Thread: ECONOMIC IMPACT OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION ON LOS ANGELES COUNTY

MICHAEL D. ANTONOVICH
Supervisor, Los Angeles County
500 West Temple St. Suite #869 Phone: 213-974-5555
Los Angeles, CA 90012 Website: antonovich.com

ECONOMIC IMPACT OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
ON LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA

While legal immigration has provided a positive benefit for our County economically and culturally, illegal immigration reduces the quality of life and is an affront to those who follow the law.

Illegal immigration causes American citizens and legal aliens to pay more for police protection, classrooms to educate our children, and hospital and healthcare costs.

In public safety, healthcare and public social services, illegals cost Los Angeles County taxpayers over one billion dollars a year.

Illegal immigrants cost Los Angeles County taxpayers annually:
Over $400 million annually in health care
Over $250 million in our criminal justice system.
Nearly $230 million annually in CALWORKS welfare payments
Over $190 million in food stamps.
Over $430 million in total welfare allocations
Nearly 100,000 children of 60,000 undocumented parents receive aid – for a total of 160,000. If incorporated into a city, it would be the 6th largest city in Los Angeles county.

Los Angeles County is home to almost 12% of the country’s illegal immigrant population, the most of any county in the nation.

Like Los Angeles County, the State of California is also struggling with the burden of illegal immigration; one in fifteen people residing in California is an illegal immigrant costing our State nearly $3 billion a year.

Our health care delivery system has become the HMO for the world.

Our education system is basically a voucher program for illegals to come here and send their children to our schools.

Our healthcare system is bankrupt and we’ve experienced a meltdown in our public schools.

SOLUTIONS:

To develop a stable economy and reduce the exodus of Mexicans immigrating to America for jobs and opportunity, the United States government needs to encourage Mexico to privatize their state-run oil company.

Just as England, China, the Eastern European nations and the Dominican Republic have economically benefited through the selling of their state-run companies and a market-based economy, Mexico can also grow economically through public-private partnerships to increase opportunity for their citizens.

Establish a system of medical centers on the Mexican side of the border, staffed by American doctors and medical students along with Mexican doctors and students working cooperatively with local medical schools to provide service and share medical techniques while reducing the incentive for individuals to come here illegally.

Create a bonded guest worker program that allows an immigrant to work in our country temporarily while bonded for any medical care they may need while in the United States.

Establish a trained reserve component of the U.S. Border Patrol similar to reserve units utilized by thousands of police and sheriff departments across the nation to increase the number of Border Patrol agents defending our borders.

This program of reserve officers has been extremely successful and provided local law enforcement with a group of dedicated and trained law enforcement officers who serve at a minimal cost of only $1 a year in most cases.

Create a Social Security number verification system and employer hotline utilizing modern technology similar to that used by retailers for VISA and MasterCard processing which can verify an individual’s immigration status in seconds.

Increase funding for more prosecutions by the United States Attorney for those who violate immigration laws.

The federal government also needs to fully fund the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (S.C.A.A.P.) and all of the other unfunded services provided to illegal aliens to recognize the economic impact illegal immigration has on local government.

Need Federal legislation ending automatic citizenship for the children of illegal aliens born in the United States. The United States is one of the few Countries in the world where, if you are born here, you are considered a legal citizen regardless of whether your parents are citizens or not.

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Yes, but we can save a few bucks off tomatos from thier cheap labor.

Ive got an idea send them back and don't let them back!