Today marks the start of National Hispanic Heritage Month — a time to recognize the contributions and cultures of the nation’s fastest-growing population group. The idea started as a special week in 1968 and was expanded to a full month 20 years later. There are 52 million Hispanics in the U.S., 17 percent of the total population, forming the nation’s largest ethnic or racial minority. Over half of that population resides in California, Texas or Florida, and nearly two-thirds are of Mexican background. Twenty-two-and-a-half percent of all elementary and high school students in the U.S. are Hispanic, indicative of a growing population that is expected to reach nearly 129 million by 2060. You can find more facts about America’s people, places and economy, from the American Community Survey, at www.census.gov
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Pretty soon over six million of them will be legal U.S. Citizens, many of which will be forever beholden to the U.S. Government.
You are only partially correct Mr. Earp. You over looked the vast majority of that 6 million who are working today to clean your dishes, fix your food, pick your food, processe the chicken you ate, move boxes through the warehouse, educate their children, and just aspire to have what you obtained by birth.