SENS. DIANNE FEINSTEIN and BARBARA
BOXER are two of the most corrupt politicians in American history. BOTH OF
GOTTEN FILTHY RICH OFF ELECTED OFFICE. BOTH VOTE HELL NOT TO ANY ATTEMPT TO
CLEAN UP THE SQUALID ETHICS OF THE U.S. SENATE.
NOT ONCE, BUT THREE TIMES
FEINSTEIN BOXER HAS ATTEMPTED TO PERPETRATE A “SPECIAL AMNESTY” FOR “CHEAP”
LABOR ILLEGAL FARM WORKERS ON BEHALF OF THEIR BIG AG BIZ DONORS…. DESPITE THE
FACT THAT ONE-THIRD OF ALL “CHEAP” LABOR FARM WORKERS END UP ON WELFARE.
THE FARM WORKER KNOWS THAT HIS
INCOME/WELFARE WILL INCREASE FOR EVERY ANCHOR BABY HE CREATES. MEXICO ANCHORS
THEIR OCCUPATION and EXPANDS THE LA RAZA WELFARE STATE IN OUR BORDERS WITH
ANCHOR BABIES. LOS ANGELES COUNTY ALONE PUTS OUT $600 MILLION PER YEAR IN WELFARE
TO ILLEGALS, PRIMARILY ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS (SOURCE: JUDICIAL WATCH.ORG).
Dianne Feinstein and other
legislators today have introduced an Ag Jobs bill for mucho mas illegals =
cheap depressed labor for Feinstein’s paymasters in the BIG AG BIZ sector
Reply to: see below
Date: 2009-05-15, 2:57PM PDT
Date: 2009-05-15, 2:57PM PDT
A farm workers
dusts a vineyard along Byron Highway near State Route 4 near Point of Timber in
Brentwood, Calif., on Thursday May 14, 2009. For the fourth time this decade,
Senator Diane Feinstein and other legislators today have introduced an
"AgJobs" bill that, if enacted, would legalize more than one million
undocumented farm workers, many of them in California. (Susan Tripp
Pollard/Staff)
New Day, New Push to Legalize Farmworkers
By Matt O'Brien
Contra Costa Times
May 15, 2009
Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Thursday introduced a bill that would grant amnesty to up to 1.35 million farm workers who are working in the country illegally, many of them in California.
Nicknamed the AgJobs Bill, the measure has been proposed multiple times this decade, without success, by Feinstein and other legislators. Some supporters are hoping it might fare better under the Obama administration.
New Day, New Push to Legalize Farmworkers
By Matt O'Brien
Contra Costa Times
May 15, 2009
Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Thursday introduced a bill that would grant amnesty to up to 1.35 million farm workers who are working in the country illegally, many of them in California.
Nicknamed the AgJobs Bill, the measure has been proposed multiple times this decade, without success, by Feinstein and other legislators. Some supporters are hoping it might fare better under the Obama administration.
DONORS AND ILLEGALLY OPEN BANK ACCOUNTS FOR ILLEGALS.
Date: 2008-05-20, 4:58AM
It's time to get some
petitions circulating and get this FRAUD out of office! How disgusting of
Dianne Feinstein to sneak an amnesty provision into the Iraq War Funding bill.
She knows darn well that most senators will vote for funding for our troops.
She thinks she can sneak this through by putting this provision in at the last
moment - even though it has absolutely nothing to do with the Iraq war. Well
it's time to stop playing all these games. If Ms. Feinstein can't operate in an
honest and above-board fashion, she needs to find a different job! I'm a
liberal who is fed up with her sneaky, conniving, and CORRUPT ways. IT'S TIME
TO RECALL THIS B*TCH!!!!!
THE
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
Immigration bill sticker shock $127
BILLION (dated)
A government study puts the cost
of the Senate's version of reform at $127 billion over 10 years.
By Gail Russell Chaddock - Staff writer of The Christian Science
Monitor
WASHINGTON
The price tag for comprehensive immigration reform was not
a key issue when the Senate passed its bill last May. But it is now.
One reason: It took the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) -
the gold standard for determining what a bill will cost - until last week to
estimate that federal spending for this vast and complex bill would hit $127
billion over the next 10 years.
At the same time, federal revenues would drop by about $79
billion, according to the CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation. If lawmakers
fix a tax glitch, that loss would be cut in half, they add.
In field hearings across the nation this month, House GOP
leaders are zeroing in on the costs of the Senate bill. It's a bid to define
the issue heading into fall elections and muster support for the House bill,
which focuses on border security. They say that the more people know about the
Senate version, including a path to citizenship for some 11 million people now
in the country illegally, the less they will be inclined to support it.
“WE ARE NOW JUST BEGINNING TO SEE
A GLIMPSE OF THE STAGGERING BURDEN ON AMERICAN TAXPAYERS” OF THE MEXICAN INVASION.......
"We are now just beginning to see a glimpse of the
staggering burden on American taxpayers the Reid-Kennedy immigration
legislation contains," said House Judiciary Committee Chairman James
Sensenbrenner, who convened a field hearing at the State House in Concord,
N.H., Thursday on the costs of the Senate bill.
But business groups and others backing the Senate bill say
that the cost to the US economy of not resolving the status of illegal
immigrants and expanding guest-worker programs is higher still. "In my
opinion, the fairer question is: How will illegal immigrants impact the costs
of healthcare, local education, and social services without passage of
comprehensive immigration reform?" said John Young, co-chairman of the
Agriculture Coalition for Immigration Reform, at Thursday's hearing.
"Had we solved this problem in a truly comprehensive
way in 1986 ... we would not have the daily news reporting outright shortages
of farm labor threatening the very existence of agricultural industries coast
to coast," he adds.
Experts are poring over the new CBO data - and coming up
with radically different assessments of the social costs of reform, ranging
from tens of billions of dollars higher to a net wash.
On the issue of border security - a feature in both bills -
there is little disagreement. The CBO estimates that the cost of hardening US
borders in the Senate bill is $78.3 billion over 10 years, or about 62 percent
of the bill's total cost.
