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California Assemblyman (Haynes) Submits Initiative to Form "California Border Police"
Rescue California ^ | May 4, 2005

Posted on 05/04/2005 11:39:08 AM PDT by StoneColdGOP

SACRAMENTO, CA: California State Assemblyman Ray Haynes (R-Riverside County) will submit language to the Attorney General tomorrow for a landmark statewide initiative that would establish a separate state police force to patrol California’s international border. Known as the “California Border Police Initiative”, the measure is the first of its kind in the nation.

“The federal government has proven itself incapable of securing our borders, so it is time for Californians to step up and take matters into our own hands,” said Assemblyman Haynes. “This initiative establishes a separate and distinct state police force, much like the Highway Patrol, charged with enforcing immigration laws.”

In neighboring Arizona, private citizens known as the Minutemen are patrolling the borders. Under the proposal by Assemblyman Haynes, California’s new Border Police would be trained and sworn peace officers who would supplement the work of federal border agents. The initiative also allows for the construction of new jail and prison facilities dedicated to housing illegal aliens who are apprehended by the California Border Police before they are turned over to the federal government for deportation. The initiative will need just under 600,000 valid signatures to qualify for the ballot.

“With three million illegal aliens here already and thousands more crossing the border every month, California is ground zero when it comes to illegal immigration,” said Haynes. “Hospital emergency rooms are closing, other public services are being stretched to the breaking point and we have over 48,000 illegal aliens in our prisons. In addition, our loosely controlled border presents terrorists with an easy entry point into our state and country. We cannot wait any longer for the feds to get the job done. We need to police our own border now.”

In addition to submitting the language to the State Attorney General in preparation for a ballot measure campaign, Assemblyman Haynes is also introducing the measure as an Assembly Constitutional Amendment. The organization Rescue California, which gathered over 1.4 million signatures to recall Gray Davis in 2003, is preparing for a signature-gathering effort that would put the California Border Police Initiative on the June, 2006 ballot. A copy of the initiative along with a legal analysis of the state’s authority to enforce federal immigration law can be found at www.RescueCalifornia.com.


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To: TheSpottedOwl

I'll 'donate' $1000 to help get it started and I live in Nevada.


41 posted on 05/04/2005 1:00:40 PM PDT by B4Ranch ( Report every illegal alien that you meet. Call 866-347-2423)
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To: gubamyster

Protect our borders and coastlines from all foreign invaders!

Be Ever Vigilant!

Minutemen Patriots ~ Bump!


42 posted on 05/04/2005 1:03:12 PM PDT by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: kellynla

There is always hope! Just think, jobs that Americans WILL do :)


43 posted on 05/04/2005 1:04:33 PM PDT by TheSpottedOwl (Free Mexico!)
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To: untrained skeptic
I'd like to see someone seriously suggest activating a state militia in CA just to see the liberal scream in horror.

Boxer and Pelosi's facelifts would rip at the seams. Bwaahahahahaha!

44 posted on 05/04/2005 1:07:22 PM PDT by TheSpottedOwl (Free Mexico!)
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To: StoneColdGOP

Appears California needs something like Texas. Although the Texas State Guard is voluntary it cannot be federalized. The Governor of Texas needs to expand the roll of the TSG to include border patrol since their duties also include "Homeland Security."

http://www.agd.state.tx.us/stateguard/


45 posted on 05/04/2005 1:09:43 PM PDT by politicalwit (USA...A Nation of Selective Law Enforcement.)
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To: StoneColdGOP

Whoa. I can't wait for the hysterical reaction to this one. Nativo Lopez might have a stroke.


46 posted on 05/04/2005 1:10:54 PM PDT by John Jorsett (email: mistersandiego yahoo.com (put the at sign in between those two))
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To: B4Ranch

That's the spirit :)This will benefit all the western states.


47 posted on 05/04/2005 1:11:04 PM PDT by TheSpottedOwl (Free Mexico!)
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To: StoneColdGOP
Haynes must be a bigot, anti immigration, Hispanic hating right winger--sarcasm. Great idea. I'll vote for it!
48 posted on 05/04/2005 1:13:47 PM PDT by Isabelle
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To: StoneColdGOP
Sounds like a good idea to me.

