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Posted on 05/05/2011 1:38:27 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
SANTA ANA – The question of how Latino this city's identity is, or should be, keeps cropping up, creating a bit of a minefield for the all-Latino City Council. One area of contention has been the city's downtown shopping district, on East Fourth Street, where some Latino merchants have complained they feel they are being pushed out in a gentrification move. The removal of a merry-go-round that had attracted Latino families to the Fiesta Marketplace plaza at Fourth and Spurgeon streets has symbolized what some see as an agenda to make the downtown more appealing to people of other ethnicities.This week the City Council found itself attacked on a different front. Activists on behalf of undocumented immigrants want Santa Ana to stop impounding the cars of unlicensed drivers who are caught in DUI checkpoints. A parade of speakers during the public comment period of Monday's meeting asked the City Council to follow Los Angeles, where police recently adopted a policy aimed at impounding fewer vehicles from unlicensed drivers. The issue is a complex one, sitting in the nexus of federal immigration enforcement, the California vehicle code, and city police practice. Santa Ana Police Chief Paul Walters said his department has already been doing what Los Angeles police recently started, which is to allow unlicensed drivers to call a licensed driver to come and drive their vehicle away, avoiding an impound and the onerous fees associated with it. Such calls are made at the discretion of the officers at the scene, in cases where they determine that the unlicensed motorist has an otherwise clean record, Walters said. The activists want to eliminate that discretion. They want the city to adopt an ordinance that would require officers to give sober, unlicensed drivers an opportunity to call a licensed driver,
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racism?
At this point, just tow the city away. Half are illegal anyway ;-)
Also a KEY REMARK: “Driver’s licenses? We don’t need no stinking driver’s licenses.”
Fourth and Spurgeon? Nah, gang bangers drove people away from that area, nothing else.
Phase one of a one world government nearly complete
Ping!
Sounds like they need more diversity.
I remember when some “citizens” of Santa Ana took a screwdriver and temporarily impounded my van until they could remove all the back seats and my CD player.
Sounds like they need reach out for more diversity.
You've not driven through it lately, I take it...
Nope, it has been 4 or 5 years. What is it like now?
Worse. Much, much worse.
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