By calculating the ratio of illegals to a state’s total population, CA suffers with 6.94% illegals vs. total population. West Virginia has only 0.55%.
I’m not saying all illegals qualify as “poor” or that native-born citizens don’t. But the huge infusion of people who arrive in CA already poor, with only the clothes they’re wearing, makes your poverty comparison illogical.
As far as I can tell, Kaliptonia welcomes them with open arms and counts them as if they are citizens. So, I think we should too.