COST to AMERICANS of the LA RAZA MEXICAN OCCUPATION in CALIFORNIA ALONE: $2,370 per legal.
All that “cheap” labor is staggeringly expensive!
"Most Californians, who have seen their taxes increase while public services deteriorate, already know the impact that mass illegal immigration is having on their communities, but even they may be shocked when they learn just how much of a drain illegal immigration has become." FAIR President Dan Stein.
Californians bear an enormous fiscal burden as a result of an illegal alien population estimated at almost 3 million residents. The annual expenditure of state and local tax dollars on services for that population is $25.3 billion. That total amounts to a yearly burden of about $2,370 for a household headed by a U.S. citizen.
AMERICA: THE RICH GET MUCH RICHER AND THE MIDDLE CLASS GETS BLUDGEONED…. Illegals get the jobs!
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Why do the billionaire class all want wider open borders and hordes more “cheap” labor illegals? It’s all about keeping wages depressed for greater profits!
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“Today’s society benefits those who shaped it, and it has been shaped not by working men and women, but by the new aristocratic elite. Big banks, big tech, big multi-national corporations, along with their allies in the academy and the media—these are the aristocrats of our age. They live in the United States, but they consider themselves citizens of the world” Sen. Josh Hawley
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"This is how they will destroy America from within. The leftist billionaires who orchestrate these plans are wealthy. Those tasked with representing us in Congress will never be exposed to the cost of the invasion of millions of migrants. They have nothing but contempt for those of us who must endure the consequences of
our communities being intruded upon by gang members, drug dealers and human
traffickers. These people have no intention of becoming Americans; like the Democrats who welcome them, they have contempt for us." PATRICIA McCARTHY
45% of California Roads are Rated in 'Poor Condition'
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/05/45_of_california_roads_are_rated_in_poor_condition.html
The Transportation for America reported that 45 percent of California’s 394,383 lane miles of roads are rated in “poor condition.”
The stated mission of the nonpartisan think tank known as “T4-America” is to assist local government leaders make sure that states and federal government invest in “smart, homegrown, locally-driven transportation solutions.”
The World Economic Forum highlights four basic economic pillars that contribute to global economic competitiveness among the 193 nations of the world: 1) institutions; 2) Infrastructure; 3) macroeconomic environment; and 4) health and primary education.
The United States' strongest basic pillar has been infrastructure that includes effective modes of transport, electricity supplies free from interruptions and shortages, and an extensive telecommunications network that allow rapid and free flow of information.
The U.S. historically has been at or near the top each year for infrastructure, and still has excellent electric supplies and the world’s leading telecommunications structures. But the U.S. rating has declined to 11th place internationally due to deterioration of its roads, railroads, ports, and air transport to move goods to market and workers to their jobs.
The latest T4-America Repair Priorities 2019 report reveals that the percentage of U.S. roads nationwide in “poor condition” increased from 14 percent to 20 percent, and 37 states saw the percentage of their roads in poor condition increase from 2009-2017.
This analysis generally blames policies by individual states that neglect basic repairs in favor of expanding road miles. Due to spending flexibility offered by Congress over the last two five-year transportation reauthorization bills, states spent nearly as much money expanding the number of road miles as repairing their existing road system.
States from 2009-2017 annually spent about $21.4 billion on road repair for the nation’s 72 million public lane miles and $21.3 billion to add 223,494 lane miles. But with every new lane mile costing about $24,000 per year to keep in “good repair,” the system deteriorated and the number of lane miles in “poor repair” rose from 14 to 20 percent.
The four states of Georgia, Idaho, Nebraska, Oregon, and Tennessee scored best with only 7 percent or less roads in “poor repair”; while four states of California, Hawaii, New Jersey, and Rhode Island had the worst roads in “poor repair” at 34 percent or more.
The biggest single contributor to the deterioration of the U.S. infrastructure ratings between 2009 and 2017 was California, where the percentage of “poor repair” for its 394,383 lane miles rose from an already grim 32 percent to an abysmal 45 percent.
States tend to spend about one third of their total transportation budget on building new lane miles, a third on repair and a third on “other capital expenditures” that includes bridges, safety, engineering, traffic operations, and environmental enhancements.
California’s contribution to the U.S. increase in “poor repair” lane miles is somewhat due underfunding, with an average of just $3.9 billion in annual transportation spending between 2009-2017. But the real reason California won the prize for the largest number of lane miles in “poor repair” is due to spending almost half, 49 percent, of its transportation budget on “other capital spending.” Just 16 percent of California transportation spending went for new roads and 35 percent for road repairs.
As an example of California unique use of “other capital spending,” the Reform California movement found that 30 percent of the state’s transportation “Maintenance” Budget for San Diego County was being diverted to clean up homeless camps.
With President Trump and Congress beginning negotiations on an up to $2 trillion infrastructure spending bill, Transportation for America advocates for adopting a national “fix-it-first” formula to assure America’s infrastructure stays in good repair.”
Chriss Street is an economist and cofounder of the New California movement.
Welfare for Refugees Cost Americans $123 Billion in 10 Years ….YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK!
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/10/frosty-wooldridge-let-us-open-us.html
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/11/frontpage-hidden-agenda-of-pueblo-sin.html
"Mexican president candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador called for mass immigration to the United States, declaring it a "human right". We will defend all the (Mexican) invaders in the American," Obrador said, adding that immigrants "must leave their towns and find a life, job, welfare, and free medical in the United States."
"Fox’s Tucker Carlson noted Thursday that Obrador has previously proposed ranting AMNESTY TO MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS. “America is now Mexico’s social safety net, and that’s a very good deal for the Mexican ruling class,” Carlson added."
Illegal Immigration Costs U.S. Taxpayers a Stunning $134.9 Billion a Year
AMNESTY: THE HOAX TO KEEP WAGES FOR LEGALS DEPRESSED!
"Critics argue that giving amnesty to 12 to 30 million illegal aliens in the U.S. would have an immediate negative impact on America’s working and middle class — specifically black Americans and the white working class — who would be in direct competition for blue-collar jobs with the largely low-skilled illegal alien population." JOHN BINDER
Immigration Is the Elephant in the Room in L.A. School Strike
https://www.cis.org/Camarota/Immigration-Elephant-Room-LA-School-Strike?utm_source=E-mail+Updates&utm_campaign=7503f20bde-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_27_04_17_COPY_01&utm_m
Pollak: Educating Illegal Aliens and Their Children Costs L.A.
Schools Hundreds of Millions Per Year
Robyn Beck / AFP / Getty
The ongoing strike by the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) union against
the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is about teacher pay, classroom
size, support staff, and especially charter schools, which the union says take
money away from the district.
CALIFORNIA and
the RISE OF THE LA RAZA MEXICAN FASCIST WELFARE STATE
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/08/they-invading-horde-waving-their.html
Least-Educated
State: California No. 1 in Percentage of Residents 25 and Older Who Never
Finished 9th Grade; No. 50 in High School Graduates
Is California the next Detroit?
Unique
oblivion
Detroit
One-party rule
No longer
golden
https://finance.townhall.com/columnists/petermorici/2019/04/29/mass-immigration-poses-an-existential-crisis-for-the-west-n2545545
Gaffney: 'You Can't
Assimilate Vast Numbers of People Who Don’t Want to be Part' of U.S.A.
MULTI-CULTURALISM and the creation of a one-party globalist
country to serve the rich in America’s open borders.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/12/em-cadwaladr-impending-death-of.html
“Open border advocates, such as Facebook's Mark
Zuckerberg, claim illegal aliens are a net benefit to California with little
evidence to support such an assertion. As the CIS has documented, the vast
majority of illegals are poor, uneducated, and with few skills. How does
accepting millions of illegal aliens and then granting them access to dozens of
welfare programs benefit California’s economy? If illegals were contributing to
the economy in any meaningful way, CA, with its 2.6 million illegals, would be
booming.” STEVE BALDWIN – AMERICAN SPECTATOR
(POPULATION 9-2018)
FINISHING AMERICA OFF: THE FOREIGN INVASION FOR “CHEAP”
LABOR
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-fall-of-america-by-invitation-tens.html
Open the floodgates of our welfare state to the uneducated,
impoverished, and unskilled masses of the world and in a generation or three
America, as we know it, will be gone. JOHN BINDER
But many less-skilled migrants play their largest role by
simply shifting small slices of wealth from person to person, for example, by
competing up rents in their neighborhood or by competing down wages in their
workplace. The crudest examples can be seen in agriculture.
Overall,
the Washington-imposed economic policy of economic growth via immigration
shifts wealth from young people towards older people by flooding the market with cheap white-collar and blue-collar foreign labor.
"Critics argue that giving
amnesty to 12 to 30 million illegal aliens in the U.S. would have an immediate
negative impact on America’s working and middle class — specifically black
Americans and the white working class — who would be in direct competition for
blue-collar jobs with the largely low-skilled illegal alien population."
