The Democrat Party - PARTY FOR ILLEGALS, BANKSTERS and LA RAZA SUPREMACIST MOVEMENT - Who Really Pays For Mexico's Welfare and Crime Tidal Wave In Our Borders?

In the real war, the American people face daily, the war waged by the corporate class and their bought politicians; it’s all about defeating LIVING WAGES!

“Numerous other reports have documented the enormous cost of illegal immigration on a national level. Just last year a renowned economist, who has thoroughly researched the impact of illegal immigration, published a book breaking down the country’s $346 billion annual cost to educate, jail, medically treat and incarcerate illegal aliens throughout the U.S.”    BUT THAT’S ONLY A DROP IN THE BUCKET COMPARED TO THE WELFARE BANKSTERS RECEIVE FROM OUR LA RAZA DEMS!

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“On Thursday, the House Republican leader, Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, flatly predicted that Congress would not send an immigration measure to the president this year. Mr. Boehner accused Democrats of engaging in a “cynical ploy to try to engage voters, some segment of voters, to show up in this November’s elections.”

MEXIFORNIA: WE DON’T HIRE LEGALS HERE!

very day hundreds of illegals pour over our border, into our jobs, welfare lines, and join Mexican gangs, now covering the country (do a search in your local paper). Feinstein, Pelosi, Boxer, Waxman, all lifer-politicians endorsed by LA RAZA, the virulently racist Mexican supremacist political party of the occupation, have worked tirelessly for MORE ILLEGALS, while unemployment soars, as well as Mexican welfare and crime. You will never hear the LA RAZA DEMS opening their big fat mouths about these facts, or that there have been two dozen tunnels under our border with NarcoMex, one the length of three football fields. They are all dedicated to the ease of flow of endless illegals for endless depressing of wages. According to CNN, the Mexican occupation depresses wages from $200 to $300 billion per year. Those figures give even the banksters boners!

Feinstein and Boxer have loaded up on money from the special interests that benefit from exploiting “cheap” labor illegals. Boxer collects so much in campaign bribes that she routinely siphons it off as “consultant fees” to her son, Oakland lawyer Douglas Boxer (and voted NO to stop this corruption). Both our LA RAZA DEMS take huge bribes from the highly profitable BIG AG BIZ donors, who have declared they will not pay living wages to any stupid gringo, let alone any illegal who they exploit criminally. Hence, Feinstein and Boxer recently went to town getting a “special amnesty” of 1.5 million illegal farm workers. It is calculated that one-third of all illegal farm workers end up on welfare. There is a real and actual price to pay for all this “cheap” labor, and it’s the American people that pay that price. The very ones that are robbed of a job, their culture, language and live in communities now more apt to fly the flag of Mexico than any.

Nancy Pelosi has long vowed there will never be a WALL to defend us against NARCOMEX drug cartel, despite the fact there are more heads lopped off, cold-blooded murders and kidnappings along our borders and interior than in Muslim Land where we fight to protect BIG BUSH SAUDI OIL interests. That war costs us $12 billion per month. Obama says he will spend $30 million on border defense. Wasn’t the clunker program alone about $4 billion? In fact there have been 2,000 Californians murdered by illegal Mexicans that fled back over the border to avoid prosecution, as well as African-Americans murdered in cold blood by Mexican gangs are “ethnically cleansing” their communities in Los Angeles (Los Angeles Times). There is no one more racist than a Mexican.

Henry Waxman’s Los Angeles is Mexican occupied, and it happened while this LA RAZA DEM lifer-politician filled his pockets with mucho pesos from all the special interests that benefit from the Mexican occupation by invitation. Mayor Antonio “Taco Runt” Villaraigosa is virulently racist, and a former member of several Mexican fascist parties like LA RAZA. He collects huge special interests money to make sure laws against hiring illegals are never enforced. Taco Runt has put up signs in all the welfare offices that read being illegal does not preclude you from getting welfare. Tell you pregnant sisters in Mexico! Just show up pregnant, and millions of Mexican women do. We will need generations more of “cheap” Mexican labor to keep McDonald’s going. One in five births is by illegals in Los Angeles. One in ten the rest of the nation.

All of our LA RAZA DEMS fight E-VERIFY that would stop the charade that these illegals, that can’t or won’t speak English, are legals. Congressman Mike Honda wants unlimited visa people imported to take our jobs, and NO E-VERIFY.

