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California voters' five top issues
San Jose Mercury News ^ | 04/22/2016

Posted on 04/22/2016 9:12:27 PM PDT by artichokegrower

For the first time in decades, the California presidential primary matters. The candidates are thinking about it already, opening offices and testing the waters to see what's important here.

We'd like to help.

(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; issues; voters
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Immigration actually has been slowing in recent years, with more Mexican immigrants returning to Mexico than arriving here in recent years. To hear Republican candidates, you'd think hordes were massing on the border like Syrian refugees in Europe. California won't be buffaloed.


Don't pee on my leg and tell me it is raining.

Illegal immigrant families crossing border at record pace in 2016

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/apr/22/illegal-immigrant-families-set-record-pace-2016/

1 posted on 04/22/2016 9:12:27 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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Chinese birth tourism is at all time highs in Rowland Heights, CA.


2 posted on 04/22/2016 9:19:58 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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“Chinese birth tourism is at all time highs in Rowland Heights, CA.”

Still? I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, it will continue forever until an end is put to birthright citizenship and anchor babies.


3 posted on 04/22/2016 9:22:24 PM PDT by Pelham (Trump/Tsoukalos 2016 - vote the great hair ticket)
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I can’t imagine anyone could look around their neighborhood and think “Gee, where’d all those bodegas, mexican children running around at midnight, gang members on bikes, discarded bottles of Modello, drunks roaring the wrong way down a one way street, urinating as they walk down the street, breaking into cars to look for small change, knife fighting, cockfighting, jail/emergency room choking ‘Patriots’ go”?


4 posted on 04/22/2016 9:26:57 PM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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California voters' five top issues

Kim Kardashian
the other Kardashian
no guns
Kim Kardashian
Kim Kardashian


5 posted on 04/22/2016 9:27:10 PM PDT by 867V309 (It's over. It's over now.)
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"Kim Kardashian..."

That would bode well for Donald Kardashian.

6 posted on 04/22/2016 9:30:32 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.)
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That would bode well for Donald Kardashian.

If you mean Trump, we can only hope and pray.


7 posted on 04/22/2016 9:33:57 PM PDT by 867V309 (It's over. It's over now.)
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To: artichokegrower

Let’s see. Weed. Weed. Weed. Weed and Weed.


8 posted on 04/22/2016 9:50:35 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The "college" snowflakes need to check their American privilege. Everything isn't a right.)
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DNC propaganda piece

Main points

1)No one in California cares about illegal invaders, yeah sure.

2)”Our crumbling roads and bridges “, that old song, yawn. Maybe kick out the illegals and use the savings for highway repair if it’s so important to you.

3)CLIMATE CHANGE!!!!


9 posted on 04/22/2016 10:00:53 PM PDT by Impy (Did you know "Hillary" spelled backwards is "Bitch"?)
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Liberal drivel.

These are NOT the issues for a GOP Primary here.


10 posted on 04/22/2016 10:38:09 PM PDT by Kellis91789 (We hope for a bloodless revolution, but revolution is still the goal.)
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There was another article 60% of Californians wanted higher taxes on the rich. It was considered “news”. Propagandist Commie nonsense.


11 posted on 04/22/2016 10:54:50 PM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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The list is silly. I didn’t see “free stuff” or “increases in government welfare payments” anywhere on it.


12 posted on 04/22/2016 11:05:21 PM PDT by Robwin
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they are parsing facts. It’s never been ‘just’ Mexico. And any temporary drop in illegal Mexican numbers is more than made up for with increasing Central American numbers, mixed with an increase in those from other countries of origin.


13 posted on 04/22/2016 11:44:02 PM PDT by blueplum (March 11, 2016 - the day the First Amendment died?)
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The are the top issues for everyone the Murky News staff knows.


14 posted on 04/23/2016 2:54:19 AM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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Trump

Trump Trump

Trump

15 posted on 04/23/2016 3:31:10 AM PDT by scooby321
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The ag lobby in Central Valley and Napa keeps inviting the illegals in - demand, meet supply.

Of course, the State subsidizes the ag lobby by further extending all kinds of welfare and monetary support to these fine new “workers”


16 posted on 04/23/2016 5:02:58 AM PDT by indcons (Lurker mode mostly)
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And yet we have idiots claiming that America is on its way out. Birth tourism by ChiComs is both a realistic reflection of the “new” China and a vote of confidence in America.


17 posted on 04/23/2016 5:20:35 AM PDT by indcons (Lurker mode mostly)
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As usual they like to confuse the issue with the way they word things.

Even if this was true about illegals from Mexico, illegals from Central America especially Guatemala are literally pouring in.

With current policy most are allowed to stay even when intercepted by Border Patrol. They can call relatives or friends that are already here (even if they are illegal) and are allowed to continue on their way. If they have no one here to call they are usually given a bus ticket to go where they choose. Illegals are not even being given court dates to show up. This is what keeps them off the books. No one is even trying to track them once they are in this country. Of course that isn’t even including those that enter without being intercepted at all by Border Patrol.

The numbers our government is COUNTING is dropping, because we are only counting the ones we detain. We are not detaining, processing, deporting most of the illegals that cross.

As a reminder illegals are intercepted at the border from nearly every country in the world, many from terrorist filled countries. Most who cross the border are not intercepted.

At this point our border is essentially wide open, BP has their hands tied by policy from the top.


18 posted on 04/23/2016 5:57:33 AM PDT by Tammy8
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Yes but they think they are fooling everyone.


19 posted on 04/23/2016 6:02:42 AM PDT by Tammy8
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Birth tourism by ChiComs is both a realistic reflection of the “new” China and a vote of confidence in America.

I asked a ChiCom friend what he thought of a nation that so willingly gave citizenship to unwelcome invaders and he just chucked and said, "stupid Americans, China would never do such a thing". They've fought over borders for 5,000 years.

20 posted on 04/23/2016 6:18:57 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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