Newspaper Opinion Piece

Immigration Issue in California

Reference:
Immigration is Destroying California by Alan Caruba (http://www.rightwingnews.com/reader/immigrationcal.php)


At what point do we say enough is enough? Where is a sign posted stating we can only have X amount of illegal aliens before we start pushing them away? Is there such thing as an illegal alien? It just sounds ironic. This is a land of immigrants. Everyone has come from a different country to build this state and country. So are Latinos too late? Have we accepted too many of them? We cannot deny that immigrants are the building blocks of California. Cheap supply labor, great economy, and great diversity. Yes, there are some bad factors as well: Low wage families, welfare, medi-cal, etc. But with such an issue that is so complex and huge, how can we compare and weigh out the good and the bad?
The L.A. article, "Infinite Ingress" by Lee Green said that immigration was the problem of overcrowding in California. California is not overcrowded, by the slightest. Using an immigration as an excuse for a problem that doesn't exist shows much animosity against Latinos (his target "immigrant"). As Alan Caruba said in his article, I too, have flown over California and there is much space in our state. People love to live near urban areas. San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles, etc, will always be crowded because they are the productive cities in California. No one wants to live in the middle of nowhereland, immigrant or not. This is not overcrowding, this is normal.