California slashes budget; illegal immigration ignored
July 22, 11:43 PM35 comments

Details of California’s 26.3 billion dollar budget deficit deal, reached Monday after intense negotiations during a period where the state issued IOU’s, reveals a significant reduction in across the board state services

The state K-12 school system and community colleges will suffer the most severe cuts, with reductions of 6 billion over two years, while the University of California and the California State University systems will see their budgets reduced by 3 billion. Savings of 1.3 billion will come from cuts in programs for health care for the poor. The state will save another 1.3 billion by forcing state workers to take 3 unpaid furlough days per month, and another 1.2 billion will be saved by releasing 27,000 prisoners.

It is interesting to note that there was no attempt to address the massive strain that illegal immigration places on California’s budget. For example, it is estimated that California spends 7.7 billion annually to educate the children of illegal aliens. If that money was instead retained, in theory California would not have to cut their education spending at all for fiscal 2009-10. Many believe this is a very tangible illustration of how illegal immigration impacts and affects the citizens of California. In their misguided attempt to be “compassionate,â€