Saturday, August 18, 2012

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON - California: The First State to Surrender to Mexico - THE RISE of the LA RAZA WELFARE STATE


The State of California now puts out $22 BILLION per year in social services to illegals even as 90% of all service and construction sector jobs go to illegals!

ON TOP OF THIS FIGURE, counties like Los Angeles pay out even more! L.A. County pays out $600 million per year in welfare to illegals, primarily ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS.

According to CA Attorney Gen. Kamala Harris, nearly half of all murders in CA are by MEXICAN GANGS.

THE STATE LEGISLATURE IS NOW LA RAZA-CONTROLLED, AND PASSES ANY AND ALL LAWS THAT BENEFIT MEXICO AND LA RAZA ILLEGALS. THE LAST LAW LA RAZA PASSED MADE IT ILLEGAL FOR EMPLOYERS TO USE E-VERIFY!

California Doesn't Exist—It's Now Two States

By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
Posted 08/17/2012 06:29 PM ET

Driving across California is like going from Mississippi to Massachusetts without crossing a state line. Consider the disconnects:

• California's combined income and sales taxes are among the nation's highest, but the state's deficit is still about $16 billion.

• It's estimated that more than 2,000 upper-income Californians are leaving per week to flee high taxes and costly regulations, yet California wants to raise taxes even higher.

• Its business climate already ranks near the bottom of most surveys. Its teachers are among the highest paid on average in the nation, but its public school students consistently test near the bottom in math and science.

• Public employees enjoy some of the nation's most generous compensation, but state retirement systems are underfunded by about $300 billion.

• The state's gas taxes — at over 49 cents per gallon — are among the highest in the nation, but its once-unmatched freeways, like the 101 and 99, for long stretches have degenerated into potholed, clogged nightmares.

• The state wishes to borrow billions of dollars to develop high-speed rail, beginning with a little-traveled link between Fresno and Corcoran — a corridor already served by money-losing Amtrak. Apparently, coastal residents like the idea of European high-speed rail — as long as construction doesn't begin in their backyards.

• As gas prices soar, California chooses not to tap millions of barrels of oil and even more natural gas offshore and below ground.

• Home to bankrupt green companies like Solyndra, California has mandated a third of all energy provided by state utilities soon must come from renewable energy sources — largely wind and solar, which now provide about 11% of its electricity and almost none of its transportation fuel.

How to explain the seemingly inexplicable? There is no California. It is a misnomer. There is no such state. Instead there are two radically different cultures and landscapes with little in common, each equally dysfunctional in quite different ways. Apart they are unworldly, together a disaster.

A postmodern coastal corridor runs from San Diego to Berkeley, where the weather is ideal, the gentrified affluent make good money, and values are green and left-wing. This Shangri-La is juxtaposed to a vast impoverished interior, from the southern desert to the northern Central Valley, where life's becoming pre-modern.

Near the coast, blue-chip universities like Cal Tech, Berkeley, Stanford and UCLA in pastoral landscapes train the world's doctors, lawyers, engineers and businesspeople. In the hot interior of blue-collar Sacramento, Turlock, Fresno and Bakersfield, over half the incoming freshman in the California State University system must take remedial math and science.

In postmodern Palo Alto or Santa Monica, a small cottage costs more than $1 million. Two hours from the Bay Area, in pre-modern and now-bankrupt Stockton, a bungalow the same size goes for less than $100,000.

In the interior, joblessness in many areas peaks at over 15%. The theft of copper wire is reaching epidemic proportions. Thousands of the shrinking middle class flee the interior for the coast or nearby no-income-tax states.

To fathom the state's nearly unbelievable statistics, visit the state's hinterlands. As the state population grew by 10 million from the mid-1980s to 2005, its number of Medicaid recipients increased by 7 million. One-third of the nation's welfare recipients now reside in California.

But in the Never-Never Land of Apple, Facebook, Google, Hollywood and the wine country, millions live in an idyllic paradise.

Coastal Californians can afford to worry about the state's trivia — as their legislators seek to outlaw foie gras, shut down irrigation projects to save the 3-inch delta smelt and allow children to have legally recognized multiple parents.

But in the less feel-good interior, crippling regulations curb timber, gas and oil, and farm production. For the most part, the rules are mandated by coastal utopians who have little idea where the gas for their imported cars comes from, or how the redwood is cut for their decks, or who grows the ingredients for their Mediterranean lunches of arugula, olive oil and pasta.

On the coast, it's politically incorrect to talk of illegal immigration.

In the interior, residents see first-hand the bankrupting effects on schools, courts and health care when millions arrive illegally without English-language fluency or a high school diploma — and send back billions of dollars to Mexico and other Latin American countries.

The drive from Fresno to Palo Alto takes three hours, but you might as well be rocketing from Earth to the moon.

            Driving across California is like going from Mississippi to Massachusetts without crossing a state line. Consider the disconnects:

• California's combined income and sales taxes are among the nation's highest, but the state's deficit is still about $16 billion. (AND YET THE STATE PAYS OUT $22 BILLION IN SOCIAL SERVICES TO ILLEGALS!)

• It's estimated that more than 2,000 upper-income Californians are leaving per week to flee high taxes and costly regulations, yet California wants to raise taxes even higher.

• Its business climate already ranks near the bottom of most surveys. Its teachers are among the highest paid on average in the nation, but its public school students consistently test near the bottom in math and science.

• Public employees enjoy some of the nation's most generous compensation, but state retirement systems are underfunded by about $300 billion.

• The state's gas taxes — at over 49 cents per gallon — are among the highest in the nation, but its once-unmatched freeways, like the 101 and 99, for long stretches have degenerated into potholed, clogged nightmares.

• The state wishes to borrow billions of dollars to develop high-speed rail, beginning with a little-traveled link between Fresno and Corcoran — a corridor already served by money-losing Amtrak. Apparently, coastal residents like the idea of European high-speed rail — as long as construction doesn't begin in their backyards.

• As gas prices soar, California chooses not to tap millions of barrels of oil and even more natural gas offshore and below ground.

• Home to bankrupt green companies like Solyndra, California has mandated a third of all energy provided by state utilities soon must come from renewable energy sources — largely wind and solar, which now provide about 11% of its electricity and almost none of its transportation fuel.

