... Nation group:
...Illinois and California are poised to become America’s Greece. Both have out of control spending problems. They have raised taxes and regulations to the point where businesses and the wealthy are fleeing those states as fast as they can.
...We need to break up both California and Illinois into smaller states.
Why not? There is no such thing as too big to fail, and it applies to...
No, California won't be declaring its own, state-level amnesty for illegal aliens. While Assemblyman Felipe Fuentes and others are trying to put an initiative on the ballot ("California Opportunity and Prosperity Act") that would attempt to declare such an amnesty (link), such an initiative has nearly zero chance of passing.
Some notes:
1. Fuentes' plan would be an initiative. That means that he...
... frustrations to University of California regents Monday about rising tuition costs and the use of force against their demonstrations.
More than 50 UC Davis students signed up for a chance to have their say for - one minute each - during public comment at the regents' teleconference.
...At one point in the teleconference, a UC finance staffer in San Francisco attempted to give a financial report...
California governor Jerry Brown has signed the second, even worse part of what's called the state DREAM Act (AB 131).
The new law will let illegal aliens deprive some American citizens of college, as even the Los Angeles Times admitted [1]. The bill Brown signed is a slap in the face to not just U.S. citizens, but legal immigrants as well: Jerry Brown supports taking very valuable resources (...
... below has a 2006 speech from California state Assemblyman Gil Cedillo in support of a resolution supporting the "Great American Boycott" immigration march. The speech was discussed here five years ago, but since it appears to have been deleted from its original location at democrats.sen.ca.gov I uploaded my cached copy.
1. On the video, Cedillo supports comprehensive immigration reform and...
... in the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. The Los Angeles Times headline says it all: "In Gold Cup final, it's red, white and boo again/Mexico rallies for a 4-2 win over U.S. behind overwhelming support at Rose Bowl. In what other country would the visitors have home-field advantage?" [1].
Since it's obviously not clear to enough of our leaders that we face a growing "Chicano Quebec" inside the...
In May 2011, Yolo (California) County Sheriff Ed Prieto held a press conference with others [1] expressing his opposition to the Department of Homeland Security's Secure Communities immigration enforcement program. Prieto admits he's consulted with a foreign government about a domestic issue, he may have indicated that racial solidarity underlies his opposition to the DHS program, and he wants to...
A California law lets illegal aliens get in-state tuition rates which, as described on the DREAM Act page, allows illegal aliens to deprive some citizens of college or get a better rate on college than some citizens. The US Supreme Court earlier today refused to hear a challenge to California's law [1]. That has the effect of allowing California to continue giving citizens of other countries who...
... Court has ordered the state of California to release at least 30,000 state prisoners in order to reduce overcrowding (link, excerpt at [1]). What you probably won't hear from many others is the role that massive immigration - especially of the illegal variety - has played in this matter.
According to a Public Policy Institute of California study, "[i]n 2005, there were 28,279 foreign born adults...
... like to play on the people of California: whine about the problems California faces in order to push one part of their agenda, while ignoring how another part of their agenda caused the problems in the first place. See the fiscal con page for a detailed description and several examples.
The latest pundit to pull the Fiscal Con is George Will of the Washington Post, who offers "Golden State blues...
... two-tier society is a fact of California life" by Dan Walters of the Sacramento Bee is apparently not on their site any more. I'm copying it from here because it needs to be preserved as an example of the California Establishment realizing the problems they helped create:
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Sixteen years ago, two academic researchers took note of the powerful economic and social forces that were just...
The video below is a shocking new ad from a GOP politician in which an actress says "we in the majority - non-Jewish white people - should stick together". That's followed by the Republican politician chuckling in agreement. In fact, the politician even announces at the end that he strongly approves of the message, and the ad is entitled "Stick Together". This shocking new ad - reminiscent of ads...
California state Assemblyman Tom Ammiano [1] has introduced a bill [2] that seeks to hamper the Department of Homeland Security's Secure Communities program in California. That program is Janet Napolitano's answer to 287g: those who are booked into local jails are checked to see if they're deportable. Illegal immigration fans complain that the program catches mostly non-criminals.
Under Ammiano's...
