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Excessive immigration is sinking Golden State - DASA - Diversity Alliance for a Sustainable America
Excessive immigration is sinking Golden State

By Yeh Ling-Ling
Published October 5, 2003, in the Contra Costa Times

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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 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.

Instead of urging the federal government to reduce immigration, enforcement of immigration laws, and deportation of those here illegally, many politicians actively advocate an amnesty and benefits for over 2 million illegal aliens in California. They favor free health care, driver's licenses, in-state tuition to state universities, free tuition in California community colleges and other measures that will encourage more illegal immigration.

Is it responsible to reward those who have broken laws with benefits while cutting programs that negatively impact American and legal immigrant families?

Immigration advocates claim that illegal immigrants are needed to boost California's economy. If this were true, why is it that California, the largest illegal-immigration-receiving state, is experiencing its worst budgetary deficits? The truth is that jobs that illegal aliens are holding in California are still performed by many poor Americans in states that have low levels of immigration.

California still has millions of low-skilled unemployed or underemployed legal residents, able-bodied welfare recipients, and nonviolent prison inmates. Why not give incentives to them to fill those positions? Why continue to spend billions every year to provide services to illegals?

But as far as this copied, it is wrong that tax payers pay for education, they don't,, that is payed by property taxes on homes and real property..