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latimes.com
For
O.C. Republicans, party's immigration stance is a millstone
Orange
County, once a GOP stronghold, has faded from red to pink with the emergence of
Latino voters, who are repelled by the party's stand on immigration.
By Christopher
Goffard, Los Angeles Times
4:08 AM PST, November
20, 2012
Orange County was
once an instant synonym for Republican power, and the GOP's dominance looked
impregnable. Now, battered by the recent election results and dismayed by the
slow, steady decline in party registration, Republicans here are struggling to
craft a new strategy.
The percentage of
registered Republicans has eroded — it now stands at 41% — and the party has
long since lost control of the political districts that envelop the county seat
of Santa Ana, a Latino-dominated city of 330,000, and surrounding communities
in the county's core.
This month's election
brought more blows. For the second time, the once-red city of Irvine voted for
Barack Obama over the Republican candidate. And a northwestern chunk of the
county fell to the Democrats when GOP Assemblyman Chris Norby, an outspoken
conservative, lost to Latina schoolteacher Sharon Quirk-Silva.
Asked to explain the
loss, Scott Baugh, chairman of the county's Republican Party, attributed it to
"not fully appreciating the demographic shift and not seeing it in
time."
Baugh and other
Republicans say Latinos belong naturally in the GOP, citing a cultural emphasis
on faith, family, education and the value of hard work.
If Congress deals
with the immigration issue, "It's game on again in terms of a competition
of ideas and values," Baugh said. "You could wipe out a decade of
declining registration by demonstrating to the Latino community that the values
they have are the values we have."
Right now, with the
immigration issue near the top of Latinos' concerns, many Republicans say their
core message of liberty, family values and a free market falls on deaf ears.
"The Republican
Party has done such a poor job of, one, messaging; and two, letting themselves
be demonized and not fighting back," said Teresa Hernandez, who runs the
immigration reform committee for the Lincoln Club of Orange County, a
conservative group. "If I knock on the door and say, 'I'm a Republican,'
they don't want to hear what I say on the economy or education because they
have it in their mind that I'm a bigot."
To appreciate the
scale of the countywide political shift, consider that in mid-1996, when
registered Republicans eclipsed Democrats 52% to 32%, no Orange County Democrat
held a single partisan elected office on the county, state or federal level.
This is the county
that yielded conservative firebrands Robert K. Dornan and Wally George, and has
long been associated publicly with right-of-center social causes, as in the
late 1970s, when a state senator from Fullerton launched a ballot measure to
bar gay teachers from California schools.
By a recent count,
about 34% of the county's roughly 3 million people are Latino — a powerful
voting bloc with strong Democratic leanings. In the presidential election,
President Obama won 71% of the Latino vote nationwide to Mitt Romney's 27%.
For the Orange County
GOP, the effort to capture the Latino vote has proved elusive, in no small part
because the county has a reputation as a cradle of border-crackdown activism,
such as Proposition 187, the 1994 initiative intended to cut public services
for illegal immigrants.
When President George
W. Bush came to Irvine in 2006 to pitch his immigration reform plan — which
involved a guest-worker program — some local notables in his own party refused
to attend, criticizing his plan as amnesty for illegal immigrants. Dana
Rohrabacher, the longtime Republican congressman from Huntington Beach, noted
that a photo op with the president would be politically imprudent in such a
setting.
Irvine offers a
window into the GOP's struggles.
Joseph Cruz, an
Irvine tax attorney and second-generation Filipino American, went to the polls
feeling no hesitancy about which party to vote for. A path to citizenship for
America's undocumented population was a top priority, which he said aligned him
with Democrats.
"People assume
it's a Latino thing," Cruz said of immigration reform, but as an Asian
American, he feels estranged from Republicans who "haven't said anything
that's really solution-based."
Cruz, 36, reflects
the changing face of Irvine, Orange County's third-largest city and its
emblematically master-planned centerpiece, where the Asian population has shot
from 8% in 1980 to nearly 40% now.
A decade ago, nearly
half of Irvine voters registered Republican. It now stands at 33%, barely
outnumbering Democrats. It's possible Irvine may soon join the county's two
largest cities — Santa Ana and Anaheim — where Democrats already outnumber
Republicans.
Countywide, Romney
beat Obama 52% to 45%, but in Irvine, the percentage was nearly inverted:
voters chose the president over Romney 52% to 44%.
Cruz said his
Philippines-born father, who found a path to U.S. citizenship by joining the
U.S. Navy in the 1960s, votes Republican out of a belief in low taxes and a
strong military. But "it's hard for me, a working professional, a child of
immigrants who's not white, to associate myself" with the Republican
Party, Cruz said.
The GOP's decline in
Orange County doesn't translate automatically into Democratic votes.
Independent voters constitute large percentages in Orange County's three
biggest cities. In Irvine, by the latest count, those who registered
"other" stood at about 35%, a larger percentage than the two big
parties.
With the election
wounds fresh, the GOP is debating with added urgency how to recast its message
and strategy.
Aggressively
recruiting Latino candidates for the GOP is crucial, said Hernandez, of the
Lincoln Club. "If they're Hispanic and Republican and want to run, we need
to bend over backward to help them run," Hernandez said.
At the state GOP's
convention in February, she said, she will push to amend the party platform to
include a guest-worker program for illegal immigrants. She said she has pleaded
with party leaders that it is necessary to change public perceptions about the
GOP, but that her pleas have often been ignored.
There is precedent
for GOP flexibility on the issue, she said, noting George W. Bush's
guest-worker plan, President Reagan's support of an amnesty program and
President Eisenhower's backing of the "bracero" program, which
allowed migrant agricultural workers to work in the U.S.
"We have been,
for a long time, concerned by the fact that the Republican Party is not
well-liked within the Latino community," added Bob Loewen, president of
the county's Lincoln Club.
"Every single
election, our party seems to go off on the immigration issue in ways that sound
mean-spirited."
In the late 1990s, he
said, the party made an effort to reach out to Latinos, holding fundraisers and
looking for Latino candidates, but "we were just not very good at knowing
how to do it."
The GOP might make
inroads among the large ranks of the county's independent voters if it is
somehow able to adapt to changing demographics and fashion a more inclusive
message, said Fred Smoller, a professor of political science at Brandman
University, a division of Chapman University.
"If the true
believers are unwilling to compromise, then they're dead," Smoller said.
"Older white guys are dying off, and they're being replaced by 18-year-old
Latinos. And young people are just generally more tolerant."
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LET’S GET REAL! LA
RAZA PULLS IN $22 BILLION IN WELFARE FROM THE STATE of CALIFORNIA, WITH
COUNTIES PAYING OUT EVEN MORE ON TOP OF THAT. MEX-OCCUPIED LOS ANGELES COUNTY
PAYS OUT $600 MILLION PER YEAR IN WELFARE TO ILLEGALS, PRIMARILY ANCHOR BABY
BREEDERS.
CA HAS THE LARGEST
AND MOST EXPENSIVE PRISON SYSTEM IN THE NATION. HALF THE INMATES ARE MEXICANS!
ACCORDING TO CA
ATTORNEY GEN. KAMALA HARRIS, NEARLY HALF THE MURDERS IN CA ARE BY MEXICAN GANGS!
"You could wipe out a decade of declining registration
by demonstrating to the Latino community that the values they have are the
values we have."
HERE ARE THE REAL MEXICAN FAMILY VALUES:
City Journal Hispanic Family
Values?
