California Conservative

Sac Bee reports: “In a typical year, California’s population increases by more than a half-million, the state’s employers create a quarter-million jobs, and developers build about 200,000 new housing units.”

“Growth of that immensity - year after year - creates equally immense demands for water, transportation, education, retail business, recreation and myriad other private and public services and facilities.

Coping with those demands is, albeit largely unacknowledged, the major issue facing political decision-makers at all levels.”

The significant inflow of illegal aliens into California and across the U.S. has become recent headline news. However, besides the social and economic consequences, it appears there are other serious ramifications to consider. Environmentalists, take note.

Not just California. The future of America is at stake.

UPDATE: Sac Bee also reports: “New federal funds to help California hospitals cover the costs of treating illegal immigrants have many in the state’s medical industry puzzling over how to ask patients about citizenship without making them afraid to seek care.”

“Earlier this month, federal health officials announced plans to spend $1 billion nationwide over the next four years on emergency care for undocumented patients. California will get more than any other state - $71 million in fiscal 2005 - in the first federal effort to cover costs for patients who are not U.S. citizens.

To receive the money, hospitals must ask patients a series of questions designed to determine whether they are in the country illegally. Among other things, patients would be asked if they have a foreign birth certificate or driver’s license, a border-crossing card from Mexico or a U.S. Social Security number.”

What the heck is wrong with our federal government? Officials are downplaying if not outright criticizing the (very successful) efforts of The Minutemen Project, while failing themselves to legislate and provide for greation protection of our borders.

It’s obvious that spending more taxpayer dollars to offer free medical care for undocumented patients isn’t going to curb the flow of illegal immigrants. Maybe the government should be given less of our money to spend.

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Immigration: Is The Pot Still Melting?
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