Southeast Asian Refugees

It comes as no surprise to me that welfare fraud and an underground economy are so entrenched and extensive in California by Southeast Asian refugees. Fraud and deceit in the era of “Reaganomics” is merely one facet of the “trickle-down” effect.

Another facet, generally ignored, is the ever-growing and diverse indigent homelessness problem, not unassociated with the vast infusion from abroad of “cheap labor,” which is enshrouded and protected by ethnic cohesion, welfare rights, civil rights and activist organizations, etc.

The government thus subsidizes the well-to-do as well as the refugee. Swap-meet vendors, as well as undocumented alien domestics, amount to just so much “free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich.”

HAROLD PIRIE

Santa Barbara