Posted on 05/14/2010 8:18:15 AM PDT by DFG
The Austin City Council passed a resolution this morning aimed at ending business and travel ties to Arizona to protest a new state law that allows Arizona law enforcement officers to detain people they suspect are in the country illegally.
The resolution, proposed by Council Member Mike Martinez, calls for ending all business-related travel to Arizona by city employees, unless it is related to police investigations, providing humanitarian aid or protecting Austinites’ health and safety. It also asks the city manager to review all city business with and investments in the state of Arizona and devise a plan to end those ties.
(Excerpt) Read more at statesman.com ...
Note the guys last name. He should open the city of Austin up to all illegal immigrants and see how they like it.
Citizens of Austin need to nip this one in the bud. Raise hell with the council.
Tell them to focus on things like crime in their own city.
In 2007, Felipe Calderon, president of Mexico, denounced "unilateral measures taken by the U.S. Congress and government " against Mexicans illegally in the U.S. and declared: "Where there is a Mexican, there is Mexico."In 2004, Vicente Fox, then president of Mexico, stated: "We are Mexicans that live in our territories and we are Mexicans that live in other territories. In reality, we are 120 million people that live together and are working together to construct a nation."
In 1998, Jose Pescador Osuna, then-consul general of Mexico, admitted: "We are practicing La Reconquista in California."
In 1997, Ernesto Zedillo, then president of Mexico, proclaimed: "I have proudly affirmed that the Mexican nation extends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders and that Mexican migrants are an important – a very important – part of it."
The Mexican government has been waging a non-military war against the U.S., with territory as its aim and illegals as its army.
ha. whats Austin going to do when TX passes similar law. Many they can all up and move to Mexico. This really has Arizona shaking in their boots. eh?
Adding Austin to my list of boycotted cities.
townhall.com, By Humberto Fontova
FR Posted May 04, 2010 by pissant
“Cuba Si!—Arizona No! “ Says Mexican President Felipe Calderon
EXCERPT Mexican President Felipe Calderon can hardly contain his revulsion and rage against Arizona’s law--SB 1070. He’s "deeply troubled" reports the Associated Press over a law he denounces as "discriminatory and racist," not to mention “a dire threat to the whole Hispanic-American population." This new Arizona law "opens the door to intolerance, hate, discrimination and abuse in law enforcement," sputters the Mexican President.
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Indeed, Senor Calderon, this “threat to Hispanics” and these “abuses in law enforcement," have been ongoing for years. All of the “hate” and “abuses in law enforcement” as reported by the Associated Press below, befell Central American migrants who enter Mexico.
The Associated Press reported that Maria Elena Gonzalez related female migrants were “forced to strip by abusive Mexican police officers, supposedly to search them, but the purpose is to sexually abuse them." Jose Ramos, 18, reported “that extortion by Mexican border police occurs at every stop on their migratory route. Until migrants are left penniless and begging for food.”
According to AP: “Others said they had seen migrants beaten to death by Mexican police, their bodies left near the railway tracks to make it look as if they had fallen from a train. "If you're carrying any money, the Mexican police take it from you," said Carlos Lopez. "Federal, state, local Mexican police--all of them shake you down. If you're on a bus, the Mexican police pull you off and search your pockets, and if you have any money, the Mexican police keep it all and say, 'get out of here.' ”
I do not think those that are openly opposing Arizona on this realize that they are exposing themselves to the nation.
The great divide will be between those that liked the country the way it was and those that want to transform us into something we would rather not become.
How you view this law defines which side you are on.
If we do not get control over those that come into our country illegally than nothing else really matters because time is on their side.
More like East San Francisco.
That is Houston another sanctuary city
All this faux outrage is for one purpose. to inflame the legal hispanics and get them to vote Dem
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Austin - aka Moscow on the Colorado.
Yes, it is. Totally blue. I’m with the poster above you. AZ legislature should pass a law aimed at banning business in Austin. Of course the only business you’d have there is some real crappy music.
I cannot get the Austin Statesman page to load. It’s a well know fact throughout the state, Austin is a meca for liberal thinking in the state. It’s the home of U of T and the state capital. Austin, by no stretch of the imagination, is representative of the rest of the state.
Exactly right
and Austin used to be such a beautiful city.
Now it is crowded and run by loons.
Not every Longhorn is a lib tho. Some of us grew up.
In the article, the reason given for the boycott was that Austin does not want to risk having city employees detained when they visit Phoenix on business. As the Arizona law allows police to check for illegal alien status only during lawful interaction with citizens (traffic stops, domestic violence calls, robberies, etc.), this implies Austin city employees must habitually flout the law.
Obviously Austin approves of paying the hospital bills for illegals, and just loves their criminal acts.
Let the rest of Texas send their illegals around to Austin.
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