Governor Urged To Declare State Of Emergency On Mexican Border

AP ^ | 08/19/05 | AP

[Pikamax]

Governor Urged To Declare State Of Emergency On Mexican Border New Mexico, Arizona Governors Have Already Done So

POSTED: 11:53 am PDT August 19, 2005 UPDATED: 12:34 pm PDT August 19, 2005

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The state Assembly leader called on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to make California the third state to declare an emergency along its border with Mexico.

New Mexico drew national attention last week when its governor declared a state of emergency, citing lawlessness, drug smuggling and human trafficking along the border. The governor of Arizona did the same this week.

Democratic Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez said Thursday that California needs to pressure the federal government to stop drug running and illegal immigration.

"The timing is good," he said. "The governors of Arizona and New Mexico have done this, and there's an opportunity for three states to have a joint effort in lobbying the federal government."

Schwarzenegger has said he supports the actions of his fellow governors but does not think there is a crisis along California's border.

Schwarzenegger supports the construction of a fence along California's border with Mexico and recently praised the Minuteman Project, which has conducted civilian patrols of the border.

Spokeswoman Margita Thompson said Schwarzenegger is lobbying for more federal money and has asked for more border patrol agents.

[SC33]

I can't figure this out. I could be wrong, but I read that Nunez is generally an open-borders guy. Why would he be pressing for more enforcement? Anybody have any idea?

[sinanju]

It's for appearances only. NM Gov Bill Richardson is doing the "state of emergency" dance and earmarking more money for border enforcement but failing to say exactly WHAT he will do...

Don't expect this Dem wardance to involve anything of actual substance.

[SC33]

I agree. Unfortunately, we don't have much to campaign on in terms of illegal immigration either. That is unless you consider open-borders a popular campaign platform.

[TomasUSMC]

Governor Urged To Declare State Of Emergency On Mexican Border

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Governor, give me a break! Our President is the one who should be URGED.

[BigTex5]

Please, no ZOTS....I don't think this question has been raised before, but why don't the land owners and farmers just shoot the illegals when they come across them? I mean, they are trespassing AND don't belong here, so what's stopping them?

[ARealMothersSonForever]

It is simply wrong to kill a trespasser that surrenders and is not a threat. The fedgov is tasked with border policy and enforcement.

[BigTex5]

So land protection is different from home protection?

[joesnuffy]

The illegal invasion of the USA ..even during war time..
with known Islamic terrorists and narco terrorist crossing
is only a misdemeanor?...

Not even a class 6 (class f) felony...

Even taking an unauthorized dump in a National Park is a felony..for crying out loud..

[FNG]

The People's Republic of California probably won't let it's subjects use deadly force to defend their property like we Texans can.

[Isabelle]

Make Bush look bad.

[Huck]

I love it. Federalism in action.

[kcvl]

Vol. 8, No. 48 December 03, 2003

California's New Speakerista
by K. Lloyd Billingsley

SACRAMENTO, CA – The California Assembly will soon have a new Speaker, Fabian Nunez, billed as a conciliatory liberal. He is actually a left-wing militant with a record of shrill rhetoric and pitting Californians against each other based on ethnicity.

Nunez is from San Diego and studied education and political science at upscale Pitzer College in Claremont. After graduating, he told the Los Angeles Times, “I was ready to join the Sandinistas,” a curious aspiration.

By 1988 the Sandinista dictatorship had made Nicaragua one of the most repressive regimes in the Americas, denounced by human rights organizations and shunned by prominent American liberals and leftists alike. However, instead of helping the Sandinista comandantes build socialism, Mr. Nunez became an activist with One Stop Immigration in Los Angeles.

This was the group that in October of 1994 staged a huge rally against Proposition 187, complete with speakers denouncing “AmeriKKKa” and “the United Snakes of America.” That month, Mr. Nunez spearheaded a student walkout at Ganesha High School in Pomona. The school board had already passed a resolution against Prop 187 but Mr. Nunez charged that they had not done enough. The demonstration included anti-gay rhetoric but Mr. Nunez told reporters that Latinos were not capable of discrimination. That would surprise residents of Cuba.

Mr. Nunez was also a backer of the Coordinadora '96 that staged the “Dia de la Raza” march in Washington, a blast of anti-American rhetoric. As the LA Weekly noted last year, Fabian Nunez was mentored by Bert Corona, a Marxist firebrand whose left-wing labor activism began before the Nazi-Soviet Pact. None of this emerged from the recent Sacramento Bee profile touting Mr. Nunez as the new speaker.