They all fight for endless welfare for illegals to subsidize the exploitive and miserable wages their donors pay. Pelosi went on endlessly to get illegals special rates on higher education, but not a word out of her big mouth about the struggle of Americans to get their children educated. Pelosi, while lying out of her big mouth about including illegals in the OBAMA HISPANDERING HEALTHCARE SYSTEM, in fact routinely sabotages anything that requires certification of legality, therefore all ILLEGALS ARE FREE. Truly, our LA RAZA DEMS think we’re all stupid gringos. But then aren’t we? We keep electing these corrupt LA RAZA DEMS despite what they’ve done to this state and country.

HISPANDERING PELOSI, FEINSTEIN, BOXER, CLINTON, and OBAMA are all listed on JUDICIAL WATCH’S TEN MOST CORRUPT.

Welfare to illegals in Los Angeles now approaches $50 MILLION PER MONTH! The only thing growing that fast in CA is Mexican crime, unemployment and foreclosures. Mexican gang activity, murder and violence now reported in virtually all cities in California. The prisons are bursting with illegals incarcerated. While the taxpayers pay for the Mexican occupation, the tax-free Mexican underground economy in Los Angeles County alone is calculated to be $2 billion yearly. You wondered why 38 million Mexicans left NarcoMex to occupy America? In addition, you’ve probably wondered what CA would be like if the LA RAZA DEMS worked as hard for you as they do the corporate interests, Mexico, and illegals!

And now when do you NOT hear a politician hispandering? They can’t kiss enough of the illegals’ asses for their illegal votes. Both LA RAZA DEMS Feinstein and Boxer fight hard for NO ENGLISH ONLY anywhere, as well as NO ID to vote, to make things easier for the illegals to register to vote for Hillary. In Mexican occupied Orange County, Rep. Loretta Sanchez won her seat overwhelmingly with the votes of illegals. It’s easy to assume her sister, Linda Sanchez did also.  Truly, do think that these illegals that demonstrate contempt for our laws on all levels, use stolen ID to get jobs, care about the illegality of non-citizens voting? If the LA RAZA DEM politicians don’t, why should they?

You may have wondered why the LA RAZA DEMS have kept their big mouths closed about the foreclosure crisis. It’s because they caused it! Feinstein, one of the most corrupt and self-serving politicians in American history has long fronted for criminal banksters Wells Fargo and Bank of America (opensecrets.org). Wells Fargo has long had their mortgage license REVOKED for the corruption of their mortgage swindles. Scams they continued to perpetrate all over the nation, exploiting particularly the poor and ILLEGALS. Both banks are major LA RAZA donors. Both banks illegally open banks accounts for illegals. Wells Fargo is the biggest backer of PAY DAY LOAN SHARKS, which particularly exploit ILLEGALS. Neither bank hires AMERICAN born employees. Visa people only. How many times have you been in one of these banks and witness an illegal that can’t speak a word of English, yet is waving her ATM card? Billons of Mexican drug cartel money are transferred back to NarcoMex by American banksters.

In Congressman Dan Tancredo’s district there are more than 10,000 homes owned by illegals now in foreclosure. Our LA RAZA DEMS voted for each and every welfare bailout, of which, WELLS FARGO and BANK of AMERICA were two of the largest recipients. When the banker’s lose money, these lifer-politicians steal it from the people to pay the banksters back so they can buyout other banksters, but they sure keep their mouth shut about foreclosures. Foreclosures have become highly profitable for WELLS FARGO and BANK of AMERICA!

The foreclosure crisis is the greatest in states with the heaviest Mexican occupation.

The state of our country is the result of what these LA RAZA DEMS have done to us. And they’ve all got filthy rich doing it. Dianne Feinstein, and her pimp-husband, Richard C. Blum have made a staggering fortune on deals Feinstein and Blum cooked up, voted for, or pushed in the Senate, while also being RED CHINA’S advocate for cash. She’s acquired nearly $50 million in mansions scattered around the country while in elected office, one of her last acquired is her $17 million war profiteers mansion in San Francisco.