JOHN BINDER
US now has more Spanish speakers than Spain – only Mexico
has more
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/29/us-second-biggest-spanish-speaking-country
ILLEGALS & WELFARE
WE CAN’T TAKE CARE OF OUR OWN, AND YET WE LET MEXICO BUILD THEIR BILLION DOLLAR WELFARE STATE ON OUR BACKS!!!
70% OF ILLEGALS GET WELFARE!
“According to the Centers for Immigration Studies, April '11, at least 70% of Mexican illegal alien families receive some type of welfare in the US!!! cis.org”
So when cities across the country declare that they will NOT be sanctuary, guess where ALL the illegals, criminals, gang members fleeing ICE will go???? straight to your welcoming city. So ironically the people fighting for sanctuary city status, may have an unprecedented crime wave to deal with along with the additional expense.
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$17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
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$12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English.
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$22 billion is spent on (AFDC) welfare to illegal aliens each year.
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$2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as (SNAP) food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
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$3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens. Does not include local jails and State Prisons.
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2012 illegal aliens sent home $62 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin. This is why Mexico is getting involved in our politics.
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$200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.
THE DISUNITED STATES: The world’s welfare office!
America is a nation with a severe housing crisis, a million legals who are homeless, tens of millions of legals who have given up finding a job that pays living wages and yet the borders are wide open to keep the hordes coming simply to keep wages DEPRESSED.
THE SLOW DEATH OF CALIFORNIA, A WELFARE STATE AND COLONY OF MEXICO
With crime soaring, rampant homelessness, sanctuary state status attracting the highest illegal immigrant population in the country and its “worst state in the U.S. to do business” ranking for more than a decade, California and its expansive, debt-ridden, progressive government is devolving into a third-world country. JANET LEVY
AMERICA: THE WORLD’S WELFARE OFFICE
With crime soaring, rampant homelessness, sanctuary state status attracting the highest illegal immigrant population in the country and its “worst state in the U.S. to do business” ranking for more than a decade, California and its expansive, debt-ridden, progressive government is devolving into a third-world country. JANET LEVY
"This is how they will destroy America from within. The leftist billionaires who orchestrate these plans are wealthy. Those tasked with representing us in Congress will never be exposed to the cost of the invasion of millions of migrants. They have nothing but contempt for those of us who must endure the consequences of our communities being intruded upon by gang members, drug dealers and human traffickers. These people have no intention of becoming Americans; like the Democrats who welcome them, they have contempt for us." PATRICIA McCARTHY
"Most Californians, who have seen their taxes increase while public services deteriorate, already know the impact that mass illegal immigration is having on their communities, but even they may be shocked when they learn just how much of a drain illegal immigration has become." FAIR President Dan Stein
WE SAT AND WATCHED WHILE THEY DESTROYED OUR COUNTRY!
We are now in the process of destabilizing our own country. FROSTY WOOLDRIGE
Welfare for Refugees Cost Americans $123 Billion in 10 Years ….YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK!
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/10/frosty-wooldridge-let-us-open-us.html
THE CONSPIRACY TO SABOTAGE HOMELAND SECURITY
The Democrat Party’s secret agenda for wider open borders, more welfare for invading illegals, more jobs and free anything they illegally vote for…. All to destroy the two-party system and build the GLOBALISTS’ DEMOCRAT PARTY FOR WIDER OPEN BORDERS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED.
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/11/frontpage-hidden-agenda-of-pueblo-sin.html
Demonstrably and irrefutably the Democrat Party became the party whose principle objective is to thoroughly transform the nature of the American electorate by means of open borders and the mass, unchecked importation of illiterate third world peasants who will vote in overwhelming numbers for Democrats and their La Raza welfare state. FRONTPAGE MAG
AMERICA, THE ANCHOR BABIES FOR WELFARE STATE
“Through love of having children we're going to take over." Augustin Cebada, Information Minister of Brown Berets, militant para-military soldiers of Aztlan shouting at U.S. citizens at an Independence Day rally in Los Angeles, 7/4/96
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“The children of illegal aliens are commonly known as “anchor babies,” as they anchor their illegal alien and noncitizen parents in the U.S. There are at least 4.5 million anchor babies in the country, a population that exceeds the total number of annual American births.” JOHN BINDER
MARK LEVIN:
‘Unbridled Immigration, Legal and Illegal, Is Taking the Country Down’
“Through love of having children we're going to take over." Augustin Cebada, Information Minister of Brown Berets, militant para-military soldiers of Aztlan shouting at U.S. citizens at an Independence Day rally in Los Angeles, 7/4/96
This annual income for an impoverished American family is $10,000 less than the more than $34,500 in federal funds which are spent on each unaccompanied minor border crosser.
A study by Tom Wong of the University of California at San Diego discovered that more than 25 percent of DACA-enrolled illegal aliens in the program have anchor babies. That totals about 200,000 anchor babies who are the children of DACA-enrolled illegal aliens. This does not include the anchor babies of DACA-qualified illegal aliens. JOHN BINDER
“As Breitbart News recently reported, there are more anchor baby births in the Los Angeles, California metro area than the total U.S. births in 14 states and the District of Colombia. Every year, American taxpayers are billed about $2.4 billion to pay for the births of illegal aliens.” JOHN BINDER
THE INVASION:
“The radicals seek nothing less than secession from the United States whether to form their own sovereign state or to reunify with Mexico. Those who desire reunification with Mexico are irredentists who seek to reclaim Mexico's "lost" territories in the American Southwest.” Maria Hsia Chang Professor of Political Science, University of Nevada Reno
"Mexican president candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador called for mass immigration to the United States, declaring it a "human right". We will defend all the (Mexican) invaders in the American," Obrador said, adding that immigrants "must leave their towns and find a life, job, welfare, and free medical in the United States."
"Fox’s Tucker Carlson noted Thursday that Obrador has previously proposed ranting AMNESTY TO MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS. “America is now Mexico’s social safety net, and that’s a very good deal for the Mexican ruling class,” Carlson added."
COST to AMERICANS of the LA RAZA MEXICAN OCCUPATION in CALIFORNIA ALONE: $2,370 per legal.
All that “cheap” labor is staggeringly expensive!
"Most Californians, who have seen their taxes increase while public services deteriorate, already know the impact that mass illegal immigration is having on their communities, but even they may be shocked when they learn just how much of a drain illegal immigration has become." FAIR President Dan Stein.
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Californians bear an enormous fiscal burden as a result of an illegal alien population estimated at almost 3 million residents. The annual expenditure of state and local tax dollars on services for that population is $25.3 billion. That total amounts to a yearly burden of about $2,370 for a household headed by a U.S. citizen.
THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES CHIPS IN MORE THAN ONE BILLION PER YEAR FOR MEX ANCHOR BABY BREEDING OF FUTURE DEMS!
JUDICIAL WATCH:
America builds the La Raza “The Race” Mexican welfare state
Illegal Immigration Costs U.S. Taxpayers a Stunning $134.9 Billion a Year
AMNESTY: THE HOAX TO KEEP WAGES FOR LEGALS DEPRESSED!
"Critics argue that giving amnesty to 12 to 30 million illegal aliens in the U.S. would have an immediate negative impact on America’s working and middle class — specifically black Americans and the white working class — who would be in direct competition for blue-collar jobs with the largely low-skilled illegal alien population." JOHN BINDER
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"Additionally, under current legal immigration laws, if given amnesty, the illegal alien population would be allowed to bring an unlimited number of their foreign relatives to the U.S. This population could boost already high legal immigration levels to an unprecedented high. An amnesty for illegal aliens would also likely triple the number of border-crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border." JOHN BINDER
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“At the current rate of invasion (mostly through Mexico, but also through Canada) the United States will be completely over run with illegal aliens by the year 2025. I’m not talking about legal immigrants who follow US law to become citizens. In less than 20 years, if we do not stop the invasion, ILLEGAL aliens and their offspring will be the dominant population in the United States”…. Tom Barrett
HERITAGE FOUNDATION:
AMNESTY WILL ADD ANOTHER 100 MILLION IMMIGRANTS TO AMERICA’S OPEN BORDERS
HEAR THAT SUCKING SOUND?
IT’S MEXICO SUCKING THE BLOOD OF AMERICA…. HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS FOR WELFARE, “FREE” HEALTHCARE, HEROIN SALES, CRIME COST AND THEN THEY SEND TENS OF BILLIONS BACK TO NARCOMEX
“In the U.S. the remittances that come of illegal immigration drive down U.S. wages, particularly of those on the lowest-skilled parts of the ladder, and as money flows out from local communities, leaves them underinvested and run-down. Nobody can live two places at once. Illegal immigrants live here but their money lives in Mexico. And it's often untaxed.” MONICA SHOWALTER
Who ultimately really pays for all the true cost of all that "cheap" labor?
