Yup...no one can (or WILL) give an accurate accounting of the number of ‘undocumented’s’ in California.
However, ‘undocumented’s’ consume municipal services just like everyone ELSE who lives in the community... police, fire department, social services, use of public facilities, delivery of utilities, educational, etc.
If you can’t tell me how many people (documented or otherwise) consume services, of course it is impossible to forecast or BUDGET properly!!!
It ain’t rocket science!
“Yup...no one can (or WILL) give an accurate accounting of the number of ‘undocumented’s’ in California.”
But if we are to believe some of the “estimates” put forth in the press, the number is around $5 Billion a year! That’s what your cheap lettuce costs you Mr. and Mrs. Californian! When the Blacks started yammering about the Bracero Program back in the 60’s, they claimed that the Mexicans were taking “their jobs.” So that very productive “guest worker” program which benefitted everyone was cancelled. But guess what, the Black’s really didn’t (or wouldn’t) pick lettuce or anything else that required “real work,” so the farmers and the consumers were screwed. The illegals have moved in to fill a need. From what I have seen, the Mexican farm workers do very difficult work, work that the Black man won’t do because he prefers to continue to rely on productive people to pay him to sit on his ass an do the only thing he really knows how to do, and that’s procreate!