EVERY
DAY THERE ARE 12 AMERICANS MURDERED BY ILLEGALS, AND EIGHT CHILDREN MOLESTED.
MEXICAN ARE THE MOST VIOLENT CULTURE IN THE HEMISPHERE. WHEN THEY HOP OUR
BORDERS IT’S AS LOOTERS AND OCCUPIERS.
“I DID NOT HOP THE
BORDER, THE BORDER HOPPED ME.”
“Where ever there is a Mexican, there is Mexico!” Mex President
Calderon, whose country’s biggest exports are: DRUGS, CRIMINALS, POVERTY and
PREGNANT WOMEN.
THERE
HAVE BEEN MORE THAN 2,000 AMERICANS MURDERED IN CA BY ILLEGALS THAT FLED BACK
OVER THE BORDER! WHERE’S THE OUTRAGE?
ACCORDING
TO CA ATTORNEY GEN. KAMALA HARRIS DECLARES HALF THE MURDERS IN CA ARE BY
MEXICAN GANGS!!!!!!!!! SHE IS A LA RAZA DEM FOR OPEN BORDERS, AMNESTY, or at
least continued NON-ENFORCEMENT. CA HAS THE LARGEST AND MOST EXPENSIVE PRISON
SYSTEM IN THE NATION, AND HALF THE INMATE POPULATION ARE MEXICANS!
ANTONIO
“TACO RUNT” VILLARAIGOSA IS A RABIDLY RACIST LA RAZA SUPREMACY. HE WAS ELECTED
BY ILLEGALS! HIS CITY OF LOS ANGELES, NOW IN ECONOMIC MELTDOWN, SPENDS $10
MILLION PER YEAR IN MEXICAN GRAFFITI ABATEMENT ALONE.
OF
THE 12 AMERICANS MURDERED BY ILLEGALS DAILY !!!!! MANY !!!!! ARE MURDERED BY
MEXICANS DRIVING WITHOUT LICENSES, INSURANCE, OR REGISTRATION!!!!!
LA
RAZA SUPREMACIST VILLARAIGOSA’S SOLUTION IS TO ASSURE HIS PEOPLE THEIR CARS
WILL NO LONGER BE IMPOUNDED.
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FROM MEX-OWNED NEW YORK
TIMES – PROPAGANDA MACHINE FOR LA RAZA SUPREMACY:
PERHAPS THE ILLEGALS SHOULD TAKE THEIR
HOPES FOR MORE LOOTING BACK TO NARCOMEX! AND TAKE VILLARAIGOSA WITH THEM!
A Change in Police Policy Has Immigrants
Hoping for More
LOS
ANGELES — The weekend checkpoints set up along intersections here were always
meant to catch those who had had too much to drink. In an operation intended to
be equal parts deterrent and enforcement, the police would stop every car,
testing drivers suspected of being under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
But for
years, advocacy groups have complained that the checkpoints unfairly targeted
illegal immigrants, who cannot get driver’s licenses, ensnaring far more
unlicensed drivers than drunken ones. And in March, the Los Angeles Police
Department decided that it would no longer automatically impound the vehicles
of drivers without licenses.
The
change was a significant shift here in the country’s second-largest city, home
to thousands of illegal immigrants who, like many other residents, see driving
as the only viable way to move around a sprawling metropolitan area larger than
Delaware and Rhode Island combined. And it is in marked contrast to debates in
other places around the country where local governments are cracking down
harder on illegal immigrants living within their borders.
The
Police Department here has for years tried to cultivate trust among immigrants,
who often view law enforcement as a threat. The city’s police chief, Charlie
Beck, has repeatedly said that the impound change was an issue of “fairness and
compassion” and that he hoped it would improve the department’s relationship
with immigrants and help persuade more of them to cooperate with police
investigations.
Immigrant
advocacy groups and some political leaders hope that the department’s shift
will encourage other cities to make similar changes — and open the door to the
prospect of granting driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, an idea Chief
Beck has endorsed.
“It is
good to show some sense of understanding of their plight,” Chief Beck said when
the city’s Police Commission approved the change in March.