THE DEVASTATING COST OF MEXICO’S WELFARE STATE IN AMERICA’S OPEN BORDERS
“The Democrats had abandoned their working-class base to chase what they pretended was a racial group when what they were actually chasing was the momentum of unlimited migration”. DANIEL GREENFIELD / FRONT PAGE MAGAZINE
LA RAZA DOUBLED U.S. POPULATION AND VOTED TO SURRENDER AMERICAN BORDERS FOR EASY PLUNDERING BY NARCOMEX.
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“Through love of having children we're going to take over." Augustin Cebada, Information Minister of Brown Berets, militant para-military soldiers of Aztlan shouting at U.S. citizens at an Independence Day rally in Los Angeles, 7/4/96
“The cost of the Dream Act is far bigger than the Democrats or their media allies admit. Instead of covering 690,000 younger illegals now enrolled in former President Barack Obama’s 2012 “DACA” amnesty, the Dream Act would legalize at least 3.3 million illegals, according to a pro-immigration group, the Migration Policy Institute.”
THE NEW PRIVILEGED CLASS: Illegals!
This is why you work From Jan - May paying taxes to the government ....with the rest of the calendar year is money for you and your family.
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, with his fake Social Security number, he gets an "earned income credit" of up to $3,200..... free.
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.
He requires bilingual teachers and books.
He qualifies for relief from high energy bills.
If they are or become, aged, blind or disabled, they qualify for SSI.
Once qualified for SSI they can qualify for Medicare. All of this is at (our) taxpayer's expense.
He doesn't worry about car insurance, life insurance, or homeowners insurance.
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.
The American taxpayers also pay for increased crime, graffiti and trash clean-up.
Cheap labor? YEAH RIGHT! Wake up people!
Immigration Is the Elephant in the Room in L.A. School Strike
https://www.cis.org/Camarota/Immigration-Elephant-Room-LA-School-Strike?utm_source=E-mail+Updates&utm_campaign=7503f20bde-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_27_04_17_COPY_01&utm_m
Pollak: Educating Illegal Aliens and Their Children Costs L.A.
Schools Hundreds of Millions Per Year
Robyn Beck / AFP / Getty
The ongoing strike by the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) union against
the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is about teacher pay, classroom
size, support staff, and especially charter schools, which the union says take
money away from the district.
CALIFORNIA and
the RISE OF THE LA RAZA MEXICAN FASCIST WELFARE STATE
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/08/they-invading-horde-waving-their.html
Least-Educated
State: California No. 1 in Percentage of Residents 25 and Older Who Never
Finished 9th Grade; No. 50 in High School Graduates
Is California the next Detroit?
Unique
oblivion
Detroit
One-party rule
No longer
golden
Immigration Is the Elephant in the Room in L.A. School Strike
https://www.cis.org/Camarota/Immigration-Elephant-Room-LA-School-Strike?utm_source=E-mail+Updates&utm_campaign=7503f20bde-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_27_04_17_COPY_01&utm_m
By Steven A. Camarota on January 25, 2019
The recently
settled teachers' strike in the Los Angeles Unified School district was a
bitter dispute about resources, with class size and lack of staff support
taking center stage. The tables below show that immigration's impact on the
school system is enormous. Immigration has added large numbers of students to
the county, but at the same time a very large share of both legal and illegal
immigrants have modest levels of education and almost certainly pay less in
taxes than natives who have higher levels of education and incomes. Immigration
has also added significantly to the number of public-school students in the
county who live in poverty and speak a language other than English at home.
Overall enrollment has not increased in the district in recent years, but
immigration has reduced the proportion of students whose families pay
sufficient taxes to cover education costs, creating the ongoing strains on the
district budget.
Although it
is not possible to use Census Bureau data to look at only residents of L.A.
Unified, it is possible to examine Los Angeles County to gain insight into
what's happening. We identify legal and illegal immigrants based on the
methodology used in this
report. The data
comes from the public-use files of the Census Bureau's 2012 to 2016 American
Community Survey.
Among the
findings for L.A. County:
·
Public-school
students from immigrant-headed households comprise 58 percent of public-school
students in Los Angeles County (Table 2).
·
Of
all students in the county, 22 percent are from illegal-headed households and
36 percent are from legal immigrant households (Table 2).
·
The
poverty rate for students from both legal and illegal immigrant households is
more than 50 percent higher than that of those from native-headed households
(Table 1).
·
Of
students in poverty, 70 percent are from immigrant households — 28 percent from
illegal households and 42 percent from legal households (Table 2).
·
Of
students who speak a language other than English at home, 82 percent are from
immigrant households — 35 percent from illegal households and 47 percent from
legal households (Table 2).
·
47
percent of illegal-immigrant-headed households are headed by a person who did
not graduate high school; the figure is 30 percent for legal-immigrant-headed
households. This compares to 7 percent of native-headed households (Table 3).
·
The
average income of illegal-immigrant-headed households is only 58 percent that
of native-headed households; for legal-immigrant-headed households it is 79
percent of native-headed households (Table 4).
·
Illegal-immigrant-headed
households have three times as many students in public school on average as
native-headed households; for legal-immigrant-headed households it is 50
percent higher. (Table 4).
·
Illegal
immigrants (ages 25-64) are more likely to hold a job (76 percent) than natives
(74 percent). The rate for legal immigrants is somewhat lower at 70 percent
(Table 5).
Pollak: Educating Illegal Aliens and Their Children Costs L.A.
Schools Hundreds of Millions Per Year
18 Jan 2019164
3:03
The ongoing strike by the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) union against
the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is about teacher pay, classroom
size, support staff, and especially charter schools, which the union says take
money away from the district.
Left
unspoken, however, is the cost of educating illegal aliens, and their children
— which could amount to hundreds of millions of dollars per year, if not
billions, experts say.
Steven
A. Camarota, director of research, at the Center for Immigration Studies, told
Breitbart News on Friday that “between one-fifth and one-fourth of the students
in LAUSD are the children of illegal immigrants — though most of those were
born in the U.S.” He said that a smaller percentage of the students (“in the
single digits”) are illegal immigrants themselves.
With
roughly 700,000 students in the
district, at a cost of over $13,000 per student, that means
the district could be spending about $1.8 billion annually on educating the
children of illegal immigrants. The total annual expenses for the LAUSD in
2017-2018 amounted to $7.52 billion.
The
Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) put the cost of educating the
children of illegal aliens statewide at over $12 billion in a 2014 study. A
significant proportion of those students are served by the LAUSD.
Twenty
years before, with a much lower population of illegal aliens, the U.S. General Accounting
Office — in a study prepared for then-Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) estimated that
California spent $1.6 billion on educating the children of illegal aliens. The
cost has increased almost tenfold as the “undocumented” population has grown.
The
exact numbers are elusive, but even a conservative estimate would put the costs
of educating the children of illegal aliens in the LAUSD in the same ballpark
as the costs of charter schools, which unions complain cost
the district some $600 million per year in lost funding.
The
U.S. Supreme Court held in Plyler v. Doe (1982)
that students could not be denied a free public education on the basis of their
immigration status.
However,
the continued arrival of illegal aliens has arguably strained the public
education system — and will continue to do so unless the country’s borders are
secured.
Yet
no one in L.A. seems to be discussing the problem.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He is
a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the
co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story
of a Revolution, which is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
CALIFORNIA and
the RISE OF THE LA RAZA MEXICAN FASCIST WELFARE STATE
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/08/they-invading-horde-waving-their.html
Accounting for these differences reveals that California's
real poverty rate is 20.6 percent – the highest in
America, and nearly twice the national average of 12.7 percent.
"The public schools indoctrinate their young
charges to hate this country and the rule of law. Illegal aliens
continue overwhelming the state, draining California’s already depleted
public services while endangering our lives, the rule of law, and public
safety for all citizens."
Least-Educated
State: California No. 1 in Percentage of Residents 25 and Older Who Never
Finished 9th Grade; No. 50 in High School Graduates
California Gov.
Jerry Brown and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) outside the U.S.
Capitol, March 22, 2017. (Getty Images/Alex Wong)
(CNSNews.com)
- California ranks No. 1 among the 50 states for the percentage of its
residents 25 and older who have never completed ninth grade and 50th for the
percentage who have graduated from high school, according
to new data from the Census Bureau.
Texas
ranks No. 2 for the percentage of its residents 25 and older who have never completed
ninth grade and 49th for the percentage who have graduated from high school.
9.7
percent of California residents 25 and older, the
Census Bureau says,
never completed ninth grade. Only 82.5 percent graduated from high school.
8.7
percent of Texas
residents 25 and older never
completed ninth grade, and only 82.8 percent graduated from high school.
California
and Texas—while having the highest percentages of residents 25 and older who
never finished ninth grade and the lowest percentages who graduated from high
school—are the nation’s two most populous states.
In
fact, the 2,510,370 California residents 25 and older who, according to the
Census Bureau, never finished ninth grade outnumber
the entire populations of 15 other states.
In
California, children are required to attend school from six years of age until
they are 18. “California’s compulsory education laws require children between
six and eighteen years of age to attend school, with a limited number of
exceptions,” says
the California Legislative Analyst’s Office, an agency of the California state government. (The National
Center for Education Statistics also indicates that children in California
are compelled by law to attend school from 6 to 18 years of age.)