The fireworks involve new entitlement spending in the
Senate version. The CBO sets the price tag for services for some 16 million new
citizens and guest workers at $48.4 billion through fiscal year 2016. That
includes $24.5 billion for earned income and child tax credits, $11.7 billion
for Medicaid, $5.2 billion for Social Security, $3.7 billion for Medicare, and
$2.4 billion for food stamps.
But it's easier to estimate the cost of a mile of fence
than to assess the prospects for millions of workers, once they can work
legally and claim benefits.
“THE AMNESTY ALONE WILL BE THE
LARGEST EXPANSION OF THE WELFARE SYSTEM IN THE LAST 25 YEARS” Heritage
Foundation
"The amnesty alone will be the largest expansion of
the welfare system in the last 25 years," says Robert Rector, a senior
analyst at the Heritage Foundation, and a witness at a House Judiciary
Committee field hearing in San Diego Aug. 2. "Welfare costs will begin to
hit their peak around 2021, because there are delays in citizenship. The very
narrow time horizon [the CBO is] using is misleading," he adds. "If
even a small fraction of those who come into the country stay and get on
Medicaid, you're looking at costs of $20 billion or $30 billion per year."
……………………
Illegal Immigration Costs
California Over Ten Billion Annually (these figures are dated, and are in fact
double this!)
Working to give away your job to an illegal, and keep wages
depressed for WALL ST, is Feinstein, Boxer, Pelosi, Farr, Baca, Sanchez,
Waxman, Lofgren and Eshoo and OBAMA IS LINING UP RIGHT BEHIND THEM, KISSING THE
ILLEGALS’ ASS FOR VOTES!
Date: 2007-06-18, 1:07AM PDT
In hosting America's largest population of illegal immigrants, California bears a huge cost to provide basic human services for this fast growing, low-income segment of its population. A new study from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) examines the costs of education, health care and incarceration of illegal aliens, and concludes that the costs to Californians is $10.5 billion per year.
Among the key finding of the report are that the state's already struggling K-12 education system spends approximately $7.7 billion a year to school the children of illegal aliens who now constitute 15 percent of the student body. Another $1.4 billion of the taxpayers' money goes toward providing health care to illegal aliens and their families, the same amount that is spent incarcerating illegal aliens criminals.
"California's addiction to 'cheap' illegal alien labor is bankrupting the state and posing enormous burdens on the state's shrinking middle class tax base," stated Dan Stein, President of FAIR. "Most Californians, who have seen their taxes increase while public services deteriorate, already know the impact that mass illegal immigration is having on their communities, but even they may be shocked when they learn just how much of a drain illegal immigration has become."
The Costs of Illegal Immigration to Californians focuses on three specific program areas because those were the costs examined by researchers from the Urban Institute in 1994. Looking at the costs of education, health care and incarceration for illegal aliens in 1994, the Urban Institute estimated that California was subsidizing illegal immigrants to the tune of about $1.1 billion. The enormous rise in the costs of illegal immigrants over the intervening ten years is due to the rapid growth in illegal residents. It is reasonable to expect those costs to continue to soar if action is not taken to turn the tide.
"Nineteen ninety-four was the same year that California voters rebelled and overwhelmingly passed Proposition 187, which sought to limit liability for mass illegal immigration. Since then, state and local governments have blatantly ignored the wishes of the voters and continued to shell out publicly financed benefits on illegal aliens," said Stein. "Predictably, the costs of illegal immigration have grown geometrically, while the state has spiraled into a fiscal crisis that has brought it near bankruptcy.
"Nothing could more starkly illustrate the very high costs of ‘cheap labor' than California's current situation," continued Stein. "A small number of powerful interests in the state reap the benefits, while the average native-born family in California gets handed a nearly $1,200 a year bill."
The Federation for American Immigration Reform is a nonprofit, public-interest, membership organization advocating immigration policy reforms that would tighten border security and prevent illegal immigration, while reducing legal immigration levels from about 1.1 million persons per year to 300,000 per year.
Illegal
aliens cost California billions
(CURRENTLY
AT THE STATE LEVEL, $22 BILLION IS HANDED OVER TO ILLEGALS FOR SOCIAL SERVICES.
COUNTIES PAY OUT EVEN MORE WITH LOS ANGELES COUNTY PAYING OUT $600 MILLION IN
WELFARE TO ILLEGALS).
By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES Published
December 7, 2004 (true figures much bleaker)
Illegal immigration costs the
taxpayers of California -- which has the highest number of illegal aliens
nationwide -- $10.5 billion a year for education, health care and
incarceration, according to a study released yesterday. A key finding of the
report by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) said the
state's already struggling kindergarten-through-12th-grade education system
spends $7.7 billion a year on children of illegal aliens, who constitute 15
percent of the student body. The report also said the incarceration of
convicted illegal aliens in state prisons and jails and uncompensated medical
outlays for health care provided to illegal aliens each amounted to about $1.4
billion annually. The incarceration costs did not include judicial expenditures
or the monetary costs of the crimes committed by illegal aliens that led to
their incarceration. "California's addiction to 'cheap' illegal-alien
labor is bankrupting the state and posing enormous burdens on the state's
shrinking middle-class tax base," said FAIR President Dan Stein.
"Most Californians, who have seen their taxes increase while public
services deteriorate, already know the impact that mass illegal immigration is
having on their communities, but even they may be shocked when they learn just
how much of a drain illegal immigration has become," he said. California
is estimated to be home to nearly 3 million illegal aliens. Mr. Stein noted
that state and local taxes paid by the unauthorized immigrant population go
toward offsetting these costs, but do not match expenses. The total of such
payments was estimated in the report to be about $1.6 billion per year. He also
said the total cost of illegal immigration to the state's taxpayers would be
considerably higher if other cost areas, such as special English instruction,
school meal programs or welfare benefits for American workers displaced by
illegal-alien workers were added into the equation. Gerardo Gonzalez, director
of the National Latino Research Center at California State at San Marcos, which
compiles data on Hispanics, was critical of FAIR's report yesterday. He said
FAIR's estimates did not measure some of the contributions that illegal aliens
make to the state's economy. "Beyond taxes, these workers' production and
spending contribute to California's economy, especially the agricultural
sector," he said, adding that both legal and illegal aliens are the
"backbone" of the state's $28 billion-a-year agricultural industry.