But the
new policy faces a legal battle. Last month, the union representing police
officers filed a lawsuit to stop the change, saying that it placed officers at
risk and would make the city’s roads less safe.
“We need
to find a way to be compassionate, yes, but also keep the roads safe,” said
Tyler Izen, president of the union, the Los Angeles Police
Protective League. “I’m not sure the right way for us to deal with
this is at the local level.”
The city
attorney’s office assured the Police Department that it had the authority to
change the policy, but the district attorney for Los Angeles County and state
legislative lawyers disagreed, saying it contradicted state law. While the
state’s attorney general was expected to issue an opinion in the coming days,
the matter will most likely be settled in state court.
Under the
new policy, drivers who are pulled over for minor traffic violations, including
speeding, are asked to show valid identification and proof of insurance. If
unlicensed drivers do not have a previous citation, they will not face a 30-day
impound, where fees can often reach into the thousands of dollars (often more
than a car is worth). If a licensed driver is able to come to the scene
immediately, that driver usually will be allowed to take the car. If not, the
car will be towed but can be picked up as soon as the owner comes to retrieve
it with a licensed driver.
“You have
situations where you are pulling someone over and you’ve got a husband pulling
out the baby seat from the car and a wife crying,” said Andrew Smith, a Police
Department spokesman. “For us, that’s a really difficult thing when we want to
show some humanity.”
Several
other California cities have already put similar policies into effect,
including Oakland, San Francisco and San Jose, and a lawmaker representing
Northern California has introduced legislation to create a similar law for the
entire state. But in the vast majority of cities, including the dozens
patrolled by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, unlicensed drivers
still face a 30-day impound if they are caught.
Advocates
have their sights set on a more sweeping change — simply allowing anyone to get
a license after passing a driving skills test. Chief Beck has said he favors
such a plan, although he said such licenses should not be identical to a
regular license. The Los Angeles County sheriff, Lee Baca, has also said he
would support a similar idea.
It is
impossible to know precisely how many illegal immigrants drive in California,
but Chief Beck and advocates say that not having a license does little to
discourage them from getting on the road.
“After
all these years, has not providing driver’s licenses ameliorated immigration?”
asked Angelica Salas, the executive director of Coalition for Humane Immigrant
Rights of Los Angeles, which has lobbied for licenses for more than a decade.
“The answer is no. It has only made things more dangerous on the road. We should
just go back to really what was the whole purpose of them in the first place:
to have safety on the roads.”
The
battle to grant licenses to illegal immigrants in California began in the
mid-1990s. State Assemblyman Gil Cedillo of Los Angeles pressed for and got
legislation passed giving illegal immigrants the right to a license in 2004,
but facing a statewide referendum opposing the change, he withdrew it. Now,
with just a few months left in his final term in office, Mr. Cedillo has vowed
to pass the legislation again.
Gov.
Jerry Brown, a Democrat like Mr. Cedillo, has not taken a clear stand on the
issue, although during his 2010 campaign he indicated that he would oppose such
a law, calling it “piecemeal” immigration reform.
But
advocates said they were encouraged by the fact that Mr. Brown had signed other
legislation, including the state’s Dream
Act, which allows all students to received state financial aid for
college, regardless of immigration status.
“Everyone
wants to be skeptical, but I’m as optimistic as I ever have been in the 15
years we’ve been talking about this,” said Daniel Savage, Mr. Cedillo’s chief
of staff. “For us now, this is the most important piece of legislation for the
community.”
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TWELVE AMERICANS MURDERED EACH DAY BY ILLEGALS
By Joseph Farah
WorldNetDaily.com
WASHINGTON –
While the military "quagmire" in Iraq was said to tip the scales of
power in the U.S. midterm elections, most Americans have no idea more of their
fellow citizens – men, women and children – were murdered this year by illegal
aliens than the combined death toll of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan
since those military campaigns began. Though no federal statistics are kept on
murders or any other crimes committed by illegal aliens, a number of groups
have produced estimates based on data collected from prisons, news reports and
independent research. Twelve Americans
are murdered every day by illegal aliens, according to statistics released by
Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa. If those numbers are correct, it translates to 4,380
Americans murdered annually by illegal aliens. That's 21,900 since Sept.
