Welfare Tab for Children of Illegal Immigrants Estimated at $600M in L.A. County

foxnews.com ^ | Jan 19 2011 | Fox News

[NoLibZone]

Welfare benefits for the children of illegal immigrants cost America's largest county more than $600 million last year, according to a local official keeping tabs on the cost.

Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich released new statistics this week showing social spending for those families in his county rose to $53 million in November, putting the county government on track to spend more than $600 million on related costs for the year -- up from $570 million in 2009.

Antonovich arrived at the estimate by factoring in the cost of food stamps and welfare-style benefits through a state program known as CalWORKS. Combined with public safety costs and health care costs, the official claimed the "total cost for illegal immigrants to county taxpayers" was more than $1.6 billion in 2010.

"Not including the hundreds of millions of dollars for education," he said in a statement.

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"The problem is illegal immigration. ... Their parents evidently immigrated here in order to get on social services," Antonovich spokesman Tony Bell said. "We can no longer afford to be HMO to the world."

[NoLibZone]

Dem vote buys effect women and children the hardest.

[forgotten man]

I am suprised that Mike Antonivich has not been beheaded yet for stating this obvious fact of life in California.

[jmacusa]

“We can no longer afford to be the HMO to the world’’. The solution is simple. Turn off the tap for the illegals and they stop coming.

[A_Former_Democrat]

And I will bet this is grossly understated

[Da Coyote]

Now we know where we can cut the 1st $600 million.

Oh, forgot, we’re dealing with liberals.

Cut the cops, cut the firemen, cut aid for real citizens, cut anything but our prime source of (illegal) votes.

I hate democrats, really, really hate them.

May they all be forced to sleep with Barney Frank.

[magna carta]

If you live in Houston and you just can’t take it anymore please visit:
www.stopthemagnet.com

[2ndDivisionVet]

OVER HALF A BILLION IN JUST IN ONE COUNTY?! I know it's a big, populous county, but still! I lived in Chino, in San Bernadino county next door, which is the world's largest county in size, when I was a kid.

[org.whodat]

When the government starts revoking the bogus birth certificates of the anchor babies and replaces them with certificate of live birth for their home country the migration to their home country will start.

[El Cid]

Combined with public safety costs and health care costs, the official claimed the "total cost for illegal immigrants to county taxpayers" was more than $1.6 billion in 2010.
"Not including the hundreds of millions of dollars for education," he said in a statement.

We're talking one county in California. Granted it is a big county, but it is one county.

[El Cid]

You beat me by 2 minutes (Post 8)...

[NoLibZone]

"We're talking one county in California. Granted it is a big county, but it is one county."

Good and important point.

Imagine if we could unburden the eniter State and nation form this debt.

We could feed the poor.

Help the dolphins.

Maybe even reduce our debt!

[Pollster1]

It’s a shame they have no way of balancing their budget.

[roadcat]

Could have fixed a lot of potholes with that money. What a stinkin’ waste.

[NoLibZone]

"We're talking one county in California. Granted it is a big county, but it is one county."

Good and important point.

Imagine if we could unburden the entire state and nation from this debt.

We could feed the poor.

Help the dolphins.

Maybe even reduce our debt!

[RC2]

Totally stop spending money on the illegals and they'll leave. If they get sick and go to a hospital, get them stabilized and deport them.

[Right Cal Gal]

Illegals are responsible single-handedly for the closure of many emergency rooms in California, and most of us are forced to carry “uninsured motorist” because they’re killing and maiming us and then can’t be found when our insurance companies go looking for them. Not to mention the murder and other crime in L.A., S.F. and the other “sanctuary cities” and voter fraud to keep the libs in power. If there was any state crying for a Voter ID law, it’s this one, but there’s no way in Hades the legislature will pass one. We need a referendum on the ballot passing the law.

Californians are not going to pony up more taxes to pay for this State until the tap of goodies to the illegals stops.

[Leisler]

"These are illegals costing LA 2 billion a year that Americans wouldn't cost them"

John McCain.....

[El Cid]

Yeah, maybe the dolphins should help us out. Flipper would be able to figure out the solution to this problem without breaking a sweat (if dolphins sweat).
The critters in Sacramento and Washington DC will keep shifting chairs around on the deck of the Titanic...

[McGavin999]

Dems have yelled “tax the rich” so much that so many productive people have left CA they are now saying “the rich” are those earning $50,000.