July 19, 2004

LA'S GANG PROBLEM -- brought to you by illegal immigration: "Before immigration optimists issue another rosy prognosis for America’s multicultural future, they might visit Belmont High School in Los Angeles’s overwhelmingly Hispanic, gang-ridden Rampart district. “Upward and onward” is not a phrase that comes to mind when speaking to the first- and second-generation immigrant teens milling around the school this January. “Most of the people I used to hang out with when I first came to the school have dropped out,” observes Jackie, a vivacious illegal alien from Guatemala. “Others got kicked out or got into drugs. Five graduated, and four home girls got pregnant.” Certainly, none of the older teens I met outside Belmont was on track to graduate. MORE Heather Mac Donald "The Immigrant Gang Plague". Posted by Greg Ransom