In August, a similar study by the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington,
said U.S. households headed by illegal aliens used $26.3 billion in government
services during 2002, but paid $16 billion in taxes, an annual cost to
taxpayers of $10 billion. The FAIR report focused on three specific program
areas because those were the costs examined by researchers from the Urban
Institute in 1994, Mr. Stein said. Looking at the costs of education, health
care and incarceration for illegal aliens in 1994, the Urban Institute
estimated that California was subsidizing illegal immigrants at about $1.1
billion a year. Mr. Stein said an enormous rise in the costs of illegal
immigrants in 10 years is because of the rapid growth of the illegal
population. He said it is reasonable to expect those costs to continue to soar
if action is not taken to turn the tide. "1994 was the same year that
California voters rebelled and overwhelmingly passed Proposition 187, which
sought to limit liability for mass illegal immigration," he said.
"Since then, state and local governments have blatantly ignored the wishes
of the voters and continued to shell out publicly financed benefits on illegal
aliens. "Predictably, the costs of illegal immigration have grown
geometrically, while the state has spiraled into a fiscal crisis that has brought
it near bankruptcy," he said. Mr. Stein said that the state must adopt
measures to systematically collect information on illegal-alien use of
taxpayer-funded services and on where they are employed, and that policies need
to be pursued to hold employers financially accountable.
PELOSI HAS LONG HIRED ILLEGALS AT HER ST. HELENA, NAPA WINERY.
FEINSTEIN HAS LONG HIRED ILLEGALS AT HER S.F. HOTEL, ONLY MILES
FROM HER $16 MILLION WAR PROFITEER’S MANSION.
Pelosi's
corrupt insider passing of bills that make her rich.
Reply to: see below
Date: 2009-01-16, 10:47PM MST
Date: 2009-01-16, 10:47PM MST
Check for yourself
http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/did_nancy_pelosi_get_wage_breaks_and.html
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's home House District includes San Francisco.
Star-Kist Tuna's headquarters are in San Francisco, Pelosi's home district.
Star-Kist is owned by Del Monte Foods and is a major contributor to Pelosi.
Star-Kist is the major employer in American Samoa employing 75% of the Samoan workforce.
Paul Pelosi, Nancy's husband, owns $17 million dollars of Star-Kist stock.
In January, 2007 when the minimum wage was increased from $5.15 to $7.25, Pelosi had American Samoa exempted from the increase so Del Monte would not have to pay the higher wage. This would make Del Monte products less expensive than their competition's.
Last week when the huge bailout bill was passed, Pelosi added an earmark to the final bill adding $33 million dollars for an "economic development credit in American Samoa".
Pelosi has called the Bush Administration "corrupt".
Check some more for yourself
http://www.snopes.com/politics/pelosi/americansamoa.asp
CASE STUDY OF ONE OF
FEINSTEIN’S “CHEAP” LABOR ILLEGALS WORKING FOR ONE OF HER BIG AG BIZ DONORS:
"U. S. MEDICAL SYSTEMS
OVERLOAD" ... 1 IN 10 CHILDREN BORN
IN THE US ARE NOW BY ILLEGALS.
1 IN 5 BIRTHS IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY
ARE ILLEGALS paid for by Medical.
In CA now the cost of delivering
ANCHOR babies is $600 million per year.
In the Dallas hospital that JFK died
at, 75% of the births are ANCHORS.
THE SAD THING IS THESE ILLEGALS WILL
TEACH THEIR CHILDREN NOT TO SPEAK ENGLISH, NOT TO EMBRACE LITERACY, AND TO WAVE
THE MEXICAN FLAG. IN OTHER WORDS, THEY DIDN’T HOP THE BORDER FOR U.S.
TAXPAYERS’ WELFARE, THE BORDER CROSSED THEM.
IN CALIFORNIA WE’VE GONE FROM THE
APPALLING RATING OF NUMBER 26TH IN EDUCATION TO NUMBER 48TH
AT THE BOTTOM DUE TO THE MEXICAN INVASION AND THEIR CONTEMPT FOR ENGLISH AND
LITERACY.
A CASE STUDY OF MEXICANS FEEDING OFF THE AMERICAN GRAVY
TRAIN:
Jose Herria
emigrated illegally from Mexico to Stockton, Calif., in 1997 to work as a fruit
picker. He brought with him his wife, Felipa, and three children, 19, 12 and 8
– all illegals. When Felipa gave birth to her fourth child, daughter Flor, the
family had what is referred to as an "anchor baby" – an American
citizen by birth who provided the entire Silverio clan a ticket to remain in
the U.S. permanently. But Flor was born premature, spent three months in the
neonatal incubator and cost the San Joaquin Hospital more than $300,000.
Meanwhile, oldest daughter Lourdes married an illegal alien gave birth to a
daughter, too. Her name is Esmeralda. And Felipa had yet another child,
Cristian. The two Silverio anchor babies generate $1,000 per month in public
welfare funding for the family. Flor gets $600 a month for asthma. Healthy
Cristian gets $400. While the Silverios earned $18,000 last year picking fruit,
they picked up another $12,000 for their two "anchor babies." While
President Bush says the U.S. needs more "cheap labor" from south of
the border to do jobs Americans aren't willing to do, the case of the Silverios
shows there are indeed uncalculated costs involved in the importation of such
labor – public support and uninsured medical costs. In fact, the increasing
number of illegal aliens coming into the United States is forcing the closure
of hospitals, spreading previously vanquished diseases and threatening to
destroy America's prized health-care system, says a report in the spring issue
of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. "The influx of illegal
aliens has serious hidden medical consequences," writes Madeleine Pelner
Cosman, author of the report. "We judge reality primarily by what we see.
