Originally Posted by snowy

I'm gonna call BS on that. Where's your evidence that that is the case?

SNAP benefits in California (food stamps) are issued to LEGAL immigrants only, and only those who meet certain requirements.

From the California Department of Social Services website:



Eligibility and Issuance Requirements

Legal immigrants do pay taxes, and therefore have a right to social services, just as any other person in the United States does.

Almost all social services across the United States require extensive documentation to be presented in order to gain services.

Originally Posted by roachboy

sometimes i think undocumented workers are to conservatives what the hitlero-trotskyite wrecker was to stalinism--the universal explanation for dysfunctions that are generated by the political logic itself for which the political logic has no space--so a scapegoat gets generated that is passed off as an explanation. of course at this point there's less an american gulag than there was under stalin. isn't there? what, only 10% of the us population is in prison...but i digress...



as for the op, i wonder whether you could make the same speculative argument about recreational drugs that are classified as illegal. think of the revenue that could be had from legalization and the taxation that could be derived from it.

so you could argue equally that kali's fiscal problems follow from the fact that cocaine is illegal.