Excessive immigration is sinking Golden State

ContraCostaTimes.com ^ | Oct. 05, 2003 | Yeh Ling-Ling

[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

EXCESSIVE immigration has direct impact on Californians' most basic concerns. It affects the economic and political future of California and the United States. Even so, this critical issue has been largely ignored by most leaders.

There are at least 400,000 illegal immigrant students in California's schools. The cost of educating a child averages $6,000 or more a year. Illegal immigrant parents are mostly low-skilled. Even if they do pay taxes, their tax payments are not enough to offset the cost of educating their children, let alone other expensive services and infrastructure.

Currently, more than 25 percent of our federal prison inmates are illegal aliens who committed crimes. Many county hospitals are on the verge of bankruptcy because of the care that they provide to illegal immigrant families.

[gubamyster]

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[Bikers4Bush]

"Currently, more than 25 percent of our federal prison inmates are illegal aliens who committed crimes."

I'll say it. (sarcasm on) Wait that can't be right! They're just honest hard working people coming here to do the jobs no American citizens want to do. (sarcasm off)

[Carry_Okie]

The cost of educating a child averages $6,000 or more a year.

The problem with lies is that they require maintenance. The cost of educating a k-12 student in California is over $11,000.

[Carry_Okie]

McClintock is wrong. According to the Pacific Research Institute the total of k-12 spending from all sources added up to $10,700 in 1999, before class size reduction took full effect. It's more now.

[SCalGal]

It is never more apparent, than when I venture out for shopping at the outlet center, of the massive immigrant population in So. Cal.

I quit shopping at places like that.

[traditionalist]

and a generally infantile electorate

I take expection to that. The CA electorate lead the country in abolishing affirmative action and bilingual education. The CA electorate also attempted to deal with the illegal alien problem, only to have some tyrannical Clinton-appointed federal judges stop them. I would not call such actions "infantile."

The fault for CA's mess lies not with the electorate, but by the idiots running the CA GOP who refuse to deal with the most pressing issues of the state.

Can you believe the CA GOP is officially opposing prop. 54?

[taxed2death]

400,000 illegals in CA schools. If I lived in CA, I'd stop paying state and city taxes. I'd jam up court system demanding an answer WHY the F*** I should pay these taxes.

[JustPiper]

Excessive immigration is sinking Golden State

Yes it is!

[junta]

Hey hey hey you cynics do not belong on FR, so go get your pitcher full of Kool-Aid because you ain't seen nothin yet.

[kstewskis]

I feel that is the 4 governors of the border states would call out the National Guard and put them to work stopping the immigrants, then the Feds would get a real clue of the huge numbers on invaders.

Don't count on Dammit-Janet Napolitano in AZ to do this. She's leaving the door wide open in AZ...rejected the proof of ID for voter registration here. Step one of assuring her and her leftist minions to get into office.

We need to get her out of office first before we can even think of tuning up the National Guard here.

[DianaN]

Whoever posted this article sent me, by private reply, claiming his handle was "Amerigomag" that by privately replying to others I was "spamming"; he claims to be the "Forum Moderator".

Does anyone know who this person is?

Does anyone else understand that replying privately is "spamming". If so, since I receive private emails aplenty, I know I'm not the only one doing it so be warned.

Frankly, I think this guy's a fake; has anyone else gotten threatening private replies from him?

I figure I must've ticked off some Dumocrap really good to get this aggravation.

Does anyone know where I can find this definition of "spamming" on the rules of Free Republic?

[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

[ Whoever posted this article sent me, by private reply, claiming his handle was "Amerigomag" ]

I posted this article and I never sent you a private reply. In fact I rarely send or receive private replies at all (all have been pleasant exchanges related to a specific thread).
There is a poster with the handle Amerigomag.
You might want to contact the Admin Moderator.