I've been looking for information on the costs of illegal immigration. Interesting, as recently as February 2, according to the LA Times, the state of California was begging the feds for money to help defray the costs of incarcerating illegal immigrants who have broken the law -- or other laws apart from the immigration laws. And according to the same story, the Comrade wanted to eliminate federal payments for this incarceration:
LA TimesI don't know. Does "bizarre" kinda cover it?
February 01, 2010
By Richard Simon
Reporting from Washington — California stands to receive more than $1 billion from President Obama's budget plan to help cover healthcare for the poor and the cost of jailing illegal immigrants.
The budget proposal includes $25 billion in additional Medicaid funds for states, of which California is projected to receive $1.5 billion. States received a funding boost in the economic stimulus bill that Congress passed one year ago. Obama's budget plan would extend the funding through mid-2011.
A spokesman for Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said a bipartisan group of senators would be working to increase that funding.
Still, the White House's inclusion of the money is an acknowledgment of the bipartisan support in Congress for the prison funding; last year, lawmakers rejected Obama's effort to eliminate the payments.
Maybe the Comrade believes that illegal immigrants who break additional laws shouldn't be put in jail. What the hell? They get free health care. The Comrade doesn't seem to want to do anything about their law-breaking as it relates to immigration law. Apparently, he just didn't want to pay for it last year.
But wait! Maybe now he's found another use for defending illegal immigrants! Whaddaya think?
Clearly, the Comrade and his minions -- Napolitano, Holder -- are hoping to inspire anger over this issue. For one thing, their knee-jerk response is to threaten to sue Arizona. For another thing, they both claim they haven't read the bill, which is probably just a lame cop-out so they don't have to debate the issue. They just want to see fireworks.
Exactly what are the benefits of inflaming the illegal population? They can't vote.... yet.... but San Francisco legislators are looking at giving illegals voting rights. (One way to keep their jobs?)
Perhaps the Comrade and the democrats in general are running out of abused and disaffected and disenfranchised American citizens to exalt to Victim Status, so now they're searching off-shore for people to feel sorry for, spend money on, and use as pawns to fan liberal guilt.
I don't know. However, it is patently absurd to claim that any nation has "no right" to protect its borders and control the influx of immigrants. It's insane to claim that, conversely, non-citizens have "a right" to come and go across the border as they please.
For Mexico's President Calderon to stand up beside the Butthead-in-Chief at a press conference and whine that Mexican citizens are being abused by Arizonans is actually laughable.
Looking for statistics, found a study done by Pew in 2008 about Hispanics in the USA. Pew says there were 11.9 million Mexican illegals here that year, and also that 11% of the Mexicans born in Mexico now live in the USA.
Rather than complain about how badly the USA might conceivably treat illegal aliens, President Calderon might more profitably spend his time figuring out ways to keep his people at home. But I suspect that having the USA next door is something of a safety valve for Mexico. When life gets too grim and hopeless under the yoke and cost of unbridled political corruption, those who would otherwise revolt and try to correct Mexico can simply slip across the border.
And while Calderon's indignation may be laughable, the real, genuine disgrace is some jerk from the State Department actually commiserating with representatives from Red China about the possibility that Arizona police might inconvenience illegal immigrants in the US. I'm sure Red China has absolutely no grip at all on the problem of people clamoring to enter its borders. I suppose that guy from Red China was secretly wondering why the USA doesn't force the illegals into dumping melamine into pet food products, or spray-painting infant toys with lead-based paint. I mean, what the heck? If you've got all these people flooding across the border, take advantage. Put them to work in your Peoples' Factories.
And the brainless bobble-head from the US State Department smiles and agrees.
My God, this regime is lame. And embarrassing. Not for exposing the alleged "faults" of the USA, but for its inability to even grasp the issues. It's so quick to sell-out the USA. None of the Comrade's merry marxists are worthy of being street sweepers, let alone policy-makers.
All the Comrade really cares about is promoting the Communist Manifesto. Breaking eggs to make omelets, as it were. And he has no qualms whatsoever about recruiting illegal immigrants to help him do this.
The real question is -- Why do illegal Mexican immigrants go along with that program? They won't gain anything from it. The Comrade is collapsing the US economy. Smaller pie, smaller pieces for everyone. In 10 years, the Mexicans will be much better off at home.
Save the republic.
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