The amount of money that ILLEGALS are costing CA and the entire country is shocking!!! Look at these numbers....what on earth are the politicians thinking???
As I said the other day, if we need extra help, the companies could pay their salaries, they MUST be documented and ID implants put in....before they come in, and should be bussed back to the border every week or month......The country of their origin should pay their benefits, or they shouldn't be allowed to work here. We have immigration laws and they should be followed, IMO. If people think differently, then maybe they should put their money where their mouth is, and adopt these families, pay all their bills, until their applications are accepted for citizenship!
The state's health-care crisis is largely driven by immigrants. There are roughly 7 million people in California without health insurance. About 4 million of them are immigrants or the young children of immigrants.
Half of all welfare usage in the state is from immigrant households, and 32 percent of all illegal-immigrant households receive benefits from at least one welfare program. The average welfare payment--just counting the four major welfare programs--to illegal-immigrant households is $1,400 a year.
>>>>>>>According to a National Academy of Sciences study in 1997, the average immigrant household represented a net fiscal drain on the state of $3,500 a year. If you do the math (not even adjusting for inflation), that would mean that immigrant households cost state and local governments to the tune of $11 billion.<<<<<<<<<<<
No wonder people voted for Proposition 187, including 31 percent of Hispanics. The GOP wasn't hurt by it. Republicans were getting about 30 percent of the Hispanic vote before Proposition 187, and have been getting about 30 percent since. Their basic political problem with Hispanics is that they are poor, and poor people vote for Democrats.
>>>>>>>>What is most needed is a serious effort to discourage illegals from coming here in the first place. To that end, Steven Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies suggests a five-point agenda for Schwarzenegger:
1) that illegal immigrants not get in-state tuition rates to go to California public universities;
2) that illegal immigrants shouldn't get driver's licenses;
3) that the state government shouldn't do business with any company that has been caught hiring illegals;
4) that state and local California police should cooperate with the federal immigration service;
and 5) that the feds do more to patrol the border and sanction businesses hiring illegals. <<<<<<< |