Runaway illegitimacy is creating a new U.S. underclass. Heather Mac Donald Autumn 2006 |
Unless
the life chances of children raised by single mothers suddenly improve, the
explosive growth of the U.S. Hispanic population over the next couple of
decades does not bode well for American social stability. Hispanic immigrants
bring near–Third World levels of fertility to America, coupled with what were
once thought to be First World levels of illegitimacy. (In fact, family
breakdown is higher in many Hispanic countries than here.) Nearly half of the
children born to Hispanic mothers in the U.S. are born out of wedlock, a
proportion that has been increasing rapidly with no signs of slowing down.
Given what psychologists and sociologists now know about the much higher
likelihood of social pathology among those who grow up in single-mother
households, the Hispanic baby boom is certain to produce more juvenile
delinquents, more school failure, more welfare use, and more teen pregnancy in
the future.
The
government social-services sector has already latched onto this new client
base; as the Hispanic population expands, so will the demands for a larger
welfare state. Since conservative open-borders advocates have yet to
acknowledge the facts of Hispanic family breakdown, there is no way to know
what their solution to it is. But they had better come up with one quickly,
because the problem is here—and growing.
The
dimensions of the Hispanic baby boom are startling. The Hispanic birthrate is
twice as high as that of the rest of the American population. That high
fertility rate—even more than unbounded levels of immigration—will fuel the
rapid Hispanic population boom in the coming decades. By 2050, the Latino
population will have tripled, the Census Bureau projects. One in four Americans
will be Hispanic by mid-century, twice the current ratio. In states such as California
and Texas, Hispanics will be in the clear majority. Nationally, whites will
drop from near 70 percent of the total population in 2000 to just half by 2050.
Hispanics will account for 46 percent of the nation’s added population over the
next two decades, the Pew Hispanic Center reports.
But
it’s the fertility surge among unwed Hispanics that should worry
policymakers. Hispanic women have the highest unmarried birthrate in the
country—over three times that of whites and Asians, and nearly one and a half
times that of black women, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Every
1,000 unmarried Hispanic women bore 92 children in 2003 (the latest year for
which data exist), compared with 28 children for every 1,000 unmarried white
women, 22 for every 1,000 unmarried Asian women, and 66 for every 1,000
unmarried black women. Forty-five percent of all Hispanic births occur outside
of marriage, compared with 24 percent of white births and 15 percent of Asian
births. Only the percentage of black out-of-wedlock births—68 percent—exceeds
the Hispanic rate. But the black population is not going to triple over the
next few decades.
As if
the unmarried Hispanic birthrate weren’t worrisome enough, it is increasing
faster than among other groups. It jumped 5 percent from 2002 to 2003, whereas
the rate for other unmarried women remained flat. Couple the high and
increasing illegitimacy rate of Hispanics with their higher overall fertility
rate, and you have a recipe for unstoppable family breakdown.
The
only bright news in this demographic disaster story concerns teen births.
Overall teen childbearing in the U.S. declined for the 12th year in a row in
2003, having dropped by more than a third since 1991. Yet even here, Hispanics
remain a cause for concern. The rate of childbirth for Mexican teenagers, who
come from by far the largest and fastest-growing immigrant population, greatly
outstrips every other group. The Mexican teen birthrate is 93 births per every
1,000 girls, compared with 27 births for every 1,000 white girls, 17 births for
every 1,000 Asian girls, and 65 births for every 1,000 black girls. To put
these numbers into international perspective, Japan’s teen birthrate is 3.9,
Italy’s is 6.9, and France’s is 10. Even though the outsize U.S. teen birthrate
is dropping, it continues to inflict unnecessary costs on the country, to which
Hispanics contribute disproportionately.
To
grasp the reality behind those numbers, one need only talk to people working on
the front lines of family breakdown. Social workers in Southern California, the
national epicenter for illegal Hispanic immigrants and their progeny, are in
despair over the epidemic of single parenting. Not only has illegitimacy become
perfectly acceptable, they say, but so has the resort to welfare and social
services to cope with it.
Dr.
Ana Sanchez delivers babies at St. Joseph’s Hospital in the city of Orange,
California, many of them to Hispanic teenagers. To her dismay, they view having
a child at their age as normal. A recent patient just had her second baby at
age 17; the baby’s father is in jail. But what is “most alarming,” Sanchez
says, is that the “teens’ parents view having babies outside of marriage as
normal, too. A lot of the grandmothers are single as well; they never married,
or they had successive partners. So the mom sends the message to her daughter
that it’s okay to have children out of wedlock.”
Sanchez
feels almost personally involved in the problem: “I’m Hispanic myself. I wish I
could find out what the Asians are doing right.” She guesses that Asian
parents’ passion for education inoculates their children against teen pregnancy
and the underclass trap. “Hispanics are not picking that up like the Asian
kids,” she sighs.
Conservatives
who support open borders are fond of invoking “Hispanic family values” as a
benefit of unlimited Hispanic immigration. Marriage is clearly no longer one of
those family values. But other kinds of traditional Hispanic values have
survived—not all of them necessarily ideal in a modern economy, however. One of
them is the importance of having children early and often. “It’s considered almost
a badge of honor for a young girl to have a baby,” says Peggy Schulze of
Chrysalis House, an adoption agency in Fresno. (Fresno has one of the highest
teen pregnancy rates in California, typical of the state’s heavily Hispanic
farm districts.) It is almost impossible to persuade young single Hispanic
mothers to give up their children for adoption, Schulze says. “The attitude is:
‘How could you give away your baby?’ I don’t know how to break through.”
The
most powerful Hispanic family value—the tight-knit extended family—facilitates
unwed child rearing. A single mother’s relatives often step in to make up for
the absence of the baby’s father. I asked Mona, a 19-year-old parishioner at
St. Joseph’s Church in Santa Ana, California, if she knew any single mothers.
She laughed: “There are so many I can’t even name them.” Two of her cousins,
aged 25 and 19, have children without having husbands. The situation didn’t
seem to trouble this churchgoer too much. “They’ll be strong enough to raise
them. It’s totally okay with us,” she said. “We’re very close; we’re there to
support them. They’ll do just fine.”
As
Mona’s family suggests, out-of-wedlock child rearing among Hispanics is by no
means confined to the underclass. The St. Joseph’s parishioners are precisely
the churchgoing, blue-collar workers whom open-borders conservatives celebrate.
Yet this community is as susceptible as any other to illegitimacy.
Fifty-year-old Irma and her husband, Rafael, came legally from Mexico in the
early 1970s. Rafael works in a meatpacking plant in Brea; they have raised five
husky boys who attend church with them. Yet Irma’s sister—a homemaker like
herself, also married to a factory hand—is now the grandmother of two
illegitimate children, one by each daughter. “I saw nothing in the way my
sister and her husband raised her children to explain it,” Irma says. “She gave
them everything.” One of the fathers of Irma’s young nieces has four other
children by a variety of different mothers. His construction wages are being
garnished for child support, but he is otherwise not involved in raising his
children.
The
fathers of these illegitimate children are often problematic in even more
troubling ways. Social workers report that the impregnators of younger Hispanic
women are with some regularity their uncles, not necessarily seen as a bad
thing by the mother’s family. Alternatively, the father may be the boyfriend of
the girl’s mother, who then continues to stay with the grandmother. Older men
seek out young girls in the belief that a virgin cannot get pregnant during her
first intercourse, and to avoid sexually transmitted diseases.
The
tradition of starting families young and expand- ing them quickly can come into
conflict with more modern American mores. Ron Storm, the director of the Hillview
Acres foster-care home in Chino, tells of a 15-year-old girl who was taken away
from the 21-year-old father of her child by a local child-welfare department.
The boyfriend went to jail, charged with rape. But the girl’s parents
complained about the agency’s interference, and eventually both the girl and
her boyfriend ended up going back to Mexico, presumably to have more children.
“At 15, as the Quinceañera tradition celebrates, you’re considered ready for
marriage,” says Storm. Or at least for childbearing; the marriage part is
disappearing.
