From Business Week, here's the latest on places with Depression-level unemployment rates: A couple are in Greater Detroit, but most are in California, and are heavily Hispanic. By the way, in El Centro, the place with the worst unemployment in the country, minorities got 84.3% of all conventional home purchase mortgage dollars in 2006 (prime and subprime) according the federal Home Mortgage Disclosure Act database (see page 2 of this government report). In Merced, the only other place in the country where unemployment is over 20%, minorities got 79.7% of the 2006 mortgage dollars.

Of the top 203 metropolitan statistical areas in Q1-2009, "Merced, Calif., had the second highest [foreclosure] rate," according to RealtyTrac.

So, our bipartisan policy was to lure in illegal immigrants "to do the jobs Americans just won't do" building the houses Americans just don't need and that Hispanics, American or illegal, turned out to just not be able to afford.

Cities With Jobless Rates of 15% or More
Metro Area	State	March 2009 Jobless Rate	Rise From March 2008
El Centro	CA	25.1%	7.5
Merced	CA	20.4%	6.7
Yuba City	CA	19.5%	6.8
Elkhart-Goshen	IN	18.8%	13
Visalia-Porterville	CA	17.7%	6.1
Modesto	CA	17.5%	6.3
Bend	OR	17.0%	9.2
Fresno	CA	17.0%	6
Redding	CA	16.8%	6.6
Hanford-Corcoran	CA	16.7%	5.4
Stockton	CA	16.4%	6.2
Bakersfield	CA	15.9%	5.2
Salinas	CA	15.7%	5
Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton	NC	15.4%	9.1
Flint	MI	15.3%	4.6
Madera-Chowchilla	CA	15.3%	5
Yuma	AZ	15.3%	5.4
Ocean City	NJ	15.0%	4.2