But what we do not see can be more dangerous, more expensive, and more deadly
than what is seen." According to her study, 84 California hospitals are
closing their doors as a direct result of the rising number of illegal aliens
and their non-reimbursed tax on the system. "Anchor babies," the
author writes, "born to illegal aliens instantly qualify as citizens for
welfare benefits and have caused enormous rises in Medicaid costs and stipends
under Supplemental Security Income and Disability Income." In addition,
the report says, "many illegal aliens harbor fatal diseases that American
medicine fought and vanquished long ago, such as drug-resistant tuberculosis,
malaria, leprosy, plague, polio, dengue, and Chagas disease." While
politicians often mention there are 43 million without health insurance in this
country, the report estimates that at least 25 percent of those are illegal
immigrants. The figure could be as high as 50 percent. Not being insured does
not mean they don't get medical care. Under the Emergency Medical Treatment and
Active Labor Act of 1985, hospitals are obligated to treat the uninsured
without reimbursement. "Government imposes viciously stiff fines and penalties
on any physician and any hospital refusing to treat any patient that a zealous
prosecutor deems an emergency patient, even though the hospital or physician
screened and declared the patient's illness or injury non-emergency," says
the report. "But government pays neither hospital nor physician for
treatments. In addition to the fiscal attack on medical facilities and
personnel, EMTALA is a handy truncheon with which to pummel politically
unpopular physicians by falsely accusing them of violating EMTALA." According
to the report, between 1993 and 2003, 60 California hospitals closed because
half their services became unpaid. Another 24 California hospitals verge on
closure, the author writes. "American hospitals welcome 'anchor
babies,'" says the report. "Illegal alien women come to the hospital
in labor and drop their little anchors, each of whom pulls its illegal alien
mother, father, and siblings into permanent residency simply by being born
within our borders. Anchor babies are citizens, and instantly qualify for
public welfare aid: Between 300,000 and 350,000 anchor babies annually become
citizens because of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the
jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the State wherein
they reside." Among the organizations directing illegal aliens into
America's medical systems, according to the report, are the Ford
Foundation-funded Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the
National Immigration Law Center, the American Immigration Lawyers Association,
the American Bar Association's Commission on Immigration Policy, Practice, and
Pro Bono, the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, the National Council of La Raza,
George Soros's Open Society Institute, the Migration Policy Institute, the
National Network for Immigration and Refugee Rights and the Southern Poverty
Law Center. Because drug addiction and alcoholism are classified as diseases
and disabilities, the fiscal toll on the health-care system rises. When Linda
Torres was arrested in Bakersfield, Calif., with about $8,500 in small bills in
a sack, the police originally thought it was stolen money, explained the
report. It was her Social Security lump sum for her disability -- heroin
addiction. "Today, legal immigrants must demonstrate that they are free of
communicable diseases and drug addiction to qualify for lawful permanent
residency green cards," writes Cosman, a medical lawyer, who formerly
taught medical students at the City University of New York. "Illegal
aliens simply cross our borders medically unexamined, hiding in their bodies
any number of communicable diseases." Many illegals entering this country
have tuberculosis, according to the report. "That disease had largely
disappeared from America, thanks to excellent hygiene and powerful modern drugs
such as isoniazid and rifampin," says the report. "TB's swift, deadly
return now is lethal for about 60 percent of those infected because of new
Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis. Until recently MDR-TB was endemic to Mexico.
This Mycobacterium tuberculosis is resistant to at least two major
anti-tubercular drugs. Ordinary TB usually is cured in six months with four
drugs that cost about $2,000. MDR-TB takes 24 months with many expensive drugs
that cost around $250,000 with toxic side effects. Each illegal with MDR-TB
coughs and infects 10 to 30 people, who will not show symptoms immediately.
Latent disease explodes later. TB was virtually absent in Virginia until in
2002, when it spiked a 17 percent increase, but Prince William County, just
south of Washington, D.C., had a much larger rise of 188 percent. Public health
officials blamed immigrants. In 2001 the Indiana School of Medicine studied an
outbreak of MDR-TB, and traced it to Mexican illegal aliens. The Queens, New
York, health department attributed 81 percent of new TB cases in 2001 to
immigrants. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ascribed 42 percent
of all new TB cases to 'foreign born' people who have up to eight times higher
incidences apparently, 66 percent of all TB cases coming to America originate
in Mexico, the Philippines and Vietnam." Other health threats from
illegals include, according to the report: Chagas disease, also called American
trypanosomiasis or "kissing bug disease," is transmitted by the
reduviid bug, which prefers to bite the lips and face. The protozoan parasite
that it carries, Trypanosoma cruzi, infects 18 million people annually in Latin
America and causes 50,000 deaths. The disease also infiltrates America's blood
supply. Chagas affects blood transfusions and transplanted organs. No cure
exists. Hundreds of blood recipients may be silently infected. Leprosy, also
known as Hansen's disease, was so rare in America that in 40 years only 900
people were afflicted. Suddenly, in the past three years America has more than
7,000 cases of leprosy. Leprosy now is endemic to northeastern states because
illegal aliens and other immigrants brought leprosy from India, Brazil, the
Caribbean and Mexico. Dengue fever is exceptionally rare in America, though
common in Ecuador, Peru, Vietnam, Thailand, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Mexico.
Recently, according to the report, there was a virulent outbreak of dengue
fever in Webb County, Texas, which borders Mexico. Though dengue is usually not
a fatal disease, dengue hemorrhagic fever routinely kills. Polio was eradicated
from America, but now reappears in illegal immigrants as do intestinal
parasites, says the report. Malaria was obliterated, but now is re-emerging in
Texas. The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons report includes a strong
prescription for protecting the health of Americans: Closing America's borders
with fences, high-tech security devices and troops. Rescinding the U.S.
citizenship of "anchor babies." Punishing the aiding and abetting of
illegal aliens as a crime. An end to amnesty programs.
GIVE A WHORE A CALL:
ASK HER WHAT SHE’S DONE TO PUT
MONEY IN HER PIMP’S POCKETS TODAY.
