Proposition 187 is Immoral and Fiscally Unwise

To the Editor: Rebecca Liddicoat's column supporting California's Proposition 187 (Nov. 21), which deprives noncitizens of prenatal care, education and other benefits was wrong on all counts. Liddicoat claimed that "anywhere from a threefold to fivefold difference in cost and contribution" results from the presence of illegal immigrants in California. Does her unnamed source calculate the immigrants' value as consumers who spend money on California goods and, incidentally, pay sales taxes thereon, contrary to her statement that noncitizen residents "don't pay taxes"? Does it attempt to reckon the future cost to the U.S.