On Sun, 25 May 2008 18:18:20 -0700, Gunner Asch
wrote:

It isn't that people in charge don't know what to do. It's that their hands
have been tied by the law.

Now its up to them to start trimming.

And close the borders and stop entitlements to illegals.

Care to tell the folks what the percentage of our elementary schools
are the children of Illegal aliens?
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The cost to educate the children of "undocumented workers" is
simply the tip of a "cost externalization" iceberg, and shows in
a small way just how expensive "cheap labor" is, when *ALL* the
costs are added up, not just what the employer pays.

In the case of education, the basic problem reduces to "It costs
a bazillion dollars to educate the children of the undocumented
workers, but it will cost 2 bazillion dollars to *NOT* educate
the children of the undocumented workers (assuming they remain
the in US), and it will cost 3 bazillion dollars to implement the
massive deportations (and a Constitutional amendment to eliminate
the automatic citizenship of anyone born on US territory) to
remove them. This is like the "choice" offered the prisoner at
his trial: "would you rather be shot, hung or beheaded."

The reason that so many businesses hire "undocumented workers" is
because the employers manage to fob off most of the actual
additional costs on the other taxpayers, either through higher
taxes, and/or decreased access to governmental services, and/or
reduced community "quality of life."

In the case of the children of "undocumented workers," there is
not only the cost for the additional "standard" teaching
resources, but governmental mandates to provide expensive
additional services such as ESL [English as a Second Language],
and interim instruction in their native language, which in many
cases are far beyond the basic instructional costs. Because of
the socio-cultural isolation/alienation of the students, any
behavioral problems or anti-social tendencies are amplified and
exacerbated, requiring yet more taxpayer funded resources and
services. Note that any children born in the US are
automatically US citizens.

The failure of government to proactively respond to the
immigration problems on the one hand, combined with the demand
for cheap [below free market value] labor in the private sector
has impaled the citizens on the horns of a very nasty dilemma,
which has only bad, worse and worst solutions/outcomes.

No one wants to see mass deportations and "ethnic cleansing" on
the scale required to correct the problem at this point, but the
situation cannot and will not continue either, as it is simply
not economically possible, even though California is one of the
top economic areas in the entire world. The political-economic
resources simply do not exist to maintain public services such as
law enforcement, public health [think emergency rooms, potable
water and sewage] and free public education for the majority of
citizens and residents at the current levels.

The majority of citizens and legal residents are, understandably
enough, highly opposed to the significant reductions in their and
their families "standard of living" and "quality of life," to the
[ever decreasing] levels that are economically sustainable/viable
in the long term.

One of the worst aspects of uncontrolled immigration is the
continual introduction of police state measures such as identity
cards, residency permits, occupancy permits [e.g. restricting
single family residences/apartments to single family occupancy],
work permits, internal passports and travel documents, etc. in an
attempt to at least moderate the immediate problems.
Unfortunately, these repressive and intrusive measures have had
no measurable effect, so we now have the worst of both worlds.


Unka' George [George McDuffee]
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He that will not apply new remedies,
must expect new evils:
for Time is the greatest innovator: and
if Time, of course, alter things to the worse,
and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better,
what shall be the end?

Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman.
Essays, "Of Innovations" (1597-1625).