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WHO IS FIGHTING MEXICAN TERRORIST
ON OUR OPEN AND UNDEFENDED BORDERS? NOT OBAMA!
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Identity theft is the fastest growing white collar crime in
America today and is often motivated by organized rings that sell these stolen
identities to illegal aliens seeking illegal employment.
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“This organization is considered by Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE), a branch of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as one
of the largest internationally, with connections in Central America and Mexico.”
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THERE ARE ONLY EIGHT STATES THAT
HAVE A LARGER POPULATION THAN LOS ANGELES COUNTY. L.A.C. IS UNDER MEXICAN
OCCUPATION. IN LOS ANGELES, 47% OF THOSE WITH A JOB IS AN ILLEGAL USING A
STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER! THIS SAME COUNTY PAYS OUT $50 MILLION PER MONTH
IN WELFARE TO ILLEGALS AND HAS A TAX-FREE MEXICAN UNDERGROUND ECONOMY
CALCULATED TO BE $2 BILLION PER YEAR.
AS OBAMA AND THE LA RAZA DEMS WORK
FOR NON-TRANSPARENT BIT BY BIT AMNESTY, YOU WON’T EVER HEAR THEM TALK ABOUT THE
STAGGERING MEXICAN CRIME WAVE THAT SWEEPS THE NATION ALONG WITH THE MEXICAN
INVASION AND OCCUPATION!
THE LA RAZA DEMS WILL NEVER STOP
HISPANDERING FOR THE ILLEGALS’ ILLEGAL VOTES!
GET YOUR FREE MEXICAN GANG
PRODUCED ID HERE
MEXICAN CLAN OF DOCUMENT FORGERS
OPERATES IN 33 STATES
This story was first broken on the
Wake Up America Talk Show "A Minuteman Project Chapter" Hosted by
Steve Eichler.
A
Mexican clan of document forgers operates in 33 states, including Illinois. In
Chicago, their annual take is around $2.5 million, and their main collaborators
are gang members.
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THE MEXICAN LOOTER’S MENTALITY
“I know that many aliens who come here to work want to
remain here, yet all too many come to the United States with a
"looter" philosophy, giving the lawful immigrants who want to share
in the “American Dream” a bad reputation.”
In my former INS experience, it was not uncommon for the illegal aliens I
arrested to make it clear that they were here for one purpose: to make as much
money as possible as quickly as possible and send it all home. I know that many
aliens who come here to work want to remain here, yet all too many come to the
United States with a "looter" philosophy, giving the lawful
immigrants who want to share in the “American Dream” a bad reputation. Part of
the problem is that the relationship that businesses have with the United
States is one of greed. These companies couldn't care less about the damage
that they do to this country or the average working American. They are happy to
exploit the illegal aliens and in so doing, get a lucrative piece of the
action. And the bankers and money wire services like Western Union have become
the silent partners of the illegal aliens. Of course, if the American dollar
plummets far enough many illegal aliens will probably just head home, leaving
this country in financial disarray. But when you read about the amounts of
money being sent out of the United States that is lost to our economy, you must
realize that the money you are reading about is not being earned by Americans
or by lawful immigrants, because they have been displaced by illegal aliens who
are willing to work for substandard wages. Unfortunately, Congress has just
passed what has been billed as an "Economic Stimulus Package." This
bill will undoubtedly be signed into law by the President and will call for
taxpayers to be mailed one-time rebate checks that (it is hoped) will be used
to spend on consumer goods that – get this – for the most part are not even
produced in the United States. A large part of the problem we are having right
now is that Americans are not saving enough money. Our citizens have been
cashing in the value of their homes with second mortgages and huge credit card
debts and now, the value of most of those houses has fallen into the basement!
There is an utter lack of fiscal responsibility in abundant evidence in
Washington and around kitchen tables across the United States and meanwhile,
the front runners in the Presidential elections are eager to provide amnesty
and thus more incentives for still more illegal aliens to drain still more money
out of our economy. They will do this through remittances and other means of
sending money back home. They will do this when they show up in the emergency
rooms of hospitals across our nation demanding medical treatment without
medical insurance. The criminal element of this massive influx of illegal
aliens will injure and kill more victims in our country, destroying lives and
the lives of family members of the victims of those crimes. Some of the crimes
will also result in property losses and in fraud.