Massachusetts
ranks No. 1 for the percentage of its residents 25 and older—42.1 percent--who
have earned at least a bachelor’s degree.
These
rankings are based on data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey
5-year estimates, which were released this month.
In
the survey, the
Census Bureau asks respondents to specify the level of educational attainment for each
individual in their household. The question is: “What is the highest degree or
level of school this person has COMPLETED. Mark (X) ONE box. If currently
enrolled, mark the previous grade or highest degree received.”
The
survey form then offers the respondent multiple options ranging from “no
schooling completed” to “professional degree” or “doctorate degree.” If an
individual has not earned a high school degree, the respondent is asked to
specify the highest grade the individual actually completed—ranging from
“nursery school” through “12th grade—NO DIPLOMA.”
The
Census Bureau’s American Community Survey queries a random sample of more than
3.5 million U.S. households each year and publishes a one-year estimate for each
year. The five-year estimate, the bureau says, “is a weighted average of the
five one-year estimates.” The newly released five-year estimates are for the
period from 2013 through 2017.
Nationwide,
5.4 percent of residents 25 and older have never finished ninth grade,
according to the latest five-year estimates.
Ten
states exceeded the nationwide level of residents 25 and older who have never
finished ninth grade. These include: California (9.7 percent), Texas (8.7
percent), New York (6.5 percent), New Mexico (6.5 percent), Kentucky (6.1
percent), Nevada (5.9 percent), Arizona (5.9 percent), Mississippi (5.6
percent), Rhode Island (5.5 percent), and Louisiana (5.4 percent).
Wyoming—with
1.8 percent—had nation’s smallest percentage of residents 25 and older who
never finished ninth grade.
In
seventeen states, the percentage of residents 25 and older who at least
graduated from high school was less than the nationwide percentage of 87.3
percent.
These
seventeen states included: California (82.5 percent), Texas (82.8 percent),
Mississippi (83.4 percent), Louisiana (84.3 percent), New Mexico (85 percent),
Kentucky (85.2 percent), Alabama (85.3 percent), Arkansas (85.6 percent),
Nevada (85.8 percent), West Virginia (85.9 percent), New York (86.1 percent),
Georgia (86.3 percent), Tennessee (86.5 percent), South Carolina (86.5
percent), Arizona (86.5 percent), North Carolina (86.9 percent), and Rhode
Island (87.3 percent).
Nationwide,
30.9 percent of residents 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or higher.
In
nineteen states, the percentage with a bachelor’s degree or higher exceeds the
national percentage. These nineteen states include both No. 14 California
(32.6) and No. 9 New York (35.3), which respectively ranked No.1 and No. 3 for
the percentage of residents 25 and older who never finished ninth grade.
The
ten states with the highest percentage of residents 25 and older who earned a
bachelor’s degree or higher are: Massachusetts (42.1 percent), Colorado (39.4
percent), Maryland (39 percent), Connecticut (38.4 percent), New Jersey (38.1
percent), Virginia (37.6 percent), Vermont (36.8 percent), New Hampshire (36
percent), New York (35.3 percent), and Minnesota (34.8 percent).
West
Virginia—at 19.9 percent—has the lowest percentage of residents with a
bachelor’s degree or higher.
In
another seven states, the percentage of residents who have a bachelor’s degree
or higher is less than 25 percent. They are: Mississippi (21.3 percent),
Arkansas (22 percent), Kentucky (23.2 percent), Louisiana (23.4 percent),
Nevada (23.7 percent), Alabama (24.5 percent) and Oklahoma (24.8 percent).
In California, according
to the Census Bureau’s five-year estimates,
the resident population 25 and older was 25,950,818. Of those individuals,
2,510,370—or 9.7 percent--never completed ninth grade.
Another 2,033,160 California
residents 25 and older completed the ninth, tenth, eleventh or twelfth
grade—but did not earn a high school diploma. Thus, a total of 4,543,530
California residents 25 and older—or a nation-leading 17.5 percent--have never
graduated from high school.
Those 2,510,370 individuals 25
and older in California who never finished 9th grade outnumber the entire
populations of 15 other states, according
to the Census Bureau’s latest population estimates. These include: Alaska (737,438), Delaware (967,171), Hawaii
(1,420,491), Idaho (1,754,208), Maine (1,338,404), Montana (1,062,305),
Nebraska (1,929,268), New Hampshire (1,356,458), New Mexico (2,095,428), North
Dakota (760,077), Rhode Island (1,057,315), South Dakota (882,235), Vermont
(626,299), West Virginia (1,805,832), and Wyoming (577,737).
In Texas, the
resident population 25 and older was 17,454,431. Of those individuals, 1,513,995—or 8.7 percent—never completed
ninth grade. That outnumbers the populations of 11 states.
Is California the next Detroit?
Most Californians live
within about 50 miles of its majestic coastline — for good reason. The
California coastline is blessed with arguably the most desirable climate on
Earth, magnificent beaches, a backdrop of snow-capped mountains and natural
harbors in San Diego, Long Beach and San Francisco. There is no mystery why
California’s population and economy boomed after the Second World War.
The Golden State was aptly
named. Its Gold Rush of 1849 was followed a century later by massive growth in
the 1950s and 60s. Education in California became the envy of the world.
Stanford became the Harvard of the West. A college education at the University
of California and California State University systems was inexpensive. The
Community College system that fed its universities was ostensibly free.
California’s public school
system led the nation in innovation and almost all of its classrooms were new.
The highway system that moved California’s automobile-driven commerce
eliminated the need for public transportation systems like New York and
Chicago. The fertile soil of the Central Valley became the breadbasket of the
world.
The next golden wave in
the 1980s grew from former orchards south of San Francisco known as Silicon
Valley. Intel and other companies led the world’s computer and software
revolution. In the 1990s, the dot-com revolution brought immense wealth to more
Californians. Its innovators, Google, Apple and others, ushered in the Internet
Era. The 2000s brought the greatest housing and mortgage boom in the nation’s
history, with innovation centered in Orange County. California was truly the
Golden State.
Why then would the author
have the temerity to ask, “When did Californians become Stupid?” And: Is
California the next Detroit?
Unique
oblivion
Californians, due to their
golden history, live in unique oblivion. When the Tea Party movement caused a
political tsunami that swept more than 60 incumbents from political office in
2010, the wave petered out at California’s state line. There was no effect on
the 2010 election that saw Democrats take every elected office in the state.
California voters rejected
Meg Whitman, the billionaire founder of Ebay, in favor of Jerry Brown. Gov.
Brown signed into law a “high-speed rail” bill that will spend $6 billion (the
state does not have) to build a train between Fresno and Bakersfield — not Los
Angeles and San Francisco, as promised. There was little outcry.
California has a $16
billion deficit that no one seems to notice. Brown’s budget “assumes” that
California voters will pass massive tax increases on themselves. If they do
not, the 2013 deficit becomes a mind-numbing $20 billion. The budget, mandated
to balance by the Calfornia Constitution, has been billions in the red for 10
straight years. How could Californians re-elect the same politicians year after
year that produce budgets with multi-billion dollar deficits?
To protect the endangered
Delta Smelt, a fish known better as bait, water has been diverted from the
Central Valley to the Pacific Ocean. Orchards in the Central Valley have been
allowed to wither and die, resulting in unemployment in the Central Valley as
high as 40 percent. Imagine Californians living in what was the breadbasket of
American now living on food stamps. California voters rejected Republican Carly
Fiorina for U.S. Senator in 2010. She ran Hewlett Packard. Instead, they
re-elected Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer ,who vowed to protect the Delta Smelt
at the expense of the Central Valley.
California has 519 state
agencies, like the state Blueberry Commission, that pay each of their
commissioners more than $100,000 per year. State politicians, when asked to
make cuts, fire teachers and fire fighters to inflict maximum pain on its
citizens, while leaving these patronage commissions intact. State politicians
have elevator operators in the state capital to push the buttons for them.
Their solution for the overcrowding of the state’s prisons is to release
inmates or transfer them to local facilities in already bankrupt cities. Yet,
they are re-elected by California voters in numbers consistently higher than
the old Soviet Politburo.
California’s public
education system, once the envy of the world, now ranks 49th in the
nation. Its business climate, according to 650 CEOs measured by Chief Executive
Magazine, ranked dead last. Apple will take 3,600 new jobs to Austin, Tex. at
its $280,000,000 new facility. Texas ranked first in the same survey.
California unemployment is
consistently higher than 10 percent of its workforce, but it’s under-employed,
according to a Gallup poll, is 20 percent. There are few jobs for college
students who graduate with as much as $100,000 in student loans. Despite the
overwhelming evidence that bad public policy is chasing away jobs, the same
state politicians are sent back to Sacramento every two years.
