Whoop-dee-doo! So what was the taxpayers' tab for medical care to illegal aliens in the first quarter of FY07? And for federally mandated access to public schools for the non-citizen children of illegal aliens? Care to share those figures with us (with reliable sources to back them up)?
The Los Angeles Unified School District has an annual budget of over 6 billion dollars.
LAUSD has over 3/4 of a million students.
Of these, 314,641 students were classified as "English learners" in 2006, meaning they were not fluent in English. We may safely infer that these students were most likely immigrants. Of course, they aren't allowed to check for legal residency status.
Let us be generous beyond all hope, and grant that only half of those 314,641 are not entitled to be in this country. That would leave us with 150,000 illegal alien students, or 20% (actual percents are probably over 60%, if you include those who have "gained fluency"). That means that illegal aliens are costing the LAUSD, and therefore California's citizens, $1.2 BILLION DOLLARS every year. Minimum. And that's just for education in one major metro area.