Posted on 12/17/2007 6:11:00 AM PST by kellynla
Social tolerance was once the hallmark of Costa Mesa, a place where bowls of free soup awaited the poor just as racks of designer shoes awaited the well-heeled.
The home of South Coast Plaza was also home to a city Human Relations Committee, a job center and a decades-long history of helping the poor, whether immigrant or native-born. The late county supervisor Tom Riley dubbed Costa Mesa "the city with a heart."
The soup kitchen is still there. But the Human Relations Committee and the job center are gone, jettisoned by Mayor Allan Mansoor and his allies on the council after being too sympathetic to illegal immigrants.
The city's new legacy is its aggressive stance against illegal immigration, including the use of city police to identify undocumented immigrants among crime suspects.
Costa Mesa is not the first local agency to partner with immigration agents. Police in Florida and Alabama have been doing so since 2003. In California, jail-check programs vary from checking the status of convicted felons – that's what Los Angeles County does – to checking everyone in the jail – that's what Orange County started doing just one month after Costa Mesa.
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
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“I think we have enough homegrown criminals. We need not import more.”
That pretty much nails it!
Yes, only a truly heartless person would put the interests of law abiding citizens ahead of criminals. Or would put working class people ahead of fat cats who want to hire people “off the books” at slave wage rates. Or would want to protect people from drunk drivers. Or from identity theft. Or from crime.
Here’s a question I’ve been asking my liberal colleagues at work. Do American citizens have a right to enter any nation on earth we desire to enter, and to avail ourselves of jobs, benefits, and other goodies? They start stammering something about how “America is different” and we have always been a “nation of immigrants” so the rules that apply to other nations (like national boundaries) don’t apply here.
Meaning:
"Illegals knew they had a soft, easily-exploitable, bleeding-heart target in the town of Costa Mesa".
Why was the thread on the first part of this series pulled from FR?
“Bus to the border”
http://www.ocregister.com/article/immigrants-ice-immigration-1942524-illegal-year
But the the most revealing nugget from the article is the following (emphasis added):
"If you're deporting and removing everybody from a shoplifter to a murderer, you're creating a situation where it's much more difficult for law enforcement to focus on the serious cases," said Doris Meisner, who ran the Immigration and Naturalization Service during the Clinton administration.This is the same Doris Meisner, who with Reno sent the Immigration SWAT team in to concentrate on the "serious cases":
She went on to heads the leftist Carnegie Institute's lobbying in behalf of open borders and to that end shows up often in the media and the halls of government to sell her internationalist (anti-American) bilge.
Marcelino Tzir, caught riding his bicycle on the wrong side of the street border.
A heart doesn’t do any good without a brain to go with it.
I don't remember the exact wording, but it was something about the thread having too any mean comments.
You might mention to your colleagues that, while we've always been a "nation of immigrants", we've previously been a "nation of legal immigrants". Ellis Island was never the equivalent of the current state of our borders.
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