But
though older men continue to take advantage of younger women, the age gap
between the mother and the father of an illegitimate child is quickly closing.
Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino Counties tries to teach young
fathers to take responsibility for their children. “We’re seeing a lot more 13-
and 14-year-old fathers,” says Kathleen Collins, v.p. of health education. The
day before we spoke, Scott Montoya, an Orange County sheriff’s deputy, arrested
two 14-year-old boys who were bragging about having sexual relations with a
cafeteria worker from an Olive Garden restaurant. “It’s now all about getting
girls pregnant when you’re age 15,” he says. One 18-year-old in the Planned
Parenthood fathers’ program has two children by two different girls and is
having sex with five others, says health worker Jason Warner. “A lot of [the
adolescent sexual behavior] has to do with getting respect from one’s peers,”
observes Warner.
Normally,
the fathers, of whatever age, take off. “The father may already be married or
in prison or doing drugs,” says Amanda Gan, director of operations for Toby’s
House, a maternity home in Dana Point, California. Mona, the 19-year-old
parishioner at St. Joseph’s Church, says that the boys who impregnated her two
cousins are “nowhere to be found.” Her family knows them but doesn’t know if
they are working or in jail.
Two
teen mothers at the Hillview Acres home represent the outer edge of Hispanic
family dysfunction. Yet many aspects of their lives are typical. Though these
teenagers’ own mothers were unusually callous and irresponsible, the social
milieu in which they were raised is not unusual.
Irene’s
round, full face makes her look younger than her 14 years, certainly too young
to be a mother. But her own mother’s boyfriend repeatedly forced sex on her,
with the mother’s acquiescence. The result was Irene’s baby, Luz. Baby Luz has
an uncle her own age, Irene’s new 13-month-old brother. Like Irene, Irene’s
mother had her first child at 14, and produced five more over the next 16
years, all of whom went into foster care. Irene’s father committed suicide
before she was old enough to know him. The four fathers of her siblings are out
of the picture, too: one of them, the father of her seven-year-old brother and
five-year-old sister, was deported back to Mexico after he showed up drunk for
a visit with his children, in violation of his probation conditions.
Irene
is serene and articulate—remarkably so, considering that in her peripatetic early
life in Orange County she went to school maybe twice a week. She likes to sing
and to read books that are sad, she says, especially books by Dave Pelzer, a
child-abuse victim who has published three best-selling memoirs about his
childhood trauma. She says she will never get married: “I don’t want another
man in my life. I don’t want that experience again.”
Eighteen-year-old
Jessica at least escaped rape, but her family experiences were bad enough. The
large-limbed young woman, whose long hair is pulled back tightly from her
heart-shaped face, grew up in the predominantly Hispanic farming community of
Indio in the Coachella Valley. She started “partying hard” in fifth grade, she
says—at around the same time that her mother, separated from her father, began
using drugs and going clubbing. By the eighth grade, Jessica and her mother
were drinking and smoking marijuana together. Jessica’s family had known her
boyfriend’s family since she was four; when she had her first child by him—she
was 14 and he was 21—her mother declared philosophically that she had always
known that it would happen. “It was okay with her, so long as he continued to
give her drugs.”
Jessica
originally got pregnant to try to clean up her life, she says. “I knew what I
was doing was not okay, so having a baby was a way for me to stop doing what I
was doing. In that sense, the baby was planned.” She has not used drugs since
her first pregnancy, though she occasionally drinks. After her daughter was
born, she went to live with her boyfriend in a filthy trailer without plumbing;
they scrounged food from dumpsters, despite the income from his illegal drug
business. They planned to get married, but by the time she got pregnant again
with a son, “We were having a lot of problems. We’d be holding hands, and he’d
be looking at other girls. I didn’t want him to touch me.” Eventually, the
county welfare agency removed her and put her in foster care with her two
children.
Both
Jessica and her caddish former boyfriend illustrate the evanescence of the celebrated
Hispanic “family values.” Her boyfriend’s family could not be more traditional.
Two years ago, Jessica went back to Mexico to celebrate her boyfriend’s
parents’ 25th wedding anniversary and the renewal of their wedding vows.
Jessica’s own mother got married at 15 to her father, who was ten years her
senior. Her father would not let his wife work; she was a “stay-at-home wife,”
Jessica says. But don’t blame the move to the U.S. for the behavior of younger
generations; the family crack-up is happening even faster in Latin America.
Jessica’s
mother may have been particularly negligent, but Jessica’s experiences are not
so radically different from those of her peers. “Everybody’s having babies
now,” she says. “The Coachella Valley is filled with girls’ pregnancies. Some
girls live with their babies’ dads; they consider them their husbands.” These
cohabiting relationships rarely last, however, and a new cohort of fatherless
children goes out into the world.
Despite
the strong family support, the prevalence of single parenting among Hispanics
is producing the inevitable slide into the welfare system. “The girls aren’t
marrying the guys, so they are married to the state,” Dr. Sanchez observes.
Hispanics now dominate the federal Women, Infants, and Children free food
program; Hispanic enrollment grew over 25 percent from 1996 to 2002, while
black enrollment dropped 12 percent and white enrollment dropped 6.5 percent.
Illegal immigrants can get WIC and other welfare programs for their
American-born children. If Congress follows President Bush’s urging and grants
amnesty to most of the 11 million illegal aliens in the country today, expect
the welfare rolls to skyrocket as the parents themselves become eligible.
Amy
Braun works for Mary’s Shelter, a home for young single mothers who are
homeless or in crisis, in Orange County, California. It has become “culturally
okay” for the Hispanic population to use the shelter and welfare system, Braun
says. A case manager at a program for pregnant homeless women in the city of
Orange observes the same acculturation to the social-services sector, with its
grievance mongering and sense of victimhood. “I’ll have women in my office on
their fifth child, when the others have already been placed in foster care,”
says Anita Berry of Casa Teresa. “There’s nothing shameful about having
multiple children that you can’t care for, and to be pregnant again, because
then you can blame the system.”
The
consequences of family breakdown are now being passed down from one generation
to the next, in an echo of the black underclass. “The problems are deeper and
wider,” says Berry. “Now you’re getting the second generation of foster care
and group home residents. The dysfunction is multigenerational.”
The
social-services complex has responded with barely concealed enthusiasm to this
new flood of clients. As Hispanic social problems increase, so will the
government sector that ministers to them. In July, a New York Times
editorial, titled young latinas and a cry for help, pointed out the elevated high
school dropout rates and birthrates among Hispanic girls. A quarter of all
Latinas are mothers by the age of 20, reported the Times. With the usual
melodrama that accompanies the pitch for more government services, the Times
designated young Latinas as “endangered” in the same breath that it disclosed
that they are one of the fastest-growing segments of the population. “The time
to help is now,” said the Times—by which it means ratcheting up the
taxpayer-subsidized social-work industry.
In
response to the editorial, Carmen Barroso, regional director of International
Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region, proclaimed in a letter
to the editor the “urgent need for health care providers, educators and
advocates to join the sexual and reproductive health movement to ensure the
fundamental right to services for young Latinas.”
Wherever
these “fundamental rights” might come from, Barroso’s call nevertheless seems
quite superfluous, since there is no shortage of taxpayer-funded “services” for
troubled Latinas—or Latinos. The schools in California’s San Joaquin Valley
have day care for their students’ babies, reports Peggy Schulze of Chrysalis
House. “The girls get whatever they need—welfare, medical care.” Advocates for
young unwed moms in New York’s South Bronx are likewise agitating for more
day-care centers in high schools there, reports El Diario/La Prensa. A
bill now in Congress, the Latina Adolescent Suicide Prevention Act, aims to
channel $10 million to “culturally competent” social agencies to improve the
self-esteem of Latina girls and to provide “support services” to their families
and friends if they contemplate suicide.
