wheres this racist pig-food come from?

someones been posting this list around the internet this morning, and it reeks of righty lies to me

quote:

Just One State
This is only one State...............If this doesn't open your eyes nothing will !

From the L. A. Times
1. 40% of all workers in L. A. County ( L. A. County has 10.2 million people)are working for cash and not paying taxes. This is because they are predominantly illegal immigrants working without a green card.
2. 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.
3. 75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens.
4. Over 2/3 of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal , whose births were paid for by taxpayers.
5. Nearly 35% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally
6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages.
7. The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most like ly illegal aliens from south of the border.
8. Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.
9. 21 radio stations in L. A. are Spanish speaking.
10. In L. A. County 5.1 million people speak English, 3.9 million speak Spanish.
(There are 10.2 million people in L. A. County . )

(All 10 of the above are from the Los Angeles Times)

Less than 2% of illegal aliens are picking our crops, but 29% are on welfare. Over 70% of the United States ' annual population growth (and over 90% of California , Florida , and New York ) results from immigration. 29% of inmates in federal prisons are illegal aliens.


huh??

back to the battle

nt

i coudlnt see that happening either.

Claim: E-mail provides statistics about the number and costs of illegal aliens in Los Angeles County.
Status: Multiple — see below.
Variations: Some versions attribute the statistics presented to a "retired San Diego police officer."
Origins: The various figures quoted above were not taken from a 2002 Los Angeles Times article. They appear to have been gleaned from a variety of sources and vary in accuracy as noted below:

More:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/taxes.asp

http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/taxes.asp

Mostly false - or at least manipulated facts

ty

Really, do you expect any kind of reasonable answer? I am really fond of evil fact number nine referencing how many spanish speaking radio stations there are. As if that fact alone equates to something sinister in america.

would be my guess.

The L.A. times has debunked this several times--the last time just a couple of weeks ago:

10 'facts' about immigration -- not from The Times
May 24, 2010 | 3:32 pm
by Deirdre Edgar, Times Reader Representative

In November 2007, this office addressed an e-mail hoax that was citing The Times as the source for 10 "facts" about immigration:
<snip>

The answer is: The L.A. Times never ran such a story.
<snip>

To repeat, The Times has never run an article that contains this list. And some of the items appear to have been misleadingly edited from articles that appeared as long as 20 years ago.

"It's like kudzu," said one editor who passed along yet another copy of the e-mail. "It will never die."


http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/readers/2010/05/10-facts-about-immigration-not-from-the-times.html


Times columnist Hector Tobar did a detailed, point-by-point debunking that was published last September:



E-mails on illegal immigration are eye-opening
A deeper look at the facts contained in chain letters reveals hyperbole, exaggerations and misstatements by opponents.
September 07, 2009|HECTOR TOBAR

<snip>
The e-mail that popped into my inbox started with an insult and included an attachment full of "facts."

After calling me a "crybaby" for writing a sympathetic story about Mexican immigrants, the sender insisted I read a series of statistics on the effects of illegal immigration on Los Angeles and California. Hospitals, law enforcement and other public services, he said, are being overwhelmed.
<snip>

The authors of the chain e-mail and the phony government report fear what Los Angeles has become -- a multilingual, multiethnic city with multicultural tastes.

They search for information to persuade others to be afraid, but the actual numbers don't quite add up to the big monster they think is out there.

So they make the numbers bigger. Or they just make them up. And they spread them around until all that fear and anger turns into a big hate.
<snip>

http://articles.latimes.com/2009/sep/07/local/me-tobar7/3