How to explain the seemingly inexplicable? There is no California. It is a misnomer. There is no such state. Instead there are two radically different cultures and landscapes with little in common, each equally dysfunctional in quite different ways. Apart they are unworldly, together a disaster.

A postmodern coastal corridor runs from San Diego to Berkeley, where the weather is ideal, the gentrified affluent make good money, and values are green and left-wing. This Shangri-La is juxtaposed to a vast impoverished interior, from the southern desert to the northern Central Valley, where life's becoming pre-modern.

Near the coast, blue-chip universities like Cal Tech, Berkeley, Stanford and UCLA in pastoral landscapes train the world's doctors, lawyers, engineers and businesspeople. In the hot interior of blue-collar Sacramento, Turlock, Fresno and Bakersfield, over half the incoming freshman in the California State University system must take remedial math and science.

In postmodern Palo Alto or Santa Monica, a small cottage costs more than $1 million. Two hours from the Bay Area, in pre-modern and now-bankrupt Stockton, a bungalow the same size goes for less than $100,000.

In the interior, joblessness in many areas peaks at over 15%. The theft of copper wire is reaching epidemic proportions. Thousands of the shrinking middle class flee the interior for the coast or nearby no-income-tax states. (THE POPULATION IS SOARING WITH ILLEGALS THAT COME TO LOOT)

To fathom the state's nearly unbelievable statistics, visit the state's hinterlands. As the state population grew by 10 million from the mid-1980s to 2005, its number of Medicaid recipients increased by 7 million. One-third of the nation's welfare recipients now reside in California.

But in the Never-Never Land of Apple, Facebook, Google, Hollywood and the wine country, millions live in an idyllic paradise.

Coastal Californians can afford to worry about the state's trivia — as their legislators seek to outlaw foie gras, shut down irrigation projects to save the 3-inch delta smelt and allow children to have legally recognized multiple parents.

But in the less feel-good interior, crippling regulations curb timber, gas and oil, and farm production. For the most part, the rules are mandated by coastal utopians who have little idea where the gas for their imported cars comes from, or how the redwood is cut for their decks, or who grows the ingredients for their Mediterranean lunches of arugula, olive oil and pasta.

On the coast, it's politically incorrect to talk of illegal immigration.

In the interior, residents see first-hand the bankrupting effects on schools, courts and health care when millions arrive illegally without English-language fluency or a high school diploma — and send back billions of dollars to Mexico and other Latin American countries.

The drive from Fresno to Palo Alto takes three hours, but you might as well be rocketing from Earth to the moon.

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Is Illegal Immigration Moral?

By Victor Davis Hanson



We know illegal immigration is no longer really unlawful, but is it moral?

Usually Americans debate the fiscal costs of illegal immigration. Supporters of open borders rightly remind us that illegal immigrants pay sales taxes. Often their payroll-tax contributions are not later tapped by Social Security payouts.

Opponents counter that illegal immigrants are more likely to end up on state assistance, are less likely to report cash income, and cost the state more through the duplicate issuing of services and documents in both English and Spanish. Such to-and-fro talking points are endless.

So is the debate over beneficiaries of illegal immigration. Are profit-minded employers villains who want cheap labor in lieu of hiring more expensive Americans? Or is the culprit a cynical Mexican government that counts on billions of dollars in remittances from its expatriate poor that it otherwise ignored?

Or is the engine that drives illegal immigration the American middle class? Why should millions of suburbanites assume that, like 18th-century French aristocrats, they should have imported labor to clean their homes, manicure their lawns and watch over their kids?

Or is the catalyst the self-interested professional Latino lobby in politics and academia that sees a steady stream of impoverished Latin American nationals as a permanent victimized constituency, empowering and showcasing elite self-appointed spokesmen such as themselves?

Or is the real advocate the Democratic Party that wishes to remake the electoral map of the American Southwest by ensuring larger future pools of natural supporters? Again, the debate over who benefits and why is never-ending.

But what is often left out of the equation is the moral dimension of illegal immigration. We see the issue too often reduced to caricature, involving a noble, impoverished victim without much free will and subject to cosmic forces of sinister oppression. But everyone makes free choices that affect others. So ponder the ethics of a guest arriving in a host country knowingly against its sovereign protocols and laws.

First, there is the larger effect on the sanctity of a legal system. If a guest ignores the law -- and thereby often must keep breaking more laws -- should citizens also have the right to similarly pick and choose which statutes they find worthy of honoring and which are too bothersome? Once it is deemed moral for the impoverished to cross a border without a passport, could not the same arguments of social justice be used for the poor of any status not to report earned income or even file a 1040 form?

Second, what is the effect of mass illegal immigration on impoverished U.S. citizens? Does anyone care? When 10 million to 15 million aliens are here illegally, where is the leverage for the American working poor to bargain with employers? If it is deemed ethical to grant in-state tuition discounts to illegal-immigrant students, is it equally ethical to charge three times as much for out-of-state, financially needy American students -- whose federal government usually offers billions to subsidize state colleges and universities? If foreign nationals are afforded more entitlements, are there fewer for U.S. citizens?

Third, consider the moral ramifications on legal immigration -- the traditional great strength of the American nation. What are we to tell the legal immigrant from Oaxaca who got a green card at some cost and trouble, or who, once legally in the United States, went through the lengthy and expensive process of acquiring citizenship? Was he a dupe to dutifully follow our laws?

And given the current precedent, if a million soon-to-be-impoverished Greeks, 2 million fleeing North Koreans, or 5 million starving Somalis were to enter the United States illegally and en masse, could anyone object to their unlawful entry and residence? If so, on what legal, practical or moral grounds?

Fourth, examine the morality of remittances. It is deemed noble to send billions of dollars back to families and friends struggling in Latin America. But how is such a considerable loss of income made up? Are American taxpayers supposed to step in to subsidize increased social services so that illegal immigrants can afford to send billions of dollars back across the border? What is the morality of that equation in times of recession? Shouldn't illegal immigrants at least try to buy health insurance before sending cash back to Mexico?

The debate over illegal immigration is too often confined to costs and benefits. But ultimately it is a complicated moral issue -- and one often ignored by all too many moralists.

Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a recipient of the 2007 National Humanities Medal.
OBAMA’S DREAM Written by Roger Hedgecock, former Mayor of San Diego

Posted By: RumorMail


OBAMA’S DREAM
Written by Roger Hedgecock, former Mayor of San Diego
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
I live in California. If you were wondering what living in Obama's second term would be like, wonder no longer. We in California are living there now.
California is a one-party state dominated by a virulent Democrat Left enabled by a complicit media where every agency of local, county, and state government is run by and for the public employee unions. The unemployment rate is 12%.
California has more folks on food stamps than any other state, has added so many benefits and higher rates to Medicaid that we call it "Medi-Cal." Our K-12 schools have more administrators than teachers, with smaller classes but lower test scores and higher dropout rates with twice the per-student budget of 15 years ago. Good job, Brownie.
This week, the once and current Gov. Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown had to confess that the "balanced" state budget adopted five months ago was billions in the red because actual tax revenues were billions lower than the airy-fairy revenue estimates on which the balance was predicated.
After trimming legislators' perks and reducing the number of cell phones provided to state civil servants, the governor intoned that drastic budget reductions had already hollowed out state programs for the needy, law enforcement and our schoolchildren. California government needed more money.
Echoing the Occupy movement, the governor proclaimed the rich must pay their fair share. Fair share? The top 1% of California income earners currently pays 50% of the state's income tax. California has seven income tax brackets. The top income tax rate is 9.3%, which is slapped on the greedy rich earning at least $47,056 a year. Income of more than $1 million pays the "millionaires' and billionaires'" surcharge tax rate of 10.3%.
Brown's proposal would add 2% for income over $250,000. A million- dollar income would then be taxed at 12.3%. And that's just for the state. Brown also proposed a one-half-cent sales tax increase, which would bring sales taxes (which vary by county) up to 7.75% to as much as 10%. Both tax increases would be on the ballot in 2012. The sales tax increase proposal immediately brought howls of protest from the Left (of Brown!). Charlie Eaton, a sociology grad student at UC Berkeley and leader of the UC Student-Workers Union, said, "We've paid enough. It's time for millionaires to pay."
At least five other ballot measures to raise taxes are circulating for signatures to get on the 2012 ballot in California . The governor's proposals are the most conservative. The Obama way doesn't end with taxes.
The governor and the state legislature continue to applaud the efforts of the California High Speed Rail Authority to build a train connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco . Even though the budget is three times the voter-approved amount, and the first segment will only connect two small towns in the agricultural Central Valley . But hey, if we build it, they will ride. And we don't want to turn down the Obama bullet-train bucks Florida and other states rejected because the operating costs would bankrupt them. Can't happen here because we're already insolvent.
If we get into real trouble with the train, we'll just bring in the Chinese. It worked with the Bay Bridge reconstruction. After the 1989 earthquake, the bridge connecting Oakland and San Francisco was rebuilt with steel made in China . Workers from China too. Paid for with money borrowed from China . Makes perfect sense.
In California , we hate the evil, greedy rich (except the rich in Hollywood , in sports, and in drug dealing). But we love people who have broken into California to eat the bounty created by the productive rich. Illegals get benefits from various generous welfare programs, free medical care, free schools for their kids, including meals, and of course, instate tuition rates and scholarships too. Nothing's too good for our guests.
To forestall even a hint of criticism of illegal immigration, the California Legislature is considering a unilateral state amnesty. Democrat State Assemblyman Felipe Fuentes has proposed an initiative that would bar deportation of illegals from California . Interesting dilemma for Obama there. If immigration is exclusively a federal matter, and Obama has sued four states for trying to enforce federal immigration laws he won't enforce, what will the President do to a California law that exempts California from federal immigration law?
California is also near fulfilling the environmentalist dream of deindustrialization. After driving out the old industrial base (auto and airplane assembly, for example), air and water regulators and tax policies are now driving out the high-tech, biotech and even Internet-based companies that were supposed to be California's future. The California cap-and-trade tax on business in the name of reducing CO2 makes our state the leader in wacky environmentalism and guarantees a further job exodus from the state. Even green energy companies can't do business in California . Solyndra went under, taking its taxpayer loan guarantee with it.
No job is too small to escape the regulators. The state has even banned weekend amateur gold miners from the historic gold mining streams in the Sierra Nevada Mountains . In fact, more and more of California 's public land is off-limits to recreation by the people who paid for that land. Unless you're illegal. Then you can clear the land, set up marijuana plantations at will, bring in fertilizers that legal farmers can no longer use, exploit illegal farm workers who live in hovels with no running water or sanitation, and protect your investment with armed illegals carrying guns no California citizen is allowed to own.
The rest of us only found out about these plantations when the workers' open campfire started one of those devastating fires that have killed hundreds of people and burned out thousands of homes in California over the last decade.
It's often said that whatever happens in California will soon happen in your state. You'd better hope that's wrong.

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California spending annually $22 billion to support illegals


Going To the Top!

By Susan Tully

I've been at the immigration reform and enforcement table for about 20 years. I've worked with activists during all those years. But last week, in Los Angeles, I had a first-time-ever experience at an activist brain storming session.

Gathered for an update on Stop AB131, the petition drive to gather signatures to force a ballot initiative as to whether the California taxpayers should fund college grants to illegal aliens, I asked the top activist leaders from Southern California how the signature drive was going.

They started updating me with the positive response from California residents who signed the petitions, but then admitted about 500,000 more signatures were still needed. When I said there was only a little more than three weeks to go to meet the January 5th deadline, suddenly their faces dropped at once, and the room went completely silent.

It was easy to read on each of their faces; the task was nearly impossible! Without big money to pay signature gatherers or a tsunami of petitions flooding in, the taxpayers of California will be forced to give grant money to illegal aliens for college, on top of the $22 billion they are spending annually in California to support the illegal alien population.

While all of our minds were racing and searching for suggestions as to how to accomplish this daunting task of gathering signatures, Lupe Moreno, long time Hispanic leader from Santa Ana, said "Can we have a prayer?" Everyone agreed to pray.

