Human Tsunami (Washington Times Special Report)

The Washington Times ^ | April 25, 2004 | Valerie Richardson

[primeval patriot]

LOS ANGELES- Ines Netkin lives in a neat, ranch-style home in middle-class Los Angeles County, but she worries that her neighborhood is starting to look like it belongs south of the border."It used to be nice to live around here, but it's deteriorating. We have dirty streets, traffic jams, more crime. It's not the way it used to be," Mrs. Netkin said. "I feel like it's going to become like Mexico City. Right now, if you closed your eyes and opened them in downtown Los Angeles, you would think that you were in Mexico City."

[BJungNan]

if you closed your eyes and opened them in downtown Los Angeles, you would think that you were in Mexico City."

This is so true. On Wilshire and the streets the intersect it near Vermont, Normadie and many other places the trash is strewn nearly curb high in many places. Not just in one section, but the entire length of many city blocks.

It used to be when I returned from Shanghai I would say, isn't it great to be back to a clean city. Now it is the other way around. Shanghai and many, many other cities in China that used to be dirty and littered are now very clean.

The only exception is the air pollution. The U.S. still had the cleanest air - even in Los Angeles - of many cities in the world including many in Europe and certainly better than China.

Sad, so sad what is becoming of this country.

[traumer]

I may be asking for a trouble here.... but what is the current administration (and - Yes, Bush) doing ??

[cajungirl]

seems to me the great state of California and their good for nothing politicians ought to do something about it before Bush goes out on that limb.

[CalifornianConservative]

Again, what is it about the word illegal that our officials don't understand?

I DON'T believe the numbers on that poll that says 61 percent of people want health care for illegals.

[Brownie74]

I used to live at The Meadowcreek Apartments at 136 S. Virgil when they were brand new. I understand that neighborhood is a war zone now. I got the hell out of Dodge in 1980 and moved back to Texas.

"It wouldn't be so bad if they would adapt to our ways, but they don't. We have to adapt to their ways,"

Don't say I didn't warn you. Coming to a neighborhood near you soon.

[primeval patriot]

I may be asking for a trouble here.... but what is the current administration (and - Yes, Bush) doing ??

Having sleepovers with Vincente Fox.

[Brownie74]

....but what is the current administration (and - Yes, Bush) doing ??

Bush is pushing for amnesty for these little darlins'. In a letter to me dated September 2002 he said that he was going to continue to push Section 245(i) of the Immigration and Naturalization Act through congress. Can you spell A-M-N-E-S-T-Y? Or how about vote pandering!!

[Gritty]

You could change the by-line to almost any area of the country and write the same story. This country is being deluged by illegals. I'm convinced the numbers they give are under-estimated by a factor of at least three.

I don't know exactly where this is all heading, but wherever it is, it won't be named either "Peace" or "Tranquility".

[DoughtyOne]

Immigration control, is a federal matter. California can't do something about it, until Bush, the next president or Congress wake up and get off their duff and do something about this.

If this state had proper representation about 20 years ago, it would have told the federal government to fix this or else. Today about all that is left to do is to hand the keys to Mexico.

May God grant the people who had a hand in doing this to our state, a special place in hell.

[norton]

"There's no doubt that Los Angeles has benefited from the infusion of hard-working illegal workers who clean hotel rooms, bus restaurant tables, and otherwise keep its billion-dollar tourism industry humming."

WRONG!
There is every doubt in the world, there is absolute and unavoidable eye-witness proof that there has been just the opposite of a benefit to LA or to the South West at large.
Just downright, damned, wrong!

The subject of this article notes that downtown LA is basically Tijuana with high rises.
The very places these thugs are 'escaping' follow right along.
The PC bureaucrats and special interests aid and abet the transition that will someday allow them to skim off as much as their mexican counterparts.

Everyone wins except the middle class, the 'American' populace, that will get up and leave; hopefully before the real estate market nose dives again.

[WhatHappenedtoAmerica]

The real problem is us.


Just look at this site. How many posts are there on the topic of illegals? And we're the supposedly the conservatives who WANT to something about it.


Too much apathy.

[Hop A Long Cassidy]

Illegals-coming-here-to-trash-the-cities-that-Americans-won't bump

I guess if we give them amnesty then it'll be a domestic issue.

Hoppy

[eleni121]

You really should read the Bush proposals for immigration reform before you criticize. You will find that they address employer and citizen concerns fairly.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/01/20040107-1.html

[Savage Beast]

Be glad they're not Muslims, Ines.

[traumer]

"Be glad they're not Muslims"
Very true - just look at Spain and France and England and Netherlands and ...

[primeval patriot]

You could change the by-line to almost any area of the country and write the same story.

Dallas and Fort Worth aren't quite as bad as LA, yet.

I don't know exactly where this is all heading, but wherever it is, it won't be named either "Peace" or "Tranquility".

I'm not optimistic about the outcome either.

[Pontiac]

According to a March 2004 survey by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC), 61 percent of respondents said that illegal immigrants should have access to health care, while only 33 percent wanted to deny it.

I think illegal immigrants should have the best health care they can pay for.

[DoctorMichael]

Left-LA-for-Virginia-10-years-ago Bump.

[primeval patriot]

Everyone wins except the middle class

I'm wondering when they're going to wake up.