California Population Displacement by Mark Andrew Dwyer

by Mark Andrew Dwyer

California Population Displacement

March 13, 2008 01:00 PM EST

In California, the successful high earners are being displaced by the needy low earners, most of whom are Mexican migrants and their descendents. While mostly white American rich are fleeing the Golden State in droves, hundreds of thousands of Mexican Latinos with substandard education levels and job skills but with exceptional baby making talents are pouring into California through the Southern border as if it were their promised land. As a result, the state's demographics is shifting from formerly 90% white towards Hispanic majority by 2020 (an estimate), which change translates onto rising poverty, overpopulation, and decreased productivity.

To make things worse, most of state revenue comes from taxing of the successful high earners, a segment of the California population that is currently shrinking, while the lion share of state expenditures goes to the needy low earners, domestic and imported, many of whom pay no or little taxes, a segment of California population that grows exponentially. In other words, the tax revenues are shrinking while the public spending spiral gets out of control. And this is not because of some capricious extravaganza of liberal "do-gooders" (not that they are without guilt) but because of the engineered demographic change that the state has been submitted to.

For instance, California budget for public K-12 education is roughly $50 billion per annum. About 48% of enrolled students in public K-12 schools are Hispanic, about half of whom are Spanish language speakers who speak little or no English. It doesn’t take an Einstein to figure out where did they come from. It’s clear that if it weren’t for almost two decades of uncontrolled and mostly illegal immigration from Mexico to California, there would have been 25% to 40% less students in our public schools. These students cost the state from est. $12 billion to $20 billion annually, while their parents, due to their low or unreported income, pay little, if any, taxes and often depend on state subsidies, welfare, and other "free" public services, which makes the budget shortfall even more severe. They are the ones who maneuvered the Golden State into the red.

And what else would you expect that displacing affluent Americans with needy Mexicans would bring on our heads? Obviously, poverty in Mexico has its good reasons, one of which has been a lack of reproductive self-restraint (adequate birth control, if you will). As a result, that country of abundant natural resources and heavenly climate is poor not because the Mexicans decided so but because they are unable to sustain a well functioning, productive society that would offer all its members high living standards and personal safety. (If you are in doubt what the Mexicans are capable of, go to this corruption driven and crime ridden economically insolvable banana republic of Mexico and see for yourself.) Once they "migrate" in hundreds of thousands a year into the U.S., they bring the causes of their poverty with them. And their countless children, mindful of their Mexican Latino heritage, continue their poor parents' quest dragging us, Californians, into poverty, too. The current budget fiasco ($16 billion projected deficit, see [1]) is one of the results of that trend.

A note on who were the engineers of the change that resulted in the current fiscal crisis is very much in order here.

Liberal establishment and their protégé, the Mexican lobby (see [2]), in California legislature laid down legal framework for redistribution of wealth from American rich to Latino poor, while obstructing as much as they could any means of enforcement of the border and immigration laws. In particular, they used California public schools system as a vehicle of wealth redistribution, a scheme that works quite well because of provisions of mandatory spending on K-12 education that have been enacted into law. (No wonder why they fiercely oppose any cuts of that spending - see [3].)

Sanctuary cities, like San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Santa Ana, created a big magnet for illegal aliens and deserve a big part of credit for rapid growth of Latino population of Mexican ancestry in California, most of them either illegal aliens or descendents thereof. For instance, the number of Mexican illegals in Los Angeles is estimated well over 1 million. Their kids, foreign or American born, overflow schools in L.A. Unified School District making it one of the worst, albeit costly (between $8,000 and $9,000 a year per student), and most overcrowded in the nation. If each illegal Mexican in Los Angeles sent just one kid to a public school, it would translate onto $10 billion dollar a year expenditure from the state sinking budget.

Attorney Peter Schey (see [4]) gained notoriety for his obstructions of border and immigration law enforcement. His first major blow to the immigration enforcement was Plyler v. Doe (1982) in which he convinced the U.S. Supreme Court to grant illegal immigrant children to attend public schools in the U.S. Later, he was the leader of a coalition that derailed Proposition 187 (see [5]) passed by a wide majority of California voters in 1994. As a result of his efforts, millions of Mexican Latinos were able to continue their million-man migration and settlements in the U.S., while making state and local governments pay for their lack of education and job skills, and irresponsible breeding. I am not aware of any other unelected/unappointed living individual in the U.S. that inflicted more irreparable damage to this country and to this state than he did.

Then-governor Grey Davis refused to appeal injunction by a federal judge Marianna Pfaelzer against Proposition 187. As a result of this blatant disregard of the majority of the voters, judge's decision, unquestionably flawed and with no chances to withstand judicial scrutiny in appellate court, became final and Proposition 187 was trashed. Should Davis appeal Pfaelzer's ruling, Proposition 187 would have been implemented, one of the main magnets for illegal "immigration" from Mexico would have been removed, the California public schools' population would have been lesser by 25% to 40%, and we would have no $16 billion budget deficit now.

Those who will suffer from inevitable budget cuts or tax increases may wish to remember that.