In the last two months,
three California cities have declared bankruptcy. Compton is next. More will
follow. Some cities will simply cease to exist due to $500 million in unfunded
pension obligations they simply cannot meet.
The unfunded pension
obligations, now swamping California cities, were approved by these same
politicians whose re-elections are financed by the unions they serve. Nine
years ago, outraged Californians recalled Gov. Gray Davis from office for
excessive spending and crony capitalism. Nothing has changed a decade later.
Its residents believe the golden state will be golden forever. It may not be
the case.
Detroit
History has an unpleasant
precedent known as Detroit. In the 1950s, Detroit was a major American city
with a dynamic labor force built on the manufacturing miracle that won World
War II. Its factories quickly converted tanks, planes and artillery shells into
trucks, automobiles and refrigerators that baby boom families demanded.
Everyone had a good paying job. Detroit Iron had no competition. Its burgeoning
middle class was the model of the world with excellent public schools and
universities. It was the 4th largest city in America with 2 million inhabitants,
with the world’s most dominant industry — the automobile.
Detroit in 2012 is a
shadow of that once great metropolis. Its population has shrunk to 714,000. There are 200,000
abandoned buildings in the derelict city. The average price of a home has
fallen to $5,700, unthinkable in California terms. Unemployment stands at 28.9
percent. It has a $300 million deficit. Its public education system, in
receivership, is a disgrace, producing more inmates than graduates. The jobs
have long ago abandoned Detroit for places like South Carolina and Alabama, far
hungrier than Detroit’s leaders who believed the gravy train would never end.
In 2006, the teacher’s
union forced the politicians to reject a $200 million offer from a Detroit
philanthropist to build 15 new charter schools. The mayor has proposed razing
40 square miles of the 138 square miles of this once great American city,
returning it to farmland. Even such a draconian plan may not be enough to save
the city from itself.
If a hurricane hit
Detroit, more of us would know of this tragedy in our midst, but this fate was
man-made and not wrought by nature. Detroit has had one party rule for more
than 50 years. Louis C. Miriani served from September 12, 1957 to January 2,
1962 as Detroit’s last Republican mayor. Since that time, the Democrats have
ruled the Motor City.
John Dingell, Democrat congressman for
the 15th District outside Detroit, has served since 1956. His father was
the congressman there from 1930 to 1956. Despite the disastrous decline of
their city, Detroit voters send him back to Congress every two years.
One-party rule
Similarly, California now
has one-party rule. The Democrats of California did not need a single
Republican vote to pass their budget. They now own the Golden State’s fate. The
politicians’ plan to address the nation’s largest deficit is to raise taxes
instead of cutting spending. If the Proposition 30 tax increase passes, the
deficit would drop from $20 billion to a mere $12 billion.
Democrats have done
nothing to cure the systemic problems of a bloated bureaucracy. Brown,
referring to the state’s highway system, once said, “If we do not build it,
they will not come.” Caltrans stopped building highways under Brown, but the
people kept coming. Now 37 million Californians are locked in traffic jams each
day.
Brown was rewarded for
such prescience with re-election as Governor. California’s egotistical
politicians passed AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act in 2006. Dan
Sperling, an appointee to the California Air Resources Board, and a professor
of engineering and environmental science at UC Davis, is the lead advocate on
the board for a “low carbon fuel standard.” The powerful state agency charged
with implementing AB 32 and other climate control measures claims the low
carbon fuel standard will “only” raise gasoline prices $.30 gallon in 2013. But
The California Political Review reported implementation of these the policies
will raise prices by $1.00 per gallon.
Detroit was once the most
prosperous manufacturing city in the world. Will California follow
Detroit down a tragic path to ruin? In 1950, no one fathomed the Detroit of
2010. In 1970, when foreign imports started to make a foothold, the unions and
their bought and paid for politicians resisted any change.
In the 1990’s, as
manufacturers fled to Alabama and South Carolina, the unions and their
political lackeys held firm even as good jobs slipped away. No one in Detroit
envisioned their future, even as schools declined, the jobs withered and the
once proud city deteriorated in front of their own eyes.
No longer
golden
California was once the
Golden State. Today, it is no longer so golden. Its schools are in decline. Its
business climate is equally dismal. Its cities are facing economic ruin, with
exploding pension obligations and a declining tax base. Housing prices have
fallen 30 to 60 percent across the state, evaporating trillions of dollars of
equity. Unemployment remains stubbornly high and under-employment is rife. The
Central Valley is in a depression, with 40 percent unemployment. Do our
politicians need any more signs?
Brown’s budget will first
slash money to schools and raise tuition on its students, while leaving all 519
state agencies intact. He apparently will protect political patronage at all
costs. Jobs, and job creators, are fleeing the state. Intel, Apple, Google and
others are expanding out of the state. The best and brightest minds are leaving
for Texas and North Carolina. The signs are everywhere. State revenues are
declining during many years. Meanwhile, the voters sleep and blindly send the
same cast of misfits back to Sacramento each year — just as Detroit did before
them.
The beaches are still beautiful.
The mountains are still snow capped and the climate is still the envy of the
world. Detroit never had that. But will California’s physical attributes be
enough? If the people of California want to glimpse their future, they need
look no farther than once proud City of Detroit. It can happen here.
Robert J Cristiano, Ph.D., is
the Real Estate Professional in Residence at Chapman University in Orange,
Calif. and a Senior Fellow at the Pacific Research Institute in San Francisco.
Immigration Is the Elephant in the Room in L.A. School Strike
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By Steven A. Camarota on January 25, 2019
The recently
settled teachers' strike in the Los Angeles Unified School district was a
bitter dispute about resources, with class size and lack of staff support
taking center stage. The tables below show that immigration's impact on the
school system is enormous. Immigration has added large numbers of students to
the county, but at the same time a very large share of both legal and illegal
immigrants have modest levels of education and almost certainly pay less in
taxes than natives who have higher levels of education and incomes. Immigration
has also added significantly to the number of public-school students in the
county who live in poverty and speak a language other than English at home.
Overall enrollment has not increased in the district in recent years, but
immigration has reduced the proportion of students whose families pay
sufficient taxes to cover education costs, creating the ongoing strains on the
district budget.
Although it
is not possible to use Census Bureau data to look at only residents of L.A.
Unified, it is possible to examine Los Angeles County to gain insight into
what's happening. We identify legal and illegal immigrants based on the
methodology used in this
report. The data
comes from the public-use files of the Census Bureau's 2012 to 2016 American
Community Survey.
Among the
findings for L.A. County:
·
Public-school
students from immigrant-headed households comprise 58 percent of public-school
students in Los Angeles County (Table 2).
·
Of
all students in the county, 22 percent are from illegal-headed households and
36 percent are from legal immigrant households (Table 2).
·
The
poverty rate for students from both legal and illegal immigrant households is
more than 50 percent higher than that of those from native-headed households
(Table 1).
·
Of
students in poverty, 70 percent are from immigrant households — 28 percent from
illegal households and 42 percent from legal households (Table 2).
·
Of
students who speak a language other than English at home, 82 percent are from
immigrant households — 35 percent from illegal households and 47 percent from
legal households (Table 2).
·
47
percent of illegal-immigrant-headed households are headed by a person who did
not graduate high school; the figure is 30 percent for legal-immigrant-headed
households. This compares to 7 percent of native-headed households (Table 3).
·
The
average income of illegal-immigrant-headed households is only 58 percent that
of native-headed households; for legal-immigrant-headed households it is 79
percent of native-headed households (Table 4).
·
Illegal-immigrant-headed
households have three times as many students in public school on average as
native-headed households; for legal-immigrant-headed households it is 50
percent higher. (Table 4).
·
Illegal
immigrants (ages 25-64) are more likely to hold a job (76 percent) than natives
(74 percent). The rate for legal immigrants is somewhat lower at 70 percent
(Table 5).
Pollak: Educating Illegal Aliens and Their Children Costs L.A.
Schools Hundreds of Millions Per Year
18 Jan 2019164
3:03
The ongoing strike by the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) union against
the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is about teacher pay, classroom
size, support staff, and especially charter schools, which the union says take
money away from the district.
Left
unspoken, however, is the cost of educating illegal aliens, and their children
— which could amount to hundreds of millions of dollars per year, if not
billions, experts say.
Steven
A. Camarota, director of research, at the Center for Immigration Studies, told
Breitbart News on Friday that “between one-fifth and one-fourth of the students
in LAUSD are the children of illegal immigrants — though most of those were
born in the U.S.” He said that a smaller percentage of the students (“in the
single digits”) are illegal immigrants themselves.
With
roughly 700,000 students in the
district, at a cost of over $13,000 per student, that means
the district could be spending about $1.8 billion annually on educating the
children of illegal immigrants. The total annual expenses for the LAUSD in
2017-2018 amounted to $7.52 billion.
The
Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) put the cost of educating the
children of illegal aliens statewide at over $12 billion in a 2014 study. A
significant proportion of those students are served by the LAUSD.