The
trendy “case management” concept, in which individual “cases” become the focal
point around which a solar system of social workers revolves, has even reached
heavily Hispanic elementary and middle schools. “We have a coordinator, who
brings in a collaboration of agencies to deal with the issues that don’t allow
a student to meet his academic goals, such as domestic violence or drugs,”
explains Sylvia Rentria, director of the Family Resource Center at Berendo
Middle School in Los Angeles. “We can provide individual therapy.” Rentria
offers the same program at nearby Hoover Elementary School for up to 100
students.
This July,
Rentria launched a new session of Berendo’s Violence Intervention Program for
parents of children who are showing signs of gang involvement and other
antisocial behavior. Ghady M., 55 and a “madre soltera” (single mother), like
most of the mothers in the program, has been called in because her 16-year-old
son, Christian, has been throwing gang signs at school, cutting half his
classes, and ending up in the counseling office every day. The illegal
Guatemalan is separated from her partner, who was “muy malo,” she says; he was
probably responsible for her many missing teeth. (The detectives in the heavily
Hispanic Rampart Division of the Los Angeles Police Department, which includes
the Berendo school, spend inordinate amounts of time on domestic violence
cases.) Though Ghady used to work in a factory on Broadway in downtown L.A.—
often referred to as Little Mexico City—she now collects $580 in welfare
payments and $270 in food stamps for her two American-born children.
Christian
is a husky smart aleck in a big white T-shirt; his fashionably pomaded hair
stands straight up. He goes to school but doesn’t do homework, he grins; and
though he is not in a gang, he says, he has friends who are. Keeping Ghady and
Christian company at the Violence Intervention Program is Ghady’s grandniece,
Carrie, a lively ten-year-old. Carrie lives with her 26-year-old mother but
does not know her father, who also sired her 12-year-old brother. Her
five-year-old brother has a different father.
Yet
for all these markers of social dysfunction, fatherless Hispanic families
differ from the black underclass in one significant area: many of the mothers
and the absent fathers work, even despite growing welfare use. The former
boyfriend of Jessica, the 18-year-old mother at the Hillview Acres foster home,
works in construction and moonlights on insulation jobs; whether he still deals
drugs is unknown. Jessica is postponing joining her father in Texas until she
finishes high school, because once she moves in with him, she will feel obligated
to get a job to help the family finances. The mother of Hillview’s 14-year-old
Irene used to fix soda machines in Anaheim, California, though she got fired
because she was lazy, Irene says. Now, under court compulsion, she works in a
Lunchables factory in Santa Ana, a condition of getting her children back from
foster care. The 18-year-old Lothario and father of two, whom Planned
Parenthood’s Jason Warner is trying to counsel, works at a pet store. The
mother of Carrie, the vivacious ten-year-old sitting in on Berendo Middle
School’s Violence Intervention Program, makes pizza at a Papa John’s pizza
outlet.
How
these two value systems—a lingering work ethic and underclass mating norms—will
interact in the future is anyone’s guess. Orange County sheriff’s deputy
Montoya says that the older Hispanic generation’s work ethic is fast
disappearing among the gangbanging youngsters whom he sees. “Now, it’s all
about fast money, drugs, and sex.” It may be that the willingness to work will
plummet along with marriage rates, leading to even greater social problems than
are now rife among Hispanics. Or it may be that the two contrasting practices
will remain on parallel tracks, creating a new kind of underclass: a culture
that tolerates free-floating men who impregnate women and leave, like the vast
majority of black men, yet who still labor in the noncriminal economy. The
question is whether, if the disposition to work remains relatively strong, a
working parent will inoculate his or her illegitimate children against the
worst degradations that plague black ghettos.
From
an intellectual standpoint, this is a fascinating social experiment, one that
academicians are—predictably—not attuned to. But the consequences will be more
than intellectual: they may severely strain the social fabric. Nevertheless, it
is an experiment that we seem destined to see to its end. Tisha Roberts, a
supervisor at an Orange County, California, institution that assists children
in foster care, has given up hope that the illegitimacy rate will taper off.
“It’s going to continue to grow,” she says, “until we can put birth control in
the water.”
*
WE ARE MEXICO’S WELFARE SYSTEM. We
pay for Mexico’s dump off of their poor, pregnant, illiterate and criminal
classes here, and the illegals send 50 billion of our economy back to
Narco-Mex. We are Mexico’s welfare system south of the border as well!
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.
*Here are 15 things you should know about "The Race":
15. "The Race" supports driver's licenses for illegal aliens.
*
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.
*
13. "The Race" vehemently opposes
cooperative immigration enforcement efforts between local, state and federal
authorities.
*12. "The Race" opposes a secure fence on the southern border.
*
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.
*
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.
*
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.
*8. "The Race" bitterly protested common-sense voter ID provisions as an "absolute disgrace."
*
7. "The Race" has consistently opposed post-9/11 national security measures at every turn.
*
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."
*
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."
*
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."
*
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."
*
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.
*
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?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
*
MEXICO
ANCHORS THEIR OCCUPATION and EXPANDS THEIR WELFARE STATE IN AMERICA BY
EXPORTING PREGNANT WOMEN TO GIVE “FREE” BIRTH TO MEXICAN ANCHORS AND COLLECT 18
YEARS OF WELFARE.
THIS
MEXICAN CHILD BORN IN OUR BORDERS WILL STILL BE A MEX CITIZEN.
*
THE BREEDERS –
CEBADA TALKS ABOUT THE LOVE OF
HAVING (BREEDING) CHILDREN, NOT BEING RESPONSIBLE FOR THEM AFTERWARDS!
EVERY DAY THERE ARE 12 AMERICANS
MURDERED BY ILLEGALS AND 8 CHILDREN MOLESTED (see: MEXICANOCCUPATION.blogspot
com)
“Through love of having children, we are going
to take over.” AUGUSTIN CEBADA,
BROWN BERETS, THE LA RAZA FASCIST PARTY
ANCHOR BABIES BORN IN OUR BORDERS ARE STILL CITIZENS OF
MEXICO!
*
"Remember 187 -- the Proposition to deny taxpayer funds for services to non-citizens -- was the last gasp of white America in California." ---Art Torres, Chairman of the California Democratic Party (DEMS ARE NOW THE PARTY FOR LA RAZA SUPREMACY)
"Remember 187 -- the Proposition to deny taxpayer funds for services to non-citizens -- was the last gasp of white America in California." ---Art Torres, Chairman of the California Democratic Party (DEMS ARE NOW THE PARTY FOR LA RAZA SUPREMACY)
*
Anchor Baby Power
La Voz de Aztlan has produced a video in honor of the
millions of babies that have been born as US citizens to Mexican undocumented
parents. These babies are destined to transform America. The nativist CNN
reporter Lou Dobbs estimates that there are over 200,000 "Anchor
Babies" born every year whereas George Putnam, a radio reporter, says the
figure is closer to 300,000. La Voz de Aztlan believes that the number is
approximately 500,000 "Anchor Babies" born every year.
The
video below depicts the many faces of the "Anchor Baby Generation".
The video includes a fascinating segment showing a group of elementary school
children in Santa Ana, California confronting the Minutemen vigilantes. The
video ends with a now famous statement by Professor Jose Angel Gutierrez of the
University of Texas at Austin.
*
THE MEXICAN WELFARE STATE DEMOCRATS
HAVE CREATED:
What Illegals get for free from
us..... (what do you get for free?)
Take,
for example, an illegal alien with a wife and five children. He takes a job for
$5.00 or 6.00/hour. At that wage, with six dependents, he pays no income tax,
yet at the end of the year, if he files an Income Tax Return, he gets an
"earned income credit" of up to $3,200 free.