11, 2001. Total U.S. troop deaths in Iraq as of last week were reported at
2,863. Total U.S. troop deaths in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan during
the five years of the Afghan campaign are currently at 289, according to the
Department of Defense. But the carnage wrought by illegal alien murderers
represents only a fraction of the pool of blood spilled by American citizens as
a result of an open border and un-enforced immigration laws. While King reports 12 Americans
are murdered daily by illegal aliens, he says 13 are killed by drunk illegal
alien drivers – for another annual death toll of 4,745. That's 23,725 since
Sept. 11, 2001. While no one – in or out of government – tracks all U.S.
accidents caused by illegal aliens, the statistical and anecdotal evidence
suggests many of last year's 42,636 road deaths involved illegal aliens. A
report by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Study found 20 percent of fatal
accidents involve at least one driver who lacks a valid license. In California,
another study showed that those who have never held a valid license are about
five times more likely to be involved in a fatal road accident than licensed
drivers. Statistically, that makes them an even greater danger on the road than
drivers whose licenses have been suspended or revoked – and nearly as dangerous
as drunk drivers. King also reports eight American
children are victims of sexual abuse by illegal aliens every day – a total of
2,920 annually. Based on a one-year in-depth study, Deborah Schurman-Kauflin of
the Violent Crimes Institute of Atlanta estimates there are about 240,000
illegal immigrant sex offenders in the United States who have had an average of
four victims each. She analyzed 1,500
cases from January 1999 through April 2006 that included serial rapes, serial
murders, sexual homicides and child molestation committed by illegal
immigrants. As the number of illegal aliens in the U.S. increases, so does the
number of American victims. According to Edwin Rubenstien, president of ESR
Research Economic Consultants, in Indianapolis in 1980, federal and state
correctional facilities held fewer than 9,000 criminal aliens. But at the end
of 2003, approximately 267,000 illegal aliens were incarcerated in all U.S.
jails and prisons. While the federal government doesn't track illegal alien
murders, illegal alien rapes or illegal alien drunk driving deaths, it has
studied illegal aliens incarcerated in U.S. prisons. In April 2005, the
Government Accountability Office released a report on a study of 55,322 illegal
aliens incarcerated in federal, state, and local facilities during 2003. It
found the following: The 55,322 illegal aliens studied represented a total of
459,614 arrests – some eight arrests per illegal alien; Their arrests
represented a total of about 700,000 criminal offenses – some 13 offenses per
illegal alien; 36 percent had been arrested at least five times before.
"While the vast majority of illegal aliens are decent people who work hard
and are only trying to make a better life for themselves and their families,
(something you or I would probably do if we were in their place), it is also a
fact that a disproportionately high percentage of illegal aliens are criminals
and sexual predators," states Peter Wagner, author of a new report called
"The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration." "That is part of the
dark side of illegal immigration and when we allow the 'good' in we get the
'bad' along with them. The question is, how much 'bad' is acceptable and at
what price?"
*
Woman
involved in accident dies from injuries June 20, 2007
By
Azfamily.com / 3TV
An illegal immigrant has been arrested for
allegedly ramming an unmarked sheriff's deputy's vehicle, causing a collision
that killed a Valley mom.
An
investigation into Tuesday night's accident resulted in Guadalupe
Perez-Borjorquez, 26, being charged with aggravated assault and second-degree
homicide.
Allegedly,
Perez assaulted a sheriff's deputy by repeatedly ramming the deputy's car.
According to
the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, Perez was driving erratically on
eastbound Durango Street near 27th Avenue around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.
An undercover
narcotics sheriff's detective spotted Perez driving erratically and throwing
beer bottles out of his car.
Detective Rob
Kinnett, a 15-year veteran of the force, alerted law enforcement and continued
to follow Perez.
Investigators
say when Perez saw what he believed to be a police car, he put his 1997 Ford
Taurus into reverse and repeatedly rammed Kinnett's car.
Kinnett stopped
his vehicle and pulled into a nearby parking lot.
