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Pahrump Mania wrote:

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Holy fuck California is in trouble. Here are the 13 metropolitan areas in the US with over 15% unemployment, nine are in California.

1.	El Centro, Calif	26.9%
2.	Yuma, Ariz.	20.3%
3.	Merced, Calif.	18.3%
4.	Yuba City, Calif.	18.2%
5.	Elkhart, Ind.	17.8%
6.	Modesto, Calif.	16.8%
7.	Stockton, Calif.	15.6%
8.	Bend, Ore.	15.6%
9.	Fresno, Calif.	15.5%
10.	Visalia, Calif.	15.4%
11.	Redding, Calif.	15.4%
12.	Hanford, Calif.	15.3%
13.	Longview, Wash.	15.2%

StarrEise wrote:

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What?

How so?

In hosting America's largest population of illegal immigrants, California bears a huge cost to provide basic human services for this fast growing, low-income segment of its population. A new study from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) examines the costs of education, health care and incarceration of illegal aliens, and concludes that the costs to Californians is $10.5 billion per year.

Among the key finding of the report are that the state's already struggling K-12 education system spends approximately $7.7 billion a year to school the children of illegal aliens who now constitute 15 percent of the student body. Another $1.4 billion of the taxpayers' money goes toward providing health care to illegal aliens and their families, the same amount that is spent incarcerating illegal aliens criminals.

"California's addiction to 'cheap' illegal alien labor is bankrupting the state and posing enormous burdens on the state's shrinking middle class tax base," stated Dan Stein, President of FAIR. "Most Californians, who have seen their taxes increase while public services deteriorate, already know the impact that mass illegal immigration is having on their communities, but even they may be shocked when they learn just how much of a drain illegal immigration has become."

UrbanSprawl wrote:

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The long-run impact of immigration on public budgets is likely to be positive. Projections of future taxes and government spending are subject to uncertainty, but a careful study published by the National Research Council estimated that immigrants and their descendants would contribute about $80,000 more in taxes (in 1996 dollars) than they would receive in public services.

So not only are immigrants bolstering our economy, an economy in desperate need of workers and more production, but immigrants pay more in taxes than they receive in public services, according to a 2007 report from the White House Council of Economic Advisers.

One of the significant negative repercussions presented by the large number of illegal immigrants is the burden it places on the health care system. Over half of all undocumented workers are uninsured, and use of emergency-room facilities by uninsured patients has led to a massive increase in uncompensated hospital costs. Current legislation legally binds hospitals to treat all patients in emergency situations; such legislation, however is severely under funded, such that, in last five years, more than 84 California hospitals have been forced to shut down due to financial strain.

PassionatePiscesMan wrote:

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The illegals do a community service selling drugs to yuppie spoiled teenagers