He gets $518.00 each month for each child born in the USA until that child reaches 18....
He qualifies for Section 8 housing and subsidized rent.
He qualifies for food stamps.
He qualifies for free (no deductible, no co-pay) health care.
His children get free breakfasts and lunches at school...often the mother brings other children not in the school along for the free breakfast...
He requires bilingual teachers and books.
He gets free bus transportation to and from school....we have to pay upwards of $300.00 per year for our children to ride the bus...
He qualifies for relief from high energy bills.
If they are, or become, aged, blind or disabled , they qualify for SSI. If qualified for SSI they can qualify for Medicaid. All of this is at the expense of the American taxpayer.
He doesn't worry about car insurance, life insurance, or homeowners insurance. And in California they do not smog their cars so the air is polluted by over a million more cars
Taxpayers provide Spanish language signs, bulletins and printed material.
He and his family receive the equivalent of $20.00 to $30.00/hour in benefits.
Working Americans are lucky to have $5.00 or $6.00/hour left after paying their bills and his.
Worst of all is this....if this illegal gets amnesty he can bring up to 90 of his relatives into the states to leech even more from the tax payers....if they are elderly they qualify for Social Security benefits without paying a dime into the system...
Cheap labor? YEAH, RIGHT!
He gets $518.00 each month for each child born in the USA until that child reaches 18....
He qualifies for Section 8 housing and subsidized rent.
He qualifies for food stamps.
He qualifies for free (no deductible, no co-pay) health care.
His children get free breakfasts and lunches at school...often the mother brings other children not in the school along for the free breakfast...
He requires bilingual teachers and books.
He gets free bus transportation to and from school....we have to pay upwards of $300.00 per year for our children to ride the bus...
He qualifies for relief from high energy bills.
If they are, or become, aged, blind or disabled , they qualify for SSI. If qualified for SSI they can qualify for Medicaid. All of this is at the expense of the American taxpayer.
He doesn't worry about car insurance, life insurance, or homeowners insurance. And in California they do not smog their cars so the air is polluted by over a million more cars
Taxpayers provide Spanish language signs, bulletins and printed material.
He and his family receive the equivalent of $20.00 to $30.00/hour in benefits.
Working Americans are lucky to have $5.00 or $6.00/hour left after paying their bills and his.
Worst of all is this....if this illegal gets amnesty he can bring up to 90 of his relatives into the states to leech even more from the tax payers....if they are elderly they qualify for Social Security benefits without paying a dime into the system...
Cheap labor? YEAH, RIGHT!
*
COMMENTS FROM AN AMERICAN WORKING IN MEXIFORNIA:
this has got to stop
I've worked for both a County Welfare Dept and a County jail
in the Central Valley of Calif. Average American's have no idea how much aid
illegal immigrants are really costing this state. They say (well they don't get
welfare)...Oh, but their children do and medical and food stamps. Also every
time they have those children the American taxpayer is paying for them. See in
Calif., you don't even need I.D. to get FREE prenatal care. Or proof of age
either. So we are also paying for their children to have children. And if the
Parents can get a Doctor to say they suffer from culture shock they can also
get SSI.
Then when I worked at the Jail later I learned that a very high number of crimes committed in Calif. Are committed by illegal immigrants. That’s why our jails and prisons are over populated. And why the number of gangs in Calif. Have increased so drastically. The number of pedophiles is also shocking. (SEE FROSTY WOOLDRIDGE’S ARTICLE “CLASHING CULTURES” FOR MORE ON MEX CHILD MOLESTATION. IT’S PARTY OF THE LA RAZA CULTURE!)
They hire out in crews; one person who has papers receives the payment, and then splits the money in cash between the illegal workers. They can get credit cards from American companies, and also buy houses. If they hit your car your just out of luck, as they have no insurance, because of course they are illegal and cannot get a drivers license. So they just bail out and run like hell away from the scene.
Now all those who were legalized the last time we had immigration reform are working in businesses and taking jobs form American born college kids, undereducated and even handicapped people that use to fill those positions. They say they fill the jobs no one wants, that might be true, EXCEPT when they become legal they take our jobs. They don’t want those jobs any longer. If you have ever visited CALIF. try ordering from a lot of the fast food restaurants, you can not ever understand them half of the time.
Then when I worked at the Jail later I learned that a very high number of crimes committed in Calif. Are committed by illegal immigrants. That’s why our jails and prisons are over populated. And why the number of gangs in Calif. Have increased so drastically. The number of pedophiles is also shocking. (SEE FROSTY WOOLDRIDGE’S ARTICLE “CLASHING CULTURES” FOR MORE ON MEX CHILD MOLESTATION. IT’S PARTY OF THE LA RAZA CULTURE!)
They hire out in crews; one person who has papers receives the payment, and then splits the money in cash between the illegal workers. They can get credit cards from American companies, and also buy houses. If they hit your car your just out of luck, as they have no insurance, because of course they are illegal and cannot get a drivers license. So they just bail out and run like hell away from the scene.
Now all those who were legalized the last time we had immigration reform are working in businesses and taking jobs form American born college kids, undereducated and even handicapped people that use to fill those positions. They say they fill the jobs no one wants, that might be true, EXCEPT when they become legal they take our jobs. They don’t want those jobs any longer. If you have ever visited CALIF. try ordering from a lot of the fast food restaurants, you can not ever understand them half of the time.
MEXICO’S “FREE” MEDICAL IN CA COSTS
PRIVATE ENTERPRISE HOSPITALS BILLIONS!
*
AT LOS ANGELES PUBLIC SCHOOL,
SANTEE EDUCATIONAL COMPLEX WHERE THE STUDENT BODY IS OVERWHELMINGLY LA RAZA,
CLASSES ARE TAUGHT IN SPANISH, BOOKS AND HANDOUTS ARE IN SPANISH, STUDENTS SIT
ON THEIR ASSES WHEN THE NATIONAL ANTHEM IS PLAYED, AND SCHOOL ASSEMBLIES END IN
VIVA MEXICO! VIVA MEXICO! Truly, what else do you need to know about LA RAZA
SUPREMACY?
*
*
REALITY
CHECK ON THE LA RAZA OCCUPATION: HERE’S A TEACHER’S DAY TO DAY VIEW OF IT:
Subject: Cheap Labor This should
make everyone think, be you Democrat, Republican or Independent From a California school teacher - -
-"As you listen to the news about the student protests over illegal
immigration, there are some things that you should be aware of: I am in charge of the
English-as-a-second-language department at a large southern California high
school which is designated a Title 1 school, meaning that its students average
lower socioeconomic and income levels.
Most of the schools you are hearing about, South Gate High, Bell
Gardens, Huntington Park, etc., where these students are protesting, are also
Title 1 schools. Title 1 schools are on
the free breakfast and free lunch program. When I say free breakfast, I'm not
talking a glass of milk and roll -- but a full breakfast and cereal bar with
fruits and juices that would make a Marriott proud. The waste of this food is
monumental, with trays and trays of it being dumped in the trash uneaten. (OUR
TAX DOLLARS AT WORK) I estimate that well
over 50% of these students are obese or at least moderately overweight. About
75% or more DO have cell phones. The school also provides day care centers for
the unwed teenage pregnant girls (some as young as 13) so they can attend class
without the inconvenience of having to arrange for babysitters or having family
watch their kids. (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)
I was ordered to spend $700,000 on my department or risk losing funding
for the upcoming year even though there was little need for anything; my budget
was already substantial. I ended up buying new computers for the computer
learning center, half of which, one month later, have been carved with graffiti
by the appreciative students who obviously feel humbled and grateful to have a
free education in America. (OUR TAX DOLLARS A T WORK) I have had to intervene several times for
young and substitute teachers whose classes consist of many illegal immigrant
students here in the country less then 3 months who raised so much hell with
the female teachers, calling them "Putas" whores and throwing things
that the teachers were in tears. Free
medical, free education, free food, day care etc., etc., etc. Is it any wonder
they feel entitled to not only be in this country but to demand rights,
privileges and entitlements? To those who want to point out how much these
illegal immigrants contribute to our society because they LIKE their gardener
and housekeeper and they like to pay less for tomatoes: spend some time in the
real world of illegal immigration and see the TRUE costs.