Twenty
years before, with a much lower population of illegal aliens, the U.S. General Accounting
Office — in a study prepared for then-Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) estimated that
California spent $1.6 billion on educating the children of illegal aliens. The
cost has increased almost tenfold as the “undocumented” population has grown.
The
exact numbers are elusive, but even a conservative estimate would put the costs
of educating the children of illegal aliens in the LAUSD in the same ballpark
as the costs of charter schools, which unions complain cost
the district some $600 million per year in lost funding.
The
U.S. Supreme Court held in Plyler v. Doe (1982)
that students could not be denied a free public education on the basis of their
immigration status.
However,
the continued arrival of illegal aliens has arguably strained the public
education system — and will continue to do so unless the country’s borders are
secured.
Yet
no one in L.A. seems to be discussing the problem.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He is
a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the
co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story
of a Revolution, which is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
CALIFORNIA and
the RISE OF THE LA RAZA MEXICAN FASCIST WELFARE STATE
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Accounting for these differences reveals that California's
real poverty rate is 20.6 percent – the highest in
America, and nearly twice the national average of 12.7 percent.
"The public schools indoctrinate their young
charges to hate this country and the rule of law. Illegal aliens
continue overwhelming the state, draining California’s already depleted
public services while endangering our lives, the rule of law, and public
safety for all citizens."
Least-Educated
State: California No. 1 in Percentage of Residents 25 and Older Who Never
Finished 9th Grade; No. 50 in High School Graduates
California Gov.
Jerry Brown and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) outside the U.S.
Capitol, March 22, 2017. (Getty Images/Alex Wong)
(CNSNews.com)
- California ranks No. 1 among the 50 states for the percentage of its
residents 25 and older who have never completed ninth grade and 50th for the
percentage who have graduated from high school, according
to new data from the Census Bureau.
Texas
ranks No. 2 for the percentage of its residents 25 and older who have never completed
ninth grade and 49th for the percentage who have graduated from high school.
9.7
percent of California residents 25 and older, the
Census Bureau says,
never completed ninth grade. Only 82.5 percent graduated from high school.
8.7
percent of Texas
residents 25 and older never
completed ninth grade, and only 82.8 percent graduated from high school.
California
and Texas—while having the highest percentages of residents 25 and older who
never finished ninth grade and the lowest percentages who graduated from high
school—are the nation’s two most populous states.
In
fact, the 2,510,370 California residents 25 and older who, according to the
Census Bureau, never finished ninth grade outnumber
the entire populations of 15 other states.
In
California, children are required to attend school from six years of age until
they are 18. “California’s compulsory education laws require children between
six and eighteen years of age to attend school, with a limited number of
exceptions,” says
the California Legislative Analyst’s Office, an agency of the California state government. (The National
Center for Education Statistics also indicates that children in California
are compelled by law to attend school from 6 to 18 years of age.)
Massachusetts
ranks No. 1 for the percentage of its residents 25 and older—42.1 percent--who
have earned at least a bachelor’s degree.
These
rankings are based on data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey
5-year estimates, which were released this month.
In
the survey, the
Census Bureau asks respondents to specify the level of educational attainment for each
individual in their household. The question is: “What is the highest degree or
level of school this person has COMPLETED. Mark (X) ONE box. If currently
enrolled, mark the previous grade or highest degree received.”
The
survey form then offers the respondent multiple options ranging from “no
schooling completed” to “professional degree” or “doctorate degree.” If an
individual has not earned a high school degree, the respondent is asked to
specify the highest grade the individual actually completed—ranging from
“nursery school” through “12th grade—NO DIPLOMA.”
The
Census Bureau’s American Community Survey queries a random sample of more than
3.5 million U.S. households each year and publishes a one-year estimate for each
year. The five-year estimate, the bureau says, “is a weighted average of the
five one-year estimates.” The newly released five-year estimates are for the
period from 2013 through 2017.
Nationwide,
5.4 percent of residents 25 and older have never finished ninth grade,
according to the latest five-year estimates.
Ten
states exceeded the nationwide level of residents 25 and older who have never
finished ninth grade. These include: California (9.7 percent), Texas (8.7
percent), New York (6.5 percent), New Mexico (6.5 percent), Kentucky (6.1
percent), Nevada (5.9 percent), Arizona (5.9 percent), Mississippi (5.6
percent), Rhode Island (5.5 percent), and Louisiana (5.4 percent).
Wyoming—with
1.8 percent—had nation’s smallest percentage of residents 25 and older who
never finished ninth grade.
In
seventeen states, the percentage of residents 25 and older who at least
graduated from high school was less than the nationwide percentage of 87.3
percent.
These
seventeen states included: California (82.5 percent), Texas (82.8 percent),
Mississippi (83.4 percent), Louisiana (84.3 percent), New Mexico (85 percent),
Kentucky (85.2 percent), Alabama (85.3 percent), Arkansas (85.6 percent),
Nevada (85.8 percent), West Virginia (85.9 percent), New York (86.1 percent),
Georgia (86.3 percent), Tennessee (86.5 percent), South Carolina (86.5
percent), Arizona (86.5 percent), North Carolina (86.9 percent), and Rhode
Island (87.3 percent).
Nationwide,
30.9 percent of residents 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or higher.
In
nineteen states, the percentage with a bachelor’s degree or higher exceeds the
national percentage. These nineteen states include both No. 14 California
(32.6) and No. 9 New York (35.3), which respectively ranked No.1 and No. 3 for
the percentage of residents 25 and older who never finished ninth grade.
The
ten states with the highest percentage of residents 25 and older who earned a
bachelor’s degree or higher are: Massachusetts (42.1 percent), Colorado (39.4
percent), Maryland (39 percent), Connecticut (38.4 percent), New Jersey (38.1
percent), Virginia (37.6 percent), Vermont (36.8 percent), New Hampshire (36
percent), New York (35.3 percent), and Minnesota (34.8 percent).
West
Virginia—at 19.9 percent—has the lowest percentage of residents with a
bachelor’s degree or higher.
In
another seven states, the percentage of residents who have a bachelor’s degree
or higher is less than 25 percent. They are: Mississippi (21.3 percent),
Arkansas (22 percent), Kentucky (23.2 percent), Louisiana (23.4 percent),
Nevada (23.7 percent), Alabama (24.5 percent) and Oklahoma (24.8 percent).
In California, according
to the Census Bureau’s five-year estimates,
the resident population 25 and older was 25,950,818. Of those individuals,
2,510,370—or 9.7 percent--never completed ninth grade.
Another 2,033,160 California
residents 25 and older completed the ninth, tenth, eleventh or twelfth
grade—but did not earn a high school diploma. Thus, a total of 4,543,530
California residents 25 and older—or a nation-leading 17.5 percent--have never
graduated from high school.
Those 2,510,370 individuals 25
and older in California who never finished 9th grade outnumber the entire
populations of 15 other states, according
to the Census Bureau’s latest population estimates. These include: Alaska (737,438), Delaware (967,171), Hawaii
(1,420,491), Idaho (1,754,208), Maine (1,338,404), Montana (1,062,305),
Nebraska (1,929,268), New Hampshire (1,356,458), New Mexico (2,095,428), North
Dakota (760,077), Rhode Island (1,057,315), South Dakota (882,235), Vermont
(626,299), West Virginia (1,805,832), and Wyoming (577,737).
In Texas, the
resident population 25 and older was 17,454,431. Of those individuals, 1,513,995—or 8.7 percent—never completed
ninth grade. That outnumbers the populations of 11 states.
Is California the next Detroit?
Most Californians live
within about 50 miles of its majestic coastline — for good reason. The
California coastline is blessed with arguably the most desirable climate on
Earth, magnificent beaches, a backdrop of snow-capped mountains and natural
harbors in San Diego, Long Beach and San Francisco. There is no mystery why
California’s population and economy boomed after the Second World War.
The Golden State was aptly
named. Its Gold Rush of 1849 was followed a century later by massive growth in
the 1950s and 60s. Education in California became the envy of the world.
Stanford became the Harvard of the West. A college education at the University
of California and California State University systems was inexpensive. The
Community College system that fed its universities was ostensibly free.
California’s public school
system led the nation in innovation and almost all of its classrooms were new.
The highway system that moved California’s automobile-driven commerce
eliminated the need for public transportation systems like New York and
Chicago. The fertile soil of the Central Valley became the breadbasket of the
world.
The next golden wave in
the 1980s grew from former orchards south of San Francisco known as Silicon
Valley. Intel and other companies led the world’s computer and software
revolution. In the 1990s, the dot-com revolution brought immense wealth to more
Californians. Its innovators, Google, Apple and others, ushered in the Internet
Era. The 2000s brought the greatest housing and mortgage boom in the nation’s
history, with innovation centered in Orange County. California was truly the
Golden State.
Why then would the author
have the temerity to ask, “When did Californians become Stupid?” And: Is
California the next Detroit?
Unique
oblivion
Californians, due to their
golden history, live in unique oblivion. When the Tea Party movement caused a
political tsunami that swept more than 60 incumbents from political office in
2010, the wave petered out at California’s state line. There was no effect on
the 2010 election that saw Democrats take every elected office in the state.
