Posted on 08/04/2015 7:40:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
HUNTINGTON PARK (CBSLA.com) — Huntington Park became the first city in California to appoint two undocumented immigrants as commissioners on city advisory boards, a lawmaker confirms.
City Councilman Jhonny Pineda has picked Francisco Medina to join the health and education commission and Julian Zatarain for the parks and recreation commission.
The 32-year-old lawmaker told CBSLA onlineproducer Deborah Meron that he promised voters while running for office that he would create more opportunities for undocumented residents.
“Huntington Park is a city of opportunity and a city of hope for all individuals regardless of socioeconomic status, race, creed, or in this case, citizenship,” the councilman said in a statement.
“Both these gentlemen have accomplished a great deal for the city. For that, on behalf of the city council, mayor, and our city, I want to say thank you to them both and I am confident they will do an excellent job on their commission posts.”
The announcement was met with uproar at a city council meeting held in Huntington Park on Monday night. “You only want to appoint these specific individuals, only two, because they’re your personal friends that worked on your campaign,” one resident stated to Pineda at the meeting.
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For those who don’t know....
Huntington Park is a city in the Gateway Cities district of southeastern Los Angeles County, California.
As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 58,114, down from 61,348 at the 2000 census.
DEMOGRAPHICS:
The 2010 United States Census reported that Huntington Park had a population of 58,114. The population density was 19,270.0 people per square mile (7,440.2/km²).
The racial makeup of Huntington Park was 56,445 (97.1%) Hispanic or Latino, 29,776 (51.2%) White (1.6% Non-Hispanic White), 440 (0.8%) African American, 752 (1.3%) Native American, 393 (0.7%) Asian, 28 (0.0%) Pacific Islander, 24,535 (42.2%) from other races, and 2,190 (3.8%) from two or more races.
I thought it was a typo but I guess that’s how “Jhonny” spells his name, SMH.
Illegal aliens will be demanding US citizens to obey the law....will residents of this city tolorate this??
You can do that kind of stuff when you are in the majority in kalifornia.
Yup it is true folks
About Huntington beach not suprising the hood really change in last 30 years
“California’s Huntington Park....”
What is it with some of you New Yorkers,
SeekAndFind? Not enough silly liberal
shit happening in your own state to post?
Why couldn’t you have titled the thread
“LA County’s Huntington Park.....”?
I have never heard of the place.
New Yorkers having the audacity to post
crap about California......
Why don’t you come to Cali and get Barbara Boxer
and all those other libtard Hollywood types?
Take them back to New York where they started.
Then we can start working our way back to being
the fairly conservative state we once were.
Let’s face it my friend, no matter how much we dislike where we are, we’re OUTNUMBERED.
I intend to go down fighting.
This should not be tolerated. Pineda should lose his job and be placed immediately under investigation, along with anyone else on that council who supported this. This is wrong and bad.
“I intend to go down fighting”
WTF?
You going down fighting by pointing a finger at
California? Thanks but we have enough Cali
haters here. We don’t need crap from liberal
ground zero NY. Why don’t you post a thread
about that commie bastard running NYC and let
the other Caliphobics post stupid California
stuff.
Criminals telling honest people what to do.
Just driving around Santa Monica is an eye opener......Native Californians don’t use their horns when driving while a native New Yorker couldn’t even steer through a left hand turn without using his horn......Lotta tooting going on in West LA...... Bad enough that we got the dregs of east coast liberals (mostly New Yorkers), but they dragged their Rockefeller Republicans with them......Presto change Conservative California became wacky New York liberal.....and that’s the rest of the story!
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