Illegals and Illegitimacy

One of the great myths of those who advocate that we should do nothing about the illegal immigration problem on our Southern border is that the illegals who are coming here have tremendous family values-a moral compass that would put many Americans to shame.

Apparently, this morality does little to prevent the rising number of out-of-wedlock births to Hispanics, many of whom are illegal. An April report by the Center for Immigration Studies shows that the number of illegitimate births to immigrants is rising faster than the total immigrant share of the population.

"Among native-born Hispanics, the illegitimacy rate is almost 50 percent, compared to the 42 percent for immigrant Hispanics. But for native-born Asians, it’s almost 30 percent. And among native-born whites, as I said before, it’s 24 percent."

This is alarming because it shows only an eight percent difference in the illegitimacy rate between immigrant and native-born Hispanics. It shatters the myth that many neocons are trying to spread that there is not an immense social and economic cost to the influx of new illegal aliens into the country. If nothing else costs us (and it does) the cost to society of having absent fathers is truly staggering.

This problem is already too widespread among the natural-born. Now we are being asked to help make the problem worse.