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As Businesses Flee, Jerry Brown's California Attracts A Different Kind Of "Investment"
Investor's Business Daily ^ | 12 September 2014 | Editorial

Posted on 09/14/2014 5:41:23 PM PDT by IBD editorial writer

Immigration: When California Gov. Jerry Brown hung out the "all welcome" sign for illegals, Mexico's drug cartels heard him loud and clear. Raids on Thursday left lawmen declaring Los Angeles a cash-laundering mecca. Roping off 100 blocks of downtown Los Angeles this week, federal agents from the U.S. attorney's office raided roughly 70 garment district businesses along with a few houses in tony Westwood and Beverly Hills. The suspected crime was laundering money for Mexico's Sinaloa cartel. Agents hauled out $65 million in cash stuffed in duffel bags, suitcases and boxes, some of it blood-spattered. The cash came from hostage ransoms, drug sales and alien-smuggling fees. Some of those arrested were charged with "various immigration offenses," according to the affidavit.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; cannabis; colorado; drugs; investment; jerrybrown; libertarians; losangeles; marijuana; medicalmarijuana; mexicandrugcartels; mexico; pot; rockymountainhigh; sinaloa
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To: RedHeeler
Sold, bought and paid for...Moonbeam. This supposed Jesuit, loves all species of gutter slime.

Yes, he is slime. But he, like the PimpPrez, couldn't have done it alone. They had LOTS and LOTS and LOTS and LOTS and LOTS and LOTS and LOTS and LOTS and LOTS and LOTS of help for those MORONS who elected and re-elected these Democrats.

SO, it seems that TOO many Americans have a death wish. They elect and RE-ELECT people who would DESTROY us.

Am I wrong?

21 posted on 09/14/2014 6:33:53 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: IBD editorial writer

Where is Eric Holder? Shouldn’t
he be here addressing this blatantly racist activity?


22 posted on 09/14/2014 6:45:28 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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To: MCF

That’s was I was thinking too. They can’t get rid of them, this is their only viable tax base right now.


23 posted on 09/14/2014 6:48:34 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: IBD editorial writer

This drug cartel was getting a little too greedy. Apparently they “forgot” to pay their share to the desinated Fed sponsored drug laundering bank. The bank gets the money and the Feds gets their cut.


24 posted on 09/14/2014 7:06:52 PM PDT by grumpygresh (Democrats delenda est. New US economy: Fascism on top, Socialism on the bottom.)
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To: cloudmountain

No. Not wrong. These red-diaper babies, became part of the establishment, per Alinsky. Well done, actually. The ensuing permissive social environment allowed- gov’t unions. The downfall of our primary to college education system/control, has birthed these voting trends- and the ascension of garrulously anti-republic politicos. Basically, gangsters.


25 posted on 09/14/2014 7:07:58 PM PDT by RedHeeler
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To: GeronL; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; Travis McGee; ...
They roped off a 100-block area for this and there was no media coverage?

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...

26 posted on 09/14/2014 8:41:21 PM PDT by null and void (Only God Himself watches you more closely than the US government.)
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To: IBD editorial writer

Cue Ferguson style rioting and looting.


27 posted on 09/14/2014 8:43:16 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee! First one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: null and void

the old man is a complete loon


28 posted on 09/14/2014 9:19:57 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: Nifster

Yep. He hasn’t changed a bit!


29 posted on 09/14/2014 9:29:20 PM PDT by null and void (Only God Himself watches you more closely than the US government.)
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To: IBD editorial writer

$65 million keeps the state running for 5 minutes?


30 posted on 09/14/2014 9:35:17 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: cloudmountain

The money leaving has always been greater, by under-the -table employment than, your drug theory. Yes, drugs are a big incentive, only by loose restrictions to access of the US. The slave market is many times greater.


31 posted on 09/14/2014 9:46:02 PM PDT by RedHeeler
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To: RedHeeler
The money leaving has always been greater, by under-the -table employment than, your drug theory. Yes, drugs are a big incentive, only by loose restrictions to access of the US. The slave market is many times greater.

How nice for all those girls and women--slavery. :o(
God help them.

32 posted on 09/14/2014 10:04:04 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: IBD editorial writer

As long as democrats get their votes they don’t care whether countries or states or anything else are destroyed in the process.


33 posted on 09/14/2014 10:14:16 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (If you're on the same side of ferguson as Al and Jesse then you f-ed up somewhere, rethink it dummy)
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To: IBD editorial writer

He thinks he is a Roman Consul. Just like in rome of old, the conquered regions had no right of representation in the Roman Senate, only the incestuous little pig children of Roman officials got titles to run regions that they used.

This is the Democrat Nero mentality. They could care less.


34 posted on 09/14/2014 10:20:28 PM PDT by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: cloudmountain

Men and boys, also. Even more so. The underground economy is vast, by labor trade alone.


35 posted on 09/14/2014 10:26:10 PM PDT by RedHeeler
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To: IBD editorial writer

He has also released 40,000 criminals from state prison.
They are in the process of robbing, raping and killing.


36 posted on 09/14/2014 10:37:38 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: cloudmountain
Re: “If the gringos weren't so insistent on getting high”

You're thinking about the 1970’s.

In 2014, nationally, the Gringos are just 62% of all Americans.

In California and New Mexico, just 39%.

In Texas, just 44%.

37 posted on 09/14/2014 11:55:03 PM PDT by zeestephen
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Rand Paul's immigration speech
...The Republican Party must embrace more legal immigration.

Unfortunately, like many of the major debates in Washington, immigration has become a stalemate-where both sides are imprisoned by their own rhetoric or attachment to sacred cows that prevent the possibility of a balanced solution.

Immigration Reform will not occur until Conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation.

Let's start that conversation by acknowledging we aren't going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants.

If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you...

This is where prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society.

Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors.
[Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg]
Rand Paul calls on conservatives to embrace immigration reform
Latinos, should be a natural constituency for the party, Paul argued, but "Republicans have pushed them away with harsh rhetoric over immigration." ...he would create a bipartisan panel to determine how many visas should be granted for workers already in the United States and those who might follow... [and the buried lead] "Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers...
[Posted on 04/21/2013 1:52:42 PM PDT by SoConPubbie]
[but he's not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]

38 posted on 09/15/2014 12:12:56 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

> ...federal agents from the U.S. attorney’s office raided roughly 70 garment district businesses along with a few houses in tony Westwood and Beverly Hills. The suspected crime was laundering money for Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel.

$65 million in cash was found. But hey, they were only laundering the money that Americans won’t launder.


39 posted on 09/15/2014 12:13:03 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Rope off the entire state of Cali, then see some real results. We could end poverty in Cali; .....


40 posted on 09/15/2014 12:15:31 AM PDT by juma (What i s the real answer ? Does anyone Know ?)
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