It does sound like a good idea, but where's the money going to come from?

"This initiative establishes a separate and distinct state police force, much like the Highway Patrol, charged with enforcing immigration laws."

The initiative also allows for the construction of new jail and prison facilities dedicated to housing illegal aliens who are apprehended by the California Border Police before they are turned over to the federal government for deportation.

49 posted on 05/04/2005 1:14:13 PM PDT by DumpsterDiver
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To: John Jorsett
Nativo Lopez might have a stroke.

Thereby proving that there's an up side to everything, eh?

50 posted on 05/04/2005 1:19:26 PM PDT by DumpsterDiver
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To: John Jorsett
Nativo Lopez might have a stroke.

Poor Larry... Heh heh.

51 posted on 05/04/2005 1:23:49 PM PDT by StoneColdGOP ("The Republican Party is the France of politics" - Laz)
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To: StoneColdGOP

fantastic news, the tide is turning Bump!


52 posted on 05/04/2005 1:24:46 PM PDT by piceapungens
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To: SierraWasp; StoneColdGOP; kellynla; dalereed; doug from upland; Amerigomag; Carry_Okie; ...
Uh... Any federal grants, or funding for this "crying, un-met need?"

Not to worry - it'll pay for itself within the first year.

53 posted on 05/04/2005 1:36:14 PM PDT by azhenfud ("He who is always looking up seldom finds others' lost change...")
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To: DumpsterDiver

Immigration Impact
California State Population 35,484,453
Population Increase 1990-2000 4,111,627
Foreign-Born Population 8,864,255
Percent Foreign-Born 26.2%
Illegal Resident Population 2,200,0001
2025 Population Projection 49,285,000
(All numbers are from the U.S. Census Bureau unless otherwise noted.)
Additional Census Bureau, INS, and other immigration-related data are available for California.

Immigration-driven population growth is taking its toll on California, which has not just the greatest number of immigrants of any state but also more than twice as many as the next leading state. California is home to 28 percent of the nation’s immigrants (versus ten percent of the U.S.-born population).1

“California's population, currently at 36 million, likely will double within the lifetime of today’s schoolchildren … Demographic studies after the 2000 census revealed that from 1990 to 2000, immigrants and their children accounted not for just some, or even most, of California’s growth. They accounted for virtually all of it … [I]mmigration, more than any other factor, will probably determine how crowded and environmentally unsustainable California becomes in the years ahead.”2

Profile in Numbers - Population Growth

At 33.9 million people, California had the largest population gain of any state in the country during the past decade. Between 1990 and 2000, California’s population increased by 14 percent, adding 4.1 million people. The state’s population increase accounted for 13 percent of the country’s population increase between 1990 and 2000.

California’s population reached 35,934,000 on July 1, 2003, according to official population estimates released by the state Department of Finance.3

In 2000, California had 217 people per square mile (173 percent higher than the national average of 79.6), up from 191 people per square mile in 1990.4

Foreign-Born Population

California has the largest foreign-born population in the country. Between 1990 and 2000, California’s foreign-born population increased by 2.4 million people, bringing its total foreign-born population to 8.9 million.5 This is a 37 percent increase over the 1990 total foreign-born population of 6.5 million people.6

Immigrants now make up 27 percent of the state's population, well above the national rate of 12 percent, and for the first time, immigrants now make up a larger portion of California's population than newcomers from other states.7

About 15.9 million people in California are immigrants or the children of immigrants—nearly half of all state residents.8

Immigration and Your Community

FAIR has immigration data for local communities in California as well. See our full listing of pages about California for information about your locality.

Trends for the Future

The Census Bureau's middle series projection estimates that California's population will increase by 52 percent between 2000 and 2025, to 49 million.