Identity theft is the fastest growing white collar crime in
America today and is often motivated by organized rings that sell these stolen
identities to illegal aliens seeking illegal employment.
The Congressional Budget Office
has recently done a study that concludes that contrary to the assertions of the
open borders / pro-amnesty crowd, illegal aliens represent a net drain on the
economy. Finally, the attacks of September 11, 2001, in addition to the death
and destruction they wrought, hammered our economy and the economies of other
countries. Trade suffered, travel and tourism suffered – yet the travel and
hospitality industries are pushing a program known as "Discover
America" wherein they are attempting to have the United States government
expand the Visa Waiver Program beyond the current 27 participating countries to
as many as 39 countries. In the end, the United States and its working poor and
middle class that is shouldering the greatest burden of the open borders and
cash movement mess. Interestingly, with all of the interviews that were
conducted in the article linked above, not a single interview was conducted to
find out what the impact of the decline of the dollar has had on the average
American family. *
ADD TO THESE FIGURES THE STAGGERING COST OF THE MEXICAN
CRIME TIDAL WAVE! ACCORDING TO CA ATTORNEY GEN. KAMALA HARRIS, NEARLY HALF OF ALL MURDERS IN CA ARE BY MEXICAN
GANGS!
CA HAS THE LARGEST AND MOST EXPENSIVE PRISON SYSTEM. HALF
THE INMATES ARE MEXICANS.
OF THE TOP 200 MOST WANTED CRIMINALS IN LOS ANGELES, 183 ARE
MEXICANS, AND MOST OF THE REST ARE RUSSIANS.
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WILL MEXICO BANKRUPT AMERICA
LIKE IT HAS MEXIFORNIA?
BOOK: Mexifornia:
SHATTERING OF AN AMERICAN DREAM (illegals call it their DREAM ACT)
Calif.
Hospitals Spend $1.25 Bil On Illegal Immigrants
July 05, 2011
While the Obama Administration halts deportations to work on
its secret amnesty plan, hospitals across the
U.S. are getting stuck with the exorbitant tab of medically treating illegal
immigrants and some are finally demanding compensation from the federal
government.The group that represents most of the nation’s hospitals and medical
providers recently urged President Obama to work with Congress to reimburse
them for the monstrous cost of treating illegal immigrants. Federal law
requires facilities to “treat and stabilize individuals” regardless of their
immigration status, but federal support for the services remains “virtually nonexistent,” according to a
letter submitted by the American Hospital Association to the president.This
week officials in California, the state with the largest concentration of
illegal immigrants, joined the call for federal compensation after revealing
that hospitals there spend about $1.25 billion annually to care for illegal
aliens. The figure skyrocketed from $1.05 billion in 2007, according to
California Hospital Association figures quoted in a local news report.The
problem will only get worst, according to officials, who say the $1.25 billion
for 2010 could actually be higher. They complain that federal law forces them
to treat patients in emergency rooms regardless of immigration status yet they
get stuck with the financial burden. This has forced many hospitals to curtail
services or close beds and could ultimately compromise healthcare. Nationwide,
U.S. taxpayers spend tens of billions of dollars annually to provide free
medical care for illegal immigrants with states that border Mexico taking the biggest
hit. Adding to the problem is the fact that Mexico, the country that provides
the largest amount of illegal immigrants in the U.S., has long promoted
America’s generous public health centers. It even operates a Spanish-language program (Ventanillas de
Salud, Health Windows) in about a dozen U.S. cities that refers its
nationals—living in the country illegally—to publicly funded health centers
where they can get free medical care without being turned over to immigration
authorities.
Read more about illegal immigration
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Lloyd Billingsley
The DREAM and the Nightmare
In California, students are better off being illegal immigrants than legal.
30 March 2012
The DREAM and the Nightmare
In California, students are better off being illegal immigrants than legal.