Perez proceeded
to move his car behind Kinnett's vehicle and ram it from behind. Then he moved
to the side and rammed Kinnett's car causing, it to go into oncoming traffic.
At this point,
the car collided with a car driven by Nanuma Lavulavu, 46.
The impact of
the crash severed her leg and she died at St. Joseph's Hospital this morning.
*
What
does a SANCTUARY CITY under Mexican occupation look like? A Mexican graffiti
covered dumpster? Tijuana? Graffiti hell hole?..... Yes, it’s called LOS
ANGELES...
And you can thank the racist mayor ANTHONY “THE TACO RUNT”
VILLARAIGOSA.
Sanctuary city Los Angeles is substantially a Mexican
occupied territory. 47% of those that have a job are illegals, overwhelmingly
Mexican. In Los Angeles, so long as you have a stolen social security number,
being unable to speak English is not a problem. You’ll get a job anywhere and
get on welfare easily.
Los Angeles has been characterized by the Christian Science
Monitor as the “MEXICAN GANG CAPITAL OF AMERICA”. Google Los Angeles and
Mexican gangs.
The number of murders by Mexican gangs approaches 1000 per
year. They cost the legals nearly one million each to prosecute. ICE has deported nearly 15,000 convicted
criminal aliens already this year from souther California. One wonders why TACO
RUNT didn’t pardon all of them. They’ve probably voted for him.
1 in 5 births are by illegals. You pay the bills on that,
including 18 years of welfare that comes with it. For the rest of the country
it’s 1 in 10 births that are illegal that the tax payers pay for.
Los Angeles spends millions per year in Mexican graffiti
abatement. One woman that attempted to stop the Mexicans and their spray
painting was shot in the head by an illegal.
*
Public
comments by Mexico’s occupation mayor of Los Angeles, aka “The Taco Runt” FROM
A LIST OF MEXICAN SUPREMACIST RACIST.
9. Antonio Villaraigosa, Chair of MEChA
(student wing of Aztlan movement) at UCLA, former CA assemblymember, former CA
Assembly speaker, currently Los Angeles City Councilman at Southwest Voter
Registration Project Conference in Los Angeles, 6/1997
"Part of today's reality has been
propositions like 187 (to deny public benefits to illegal aliens, 1994),
propositions like 209 (to abolish affirmative action, 1996), the welfare reform
bill, which targeted legal immigrants and targeted us as a community. That's
been the midnight. We know that the sunny side of midnight has been the
election of a Latino speaker ‑ was the election of Loretta Sanchez, against an
arch‑conservative, reactionary hate‑mongering politician like Congressman
Dornan! Today in California in the legislature, we're engaged in a great
debate, where not only were we talking about denying education to the children
of undocumented workers, but now we're talking about whether or not we should
provide prenatal care to undocumented mothers. It's not enough to elect Latino
leadership. If they're supporting legislation that denies the undocumented
driver's licenses, they don't belong in office, friends. They don't belong
here. If they can't stand up and say, 'You know what? I'm not ever going to
support a policy that denies prenatal care to the children of undocumented
mothers', they don't belong here."
*
Over American Crime Victims
By Walter Moore, Candidate For Mayor of Los Angeles,
WalterMooreForMayor.com
On March 2, 2004, the Los Angeles City Council ‑‑ including
Villaraigosa, Zine, and Smith ‑‑ voted 15 to 0 to pass an ordinance (No.
175853) requiring all City agencies to accept Mexico's "Matricula
Consular" cards as valid identification.
This phony ID is handed out by Mexico like grocery store coupons. La Raza
donors Bank of America and Wells Fargo both accept them. There’s big money is
the Mexican drug cartel’s fund transfers back to nacromex.
Repeat: the vote was 15 to ZERO.
The only people who benefit from that ordinance, of course,
are illegal aliens. After all, anyone in the country legally would have valid
identification. The ordinance is part of the City's "sanctuary city"
policy: aiding and abetting illegal immigration by changing our rules to
accommodate illegal aliens.
Fast forward to today, May 8, 2008.
