Letter to Gov. Brown

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EDITOR:

Dear Governor Brown,

We have been seeing many stories in the mainstream media regarding our state’s budget crisis. News people tell us we need to raise taxes, reduce expenditures, cut state pensions, stop the high speed rail project, etc.

Have you and your finance people determined how much of the state’s expenditures could be saved if the state, and the counties and municipalities as well, stopped providing free services to illegal aliens? I will add a related question,”Isn’t the government’s prime duty to protect and provide needed services to people who legally reside in the government’s jurisdiction?”

Here are a few comments recently published in the Los Angeles Times:

40 percent of all workers in Los Angeles County are working for cash and not paying tax. This is because they are predominantly illegal aliens.
Over 2/3 of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal.
Nearly 60 percent of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.
Nearly 35 percent of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.

I believe these statistics may be a little higher in Los Angeles County, but mirror the entire state.

Why can’t California save these dollars? You might say, but Edward, there are federal and state laws requiring that we provide these services to illegal aliens. I am sure there are. But, these laws were passed by the peoples’ representatives and can be eliminated by peoples’ representatives. You might say, okay Edward, what are we going to do with the illegal aliens? Show them the way home is my answer coupled with a firm agreement with the federal government to secure our southern border. The agreement may be one-sided for a few months.

My sincere hope, Governor Brown, is that this letter will trigger some meaningful analysis.

EDWARD T. BERNHOFT
Cameron Park

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Sam Wilson, Cameron ParkSeptember 03, 2012 - 2:47 pm
Bernhoft- could you possibly be troubled to cite the actual LA Times article, or could it possibly be that you are merely regurgitating an email chain letter that has been going around for the last 6 year?
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Ken SteersSeptember 03, 2012 - 4:28 pm
Starting from the bottom. Prison stat seems true http://www.ppic.org/main/publication_show.asp?i=702
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Sam Wilson, Cameron ParkSeptember 03, 2012 - 6:12 pm
Ken Steers- I read the page that you linked to, and there is nothing there to support the claim that "nearly 35 percent of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally". Please explain.
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FrontlineSeptember 03, 2012 - 7:16 pm
To Sam Wilson, whose sooo proud of being from Cameron Park.....Isn't it about time you put your big boy pants on and start doing your own damn homework...You Libs crack me up, you need all the answers spoon fed to you and never want do look anything up for yourself..
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Dink LaneSeptember 04, 2012 - 9:56 am
GREAT NEWS...... I searched the internet with quotes for BERNHOFT's letter and I found this: INTERNET IMMIGRATION HOAX (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/readers/2007/11/internet-immigr.html).......Back in the 30s when people were homeless and jobless....they blamed the Chinese and Japanese and Filipinos for all their troubles..... Isn't time to drop the blame-game and get to work???
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