San Francisco
One Post Street, Suite 2450
San Francisco, CA 94104
Phone: (415) 393-0707
Fax: (415) 393-0710
Los Angeles
11111 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 915
Los Angeles, CA 90025
Phone: (310) 914-7300
Fax: (310) 914-7318
San Diego
750 B Street, Suite 1030
San Diego, CA 92101
Phone: (619) 231-9712
Fax: (619) 231-1108
Fresno
2500 Tulare Street, Suite 4290
Fresno, CA 93721
Phone: (559) 485-7430
Fax: (559) 485-9689
One Post Street, Suite 2450
San Francisco, CA 94104
Phone: (415) 393-0707
Fax: (415) 393-0710
Los Angeles
11111 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 915
Los Angeles, CA 90025
Phone: (310) 914-7300
Fax: (310) 914-7318
San Diego
750 B Street, Suite 1030
San Diego, CA 92101
Phone: (619) 231-9712
Fax: (619) 231-1108
Fresno
2500 Tulare Street, Suite 4290
Fresno, CA 93721
Phone: (559) 485-7430
Fax: (559) 485-9689
*
ADD TO THESE FIGURES THE STAGGERING COST OF THE MEXICAN
CRIME TIDAL WAVE! ACCORDING TO CA ATTORNEY GEN. KAMALA HARRIS, NEARLY HALF OF ALL MURDERS IN CA ARE BY MEXICAN
GANGS!
CA HAS THE LARGEST AND MOST EXPENSIVE PRISON SYSTEM. HALF
THE INMATES ARE MEXICANS.
OF THE TOP 200 MOST WANTED CRIMINALS IN LOS ANGELES, 183 ARE
MEXICANS, AND MOST OF THE REST ARE RUSSIANS.
*
WILL MEXICO
BANKRUPT AMERICA LIKE IT HAS MEXIFORNIA?
BOOK: Mexifornia: SHATTERING OF AN
AMERICAN DREAM (illegals call it their DREAM ACT)
Calif.
Hospitals Spend $1.25 Bil On Illegal Immigrants
July 05, 2011
While
the Obama Administration halts deportations to work on its secret amnesty plan, hospitals across the
U.S. are getting stuck with the exorbitant tab of medically treating illegal
immigrants and some are finally demanding compensation from the federal
government.The group that represents most of the nation’s hospitals and medical
providers recently urged President Obama to work with Congress to reimburse
them for the monstrous cost of treating illegal immigrants. Federal law
requires facilities to “treat and stabilize individuals” regardless of their
immigration status, but federal support for the services remains “virtually nonexistent,” according to a letter
submitted by the American Hospital Association to the president.This week
officials in California, the state with the largest concentration of illegal
immigrants, joined the call for federal compensation after revealing that
hospitals there spend about $1.25 billion annually to care for illegal
aliens. The figure skyrocketed from $1.05 billion in 2007, according to
California Hospital Association figures quoted in a local news report.The
problem will only get worst, according to officials, who say the $1.25 billion
for 2010 could actually be higher. They complain that federal law forces them
to treat patients in emergency rooms regardless of immigration status yet they
get stuck with the financial burden. This has forced many hospitals to curtail
services or close beds and could ultimately compromise healthcare. Nationwide,
U.S. taxpayers spend tens of billions of dollars annually to provide free
medical care for illegal immigrants with states that border Mexico taking the biggest
hit. Adding to the problem is the fact that Mexico, the country that provides
the largest amount of illegal immigrants in the U.S., has long promoted
America’s generous public health centers. It even operates a Spanish-language program (Ventanillas de Salud,
Health Windows) in about a dozen U.S. cities that refers its nationals—living
in the country illegally—to publicly funded health centers where they can get
free medical care without being turned over to immigration authorities.
*
Lloyd Billingsley
The DREAM and the Nightmare
In California, students are better off being illegal immigrants than legal.
30 March 2012
The DREAM and the Nightmare
In California, students are better off being illegal immigrants than legal.
30 March 2012
Last
year, Governor Jerry Brown signed the California DREAM Act, which makes
students in the country illegally eligible for grants and waivers to attend one
of the state’s public colleges or universities. The students must have attended
school in the state for three years, “affirm that they are in the process of
applying to legalize their immigration status,” and show both financial need
and academic achievement. Assemblyman Gil Cedillo, the Los Angeles Democrat who
authored the DREAM Act, hails the legislation as a victory for those “in the
country through no fault of their own.” Opponents such as Republican
assemblyman Tim Donnelly—a first-term legislator not given to
understatement—called Cedillo’s legislation the “California Nightmare Act,” said it is “morally wrong,” and would create “a new entitlement that is going to cause tens of thousands of people
to come here illegally from all over the world.”
Poster
children for the DREAM Act abound. Mandeep Chahal, for example, was six years
old when her parents brought her to the United States from India. Chahal wants
to be a doctor; her fellow students at Los Altos High School near Palo Alto
voted her the person “Most Likely to Save the World.” That’s a tall order, but
to deny such a person the opportunity seems unreasonable. “Many parents of
these children pay taxes for many services they cannot get,” argues Cedillo.
Cedillo’s
point implies that illegal immigrants are the only ones subject to this
dynamic. But consider: my taxes subsidize the Medi-Cal system, which provides
medical care for low-income state residents, but I couldn’t “get” health care
that way, even in the year my income was so low that my daughter qualified for
a Pell Grant. Likewise, the taxes of, say, a California welder help pay for
top-drawer pensions and benefits for state
government employees, but he can’t enjoy those benefits himself. Neither is he
entitled to get a government job merely because his taxes help pay the salaries
and benefits of workers at the Department of Motor Vehicles, CalTrans, the
California Air Resources Board, the Franchise Tax Board, California’s
Department of Education, the State Board of Equalization, the Coastal
Commission, and on and on.
The
taxes of a fast-food worker help subsidize the University of California at
Berkeley, but nothing guarantees that taxpayer admission to Berkeley. The
state’s Master Plan for Higher Education does
guarantee everyone a place in the system, whether at a community college, a
state university, or within the UC system. But no one is promised a place at
the top, and the system grants no special favors to legal immigrants. When I
came to the United States, legally, in 1977, I had been studying at the
University of Windsor, a four-year school in my hometown of Windsor, Ontario. I
wanted to continue my studies at San Diego State University but was not allowed
to transfer because I hadn’t attended high school in California. SDSU
administrators suggested I try the state’s community college system, which
seemed a step down from what I had in mind. But eventually, I put two children
through San Diego State. They’re now working in productive careers, a tax
burden to no one. No legislation rewards parents for that achievement or for
coming to the United States with proper documents.
Cedillo’s law, by contrast,
rewards those who came to California illegally. Will the law, therefore,
encourage more people to enter the state illegally, as Donnelly and other
critics assert?
