Posted on 05/03/2007 1:11:44 PM PDT by kellynla
SACRAMENTO – California's population is closing in on 38 million and its biggest city now has more than 4 million people, but the state's growth rate has slowed since the start of the decade, state officials said Tuesday. The Department of Finance's demographics unit said California had nearly 37.7 million residents as of on Jan. 1, up by about 470,000 since the start of 2006. One of every eight Americans now lives in the state.
Los Angeles, the nation's second largest city, added more than 37,000 residents in 2006, giving it a population of just more than 4 million. New York City has more than 8 million people, according to the latest U.S. Census Bureau figures. But California's growth rate has been slowing since the start of the decade, when its population grew by nearly 2 percent. Last year, the state's population grew by almost 1.3 percent, senior demographer Linda Gage said.
She said stable birth and death rates, a slowdown in foreign immigration and a net loss of population to other parts of the country contributed to the drop-off.
“While we get many, many people who come here from other states, the balance is a little bit negative,” she added.
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Um...San Francisco plays a part.
The only satisfaction I can get out of this are the uptight Waspy-types with no more than 1-2 children blowing a gasket. Thank Zeus for the Mormons and Evangelicals, as they will save this country, not the Orange County/San Diego County blonde bourgeosie.
If you subtract immigration, this state has declined in population. Figure about a third of the immigration is illegal.
Yes, but San Fran doesn’t produce propaganda films (even close to hollywood’s scale). And where else does the presidental candiates of the democrats go to other than soros, unions..?..hollyweird.
And since unions are shrinking, what would the democrats be without hollywood? SF is not a power brokers as far as I see. They’re a symbol, yes; but without LA, the repubs would win every election for a long-time.
That's what the rest of the country needs to know. The illegals aren't just closing down emergency rooms and destroying our schools they are in your face everyday. Especially on the roads.
Being dumbazz farmers where they came from, they take everything as an attack on them . A lane change, a look stare too long. They go through the day confronting people.
Los Angeles looks like a Mexican urinal with these SOB's tagging everything in site from the walls to the buses to the ATM machines. I seen some Mexican scratched his moniker onto a toilet seat recently. They are lowlife dangerous and demanding.
They are destroying LA.
Regards
If you go past 102nd street towards the city center, it already looks like a third-world country. Sad.
Well if I look out my window here at work in Sylmar, I would guess 75%. If I look out my window in Valencia, probably 2%.
Then there is Newhall..
In April, 45 suspected of immigration violations
Federal immigration officials at Costa Mesa Jail in April tabbed 45 people whom they suspected of immigration violations, according to Costa Mesa police records. It was the fifth month a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent has checked the immigration status of people booked at the city jail.
Of the 45 people officials say violated immigration laws, 29 were originally arrested for misdemeanor offenses, and 16 were suspected of felonies. Since the federal program began, about 218 people have been suspected of or charged with immigration violations.
I know if we deported them the freeways would be clear, the housing more affordable, the schools and hospitals and prisons less crowded. But why should ever expect foreign nationals that are costing us a fortune to be sent back home? Dubya says he can’t do it, it’s just too hard.
Sorry EUSA, I read that wrong. I thought you said 25% of CA’s pop was illegals.
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