30 March 2012
Last year, Governor Jerry Brown signed the California DREAM
Act, which makes students in the country illegally eligible for grants and
waivers to attend one of the state’s public colleges or universities. The
students must have attended school in the state for three years, “affirm that
they are in the process of applying to legalize their immigration status,” and
show both financial need and academic achievement. Assemblyman Gil Cedillo, the
Los Angeles Democrat who authored the DREAM Act, hails the legislation as a
victory for those “in the country through no fault of their own.” Opponents
such as Republican assemblyman Tim Donnelly—a first-term legislator not given
to understatement—called Cedillo’s legislation the “California Nightmare Act,” said it is “morally wrong,” and would create “a new entitlement that is going to cause tens of thousands of people
to come here illegally from all over the world.”
Poster children for the DREAM Act abound. Mandeep Chahal, for
example, was six years old when her parents brought her to the United States
from India. Chahal wants to be a doctor; her fellow students at Los Altos High
School near Palo Alto voted her the person “Most Likely to Save the World.”
That’s a tall order, but to deny such a person the opportunity seems
unreasonable. “Many parents of these children pay taxes for many services they
cannot get,” argues Cedillo.
Cedillo’s point implies that illegal immigrants are the only
ones subject to this dynamic. But consider: my taxes subsidize the Medi-Cal
system, which provides medical care for low-income state residents, but I
couldn’t “get” health care that way, even in the year my income was so low that
my daughter qualified for a Pell Grant. Likewise, the taxes of, say, a
California welder help pay for top-drawer pensions and benefits for state government
employees, but he can’t enjoy those benefits himself. Neither is he entitled to
get a government job merely because his taxes help pay the salaries and
benefits of workers at the Department of Motor Vehicles, CalTrans, the
California Air Resources Board, the Franchise Tax Board, California’s
Department of Education, the State Board of Equalization, the Coastal
Commission, and on and on.
The taxes of a fast-food worker help subsidize the University
of California at Berkeley, but nothing guarantees that taxpayer admission to
Berkeley. The state’s Master Plan for Higher
Education does guarantee everyone a place in the system, whether at a community
college, a state university, or within the UC system. But no one is promised a
place at the top, and the system grants no special favors to legal immigrants.
When I came to the United States, legally, in 1977, I had been studying at the
University of Windsor, a four-year school in my hometown of Windsor, Ontario. I
wanted to continue my studies at San Diego State University but was not allowed
to transfer because I hadn’t attended high school in California. SDSU
administrators suggested I try the state’s community college system, which
seemed a step down from what I had in mind. But eventually, I put two children
through San Diego State. They’re now working in productive careers, a tax
burden to no one. No legislation rewards parents for that achievement or for
coming to the United States with proper documents.
Cedillo’s law, by
contrast, rewards those who came to California illegally. Will the law,
therefore, encourage more people to enter the state illegally, as Donnelly and
other critics assert?
(IN FACT THERE ARE
MORE THAN 11 MILLION ILLEGALS IN SOUTHERN CA ALONE! NOW NEARLY 40% OF CA ARE
ILLEGALS, 33% OF NEVADA AND 24% OF COLORADO. MOST NON LA RAZA PROPAGANDA SOURCES BUT THE NUMBER
OF ILLEGALS AT 40 MILLION AND BREEDING LIKE BUNNIES!)
Recall how Congress passed and President Ronald Reagan signed
the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, which gave amnesty to several
million undocumented immigrants. A quarter of a century later, the number of
illegal immigrants stands at 11.5 million. It
seems clear that the 1986 act didn’t discourage foreign nationals from entering
the United States without signing the guest book. One of those who obtained
citizenship under the Act was Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, who made his way
through UC Berkeley and Harvard Medical School and is now associate professor
of neurosurgery and oncology at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in
Baltimore. Quinones-Hinojosa and others who have spoken out in support of the
DREAM Act often give the impression that their cases are typical of illegal
aliens. Not exactly. Amnesty measures, however well-intentioned, usually bring
unintended consequences.