(IN FACT THERE ARE MORE THAN
11 MILLION ILLEGALS IN SOUTHERN CA ALONE! NOW NEARLY 40% OF CA ARE ILLEGALS,
33% OF NEVADA AND 24% OF COLORADO. MOST
NON LA RAZA PROPAGANDA SOURCES BUT THE NUMBER OF ILLEGALS AT 40 MILLION
AND BREEDING LIKE BUNNIES!)
Recall
how Congress passed and President Ronald Reagan signed the Immigration Reform
and Control Act of 1986, which gave amnesty to several million undocumented
immigrants. A quarter of a century later, the number of illegal immigrants
stands at 11.5 million. It seems clear
that the 1986 act didn’t discourage foreign nationals from entering the United
States without signing the guest book. One of those who obtained
citizenship under the Act was Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, who made his way
through UC Berkeley and Harvard Medical School and is now associate professor
of neurosurgery and oncology at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in
Baltimore. Quinones-Hinojosa and others who have spoken out in support of the
DREAM Act often give the impression that their cases are typical of illegal
aliens. Not exactly. Amnesty measures, however well-intentioned, usually bring
unintended consequences.
THE REALITY OF LA RAZA’S LOOTING OF CA:
Consider Ignacio Mesa Viera,
subject of a recent front-page story in the Sacramento Bee.
He came to the United States illegally in 1979 to work and help his family, as
he explained, but was convicted on a drug offense in 1995. He was deported but
returned to the United States, whereupon he was busted for another drug offense
in 2008. Before his recent deportation, the U.S. government was paying for
Viera’s kidney dialysis, a treatment that can cost more than $60,000 a year. “I
imagine that the reason they don’t want to let me stay in this country,” Viera
told the Bee, “is they don’t want to be paying for this.”
Cedillo
and his colleagues need to know that everybody’s taxes pay for services they
and their children “cannot get”—including kidney dialysis and other expensive
medical treatments courtesy of the federal government. Meantime, as a University of California report noted last year, tens of
thousands of middle-class, taxpaying legal residents are being squeezed out of
an affordable college education even as the legislature contrives to provide
scholarships for the children of illegal aliens. The lawmakers’ solution is to create yet another
entitlement in the form of a new $1 billion scholarship program for students
whose families earn less than $150,000 a year. Such is life in the Golden
State, even with a DREAM Act in place.
Lloyd
Billingsley is the author of Hollywood Party:
How Communism Seduced the American Film Industry in the 1930s and 1940s and the former editorial
director of the Pacific Research Institute.
*
OBAMA
HAS PROMISED HIS LA RAZA “THE RACE” PARTY BASE of ILLEGALS AMNESTY, NO
E-VERIFY, NO I.D. FOR REQUIRED OF ILLEGALS VOTING… OR AT LEAST CONTINUED
NON-ENFORCEMENT!
OBAMA
HANDS MASSIVE WELFARE TO ILLEGALS, ALONG WITH OUR JOBS TO BUY THE ILLEGALS'
ILLEGAL VOTES!
Most Illegal
Immigrant Families Collect Welfare
April 05, 2011
Surprise,
surprise; Census Bureau data reveals that most U.S. families headed by illegal
immigrants use taxpayer-funded welfare programs on behalf of their
American-born anchor babies. Even before the recession, immigrant households
with children used welfare programs at consistently higher rates than natives,
according to the extensive census data collected and analyzed by a nonpartisan Washington
D.C. group dedicated to researching legal and illegal immigration in the U.S.
The results, published this month in a lengthy report,
are hardly surprising. Basically, the majority of households across the country
benefitting from publicly-funded welfare programs are headed by immigrants,
both legal and illegal. States where immigrant households with children have
the highest welfare use rates are Arizona (62%), Texas, California and New York
with 61% each and Pennsylvania(59%).The study focused on eight major welfare
programs that cost the government $517 billion the year they were examined.
They include Supplemental Security Income (SSI) for the disabled, Temporary
Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), a nutritional program known as Women,
Infants and Children (WIC), food stamps, free/reduced school lunch, public
housing and health insurance for the poor (Medicaid).Food assistance and
Medicaid are the programs most commonly used by illegal immigrants, mainly on
behalf of their American-born children who get automatic citizenship. On the
other hand, legal immigrant households take advantage of every available
welfare program, according to the study, which attributes it to low education
level and resulting low income. The highest rate of welfare recipients come
from the Dominican Republic (82 %), Mexico and Guatemala (75%) and Ecuador
(70%), according to the report, which says welfare use tends to be high for
both new arrivals and established residents.
*
CA
UNDER MEX OCCUPATION OPERATES $16 BILLION IN DEFICITS, WHILE PUTTING OUT $20
BILLION IN SOCIAL SERVICES TO ILLEGALS. THESE ARE STATE COSTS. ADD WHAT THE
COUNTIES ARE FORCED TO PAY OUT AND THEN THE AMOUNT PRIVATE HOSPITALS MUST PAY
FOR MEXICO’S “FREE” MEDICAL ($1.3 BILLION YEARLY!).
WILL
MEXICO BANKRUPT AMERICA? OR JUST TAKE ALL OUR JOBS?
*
LOS ANGELES ANCHOR BABY WELFARE PROGRAM:
THESE FIGURES ON WELFARE FOR ILLEGALS IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY ARE DATED. IT NOT EXCEEDS $600 MILLION PER YEAR!!! (source: Los Angeles County & JUDICIAL WATCH)
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.
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.
From the Los Angeles Times
CAPITOL JOURNAL
Illegal
immigrants are a factor in California's budget math
George Skelton
Capitol Journal
February 2, 2009
From Sacramento — Based on my e-mail, a lot of folks think the solution to California's state budget deficit is to round up all the illegal immigrants and truck them down to Mexico.
Wrong. Even if it were logistically possible and the deportees didn't just climb off the truck and hitch another ride back up north, their absence from the state wouldn't come close to saving enough tax dollars to balance a budget that has a $42-billion hole projected over the next 17 months.
Painful cuts in education, healthcare and social service programs still would be needed. Sharp tax increases would be required.
That said, let's be honest: Illegal immigration does cost California taxpayers a substantial wad, undeniably into the billions.