*
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!
“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.”
California
Doesn't Exist—It's Now Two States
By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
Posted 08/17/2012 06:29 PM ET
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!)
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.
*
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.
*LA RAZA DEMS BUILD THE “DREAM ACT” LIFE FOR LA RAZA OFF THE AMERICANS BACK! NOT ONE AMERICAN VOTED FOR ONE DREAM ACT HANDOUT!
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!
*
WILL MEXICO BANKRUPT
AMERICA?
CALIFORNIA UNDER
MEXICAN-OCCUPATION PAYS OUT $22 BILLION PER YEAR IN SOCIAL SERVICES TO
ILLEGALS!
*
WILL OHIO BE
BANKRUPTED BY THE LA RAZA MEX-OCCUPATION THAT NOT ONE LEGAL VOTED FOR?
*
HOW MANY BILLIONS ARE
MARYLANDERS FORCED TO PAY FOR MEX WELFARE AND LOOTING?
*
BARACK OBAMA, FIRST
HISPANDERING LA RAZA “THE RACE” PRESIDENT – HIS LA RAZA SUPREMACIST INFESTED
ADMINISTRATION:
*
OBAMA AND MEXICO PROMISE
ILLEGALS JUMPING OUR BORDERS OBAMACARE, “FREE” MEDICAL, “FREE” ANCHOR BABY
BIRTHING = 18 YEARS WELFARE, AND OUR JOBS!
*
ROBERT RECTOR: THE
STAGGERING COST OF MEXICO’S INVASION, OCCUPATION AND EVER GROWING WELFARE STATE
*
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.
*
THE LOOTING OF
AMERICA BY MEXICO, BARACK OBAMA and ERIC HOLDER
OBAMA’S
HISPANICAZATION of AMERICA:
*
ANCHOR BABIES – HOW
MEXICO ANCHORS THEIR OCCUPATION AND EXPAND THEIR WELFARE STATE IN OUR BORDERS!
*
“What's needed to discourage illegal immigration into
the United States has been known for years: Enforce existing law.” …..
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
*
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.
*
“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
*
“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.”
*
Slow path to progress for U.S. immigrants
43% on
welfare after 20 years
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. Senate, Barack 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 40 million illegal immigrants in the U.S.
would be critical to helping assimilation.
*
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
*
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
*
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!
*
BOOK:
MEXIFORNIA – THE SHATTERING OF THE AMERICAN DREAM
WITH THE MEXICAN INVASION AND OCCUPATION
*
"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
*
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)
*
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
*
"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.
*
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.
*
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!
*
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.
Is
Mexico still a nation?
The Monitor's View
A
survey released last week by the Pew Hispanic Center found more than four in 10
Mexicans are willing to leave their country to live in the US. One in five
would risk a dangerous, illegal border crossing. Most surprising, one in three
college graduates wants to flee.
from the August 24, 2005 edition –
Is
Mexico still a nation?
The Monitor's View
A survey released last week by the Pew Hispanic
Center found more than four in 10 Mexicans are willing to leave their country
to live in the US. One in five would risk a dangerous, illegal border crossing.
Most surprising, one in three college graduates wants to flee. Before Washington takes up immigration reform this fall, it needs to
take a hard look at Mexico's disillusionment.
Already, one in
eight adults born in Mexico now lives in the US. And the Mexican economy is
kept afloat partially by an estimated $16 billion sent back by immigrants to
relatives.
Such numbers
reveal a people so fed up with Mexico's dysfunctional politics and stagnant
economy that their nationalism is wilting. While more than half of Mexico's 106
million people are officially poor, the Pew survey found an inclination to
migrate "evident across a broad swath" of the population.
This wide push to
leave is probably now as strong as the pull of higher wages, social
advancement, and family connections in the US. And yet, Mexican leaders remain
in denial about this propensity for mass exodus.
All this spells
trouble for proposals by President Bush and some in Congress to set up a
temporary worker program as a way to reduce the burden of illegal migration.
The Mexican demand for such US "guest" visas could be, by some estimates,
half a million a year. Yet the numbers in the proposals fall far short of that.
The US could hardly absorb such a large wave of humanity without further
challenges to its civic stability.
In other words, a
guest-worker plan is a false promise of ending the waves of illegal border
crossings. The challenges on America's southern flank are only getting worse.
Arizona and New Mexico this month declared emergencies along their borders with
Mexico, citing a rise in crime related to drug and people smuggling - and an
inability by Washington to stem the violence. And the US ambassador to Mexico
also criticized its leaders for not curbing border violence; he made a point by
closing the consulate in Nuevo Laredo.
Just five years
ago, Mexico had great hope of reform after the ouster of the Revolutionary
Institutional Party, or PRI, which had governed since 1929. But President
Vicente Fox's reform efforts have faltered. The nation's three main parties
remain internally divided and unable to compromise. Decades of oil wealth have
left people too willing to take handouts rather than accept the kind of
taxation that creates citizens with a stake in government. With Mr. Fox a lame
duck, Mexico is heading for a presidential election next July that could see
another weak leader.
As dissatisfaction
with politics and justice translates into Mexicans voting with their feet, the
US needs to recognize that the "border issue" is much more of a
"Mexico issue."
The US should
further beef up border security, but also help Mexico regain national
integrity. Legally hiring Mexicans is hardly a solution.
As it is doing
with Africa, the US must peg better economic relations to better governance in
Mexico, such as laws allowing referendums and run-offs for presidential
elections. Rather than view such pressure as gringo meddling, the Mexican
people might just welcome a challenge to their government. And think of staying
put.
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
*
What will
America stand for in 2050?
The US should think long and hard
about the high number of Latino immigrants.
By Lawrence Harrison
Palo Alto, Calif.
President Obama
has encouraged Americans to start laying a new foundation for the country – on
a number of fronts. He has stressed that we'll need to have the courage to make
some hard choices. One of those hard choices is how to handle immigration. The
US must get serious about the tide of legal and illegal immigrants, above all
from Latin America.
It's not just a
short-run issue of immigrants competing with citizens for jobs as unemployment
approaches 10 percent or the number of uninsured straining the quality of
healthcare. Heavy immigration from Latin America threatens our cohesiveness as
a nation.
The political
realities of the rapidly growing Latino population are such that Mr. Obama may
be the last president who can avert the permanent, vast underclass implied by
the current Census Bureau projection for 2050.
Do I sound like a
right-wing "nativist"? I'm not. I'm a lifelong Democrat; an early and
avid supporter of Obama. I'm gratified by his nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to
the Supreme Court. I'm also the grandson of Eastern European Jewish immigrants;
and a member, along with several other Democrats, of the advisory boards of the
Federation for American Immigration Reform and Pro English. Similar concerns
preoccupied the distinguished Democrat Barbara Jordan when she chaired the
congressionally mandated US Commission on Immigration Reform in the 1990s.
Congresswoman
Jordan was worried about the adverse impact of high levels of legal and illegal
immigration on poor citizens, disproportionately Latinos and African-Americans.
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.