Dianne Feinstein has long illegally hired illegals at her San Francisco hotel. Do you think she’ll get one of Obama’s naughty-naughty letters? Hardly. Feinstein’s pimp-husband has paid out bribes to LA RAZA DEMS all over the country so there’s no talk of her self-serving corruption. Blum’s bribes have fallen in the pockets of BOXER, KERRY, KENNEDY, CLINTON, the other war whore, LIEBERMAN and OBAMA. Perhaps you watched the inaugural where Feinstein addressed the nation while her pimp Blum sat behind OBAMA and picked pockets while jumping up and down like a giddy clown counting his tips. Blum loves the smell of FOUR MORE YEARS OF WAR PROFITS that Obama has assured him, and the SAUDIS of.

Nancy Pelosi his heavily invested in SUNKIST, which maintains the policy of NO LIVING WAGE, and NO LEGAL NEED APPLY! Pelosi has long illegally hired illegals to work at her St. Helena, Napa, winery. Do you think she paid Blum-Feinstein to get more illegals into CA to depress wages even more? Most likely Blum paid Pelosi to keep her mouth shut about Feinstein’s crimes. You may have noticed that clown Henry Waxman went on and on about a global crime wave known as Halliburton, yet never ever got one indictment. He never wanted to. But not a word has come out of his big mouth about DIANNE FEINSTEIN’S TRADING TWO (BOXER’S) NO IMPEACHMENT PROMISES WITH BUSH, FOR BLUM’S ACCESS TO WAR PROFITEERING ALONG SIDE HALLIBURTON!

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L.A.County's $48 Million Monthly Anchor Baby Tab

Last Updated: Wed, 08/12/2009 - 11:24am

Taxpayers in the nation’s most populous county dished out nearly $50 million in a single month to cover only the welfare costs of illegal immigrants, representing a whopping $10 million increase over the same one-month period two years ago. 

In June 2009 alone Los Angeles County spent $48 million ($26 million in food stamps and $22 million in welfare) to provide just two of numerous free public services to the children of illegal aliens, which will translate into an annual tab of nearly $600 million for the cash-strapped county. 

The figure doesn’t even include the exorbitant cost of educating, medically treating or incarcerating illegal aliens in the sprawling county of about 10 million residents. Los Angeles County annually spends more than $1 billion for those combined services, including $400 million for healthcare and $350 million for public safety. 

The recent single-month welfare figure was obtained from the county’s Department of Social Services and made public by a county supervisor (Michael Antonovich) who assures illegal immigration continues to have a “catastrophic impact on Los Angeles County taxpayers.” The veteran lawmaker points out that 24% of the county’s total allotment of welfare and food stamp benefits goes directly to the children of illegal aliens—known as anchor babies—born in the United States.  

A former fifth-grade history teacher who has served on the county’s board for nearly three decades, Antonovich has repeatedly come under fire for publicizing statistics that confirm the devastation illegal immigration has had on the region. Antonovich represents a portion of the county that is roughly twice the size of Rhode Island and has about 2 million residents.

Numerous other reports have documented the enormous cost of illegal immigration on a national level. Just last year a renowned economist, who has thoroughly researched the impact of illegal immigration, published a book breaking down the country’s $346 billion annual cost to educate, jail, medically treat and incarcerate illegal aliens throughout the U.S.

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WELFARE COSTS FOR CHILDREN OF ILLEGAL ALIENS IN L.A. COUNTY OVER $48 MILLION IN JUNE

August 11, 2009—Figures from the Department of Public Social Services show that children of illegal aliens in Los Angeles County collected nearly $22 million in welfare and over $26 million in food stamps in June, announced Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich.  Projected over a 12 month period – this would exceed $575 million dollars.

Annually the cost of illegal immigration to Los Angeles County taxpayers exceeds over $1 billion dollars, which includes $350 million for public safety, $400 million for healthcare, and $500 million in welfare and food stamps allocations.  Twenty-four percent of the County’s total allotment of welfare and food stamp benefits goes directly to the children of illegal aliens born in the United States.

“Illegal immigration continues to have a catastrophic impact on Los Angeles County taxpayers,” said Antonovich.  “The total cost for illegal immigrants to County taxpayers exceeds $1 billion a year – not including the millions of dollars for education.”

 IF YOU CALL REP. HENRY WAXMAN’S OFFICE AND ASK THEM WHAT HIS POSITION IS ON ILLEGALS AND THE MEXICAN OCCUPATION, HIS OFFICE VOLUNTEERS STAMMER THEN GO DUMB. NO WONDER LA RAZA ENDORSES HENRY WAXMAN.

