🚀 go-pugleaf

On Aug 15, 6:54 pm, AnAmericanCitizen <NoAmne...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>         Los Angeles County's $48 Million Monthly Anchor Baby Tab
>
> Taxpayers in the nation’s most populous county dished out nearly $50 million in a
> single month to cover only the welfare costs of illegal immigrants, representing a
> whopping $10 million increase over the same one-month period two years ago.
>
> In June 2009 alone Los Angeles County spent $48 million ($26 million in food stamps
> and $22 million in welfare) to provide just two of numerous free public services to
> the children of illegal aliens, which will translate into an annual tab of nearly
> $600 million for the cash-strapped county.
>
> The figure doesn’t even include the exorbitant cost of educating, medically treating
> or incarcerating illegal aliens in the sprawling county of about 10 million
> residents. Los Angeles County annually spends more than $1 billion for those combined
> services, including $400 million for healthcare and $350 million for public safety.
>
> The recent single-month welfare figure was obtained from the county’s Department of
> Social Services and made public by a county supervisor (Michael Antonovich) who
> assures illegal immigration continues to have a “catastrophic impact on Los Angeles
> County taxpayers.” The veteran lawmaker points out that 24% of the county’s total
> allotment of welfare and food stamp benefits goes directly to the children of illegal
> aliens—known as anchor babies—born in the United States.  
>
> A former fifth-grade history teacher who has served on the county’s board for nearly
> three decades, Antonovich has repeatedly come under fire for publicizing statistics
> that confirm the devastation illegal immigration has had on the region. Antonovich
> represents a portion of the county that is roughly twice the size of Rhode Island and
> has about 2 million residents.
>
> Numerous other reports have documented the enormous cost of illegal immigration on a
> national level. Just last year a renowned economist, who has thoroughly researched
> the impact of illegal immigration, published a book breaking down the country’s $346
> billion annual cost to educate, jail, medically treat and incarcerate illegal aliens
> throughout the U.S.

Why are we tolerating these invaders?

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