California is facing a catastrophic $40 billion budget deficit.
How could California politicians have allowed this to happen?
The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) issued a study of the fiscal cost of illegal immigration to Californians in 2004. Nobody listened.
At that time, the cost to the state's taxpayers was $10.54 billion a year, FAIR says. That estimate included the cost of educating the children of illegal aliens - both those illegally in the country and those born here - in K-12 public schools, emergency medical care, and incarceration of criminal aliens.
Those costs are now approaching $13.1 billion a year, FAIR estimates. There are now 3,200,000 illegal aliens living in California, a 10-percent increase over the past five years.
California Budget Meltdown Would be Lessened by Combating Increases in Illegal Immigration
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