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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...

A Mexican federal police pass belonging to Juarez Cartel drug lord Vicente Carrillo Fuentes was found by the FBI inside a West El Paso luxury home. The find occurred during the search of the house of a former, unnamed girlfriend of Carrillo on Oct. 16, 2000, FBI officials said. The agency chose to release the information now to jump- start the investigation that lost momentum when FBI priorities shifted from drugs to counter-terrorism after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, said Hardrick Crawford, the FBI special agent in charge in El Paso. Carrillo is wanted in the United States for...