The Changing Face Of America, Legal & Illegal

LEGAL IMMIGRATION and ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION:

America's face is changing, and in places many did not expect.

Portal states to Mexico are not now, apparently, experiencing the greatest percentile growth of illegal Mexicans. Upper Midwest, New England and Rocky Mountain states are experiencing the greatest percentile of growth unlike traditional border states such as California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Texas. The 2005 American Community Survey showed:

Indiana saw a 34 percent increase in the number of immigrants; South Dakota saw a 44 percent rise; Delaware 32 percent; Missouri 31 percent; Colorado 28 percent; New Hampshire 26 percent.

The overall trend identified:

Two decades ago, demographers said, 75 percent to 80 percent of new immigrants settled in one of the half-dozen gateway states and tended to stay there. Then, in the last 10 to 15 years, the pattern shifted and increasing numbers began to stay in the gateways briefly and then move elsewhere in the country. Now, they say, the pattern is that more immigrants are simply bypassing the gateways altogether.

In Fornicalia, there is another trend emerging.

It seems that people of all stripes are fleeing the Bay Area. For those not living in Fornicalia, the Bay Area consists of the city and county of San Francisco, east bay, South San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley and other cities (see map).

People are leaving in droves. And not just the "customary WASPS." This trend includes blacks and Mexicans/Hispanics.



As you can see, in San Francisco the black population has decreased 25% and "Latinos" are down 10% in five years. In Oakland, a very industrial city with a huge port where blacks first came years ago to work on the docks (and the birthplace of the Black Panther Party), blacks are down 19% (and "Latinos" up 12%).

There are two factors driving this: cost and quality of life. Most any apartment or home in the Bay Area is ridiculously priced. Oakland has historically and consistently had one of the highest homicide rates in the state.

People originally moved to the Bay Area due to the mild-to-cool overall weather in a state ruled by oppressive summer heat -- not to mention adjacency to the ocean itself.

But with those issues come other quality of life issues for the newly-settled and now "impacted" areas.

HOMICIDES IN FORNICALIA

Homicides are up in Fornicalia, a fact that bucks current statistics indicating a trending down of homicides nationally.

In the City of Sacratomato, where I work (and the capitol of Fornicalia), the homicide rate is the highest its been since 1993. The Mayor and the city council can't understand why.

In Elk Grove, an adjacent and newly incorporated bedroom community of so-called "good people," the police department is agog, as are locals, with a likewise nasty homicide rate. In front of God and all, ordinary citizens have been shotgunned in the face at "random" on Laguna Boulevard. The Elk Grove Police Department has been caught completely flat-footed -- preferring to refuse acknowledgment of the presence of violence on its perceived-to-be-pristine streets. No one can understand why.

One reason: the influx of middle class blacks, Mexicans and other minorities fleeing, yes, you guessed it, the Bay Area and it's concomitant oppressive quality of life and high-cost issues. And when these middle class "minorities" (caucasoids are actually the minority in Fornicalia now) bring their Bay Area gangbanging "children" with them, these newly-arrived little lovelies armed with semi-automatics and shotguns now clash for status, power, money and face with the entrenched gangbanger populace -- and of course, hilarity ensues with the resulting conflict.

This trend may continue because of falling housing prices in the Sacratomato area. "Sacramento County posted urban California's steepest year-over-year fall in home prices during July as more buyers waited out a slumping market and sellers showed increasing willingness to cut and run." This means more middle class minorities fleeing the Bay Area may find Sacratomato increasingly tempting.

These are accounts of legal immigration.

Illegal immigration has deadlier consequences still.

And we continue to put illegal immigration on the back burner because, naturally, both sides of the aisle benefit -- but all parties and many Americans continue to fail to see the larger picture.

BZ