California voters rejected
Meg Whitman, the billionaire founder of Ebay, in favor of Jerry Brown. Gov.
Brown signed into law a “high-speed rail” bill that will spend $6 billion (the
state does not have) to build a train between Fresno and Bakersfield — not Los
Angeles and San Francisco, as promised. There was little outcry.
California has a $16
billion deficit that no one seems to notice. Brown’s budget “assumes” that
California voters will pass massive tax increases on themselves. If they do
not, the 2013 deficit becomes a mind-numbing $20 billion. The budget, mandated
to balance by the Calfornia Constitution, has been billions in the red for 10
straight years. How could Californians re-elect the same politicians year after
year that produce budgets with multi-billion dollar deficits?
To protect the endangered
Delta Smelt, a fish known better as bait, water has been diverted from the
Central Valley to the Pacific Ocean. Orchards in the Central Valley have been
allowed to wither and die, resulting in unemployment in the Central Valley as
high as 40 percent. Imagine Californians living in what was the breadbasket of
American now living on food stamps. California voters rejected Republican Carly
Fiorina for U.S. Senator in 2010. She ran Hewlett Packard. Instead, they
re-elected Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer ,who vowed to protect the Delta Smelt
at the expense of the Central Valley.
California has 519 state
agencies, like the state Blueberry Commission, that pay each of their
commissioners more than $100,000 per year. State politicians, when asked to
make cuts, fire teachers and fire fighters to inflict maximum pain on its
citizens, while leaving these patronage commissions intact. State politicians
have elevator operators in the state capital to push the buttons for them.
Their solution for the overcrowding of the state’s prisons is to release
inmates or transfer them to local facilities in already bankrupt cities. Yet,
they are re-elected by California voters in numbers consistently higher than
the old Soviet Politburo.
California’s public
education system, once the envy of the world, now ranks 49th in the
nation. Its business climate, according to 650 CEOs measured by Chief Executive
Magazine, ranked dead last. Apple will take 3,600 new jobs to Austin, Tex. at
its $280,000,000 new facility. Texas ranked first in the same survey.
California unemployment is
consistently higher than 10 percent of its workforce, but it’s under-employed,
according to a Gallup poll, is 20 percent. There are few jobs for college
students who graduate with as much as $100,000 in student loans. Despite the
overwhelming evidence that bad public policy is chasing away jobs, the same
state politicians are sent back to Sacramento every two years.
In the last two months,
three California cities have declared bankruptcy. Compton is next. More will
follow. Some cities will simply cease to exist due to $500 million in unfunded
pension obligations they simply cannot meet.
The unfunded pension
obligations, now swamping California cities, were approved by these same
politicians whose re-elections are financed by the unions they serve. Nine
years ago, outraged Californians recalled Gov. Gray Davis from office for
excessive spending and crony capitalism. Nothing has changed a decade later.
Its residents believe the golden state will be golden forever. It may not be
the case.
Detroit
History has an unpleasant
precedent known as Detroit. In the 1950s, Detroit was a major American city
with a dynamic labor force built on the manufacturing miracle that won World
War II. Its factories quickly converted tanks, planes and artillery shells into
trucks, automobiles and refrigerators that baby boom families demanded.
Everyone had a good paying job. Detroit Iron had no competition. Its burgeoning
middle class was the model of the world with excellent public schools and
universities. It was the 4th largest city in America with 2 million inhabitants,
with the world’s most dominant industry — the automobile.
Detroit in 2012 is a
shadow of that once great metropolis. Its population has shrunk to 714,000. There are 200,000
abandoned buildings in the derelict city. The average price of a home has
fallen to $5,700, unthinkable in California terms. Unemployment stands at 28.9
percent. It has a $300 million deficit. Its public education system, in
receivership, is a disgrace, producing more inmates than graduates. The jobs
have long ago abandoned Detroit for places like South Carolina and Alabama, far
hungrier than Detroit’s leaders who believed the gravy train would never end.
In 2006, the teacher’s
union forced the politicians to reject a $200 million offer from a Detroit
philanthropist to build 15 new charter schools. The mayor has proposed razing
40 square miles of the 138 square miles of this once great American city,
returning it to farmland. Even such a draconian plan may not be enough to save
the city from itself.
If a hurricane hit
Detroit, more of us would know of this tragedy in our midst, but this fate was
man-made and not wrought by nature. Detroit has had one party rule for more
than 50 years. Louis C. Miriani served from September 12, 1957 to January 2,
1962 as Detroit’s last Republican mayor. Since that time, the Democrats have
ruled the Motor City.
John Dingell, Democrat congressman for
the 15th District outside Detroit, has served since 1956. His father was
the congressman there from 1930 to 1956. Despite the disastrous decline of
their city, Detroit voters send him back to Congress every two years.
One-party rule
Similarly, California now
has one-party rule. The Democrats of California did not need a single
Republican vote to pass their budget. They now own the Golden State’s fate. The
politicians’ plan to address the nation’s largest deficit is to raise taxes
instead of cutting spending. If the Proposition 30 tax increase passes, the
deficit would drop from $20 billion to a mere $12 billion.
Democrats have done
nothing to cure the systemic problems of a bloated bureaucracy. Brown,
referring to the state’s highway system, once said, “If we do not build it,
they will not come.” Caltrans stopped building highways under Brown, but the
people kept coming. Now 37 million Californians are locked in traffic jams each
day.
Brown was rewarded for
such prescience with re-election as Governor. California’s egotistical
politicians passed AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act in 2006. Dan
Sperling, an appointee to the California Air Resources Board, and a professor
of engineering and environmental science at UC Davis, is the lead advocate on
the board for a “low carbon fuel standard.” The powerful state agency charged
with implementing AB 32 and other climate control measures claims the low
carbon fuel standard will “only” raise gasoline prices $.30 gallon in 2013. But
The California Political Review reported implementation of these the policies
will raise prices by $1.00 per gallon.
Detroit was once the most
prosperous manufacturing city in the world. Will California follow
Detroit down a tragic path to ruin? In 1950, no one fathomed the Detroit of
2010. In 1970, when foreign imports started to make a foothold, the unions and
their bought and paid for politicians resisted any change.
In the 1990’s, as
manufacturers fled to Alabama and South Carolina, the unions and their
political lackeys held firm even as good jobs slipped away. No one in Detroit
envisioned their future, even as schools declined, the jobs withered and the
once proud city deteriorated in front of their own eyes.
No longer
golden
California was once the
Golden State. Today, it is no longer so golden. Its schools are in decline. Its
business climate is equally dismal. Its cities are facing economic ruin, with
exploding pension obligations and a declining tax base. Housing prices have
fallen 30 to 60 percent across the state, evaporating trillions of dollars of
equity. Unemployment remains stubbornly high and under-employment is rife. The
Central Valley is in a depression, with 40 percent unemployment. Do our
politicians need any more signs?
Brown’s budget will first
slash money to schools and raise tuition on its students, while leaving all 519
state agencies intact. He apparently will protect political patronage at all
costs. Jobs, and job creators, are fleeing the state. Intel, Apple, Google and
others are expanding out of the state. The best and brightest minds are leaving
for Texas and North Carolina. The signs are everywhere. State revenues are
declining during many years. Meanwhile, the voters sleep and blindly send the
same cast of misfits back to Sacramento each year — just as Detroit did before
them.
The beaches are still beautiful.
The mountains are still snow capped and the climate is still the envy of the
world. Detroit never had that. But will California’s physical attributes be
enough? If the people of California want to glimpse their future, they need
look no farther than once proud City of Detroit. It can happen here.
Robert J Cristiano, Ph.D., is
the Real Estate Professional in Residence at Chapman University in Orange,
Calif. and a Senior Fellow at the Pacific Research Institute in San Francisco.
Mass Immigration Poses An Existential Crisis For The West
https://finance.townhall.com/columnists/petermorici/2019/04/29/mass-immigration-poses-an-existential-crisis-for-the-west-n2545545
Source: AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza
America needs
well-enforced borders but President Donald Trump’s national “emergency” is part
of a much larger crisis facing Western nations.
State entropy, widespread violence and
economic desperation, prevalent in many parts of Central and South America, the
Middle East and Africa, are driving millions north—mostly to America and the European
Union. The sheer potential numbers could pose overwhelming challenges of
assimilation and undermine the cultural underpinnings of our market economies
and democratic institutions.
The recent sharp increase in Border
Patrol apprehensions of illegal migrants and asylum seekers has exhausted U.S.
recourses to detain those awaiting adjudication. Within several weeks of
apprehension, they join 11 million immigrantswithout permanent legal status—driving
down wages for lower-paid Americans and overwhelming local cultures in some of
the nation’s poorest communities.
Sophisticated technologies—cameras,
drones and the like—are more cost efficient than a wall, but only a wall could
keep migrants from setting foot on American soil and being released into the
general population.
