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Want a headline that sums up California in just a few words? Try “solar panels for illegal immigrants.”

That’s what’s wrong with our beautiful state, in a nutshell. We are chasing “green” dreams, giving away freebies to people who have no right to be here, while wasting our money and eroding the rule of law.

It’s all in one policy: the “Farmworker Housing Component of the Low-Income Weatherization Program.”

As Christopher F. Rufo and Austen Hufford of the Manhattan Institute point out, the cap-and-trade (now “cap-and-invest”) program, which adds at least 20 cents to the cost of each gallon of gas in the Golden State, has allocated nearly $50 million to the solar panel program since 2019, and illegal........

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