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# Illegal immigration drains resources
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/illegal-immigration-drains-resources-editor/
- Published: 2007-09-05T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T02:46:35.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Yeh Ling-Ling Oakland*

As an immigrant who used to prepare amnesty and other applications, I wish to commend you for your article, "Drunk driver admits guilt" (August 30). Open border advocates should realize that they and/or their loved ones could be the victims of illegal aliens! They should also heed the following: In the last 15 years alone, more than 50 million people have been added to the U.S. population, most due to immigration-driven increases. If our population continues to grow at the rate of last decade, even without another amnesty, mathematically, by 2100 -- within the lifetimes of today's children's children -- the U.S. will have India’s current population! All newcomers, U.S. and foreign-born, will need energy, education, health care, and many other costly social services that any taxes most pay will not cover due to their low incomes. Do Asian and Hispanic activists really want to leave their children this kind of America - overpopulated, impoverished and fragmented?

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 5, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/090507.pdf?ref=smdp.com)