THE REALITY OF LA RAZA’S LOOTING
OF CA:
Consider Ignacio Mesa
Viera, subject of a recent front-page story in the Sacramento Bee. He came to
the United States illegally in 1979 to work and help his family, as he
explained, but was convicted on a drug offense in 1995. He was deported but
returned to the United States, whereupon he was busted for another drug offense
in 2008. Before his recent deportation, the U.S. government was paying for
Viera’s kidney dialysis, a treatment that can cost more than $60,000 a year. “I
imagine that the reason they don’t want to let me stay in this country,” Viera
told the Bee, “is they don’t want to be paying for this.”
Cedillo and his colleagues need to know that everybody’s
taxes pay for services they and their children “cannot get”—including kidney
dialysis and other expensive medical treatments courtesy of the federal
government. Meantime, as a University of
California report noted last year, tens of thousands of middle-class, taxpaying
legal residents are being squeezed out of an affordable college education even
as the legislature contrives to provide scholarships for the children of
illegal aliens. The lawmakers’ solution is to create yet
another entitlement in the form of a new $1 billion scholarship program for
students whose families earn less than $150,000 a year. Such is life in the
Golden State, even with a DREAM Act in place.
Lloyd Billingsley is the author of Hollywood Party: How Communism
Seduced the American Film Industry in the 1930s and 1940s
and the former editorial director of the Pacific Research Institute.
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OBAMA
HAS PROMISED HIS LA RAZA “THE RACE” PARTY BASE of ILLEGALS AMNESTY, NO
E-VERIFY, NO I.D. FOR REQUIRED OF ILLEGALS VOTING… OR AT LEAST CONTINUED
NON-ENFORCEMENT!
OBAMA
HANDS MASSIVE WELFARE TO ILLEGALS, ALONG WITH OUR JOBS TO BUY THE ILLEGALS'
ILLEGAL VOTES!
Most
Illegal Immigrant Families Collect Welfare
April 05, 2011
Surprise, surprise; Census Bureau data reveals that most U.S.
families headed by illegal immigrants use taxpayer-funded welfare programs on
behalf of their American-born anchor babies. Even before the recession,
immigrant households with children used welfare programs at consistently higher
rates than natives, according to the extensive census data collected and
analyzed by a nonpartisan Washington D.C. group dedicated to researching legal
and illegal immigration in the U.S. The results, published this month in a
lengthy report, are hardly surprising. Basically, the
majority of households across the country benefitting from publicly-funded
welfare programs are headed by immigrants, both legal and illegal. States where
immigrant households with children have the highest welfare use rates are
Arizona (62%), Texas, California and New York with 61% each and
Pennsylvania(59%).The study focused on eight major welfare programs that cost
the government $517 billion the year they were examined. They include
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) for the disabled, Temporary Assistance to
Needy Families (TANF), a nutritional program known as Women, Infants and
Children (WIC), food stamps, free/reduced school lunch, public housing and
health insurance for the poor (Medicaid).Food assistance and Medicaid are the
programs most commonly used by illegal immigrants, mainly on behalf of their
American-born children who get automatic citizenship. On the other hand, legal
immigrant households take advantage of every available welfare program,
according to the study, which attributes it to low education level and
resulting low income. The highest rate of welfare recipients come from the
Dominican Republic (82 %), Mexico and Guatemala (75%) and Ecuador (70%),
according to the report, which says welfare use tends to be high for both new
arrivals and established residents.
Read more about illegal immigration
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CA
UNDER MEX OCCUPATION OPERATES $16 BILLION IN DEFICITS, WHILE PUTTING OUT $20
BILLION IN SOCIAL SERVICES TO ILLEGALS. THESE ARE STATE COSTS. ADD WHAT THE
COUNTIES ARE FORCED TO PAY OUT AND THEN THE AMOUNT PRIVATE HOSPITALS MUST PAY
FOR MEXICO’S “FREE” MEDICAL ($1.3 BILLION YEARLY!).
WILL
MEXICO BANKRUPT AMERICA? OR JUST TAKE ALL OUR JOBS?