In a Public Policy Institute poll released May 21, 82 percent said the state's projected population increase would make California a less desirable place to live.9

Impact on Environment and Quality of Life

Traffic: California already has five of the nation’s 20 most congested metro areas, and traffic jams statewide cost $21 billion a year in lost time and wasted fuel, according to the Texas Transportation Institute. The state’s official forecast says the number of miles driven on Los Angeles and Orange County roads will increase 40 percent by 2020. In San Bernardino County, driving will grow 86 percent by 2020, but officials say they can afford just 10 percent more highway capacity. In Sacramento, even with $15 billion in planned road improvements, congestion will increase by 400 percent in the next 20 years.10 In the San Fernando Valley area, the average morning rush-hour speed of 31 mph is expected to fall to 16 mph by 2025. 11

In Los Angeles, which has been the most traffic-choked urban area in the country for 16 years in a row, rush-hour drivers lose 90 hours in traffic delays each year. San Francisco comes in second, with 68 hours lost annually. 12 The total vehicle miles traveled in the region almost doubled in the last 20 years. 13

Disappearing open space: Population growth increases housing needs and generally causes greater development of open space and sprawl. Although California was once home to five million acres of wetlands, today only 454,000 acres survive—a loss of over 90 percent.14 The total number of housing units in California increased by over one million units during the 1990s.15,16 An area equivalent to one and a half times the size of Rhode Island was paved over in California during that period.17,18 The California Department of Housing and Community Development found that Los Angeles and Orange Counties do not have a sufficient amount of developable land in order to accommodate population growth in the next 20 years. 19 To meet the needs of its expanding population, California will need 4.3 million more housing units by 2020, says the Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy, guaranteeing that open space will continue to vanish.20

Farmland Loss: The Central Valley, which provides half of all fruits and vegetables to America, is the most threatened farm region in the country due to its massive population increase, according to American Farmland Trust. In the past 20 years, over two million people have moved to the region, shrinking cropland by 500,000 acres.21 The valley’s current population of 5.5 million is expected to grow to 12.5 million by 2040, reducing farmland by another one million to 2.5 million acres.22

Crowded housing: A rise in crowded housing often correlates with an increase in the number of foreign-born. 23, 24 California’s number of severely crowded households increased by 42 percent, to 1,048,000, in 2000. This was nine percent of all households. 25,26

California has the most crowded cities in the country, as measured by the percentage of packed households. Of the 50 cities with the highest percentage of crowded homes, 39 are in California. 27 Los Angeles County has the highest rate of severe crowding in the U.S., at 15 percent. 28 In the Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange County area, 12 percent of all households are considered severely crowded. 29 Santa Ana, which is more densely populated than New York or Los Angeles and has the nation’s second highest percentage of immigrant residents, 20 percent of housing falls below city codes. 30 Experts say the trend in California is being driven by immigrants who come for jobs but can’t afford the rents. Families move in together and often take boarders to help pay rents or mortgages. So many people living in single-family homes strains services such as trash collection, schools, and public safety.

Lack of affordable housing: Every year, California builds about 140,000 new places for people to live. Every year, that’s 80,000 short, say state housing officials. Only one in three Californians can afford a median-priced home of more than $250,000. The state’s Department of Housing and Community Development warns of extreme shortages in years ahead. 31

Nine of the ten least affordable housing markets in the nation are in California. 32 The National Low Income Housing Coalition says that California is the least affordable state for renters seeking two-bedroom apartments. 33 Both renters and homeowners in California devote a larger share of their incomes to housing than their counterparts in almost all states. Nearly half of California’s renters spend 30 percent or more of their incomes on rent. More than a fifth of all homeowners in the state spend more than 40 percent of their income on their mortgage and other housing costs. 34 California workers who earn minimum wage must work 126 hours per week in order to afford a two-bedroom unit at the area’s fair market rent. California’s housing wage (the amount a full-time worker must earn per hour to afford a two-bedroom apartment at fair market rent) is $21.18, but its minimum wage is $6.75. 35 It’s more than twice as difficult to afford a home in the state compared with the rest of the country, according to the California Association of Realtors. 36

Poverty: Poverty increased more in California than anywhere else in the country in the past decade. Most of the new pockets of poverty were in areas with large immigrant populations. 37 A RAND report finds: “A declining demand for low-skill workers combined with a continuing influx of low-skill immigrants has increased competition for low-skill jobs within the state and has hurt the earnings of some low-skill workers. It has also contributed to a growing disparity between the wages of foreign- and native-born workers.” 38

