Dori Monson: Washington taxpayers are going to be hit hard by immigration crisis

Taken from Monday’s edition of The Dori Monson Show.

You’ve heard about the immigration crisis down on our Mexican border. You’ve heard about thousands of illegals, many of them children, coming into this country. But what I want you to know about is how much this could cost you as a taxpayer here in Washington state.

Nobody has picked up on the fact that many of those illegals are about to be shipped here to Washington. John McCain on Sunday, in an interview with a Tucson television station, broke that news.

“This is a humanitarian crisis,” said McCain. “These young children, as they’re brought up, are subject to all kinds of terrible abuses. Once they reach the border, then as they seek asylum and admission to this country, they are taken to these facilities. They are well treated here. They are fed. They are clothed. They are given showers and other hygienic capabilities. But the fact is, that there’s now thousands and we are running out of places to put them.”

McCain continued: “Right now, the latest is to even move them to a military base in the state of Washington because of the unacceptable overcrowding, and there is no sign of it in reduction.”

So they are moving them to a military base here in Washington, with the ultimate goal from the Obama administration, of them being mainstreamed into our society and granted asylum.

This is all by design because there is the hope that a lot of these people, who will be granted asylum, will eventually become voters. The stats are clear that immigrants who come to this country and eventually get made citizens, they overwhelmingly vote Democratic. So the reason the administration loves this as a strategy is because they see this as expanding their base.

So they’re on their way to our neck of the woods. I don’t know where. We are checking out whether that means Joint Base Lewis-McChord or somewhere else. But the illegals are coming our way. This is significant to you as a taxpayer for a variety of reasons.

First of all, they all must be educated, which means public school dollars in the K-12 system will have to be expanded for all the illegals coming our way.

Secondly, a story this weekend in The Seattle Times headlined: “Undocumented students seek college aid,” said:

“More than 1,600 undocumented college students have filed for financial aid under a state program newly opened to them under the Legislature’s Real Hope Act.”

So 1,600 illegals would get a free college education. If we’re talking about the University of Washington for example, four years college tuition there is about $48,000. Multiply 1,600 by $48,000 and we’re talking about a cost to the taxpayers in our state of $76,800,000.

It’s also a slap in the face if you are a citizen of this country, of this state, and you struggle to put your kids through college. Maybe your kids were turned down when they applied for a grant. Maybe your kid with a 3.3 GPA was on the bubble and didn’t get into the UW because the slots are given to illegals who have come into our country.

Meanwhile, down in Olympia on Friday, we were told about a coming billion-dollar budget deficit here in Washington. Here is the director of the office of financial management here in our state, David Schumacher:

“This is not a drill to impose across-the-board cuts. This is a drill to give the governor the options to figure out where the pain will be least. There’s no way that we could get significant cuts like this without their being actual pain, actual service cuts.”

So understand they are predicting a $1 billion shortfall, a budget hole in the next two years here in Washington. But we are about to spend $76 million giving free college education to illegals coming to this region.

And it’s not just the ones being flown here that John McCain was talking about. I’m also talking about a very sophisticated pipeline within the illegal transporting community. They know which states are either the most friendly to illegals, or turn a blind eye, and Washington is at the top of the list.

This is a real problem. They are talking about massive tax increases because of this billion-dollar shortfall. We’re giving free college to illegals. We’re flying plane loads of illegals, according to John McCain, from this latest border crisis into our state. Not one person is connecting the dots between all of this except on our show here.

The next strategy coming down the road from the governor and the Legislature is to push for a state income tax. They want a state income tax because they say we don’t have enough money, we’re going to have to make painful cuts.

How about, you stop making Washington state, King County, Seattle a magnet for illegals coming into this country. How about we stop providing free college education for the 1,600 illegals who have applied, before you make sure the citizens of our state are taken care of.

This is a crisis. We are in a crisis and our region could be hit hard. Other than the border states, the place that’s going to be hit the very hardest by this crisis are taxpayers here in Washington.

Taken from Monday’s edition of The Dori Monson Show.

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