The study examined the financial consequences of federal immigration enforcement in California, home to over two million ...

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Illegal immigration costs taxpayers in all 50 states a total of $89 billion, and California, where an illegal on Thursday was cleared of murdering Kate Steinle despite admitting to the shooting ...

Trump’s reckless agenda — from tax breaks for the wealthy, program cuts that harm working families and chaotic tariffs that ...

California is spending more than it expected on Medi-Cal and Republican lawmakers are ... The state’s Medi-Cal expansion for undocumented immigrants costs about $8.5 billion from the ...

The surge of migrants since 2021, including asylum-seekers and others, has lifted the U.S. and California economies by filling otherwise vacant jobs.

It doesn't make sense that California needs immigrants while residents are told to cut water ... state and local governments do not offset the total cost of services provided to those immigrants.

In fact, unaffordability in California affects immigrants even more than others. The median wage for immigrants ($19.43) is lower than the median wage for U.S.-born workers ($26.22).

According to the California Department of Health Care Services, as of January there were more than 1.4 million undocumented immigrants enrolled in full-scope Medi-Cal.

As far back as 2001, a Public Policy Institute of California survey showed that the gap between whites and Latinos on whether illegal immigration was a “problem” was nearly half the gap ...