Forsyth County, North Carolina is a perfect example
of what happens to states that participate in the enforcement of immigration
laws, and those who don’t. Since South
Carolina, Alabama and Georgia threw down the gauntlet, illegals are looking
for a refuge. They found it in the Old
North State. The Winston-Salem Journal
reported the following:
Forsyth County’s Hispanic population grew at a faster rate than
that of whites, blacks and Asians in the year from 2011 to 2012, new estimates
from the U.S. Census Bureau show.
Although they make up about 12.4 percent of the county’s
population, Hispanics contributed about 35 percent of the population growth
that the county experienced, according to the Census Bureau. The county grew by
an estimated 3,683 people from 2011 to 2012.
The Census Bureau estimated Forsyth County’s Hispanic population
at 44,267 for 2012, up 3 percent from 2011 and 6 percent since the 2010 Census.
The Hispanic population grew a little faster from 2011 to 2012
than in the equivalent period the year before, a factor some attributed to the
improving economy.
“More jobs are opening around the area,” said Hernando Ramirez,
the executive editor of Que Pasa, a Spanish-language newspaper in the Triad.
“Construction is going well, and it is sometimes difficult for companies that
hire construction workers to find workers to do these jobs. The economy is
getting better day by day and the Latino population is growing because of
that.”
The Census Bureau said that 60 percent of the nation’s increase in Asians was because of international migration, but that the main driver of the Hispanic increase was a natural one — more births than deaths.
Ramirez said that North Carolina’s Hispanic population may be
increasing in part because of stricter immigration laws passed in nearby
states.
“South Carolina and Georgia approved very harsh immigration laws
in the past couple of years, so part of the immigrant population moves to a
friendly state,” Ramirez said. “We are seeing a reduction in immigrants coming
from outside the country.”
Hear that North Carolina?
We are friendly to illegal aliens. Yet, we have a real unemployment rate of
about 11%. I wouldn’t say that is
friendly to the citizens of this state.
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