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LOS ANGELES ANCHOR BABY WELFARE PROGRAM:
THESE FIGURES ON WELFARE FOR ILLEGALS IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY ARE DATED. IT NOT EXCEEDS $600 MILLION PER YEAR!!! (source: Los Angeles County & JUDICIAL WATCH)
California spending annually
$22 billion to support illegals
Going To the Top!
By Susan Tully
I've been at the immigration reform and enforcement table for about 20 years. I've worked with activists during all those years. But last week, in Los Angeles, I had a first-time-ever experience at an activist brain storming session.
Gathered for an update on Stop AB131, the petition drive to gather signatures to force a ballot initiative as to whether the California taxpayers should fund college grants to illegal aliens, I asked the top activist leaders from Southern California how the signature drive was going.
They started updating me with the positive response from California residents who signed the petitions, but then admitted about 500,000 more signatures were still needed. When I said there was only a little more than three weeks to go to meet the January 5th deadline, suddenly their faces dropped at once, and the room went completely silent.
It was easy to read on each of their faces; the task was nearly impossible! Without big money to pay signature gatherers or a tsunami of petitions flooding in, the taxpayers of California will be forced to give grant money to illegal aliens for college, on top of the $22 billion they are spending annually in California to support the illegal alien population.
While all of our minds were racing and searching for suggestions as to how to accomplish this daunting task of gathering signatures, Lupe Moreno, long time Hispanic leader from Santa Ana, said "Can we have a prayer?" Everyone agreed to pray.
As the prayer went around the table, people expressed their sorrow for the lack of leadership in the State of California and in the nation to protect the interest of American citizens, and asked for divine guidance in helping them understand the harm their policies are inflicting on millions of innocent people in the state. In all the years I have worked on this issue, I had not witnessed the sort of sincere emotion that was expressed in that room.
(THE FASTEST GROWING POLITICAL PARTY IN AMERICA IS THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA! AND WE ARE FORCED TO FUND IT!)
You see, the politicians in California are happy to give money the state doesn't have to illegal aliens to attend college, while they cut the budgets and slash programs for public safety, right and left. The American citizen's interests and safety are simply collateral damage for seeking and appealing to the illegal alien lobby.
These activists in California have already learned what the rest of the nation is about to learn. We the people. . . are the only ones looking out for the best interest of American citizens. With few exceptions, we have no national leadership on the issue of stopping the illegal migration flow into our nation.
American citizenship or the benefits thereof have become a commodity for politicians to pander and barter away. They will grant de facto citizenship through sanctuary policies, in-state tuition, non-compliance with Secure Communities, grants for college, etc., etc., etc. President Obama and most the Republican presidential hopefuls are peddling various versions of amnesty proposals if they are elected next year.
What do these politicians want in return? They are hoping to leverage enough votes in key states to put them over the top in 2012, no matter what it costs the American people. This is futures betting: The politicians are gambling the nation's future in hopes of winning the next election.
So while the state can't afford to pay its bills or provide decent services to citizens, these California activists watch their elected leaders lavish still more benefits for people who don't have a legal right to be in the country. And while their child might have to pay out-of-state tuition to go to college in another state, thousands of illegal aliens are going to college at in-state tuition rates in California that they are subsidizing.
In addition they know that millions of other illegal alien parents are receiving food stamps, Medicaid, housing assistance and dozens of other state and local benefits for their American-born children, while they have to decide which bills will be paid this month and which will have to wait.
It's not hard to understand why the activist of California need all the help they can get. Please go to www.stopAB131.com and lend a hand to our friends and family and the people of California to do what needs to be done for the good of our children first.
Going To the Top!
By Susan Tully
I've been at the immigration reform and enforcement table for about 20 years. I've worked with activists during all those years. But last week, in Los Angeles, I had a first-time-ever experience at an activist brain storming session.
Gathered for an update on Stop AB131, the petition drive to gather signatures to force a ballot initiative as to whether the California taxpayers should fund college grants to illegal aliens, I asked the top activist leaders from Southern California how the signature drive was going.
