In 2000 statistical surveys, findings “revealed that 14. 7 percent of foreign-born immigrants remain two-thirds higher than the native born rate” as revealed in Katz. Many older gateways reflect a substantial 1 immigrant in every 6 native-born resident belong to poverty stricken and economically deprived. Many of these poverty-stricken immigrants are experiencing “degradation and poverty under deplorable conditions” according to Trueba (p. 141).