But it hasn't been PC for officeholders to talk about this for years, ever since Gov. Pete Wilson broke his pick waging an aggressive campaign for Proposition 187. That 1994 ballot initiative sought to bar illegal immigrants from most public services, including education. Voters approved the measure overwhelmingly, but it was tossed out by the courts.
Wilson was demonized by Democrats within the Latino community. And many think the Republican Party never has recovered among this rapidly growing slice of the electorate.
So it's not a topic that comes easily to the tongues of politicians, even Republicans.
Besides, most of the policy issues are out of California's hands. The federal government has jurisdiction over the border. Federal law decrees that every child is entitled to attend public school, regardless of immigration status. And every person -- here illegally or not -- must be cared for in hospital emergency rooms.
But the state does add a few benefits that aren't required.
And as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders dig into the books trying to find billions in savings, at least a brief look at what's being spent on illegal immigrants seems in order.
First, nobody seems to know exactly. Numbers vary widely, depending which side they come from in the ongoing angry debate over whether people who entered the country illegally to work should be allowed to stay or loaded on the southbound truck.
But here are some no-agenda numbers:
* There were 2.8 million illegal immigrants living in California in 2006, the last year for which there are relatively good figures, according to the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California. That represented about 8% of the state's population and roughly a quarter of the nation's illegal immigrants. About 90% of California's illegal immigrants were from Latin America; 65% from Mexico.
* There are roughly 19,000 illegal immigrants in state prisons, representing 11% of all inmates. That's costing $970 million during the current fiscal year. The feds kick in a measly $111 million, leaving the state with an $859 million tab.
* Schools are the toughest to calculate. Administrators don't ask kids about citizenship status. Anyway, many children of illegal immigrants were born in this country and automatically became U.S. citizens.
If you figure that the children of illegal immigrants attending K-12 schools approximates the proportion of illegal immigrants in the population, the bill currently comes to roughly $4 billion. Most is state money; some local property taxes.
* Illegal immigrants aren't entitled to welfare, called CalWORKs. But their citizen children are. Roughly 190,000 kids are receiving welfare checks that pass through their parents. The cost: about $500 million, according to the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office.
Schwarzenegger has proposed removing these children from the welfare rolls after five years. It's part of a broader proposal to also boot off, after five years, the children of U.S. citizens who aren't meeting federal work requirements. There'd be a combined savings of $522 million.
* The state is spending $775 million on Medi-Cal healthcare for illegal immigrants, according to the legislative analyst. Of that, $642 million goes into direct benefits. Practically all the rest is paid to counties to administer the program. The feds generally match the state dollar-for-dollar on mandatory programs.
So-called emergency services are the biggest state cost: $536 million. Prenatal care is $59 million. Not counted in the overall total is the cost of baby delivery -- $108 million -- because the newborns aren't illegal immigrants.
The state also pays $47 million for programs that Washington does not require: Non-emergency care (breast and cervical cancer treatment), $25 million; long-term nursing home care, $19 million; abortions, $3 million.
Schwarzenegger has proposed requiring illegal immigrants to requalify every month for Medi-Cal benefits, except pregnancy-related emergencies.
There also are other taxpayer costs -- especially through local governments -- but those are the biggies for the state. Add them all up and the state spends well over $5 billion a year on illegal immigrants and their families.
Of course, illegal immigrants do pay state taxes. But no way do they pay enough to replenish what they're drawing in services. Their main revenue contribution would be the sales tax, but they can't afford to be big consumers, and food and prescription drugs are exempt.
My view is this: These people are here illegally and shouldn't be, regardless of whether they're just looking for a better life. Do it the legal way. And enforce the law against hiring the undocumented.
On the other hand, they are here. We can't have uneducated kids and unhealthy people living with us. We have moral obligations and practical imperatives.
The Obama administration and Congress need to finally pass an immigration reform act that allows for an agriculture work program and a route to citizenship.
Meanwhile, California should be honest about the costs. Illegal immigrants are not the sole cause of the state's deficit. But they are a drain.
Capitol Journal
February 2, 2009
From Sacramento — Based on my e-mail, a lot of folks think the solution to California's state budget deficit is to round up all the illegal immigrants and truck them down to Mexico.
Wrong. Even if it were logistically possible and the deportees didn't just climb off the truck and hitch another ride back up north, their absence from the state wouldn't come close to saving enough tax dollars to balance a budget that has a $42-billion hole projected over the next 17 months.
Painful cuts in education, healthcare and social service programs still would be needed. Sharp tax increases would be required.
That said, let's be honest: Illegal immigration does cost California taxpayers a substantial wad, undeniably into the billions.
But it hasn't been PC for officeholders to talk about this for years, ever since Gov. Pete Wilson broke his pick waging an aggressive campaign for Proposition 187. That 1994 ballot initiative sought to bar illegal immigrants from most public services, including education. Voters approved the measure overwhelmingly, but it was tossed out by the courts.
Wilson was demonized by Democrats within the Latino community. And many think the Republican Party never has recovered among this rapidly growing slice of the electorate.
So it's not a topic that comes easily to the tongues of politicians, even Republicans.
Besides, most of the policy issues are out of California's hands. The federal government has jurisdiction over the border. Federal law decrees that every child is entitled to attend public school, regardless of immigration status. And every person -- here illegally or not -- must be cared for in hospital emergency rooms.
But the state does add a few benefits that aren't required.
And as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders dig into the books trying to find billions in savings, at least a brief look at what's being spent on illegal immigrants seems in order.
First, nobody seems to know exactly. Numbers vary widely, depending which side they come from in the ongoing angry debate over whether people who entered the country illegally to work should be allowed to stay or loaded on the southbound truck.
But here are some no-agenda numbers:
* There were 2.8 million illegal immigrants living in California in 2006, the last year for which there are relatively good figures, according to the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California. That represented about 8% of the state's population and roughly a quarter of the nation's illegal immigrants. About 90% of California's illegal immigrants were from Latin America; 65% from Mexico.
* There are roughly 19,000 illegal immigrants in state prisons, representing 11% of all inmates. That's costing $970 million during the current fiscal year. The feds kick in a measly $111 million, leaving the state with an $859 million tab.
