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10/31/01

UNITED WAY AND ILLEGAL ALIENS

I work for the largest employer in the San Gabriel Valley in California. Every year at this time there is a push to solicit contributions from employees via payroll deductions for United Way of Greater L.A. This organization claims that they are "a trusted community leader and expert in knowing where contributions will do the most good."

This year their solicitation brochure is entitled "United Way, a Vision for L. A. County" and makes the following statements about their "Community Agenda":

Education: 38% of all high school students do not graduate in L.A.

Economic Empowerment: 42% of L. A. County population is poor or near poor.

Health & Safety: 2.5 million county residents have no health insurance.

(Note: the population of Los Angeles County is 9,802,800 as of January 1, 2001 and area is 4,081 square miles.)

It seems to me that the three problem areas they describe are the direct result of illegal aliens who occupy our county in large numbers. As Mr. Glenn Spencer has long said, we are importing poverty.

This means that United Way of Greater L.A., along with my employer, are in effect asking us to subsidize illegal aliens. Wouldn't that be a pretty stupid and counterproductive thing for us to do with our precious money?

I am going to suggest to my employer that it would be far better to solicit donations for organizations such as American Patrol so that we could reduce the number of illegal aliens present in our community and our nation, and in this way stem the problem at its source.

F. A.
La Canada Flintridge, California