New Poll Shows Californians Strongly Favor Legal Status for Undocumented or Illegal Immigrants

Californians will continue to suffer from the actions of those who fail to see the connection between overpopulation and the destruction of government service in California.

Consider emergency room service in Southern California.
"On Friday, June 22, the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a hearing on the response of the Department of Health and Human Services to the nation’s emergency room crisis." http://oversight.house.gov/

In testimony before the committee, Dr. Ramon W. Johnson notes that "Hospital emergency departments are the provider of last resort for many people, including undocumented aliens, who have no other access to medical care. As such, emergency departments experience a high-rate of uncompensated care." He also notes "America's emergency departments are underfunded, understaffed, overcrowded and overwhelmed – and we find ourselves on the brink of collapse." It is congress that has caused the overcrowding that overwhelms. Shame on them. I found his testimony worth reading

I have taken his remarks out of context. His full statement is at http://oversight.house.gov/documents/20070622135308.pdf

Californians would do well to remember that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

This sounds like another bogus poll with an agenda. I live in California and everybody I talk with thinks that illegal aliens should be sent home with only a few exceptions. This state is overrun with these people who stand on the streets in front of Home Depots etc., to beg for work. They don't pay their fair share of taxes, and take more from the system than they put in. Also many of the illegals are criminals. They shouldn't be here, plain and simple. To give them a path to citizenship or any form of amnesty would be a huge mistake!

This sounds like another bogus poll with an agenda. I live in California and everybody I talk with thinks that illegal aliens should be sent home with only a few exceptions. This state is overrun with these people who stand on the streets in front of Home Depots etc., to beg for work. They don't pay their fair share of taxes, and take more from the system than they put in. Also many of the illegals are criminals. They shouldn't be here, plain and simple. To give them a path to citizenship or any form of amnesty would be a huge mistake!

Linda, I can assure you--and you can check this out with folks who know polls--that this is a legitimate poll that is not "cooked" in any way. You may not like the numbers, but it reflects what other polls have shown about Californians' attitudes.

I don't believe in the Poll. I believe in what I see an live everyday. American childern in California suffer from over crowed class rooms. which make it harder on the techers to give that needed attention to some kids that is not getting the lessons that is given. I'm sick to my soul of hearing that illegals will take jobs that americans wont take. Have they every consider that companys will not hire american that would take those jobs because illegal will take less pay. HOW ABOUT!! The felone that just release from prison and want to be a productive citizen but can't get a second chances because they have broken the law. Illegals are breaking the law too. it dosn't stop companys from hiring illegals.

Where was this poll taken - at the EDD, Social Security Office or in Salinas? It's absurd. Californians may be generous, but they are not fiscally suicidal. As the U.S. Senate just voted, American citizens as well as Calfornians want our current immigration laws enforced. This poll will convince no one. I know a wide circle of people. Not one has expressed a desire for this disastrous selling out of our economy. It would bankrupt both the state and the nation. Stop with the phoney polls!

Yep, another bogus poll all right; the author had to tell us it was a "respected" polling source, a sure sign it is not.

Stop trying to pass this new "term limits" as a real term limit initiative. Show us the whole proposed ballot measure text, who is paying for this ballot measure and who it will support/benefit. Conclusion: Fabian Nunez and Don Perata seem to want to hold on to their personal positions of power/influence and are using their special interest cronies to do their dirty work for them.

You can rail all you want against this poll, but it is totally independent and legitimate. It was not taken for one side or another and stands on its own. If you have any evidence to the contrary, I'd like to hear about it.

How do you square this then...
A new study by the Heritage Foundation's Robert Rector found a household headed by an individual without a high school education, including about two-thirds of illegal aliens, costs U.S. taxpayers more than $32,000 in federal, state and local benefits. That same family contributes an average of $9,000 a year in taxes, resulting in a net tax burden of $22,449 each year.

Over the course of the household's lifetime that tax burden translates to $1.1 million

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