Posted on 01/25/2007 1:16:20 PM PST by BunnySlippers
Cook Rosa Maria Salazar's eyes dart anxiously to the door as customers file into the Salvadoran cafe in a heavily Hispanic neighborhood near downtown Los Angeles.
"We're terrified. The police could come for us at any time and deport us," she said in Spanish earlier this week as diners fingered maize tortillas stuffed with beans and pork scratchings and chatted softly.
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"We hadn't seen anything like this here before, and it came as a shock," said Antonio Bernabe, a community worker who runs a day labor program at the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles.
"The police didn't just take people with deportation orders, they took anybody ... guys who were just hanging out in the street and even from a Jack in the Box restaurant ... and now people are afraid to go out," he added.
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Some immigrants who followed the speech closely on Spanish-language television in Los Angeles remained hopeful of concessions in the aftermath of the sweep.
"I came here to work and help support my family, so obviously the raids were alarming," Salvadoran construction worker Remberto Flores told Reuters in Spanish as he waited for a bus in a neighborhood of taco stands and wire transfer shops.
"But we saw President Bush talk about reforms in the Senate, so maybe there will be some breaks for us as well," he added.
Others in the city believed that the only clear message from the raids and the speech was that the situation for immigrants in California had changed.
"We used to feel secure here," Nicaraguan electrician Manuel Salomon told Reuters as he sipped coffee in a Mexican bakery in the city. "But it looks like that honeymoon is over."
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Good. Now get the f*** out of our country.
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With house construction in the dumps now, what are all the illegals who used to work for contractors doing for money? They ought to be leaving for home. They'll probably be doing more crime, however.
If you have a gang member in your family, you are going to have a lot of problems. State and Federal agents are rounding up gang members all over the place. Just leave a little place in San Fernando alone. That Mexican sweatheart makes tostadas with beans, peppers, tomatoes, lettuce, cheese, onions and spices that will make you blow farts for weeks.
Notice the quotes and the language. Reuters is trying to make it sound like California is becoming a police state.
"The police could come for us at any time."
"The police didn't just take people with deportation orders, they took anybody........ and now people are afraid to go out,".
I wonder if they even interviewed real people or just fantasized it like they do a lot of their articles.
They are standing around every Home Depot and Lowes ... literally hundreds of them around every store all the time.
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I can't read that line enough times..
"Oh happy happy joy joy"!
sw
I have an easy solution for their quandary...GO HOME.
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El Salvador Cafe
575 E Pico Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90015 map
district: Downtown Los Angeles
What a bunch of liberal tripe. If they're that scared, they wouldn't have come across in the first place or at least high tail it outta the country tonight. But, noooo. They ain't movin'. They'll be here tomorrow, the next day, next week, next year, and forever until the powers that be wake up.
Immigrants?? I think they mean ILLEGAL ALIENS. They probably don't have to lose any sleep over the raids, because there's millions of illegal aliens here to choose from, whole towns full of them.
OMG. Who would be stupid enough to allow an electrician from Nicaragua wire their home? Does he have a license from California? Your insurance won't cover a house that burns down if wired by a non-licensed electrician.
Quote: "We hadn't seen anything like this here before..."
Well, why the hell not?
This should have been the 1000th raid, not the 1st.
Hey, JG, I get a seat on most local buses lately. Wonder why. :)
High five, Newman! I think we'll have to take our country back, bus by bus... :^)
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