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>>>>>We are reliving the 1950s -- rampant paranoia. Reds under the beds, duck and cover, etc.
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>>>>I'm not paranoid. I've already said I don't mind ilegals being here. It's the criminals that come with them that I dislike. Is that paranoia? Over 30% of California felons are ilegals.
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>>>Not to put too fine a point on it, but doesn't that mean that over 60% of California felons are perfectly legal citizens?
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>>Yes. I think you're math is correct.
>>We have enough felons. We don't need anymore coming in from other countries.
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>But of course, percentages don't tell us anything about the actual numbers. If we did a great job of filtering out the criminal element among immigrants, the percentage of immigrants convincted of felonies would go down and the percentage of native born would go up. Would that prove anything?

You and I discussed this already didn't we?
I'm talking about ilegal immigrants, not just immigrants.
I guess to you immigrants who come here legally and ilegal aliens are the same thing.

It's believed that there are about 20,000 jailed criminals that are in this country ilegally in California alone (not including 90% of all outstanding warrents are for illegal aliens). That's twenty thousand jail cells that could be used to hold other harsh criminals. Instead we have to spend money and build twenty thousand more jail cells. Feed them, cloth them, provide medical care etc... not to mention the legal fees and cost of law enforcement. Yeah I'd say it would make a difference, about $250,000,000 a year difference (actually I don't know what the cost is, but its gotta be in the hundreds of million).

It's not like California is just rolling in dough to pay for all this.