It has been a month since the Shaw family came to City
Council and urged them to pass Jamiel's Law, to spare another family the
heartbreaking burden of a preventable murder.
What action has City Council taken? None. No vote. No
ordinance. Nothing but talk and Zine's watered‑down counterfeit motion, which
would merely "request" that Chief Bratton modify Special Order 40
somewhat. Incredibly, City Council hasn't even had the guts to put that tepid,
toothless motion to a vote. And Bratton has arrogantly declared that he won't
change one word of Special Order 40 in any event.
Nor, of course, has Villaraigosa himself taken any action.
His silence on Jamiel's Law is deafening. He came to Jamiel's funeral for a
"photo op," but he won't come to the aid of Jamiel's family now that
they're trying to spare other families the terrible loss they themselves have
suffered. Villaraigosa could deny "sanctuary city" protection to gang
members with the stroke of a pen. Special Order 40 is a memo, not a law. The
Mayor has to power to amend it or even abolish it by issuing a simple Executive
Directive. He refuses to use that power. He insists on making our city a
sanctuary for gangs.
So we're done with the Mayor and the City Council. Last
night, the Shaws and I signed a formal request for the City Clerk to put
Jamiel's Law on the March 2009 ballot. Today I will FedEx the request to City
Hall. Within a month, we should have petitions ready for L.A.'s voters to sign.
Then you, I and our fellow voters will have 120 days to
gather at least 74,000 L.A. voters' signatures. We will do that, and we will
put Jamiel's Law on the March 3, 2009 ballot.
And on March 3, 2009, we will make L.A. a sanctuary not for
gangs, but for law‑abiding American citizens and legal aliens.
....................................
Lou Dobbs Tonight
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
States across the country are reversing policies of granting
drivers' licenses to illegal aliens. Oregon and Michigan have already made the
move and other states may soon follow suit.
We'll have a special report.
REPORT ON THE STAGGERING PAY‑OUTS TO ILLEGAL ALIENS ACROSS
THE COUNTRY
And illegal aliens are increasingly reaping welfare benefits
in Los Angeles. They collected $37 million of welfare money and food stamps in
November alone. We’ll report tonight on the
staggering payouts to illegal aliens across the country.
.............................................
Study Shows 25 Percent Of L.A.'s Welfare Goes To Illegal
Aliens
Supervisor says county spends more than $1 billion a year on
benefits to illegals. According to new data from the Department of Public
Social Services, nearly twenty five percent of Los Angeles County Â’s welfare
and food stamp benefits goes directly to the children of illegal aliens, at a
cost of $36 million a month ‑‑ for a projected annual cost of $432 million.
"The total cost for illegal immigrants to County
taxpayers far exceeds $1 billion a year – not including the millions of
dollars for education," said Antonovich. "With $220 million for
public safety, $400 million for healthcare, and $432 million in welfare
allocations, illegal immigration continues to have a devastating impact on Los
Angeles County taxpayers."
In March, illegals collected over $19 million in welfare
assistance and over $16 million in food stamp allocations.
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THE WASHINGTON POST
Anchor babies account for roughly 10% of all US births. In
2003, anchor babies accounted for 70% of all births in San Joachim General
Hospital in Stockton, California.
US taxpayers spent an estimated $7.4 Billion in 2003 to
educate illegal immigrants.
34% of students in the Los Angeles school system are
illegals or children of illegals.
Two thirds of Illegal Immigrants adults DO NOT have a high
school degree or equivalent. The illiteracy rate for Illegal Immigrants is 2.5
times higher than that of US Citizens
*
GANG MAYHEM CRIPPLES
BIG AREA OF LOS ANGELES
Thousands stranded,
schools locked down as notorious group battles the LAPD after a drive‑by
killing.
By Richard Winton, Susannah Rosenblatt and Andrew Blankstein
Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
February 22, 2008
A drive‑by attack followed by a wild shootout between gang
members and police shut down dozens of blocks of Northeast Los Angeles for
nearly six hours Thursday afternoon, stranding thousands of residents, keeping
students locked in their classrooms and leaving two people dead.
