California Hosting over 2.5 million illegals

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It is true that illegals come from everywhere, not just Latin America. Latin America in general and Mexico in particular send the most.

What makes a region or local government financially viable?

Fontana and Colton are bastions of illegal residency. As I understand it, the city of Fontana has a decent reserve, whereas the city of Colton is right next to bankruptcy.

However, Fontana has all that recycling business, whereas Colton seems to only have a railway switching yard which long since has ceased to be Colton's economic base.

San Bernardino? San Bernardino - without getting into percentage of illegal aliens to citizens within the group termed "Hispanic" or "Latino" - has a large "Latino" population and is next to bankruptcy. It has an airport, but since it ceased being Norton Air Force base some years ago, its economic base has been knocked out.

I view Redlands as a mostly white middle class bedroom community. It has a nearly dead Downtown for its economic foundation, and Redlands seems to be running in the far red.

Since the economy crashed and building permits and inflated property tax values on newly built homes is largely a thing of the past, formerly prosperous cities are now becoming insolvent.

How about the city of Los Angeles?

It ran business off in favor of imported poverty. The only thing which is keeping Los Angeles from going under is what the city skims from DWP, and I believe if rates aren't raised on DWP property, DWP will eventually have a meltdown of its own. Furthermore, DWP's largest customer is the LAUSD which feeds on taxpayer funds. With the shortfall of tax revenue and the budget crisis, how does all this all portend for the end game?

The only thing keeping the San Fernando Valley afloat is the money brought in with the porn industry.

Detroit is another example of diminished industry, as are all those communities which formerly were steelworker towns.

Barstow only limps along since the railway cutbacks decades ago due to the continued presence of Fort Irwin and the Marine Corp Logistics Base.

If a town doesn't have a viable gig which brings in outside money and provides decent paying jobs rather than building houses or sucking up social services funding for its economic base it's going to be in trouble sooner or later.

An economy based on welfare benefits and unemployment checks along with hamburger flipping and leaf raking isn't going to make it.