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Illegals Receiving Health Care …."But....( of course there is!)"

 “If you’re in this country illegally, should you be able to get health care?” CNN’s John King asked Mrs. Pelosi.

“No, illegal immigrants are not covered by this plan,” she replied.

Mrs. Pelosi’s remarks are downright deceptive, according to Congressman Lamar Smith (R-Texas), who points out that the proposed health care legislation “ contains gaping loopholes that will allow illegal immigrants to receive taxpayer-funded benefits .”

These loopholes, Rep. Smith maintains, are “no accident.” He maintains that the proposed legislation, despite months of debate, still contains no mechanism for verifying if applicants are legal residents or not.

The Republican members of the Ways and Means Committee attempted to address this loophole by an amendment proposed by Congressman Dick Heller (R-Nevada) which would have required applicants for government provided or subsidized health care to demonstrate eligibility through the Income and Eligibility Verification System (IEVS) and the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) systems.

But, on July 29, the Heller Amendment was soundly defeated by the following 26 Majority Members of the House Ways & Means Committee: Xavier Becerra (Calif.), Shelley Berkley (Nev.), Earl Blumenauer (Ore.), Joe Crowley (N.Y.), Artur Davis (Ala.), Danny Davis (Ill.), Lloyd Doggett (Texas), Bob Etheridge (N.C.), Brian Higgins (N.Y.), Ron Kind (Wis.), John Larson (Conn.), Sander Levin (Mich.), John Lewis (Ga.), Jim McDermott (Wash.), Kendrick Meek (Fla.), Richard Neal (Mass.), Bill Pascrell (N.J.), Earl Pomeroy (N.D.), Chairman Charlie Rangel (N.Y.), Linda Sanchez (Calif.), Allyson Schwartz (Pa.), Pete Stark (Calif.), John Tanner (Tenn.), Mike Thompson (Calif.), Chris Van Hollen (Md.), and John Yarmuth (Ky.).


The Federal for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) believes the legislation is now purposefully self-contradictory in order to ensure that the millions of illegal Latinos will receive coverage. FAIR points out that while one provision of the proposed health care reform bill states illegal immigrants will not be eligible for benefits, the legislation remains without any system of verification for determining if a patient is a legal or illegal U. S. resident.

Moreover, Fair insists, the bill leaves open the possibility that if one citizen family member is eligible for benefits, then the entire family — including illegal immigrants — is also eligible for the benefits.

“At a time when the federal government is running trillion dollar deficits, and the projected costs of the proposed health care overhaul seem to grow with each passing day, the committee that writes our tax laws wants Americans to pay for the health care costs of illegal aliens,” says FAIR President Dan Stein. “Given the opportunity to close loopholes that would cost the public billions of dollars each year, Democrats on the committee unanimously rejected an amendment that would bar illegal aliens from a national health care program.”

The cost of treating illegal aliens amounts to nearly $11 billion a year, according to calculations done by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), a non-profit group that opposes illegal immigration. And that cost is not expected to go away if a health insurance reform bill becomes law.

According to FAIR’s Director of Special Projects Jack Martin, illegal immigrants presently cost U. S. taxpayers $10.7 billion a year for health care. The numbers are contained in a report that FAIR plans to publish in the near future.

“The current health care bill is looking as if it is leaving a very large loophole for medical coverage being provided to illegal aliens,” Martin said.

So again, yes, the speaker of the House can say: "We've made no provision for Health Care for Illegal Aliens". But, is she in fact telling you the WHOLE truth or only half a truth. I am an independent voter and I, at this point, have my opinion. You be the judge for your own opinion.

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The politics of Healthcare Reform

from the AP -


"Immigration analyst James R. Edwards Jr. reported last week in National Review that "no health legislation on the table requires federal, state or local agencies -- or private institutions receiving federal funds -- to check the immigration status of health-program applicants, so some of the money distributed via Medicaid and tax credits inevitably would go to illegal aliens." Moreover, the Senate Finance Committee plan creates a preference for illegal aliens by exempting them from the mandate to buy insurance.


That's right. Lawabiding, uninsured Americans would be fined if they didn't submit to the ObamaCare prescription.


Lawbreaking bordercrossers and deportation fugitives would be spared.


