Posted on 04/26/2006 6:47:36 AM PDT by IrishMike
Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich said Tuesday that he will tell Congress that close to 100,000 children of illegal immigrants in the county collect $276 million in annual welfare benefits. Antonovich, who is in Washington with the Board of Supervisors, will meet with congressional representatives and provide information about the impact of illegal immigration on county services.
Antonovich said 98,703 children of 57,458 undocumented parents received Cal-WORKS welfare checks in January, or a total of 156,161 recipients.
"If incorporated into a city, it would be the sixth-largest city in Los Angeles County," Antonovich said in a statement Tuesday. "While legal immigration is a positive influence on our culture and economy ... in public safety, health care and public social services, illegals cost county taxpayers nearly three quarters of a billion dollars a year."
Shirley Christensen, spokeswoman for the Department of Public Social Services, said her office provided the data to Antonovich.
"What I want to make clear is the children we aid are legally eligible to be aided," Christensen said. "They are the children of undocumented parents, but they themselves are not undocumented. They were born in this country."
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but but but..they pay taxes
But if not for illegals, how would Los Angelinos get their restaurant tables bussed, ditches dug and their lawns mowed for a mere $10 an hour? Sounds like a bargain for a mere 3/4 billion dollars a year in taxpayer money/sarc.
OUT !!! Not one damn dollar to any of these. You want the illegals out, stop subsidizing them.
...yes deary, you've made that perfectly clear and thats why laws must change, Thank you.
I have a cousin that teaches first grade in the LAUSD. There are NO white kids in her class, only Mexican kids. Every single one of them get public assistance one way or the other.
And how much more money is spent educating these children of illegal immigrants ?
THANK YOU WASHINGTON, DC. The gift that just keeps on "giving" er, TAKING.
You want something that will shut illegal aliens out of the country, just take their kids.
"the children we aid are legally eligible to be aided"
Thanks to the wonderful anchor baby provision of the 14th Amendment!
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Why are ILLEGAL ALIENS allowed to collect welfare benefits in the first place? All the minoroties working at the welfare offices need to be FIRED!!
Anchorbrats an anchor around the neck of America WEIGHING IT DOWN!!
Nothing will change until California taxpayers start rebelling, demonstrating and refusing to accept this crap any longer!!
Come on Californians you can do it!
I did my internship at LAC USC med center in the early 80's. Illegals would wait until they were "crowning" ( ie the head was showing) before coming in to deliver. We used to joke that we made more citizens the a federal judge. It's no joke anymore.
How the hell is this LEGAL for ILLEGALs to even apply for this money?
How about letting young men between the ages of 12 and 18 learn a trade instead of hanging out loafing all summer and getting into trouble? Unfortunately, because of labor laws and laibility, no building contractor will hire young men that age - which creates a ready pool of jobs for illegals and a pool of unemployed delinquents.
Dream on. The American people by and large have lost their will to fight for such causes. They'll continue to accept what they're told to do by the great shepherd who knows all to well how to control the sheeple.
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