Posted on 10/02/2007 3:18:00 AM PDT by T.L.Sink
LA County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich has announced that a new report shows illegal aliens and their families collected over $35 million in welfare and food stamp allocations in July. In the report, illegals are said to have collected nearly $20 million in welfare assistance for July 2007 and an additional $15 million in monthly food stamp allocations for an estimated annual cost of $440 million. "Illegal immigration continues to have a devastating impact on Los Angeles County taxpayers," said Antonovich. "In addition to $220 million for public safety and $400 million for healthcare, the $440 million in welfare allocations bring the total cost to County taxpayers that exceeds $1 billion a year - this does NOT include the skyrocketing cost of education."
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I’ve read that 25% of the inmates in CA prisons are illegals. Add to that the escalating social welfare costs, the bankrupt school districts, the insolvent hospitals and the huge human and economic costs brought to us by the drug cartel - and at the present rate there won’t be that much left to destroy in a few years.
That’s 1 billion in just one county. Multiply that by however many counties there are in the US. I think I’ll pick my own lettuce.
Me too. By the way, I heard some agricultural economists on Lou Dobbs who said the price of lettuce might increase by 20 cents per head without illegal farm workers. Even worse, as long as agribusiness can hire cheap laborers they’ll never make the capital investment necessary to automate harvesting - which, in the long term, would make all fruits and vegetables even LESS expensive for us than they are now!
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