Friday, December 09, 2011

Fuentes proposes help for immigrants

This ballot initiative should bring more than $300 million a year to the state. - - Donna Poisl

By Christina Villacorte, Daily News Staff Writer

Undocumented workers would pay state income taxes in exchange for the prospect of leniency on federal immigration laws under a ballot initiative proposed by a San Fernando Valley assemblyman.

If approved by a majority of voters, the California Opportunity and Prosperity Act would not guarantee protection from deportation.

Instead, it would merely authorize the governor of California to ask the president of the United States to make these undocumented workers their lowest priority when they enforce federal immigration laws.
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