[tallhappy]

California is $12 billion in the red this year and nearly one-quarter of its inmates are aliens from Mexico

That's not because of illegal immigration. That's incompetence of Gray Davis.

Don't give Davis an excuse to shirk responsibility. There was a surplus before he took over in 1999. The illegal immigration problem has not changed in those three years, but a change from 16 years of Republican governorship did.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Bush Wants Food Stamps For Some Noncitizens KOAT

Posted on 4/11/02 11:24 AM Pacific by chance33_98

Bush Wants Food Stamps For Some Noncitizens

Posted: 9:50 a.m. EDT April 11, 2002

WASHINGTON -- House Republicans have blocked President George W. Bush's proposal to restore food stamps to certain noncitizens.

The plan is popular with groups that represent Hispanics, a voting bloc the White House has targeted.