California's 20th Congressional District Ranked The Lowest In New Health And Well-Being Survey

McClatchy Newspapers:

Poverty, poor health and plenty of school dropouts have put the San Joaquin Valley's 20th Congressional District dead last in a new national scorecard that ranks the overall well-being of residents.

Even notoriously grim Appalachia fares better than the congressional district that sweeps in Fresno, Kings and Kern counties, the study, which was released Wednesday, shows. The assessment of health, education and income ranks the district 436th out of 436 districts nationwide.

"We have significant issues in the Valley that reflect rural inequality," said Adela de la Torre, a University of California at Davis professor and adviser for the new study. "The Valley has always been an area that's underserved."

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We are constantly hearing stories about some poor illegal immigrant who got picked by La Migra, now they're being deported, they want to stay here and work and send money home. And the other side of the story is that some American who used to work in a factory, for example, or in construction, is now out of work, or working at WalMart for $6/hour, because they've been replaced by illegal immigrants who work for $3/hour.

But the side of the illegal immigration story that is never reported is the direct effect this has on communities. You take 20 million illegal immigrants, mostly from Mexico, unskilled, illiterate in any language, desperately poor. Move them to California to pick crops, pay them low wages part-time so they sleep in the fields, or rent 30 to a small old house and stack them up on the floor. Saturday night some beer, some hooker, some fights, some problems, some police, some jail. Overburdening sanitation, roads, police, schools, emergency rooms. It's just a fact.

Moving big portions of Mexico into the U.S. results in big portions of the U.S. becoming just like Mexico. If you haven't been to Mexico, you should understand it is a third world country lacking -- everything for most people. With an extremely wealthy elite living like -- Americans.

Deport anyone who is here illegally with amnesty requests available for long-term residents only. Then enforce the border.