- While you discovered the dreary reality of Detroit, Michigan-that's
only one American city! Commensurately-Miami, Chicago, Houston, New York,
Los Angeles and others follow toward a range of similar futures.
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- Ask yourself, with 15 million Americans unemployed and
35 million subsisting on food stamps, does it make sense to import 160,000
legal immigrants into this country every 30 days and a total of 1.5 million
plus annually? Especially when those immigrants cost American taxpayers
(you) a total of $346 billion in resettling services across 15 federal
agencies annually?
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- At this point in time, with 10 million legal and unlawful
immigrants, California suffers a $24 billion debt. It cannot pay its bills.
It sinks deeper into collapse as it adds 1,700 people per day, every day
of the year.
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- Next question: what if all of our states turned into
Californias? Given enough time, they will! Remember that U.S. population
projections show immigration adding 100 million people to the USA in 26
years. (Source: Fogel/Martin March 2006, "US Population Projections", <http://www.fairus.org>www.fairus.org)
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- In a brilliant expose' famed economist Edwin Rubenstein
wrote, "As California Goes - Facts behind California's Fiscal Meltdown."
(Volume 19, Number 4, summer 2009, <http://www.thesocialcontract.com>www.thesocialcontract.com)
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- In it, Rubenstein illustrates California's plight as
the canary in the coal mine.
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- Why California?
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- "The state's top income tax rate-10.3 percent-is
the highest in the nation, and this surely explains why the richest 1 percent
of residents end up contributing half of all the personal income taxes
the state collects," Rubenstein said. "Even the state sales tax
rate-a poor man's levy-is well above the national average.
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- "The usual suspects-high spending and low taxes-are
not to blame. In their place stands something far more fundamental: demographic
change. An ever-growing share of California residents are immigrants. The
vast majority of immigrants are from Latin America (56 percent) and Asia
(35 percent). They are generally young, poorly educated, and mired in low-income
jobs that do not provide health insurance. Their English is often rudimentary.
They depend on state social services at far higher rates than natives or
earlier immigrant cohorts."
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- A whopping third of California's immigrants entered unlawfully!
At least half of them work off the books thereby not paying any taxes
into the system, but their children tap into education, food and health
care at an astounding cost to the state. In the last eight years, 86 hospitals
and ER wards bankrupted out of business.
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- "Latino families are larger than those of other
immigrant groups. Their children swell elementary schools but are less
likely than other groups to graduate high school or finish college,"
Rubenstein said. "Second-generation Latinos are also less likely to
grow up with two parents, and more likely to go to jail or become teenage
mothers.
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- "Many observers-including prominent Latin Americans-have
concluded that the same traditional values that lie behind Latin America's
difficulties in achieving prosperity and political stability are being
substantially perpetuated among Hispanic immigrants and their descendants
in California. This implies that the problem is primarily cultural, not
economic, and that fiscal measures alone will not suffice to solve it."
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- California's Immigration Tsunami
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- "Between 1970 and 2006 the number of California
residents born abroad increased by more than five-fold, from 1.8 million
to 9.9 million," said Rubenstein. "Currently the state has a
much higher share of immigrants in its population than the U.S. as a whole."
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- For more than a century California has set the immigration
trend for the nation:
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- "Using official state figures, demographer <http://www.thesocialcontract.com/pdf/thirteen-four/xiii-4-250.pdf>Leon
Bouvier concluded that immigration accounts directly and indirectly
for 98 percent of California's population growth between 1990 and 2002.
Direct immigration contributed 57 percent of the rise, while the rest came
from births to foreign-born women," said Rubenstein. "Behind
the headline statistics are two telling factoids. First, net migration
from other states has virtually ceased. Traffic congestion, schools, the
water crisis, the state's fiscal meltdown, are all a big turn-off to citizens
of other, less troubled parts of the country.
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- "Second, the average California mother is expected
to give birth to 2.1 children over her lifetime. This is the so-called
"replacement" fertility rate which, if sustained over time, will
result in a stable population. The devil is in the details: established
residents and immigrants from non-Hispanic groups -Asians, Blacks, Whites,
American Indians, and Pacific Islanders-are all reproducing at below replacement
rates. Hispanic mothers, by contrast, are on course to have 3.25 children
over their reproductive lifetimes."
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- The Immigration Deficit
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- Once upon a time political correctness did not prevent
Californians from discussing the fiscal burden imposed by illegal aliens.
In the early 1990s California faced a sinking economy not unlike today's.
Social welfare caseloads exploded, state revenue declined by more than
25 percent, and the state's budget deficit was an unprecedented one-third
of total general fund spending.
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- "Caseloads continued rising even after the recession
ended, a trend many officials blamed on illegal immigrants," said
Rubenstein. "In 1993 California Gov. Pete Wilson sued the federal
government for the costs of state services to illegals-widely estimated
at $2 billion ($2.9 billion in 2009 dollars)-arguing that Washington mandated
the provision of such services while failing to prevent the illegal influx.
Five other magnet states-Arizona, Florida, New York, New Jersey, and Texas-joined
the suit.
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- "The issue propelled the drafting of Proposition
187, a state initiative denying certain services to illegal aliens. A firestorm
ensued. Besides racism and anti-Latino bias, immigrant groups charged the
Wilson administration with grossly exaggerating the net cost of illegal
aliens on the state's budget."
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- The 1994 study found that the 1.7 million illegal aliens
then residing in California and their U.S.-born children:
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- Åú Received $4.3 billion in state services
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- Åú Paid $739 million in state taxes
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- Åú Received about $3.6 billion more than
they paid in taxes.
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- "K-12 education is the largest state expenditure,
accounting for 40 percent of the budget," Rubenstein said. "Enrollments
have increased dramatically since 1994, swelled primarily by Hispanic immigrants
and their U.S.-born children. Consider this: between 1994 and 2005 California
K-12 enrollment grew by 1,054,806; Hispanic student enrollment rose by
1,009,489, accounting for 96 percent of the total increase. White enrollment declined by
246,220 students over the same period." (See <http://www.vdare.com/thom/060914_schools.htm>article.)
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- California Is Our Canary
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- California still has the nation's largest immigrant population.
But its lead is shrinking: In 1994 32 percent of the nation's foreign-born
lived in California; today about 26 percent do. Only 17 percent of immigrants
arriving in the U.S. between 2005 to 2006 settled in California.
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- "Unfortunately, the same social pathologies that
attend the foreign-born in California travel to other U.S. destinations,"
said Rubenstein. "In every instance immigrants are, on average, poorer
than natives, more dependent on public largesse, more likely to require
remedial education, less likely to finish high school, and more likely
to evade taxation and to be incarcerated. Throughout the nation native-born
citizens are digging ever deeper into their pockets to subsidize public
services for immigrants."
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- Interesting to see what happens with the projected 70
million new immigrants to be added within 26 years at current immigration
rates!
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