A growing number of depressed and downtrodden? No.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/20/AR2006102001660.html?referrer=emailarticle

"So at the end of the day what do we have? A growing number of immigrant poor? Well, yes. A growing number of depressed and downtrodden? No. Hispanic immigrants, like their immigrant predecessors, are optimists."

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