Most asylum claims are questionable.
Mexico offers migrants humanitarian visas and the opportunity to work, but
politically motivated judges have squashed administration attempts to limit asylum
claims.
Sadly, federal courts led by Supreme
Court Chief Justice Roberts have become quite comfortable arrogating power in
response to public sentiment—for example, striking down state statutes
prohibiting gay marriage—and acceding to political pressure from Democrats—the peculiar reasoning Roberts applied to declare
Affordable Care Act fines are taxes.
Presidential claims about “Obama
Judges” and “Trump Judges” have
some merit but in any case, Trump’s immigration point man, Stephen Miller, has
not done the homework to effectively argue that a national emergency exists.
Trump charges the illegal flood is full
of criminals, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, always a comforting presence,
counters that Americans commit rape, robbery and homicide too. What matters is
whether poor immigrants commit crimes at an alarming higher rate that our
indigenous population.
Since 2015, Germany has admitted
over 1.4 million asylum seekers—about 2% of its population, and they
commit about 14% of the crimes. Surely, the FBI could help Miller to come up
with comparable U.S. statistics. Then we could get at the truth—or he has but
the administration is not willing to back off on its crime claims.
Polls show most Americans don’t support the
wall and believe legal immigration is good for the economy and our culture, and no
one has a finger on the pulse of voters like Pelosi, except perhaps Roberts.
The 1976 National Emergency Act empowers
a majority in the Congress to nullify presidential declarations. However, with
the GOP holding the Senate, lawsuits will decide whether the president can supplement the
$1.4 billion authorized by Congress to build 55 miles of border fence by
transferring Department of Defense funds to instead build 234 miles of fence.
The NEA does not define a national
emergency. Instead that is spread over at least 470 statutory provisions. One
states “the Secretary of Defense can ‘undertake military construction projects
… necessary to support such use of the armed forces.’”
As Justice Robert Jackson reminded
in Youngstown v. Sawyer (1952), which overturned President Harry
Truman’s nationalization of the steel industry to support the Korean War
effort, presidential discretion is at its peak when it acts with
the support of Congress and “at its lowest ebb” when it is “incompatible with
the expressed or implied will of Congress.”
When the Republicans controlled
Congress, Trump could not get his wall built, and he campaigned on the issue in
2018 and got shellacked. Now congressional House Democrats have decided there
is no pressing need for a wall.
The president recognizes he will get
pilloried in the lower courts but expects a fair hearing in the Supreme Court.
He should ponder Roberts’s ire regarding his charges about the politicization
of the courts—sometimes being right is not enough.
For Americans living in large prosperous
cities, the influx of well-educated legal immigrants, especially in STEM
disciplines, are welcome, but many illegal immigrants become burdens in the
labor markets and on public services in Trump country.
If Trump fails to get his wall, the
crisis at the border could easily become a mass migration that imposes
incalculable burdens on those Americans least able to bear them.
Gaffney: 'You Can't
Assimilate Vast Numbers of People Who Don’t Want to be Part' of U.S.A.
Frank Gaffney. (Photo by Win
McNamee/Getty Images)
During a discussion about the need for immigrants to assimilate
into American society and the spectre of sharia (Islamic law) in U.S.
communities, Center for Security Policy Chairman Frank Gaffney said it is
imperative to keep in mind "that you cannot assimilate vast numbers of
people who simply don’t want to be part of your society." Gaffney, a
former assistant secretary for Defense in the Reagan administration, added that
Judge Jeanine Pirro is being suppressed because she dared to ask a question
about the origins of the anti-Israel views expressed by Rep. Ilhan Omar
(D-Minn.).
When asked about assimilation during a March 20 interview
on Breitbart News Daily,
Gaffney said to host Alex Marlow, This topic "reminds me of the old story
that conservatives are liberals who’ve been mugged by reality, and the thing
you're describing, Alex, is being mugged by the reality that you cannot
assimilate vast numbers of people who simply don’t want to be part of your
society."
"They want to transform it into something very different
and ultimately, at some point, you either resist or you submit," he said.
"Submission is going to be pretty ugly, and it’s happening in parts of
Europe already, and there’s more in the offing, I’m afraid. [Garbled] This
rising tide of sharia supremacism, it’s chilling.”
He continued, "The trouble is, it’s not simply a problem in
its own right, it’s a foretaste of what the Ilhan Omars and the Keith Ellisons
and the André Carsons, Rashida Tlaibs, and so on, would have in mind for
America, too, if they had their way. This is the really vexing problem of our
time.”
“Again, not all Muslims want to live under sharia," said
Gaffney. "They don’t want to impose it on the rest of us. But
enough of them do and the authorities of the [Islamic] faith certainly
do."
As for Judge Jeanine Pirro, whose program on the Fox News
Channel has been suspended for a second week,
Gaffney said, "Jeanine Pirro, who is a friend of mine and much-admired
former public servant and now, extraordinary resource, on her program, Justice
w/Judge Jeanine, was suspended last week and may be again this
week, and maybe – who knows – indefinitely."
Jeanine Pirro. (Photo
by Stephen Chernin/Getty Images)
“The faux-Fox [News Channel] is suppressing Jeanine Pirro explicitly – as you know, Alex – because she
dared, even in a question, to connect the dots between what Ilhan Omar is doing
with anti-Semitism, on the one hand, and the traditions, teachings, and practices
of sharia, as we’ve come to know it," said Gaffney.
On her March 9 program, Jeanine Pirro said, “This is not
who your party is" in reference to the Democrat Party. “Your party is not
anti-Israel, [Omar] is. Think about this. She’s not getting this anti-Israel
sentiment doctrine from the Democrat Party. So if it’s not rooted in the party,
where is she getting it from? Think about it. Omar wears a hijab, which
according to the Quran 33:59, tells women to cover so they won’t get
molested."
Rep. Ilhan Omar
(D-Minn.) (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
“Is her adherence to this Islamic doctrine indicative of her adherence to sharia law, which in
itself is antithetical to the United States Constitution?” said Pirro.
Comments and tweets made by Rep. Omar have been condemned by
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as "anti-Semitic" and
"deeply offensive."
MULTI-CULTURALISM and the creation of a one-party globalist
country to serve the rich in America’s open borders.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/12/em-cadwaladr-impending-death-of.html
“Open border advocates, such as Facebook's Mark
Zuckerberg, claim illegal aliens are a net benefit to California with little
evidence to support such an assertion. As the CIS has documented, the vast
majority of illegals are poor, uneducated, and with few skills. How does
accepting millions of illegal aliens and then granting them access to dozens of
welfare programs benefit California’s economy? If illegals were contributing to
the economy in any meaningful way, CA, with its 2.6 million illegals, would be
booming.” STEVE BALDWIN – AMERICAN SPECTATOR
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
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.
MEXICO WILL DOUBLE U.S. POPULATION
By Tom Barrett
At the current rate of invasion (mostly through
Mexico, but also through Canada) the United States will be completely over run
with illegal aliens by the year 2025. I’m not talking about legal immigrants
who follow US law to become citizens. In less than 20 years, if we do not stop
the invasion, ILLEGAL aliens and their offspring will be the dominant
population in the United States.
(POPULATION 9-2018)
FINISHING AMERICA OFF: THE FOREIGN INVASION FOR “CHEAP”
LABOR
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-fall-of-america-by-invitation-tens.html
Open the floodgates of our welfare state to the uneducated,
impoverished, and unskilled masses of the world and in a generation or three
America, as we know it, will be gone. JOHN BINDER
But many less-skilled migrants play their largest role by
simply shifting small slices of wealth from person to person, for example, by
competing up rents in their neighborhood or by competing down wages in their
workplace. The crudest examples can be seen in agriculture.
Overall,
the Washington-imposed economic policy of economic growth via immigration
shifts wealth from young people towards older people by flooding the market with cheap white-collar and blue-collar foreign labor.
"Critics argue that giving
amnesty to 12 to 30 million illegal aliens in the U.S. would have an immediate
negative impact on America’s working and middle class — specifically black
Americans and the white working class — who would be in direct competition for
blue-collar jobs with the largely low-skilled illegal alien population."
JOHN BINDER
The U.S.-born baby is, of course, a U.S. citizen, whose
illegal alien parents are eligible to receive, on the baby’s behalf, food
stamps, nutrition from the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program, and
numerous tax benefits, including the EITC.
Most importantly, the newborn is deportation insurance
for its parents. Illegal aliens facing deportation can argue that to deport one
or more parents would create an “extreme hardship” for the new baby. If an
immigration officer agrees, we’ve added a new adult to the nation’s population.
At age 21 the former birthright citizen baby can formally apply for green cards
for parents and siblings, and they, in turn, can start their own immigration
chains.
US now has more Spanish speakers than Spain – only Mexico
has more
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/29/us-second-biggest-spanish-speaking-country
· US has 41 million native speakers plus 11 million who
are bilingual
· New Mexico, California, Texas and Arizona have highest
concentrations
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