As the prayer went around the table, people expressed their sorrow for the lack of leadership in the State of California and in the nation to protect the interest of American citizens, and asked for divine guidance in helping them understand the harm their policies are inflicting on millions of innocent people in the state. In all the years I have worked on this issue, I had not witnessed the sort of sincere emotion that was expressed in that room.

(THE FASTEST GROWING POLITICAL PARTY IN AMERICA IS THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA! AND WE ARE FORCED TO FUND IT!)



You see, the politicians in California are happy to give money the state doesn't have to illegal aliens to attend college, while they cut the budgets and slash programs for public safety, right and left. The American citizen's interests and safety are simply collateral damage for seeking and appealing to the illegal alien lobby.

These activists in California have already learned what the rest of the nation is about to learn. We the people. . . are the only ones looking out for the best interest of American citizens. With few exceptions, we have no national leadership on the issue of stopping the illegal migration flow into our nation.

American citizenship or the benefits thereof have become a commodity for politicians to pander and barter away. They will grant de facto citizenship through sanctuary policies, in-state tuition, non-compliance with Secure Communities, grants for college, etc., etc., etc. President Obama and most the Republican presidential hopefuls are peddling various versions of amnesty proposals if they are elected next year.

What do these politicians want in return? They are hoping to leverage enough votes in key states to put them over the top in 2012, no matter what it costs the American people. This is futures betting: The politicians are gambling the nation's future in hopes of winning the next election.

So while the state can't afford to pay its bills or provide decent services to citizens, these California activists watch their elected leaders lavish still more benefits for people who don't have a legal right to be in the country. And while their child might have to pay out-of-state tuition to go to college in another state, thousands of illegal aliens are going to college at in-state tuition rates in California that they are subsidizing.

In addition they know that millions of other illegal alien parents are receiving food stamps, Medicaid, housing assistance and dozens of other state and local benefits for their American-born children, while they have to decide which bills will be paid this month and which will have to wait.

It's not hard to understand why the activist of California need all the help they can get. Please go to www.stopAB131.com and lend a hand to our friends and family and the people of California to do what needs to be done for the good of our children first.

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LA RAZA DEMS BUILD THE “DREAM ACT” LIFE FOR LA RAZA OFF THE AMERICANS BACK! NOT ONE AMERICAN VOTED FOR ONE DREAM ACT HANDOUT!






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THE ILLEGAL (MEXICAN) CRIME TIDAL WAVE:

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/05/heather-mac-donald-illegal-alien-crime.html



THE MEXICAN CRIME TIDAL WAVE SPREADS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES

Everyday there are 12 Americans murdered by Mexicans and 8 children molested!

California Attorney Gen Kamala Harris announced that nearly HALF of all murders in Mex-occupied CA are by MEX GANGS!


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WILL MEXICO BANKRUPT AMERICA?

CALIFORNIA UNDER MEXICAN-OCCUPATION PAYS OUT $22 BILLION PER YEAR IN SOCIAL SERVICES TO ILLEGALS!


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WILL OHIO BE BANKRUPTED BY THE LA RAZA MEX-OCCUPATION THAT NOT ONE LEGAL VOTED FOR?


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HOW MANY BILLIONS ARE MARYLANDERS FORCED TO PAY FOR MEX WELFARE AND LOOTING?


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BARACK OBAMA, FIRST HISPANDERING LA RAZA “THE RACE” PRESIDENT – HIS LA RAZA SUPREMACIST INFESTED ADMINISTRATION:


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OBAMA AND MEXICO PROMISE ILLEGALS JUMPING OUR BORDERS OBAMACARE, “FREE” MEDICAL, “FREE” ANCHOR BABY BIRTHING = 18 YEARS WELFARE, AND OUR JOBS!


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ROBERT RECTOR: THE STAGGERING COST OF MEXICO’S INVASION, OCCUPATION AND EVER GROWING WELFARE STATE


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ONE OF MEXICO’S BIGGEST EXPORTS NEXT TO DRUGS, AND CRIMINALS ARE PREGNANT WOMEN. THESE POOR DESPERATE WOMEN JUMP OUR BORDERS FOR “FREE” ANCHOR BABY BIRTHING = 18 YEARS OF WELFARE FOR EACH CHILD.

THE CHILDREN BORN OF MEXICANS THAT ILLEGALLY CROSSED OUR BORDERS IS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN BUT STILL A CITIZEN OF MEXICO.


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THE LOOTING OF AMERICA BY MEXICO, BARACK OBAMA and ERIC HOLDER

OBAMA’S HISPANICAZATION of AMERICA:


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ANCHOR BABIES – HOW MEXICO ANCHORS THEIR OCCUPATION AND EXPAND THEIR WELFARE STATE IN OUR BORDERS!






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“What's needed to discourage illegal immigration into the United States has been known for years: Enforce existing law.” ….. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR



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ARTICLE BELOW:

The study, based on 2010 and 2011 census data, found that 43 percent of immigrants who have been in the U.S. at least 20 years were using welfare benefits, a rate that is nearly twice as high as native-born Americans and nearly 50 percent higher than recent immigrants.

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“The principal beneficiaries of our current immigration policy are affluent Americans who hire immigrants at substandard wages for low-end work. Harvard economist George Borjas estimates that American workers lose $190 billion annually in depressed wages caused by the constant flooding of the labor market at the low-wage end.”     Christian Science Monitor

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“Law enforcement and public safety have taken a back seat to attempts to satisfy immigrant advocacy groups,” Crane told the panel of congressmen.

“What we're seeing is our Congress and national leadership dismantling our laws by not enforcing them. Lawlessness becomes the norm, just like Third World corruption. Illegal aliens now have more rights and privileges than Americans. If you are an illegal alien, you can drive a car without a driver's license or insurance. You may obtain medical care without paying. You may work without paying taxes. Your children enjoy free education at the expense of taxpaying Americans.”

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Slow path to progress for U.S. immigrants

43% on welfare after 20 years



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Immigrants lag behind native-born Americans on most measures of economic well-being — even those who have been in the U.S. the longest, according to a report from the Center for Immigration Studies, which argues that full assimilation is a more complex task than overcoming language or cultural differences.

The study, which covers all immigrants, legal and illegal, and their U.S.-born children younger than 18, found that immigrants tend to make economic progress by most measures the longer they live in the U.S. but lag well behind native-born Americans on factors such as poverty, health insurance coverage and homeownership.