For years, advocates of uncontrolled immigration have argued that illegals aren't getting free health care, and that even if they were, they'd not be draining government budgets. The fiscal crisis in California gives lie to those talking points. In March, the Associated Press reported that Sacramento and Contra Costa counties were slashing staff and closing clinics due to the prohibitive costs of providing nonemergency health services for illegals.


"The general situation there is being faced by nearly every health department across the country, and if not right now, shortly," Robert M. Pestronk of the National Association of County and City Health Officials, told the AP."

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Obama and the jobs crisis

12 November 2009

In the face of a record rise in joblessness, the Obama administration continues to demonstrate its callous indifference to the plight of millions of unemployed workers and their families.

The official unemployment rate shot up to 10.2 percent in October, the highest level since 1983. Nearly 16 million people are jobless, an increase of 7 million since the recession began. If workers who have given up looking for work and those forced to work part-time are added, the real unemployment rate is 17.5 percent—or more than one out of every six workers in the US—the highest rate since the Great Depression.

The White House responded to the job figures by repeating its mantra that employment is a “lagging indicator” in an otherwise recovering economy. While acknowledging 10 percent was a “sobering number,” the president said, “History tells us that job growth always lags behind economic growth.” The president added complacently, “Although it will take time and it will take patience, I am confident that we are moving in the right direction.”

The suggestion that the unemployment trend will soon reverse itself is a lie. Most economists now predict that double-digit unemployment will last for years. Nevertheless, the administration has rejected any government-funded public works program to hire the unemployed. The Washington Post recently noted that White House officials reject the idea because it “does not produce long-term value”; that is to say, it does not produce profits for big business.

The issue of employment has long been at the center of economic and political life in America. The last century saw New Deal public works projects, and “Full Employment” programs, which, while woefully inadequate, were presented as an effort to battle the scourge of mass unemployment. In the Obama administration the question has become a non-issue.

This inaction and indifference has produced a series of warnings from Obama’s liberal supporters concerned over the explosive social and political consequences of a worsening jobs crisis.

On Tuesday, New York Times columnist Bob Herbert worried that “more and more Americans are questioning [Obama’s] priorities, including millions that went to the mat for him in last year’s election.” “The lack of jobs,” he continued, “is fueling the nervousness, anxiety and full-blown anger that are becoming increasing evident in the public at large.”

In a Washington Post article, entitled, “Why won’t Obama give you a job?,” staff writer Alec MacGillis complained that the administration has “studiously avoided paying people to go to work” like the government did in the 1930s and 1970s. “Engaging in more forthright job creation could invite some political pitfalls (such as those constant accusations of socialism), but is double-digit unemployment any less a political risk?”

Such appeals fall on deaf ears. Obama’s disinterest is not a tactical mistake but the result of the social and class interests the president and both political parties defend.

While doing nothing to relieve working people, the administration has spared no expense and wasted no time in augmenting the wealth and power of the financial oligarchy that rules America. It has handed trillions to Wall Street, driven GM and Chrysler into bankruptcy to slash the wages of auto workers, and pushed the restructuring of the health care system to gut Medicare and reduce medical costs for big business. In foreign policy, the administration has squandered hundreds of billions and the lives of thousands of soldiers in two colonial wars to control the energy rich regions of world.

The continued high level of joblessness and economic insecurity is a deliberate aim of the administration. The threat of job losses is being used to break the resistance of American workers to a permanent reduction in their living standards and working conditions.

In the July-September quarter, productivity grew at a 9.5 percent annual rate, according to a government report. Even though working hours fell by a 5 percent annual rate, output increased at a 4 percent rate. “So people working shorter hours had to do the same amount of work as before, or more,” BusinessWeek noted. “People who kept their jobs had to pick up the work of ex-colleagues” or simply put in extra hours that weren’t counted in the statistics. As a result, unit labor costs fell 3.6 percent over the past year, the largest decrease since records were first kept in 1948.

This increase in exploitation is central to the administration’s plans to restructure American capitalism on behalf of the most powerful sections of the financial elite. The ruling class is seeking to lift itself out of the ruins of its own economic crisis by transforming the US into a cheap labor platform to increase exports, and by carrying out a policy of austerity at home to make the working class pay for the bailout of Wall Street.

If the working class is to oppose this assault it must assert it own class interests and develop a programmatic response to the economic crisis.