They started updating me with the positive response from California residents who signed the petitions, but then admitted about 500,000 more signatures were still needed. When I said there was only a little more than three weeks to go to meet the January 5th deadline, suddenly their faces dropped at once, and the room went completely silent.
It was easy to read on each of their faces; the task was nearly impossible! Without big money to pay signature gatherers or a tsunami of petitions flooding in, the taxpayers of California will be forced to give grant money to illegal aliens for college, on top of the $22 billion they are spending annually in California to support the illegal alien population.
While all of our minds were racing and searching for suggestions as to how to accomplish this daunting task of gathering signatures, Lupe Moreno, long time Hispanic leader from Santa Ana, said "Can we have a prayer?" Everyone agreed to pray.
As the prayer went around the table, people expressed their sorrow for the lack of leadership in the State of California and in the nation to protect the interest of American citizens, and asked for divine guidance in helping them understand the harm their policies are inflicting on millions of innocent people in the state. In all the years I have worked on this issue, I had not witnessed the sort of sincere emotion that was expressed in that room.
(THE FASTEST GROWING POLITICAL PARTY IN AMERICA IS THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA! AND WE ARE FORCED TO FUND IT!)
You see, the politicians in California are happy to give money the state doesn't have to illegal aliens to attend college, while they cut the budgets and slash programs for public safety, right and left. The American citizen's interests and safety are simply collateral damage for seeking and appealing to the illegal alien lobby.
These activists in California have already learned what the rest of the nation is about to learn. We the people. . . are the only ones looking out for the best interest of American citizens. With few exceptions, we have no national leadership on the issue of stopping the illegal migration flow into our nation.
American citizenship or the benefits thereof have become a commodity for politicians to pander and barter away. They will grant de facto citizenship through sanctuary policies, in-state tuition, non-compliance with Secure Communities, grants for college, etc., etc., etc. President Obama and most the Republican presidential hopefuls are peddling various versions of amnesty proposals if they are elected next year.
What do these politicians want in return? They are hoping to leverage enough votes in key states to put them over the top in 2012, no matter what it costs the American people. This is futures betting: The politicians are gambling the nation's future in hopes of winning the next election.
So while the state can't afford to pay its bills or provide decent services to citizens, these California activists watch their elected leaders lavish still more benefits for people who don't have a legal right to be in the country. And while their child might have to pay out-of-state tuition to go to college in another state, thousands of illegal aliens are going to college at in-state tuition rates in California that they are subsidizing.
In addition they know that millions of other illegal alien parents are receiving food stamps, Medicaid, housing assistance and dozens of other state and local benefits for their American-born children, while they have to decide which bills will be paid this month and which will have to wait.
It's not hard to understand why the activist of California need all the help they can get. Please go to www.stopAB131.com and lend a hand to our friends and family and the people of California to do what needs to be done for the good of our children first.
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LA RAZA DEMS BUILD THE "DREAM ACT" LIFE FOR LA RAZA OFF THE AMERICANS BACK! NOT ONE AMERICAN VOTED FOR ONE DREAM ACT HANDOUT!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2012/01/mexifornia-la-raza-supremacy-legals.html
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“When these guys come out of Compton — when they do their rape, rob and
pillage in the rest of the county because they've maximized what they can get
in Compton — they're going to come to other cities," said McBride, who
headed Operation Safe Streets before retiring in 2002.Sheriff's officials count
a crime as gang-related only if it is directly tied to gang activity.
There are over 100-plus active violent gangs in Los Angeles County, and
you have 100 holes in the dike and the problem is you only have so many plugs
THE MEXICAN CRIME WAVE
Since I filed this article on
Compton gang crimes, I’ve read about car thefts going up 23% in Santa Clara
county, Modesto being the car theft capital of the country, gang crime
exploding in Santa Barbara and Salinas. Gang murders going up in San Fernando.
Like the officer quoted said, when they have pillaged everything in Compton,
they’re headed for you community.