... Arizona (62 percent); Texas, California, and New York (61 percent); Pennsylvania (59 percent); Minnesota and Oregon (56 percent); and Colorado (55 percent).
Per this:
Some immigrant-advocacy groups criticized the report, saying it was engineered to inflame anti-immigrant sentiment by making an unequal comparison between immigrant households, which tend to be low-income, and all native households...
... also a cruel joke, especially on California.
Like other libertarians, one of their policies - open borders [1] - renders all of their other policies moot. The loose/open borders they support sharply reduces the chances that we'll ever have limited government because those being allowed to immigrate to the U.S. in one way or another simply don't support limited government. And, anyone who lives...
... articles.latimes.com/keyword/pollution-eastern-europe). This is California, not the DDR. And, of course, the whole issue of the Delta Smelt is much more complicated than the mayor lets on (economist.com/node/14699639). Nothing in Reason's report even hints at the level of complexity involved in that issue.
Another person Reason uses to say the things they'd like to say is Chris Collins of the...
... budgets is no longer available.
In California, with a budget cut of 8 percent across the board, the community colleges turned away 140,000 students last year. In Colorado, the waiting lists for nursing programs at some of the state's community colleges have grown to as long as 3.5 years. In May, New York's community colleges stopped accepting applications for the fall semester and added students...
Yesterday the California Supreme Court ruled [1] that illegal aliens and others can receive the in-state tuition rate at California colleges provided that they've attended California high schools for three or more years. They thus upheld AB 540, also known as the "California DREAM Act".
Both of those are anti-American bills that allow illegal aliens to take college educations away from U.S....
... Simon of Pajamas Media offers "Is California Hopeless?" [1]. It's yet another article by fiscal conservatives and free market types in which they fail to account for the highly negative role that their support for massive immigration has played in bringing California to its current state. And, not only does he fail to reveal his ideology's role in heavily damaging California, but he even wants...
... number one priority is getting Californians back to work, keeping good, new jobs in California, and then second is fixing our K through 12 education system. If we do not turn around our education system, there will be no hope for the children of California, and many Latinos live in communities where the high school graduation rate is 50 percent or even less. So I am deeply focused on two things...
... Brown / Meg Whitman debate in the California governor's race: I might have ended up defenestrating the TV. The debate provides a very disturbing preview of the Quebec-style future of California and ultimately the U.S.
A transcript is here, and I encourage everyone to read it and point out additional things wrong with it in comments.
The debate was put on by Univision; hosted by the vile, far-...
... John Yoo offers "How to Save California: Outlaw Public Employee Unions" [1]. That's definitely an idea worth considering, but Yoo oddly enough is ignoring a more fundamental issue that would help California even more. That issue, of course, is immigration and specifically illegal immigration.
One of the reasons why there are so many public workers is because of massive immigration by low-skilled...
... woe be unto us - she becomes California governor, what's she going to do without Christie around?
2. Christie does in fact live up to his "tough-guy persona", although that's not exactly the phrase I'd use (link). While his short-sighted rightwing fan club - especially the strict authoritarians among them - might welcome that, it's not what we want to see in those who are elected to represent...
... officials in the city of Bell, California were recently arrested regarding the pay scandal in that city (link). Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley says they misappropriated $5.5 million from that poor city south of downtown.
Some media reports failed to note that the eight charged are all Democrats, and Glenn Reynolds [1], Ed Morrissey of HotAir [2], and Lachlan Markay of...
... recently in the case of Bell, California where fiscal conservatives ignored immigration's impact on the situation there.
Another recent example comes from Allysia Finley of the massive immigration-supporting Wall Street Journal. She offers "Broke - and Building the Most Expensive School in U.S. History" (link) about a $578 million school that the Los Angeles Unified School District is building....
... unauthorized immigrants resided in California, Texas, Florida, New York, Illinois and New Jersey. However, the share living in those states has declined from 80% in 1990, as unauthorized immigrants have dispersed to new settlement areas." That helps explain why politicians in non-border states attempt to pass pro-enforcement bills. Note that some illegal immigration supporters question why...