The Socialist Equality Party insists that employment and decent living standards must be guaranteed to all. The guiding principle of jobs policy must be to protect the working population from destitution, and provide employment for the purpose of raising the material and cultural level of the people, not profits for the capitalists.

The SEP calls for the sharing of available work among all workers with no loss of pay. Every worker should be guaranteed 30 hours of work at 40 hours of pay, with quality health and retirement benefits.

A multi-trillion public works program must be launched to hire the unemployed and put them to work to address pressing social needs. Projects must be launched to build affordable housing, guarantee high quality health care and education, expand public transportation and carry out other improvements in the physical and social infrastructure.

To secure the necessary resources, the grip of the financial aristocracy must be broken by nationalizing the banks under public ownership and confiscating the ill-gotten gains of the rich and super-rich. Capitalism is incapable of meeting the social needs produced by its own calamity. It must be replaced with a social system that does, socialism.

In place of the anarchy and socially destructive “free market” system, the economy must be reorganized on the basis of a democratic plan to meet the needs of society as a whole, not private profit. The socialist transformation of the US economy must be part of a globally planned economy, in which working people control the wealth that they produce.

The fight for this requires the building of a new political party of the working class to oppose the twin parties of big business and fight for political power. Such a party must be based on the fight for its political independence, internationalism and the socialist transformation of society. This is aim of the Socialist Equality Party.

Jerry White

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THE LA RAZA DEMS

Working for bit by bit amnesty is:

BARACK OBAMA

In California:

FEINSTEIN

BOXER

PELSOI

WAXMAN

FARR

LOFGREN

HONDA

FONG

BECERRA (VOTED ALSO FOR HEALTHCARE FOR ILLEGALS – SEE BELOW)

SANCHEZ (VOTED ALSO FOR HEALTHCARE FOR ILLEGALS – SEE BELOW)

BACA

THOMPSON (VOTED ALSO FOR HEALTHCARE FOR ILLEGALS – SEE BELOW)

STARK (VOTED ALSO FOR HEALTHCARE FOR ILLEGALS – SEE BELOW)

WHILE CALIFORNIA’S LA RAZA DEMS WORK TIRELESSLY TO EXPAND THE MEXICAN WELFARE STATE, IN ARIZONA THE PEOPLE HAVE PUT THEIR FOOT DOWN!

SOURCE: JUDICIAL WATCH.ORG

Ariz. Saves Millions Cutting Illegal Immigrant

Last Updated: Mon, 08/10/2009 - 2:48pm

A U.S. border state that stopped giving illegal immigrants discounted public college tuition a few years ago reports saving millions of dollars after terminating the program that essentially subsidized illegal behavior with public money.

Fed up with the toll that illegal aliens were having on its state, Arizona voters overwhelmingly passed a law in late 2006 to deny them heavily discounted resident college tuition and other state-funded benefits draining the budget. Approved by more than 70% of voters, the measure also requires state agencies to verify the immigration status of applicants for public services such as child care and adult education as well as financial aide for college students.

Regardless, thousands of illegal aliens continue to annually apply for the costly perks which used to cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars each year. Since the law passed more than 3,400 community college students and nearly 300 university students paid the much higher nonresident tuition because they couldn't prove they were in the country legally.

This represented a savings of nearly $8 million for one of the state’s community college districts (Maricopa County Community College District) alone. Combined with Arizona’s other junior college districts and its three public universities the savings are estimated to be in the tens of millions of dollars. 

Arizona’s State Treasurer says the money is being appropriately used for programs that benefit legal residents rather than to subsidize the education of those who live in the state illegally. A handful of other states—including Texas, California, Utah, Maryland and Wisconsin—offer illegal immigrants discounted tuition at public colleges. 

Earlier this month, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott ruled that allowing illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition breaks federal law though the state annually grants the coveted benefit to thousands of undocumented students. The opinion was a no brainer considering that a 1996 immigration reform law forbids states from giving illegal aliens in-state tuition unless it provides the same for all students regardless of residency. 

It was that law that led a group of out-of-state students to successfully challenge the practice in California. The students argued that California’s public university and community college system violated the law by charging them higher tuition and fees than undocumented immigrants. A state appellate court ruled in favor of the American students and the case is pending before the sate Supreme Court.