Ping!
Can California be saved? Are the rest of the Southwestern states far behind? Is your state next?
Posted on 03/21/2006 6:31:46 AM PST by LNewman
At a time when communities across the nation are considering efforts to crack down on illegal immigration, one small city south of downtown Los Angeles is charting a different course.
In Maywood, where 96% of the residents are Latino, and more than half are foreign-born, the City Council has vowed to make the municipality a "sanctuary city" for illegal immigrants, and over the last few months it has set out to prove it.
First, the city eliminated the Police Department's traffic division after complaints that officers unfairly targeted illegal immigrants. Then it made it much more difficult for police to tow cars whose owners didn't have driver's licenses, a practice that affected mostly undocumented people who could not obtain licenses.
In January, the City Council passed a resolution opposing a proposed federal law that would criminalize illegal immigration and make local police departments enforce immigration law. Now, some in the community are pushing to rename one of the city's elementary schools after former Mexican President Benito Juarez and debating measures to improve the lives of illegal immigrants.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
George Washington is rolling in his grave...
Does your chest swell with pride at the thought of the "new America"?
| We are now one of the largest Spanish-speaking nations in the world. We're a major source of Latin music, journalism and culture. Just go to Miami, or San Antonio, Los Angeles, Chicago or West New York, New Jersey ... and close your eyes and listen. You could just as easily be in Santo Domingo or Santiago, or San Miguel de Allende. For years our nation has debated this change -- some have praised it and others have resented it. By nominating me, my party has made a choice to welcome the new America. As I speak, we are celebrating the success of democracy in Mexico. George Bush from a campaign speech in Miami, August 2000. |
Here is an excerpt of a good critique of that speech:
In equating our intimate historic bonds to our mother country and to Canada with our ties to Mexico, W. shows a staggering ignorance of the civilizational facts of life. The reason we are so close to Britain and Canada is that we share with them a common historical culture, language, literature, and legal system, as well as similar standards of behavior, expectations of public officials, and so on. My Bush Epiphany By Lawrence Auster
let the invasion begin..who can deny the plan to occupy the USA?? this town is just reflecting what will happen to many cities and states..millions of illegals will have that power.
Sounds like just the place to start the federal roundup, if we ever get serious!
I can't reply to this. I would get kicked off for abusive language.
What utter treasonous vomit.
Hey, why bother with licenses? Regulations just get in the way.
"foreign-born" is newspaper code for illegal alien
Licenses!?! We doe need no stinkin licenses!!!
My thougts exactly! Send the Feds in, round them up, and away they go. Into a big bus playing bario music and a big sign that reads, "Mexico o Reventarse." (Mexico or Bust)
And took further action to ensure that all citizens wore Birkenstocks, chanted "kumbayah" at every opportunity, granted tax incentives to tofu dealers, incorporated "hugs, warm and fuzzy" into the city slogan, mailed Mother Sheehan a key to the city, made DU the official web site and generally descended into a liberal hell hole.
btttt
Seems to me, ICE should have a pretty good idea of where to pick up several hundred illegals in one fell swoop. These people don't get it. Most of Americans aren't against immigration, it's illegals that bother them. I have friends from Ireland with degrees that had a hard time getting green cards to work. They waited a couple of years for paperwork to clear to get here. But they did it legally. That's the difference. Getting hard working people here to work and raise families is some of the freedoms this country was founded on. Just so it LEGALLY.
Several hundred? The 2000 census gives Maywood, CA a population of 28,083 ... and that's just the ones that were counted and not hiding under a rock some place.
Now our foolhardy youth won't have to cross the border to visit TJ.
So, wait a second - it's fine for the Mayor and city council of Costa Mesa to do what they want, but not for the City of Maywood 30 miles away?
Do you want all LEGAL immigration stopped too?
You are such a colossal apologizer for illegals it's impossible to argue with you. Damn anchor baby.
Sounds like more of a personal attack than dealing with the substance of this national policy debate.
Why would the federal government need to "criminalize" something that is already illegal?
Am I missing something here?
We've had the logical tango in a thread long before this. You do not understand logic. You have one focus and that is apoligizing for illegals and castigating anyone who wants the US to follow laws. What use is there responding to your baiting questions. Frankly I think I am doing the htread a favor by pointing out the uselessness of arguing with an anchor baby whose mother came to this country ILLEGALLY.
It's kinda a personal attack since my mother came from Mexico legally 40 years ago and is now a U.S. citizen. But, if "anchor baby" is all you got, I guess go for it.
Yep. It looks like "what they want" in Costa Mesa is enforcement of the law.
The mayor of the Sewer of Maywood would be just perfect ... as the mayor of a city in Mejico.
The City of L.A. is also looking at whether to defy that federal law if it is passed - perhaps you heard about Cardinal Mahony re: this issue as well?
The usual BS non-issue basura.
O.K. then - don't bother with consistency if you don't want to.
I'd rather have the Mayor of Maywood exactly where he is, thank you. Let's start with an easier question: today is Benito Juarez's birthday - can Maywood name an elementary school after him?
After you answer my other question, perhaps you can explain for us all why "Do you want all LEGAL immigration stopped too?" is usual BS non-issue basura?
Then LA should lose whatever fed money that is doled out to them annually.
Certainly! In Oaxaca.
If you don't like this country get the hell out. And yes that was meant to be a personal attack because you deserve no respect whatsoever.
Maywood is not a pleasant place.
With a population pegged officially at about 29,000 — but actually closer to 45,000 when illegal residents are factored in, according to city officials — Maywood is a compact 1.2 square miles of tightly packed homes and apartments, strip malls and mom-and-pop shops amid the factories and industrial businesses...
Longtime residents believe the City Council has gone too far and is embracing lawlessness. They also question whether Maywood can handle more illegal immigrants. "I'm afraid we're testing the limits of the law, and that's dangerous," said longtime resident J. Luis Ceballos, 52. "I think there is a danger of people thinking that they can do whatever they want."
A big PING for one of California's model cities.
Can California be saved? Are the rest of the Southwestern states far behind? Is your state next?
We're being colonized, and we're paying a high price.
The "leaders" in Washington say "What, Me Worry?"
So let's see...one is encouraging compliance with the law, the other is encouraging violation of the law.
The answer to your stupid question is obvious.
Why are you apologizing for the advocation of openly breaking the laws of the United States of America?
Are you a member of Aztlan or whatever they call themselves?
Support our Minutemen Patriots!
Be Ever Vigilant!
Awe he is fun to argue with and it serves a purpose, bumps the thread so more can read the article.LOL
Costa Mesa officials wish to enforce the laws, City of Maywood wants to flaunt them- no not much difference....
But then you knew that already.
I guess there is no need to renew our licences and insurance, we all just need to drive respectfully. WHAT??
We are honored that she chose to join us, and thankful that she did it properly. Our criticism of iilegals have nothing to do with her and others like her.
The Federal government has done the same. There is no enforcement inside the United States. Workplaces are not raided. 98% of deportations are from the Southern border when a Mexican invader is captured and bussed back to Mexico. We don't deport Central Americans we capture at the border because that means sending them back in airplanes. Logistically too complicated for the Feds to figure out
lol, you may be right. But I think I'll sit this square dance out and let another member completely destroy his pro-iillegal immigration arguments.
Actually in a thread a month or so back he admitted that his mother was an illegal. FYI.
I have batted him around several times just for amusement and to bump the thread. Problem is he won't trade jabs with me much any more. That's no fun.
Arrest and jail employers. Game over.
Afraid so.
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