"For the 2024-25 fiscal year, California is expected to spend approximately $8.4 billion to $9.5 billion from the state's General Fund on healthcare (via the Medi-Cal program) for undocumented immigrants."
$9 billion dollars in spending. Golly I wonder how much illegal immigrants contribute to California's economy, think it enough to pay for nine billion dollars in spending? Turns undocumented immigrants generate ~$150 billion dollars. So that's nearly seventeen dollars in revenue for each dollar spent by the State.
And Republicans are so economically illiterate and so racist, they think getting seventeen dollars back on dollar is a bad deal for America.
"Undocumented immigrants make substantial contributions to California's economy, generating an estimated $151 billion to $152 billion in direct value-added annually, which represents approximately 4.9% to 5% of the state's GDP." lao.ca.gov
Republicans would rather hurt California, to the tune of $275 billion, simply because they hate California, Democrats, and Immigrants.
"A June 2025 report by the Bay Area Council Economic Institute and University of California, Merced, projected that mass deportation efforts would cost the state more than $275 billion in GDP output if undocumented workers were removed from the state's workforce" immigrantdataca.org
