Thread: Illegals are leaving CA. Why? It's too much like Mexico

A stunning view of immigration craziness
Antelope Valley Press - Saturday, August 5, 2006.

EDITORIAL - 'We're in a state (Kentucky) where there's nothing but Americans. The police control the streets. It's clean, no gangs. California now resembles Mexico - everyone thinks like in Mexico. California's broken."

Who made those comments? Some right-wing talk show host back in Kentucky? Some redneck politician? You can just hear the Latino activists scrambling to the nearest microphone to decry what they would deem as these terrible, offensive, racist comments. Whoever made these comments will be darn lucky if he doesn't lose his job by the time the politically correct crowd gets done with him.

But wait just a minute.

Do you know who made these comments? It was Alejandra Magdaleno, an illegal immigrant from Mexico who lived in Los Angeles for several years before abandoning the state for Lexington, Ky., eight years ago. She is quoted in a lengthy story in the Los Angeles Times. She went to Kentucky and found happiness, she said, because there were no Mexican immigrant workers there "bidding down the wages for the unskilled jobs."

Magdaleno made the point that the cost of living was much lower, and that she left California for the same reasons she left Mexico - and she loves it. She learned English right away because she had to - almost no one speaks Spanish in Kentucky.

Also, she and her husband wanted better schools for their children, ages 15 and 9. "At the school (in Lexington), there are just people who speak English. It helped my children a lot."

The kids said school was much harder in Lexington than in Los Angeles. The academics were well advanced compared to the level the kids were studying out west. The family was amazed to see girls from Mexican immigrant families who were in their mid-20s and still didn't have children. The girls in Los Angeles, they said, were like the girls in Mexico who get pregnant at 14.

The comments - part of an overall story about Alejandra's sister, who is also here illegally, has 10 kids and lives in Los Angeles with considerable help from government assistance - are amazing in their irony. When the illegal immigrants from Mexico are fleeing California because there's too much illegal immigration out here, you know you're in trouble.

California has gradually, over the last 20 years, gotten so out of whack that the absurd now seems commonplace. We don't even realize how ridiculous it is to have our schools crammed with other countries' children. It's Alice in Wonderland.
Many of us never forget that - but others need a reminder from time to time.

Let's hope Alejandra's story serves as a wake-up call for the people who run this state.

Oh, great. Now we even have illegals starting to bitch about how screwed up it is in CA with all the illegals. Like they aren't a part of the problem, it's the other illegals who are driving down wages, bankrupting hospitals and overcrowding the schools. It's those other illegals who spray grafitti, turning the neighborhoods into filthy barrios, we are the good illegals, we only drive down the wages enough so the gringos can't afford to work there, but when the other illegals drive down the wages so we can't work there, that's when it starts to suck. Give me a break.

Well Alejandra, your family is part of the problem, not the solution.
Tell your sister to go to Mexico and get a hysterectomy. We're tired of paying for your sister!!!

Tell your sister to get a hysterectomy.

In MEXICO! Not here thank you.

I think this is the sister of the one that had quads recently in California.

Ya....if you want a better life you leave the "mentality" behind. This isn't Mexico and we don't like it either.

I've met quite a few from California who have moved to Tennessee. The problem is that they are shoving the same cultural changes down our throats and bringing the same problems here.

What's the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over again and expecting different results.

This country is doomed. Thanks William and all of you for taking a stand on such an important issue.

What's the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over again and expecting different results.

ArticleIV,

This is one of my favorite sayings!!

This article really got to me too. There is a kids story -Wump World. These aliens come to planets, use them up, and move on.

I've never been to California. Do I still want to? What is happening to this once glorious, scenic state. I have relatives who live there -Palo Altos- but I've never brought up this subject to them...

This article really got to me too. There is a kids story -Wump World. These aliens come to planets, use them up, and move on.

Fedup, this situation also sounds like Independance Day.

She went to Kentucky and found happiness, she said, because there were no Mexican immigrant workers there "bidding down the wages for the unskilled jobs.

Funny how barely educated illegal aliens have a greater grasp of economics than the so-called academic elites and our political leaders. Even illegals know that low skilled illegals drive down wages. Maybe they can teach Bush a thing or two about illegal immigration.

Amazing these parasites invade parts of our country and once they destroy that part of the country, they move on to other parts they haven't quite destroyed yet. Illegal immigration is nothing more than a virus that needs to be cured.

Funny how barely educated illegal aliens have a greater grasp of economics than the so-called academic elites and our political leaders. Even illegals know that low skilled illegals drive down wages. Maybe they can teach Bush a thing or two about illegal immigration.

You need a functional brain first in order to learn.