The study, based on 2010 and 2011 census data, found that 43 percent of immigrants who have been in the U.S. at least 20 years were using welfare benefits, a rate that is nearly twice as high as native-born Americans and nearly 50 percent higher than recent immigrants.

The report was released at a time when both major presidential candidates have backed policies that would make it easier to immigrate legally and would boost the numbers of people coming to the U.S.

Steven A. Camarota, the center’s research director and author of the 96-page study, said it shows that questions about the pros and cons of immigration extend well beyond the sheer numbers and touch on the broader consequences of assimilating a population defined by tougher socioeconomic challenges.

“Look, we know a lot of these folks are going to be poor, we get it. But don’t tell the public it’s all going great, which is the story line I think a lot of people want to sell,” Mr. Camarota said. “There is progress over time. Every measure shows improvement over time, but still, the situation does not look like we’d like it to look, particularly for the less-educated. They lag well behind natives even when they’ve been here for two decades, and that is very disconcerting.”

Federal law requires that the government deny immigrant visas to potential immigrants who are likely to be unable to support themselves and thereby become public charges.

On Tuesday, a handful of Republican senators wrote to the Homeland Security and State departments asking them to explain why they don’t consider whether potential immigrants would use many of the nearly 80 federal welfare programs when they evaluate visa applications.

Neither department responded to messages Tuesday seeking a response to the senators’ letter.

Expanding legal immigration is a contentious issue for voters, the vast majority of whom tell pollsters that they want the levels either retained or decreased.

But most politicians want legal immigration expanded.

During his time in the U.S. SenateBarack Obama backed bills that would have dramatically boosted legal immigration, potentially by hundreds of thousands a year. As president, he has called for the same thing.

(LA RAZA DEMS FEINSTEIN AND BOXER HAVE THREE (3) TIMES ATTEMPTED A “SPECIAL AMNESTY” FOR 1.5 MILLION “CHEAP” LABOR ILLEGAL FARM WORKERS. THEY DO THIS ON BEHALF OF THEIR FILTHY RICH BIG AG BIZ DONORS…. DESPITE THE FACT THAT ONE-THIRD OF ALL “CHEAP” FARM WORKERS WILL END UP ON WELFARE! – CA NOW PUTS OUT $22 BILLION PER YEAR IN SOCIAL SERVICES TO ILLEGALS!!! ON TOP OF THIS COUNTIES HAND OUT MORE, WITH LOS ANGELLES LEADING. L.A. COUNTY PAYS OUT $600 MILLION PER YEAR IN WELFARE FOR ILLEGALS, PRIMARILY ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS! NOT ONE AMERICAN (LEGAL) VOTED TO BE MEXICO’S WELFARE STATE! DEMS ARE THE PARTY of ILLEGALS!)

“We need to provide our farms a legal way to hire workers that they rely on, and a path for those workers to earn legal status. And our laws should respect families following the rules — reuniting them more quickly instead of splitting them apart,” Mr. Obama said in a major speech on the subject in El Paso, Texas, in 2011.

His presumed Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, in June called for increasing legal immigration for students who study in high-tech fields and admitting unlimited family members of those who hold green cards.

“Our immigration system should help promote strong families as well — not keep them apart. Our nation benefits when moms and dads and their kids are all living together under the same roof,” Mr. Romney told the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials.

Mr. Camarota’s report took a broad look at the immigrant population and found that immigrants are contributing to major changes in American society, including that one-fourth of public school students now speak languages other than English at home.

It also found that immigrants as a population lead complex economic lives that aren’t easily put into one category or another.

Immigrants made up more than half of all farmworkers, 41 percent of taxi drivers and 48 percent of maids and housecleaners, but they also represented about one-third of all computer programmers and 27 percent of doctors.

The statistics varied greatly by geography. In Massachusetts, native-led households averaged $89,000 in income while immigrant households averaged $66,000.

In Virginia, immigrant-led households averaged $93,000 in income, far outstripping native households’ $80,000 average. Likewise, immigrant families averaged a larger tax burden in Virginia — though they also had higher rates of use of welfare or Medicaid.

The center found that use of public benefits varied dramatically based on where immigrants originated.

Mexicans were most likely to use means-tested benefit programs, with 57 percent, while 6 percent of those from the United Kingdom did. The rate for native-born Americans is 23 percent.

Mr. Camarota said a key dividing line is educational attainment. Immigrants who have been in the U.S. 20 years and who have bachelor’s degrees or higher make slightly more than the average native-born American. But immigrants with only high school educations make less no matter how long they have been in the U.S.

“The fact is the less-educated in particular — they don’t do well over time,” he said. “It’s not reasonable to expect an immigrant who comes to America with only a high school education to close the gap with the native-born.”

Scholars debate whether the current wave of immigrants will assimilate differently from those in the 1800s and at the start of the 20th century.

George Borjas, a Harvard University professor, has argued that second-generation Americans — the children of today’s immigrants — will fall behind in wages by about 10 percent by 2030.

(THE BELOW STATS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH ASSIMILATION! COME TO MEXIFORNIA WHERE 90% OF ALL SERVICE SECTOR AND CONSTRUCTION JOBS ARE HELD BY MEXICANS. YOU WON’T HEAR THEM SPEAKING ENGLISH!)

But in “Assimilation Tomorrow,” a report released in November, Dowell Myers and John Pitkin said immigrants of the 1990s eventually will attain high rates of homeownership and 71 percent will become U.S. citizens by 2030.

Those authors said immigrants were set back by the recent recession but were still on track to follow the same assimilation path as previous waves of immigrants.

(THE THING IS… MOST SOURCES PUT THE NUMBER OF ILLEGALS AT 40 MILLION AND BREEDING FAST! THERE ARE 12 MILLION OF THESE “11 MILLION” ILLEGALS IN SOUTHERN CA ALONE!)

They also said a program to legalize the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. would be critical to helping assimilation.

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FIFTEEN THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT LA RAZA “THE RACE”

by Michelle Malkin

Only in America could critics of a group called "The Race" be labeled racists. Such is the triumph of left-wing identity chauvinists, whose aggressive activists and supine abettors have succeeded in redefining all opposition as "hate."

