Thread: CBO: ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION PART OF CA ECONOMIC CRISIS!!!

Well, duh huh! Talk about stating the obvious! Funny how folks need an "offical report" to convince them of what is right in front of their face!

Press 1 for English
Press 2 "has been removed from the selection"

As it turns out, they were referring to the December 2007 CBO report as posted by realbsball above. It's great that they're emphasizing the results from this important study at this critical time. Following is the Lou Dobbs transcript from this report which also includes an interview with Steven Camarota from the Center for Immigration Studies:

DOBBS: Well the senator went on to reiterate his support for the Dream Act, for comprehensive immigration reform, of course who hasn't changed that much. He's been a staunch supporter of amnesty all along. The senator also saying that building a fence along our border with Mexico is an issue that should be revisited, however and he does continue to support those driver's licenses for illegal aliens even though this country is moving (INAUDIBLE) a direction more states reducing and eliminating that privilege for illegal aliens.

California like many other states is dealing with the harsh realities of our economic crisis. The state is proposing deep cuts in education, health care, law enforcement to help reduce that deficit, as we reported to you here yesterday. A major cause of California's budget crisis is the federal government's failure to secure our borders and to enforce immigration law.

Casey Wian has our report.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

CASEY WIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger blames a drop in revenue from the sub prime mortgage and housing meltdowns for the state's $14.5 billion projected budget deficit next year.

GOV. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER (R), CALIFORNIA: It's terrible to take money away from education and it is terrible to take money away from law enforcement and it is terrible to take money away from prisons and from health care, all of those things. But you can't give people more money than you have.

WIAN: Another reason the Golden State doesn't have enough money is on the other side of the balance sheet, massive spending on social services for illegal aliens totaling tens of billions of dollars, according to a December Congressional Budget Office study. California has about a quarter of the nation's estimated 12-plus million illegal aliens. They account for 27 percent of the state's population without health insurance. According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform, that cost taxpayers $1.4 billion in 2004. The group, which opposes illegal immigration and promotes border security estimates California spends another 1.4 billion on law enforcement for criminal illegal aliens.

FAIR says education is the largest expenditure, costing the state $7.7 billion. The Center for Immigration Studies, which supports a lower immigration policy, estimate 13 percent of California public school students are illegal aliens or their children.

STEVEN CAMAROTA, CTR. FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES: California has other problems, not just illegal immigration, but illegal immigration is clearly a significant drain on the state budget. Illegal aliens do pay taxes, just not enough to come close to covering the education and health care and infrastructure costs associated with them.

WIAN: The Congressional Budget Office study concurs, finding the tax revenues that unauthorized immigrants generate for state and local governments do not offset the total costs of services provided to those immigrants.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

WIAN: Perhaps that's one reason Governor Schwarzenegger recently asked President Bush to extend the deployment of National Guard troops on the southern border, a request that has so far gone nowhere -- Lou.

DOBBS: As most requests of this administration on anything to do with border security that seems to be their favorite destination. That is nowhere.

Casey, thank you very much. Casey Wian.

Well I have e-mailed Governor Schwarzenegger telling him this. Of course no reply. What a loser he turned out to be! It is time to clean house, let's get the swiffer out!

Gee...I wonder how many jobs in education, health care, and law enforcement could have been saved if they were to get rid of the illegals!!!

I found it interesting/funny that on Lou's show----they said that this is the reason why Arnold is asking for more troops on the border. Well, he doesn't realize that the illegals from Oklahoma, Arizona, etc. are heading for California as well---because they are provided sanctuary there.

I would say that we have at least 10M IA's in Ca. My question is...does anyone have the brainpower to figure out that these 10M illegals in CA will cost the State 10x more if and when they get amnesty??? They will all be legally eligible for ALL social welfare benefits....and they will bring ALL of their relatives to CA so that they can feed at the trough!!!

Because of the proximity of the border in CA, they will also be able to freely travel back and forth from CA to Mexico...WITH ALL OF THEIR BENEFITS! They will have the best of two worlds!!! And we Americans will have the granddaddy of all nightmares because we will be paying for them forever!!!! Mexico is going to grant dual citizenship to all of them!

Originally Posted by AmericanMe

I would say that we have at least 10M IA's in Ca. My question is...does anyone have the brainpower to figure out that these 10M illegals in CA will cost the State 10x more if and when they get amnesty??? They will all be legally eligible for ALL social welfare benefits....and they will bring ALL of their relatives to CA so that they can feed at the trough!!!

Because of the proximity of the border in CA, they will also be able to freely travel back and forth from CA to Mexico...WITH ALL OF THEIR BENEFITS! They will have the best of two worlds!!! And we Americans will have the granddaddy of all nightmares because we will be paying for them forever!!!! Mexico is going to grant dual citizenship to all of them!

I have always been suspect of "duel citizenship." If you want to be an American Citizen, you should be required to denounce all ties, including any citizenships you may have with another country. If you don't like it, then don't come to this country!

No Bueno...Mexico is playing both sides against the middle...dual citizenship is their newest ploy to keep Mexicans from assimilating...they want them to remain Mexican Nationals forever! It's also the only way they can control their money! What did Calderon say..."Anywhere there's a Mexican...there's Mexico"???

I sent the link of the pdf to Glenn Beck, Hannity, and O'Reilly.

Originally Posted by AmericanMe

No Bueno...Mexico is playing both sides against the middle...dual citizenship is their newest ploy to keep Mexicans from assimilating...they want them to remain Mexican Nationals forever! It's also the only way they can control their money! What did Calderon say..."Anywhere there's a Mexican...there's Mexico"???

I could careless about Mexico and its policies. However, the United States has every right to demand that one give up any and all other citizenship if they want to become a legal citizen of this country. Unfortunately, we have too many politicians who lack the courage to get tough with Mexico and it's self-serving attempts to undermine the United States.

Mexico may not want its citizens to assimilate, but we have every right as a country to demand they do assimilate , or go home.