticence to deal with this matter appropriately).
No matter how much you would want this to be the case, it isn't.
Do you see any traffickers between France and the UK?
Or poorer countries like Poland and Germany or the UK?
No, Why? Because people can come and go as they please.
If the US was remotely serious about stopping trafficking of people they would just stop extensive border controls scaling back to reasonable controls, based mostly on proper intelligence and policing work.
... than the other way around.
US immigrants are notorious for creating pockets of English only areas in the countries where they settle.
NAFTA should have an agreement for the free and unrestricted movement of people.
Why are USians so afraid of competition? The softy Europeans weren't ....
Mexico had an elected President in 1910 after ousting Porfirio Diaz, a modernizer but dictatorial , criminal and authoritarian figure.
A traitor, supported by the US, deposed the legitimate Mexican government.
After that we had 70 years of certainly self inflicted pain, but do not forget that when we tried to give ourselves a democracy the US wasn't there to lend us a hand.
Mexicans are just coming back to areas that used to belong to our country.
Tony Blair was rightly hounded for his corrupt handling of the media.
Now we have a PM that is not obsessed by this.
If you want politicians that micromanage every aspect of their public life, and thus, detach themselves from reality, go on, criticize this non event.
If you expect to change jobs frequently don't buy, rent.
If you intend to be in a job for the long run, you can buy something close by after a couple of years.
There are no certainties of course, but you can make educated guesses.
Any other country you care to name invests heavily in public transport.
If you can't do that then don't claim to live in the real world.
You have not been even remotely close to a big datacentre, have you?
If I cold get a penny for every penguin's OS installation that has replaced a Sun machine, I could pay myself a holiday to the Antartic to watch the eponymous live birds.
In the other hand I have seen projects dropped and moved to Sun's ware because MS was found unsuitable for the task.
A compiler of English (that is an interpreter of natural language) is the holly grail of computer programming.
Pretty much any sane person agrees that if you are programming it would be beter to write:
Add 5 to the variable a, please.
or
Add 5 to a.
Rather than
a+=5 or a=a+5
which are both ugly and cryptic (a=a+5 is not even consistent with regular algebraic conventions).
I programmed in both ALGOL and COBOL in the early 90s, the programs were acting in big volumes of data, while the COBOL programs were easily understood by novice programmers, you needed people with Engineering level education to understand ALGOL.
There is a reason mathematicians don't work in plain language, which has nothing to do with how we program computers.
Since the journalists have abrogated their duty to investigate, question and bring to account, it is left to the comedians to do this.
How is it to be educated by squeaking squirrels?
7.- 200 nerds recommending "Escher, Godel, Bach..." only to come clean later and accept no human being has ever read the damn thing.
A social science which deals with non deterministic phenomena.
Not for difficult books.
... because it is a book badly written.
Instead try "Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture" which is immensely more interesting thanks to its brevity, touches many of the same points in a more succinct manner and is actually quite a well written book.
And the book is still rubbish, I needed only one lecture to realize that :-p
Instead try "Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture" which is immensely more interesting thanks to its brevity.
Hawking reaches this conclusion after rigorous scientific work.
Darwin discovered that life could progress without divine intervention, Hawking found that the only place where there could be a god is in the singularity, which for all practical matters, is of no importance to us.
These people don't intend to antagonize religion, the physical world and the logical conclusions they reach show them that gods and religions are the dreams of a species that eventually will know better.