The city of Bell, California has been in the news lately due to exorbitant salaries that city officials voted to give themselves. Most of those using Bell as an example of failed policies have failed to note that they themselves support failed policies, and those failed policies have played a role in Bell's situation. Two examples will be provided below, and the reader is encouraged to add more...
Meg Whitman offers "Americans must come together to address the problem of illegal immigration" (meg4.me/hvud, [1]), which is basically a rewrite of the previous misleading Whitman editorial about immigration. Since the new editorial and the old one repeat the same lines, see that link for part of why she's misleading, and the below for additional reasons.
But, first, here's this admission that...
... state and local officials into California businesses to look for illegal immigrants – her own version of federal immigration workplace inspections.
But her campaign now says she would wait to act until the federal government institutes a "fail-safe" way for employers to verify workers' status – an effort that has been more than a decade in the making.
The article has quotes promoting the program...
... damaged the Republican party in California. Those spreading that claim include many Democratic leaders but also Republicans such as frequent quote source Allan Hoffenblum.
Now, see this:
... in-your-face to the millions of Californians who support Arizona's law.
Your job: make sure as many Californians as possible know where Whitman stands.
UPDATE: Right after I posted this I found "Whitman Campaign expands Spanish-language advertising" (megwhitman.com/story/7611/
whitman-campaign-expands-spanishlanguage-advertising.html):
The Meg Whitman for Governor Campaign has launched a Spanish...
California state senator Gil Cedillo - someone who occasionally acts more like an agent of the Mexican government than a U.S. official - is pushing a non-binding resolution in support of a boycott of Arizona over their new immigration law (link):
Some 40 state lawmakers, including members of the Latino Legislative Caucus, plan to introduce a resolution this week that urges the state to "cease...
From this:
A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld the city of Redondo Beach's ordinance allowing for the arrest of day laborers who approach automobiles soliciting work.
A divided three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower-court decision.
The appeals court said the city's ordinance, modeled after a Phoenix law upheld by the same court, was a reasonable...
... Transformed: Immigration and the New California" (link). To summarize, we're basically turning into Brazil:
Between 1970 and 2008 the share of California’s population comprised of immigrants (legal and illegal) tripled, growing from 9 percent to 27 percent... As a result of immigration, however, by 2008 California had the least-educated labor force in the nation in terms of the share its workers...
The results of the California primary are not at all pretty from a pro-American immigration position.
* The winner of the Republican nomination for governor is Meg Whitman; she has 63.8% at post time versus 26.4% for Steve Poizner. She supports comprehensive immigration reform (aka amnesty) and expect a series of hacks to use her victory to falsely claim that running strong against illegal...
... Democrat Barbara Boxer in the California Senate primary; he realizes the futility of that effort and he's just doing it to raise certain issues including immigration. As part of the latter effort he offers the problematic "View from left: Dems kidding themselves on immigration" (link). The good news is that he isn't as bad as other Democrats when it comes to this topic.
The bad news is that,...
Sacramento Bee Political Editor Amy Chance offers "Ad Watch: Poizner launches largely misleading attack on Whitman" [1]. Referring to a recent anti-Meg Whitman ad from Steve Poizner which claims that Whitman "supports Obama's amnesty for illegal aliens", Chance writes:
"Amnesty" is a hot-button term that exaggerates Whitman's views on illegal immigration. She said in October she supports a policy...
... before and know little about - California state senator Sam Aanestad - might be the best choice (so far) for Lt. Governor. Based only on a quick glance, his immigration position seems acceptable [1], but the much more important factor is who else is vying for the job:
* Fellow Republican Abel Maldonado is his opponent in the primary. Maldonado is who Arnold Schwarzenegger wants for current Lt....
Back in October, California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman visited the border and spouted a series of "business-friendly" immigration talking points; it was like if you could find a Tamar Jacoby talking doll on eBay, but without the latter's self-awareness. Then, last month she gave in to the far-left and turned her back on a supporter who'd inartfully complained about being called a racist...
The California Immigrant Policy Center (see who they are below) has released a new and highly misleading immigration booster study purporting to claim that immigrants in California pay their way and that they're employed at a greater rate than non-immigrants. The second might be true, and in that case that's an argument against massive immigration since some or many are taking jobs that Americans...