Illegal Immigration: 10 Points from Los Angeles Times
1. 40% of all workers in L.A. County (L.A. County has 10 million people) are working for cash and not paying taxes. This was because they are predominantly illegal immigrants, working without a green card.
2. 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.
3. 75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens.
4. Over 2/3’s of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal whose births were paid for by taxpayers.
5. Nearly 25% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.
6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages.
7. The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal aliens from south of the border.
8. Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.
9. 21 radio stations in L.A. are Spanish speaking.
10. In L.A.County 5.1 million people speak English. 3.9 million speak Spanish (10.2 million people in L.A.County).
(All 10 from the Los Angeles Times)
Less than 2% of illegal aliens are picking our crops but 29% are on welfare.
http://www.cis.org
Over 70% of the United States annual population growth (and over 90% of California, Florida, and New York) results from immigration.
The cost of immigration to the American taxpayer in 1997 was a NET (after subtracting taxes immigrants pay) $70 BILLION a year, [Professor Donald Huddle, Rice University].
The lifetime fiscal impact (taxes paid minus services used) for the average adult Mexican immigrant is a NEGATIVE
29% of inmates in federal prisons are illegal aliens.
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Resa LaRu Kirkland (aka WARChick) is an avid military historian, with her main focus being on the Korean War and its forgotten warriors. She is a contributor to CaliforniaConservative.org and you can read more of her writing here and here.
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May 1st, 2006 at 2:44 pm
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May 1st, 2006 at 11:55 pm
Very useful stats.
November 27th, 2006 at 2:28 pm
rephrase your stats!
They are rather insulting and degrading and makes the publisher seem ignorant as hell!
April 17th, 2007 at 11:46 am
uhm…how about sourcing where all this supposed factual data came from? Just simply saying that it came from the LA Times does not qualify it as being valid.