Veteran L.A. Police Department officials described the
bizarre midday shootings ‑‑ and the widespread disruption they caused ‑‑ as
highly unusual even in an area known for gang activity. It left the
neighborhood littered with shell casings and its residents fearful.
Police blamed the incident on the notorious Avenues gang,
which has cast a wide shadow over districts north of downtown L.A. for decades
and continues to be active despite several high‑profile attempts by authorities
to shut it down.
The violence began around noon when a 37‑year‑old man police
described as a bystander was shot more than a dozen times by suspected gang
members as he held the hand of a 2‑year‑old girl. He later died. The toddler,
apparently picked up by a passerby and carried to safety, was not wounded. As
the gunmen drove off, witnesses told police, several pedestrians who apparently
knew the victim opened fire on the car.
Minutes later, police attempted to stop suspects driving in
a white Nissan sedan about 10 blocks away. Three men jumped out of the car, and
at least two of them fired weapons at officers.
A man wielding an AK‑47 rifle was killed by police as they
returned fire, authorities said.
students locked down
at Washington Irving Middle School.
Near the scene of the shootings Thursday, Bratton described
a neighborhood terrorized in recent weeks by gang violence.
"Gangs that have been here for generations have been
going at each other," Bratton said during a news conference, referring to
the Avenues and Cypress Park gangs.
Since the beginning of the year, authorities said Avenues
gang members are suspected in at least six homicides. Northeast Division,
typically far from the most violent in the city, already has eight homicides
this year, more than any other, police said. At that rate, the division would
far eclipse last year's total of 18.
Deputy Chief Sergio Diaz said that while the area has gang
problems, the level of violence in the last few weeks is "unheard
of."
In the last month, police said, about a third of the 60
aggravated assaults in the area this year have been connected to Avenues gang
members.
The Avenues gang has cast a long shadow in these poor,
largely Latino sections north of downtown L.A.
*
LATINO GANG TRIED TO FORCE BLACKS OUT, INDICTMENT SAYS
Criminal rivals and innocent citizens both paid a price in a
South L.A. neighborhood, prosecutors allege.
By Ari B. Bloomekatz and Sam Quinones
Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
October 17, 2007
Federal prosecutors Tuesday accused members of a Latino
street gang of a violent campaign to drive African American rivals out of their
South Los Angeles area neighborhood, resulting in at least 20 killings in the
last three years.
Capping an undercover investigation conducted over that
period, authorities issued indictments that charged more than 60 members and
associates of the Florencia 13 street gang with a long list of felonies.
Prosecutors say the gang was trying to dominate the area's drug trade as well
as extort "rent" from prostitutes, vendors, drug dealers and others.
Much of the violence occurred in the Florence‑Firestone
neighborhood, a working‑class unincorporated community of 60,000 north of Watts
that went through a rapid shift in population starting in the 1980s. Once
mostly black, the area is now home to many Mexican immigrants.
Officials said Latino gang leaders in recent years had
sought to drive the remaining black gangs and their supporters from the
neighborhood and had repeatedly ordered members to attack black rivals ‑‑ in
some cases shooting them on sight.
The indictment's description of sustained, deadly racial
gang fighting provides evidence of a type of violence that is often discussed
but seldom documented. Homicide statistics indicate that the vast majority of
killings take place within racial or ethnic groups.
Florence‑Firestone, however, appears to have been a
murderous exception. Killings in the neighborhood peaked in 2005, when 41
homicides sparked widespread community outcry. As violence rose, the L.A.
County Sheriff's Department sent more than 60 additional deputies to the area
and conducted several mass arrests aimed at reducing racial violence. The
district attorney's office devoted a special prosecutor to handle only Florence‑Firestone
homicides for two years.
Last year, homicides plummeted to 19.
Another piece of the stepped‑up law enforcement effort was
the undercover investigation. Officials said Tuesday that they had determined
that 80 shootings since early 2005 had resulted from the gang violence.
In some cases, African Americans with no gang ties were
caught up in the violence, prosecutors said. "In their attempt to
intimidate African Americans in the community, they targeted innocent
citizens," said U.S. Atty. Thomas P. O'Brien.
