Steve Hilton: I’ll Grow California’s Economy via Innovation and Productivity, Not Migration

Steve Hilton, the leading Republican candidate for California governor, told voters on Tuesday that he wants to grow the state’s economy through innovation and productivity, not by increasing the state’s illegal migrant population.

Hilton’s economic strategy is very different from that of Democrats, who want to grow California’s economy by extracting low-wage workers, welfare-funded consumers, and apartment-sharing renters from poor countries, and then shielding them from federal law enforcement within Democratic-enforced “sanctuary state” amnesty-enclave laws.

The Democrats’ strategy was described by Katie Porter, one of the Democratic candidates in the TV debate on Tuesday night:

The sanctuary state policy is designed to make sure that our state resources, the taxpayer dollars, the public servants that we have, are focusing on doing their jobs, which is not cooperating with the federal immigration authorities. These [illegal migrants] are Californians. They contribute to our economy, they pay taxes, and they’re one