The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[Alex]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

You know every year tre population in California grows from people moving here from other states - why do we let this happen unchecked? I bet many of the homeless were born in other places, they just came here to get out of the cold. Maybe we should deport people back to the dust bowl?

Unfortunately, that isn't true. Every year since 1990 or so has seen a net domestic migration out of California (here are the numbers; you can get them from the source at the U.S. Census web site but it requires more poking around and search queries as near as I can tell).

Since 1990 the entire population growth of California has been from internal reproduction, legal foreign immigration, and illegal foreign immigration.