A columnist writing in the Times of San Diegp asked why California has the highest poverty rate of any state in the union. Twenty percent of the state’s residents are below the poverty level, and another twenty percent live in “near poverty.” This is interesting because California is the state with the largest number and percentage of immigrants. Immigration advocates constantly maintain that mass immigration always brings prosperity. A study by the Heritage Foundation found that our present immigration system “imports poverty.”
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