Both Barack Obama and John McCain will speak this week in San Diego at the annual conference of the National Council of La Raza, the Latino organization whose name is Spanish for, yes, "The Race." Can you imagine Obama and McCain paying homage to a group of white people who called themselves that? No matter. The presidential candidates and the media have legitimized "The Race" as a mainstream ethnic lobbying group and marginalized its critics as intolerant bigots. The unvarnished truth is that the group is a radical ethnic nationalist outfit that abuses your tax dollars and milks PC politics to undermine our sovereignty.

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Here are 15 things you should know about "The Race":

15. "The Race" supports driver's licenses for illegal aliens.

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14."The Race" demands in-state tuition discounts for illegal alien students that are not available to law-abiding U.S. citizens and law-abiding legal immigrants.

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13. "The Race" vehemently opposes cooperative immigration enforcement efforts between local, state and federal authorities.

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12. "The Race" opposes a secure fence on the southern border.

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11. "The Race" joined the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in a failed lawsuit attempt to prevent the feds from entering immigration information into a key national crime database -- and to prevent local police officers from accessing the data.

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10. "The Race" opposed the state of Oklahoma's tough immigration-enforcement-first laws, which cut off welfare to illegal aliens, put teeth in employer sanctions and strengthened local-federal cooperation and information sharing.

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9. "The Race" joined other open-borders, anti-assimilationists and sued to prevent Proposition 227, California's bilingual education reform ballot initiative, from becoming law.

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8. "The Race" bitterly protested common-sense voter ID provisions as an "absolute disgrace."

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7. "The Race" has consistently opposed post-9/11 national security measures at every turn.

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6. Former "Race" president Raul Yzaguirre, Hillary Clinton's Hispanic outreach adviser, said this: "U.S. English is to Hispanics as the Ku Klux Klan is to blacks." He was referring to U.S. English, the nation's oldest, largest citizens' action group dedicated to preserving the unifying role of the English language in the United States. "The Race" also pioneered Orwellian open-borders Newspeak and advised the Mexican government on how to lobby for illegal alien amnesty while avoiding the terms "illegal" and "amnesty."

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5. "The Race" gives mainstream cover to a poisonous subset of ideological satellites, led by Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, or Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan (MEChA). The late GOP Rep. Charlie Norwood rightly characterized the organization as "a radical racist group … one of the most anti-American groups in the country, which has permeated U.S. campuses since the 1960s, and continues its push to carve a racist nation out of the American West."

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4. "The Race" is currently leading a smear campaign against staunch immigration enforcement leaders and has called for TV and cable news networks to keep immigration enforcement proponents off the airwaves -- in addition to pushing for Fairness Doctrine policies to shut up their foes. The New York Times reported that current "Race" president Janet Murguia believes "hate speech" should "not be tolerated, even if such censorship were a violation of First Amendment rights."

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3. "The Race" sponsors militant ethnic nationalist charter schools subsidized by your public tax dollars (at least $8 million in federal education grants). The schools include Aztlan Academy in Tucson, Ariz., the Mexicayotl Academy in Nogales, Ariz., Academia Cesar Chavez Charter School in St. Paul, Minn., and La Academia Semillas del Pueblo in Los Angeles, whose principal inveighed: "We don't want to drink from a White water fountain, we have our own wells and our natural reservoirs and our way of collecting rain in our aqueducts. We don't need a White water fountain … ultimately the White way, the American way, the neo liberal, capitalist way of life will eventually lead to our own destruction."

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2. "The Race" has perfected the art of the PC shakedown at taxpayer expense, pushing relentlessly to lower home loan standards for Hispanic borrowers, reaping millions in federal "mortgage counseling" grants, seeking special multimillion-dollar earmarks and partnering with banks that do business with illegal aliens.

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1. "The Race" thrives on ethnic supremacy -- and the elite sheeple's unwillingness to call it what it is. As historian Victor Davis Hanson observes: "[The] organization's very nomenclature 'The National Council of La Raza' is hate speech to the core. Despite all the contortions of the group, Raza (as its Latin cognate suggests) reflects the meaning of 'race' in Spanish, not 'the people'-- and that's precisely why we don't hear of something like 'The National Council of the People,' which would not confer the buzz notion of ethnic, racial and tribal chauvinism."

The fringe is the center. The center is the fringe. Viva La Raza?



HERE'S WHAT LA RAZA DID TO THE AMERICAN DREAM THAT ONCE LIVED IN CALIFORNIA!



BOOK:

Mexifornia: SHATTERING OF AN AMERICAN DREAM (illegals call it their DREAM ACT)



http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/05/book-mexifornia-shattering-of-american.html



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THESE FIGURES ON WELFARE FOR ILLEGALS IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY ARE DATED. IT NOW EXCEEDS $600 MILLION PER YEAR!!! (source: Los Angeles County & JUDICIAL

WATCH)





http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1949085/posts



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LOS ANGELES – A MEXICAN WELFARE AND CRIME STATE WHERE THE JOBS ALSO GO TO ILLEGALS



http://mexcanoccupa¬tion.blogs¬pot.com/20¬11/04/mexi¬can-welfar¬e-state-in¬-los-angel¬es.html



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One tragic thing about this book is that it was written in 2003. Since then the

Mexican occupation has doubled. Welfare to illegals is up to $20 BILLION in

California. Welfare to illegals in sanctuary city Los Angeles is past $600

million per year, while Mexican gangs murder all over the state. Yet the

lifer-politicians continue to fight for open borders, more perks for illegals,

and their illegal votes!



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BOOK:

MEXIFORNIA – THE SHATTERING OF THE AMERICAN DREAM

WITH THE MEXICAN INVASION AND OCCUPATION



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"Victor Davis Hanson brings a lifetime of experience in California's

Central Valley to this indictment of multiculturalism and mass

immigration." -- Mark Krikorian, Center for Immigration Studies



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READER’S REVIEW (source: AMAZON)

(COMMENT: ANYWHERE YOU GO IN MEXIFORNIA, YOU HEAR THE ILLEGALS JABBERING AWAY IN MEXICAN, EVEN IF THEY CAN SPEAK ENGLISH. THE LA RAZA SUPREMACIST PRESIDENT OF MEXICO HAS ADMONISHED HIS EXPORTED PEOPLE TO SPEAK ONLY SPANISH TO ESTABLISH THEIR LA RAZA SUPREMACY)



If you don't understand something or disagree with a concept then the best way

to conceal your ignorance or discredit the idea is to call it

"racist". Dr. Hanson did not have to go very far out on a limb to

make the point that non assimilation of Chicanos to American culture is

divisive and destructive - and that it is the new immigrant that is failing to

adapt. Great book, on point and very timely.