In one instance, an African American couple were robbed at
gunpoint by gang members who were trying to send a message, prosecutors say. In
another, a man waiting at a Florence Avenue bus stop before work was critically
injured in a drive‑by shooting by Florencia members who apparently mistook him
for a rival gang member, according to the indictments.
The gang would "target African American individuals for
assault" and leaders made sure "that all the F13 cliques were
participating in the assaults of African American rival gang members," the
indictments say.
Florence‑Firestone is a collection of factories, stucco
homes and mom‑and‑pop stores that has gone through dramatic demographic changes
every 15 to 20 years since it formed in the early 1930s.
Poor Southern whites, middle‑class blacks and poor Southern
blacks have all entered Southern California via short stays in Florence‑Firestone.
In the late 1980s, the neighborhood was about 80% African
American. But most black residents have moved away. Today, the area is 90%
Latino ‑‑ mostly Mexican immigrants.
"The last five years has been the greatest influx"
of Latinos, said Pastor Chris LeGrande of the Great Hope Fellowship of Faith on
Compton Avenue, one of Florence‑Firestone's largest black churches.
African Americans and Latinos are often separated by language
and culture, and frequently compete for the same jobs. The area has two parks:
Washington Park is used mostly by blacks; Roosevelt Park to the north by
Latinos.
"I think we adults have many problems in sympathizing
with the other race," said Gloria Medina, Spanish‑language liaison for the
Florence‑Firestone Chamber of Commerce. "It's not just the children; it's
that we've taught this to children. . . . [We] respect each other, but there's
not much closeness."
Sheriff Lee Baca said Tuesday that Florencia's violence was
notable given the fact that gang violence in Los Angeles in general has been
dropping in the last few years. In Los Angeles, homicides overall so far this
year are declining to levels not seen since the early 1970s.
Authorities this year have vowed to focus more attention on
race‑motivated crimes involving gangs. The push started after a 14‑year‑old
black girl was shot and killed last year, allegedly by members of a Latino
gang, in the Harbor Gateway section of Los Angeles.
Last year, members of the Latino Avenues gang were convicted
in federal court for a series of assaults and killings in the early 1990s
targeting blacks in Highland Park.
The indictments unveiled Tuesday charged 61 Florencia gang
members and associates with a variety of felonies, including weapons
violations, drug sales and conspiracy to commit murder. More than a dozen of
the suspects were in custody on earlier charges, and 11 defendants are still at
large. Many charges give prosecutors the option to pursue hate‑crime charges
once the cases go to court, which would allow stiffer penalties.
ARTICLE:
THE STAGGERING BURDEN OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION TO TAXPAYERS
Immigration bill sticker shock $127 BILLION (THIS FIGURE IS
DATED. CALIFORNIA ALONE PUTS OUT THIS AMOUNT IN SOCIAL SERVICES TO ILLEGALS IN
AN EFFORT TO KEEP ILLEGALS FLOODING IN AND WAGES DEPRESSED — WAGES ARE
DEPRESSED IN THE U.S. BY $200 BILLION PER YEAR AND THE COST OF SOCIAL SERVICES TO ILLEGALS IS $300 BILLION PER YEAR
AND SOARING.
A government study
puts the cost of the Senate's version of reform at $127 billion over 10 years.
By Gail Russell Chaddock | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
WASHINGTON
The price tag for comprehensive immigration reform was not a
key issue when the Senate passed its bill last May. But it is now.
One reason: It took the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) ‑
the gold standard for determining what a bill will cost ‑ until last week to
estimate that federal spending for this vast and complex bill would hit $127
billion over the next 10 years.
At the same time, federal revenues would drop by about $79
billion, according to the CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation. If lawmakers
fix a tax glitch, that loss would be cut in half, they add.
In field hearings across the nation this month, House GOP
leaders are zeroing in on the costs of the Senate bill. It's a bid to define
the issue heading into fall elections and muster support for the House bill,
which focuses on border security. They say that the more people know about the
Senate version, including a path to citizenship for some 11 million people now
in the country illegally, the less they will be inclined to support it.
