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California Senators Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) and Bob Dutton (R-Rancho Cucamonga) have introduced a bill that would given every child born in California from 2008 on a savings account with an initial deposit of $500 (AP link). The two Senators are either very high or very corrupt, perhaps both. First of all, the program is open to every child, and makes absolutely no distinction as far as...

... movement being waged in Southern California against the measure authored by Rep. James Sensenbrenner, H.R. 4437. ...Juan Jose Gutierrez, director of Latino Movement USA (in English) said the boycott is not limited to just Latinos in the U.S., but also those in other countries. Gutierrez called on people living on other countries to not buy American products and to not cross the U.S.- Mexico...

... appear to operate in Arizona and California, and most of their funding comes from a $375,000 grant from the Ford Foundation. He's a Mexican citizen with a green card. Despite that: He took on a popular sheriff (El Paso County Sheriff Leo Samaniego) over border enforcement methods. And he found himself sitting at a Washington, D.C., round table, discussing the future of immigration policy with...

... official state document under the California state seal - for far-left groups that support illegal immigration. From the PDF file with the letter: The official election information letter, in English and Spanish, was mailed by the Secretary of State's Office in collaboration with the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) and the National...

... from 1994 and 1995 concerning California's Proposition. Other articles will follow. Note that Fabian Nunez is currently the Speaker of the California Assembly. While Nativo Lopez is fairly extremist, in the boycott case he was less extremist than Nunez. Paper: Press-Enterprise, The (Riverside, CA) Title: Prop. 187 sails to easy passage - The immigration measure fares well in Riverside County....

... but not surprising - move, the California State Senate has endorsed the May 1 illegal immigration boycott and march: SCR113. This isn't suprising considering that many California legislators frequently act more like their Mexican counterparts. It's only shocking that they would be so bold and that the resolution would be so utterly dishonest. The full text of SCR 113 is included in the extended...

Jon Vessey is a California grower who's been quoted in a few recent articles about how crops will rot in the fields unless growers get more cheap labor to pick it. (UPDATE: see crops rotting in the fields). On 11/21, the WaPo featured him in "Shortage of Immigrant Workers Alarms Growers in West" (link), and today the Los Angeles Times features him in "Picking a Battle Over Shortage of...

... the Public Policy Institute of California's new report "California 2025: It's Your Choice" (ppic.org/main/publication.asp?i=600), by that year we'll have 8 to 10 million more people living here, with a severly strained infrastructure to match: ...trends and forces are building that, left unchecked, could seriously erode the quality of life in California in the next two decades. The study...

... immigrants, but he returned to California on Thursday to veto a bill granting driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. Schwarzenegger has not been coy about his intention to veto the licensing bill, easily the most controversial of the hundreds of measures enacted in the final hours of the legislative session that ended early Saturday. And he reiterated Thursday that the bill is deficient...

... charter amendment would violate the California Constitution and erode public confidence in the electoral process. He said encouraging immigrants to become citizens is the best way to expand voter participation... Oddly enough, Barbara Boxer also opposes the measure. Whether Terence Chea would characterize Barbara Boxer as "railing" about something is an open question.