The healthcare
cost of the illegal workforce is especially burdensome, and is subsidized by
taxpayers. To claim Medicaid, you must be legal, but as the Health and Human
Services inspector general found, 47 states allow self-declaration of status
for Medicaid. Many hospitals and clinics are going broke because of the
constant stream of uninsured, many of whom are the estimated 12 million to 15
million illegal immigrants. This translates into reduced services, particularly
for lower-income citizens.
The US population
totaled 281 million in 2000. About 35 million, or 12.5 percent, were Latino.
The Census Bureau projects that our population will reach 439 million in 2050,
a 56 percent increase over the 2000 census. The Hispanic population in 2050 is
projected at 133 million – 30 percent of the total and almost quadruple the
2000 level. Population growth is the principal threat to the environment via
natural resource use, sprawl, and pollution. And population growth is fueled
chiefly by immigration.
Consider what
this, combined with worrisome evidence that Latinos are not melting into our
cultural mainstream, means for the US. Latinos have contributed some positive
cultural attributes, such as multigenerational family bonds, to US society. But
the same traditional values that lie behind Latin America's difficulties in
achieving democratic stability, social justice, and prosperity are being
substantially perpetuated among Hispanic-Americans.
Prominent Latin
Americans have concluded that traditional values are at the root of the
region's development problems. Among those expressing that opinion: Peruvian
writer Mario Vargas Llosa; Nobelist author Octavio Paz, a Mexican; Teodoro
Moscoso, a Puerto Rican politician and US ambassador to Venezuela; and
Ecuador's former president, Osvaldo Hurtado.
Latin America's
cultural problem is apparent in the persistent Latino high school dropout rate
– 40 percent in California, according to a recent study – and the high
incidence of teenage pregnancy, single mothers, and crime. The perpetuation of
Latino culture is facilitated by the Spanish language's growing challenge to
English as our national language. It makes it easier for Latinos to avoid the
melting pot and for education to remain a low priority, as it is in Latin
America – a problem highlighted in recent books by former New York City deputy
mayor Herman Badillo, a Puerto Rican, and Mexican-Americans Lionel Sosa and
Ernesto Caravantes.
Language is the
conduit of culture. Consider: There is no word in Spanish for
"compromise" (compromiso means "commitment") nor for
"accountability," a problem that is compounded by a verb structure that
converts "I dropped (broke, forgot) something" into "it got
dropped" ("broken," "forgotten").
As the USAID
mission director during the first two years of the Sandinista regime in
Nicaragua, I had difficulty communicating "dissent" to a government
minister at a crucial moment in our efforts to convince the US Congress to
approve a special appropriation for Nicaragua.
I was later told
by a bilingual, bicultural Nicaraguan educator that when I used
"dissent" what my Nicaraguan counterparts understood was
"heresy." "We are, after all, children of the Inquisition,"
he added.
In a letter to me
in 1991, Mexican-American columnist Richard Estrada described the essence of
the problem of immigration as one of numbers. We should really worry, he wrote,
"when the numbers begin to favor not only the maintenance and
replenishment of the immigrants' source culture, but also its overall growth,
and in particular growth so large that the numbers not only impede assimilation
but go beyond to pose a challenge to the traditional culture of the American
nation."
Obama should
confront the challenges by enforcing immigration laws on employment to help end
illegal immigration. We should calibrate legal immigration annually to (1) the
needs of the economy, as Ms. Jordan urged, and (2) past performance of
immigrant groups with respect to acculturation.
We must declare
our national language to be English and discourage the proliferation of
Spanish- language media. We should limit citizenship by birth to the offspring
of citizens. And we should provide immigrants with easy-to-access educational
services that facilitate acculturation, including English language,
citizenship, and American values.
Lawrence Harrison
directs the Cultural Change Institute at the Fletcher School, Tufts University,
in Medford, Mass. He is the author of "The Central Liberal Truth: How
Politics Can Change A Culture And Save It From Itself."
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!
*
BOOK: MEXIFORNIA – THE SHATTERING OF THE
AMERICAN DREAM WITH THE MEXICAN INVASION AND OCCUPATION
You thought things couldn’t get
much worse in CALIFORNIA… now MEXIFORNIA…
POPULATION TO DOUBLE...
LATINO THE DOMINANT ETHNIC
GROUP.....double the deficits above! And double the crime, graffiti, anchor
babies and homes foreclosed on with bars on the windows.
Riverside will become the
second most populous county behind Los Angeles and Latinos the dominant ethnic
group, study says. By Maria L. La Ganga and Sara Lin
Times Staff Writers
July 10, 2007
Over the next half-century,
California's population will explode by nearly 75%, and Riverside will surpass
its bigger neighbors to become the second most populous county after Los
Angeles, according to state Department of Finance projections released Monday.
California will near the 60-million mark in 2050, the study found, raising
questions about how the state will look and function and where all the people
and their cars will go. Dueling visions pit the iconic California building
block of ranch house, big yard and two-car garage against more dense, high-rise
development. But whether sprawl or skyscrapers win the day, the Golden State
will probably be a far different and more complex place than it is today, as
people live longer and Latinos become the dominant ethnic group, eclipsing all
others combined. Some critics forecast disaster if gridlock and environmental
impacts are not averted. Others see a possible economic boon, particularly for
retailers and service industries with an eye on the state as a burgeoning
market."It's opportunity with baggage," said Jack Kyser, chief
economist for the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp., in "a
country masquerading as a state."Other demographers argue that the huge
population increase the state predicts will occur only if officials complete
major improvements to roads and other public infrastructure. Without that
investment, they say, some Californians would flee the state.If the finance
department's calculations hold, California's population will rise from 34.1
million in 2000 to 59.5 million at the mid-century point, about the same number
of people as Italy has today. And its projected growth rate in those 50 years
will outstrip the national rate — nearly 75% compared with less than 50%
projected by the federal government. That could translate to increased
political clout in Washington, D.C. Southern California's population is projected
to grow at a rate of more than 60%, according to the new state figures,
reaching 31.6 million by mid-century. That's an increase of 12.1 million over
just seven counties. L.A. County alone will top 13 million by 2050, an increase
of almost 3.5 million residents. And Riverside County — long among the
fastest-growing in the state — will triple in population to 4.7 million by
mid-century. Riverside County will add 3.1 million people, according to the new
state figures, eclipsing Orange and San Diego to become the second most
populous in the state. With less expensive housing than the coast, Riverside
County has grown by more than 472,000 residents since 2000, according to state
estimates. No matter how much local governments build in the way of public works
and how many new jobs are attracted to the region — minimizing the need for
long commutes — Husing figures that growth will still overwhelm the area's
roads.USC Professor Genevieve Giuliano, an expert on land use and
transportation, would probably agree. Such massive growth, if it occurs, she
said, will require huge investment in the state's highways, schools, and energy
and sewer systems at a "very formidable cost."If those things aren't
built, Giuliano questioned whether the projected population increases will
occur. "Sooner or later, the region will not be competitive and the growth
is not going to happen," she said.If major problems like traffic
congestion and housing costs aren't addressed, Giuliano warned, the middle
class is going to exit California, leaving behind very high-income and very
low-income residents. "It's a political question," said Martin Wachs,
a transportation expert at the Rand Corp. in Santa Monica. "Do we have the
will, the consensus, the willingness to pay? If we did, I think we could manage
the growth."The numbers released Monday underscore most demographers' view
that the state's population is pushing east, from both Los Angeles and the Bay
Area, to counties such as Riverside and San Bernardino as well as half a dozen
or so smaller Central Valley counties.Sutter County, for example, is expected
to be the fastest-growing on a percentage basis between 2000 and 2050, jumping
255% to a population of 282,894 , the state said. Kern County is expected to
see its population more than triple to 2.1 million by mid-century.In Southern
California, San Diego County is projected to grow by almost 1.7 million
residents and Orange County by 1.1 million. Even Ventura County — where voters
have imposed some limits on urban sprawl — will see its population jump 62% to
more than 1.2 million if the projections hold.The Department of Finance
releases long-term population projections every three years. Between the last
two reports, number crunchers have taken a more detailed look at California's
statistics and taken into account the likelihood that people will live longer,
said chief demographer Mary Heim.The result?The latest numbers figure the state
will be much more crowded than earlier estimates (by nearly 5 million) and that
it will take a bit longer than previously thought for Latinos to become the
majority of California's population: 2042, not 2038.The figures show that the
majority of California's growth will be in the Latino population, said Dowell
Myers, a professor of urban planning and demography at USC, adding that
"68% of the growth this decade will be Latino, 75% next and 80% after
that."That should be a wake-up call for voting Californians, Myers said,
pointing out a critical disparity. Though the state's growth is young and Latino,
the majority of voters will be older and white — at least for the next
decade."The future of the state is Latino growth," Myers said.
