Posted on 05/07/2008 1:58:52 PM PDT by T.L.Sink
Supervisor says county spends more than $1 billion a year on benefits to illegals. According to new data from the Department of Public Services, nearly a quarter of Los Angeles County's welfare and food stamp benefits goes directly to the children of illegal aliens, at a cost of $36 million a month. "The total cost for illegal immigrants to County taxpayers far exceeds $1 billion a year - NOT including the millions of dollars for education," said Antonovich. "With $220 million for public safety, $400 million for healthcare, and $432 million in welfare allocations, illegal immigration continues to have a devastating impact on Los Angeles County taxpayers." In March, illegals collected over $10 million in welfare assistance and $16 million in food stamp allocations.
(Excerpt) Read more at hometownstation.com ...
I still have that pesky issue of what to do with this house........
Why do people want to live in Southern California?
My parents were born in Los Angeles in the 1920s. It is, or was, a beautiful place before the huge influx from back east after 1955. We left in 1969 for Oregon, another beautiful place, or used to be before the influx from back east in the early 1970s.
Today all three western states, California, Oregon, and Washington, are being invaded by foreign nationals from south of the border.
Wellll are you still in profit ? If you’ve had it for a while you probably are. It’s easy to sell as long as the price is right (in this case, for the buyer, unfortunately).
The previous ‘incendiary incident’ concept, is another... :)
The problem is with all our handout programs. Rather than getting angry that people want to come to this country, why not cut off the gravy train?
I honestly don’t know where one can go any longer to escape this influx, this invasion. Even the mountains of NC and eastern TN are feeling it. I’m talking very rural eastern TN, too.
does ahnold know about this?
apparently:
the iss a PROBLEMO....
Yeeeeup.
I still say the politicians need to move into some of these areas. WITHOUT their body guards, etal, and live like the rest of us have to. I give them one week. Max.
Another article:
The total cost for illegal immigrants to County taxpayers far exceeds $1 billion a year - not including the millions of dollars for education,” said Antonovich.
“With $220 million for public safety, $400 million for healthcare, and $432 million in welfare allocations, illegal immigration continues to have a devastating impact on Los Angeles County taxpayers.”
“The supervisor said, in March, undocumented immigrants collected over $19 million in welfare assistance and over $16 million in food stamp allocations.”
http://ktla.trb.com/news/ktla-welfare-aliens,0,6331573.story
I hope all the employers and corporations that love their cheap low wage illegal labor are happy.
Actually Californians have voted to stop benefits to illegals and federal judges have thrown the laws out as “unconstitutional”.
Yeah, but you'll still get the mindless idiots trying to make themselves feel better by suggesting this is all somehow still isolated to the southwest.
Fact is, this is in everyones backyard now.
they are only taking the welfare that americans won’t take...
We tried for years to warn people on this forum, across the country.......that it’s coming their way.
And were (and still ARE) being called bigots, xenophobe’s, etc.
And lookie here. I don’t give a RIP where it’s located...this mess is HURTING MY COUNTRY!!!!
Here is some more breakdown of the figures for education. Also a nice chart of what each state spends.
Breaking the Piggy Bank: How Illegal Immigration is Sending Schools Into the Red
The calculation of the number of children of illegal aliens in the K-12 public school system indicates that more than 15 percent of California’s students are children of illegal aliens, as are more than ten percent of the students in Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Nevada, and Texas. More than five percent of the students are the children of illegal aliens in Florida, Georgia, Kansas, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Utah, and Washington.
Defenders of illegal aliens assert that the cost of educating illegal alien students is offset by the taxes paid by their parents, but study after study shows that immigrants cost taxpayers much more in public services used than they pay into the system via taxes.7 This is particularly true of illegal immigrants, who are disproportionately low-skilled and thus low-earning and are much more likely to be working in the underground economy or providing contractual services and not withholding taxes.
A look at the top ten highest state expenditures provides a stark illustration of the trade-offs for accommodating large-scale illegal immigration:8
In California, the $7.7 billion spent annually educating the children of illegal immigrants—nearly 13% of the overall 20045 education budget—could:
* Cover the education budget shortfall for the 2004-05 school year, estimated by the Legislative Analyst Office at $6 billion and nearly cover the $2 billion reduction this year from the Proposition 98 formula.
* Or, the remaining $1.7 billion could pay the salaries of about 31,000 teachers and reduce per student ratios, or it could furnish 2.8 million new computers—enough computers for about half of the state’s students.
* Prevent educational shortfalls estimated at $9.8 billion over the past four years that have impacted on “…class size, teacher layoffs, shorter library hours and fewer counselors, nurses, custodians and groundskeepers.” (See Los Angeles Times, March 11, 2005)
In Texas, the $3.9 billion spent annually educating the children of illegal immigrants could:
* Cover more than the $2.3 billion shortfall identified by the Texas Federation for Teachers for such things as textbooks and pension contributions.
* Make Texas’ salaries for teachers more competitive by national standards, thereby reducing costly attrition, and recruit the 5,000 new teachers needed each year.
In New York, the $3.1 billion spent annually educating the children of illegal immigrants could:
* Nearly cover the estimated $3.3 billion required by the state’s Supreme Court under the decision in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity case to establish equitable state funding for New York City’s public school system.
* Help to reduce the $1.8 billion revenue shortfall for fiscal year 2005 in New York City.
* Provide enough additional funding to nearly meet the $3 billion in health care cuts in the current proposed budget for payments to hospitals and nursing homes.
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http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=research_researchf6ad
They don’t get more hypocritical than the clowns in the LA City council. And Mayor Villaragosa even said he doesn’t send his kids to public school because it’s not good enough for them.
We need to start injecting these concerns into the campaign. Make them campaign issues. Call talk radio. Plaster it in Letters to the Editor in the paper. Call attention to it. Make them run on specifics.
Thanks, but that’s not what I’m looking for . . . when I walk into a hostile politician’s office I want the good stuff. I want THIS.
Prop. 187, indeed.
The big push to kill that was accomplished by what some people call ‘good republicans’...like the founder of the club for growth.
[snip] Working closely with Stephen Moore of the Cato Institute, Cesar Conda (former domestic advisor to Dick Cheney) circulated a statement against Prop. 187 of California in the nineties.
And what have Moore and his associate Grover Norquist been up to lately? More of the same.
Last fall the Club for Growth worked against conservative republican candidate Robert Vasquez, an ardent illegal alien opponent by funding his opposition.
Moore, along with Norquist, Newt Gingrich, Tamar Jacoby and other amnesty advocates penned a letter to the Wall St Journal proclaiming Bush’s guest worker plan as “a humane, orderly, and economically sensible approach to migration.”
On September 19, 2005, the Federal Election Commission filed suit against the Club for Growth for violations of the Federal Election Campaign Act for failing to register as a political action committee in the 2000, 2002, and 2004 congressional elections.
You can be sure that both Stephen Moore and Grover Norquist are working full time to keep our borders open and promote any and all trade/labor agreements whether they benefit the USA and it’s people or not.
Moore said this about Norquist. “From the moment he gets up to the moment he gets to bed, he thinks, ‘How am I going to hurt the other team?”
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Art Torres, Chairman of the California Democratic Party, “Remember 187 — proposition to deny taxpayer funds for services to non-citizens — was the last gasp of white America in California.”
Give those idiots in CA a couple more years and that once-beautiful state will look like Mexico - open sewers, naked kids & all...
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