The plentiful supply of low-wage immigrant labor has lowered average incomes overall, says a labor specialist with the Public Policy Institute of California. 39 Southern California’s poverty is extending to suburbs long seen as refuges from urban problems. Riverside County saw a 63 percent rise in poverty and San Bernardino County a 51 percent increase. 40

In Los Angeles, where more than 40 percent of residents were born in another country, 22 percent live at the poverty level, up from 19 percent a decade earlier. Nearly one-third of the city’s residents say they can’t speak English “very well.” One in ten adults in the region has six years of education or less, 41 and 19 percent of those over age 24 have less than a ninth-grade education. 42

Nearly three-fifths of the poor children in California are immigrants. The poverty rate for immigrant children (29 percent) is higher than the rate for non-immigrant children (17 percent). 43

Health Care: In 1994’s Proposition 187, California voters banned the use of tax money to provide non-emergency care to illegal aliens, but a U.S. District Judge overturned the ballot proposition in 1999. California now provides both legal and illegal aliens with Emergency Medicaid, pre-natal care, and nursing home care. 44

As the state cuts its health care budget to try to make ends meet, the increase in uncompensated care for immigrants has forced some hospitals to reduce staff, increase rates, cut back services, and close maternity wards and trauma centers. In the last decade, 60 California emergency rooms have closed. 45 California hospital losses totaled $390 million in 2001, up from $325 million in 2000 and $316 million in 1999. The crisis reaches throughout the state, with 80 percent of emergency departments reporting losses. 46

One-third of the patients treated by the Los Angeles county health system each year are illegal aliens, according to county health officials. In 2002, the county spent $350 million providing health care to illegal aliens, according to the Department of Health Services. Officials said that if that money had been available, the county could have avoided the closure of 16 health clinics and possibly two hospitals, as well as cuts in services. 47

Scripps Memorial Hospital in Chula Vista estimates that about one quarter of patients who are uninsured and don’t pay their bills are illegal aliens. The hospital loses $7 million to $10 million in uncompensated costs.48 Regional Medical Center and Pioneers Memorial Hospital in El Centro, California lost over $1.5 million treating illegal immigrants in 2001. 49

Water: California officials say population growth is outrunning the water supply.50 Each newcomer to the state uses about 140 gallons of water every day.51 Water officials predict that by 2020 the state will be short by between 2.4 million and 6 million acre-feet of water (an acre-foot is about enough water to supply two typical families for a year).52 Under the worst-case scenario, cities could be forced to reduce their reliance on local ground water from 75 percent to 57 percent, making up the difference with higher-priced imported water, which will increase household water bills.53

“Every official California water plan projects a huge gap between need and supply,” says former Illinois Senator Paul Simon, author of a book on water shortages. “Symbolic of California’s problems is the story of Owens Lake. Early in this century, Los Angeles-area water authorities understood that they’d face problems as the population grew, so they purchased the third-largest body of water in the state, Owens Lake. Today it is called Owens Dry Lake, because L.A. has sucked it dry.”54

Air Pollution: Southern California has the worst air in the nation, and the state’s children have the country’s highest rates of asthma.55 In San Bernardino County, the cancer risk simply from breathing is 1,400 per million people—the EPA’s standard for acceptable cancer risk is one in a million.56 If the South Coast Air Quality Management District doesn't dramatically lower pollutions levels by 2006, the EPA could impose major sanctions on the region, including billions of dollars in lost highway funds, commuter restrictions, and shortened hours of operation for industry.57

Impact of Immigration on Education

Half of all children in California have at least one immigrant parent. Nearly one in ten are foreign-born themselves. 58 California spends almost $2.2 billion annually to educate illegal immigrant students in grades K-12—enough to pay the salaries of 41,764 teachers, or 14 percent of California's teachers. 59

California schools are the most crowded in the nation, and classes often exceed 35 students per teacher (18 is considered ideal). 60 And they will continue to grow: While school enrollment is projected to increase by only four percent nationally between 2001 and 2013, California is expecting a 16 percent increase. 61

Lack of space forces some students to attend class on school stages or in the gym. 62 Yet the state is still adding 100,000 new students each year. 63 The state Department of Education estimates that 19 new classrooms will need to be built every day, seven days a week, for the next five years. 64 The number of teachers will need to be doubled within ten years, meaning that 300,000 new educators will need to be hired. 65

