Congressman Gary Miller (R, Calif.) has calculated that Mexifornia ALONE is spending $10.5 BILLION a year in direct costs supporting its ILLEGAL aliens. That is > half of the state's budget shortfall. The indirect costs like bilingual dysfunction and barrio blight are incalculable, but surely immense. Still sound like "cheap labor" anyone?!
Taxes are so high that producers are abandoning the state, leaving behind the Hispanic takers, who are about to predominate. But Mexifornia does NOT have a revenue problem-- it has a monstrous SPENDING problem. Sound familiar?
Mexifornia IS our canary in the coal mine...but too few see that the canary has already died there. Poor, ignorant, culturally disparate, low aptitude Hispanics will RUIN US!
Nothing about illegal immigration quite adds up.
Conservative corporate employers still support the idea of imported, cheap, non-union labor -- in a strange alliance with liberal activists who want the larger blocs of Latino voters that eventually follow massive influxes from Latin America.
Yet how conservative are businesses that in the past flouted federal law -- and how liberal are activists who undermined the bargaining power of American minimum-wage, entry-level workers, many of them minorities?
The remedies for illegal immigration under discussion are just as incoherent. If the government now plans to offer some foreign nationals a pathway to citizenship, does...
Federal Reserve Bank's socio-economist's study of immigrants...some immigrants are FAR WORSE for America than others...
https://www.dallasfed.org/research/indepth/2004/id0401a.html
excerpt (released in 2006)--
Immigrant Assimilation: Why Worry?
Conclusion:
Worrying about immigrant assimilation boils down to worrying about Mexican immigration. Non-Hispanic immigrants consistently OUTPERFORM natives, even after three generations here.
Meanwhile, Mexican immigrants make up the largest and least educated immigrant group. ...they STILL lag behind in education and wage outcomes even after 3 generations here.