remember that this appies to only ONE county in the state of CA ...
(snip)"LOS ANGELES COUNTY - Figures from the Department of Public Social Services show that children of illegal aliens in Los Angeles County collected more than $21 million in welfare and more than $22 million in food stamps in March 2009 -- an increase of $1 million from the previous month, according to a news release from Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich.
Annually the cost of illegal immigration to Los Angeles County taxpayers exceeds one billion dollars, which includes $220 million for public safety, $400 million for healthcare, and $500 million in welfare and food stamps allocations, according to the news release.
Twenty-four percent of the county's total allotment of welfare and food stamp benefits goes directly to the children of illegal aliens born in the United States, according to Antonovich's statement.
"Illegal immigration continues to have a devastating impact on Los Angeles County taxpayers," Antonovich said in the statement. "The total cost for illegal immigrants to county taxpayers exceeds $1 billion a year - not including the millions of dollars for education."(snip)
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I would also point out that also does not include the costs of additional 'stealth' subsidies i.e. reduced electric bills ( paid for by charging higher than necessary electricity prices to other electric customers with 'normal' income levels ), disproportionately high costs to the CA state justice / corrections system that don't appear at the county level, etc.
All in all, the real world results are that legal California citizens / residents and businesses wind up paying higher than otherwise necessary income tax rates, property tax rates, school tax rates, electric rates etc. in order to fund a 'better life' for 'anchor babies' and their now semi-legal parent(s). In the best case this results in a marginally lower standard of living for California citizens / legal residents and their children. In the worst case, this means a much lower standard of living for California citizens and their children as the high taxes and expensive utilities push their (former) employers into relocation, outsourcing or bankruptcy !
Going back to a much earlier post point in this thread about some dancers side-stepping paying appropriate income taxes, it is very easy to be 'compassionate' towards 'anchor babies' and their illegal alien parent(s) when the costs of that 'compassion' are not coming out of your own pocket and when the consequences of that 'compassion' are not reducing your own personal standard of living / reducing future opportunities for your own children.



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