Bush’s top economics advisor has written the truth about poor Mexican assimilation

Ted G. writes:

Which immigrants do the worst? Who makes less money and ends up on welfare more often? Which ones don’t learn English and create a subculture, a growing subculture of their own? Answer: Mexicans. And I am talking about the ones that have come legally to the country. The “cream of the crop” one might say. They come with a lower education level and a level of English fluency below all other immigrant groups. They tend to cluster in groups with their fellow countrymen and not assimilate very well. Does anyone think the illegals could be better?

Who says hateful things like this? Am I reading this from a KKK website? No, not at all. In fact I’m reading it from a column by Jim McTague that is in the May 29th Barron’s. Mr. McTague is talking about a paper written last year by an economist named Edward Lazear. Have you heard of him? I’m sure you have, as Bush junior appointed him this year to be the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors.

Here’s a taste of what Mr. Chief Economics Advisor to the President of the United States has to say about Mexican immigration. McTague writes:

“Mexicans start below other groups in levels of English fluency when they arrive in the U.S. and never catch up,” [Lazear] wrote.

“Even when compared to Hispanics, Mexican immigrants fared badly, with 62% of the non-Mexican Hispanics being fluent in English,” Lazear wrote. To survive, the Mexicans tend to settle in communities where about 15% of the residents also are from Mexico. He cited another scholar’s report that Mexican immigrants disproportionately take up residence in states with high welfare benefits.

CEA chairmen typically meet with the President several times a week. When we asked if Bush and Lazear have ever discussed the paper, guess what we were told by both the White House and the CEA? That’s right: “No comment.” Six figures! What a job. What a country.

Now readers of VFR know the facts cited here. But what I want to know is, does the president have any idea that his own chief economics advisor is concerned about Mexican immigration? Or are Bush and Company so arrogant that they simply don’t care and the best high paid advice is of no interest to their personal agenda?

In the UK a situation like this would be ridiculed. In the House of Commons the PM would be asked, “Is the Prime Minister aware that his own economic advisor is….. ha, ha, ha.”

But since the mainstream media refuses again and again to pick up stories like this one, the general public is kept in the dark … just where they want them to be.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at June 02, 2006 01:26 PM | Send