Thread: Schwarzenegger: Illegal Aliens a Drain on California

The governor changes tune

By Ruben Navarrette, UNION-TRIBUNE COLUMNIST

Sunday, January 17, 2010 at 12:04 a.m.

Et tu, Arnold?

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is usually a kinder, gentler Republican when it comes to immigrants. So what a shame that Schwarzenegger would, in his recent State of the State address, spread a familiar half-truth about the economics of illegal immigration by stressing the costs while ignoring the benefits.

This isn’t the Arnold we knew.

In 2006, during a meeting with the editorial board of a Spanish-language newspaper, La Opinion, Schwarzenegger said it was a mistake for him to have supported Proposition 187, a mean-spirited ballot initiative in 1994 that denied education, social services and nonemergency health care to illegal immigrants.

In 2007, in a speech to the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, Schwarzenegger called President George W. Bush “very courageousâ€

Governor Schwarzenegger Finally Waking UP!!!

ARNIE!!!!! FINALLY WAKING UP!!! HAVE SOME COFFEE AND LETS GET TO WORK!

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And Water is Wet.

Got one word for him.....





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Transcript of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's State of the State
.... 01/15/09 - Prepared Text of Governor Schwarzenegger's 2009 State of the ...
gov.ca.gov/press-release/5089/

[quote]Schwarzenegger said that the federal government – while responsible for controlling the border – is “not even funding a 50-50 split of the costs of undocumented immigrants.â€

California needs to take all of the thousands of illegal alien inmates in the prisons and bus them over to I.C.E. and let them pay to lock em up or deport them.