COMPTON (LOS ANGELES) GANG MURDERS
– THE LOOTING MENTALITY
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By Megan Garvey
Times Staff Writer
December 12, 2005
Gang-related homicides are up more
than 30% this year in areas under the jurisdiction of the Los Angeles County
Sheriff's Department, but the department's countywide gang enforcement team is
substantially smaller than it was three years ago and remains chronically
understaffed. For many years the department dealt with significantly less gang
crime than police in the city of Los Angeles. No more. At least half of the
homicides in sheriff's territories are now gang killings, about the same level
as in the city. Statewide, gang violence accounts for about 16% of all
homicides. But although the Los Angeles Police Department under Chief William
J. Bratton has reconstituted and increased the size of its anti-gang units,
assigning nearly 350 officers to gang enforcement duty, the gang unit under
Sheriff Lee Baca has shrunk. The sheriff's anti-gang units have 20 fewer
deputies than authorized in the department's budget — about 150 sworn officers
instead of 170. Those numbers are down from a high of nearly 190 sworn deputies
on duty three years ago. This year, while gang homicides rose sharply in a few
small areas patrolled by the sheriff — Compton, East Los Angeles and
unincorporated neighborhoods bordering Watts — Operation Safe Streets, the
department's anti-gang unit, lacked flexibility to move specially trained
personnel out of lower-crime areas and into communities with soaring gang
killings, according to its head of operations."Unit commanders should have
the autonomy to put their resources in the places they would have the greatest
impact based on crime statistics," said Lt. Bob Rifkin. "We are
spread too thin to try to do the whole county. Do you do a mediocre job in the
whole county or do you do a dynamite job in the quarter of the county where the
worst crime is?"In an interview Friday, Baca seemed surprised that gang
homicides were up substantially — 210 as of late last week, compared with 164
for the same period last year — but said he needs more personnel to deal with
gang crime."We are doing our best with what we have and we don't have
enough," he said. "If you doubled what we have, we don't have enough."Baca
is promoting a quarter-cent sales tax earmarked for gang intervention and
enforcement, which he hopes to get on the ballot next year. Such a tax would
generate about $280 million annually for law enforcement agencies in L.A.
County, he said. For the time being, Baca said, shifting resources is not the
answer because it might suppress crime in one area at the cost of allowing it
to increase elsewhere."What one has to understand is the nature of
policing gangs," Baca said. "There
are over 100-plus active violent gangs in Los Angeles County, and you have 100
holes in the dike and the problem is you only have so many plugs. If you
pull one plug in an area where you've plugged up the violence, will it pour out
there again?"The department's difficulties responding to the increased
rate of killing underscore two of the biggest problems the Sheriff's Department
faces: It is seriously understaffed, with nearly 1,000 fewer deputies overall
than the 9,500 authorized, and its political structure works against assigning
available deputies based on the worst crime problems. The Sheriff's Department
patrols unincorporated areas of the county and 41 cities that contract with the
department for policing. Cities pay for a specific number of deputies each year
and, if they can afford it, may add personnel and specialized teams as needed.
Baca said about 55% of his deputies work under city contracts. Maintaining good
relationships with the officials of contract cities has long been a high
priority for senior officials of the department. There has also been
considerable pressure recently from the county Board of Supervisors to ensure
that county areas are getting their fair share of services. The gang unit is
one of several specialized teams that work countywide for all residents,
allowing the sheriff discretion — in theory, at least — in their deployment.
But because the department serves an area with 2.6 million residents over 4,000
square miles, distribution of limited resources is challenging. Capt. Mike
Ford, who runs Operation Safe Streets and is Rifkin's boss, noted that although
other areas have fewer homicides than Compton, gang crime is quite real to
people who live in those areas."The reality is we work for the people who
live there, and no one likes to deal with graffiti or drug dealing," he
said, adding that he would be reluctant to withdraw officers from other areas,
even if that were politically possible. But some gang crime experts warn that
the department's approach to distributing its deputies could allow crime to
spread."If 50% or more of your murders are gang-related, it looks to me
like you ought to have a lot of resources doing that," said Wes McBride,
president of the Assn. of California Gang Investigators
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“WHEN THESE GUYS COME OUT OF COMPTON ---- WHEN
THEY DO THEIR RAPE, ROB, AND PILLAGE IN THE REST OF THE COUNTY BECAUSE THEY’VE
MAXIMIZED WHAT THEY CAN GET IN COMPTON ---- THEY’RE GOING TO COME TO OTHER
CITIES.”