*Starred Review*

(MEXICANS ARE THE MOST VIOLENT CULTURE IN THE HEMISPHERE. WE’RE NOT ONLY DEALING WITH ILLEGAL AND UNINSURED DRIVING, ILLEGAL CONTRACTING, IDENTITY THEFT, ILLEGAL VOTING, BUT MURDER ON THE LARGEST SCALE IN AMERICAN HISTORY! ACCORDING TO CA ATTORNEY GENERAL KAMALA HARRIS, NEARLY HALF OF THE MURDERS IN CA ARE BY MEXICAN GANGS!)



Classics professor Hanson is also, like generations of his family before him, a

fruit farmer in California's central valley. He has employed immigrants, seen

them flood his community during the last 30 years of mass flight from Mexico,

and endured the crime associated with illegal immigrants. Hanson is immensely

sympathetic to poor Mexicans, however, and the most powerful chapter here

outlines the harried life of the illegal alien. (THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD IS NO LONGER BILL GATES, IT IS MEX CARLOS SLIM! MEXICO HAS MORE BILLIONAIRES THAN SAUDI ARABIA. THIS IS ENABLED BY THE EXPORTATION OF 40 MILLION  MEXICANS TO OUR COUNTRY TO LOOT. MEXICO EVEN PRINTS MAPS TO OUR BORDERS AND ADVISES LA RAZA HOW TO AVOID BORDER PATROL. MEXICAN CONSULATES IN OUR BORDERS, ABOUT 50 IN TOTAL, PUSH FOR EXPANDED DREAM  ACTS, GETTING ILLEGALS REGISTERED TO VOTE, AND MORE FREE HEALTHCARE. THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT HAS DECLARED THEY DO NOT WANT THEIR CRIMINALS BACK! CA HAS THE LARGEST AND MOST EXPENSIVE PRISON SYSTEM IN THE COUNTRY. HALF THE INMATES ARE MEXICANS!)

But he hates to see the ordered culture in which he grew up drowned by an alien inundation whose undeserving beneficiaries are Mexico's kleptocratic rulers, for whom an open border is asafety valve expelling the potential for democratic change.

 The four solutions to the mess that Hanson enumerates include continuing de facto open borders but insisting on rapid acculturation; patrolling the border effectively and

reducing legal immigration; imposing "sweeping restrictions on

immigration" and ending Mexican chauvinism in the U.S.; and allowing

present policies to make California increasingly mirror an unreformed Mexico.  (YOU CANT GO FROM ONE END OF MEXIFORNIA TO THE OTHER AND NOT SEE ONLY HISPANICS IN OUR JOBS, AND HEAR THEM SPEAKING SPANISH. IN 2006, WE WERE ALL WITNESS TO HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF MEXICAN ON THE MARCH DEMANDING THEIR “RIGHTS” AND WAVING MEXICAN FLAGS.)

Hanson thinks that the U.S. "still need not do everything right" to

prevent social collapse in the Southwest and that the totalitarian uniformity

of valueless mass culture may soften that collapse. He also sees very clearly

what has brought this crisis on: the American globalist ideology's lust for

cheap labor and emphasis on "raw inclusiveness" instead of "standards and taste." (BARACK OBAMA HAS AN AGENDA OF NOT ONLY AMNESTY TO BUY THE LA RAZA VOTES, BUT ALSO OPEN BORDERS BECAUSE HORDES OF ILLEGALS CLIMBING OUR BORDER KEEPS WAGES DEPRESSED FROM $300 TO $400 BILLION PER YEAR)

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Review



"Hanson's 'Mexifornia' is that rare book that combines scholarship with

personal experience to provide genuine insight into a complex issue." --

Linda Chavez, author of An Unlikely Conservative



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"Victor Davis Hanson brings a lifetime of experience in California's

Central Valley to this indictment of multiculturalism and mass

immigration." -- Mark Krikorian, Center for Immigration Studies



• Hardcover: 150 pages

• Publisher: Encounter Books; 1 edition (July 25, 2003)

• Language: English

• ISBN-10: 1893554732

• ISBN-13: 978-1893554733



ALL REVIEWS ARE FROM AMAZON.com

REVIEW 1



This review is from: Mexifornia: A State of Becoming (Hardcover)

This book shows how Mexico sends their poor to America to work, so they don't

have to improve their own country, and how we use these people for cheap labor

so that we can sell things for less. It's a deal made between the two

countries. (THE “DEAL” IS PROBABLY FAR GREATER THAN NOTED HERE. WHEN GEORGE W. BUSH FINALLY SHOWED HIS ASS AT KATRINA, HE HAD POCKETFUL OF NO BID DEALS WORKED OUT FOR HALLIBURTON-CHENEY! BUSH RESCINDED MINIMUM WAGE FOR THOSE HIRED BY HALLIBURTON TO CLEAN UP KATRINA. FORTUNATELY, CONGRESS RESCINDED THE PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE. DESPITE THIS, NEW ORLEANS AND CITES DAMAGED BY THE HURRICANE, WERE DELUGED BY LA RAZA! BIRTH RATES FOR HISPANICS SOARED (AND THEREFORE THE 18 YEARS OF ANCHOR BABY WELFARE THAT FOLLOWS ANCHOR BABY BIRTHING, AND ALSO MEX GANG CRIMES! ONE JOURNALIST HAS REPORTED THAT BUSH AND FORMER NARCOmex PRESIDENT FOX HAMMERED OUT A DEAL. FOX WOULD TURN OVER THE MANAGEMENT OF MEXICO’S CORRUPT BIG OIL TO BUSH’S CORRUPT BUSH-SAUDIS BIG OIL, AND BUSH IN TURN, WOULD MAKE SURE OUR BORDERS WERE KEPT WIDE OPEN FOR MEXICO’S CONTINUED EXPORTATION OF THEIR POOR, PREGNANT AND CRIMINAL CLASSES!)



