In 1999, before the big real estate boom, my co-worker in San Diego lived in Scripps Ranch. A $1 million dollar house was spectacular...not an overpriced 2006 era POS. Her daughter was forced to sit in a chair in the hallway OUTSIDE her classroom to make room for all the children of illegal aliens seated INSIDE the classroom. She was paying a huge tax burden to educate illegals while her own daughter was dangling outside the classroom provided by those taxes. She had to put her daughter into a private school at personal expense and still pay to educate the illegal aliens. The illegals are sponging benefits off the productive tax payers while doing low paid work that doesn't begin to shoulder the tax burden for benefits they are consuming.
I decided California was an irretrievable disaster in 1999. There is no hope is will ever be a place I want to live again in my lifetime. My home is now in Idaho. I have some hope that the illegal alien problem will take another 20 years to equal the level that I left in Mira Mesa in 2001. Chula Vista is toast. My mom finally sold our family home in October 2005. We purchased that house in 1961.
That is exactly how I feel. The school around the corner from us is overrun with illegals. My daughter starts kindergarten in 2 years and you can be assured she will be going to the private school at our church. It does really burn me up, though, that I am paying for illegal immigrants' education, and then paying another $4k/year for my daughter's education as well. Something has to be done!!