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When these guys come out of Compton — when they do their rape, rob and
pillage in the rest of the county because they've maximized what they can get
in Compton — they're going to come to other cities," said McBride, who
headed Operation Safe Streets before retiring in 2002.Sheriff's officials count
a crime as gang-related only if it is directly tied to gang activity. If
the wife of a gang member is killed by her husband in a domestic dispute, for
example, it is not counted as a gang crime. If she is killed to stop her from
telling authorities about the gang, it is. The rise in gang violence in Compton,
as well as in East Los Angeles and areas bordering southeast Los Angeles, has
pushed up overall homicides for the Sheriff's Department. With three weeks
remaining in 2005, homicides of all types in county areas and in cities that
contract with the Sheriff's Department total 395, passing last year's 392.By
contrast, although the city of Los Angeles continues to record more homicides
than the county, its total has fallen and is on track to be at its lowest in
half a dozen years. As of the end of October, the LAPD reported a 15% decline
in gang homicides over the same period last year, 216 compared with 255.Ford
said gang suppression and investigation remain top priorities for the
department. "The question," he said, "is how many resources do
you have?"Through late last week, Compton had 68 gang-related homicides,
up from 42 for all of last year. The nearby territory bordering southeast Los
Angeles, patrolled by the Century sheriff's station, had 57 gang-related
homicides, up from 37 in 2004.Together, the two areas account for nearly 60% of
the county's gang-related homicides, Sheriff's Department statistics show. Yet
about a quarter of available gang investigators are assigned to those areas. In
addition, each shares a gang suppression team with a neighboring station, a
move made last year by Ford when, he said, insufficient staff made regional
teams necessary. Ten gang suppression deputies and a sergeant are assigned to
the Compton-Carson area, where there have been 72 gang homicides this year.
Another team of 11 serves Century and Lennox stations, which account for 70
gang killings. In comparison, the Palmdale and Lancaster area also has a team
of 11 gang suppression officers, two paid under Lancaster's contract. That area
has had 13 gang-related homicides this year. The sheriff made no move to shift
gang officers to Compton when violence shot upward there early this year. At
Century station, where a specific gang war was identified, a task force was
formed, but the gang unit was not expanded. Another problem area has been East
Los Angeles, which has had 20 gang-related homicides this year, up from 11 for
each of the previous two years. In that area, too, the number of gang
enforcement personnel has not been increased. The need for a larger gang
enforcement team is widely acknowledged. McBride, who spent nearly three
decades as a gang specialist in the Sheriff's Department, estimated that
Compton's gang problem alone would justify 50 gang suppression officers and a
team of 10 to 15 investigators. Ford and other gang experts caution that simply
moving deputies to a hot spot might not have much impact. Effective gang
officers, they note, develop sources on the street over time. Compton's level
of gang activity, for instance, complicates law enforcement efforts to get
intelligence and also makes it harder to target any one area to significantly
reduce criminal activity, sheriff's officials said.The city, which covers 10
square miles and has about 96,000 residents, has at least 10 active and violent
street gangs, as well as numerous other crews, said Percy Perrodin, the city's
former deputy police chief and brother of Mayor Eric Perrodin."You're
talking about a very complex gang situation," said Cheryl Maxson, a UC
Irvine professor who studies street gangs. By mid-2005, Compton had as many
homicides as all of 2004, but city officials said there were no additional
funds to add to the 72 deputies who patrol the city."People need to
realize that Compton's problems won't stay in Compton. Absolutely, they ought
to be concerned about what's happening, and they ought to help," he said.
"We give foreign aid to other countries so they won't fall apart. How
about some domestic aid?"
COMPTON’S PROBLEMS WON’T STAY IN
COMPTON.... NO, THEY’RE ALL OVER THE 50 STATES NOW
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