Mr. Nunez duly became political director for the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor and government affairs director for the Los Angeles Unified School District. “I have no interest in running for office,” Mr. Nunez told reporters in 1994. But last year he won an Assembly seat in the 46th District in Los Angeles, the only elected office he has ever held. He backed the measure to give driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants.

In the class-struggle mindset of the immigration militants, Californians are not one people but divided into oppressed Latino workers – in 1994, Nunez told the Los Angeles Times that “Latino workers are the modern-day slaves of Southern California” – and a bourgeoisie of malevolent “anglos,” a designation that includes people with names such as O'Reilly, Horowitz, and Schwarzenegger. Though advertised as progressive, this brand of politics is rather antiquated and shared neither by most Latinos nor the broader populace. California voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 187 and opposition to driver's licenses for illegals helped propel Arnold Schwarzenegger into office.

Latino voters in Santa Ana last year voted overwhelmingly to recall school-board member Nativo Lopez, whose profile and rhetoric is similar to that of Fabian Nunez. The voters wanted neither bilingual education nor divisive anti-American rhetoric. Many made it clear they resented activists who claimed to speak for them.

Since Fabian Nunez is one of those, Californians should not be surprised if the atmosphere of cooperation that has existed since the election quickly disappears. But perhaps some reporter will ask Speaker Nunez if the Sandinistas ever did anything with which he disagreed.

[Pirogue Captain]

Two Illegal Immigrants Win Arizona Ranch in Court Fight

Posted by RoyalsFan On News/Activism 08/19/2005 9:25:31 AM PDT · 246 replies · 3,444+ views The New York Times ^ | 08/19/05 | Andrew Pollack By ANDREW POLLACK Published: August 19, 2005 DOUGLAS, Ariz., Aug. 18 - Spent shells litter the ground at what is left of the firing range, and camouflage outfits still hang in a storeroom. Just a few months ago, this ranch was known as Camp Thunderbird, the headquarters of a paramilitary group that promised to use force to keep illegal immigrants from sneaking across the border with Mexico. Now, in a turnabout, the 70-acre property about two miles from the border is being given to two immigrants whom the group caught trying to enter the United States illegally. The land transfer...

[kcvl]

Fabian Nunez first came into prominence in the Mexican-American community in 1994 when he led a 100,000 voter movement to defeat the anti-Mexican Proposition 187 which among others things proposed to deny public school education and medical care to children of immigrant parents. When an anti-immigrant Republican coalition managed to pass the proposition, Fabian Nunez, was one of the principal Mexican-American leaders that, three years later, persuaded the California Supreme Court to declare Proposition 187 unconstitutional.

In an interview with Alejandro Sanchez of La Cronica newspaper of Mexico City, Fabian Nunez said that he is ready to wage political war on Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger if he continues implementing policies that targets immigrants and "Californios". It looks like Alta California is going to see lots of fireworks in Sacramento next year.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

Depends on the state. Private property rights are very good in Texas. Join the Texas Cattlemens Association, and properly post your land. California, AZ, and NM are markedly different. My perception is that the coyotes and smugglers purchase political clout and protection in many border areas, which gives the landowner (or lessee) great pause in undertaking personal actions. And it is still considered poor form to shoot unarmed juveniles and females.

[FNG]

It's not poor form, it's easy. You just don't lead 'em as much.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

I appreciate the humor. Mostly we get Yankees on these threads, p!ssin and moaning because brown people moved into their neighborhood. Texas has a very good reputation overall with respect to legal immigration. All border states have smuggling and illegal immigration. We have inland immigration booths, and they do interdict a large number of illegals (mostly to keep the ignorant ones from wandering on to Kings Ranch and gettin' shot). If CA, AZ, and NM put up inland immigration centers the lefties would go berzerk.

[Americanexpat]

Probably get sued and lose their property like the rancher on another thread.

Or wake up and find your house burning down around you or get ambushed by these coyotes and MS-13 types.

[Americanexpat]

After two Democrat governors declaring a state of emergency on their borders and Hillery talking about doing something about illegal immigration I would like to see the governors of Texas and or California come on board and do the same. Then Bush could step down hard on illegal immigration (not that I expect him to) and tell the whining liberals that both Republican and Democratic citizens wanted him to resolve this issue.

The Democrats may have painted themselves into a corner on this subject.