In Los Angeles, where schools are so crowded that some have lengthened the time between classes to give students time to make their way through packed halls, 66 crowding in the next decade is projected to become so severe that some schools will have to hold double sessions (one in the morning and one in the afternoon) and Saturday classes. Even if the district builds 86 new schools, all 49 existing high schools will still have to adopt year-round schedules to keep pace with enrollment increases. 67

California’s Class Size Reduction program calls for adding thousands of new K-3 teachers, but finding classroom space has proved impossible in some areas. Many schools have had to give up libraries, art and music classrooms, and science and computer labs to create additional space. 68 The West Contra Costa school district is eliminating all sports, libraries, and counselors from its high schools to save money.69

Illegal Immigration in California 2,209,000 illegal aliens resided in California in 2000, according to the government’s immigration figures. Thirty-two percent of all illegal immigrants live in California, making the state home to the largest population of illegal immigrants in the country. The number of illegal aliens has increased ten percent since 1996 and 53 percent since 1992. 70

Illegal immigration cost California taxpayers $8 billion in 1996, the latest year for which a full figure is available. 71

California’s border counties incurred $79 million in emergency care for illegal aliens, the highest cost in the country. 72

San Diego County paid $50.3 million during 1999 for criminal justice services and medical care related to illegal aliens. Imperial County spent $5.4 million on illegal aliens in 1999, according to a study on behalf of the United States-Mexico Border Counties Coalition. It costs each person living legally in San Diego and Imperial counties about $18.56 per year to pay for the costs incurred by illegal immigration. 73 California incarcerates the most illegal immigrants in the nation. 74

State authorities requested compensation of $600 million from the federal government in FY ‘99 for the incarceration of illlegal aliens in state and local jails and prisons (under the federal State criminal alien Assistance Program, or SCAAP), but it rec3eived only $240 million in compensation, leaving $360 million in uncompensated costs to be borne by state taxpayers. (This is the latest year for which full data is available, but federal SCAAP payments have been shrinking overall.) San Bernardino County alone spends more than $2.6 million to house illegal immigrants in its jails.75


