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California Universities Abandon State Students

As a result of California being too stupidly broke to fund the university system adequately, state residents are being severely slashed in admissions in favor of foreign students paying much higher tuition.

The Bloomberg report below curiously frames the issue as Asian American students versus foreign Asians, particularly Chinese, but the statistics cited are worth attention.

The [...]

House Payroll-tax Proposal Cuts Illegal Alien Windfall

Recent deal-making in DC includes an item that is long overdue — removing the tax credit that allows illegal aliens to claim cash benefits from their children.

The title of last July’s Treasury Department report tells all you need to know: “Individuals Who Are Not Authorized to Work in the United States Were Paid $4.2 Billion [...]

Pew Hispanic Report: 63 Percent of Illegals Have Resided in US 10 Years or More

Pew Hispanic has published a new report that provides interesting facts for the thoughtful reader.

The graph posted here is nothing if not a testament to illegal aliens’ ability to survive and thrive without a major amnesty in the 25 years since Reagan’s 1986 IRCA. There is a whole industry of producing counterfeit documents for illegals, [...]

California DREAM Act Will Cost Millions More Than First Estimated

The California DREAM Act was pitched as being relatively inexpensive and wouldn’t harm citizen students. Now a report from the Legislative Analyst Office says that both of those assertions are wrong: it will cost $25 million more than the original estimate of $40 million; the giveaway will cost $65 million annually and increase from there. [...]

Rep. Gallegly Notes Feds Distributing Billions of Dollars to Illegals

It’s not news that illegal aliens receive billions of dollars annually in tax refunds even though they pay no income tax, although when the Chairman of the House Immigration Subcommittee mentions that fact during a contentious hearing, it might be thought newsworthy. You can watch the 3-hour hearing on C-SPAN as I did and see [...]

Buy-a-Visa Program Sputters under Scrutiny

When the Obama administration and various Democrats aren’t pushing steroidal Keynesian strategies of borrow-and-spend trillions of dollars, they are thinking up schemes for short-term and/or imaginary gain for the nation’s economy.

The Gimmick Government’s latest lightbulb is to hand out visas to foreigners who purchase houses costing over $500K. The proposal is like the Diversity Visa [...]

California: Nearly Six Million Live in Poverty

A recent Census report (Poverty: 2009 and 2010) found that the Golden State had nearly six million persons in poverty, an extraordinary number for a place that was thought not long ago to be inexhaustibly wealthy.

Still, California is only in the mid-range of states for poverty when considering percentages. Mississippi ranks at the top of [...]

California anti-DREAM Act Referendum Going to the Clipboards

The much despised DREAM Act law which will award millions of dollars in scarce taxpayer funds to illegal alien students in California state colleges will hopefully be overturned in the 2012 election if enough voter signatures can be gathered over the next few months to place it on the ballot.

Assemblyman Tim Donnelly (R-Twin Peaks) has [...]

It's On: Referendum in Gear to Repeal California DREAM Act

California Assemblyman Tim Donnelly has hit the ground running with a referendum to disallow the new law giving taxpayer financial aid to illegal alien college students. Governor Brown signed the bill into law on Saturday and Donnelly filed the papers on Monday to begin the referendum process that will hopefully remove the despised law.

Assemblyman Donnelly’s [...]

Romney Smacks Perry on Immigration Permissiveness

Mitt Romney is a smart politician who knows an opportunity when one pops up.

Rick Perry’s clumsy defense for taxpayer subsidies of illegal alien college tuition was a complete failure in the Tea Party debate (where he was booed by the audience) and later in last Thursday’s Fox debate when other candidates slammed his laxity. Press [...]

Vicente's Valentine to Mexico Friend Rick Perry

Here’s an item of historic interest, a video of Mexican Presidente Vicente Fox thanking his compadre Governor Rick Perry for American taxpayer-subsidized in-state tuition for illegal Mexicans in Texas state universities, dated November 6, 2003:

Another measure of Gov. Perry’s generosity toward non-Americans is that “of jobs created in Texas since 2007, 81 percent were taken [...]

Mexifornia Update: Democrat DREAMers Are Schemers

In the Fox news report below, California Assembly Member Tim Donnelly remarks that the UC system has been cut by $500 million, the State University system has lost the same amount and tuition has been raised 12 percent.

And yet. . . Sacramento Democrats managed to find $40 million to give to illegal alien college students [...]

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