"We'd sure better invest in them and get them up to speed¼.
Older white voters don't see it that way. They don't realize that someone has
to replace them in the work force, pay for their benefits and buy their house.
*
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.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
from the May 28, 2009 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0528/p09s01-coop.html
*
VIVA LA RAZA SUPREMACY? THE MEXICAN LOOTING OF AMERICA – A
COLONY OF MEXICO
What will
America stand for in 2050?
The US should think long and hard
about the high number of Latino immigrants.
By Lawrence Harrison
Palo Alto, Calif.
President Obama
has encouraged Americans to start laying a new foundation for the country – on
a number of fronts. He has stressed that we'll need to have the courage to make
some hard choices. One of those hard choices is how to handle immigration. The
US must get serious about the tide of legal and illegal immigrants, above all
from Latin America.
It's not just a short-run issue of immigrants competing with citizens for jobs as unemployment approaches 10 percent or the number of uninsured straining the quality of healthcare. Heavy immigration from Latin America threatens our cohesiveness as a nation.
It's not just a short-run issue of immigrants competing with citizens for jobs as unemployment approaches 10 percent or the number of uninsured straining the quality of healthcare. Heavy immigration from Latin America threatens our cohesiveness as a nation.
The political
realities of the rapidly growing Latino population are such that Mr. Obama may
be the last president who can avert the permanent, vast underclass implied by
the current Census Bureau projection for 2050.
Do I sound like a
right-wing "nativist"? I'm not. I'm a lifelong Democrat; an early and
avid supporter of Obama. I'm gratified by his nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to
the Supreme Court. I'm also the grandson of Eastern European Jewish immigrants;
and a member, along with several other Democrats, of the advisory boards of the
Federation for American Immigration Reform and Pro English. Similar concerns
preoccupied the distinguished Democrat Barbara Jordan when she chaired the
congressionally mandated US Commission on Immigration Reform in the 1990s.
Congresswoman
Jordan was worried about the adverse impact of high levels of legal and illegal
immigration on poor citizens, disproportionately Latinos and African-Americans.
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.
The healthcare cost of the illegal workforce is especially burdensome, and is subsidized by taxpayers. To claim Medicaid, you must be legal, but as the Health and Human Services inspector general found, 47 states allow self-declaration of status for Medicaid. Many hospitals and clinics are going broke because of the constant stream of uninsured, many of whom are the estimated 12 million to 15 million illegal immigrants. This translates into reduced services, particularly for lower-income citizens.
The US population totaled 281 million in 2000. About 35 million, or 12.5 percent, were Latino. The Census Bureau projects that our population will reach 439 million in 2050, a 56 percent increase over the 2000 census. The Hispanic population in 2050 is projected at 133 million – 30 percent of the total and almost quadruple the 2000 level. Population growth is the principal threat to the environment via natural resource use, sprawl, and pollution. And population growth is fueled chiefly by immigration.
Consider what
this, combined with worrisome evidence that Latinos are not melting into our
cultural mainstream, means for the US. Latinos have contributed some positive
cultural attributes, such as multigenerational family bonds, to US society. But
the same traditional values that lie behind Latin America's difficulties in
achieving democratic stability, social justice, and prosperity are being
substantially perpetuated among Hispanic-Americans. The healthcare cost of the illegal workforce is especially burdensome, and is subsidized by taxpayers. To claim Medicaid, you must be legal, but as the Health and Human Services inspector general found, 47 states allow self-declaration of status for Medicaid. Many hospitals and clinics are going broke because of the constant stream of uninsured, many of whom are the estimated 12 million to 15 million illegal immigrants. This translates into reduced services, particularly for lower-income citizens.
The US population totaled 281 million in 2000. About 35 million, or 12.5 percent, were Latino. The Census Bureau projects that our population will reach 439 million in 2050, a 56 percent increase over the 2000 census. The Hispanic population in 2050 is projected at 133 million – 30 percent of the total and almost quadruple the 2000 level. Population growth is the principal threat to the environment via natural resource use, sprawl, and pollution. And population growth is fueled chiefly by immigration.
Prominent Latin Americans have concluded that traditional values are at the root of the region's development problems. Among those expressing that opinion: Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa; Nobelist author Octavio Paz, a Mexican; Teodoro Moscoso, a Puerto Rican politician and US ambassador to Venezuela; and Ecuador's former president, Osvaldo Hurtado.
Latin America's
cultural problem is apparent in the persistent Latino high school dropout rate
– 40 percent in California, according to a recent study – and the high
incidence of teenage pregnancy, single mothers, and crime. The perpetuation of
Latino culture is facilitated by the Spanish language's growing challenge to
English as our national language. It makes it easier for Latinos to avoid the
melting pot and for education to remain a low priority, as it is in Latin
America – a problem highlighted in recent books by former New York City deputy
mayor Herman Badillo, a Puerto Rican, and Mexican-Americans Lionel Sosa and
Ernesto Caravantes.
Language is the
conduit of culture. Consider: There is no word in Spanish for
"compromise" (compromiso means "commitment") nor for
"accountability," a problem that is compounded by a verb structure
that converts "I dropped (broke, forgot) something" into "it got
dropped" ("broken," "forgotten").
As the USAID
mission director during the first two years of the Sandinista regime in
Nicaragua, I had difficulty communicating "dissent" to a government
minister at a crucial moment in our efforts to convince the US Congress to
approve a special appropriation for Nicaragua.
I was later told
by a bilingual, bicultural Nicaraguan educator that when I used
"dissent" what my Nicaraguan counterparts understood was
"heresy." "We are, after all, children of the Inquisition,"
he added.
In a letter to me
in 1991, Mexican-American columnist Richard Estrada described the essence of
the problem of immigration as one of numbers. We should really worry, he wrote,
"when the numbers begin to favor not only the maintenance and
replenishment of the immigrants' source culture, but also its overall growth,
and in particular growth so large that the numbers not only impede assimilation
but go beyond to pose a challenge to the traditional culture of the American nation."
Obama should
confront the challenges by enforcing immigration laws on employment to help end
illegal immigration. We should calibrate legal immigration annually to (1) the
needs of the economy, as Ms. Jordan urged, and (2) past performance of immigrant
groups with respect to acculturation.
We must declare
our national language to be English and discourage the proliferation of
Spanish- language media. We should limit citizenship by birth to the offspring
of citizens. And we should provide immigrants with easy-to-access educational
services that facilitate acculturation, including English language,
citizenship, and American values.
Lawrence Harrison
directs the Cultural Change Institute at the Fletcher School, Tufts University,
in Medford, Mass. He is the author of "The Central Liberal Truth: How
Politics Can Change A Culture And Save It From Itself."
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