Endnotes
1 "Estimates of the Unauthorized Immigrant Population Residing in the United States: 1990-2000," Office of Policy Planning, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, January 2003.
2 Lee Green, "Infinite Ingress: A Human Wave Is Breaking Over California," Los Angeles Times, January 25, 2004.
3 "State Releases Population Figures," San Mateo County Times, February 13, 2004.
4 "Table 1. Land Area, Population, and Density for States and Counties: 1990," 1990 Census, U.S. Census Bureau.
5 "Table DP-1-4, Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2000," Census 2000, U.S. Census Bureau.
6 "Table DP-1-4, Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 1990," 1990 Census, U.S. Census Bureau.
7 American Community Survey, U.S. Census Bureau, September 2003.
8 "Table 4-1A, Nativity and Parentage of the Population for Regions, Divisions, and States: 2000," 2000 Current Population Survey, U.S. Census Bureau.
9 Martin Kasindorf, "Calif. Dreams Itself into a Corner," USA Today, June 18, 2001.
10 Jim Wasserman, "2020 Traffic Report: Growth Means More Time Behind the Wheel for Everyone," Associated Press, September 19, 2002.
11 Lisa Mascaro, "Looming Traffic Crisis," Daily News of Los Angeles, August 4, 2002.
12 Lisa Mascaro, "Worst in the Nation: L.A. Commuters Each Year Lose 90 Hours in Gridlock," Daily News of Los Angeles, October 1, 2003.
13 "Sprawl Hits the Wall," Southern California Studies Center, University of Southern California, Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, 2001.
14 Water Resources in California," U.S. Geological Survey, at http://water.wr.usgs.gov/wetland/ .
15 "Table DP-1-4, Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2000," Census 2000, U.S. Census Bureau.
16 "Table DP-1-4, Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 1990," 1990 Census, U.S. Census Bureau.
17 "Table 1—Surface Area of Nonfederal and Federal Land and Water Areas, by Sate and Year,".
18 Summary Report, 1997 National Resources Inventory, revised December 2000, U.S Department of Agriculture.
19 Between 1992 and 1997, an average of 110,000 acres were paved over each year. This is more than 170 square miles a year, or about 1,700 square miles between 1990 and 2000.
20 Southern California Studies Center, op. cit.
21 Martin Kasindorf, op. cit.
22 Daniel Wood, "The Limits of Sprawl: Massive Influx of People is Pushing California Toward a Meltdown," San Jose Mercury News, March 7, 2000.
23 Ibid.
24 Haya El Nasser, "U.S. Neighborhoods Grow More Crowded," USA Today, July 7, 2002.
25 Randy Capps, "Hardship Among Children of Immigrants: Findings from the 1999 National Survey of America’s Families," Urban Institute, 2001.
26 "Table DP-1-4, Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2000," Census 2000, U.S. Census Bureau.
27 "Table DP-1-4, Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 1990," 1990 Census, U.S. Census Bureau.
28 Sandra Marquez, "California Leads Nation in Number of People Per Household," Associated Press, June 15, 2002.
29 Haya El Nasser, "U.S. Neighborhoods Grow More Crowded," USA Today, July 2, 2002.
30 "Table DP-4, Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2000," American Factfinder , U.S. Census Bureau.
31 Jennifer Mena, "California: In Housing Density, It’s Too Close for Comfort," Los Angeles Times, September 15, 2003.
32 Jim Wasserman, "California Suffers Housing Shortage," The Columbian, July 22, 2001.
33 "Santa Cruz Now Has Nation’s Least-Affordable Housing," Associated Press, January 18, 2002.
34 Paul Chavez, "Californians’ Rising Rents, Minimum Wage Prompt Calls for Reform," Associated Press, October 4, 2001.
35 Stuart Silverstein, and Lee Romney, "Middle-Class Families Put in Economic Bind," Los Angeles Times, August 6, 2001.
36 "Out of Reach," National Low Income Housing Coalition, 2003.
37 Simon Avery, "State Housing Affordability Plummets in April," Associated Press, June 6, 2002.
38 Leonel Sanchez, "Poverty Expands Its Reach," San Diego Union-Tribune, May 18, 2003.
39 Kevin McCarthy and Georges Veruez, Immigration in a Changing Economy, RAND, 1997.
40 Don Lee, "L.A. County Jobs Surge Since ‘93, But Not Wages," Los Angeles Times, July 26, 1999.
41 Peter Hong, Marla Dickerson, and Nancy Cleeland, "Southland’s Average Family Income Dropped in the ‘90s," Los Angeles Times, May 15, 2002.
42 Nancy Cleeland, "L.A. Workers Held Back by Low Education Rate," Los Angeles Times, February 5, 2002.
43 Beth Barrett, "Poverty Rates Climb in Los Angeles, Census Figures Show," Los Angeles Daily News, May 15, 2002.
44 "The Changing Face of Child Poverty in California," National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University, August 2002.
45 "Medical Emergency: Costs of Uncompensated Care in Southwest Border Counties," US-Mexico Border Counties Coalition, September 2002.
46 "A System in Crisis, More ERs Shut; Losses Grow," California Medical Association, 2003.
47 Press Release, "CMA’s Annual ER Financial Report: Hospital Losses Reached $390 Million in 2001," California Medical Association, February 27, 2003.
48 Charlie LeDuff, "Los Angeles County Weighs Cost of Illegal Immigration," New York Times, May 21, 2003.
49 Emily Bazar, "Border Hospitals Claim Money Ills," Sacramento Bee, February 8, 2003.
50 Jerry Seper, "Mexican Medics Take Sick to U.S.," Washington Times, December 12, 2002.
51 Kathleen Sweeney, "California Water Officials Plan for Future Droughts," Daily News of Los Angeles, January 27, 2002.
52 Seema Mehta, "O.C. Sees Cheap Water Era Ending," Los Angeles Times, September 29, 2002.
53 Kathleen Sweeney, op. cit.
54 Seema Mehta, op. cit.
55 "Are We Running Dry?" Parade, August 23, 1998.
56 Carla Rivers, "Study Examines Changing Picture of Health Coverage for Children," Los Angeles Times, November 19, 2003.
57 Andrew Silva, "Bad Air Comes Back," San Bernardino Sun, September 6, 2003.
58 Conor Friedersdorf, "AQMD to Weight Pollutant Proposal," San Bernardino Sun, July 9, 2003.
59 "Check Points," Urban Institute, September 2, 2000.
60 Breaking the Piggy Bank: How Illegal Immigration is Sending Schools Into the Red, Federation for American Immigration Reform, August 2003.
61 Thomas Hargrove, "U.S. School Building Boom Fails to Meet Need," Scripps Howard News Service, March 8, 2001. "Projections of Education Statistics to 2013," National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education.
62 Thomas Hargrove, Ibid.
63 Ellen Lee, "McGrath Provides Answer to Space Question," Contra Costa Times, June 12, 2001.
64 Lee Green, "Infinite Ingress: A Human Wave Is Breaking Over California," Los Angeles Times, January 25, 2004.
65 "UC Teacher Recruitment and Preparation," Office of the President, University of California, at http://www.ucop.edu/ucophome/commserv/FS0001TeachTrain.pdf .
66 Michelle Locke, "Running Out of Room at the Hotel California?" Associated Press, May 26, 2001.
67 Harrison Sheppard, "Crowding Becoming Crisis," Daily News of Los Angeles, February 18, 2001.
68 "The Debate Over Class Size," Education World, February 23, 1998.
69 Erika Hayasaki and Patrick Dillon, "School District Shuts Out Sports," Los Angeles Times, March 11, 2004.
70 "Estimates of the Unauthorized Immigrant Population Residing in the United States: 1990-2000," Office of Policy Planning, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, January 2003.
71 The Net National Costs of Immigration: Fiscal Effects of Welfare Restorations to Legal immigrants, Donald Huddle, October 30, 1997.
72 Robert Gehrke, "Emergency Care for Undocumented Immigrants Costs $200 Million, Study Finds," Associated Press, September 27, 2002.
73 Jo Moreland, "Study: County Pays $50M Annually in Border Costs," North County Times, February 6, 2002.
74 Joe Cantlupe, "Higher Reimbursements Sought for Jailing of Criminal Aliens," San Diego Union-Tribune, March 26, 2003.
75 Claire Vitucci and Bettye Wells Miller, "California Highways Hit Hard," Press-Enterprise, February 5, 2002.


