Dear Editor,
So, according to Ms. Mary Jacinta Silva (letter 5/17) it’s a stupid idea to use the National Guard to secure the border with Mexico. Well Ms.Silva, just how stupid is it to keep the illegal flood coming and reap consequences that will continue to get worse. From the researchers at the Los Angeles Times:
– 40 percent of all workers in L.A. County are working for cash and not paying taxes.
n 95 percent of all arrest warrants issued for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.
– 75 percent of people on L.A.’s most-wanted list are illegal aliens.
– Over two-thirds of all births are to illegal aliens on Medi-Cal whose births were paid for by the taxpayers.
– Nearly 25 percent of all inmates in California detention centers are here illegally.
– Nearly 60 percent of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.
– Less than 2 percent of illegals are picking crops but 29 percent are on welfare.
– 29 percent of inmates in the federal prisons are illegal aliens.
– It cost Los Angeles $276 million in welfare costs for 100,000 children of illegal aliens.
A better question is “how stupid is it to do nothing while the flood of law breakers continues?” Answer: it’s real stupid.
James Fennell, Gilroy