“WE ARE NOW JUST
BEGINNING TO SEE A GLIMPSE OF THE STAGGERING BURDEN ON AMERICAN TAXPAYERS” OF
THE MEXICAN INVASION.......
"We are now just beginning to see a glimpse of the
staggering burden on American taxpayers the Reid‑Kennedy‑McCain immigration
legislation contains," said House Judiciary Committee Chairman James
Sensenbrenner, who convened a field hearing at the State House in Concord,
N.H., Thursday on the costs of the Senate bill.
But business groups and others backing the Senate bill say
that the cost to the US economy of not resolving the status of illegal
immigrants and expanding guest‑worker programs is higher still. "In my
opinion, the fairer question is: How will illegal immigrants impact the costs
of healthcare, local education, and social services without passage of
comprehensive immigration reform?" said John Young, co‑chairman of the
Agriculture Coalition for Immigration Reform, at Thursday's hearing.
"Had we solved this problem in a truly comprehensive
way in 1986 ... we would not have the daily news reporting outright shortages
of farm labor threatening the very existence of agricultural industries coast
to coast," he adds.
Experts are poring over the new CBO data ‑ and coming up
with radically different assessments of the social costs of reform, ranging
from tens of billions of dollars higher to a net wash.
On the issue of border security ‑ a feature in both bills ‑
there is little disagreement. The CBO estimates that the cost of hardening US
borders in the Senate bill is $78.3 billion over 10 years, or about 62 percent
of the bill's total cost.
The fireworks involve new entitlement spending in the Senate
version. The CBO sets the price tag for services for some 16 million new
citizens and guest workers at $48.4 billion through fiscal year 2016. That
includes $24.5 billion for earned income and child tax credits, $11.7 billion
for Medicaid, $5.2 billion for Social Security, $3.7 billion for Medicare, and
$2.4 billion for food stamps.
But it's easier to estimate the cost of a mile of fence than
to assess the prospects for millions of workers, once they can work legally and
claim benefits.
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Lou Dobbs Tonight
Monday, February 11, 2008
In California, League
of United Latin American Citizens has adopted a resolution to declare
"California Del Norte" a sanctuary zone for immigrants. The
declaration urges the Mexican government to invoke its rights under the Treaty
of Guadalupe Hidalgo "to seek third‑nation neutral arbitration of
....disputes concerning immigration laws and their enforcement." We’ll
have the story.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon is in New York today on
the first leg his five‑day tour across America to meddle in immigration issues
in the United States. This is his first visit to the U.S. since he became
President in 2006, but he will not meet with President Bush or any of the
presidential candidates, who he has accused of spewing anti‑immigrant rhetoric.
Join us for that report.
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PUBLISHED IN 2004. DO
YOU THINK IT’S BETTER NOW? OR IN A STATE OF CRISIS?
These examples of illegal
immigrant crime depict a growing menace to our functioning society. While a
sleepy American public watches idly and a Congress refuses to enforce our
borders while mayors adopt the ‘sanctuary policy’, we citizens receive an
average of 2,200 illegals every 24 hours, seven days a week, 365 days per year.
Since the Amnesty policy was announced, the invasion intensifies with greater
numbers.
“THE AMNESTY ALONE WILL BE THE
LARGEST EXPANSION OF THE WELFARE SYSTEM IN THE LAST 25 YEARS” Heritage Foundation
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
WHY THE NEW JOBS GO TO IMMIGRANTS
By David R. Francis
Wall Street cheered and stock prices rose when the US Labor
Department announced last Friday that employers had expanded their payrolls by
262,000 positions in February.
But it wasn't entirely good news. The statisticians also
indicated that the share of the adult population holding jobs had slipped
slightly from January to 62.3 percent. That's now two full percentage points
below the level in the brief recession that began in March 2001.
Why the apparent contradiction? Reasons abound: population
growth, rising retirements. But one factor that gets little attention is
immigration.
In the past four years, the number of immigrants into the
US, legal and illegal, has closely matched the number of new jobs. That
suggests newcomers have, in effect, snapped up all of the new jobs.
"There has been no net job gain for natives," says
Andrew Sum, an economist at Northeastern University. @
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