... in this matter.
According to a Public Policy Institute of California study, "[i]n 2005, there were 28,279 foreign born adults and 139,419 U.S.-born adults in California prisons". Not all of the former are illegal aliens; in fact, it appears that statistics on the numbers of illegal aliens in California prisons are kept under wraps (but if anyone has a valid cite, leave it in comments). However,...
The Los Angeles-based Economic Roundtable has written a report called "Ebbing Tides in the Golden State" which can be downloaded from economicrt.org. The underwriter of the report was the California Endowment, and the authors are Daniel Flaming (president of the Roundtable), Patrick Burns, and Michael Matsunaga.
The report is completely intellectually dishonest, failing to note the role that...
... report reveals.
According to the Public Policy Institute of California's new report "California 2025: It's Your Choice", 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 concludes that...