* Schools are the toughest to calculate. Administrators don't ask kids about citizenship status. Anyway, many children of illegal immigrants were born in this country and automatically became U.S. citizens.
If you figure that the children of illegal immigrants attending K-12 schools approximates the proportion of illegal immigrants in the population, the bill currently comes to roughly $4 billion. Most is state money; some local property taxes.
* Illegal immigrants aren't entitled to welfare, called CalWORKs. But their citizen children are. Roughly 190,000 kids are receiving welfare checks that pass through their parents. The cost: about $500 million, according to the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office.
Schwarzenegger has proposed removing these children from the welfare rolls after five years. It's part of a broader proposal to also boot off, after five years, the children of U.S. citizens who aren't meeting federal work requirements. There'd be a combined savings of $522 million.
* The state is spending $775 million on Medi-Cal healthcare for illegal immigrants, according to the legislative analyst. Of that, $642 million goes into direct benefits. Practically all the rest is paid to counties to administer the program. The feds generally match the state dollar-for-dollar on mandatory programs.
So-called emergency services are the biggest state cost: $536 million. Prenatal care is $59 million. Not counted in the overall total is the cost of baby delivery -- $108 million -- because the newborns aren't illegal immigrants.
The state also pays $47 million for programs that Washington does not require: Non-emergency care (breast and cervical cancer treatment), $25 million; long-term nursing home care, $19 million; abortions, $3 million.
Schwarzenegger has proposed requiring illegal immigrants to requalify every month for Medi-Cal benefits, except pregnancy-related emergencies.
There also are other taxpayer costs -- especially through local governments -- but those are the biggies for the state. Add them all up and the state spends well over $5 billion a year on illegal immigrants and their families.
Of course, illegal immigrants do pay state taxes. But no way do they pay enough to replenish what they're drawing in services. Their main revenue contribution would be the sales tax, but they can't afford to be big consumers, and food and prescription drugs are exempt.
My view is this: These people are here illegally and shouldn't be, regardless of whether they're just looking for a better life. Do it the legal way. And enforce the law against hiring the undocumented.
On the other hand, they are here. We can't have uneducated kids and unhealthy people living with us. We have moral obligations and practical imperatives.
The Obama administration and Congress need to finally pass an immigration reform act that allows for an agriculture work program and a route to citizenship.
Meanwhile, California should be honest about the costs. Illegal immigrants are not the sole cause of the state's deficit. But they are a drain.
……………………………………………………………………………………………….
from the March 30, 2006 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0330/p09s02-coop.html
Mexico prefers to export its poor, not uplift
them At this week's summit, failed reforms under Fox should be the issue, not
US actions.
By George W. Grayson
WILLIAMSBURG, VA.
At the parleys this week
with his US and Canadian counterparts in Cancún, Mexican President Vicente Fox
will press for more opportunities for his countrymen north of the Rio Grande.
Specifically, he will argue for additional visas for Mexicans to enter the
United States and Canada, the expansion of guest-worker schemes, and the
"regularization" of illegal immigrants who reside throughout the
continent. In a recent interview with CNN, the Mexican chief executive
excoriated as "undemocratic" the extension of a wall on the US-Mexico
border and called for the "orderly, safe, and legal" northbound flow
of Mexicans, many of whom come from his home state of Guanajuato.
JUDICIAL WATCH
SANCTUARY COUNTY LOS ANGELES SPENDS $600 MILLION ON WELFARE
FOR ILLEGALS
County Spends $600 Mil On
Welfare For Illegal Immigrants
Last
Updated: Thu, 03/11/2010 - 3:14pm
For
the second consecutive year taxpayers in a single U.S. county will dish out
more than half a billion dollars just to cover the welfare and food-stamp costs
of illegal immigrants.
Los
Angeles County, the nation’s most populous, may be in the midst of a dire
financial crisis but somehow there are plenty of funds for illegal aliens. In
January alone, anchor babies born to the county’s illegal immigrants collected
more than $50 million in welfare benefits. At that
rate the cash-strapped county will pay around $600 million this year to provide
illegal aliens’ offspring with food stamps and other welfare perks.
The
exorbitant figure, revealed this week by a county supervisor, doesn’t even
include the enormous 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 $500 million for healthcare and $350 million for public
safety.
About
a quarter of the county’s welfare and food stamp issuances go to parents who
reside in the United States illegally and collect benefits for their anchor
babies, according to the figures from the county’s Department of Social
Services. In 2009 the tab ran $570 million and this year’s figure is expected
to increase by several million dollars.
Illegal
immigration continues to have a “catastrophic
impact on Los Angeles County taxpayers,” the veteran county supervisor (Michael Antonovich) who
revealed the information has said. The former fifth-grade history teacher has
repeatedly come under fire from his liberal counterparts for publicizing
statistics that confirm the devastation illegal immigration has had on the
region. Antonovich, who has served on the board for nearly three decades,
represents a portion of the county that is roughly twice the size of Rhode
Island and has about 2 million residents.
His
district is simply a snippet of a larger crisis. Nationwide, Americans pay
around $22 billion annually to provide illegal immigrants with welfare benefits
that include food assistance programs such as free school lunches in public
schools, food stamps and a nutritional program (known as WIC)
for low-income women and their children. Tens of billions more are spent on
other social services, medical care, public education and legal costs such as
incarceration and public defenders.
*
Anchor Babies Grab One Quarter of Welfare Dollars in LA Co
The anchor baby scam has proven lucrative for illegal aliens in Los Angeles County, at considerable cost to our own poor and downtrodden legal citizenry.
The numbers show that more than $50 million in CalWORKS benefits and food stamps for January went to children born in the United States whose parents are in the country without documentation. This represents approximately 23 percent of the total benefits under the state welfare and food stamp programs, Antonovich said.
"When you add this to $350 million for public safety and nearly $500 million for health care, the total cost for illegal immigrants to county taxpayers far exceeds $1 billion a year -- not including the millions of dollars for education," Antonovich said.
I love children and I'm all for compassion -- smart, teach-them-to-fish compassion. But when laws, the Constitution, and enforcement allow illegal aliens (the operative word here being "illegal") to insinuate themselves into our nation and bleed us of our precious financial resources, then laws, the Constitution and enforcement need to be changed.
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