Report: Third World Immigrants Bring Poverty to America

Leftist / socialist “think tank” inadvertently spill the beans — which underscores the fact that, once again, the so-called “extremists” were right.

A new report by the left-wing policy research and advocacy organization Center for American Progress (CAP) has inadvertently confirmed that “recent immigrants and Hispanics” have brought poverty to the formerly white-dominated suburbs of many American cities.

The CAP report, titled “Trouble in the Suburbs,” said that the nation’s suburbs, once considered by some to be white-picket-fenced safe havens from inner-city poverty, are now home to nearly one-third of America’s poor.

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The first factor which CAP identified was “low-income families leaving deteriorating high-poverty neighborhoods in central cities” which somehow mysteriously now find “themselves settled in new pockets of poverty in the suburbs.”

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Additionally, suburban communities have seen increased racial and income stratification as low-income workers—particularly recent immigrants and Hispanics—followed the migration of low-skilled and low-wage jobs out of central cities.

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2010-11-09