The trouble is, it's not what American citizens want. The

"servants of the people", the representatives, are not listening to

us, so it's always exciting to read something that really tells it like it is.

This book is written from the viewpoint of someone who actually lives with these

Mexican immigrants. The rich people who want to use them in their businesses

for cheap labor don't live with them; the liberal elites who push for them to

get amnesty don't live with them.  (YOU WONT’ FIND A SINGLE BILLIONAIRE THAT DOES NOT WANT OPEN BORDERS, AMNESTY, DREAM ACTS PAID FOR BY THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS TO SUBSIDIZE MISERABLE WAGES, AND NO E-VERIFY. NOT BILL GATES, WHO WANTS OPEN BORDERS AMNESTY, NOR BILLIONAIRE MAYOR BLOOMBERG OF NEW YORK CITY, WHERE MEX BILLIONAIRE CARLOS SLIM LIVES!) This guy lives among them, and knows the problems first hand, and as I suspected, there are many, and they're not pretty.

He writes very bluntly about the problems, but not without sympathy for the

Mexican immigrants whose own country won't take care of them. With all the new

books out and the discussions going on about legal and illegal immigration, and

what the American people want, I'm hoping that these problems will be solved.

This book is one of the best on the subject, because it is written from a

viewpoint of personal experience.

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REVIEW 2



Victor Hanson combines scholarship (Professor at Cal State) with personal

experience (life long resident and farmer in central CA. who has

Mexican-American family and friends) to present a thoughtful look at the

illegal Mexican immigration crisis. Hanson argues that the reason for this

crisis is that both ends of the political spectrum have vested interests in

continuing the unabated entry of illegal Mexicans. Republicans wish to placate

business interests with cheap labor and Democrats hope for a future electoral

base. Hanson further explains that this wave is not like the earlier waves of

Polish, Jewish, or Italian immigration which was of a fixed duration and where

the connection of the new immigrant to the Homeland was more thoroughly

severed.

This book is well written and to the point (approx. 140 pages). I have also

seen Victor Hanson on several political talk shows. He is well spoken and mild

mannered which is a welcome relief from the cacophonous diatribe we too often

get on cable news channels.

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REVIEW 3

As one who shares the author's ethnic,cultural and geographical heritage, I

thought Hanson did a marvelous job of assessing California's major social

issue, and one of America's primary problems. Like Hanson, I was born and

reared in Fresno County, albeit some 25 miles from his native Selma. I can

attest to the accuracy of his description of Selma and the Central Valley in

the 1950's.

As a child, my associates included Hispanics; as a teenager working in the fig

and peach orchards, my fellow workers were Hispanic. During my professional

career, I have hired and promoted many Hispanics.

Hanson's Scandinavian ancestors (from Sweden) and mine (from Denmark) came to

America legally and without speaking English, but they succeeded--without

bilingual classes, welfare, government subsidies, or that phenomenon known as

"affirmative action", which is being rapidly unmasked as nothing,

more or less, than "reverse discrimination". Hanson deftly exposes

the race industry as an amalgam of organizations and individuals who are quick

to attack the Anglo for any slight, either real or imagined, but who, in the

long run, seem not to do much for those whom they purport to serve.

As a criminologist, I am well aware of the violence committed by Hispanic

Gangs, and the fact that those gangsters who do not wind up in the morgue soon

become expensive inmates in our overcrowded prison system, costing taxpayers

some $25k per year each. I am equally aware of the many outstanding Hispanic

officers, prosecutors, and judges with whom I've worked.

Hanson has eloquently described the failure of our educational programs to work

toward an assimilated America, as well as the failure of the"separatists" in the race industry.  (THIS “SEPARATIST MOVEMENT IS REFERRED TO AS M.E.Ch.A., WHICH IS PARTY OF LA RAZA “THE RACE”. THE TERRITORY THE CLAIM IS THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST, WHICH THEY REFER TO AS “AZTLAN”. THE RACIST LA RAZA MAYOR OF LOS ANGELES, ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA WAS A MEMBER OF M.E.Ch.A. --- SEE THE TRANSCRIPT FROM A LA RAZA FASCISM MEETING BELOW THAT REFERENCES THIS SEPARATIST MOVEMENT).

The one failure which, to my surprise, he did not identify is that of our elected

officials who establish public policy. When Hanson and I were youngsters/young

men in the Central Valley, the politicians seemed to act in the best interests

of their constituencies. Today,by and large, our politicians have little

integrity, but rather pander incessantly to special interests which, in turn,

provide them with campaign funds, endorsements,and precinct workers.It is

common knowledge that, in Sacramento, legislative votes are "for

sale" almost daily.  (THE CA LEGISLATURE IS NOW INFESTED WITH LA RAZA SUPREMACIST PUSHING FOR EXPANDED DREAM ACTS, NO E-VERIFY, NO  IMPOUNDING OF ILLEGALS’ CARS IF CAUGHT DRIVING WITHOUT LICENSE OR INSURANCE. AS FAR AS LACK OF INTEGRITY, JERRY BROWN JUST SIGNED A LAW MAKING IT ILLEGAL FOR EMPLOYERS TO USE E-VERIFY, AND FORMER GOV ARNOLD SCHARZENEGGER, UPON LEAVING OFFICE, GRANTED A PARDON TO FORMER LA RAZA ASSEMBLYMAN NUNEZ SON, A MEXICAN GANG MEMBER WHO COMMITTED MURDER!) Until we can restore some integrity among our public

officials, we will not move toward a better California--better for Hispanics,

Anglos, African Americans, Asians, and all others!

Except for his failure to discuss the lack of integrity among many of our

elected officials, Hanson has done an admirable job. Mexifornia should be on

the "must read" list of all who are concerned about the future of

Californians, notwithstanding the color of their skins!



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WHILE CA IS NOT HALF MEXICAN, NEVADA NOW ONE-THIRD, COLORADO IS BELIEVED TO BE 20% ILLEGAL AND BREEDING FAST. MEXICO ANCHORS THEIR OCCUPATION BY ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS.






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