54 posted on 05/04/2005 1:46:00 PM PDT by azhenfud ("He who is always looking up seldom finds others' lost change...")
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To: StoneColdGOP
Sounds like an excellent use for...

... the citizen militia.

As envisioned by the Founders. Not the Republic of Texas types. The Governor of each State has always had the option of mustering the militia for drill. Sounds like an excellent opportunity to restore a tradition that should never have fallen out of use.

55 posted on 05/04/2005 1:57:55 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (Never underestimate the will of the downtrodden to lie flatter.)
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To: azhenfud
Thanks, but you're preaching to the choir. It's almost impossible to live here in California and not know the costs of illegal aliens.
56 posted on 05/04/2005 2:04:51 PM PDT by DumpsterDiver
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To: onyx

Howdy Stranger! Yes it is great news. I can't wait to see it become a reality.


57 posted on 05/04/2005 2:38:35 PM PDT by South40 (Amnesty for ILLEGALS is a slap in the face to the USBP!)
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To: onyx; South40

U.S. Constitution Article 1 Section 8 Clause 15:

"The Congress shall have Power to provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections

and repel Invasions;"


U.S. Constitution Article 4 Section 4:

"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,

and shall protect each of them against Invasion;"


58 posted on 05/04/2005 2:42:01 PM PDT by Travis McGee (----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
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To: StoneColdGOP
I used to believe the Federal Government should have two priorities, delivering the mail and protecting the borders. I guess it's time for states to address the border issue now that my mail carrier speaks only spanish.
59 posted on 05/04/2005 2:48:54 PM PDT by ScreamingFist (Peace through Ignorance)
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To: StoneColdGOP
Sounds like a good idea to me.

I don't agree.This is a job for the federal government.They will come in through AZ or NM or TX and still find their way to California.I think Schwarzenegger should instruct Californians to withhold all income tax payments to the federal government until they do their damn job.

60 posted on 05/04/2005 3:04:01 PM PDT by kennyo
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