Illegal Immigrates Costs California Over Ten Billion Annually

NOTE: This report is from 2004'. 2009' California state records show illegal immigrates cost the state more than $15 billion per year:

In hosting America's largest population of illegal immigrants, California bears a huge cost to provide basic human services for this fast growing, low-income segment of its population.

A new study from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) examines the costs of education, health care and incarceration of illegal aliens, and concludes that the costs to Californians is $10.5 billion per year...

California contemplates - no more welfare

2004' - Cost of illegal immigration in California estimated at nearly $9 billion 2009' figures over $12 billion per year.

June 2009' - Could California become the first state in the nation to do away with welfare?

That doomsday scenario is on the table as lawmakers wrestle with a staggering $24.3 billion budget deficit.

Death Row's Billion-Dollar View

Death Row inmates in San Quentin, Calif., have a highly coveted view that the state and developers eye as opportunity.

It's a view shared with a tiny housing community whose main street shares an entrance to the famed prison. Stacey Delo reports..

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Los Angeles Man Kills Wife, 5 Kids, Self, Over Job Loss

An L.A. area man has killed his wife and 5 children and then himself over his recent job loss..

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Source: ap

California Runs Out of Cash At End of This Month...

Its Showtime...

California, the most populous U.S. state, will run out of money by the end of this month and needs $7 billion in funding.

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Source: bloomberg