America Needs a Border Wall Like Houses Need Insulation
How Trump's wall will help keep heinous criminals out of America's cities.
By Michael Cutler
FrontPageMag.com
Remittances, massive as they are, do not account for all of the money that flows from the United States to Mexico and because they are legal and transparent are easy to quantify.
Remittances, massive as they are, do not account for all of the money that flows from the United States to Mexico and because they are legal and transparent are easy to quantify.
Money is often smuggled covertly out of the U.S. to other countries around the world. by illegal and hence opaque means. Sometimes the money is concealed in furniture, appliances or vehicles. Sometimes the money is converted to gold or other precious metals to make it more portable. However, no matter how money leaves the United States, a wall would create a barrier against illegal alien workers who send their ill-gotten wages back to Mexico.
That wall could help stem the flow of dangerous narcotics into America - an act that destroys the lives of children and fuels the violence that plays out in towns and cities across the country.
Indeed, a secure southern border could help to insulate America from terrorists operating in Latin America, an issue of grave concern that I wrote about in my recent article, Congresional Hearing: Iranian Sleeper Cells Threaten U.S.that included the testimony of one of the witnesses, Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies who said, in part:
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Mayor Garcetti Says LA ‘East Coast of China’
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti referred to the City of Angels as “the east coast of China” on Thursday while speaking to CNBC about his city’s bid to land Amazon’s second headquarters.
“Los Angeles is the east coast of China, for instance. Displaced New York to London as the most traveled air corridor in the world. It’s the intersection of the United States, Latin America, and the Pacific Rim,” Garcetti said while arguing that his city should get an A+ for location. “I think if we didn’t have a city here, we’d have to build one. And when Amazon, which is about moving goods, looks at Los Angeles where our twin ports of L.A. and Long Beach move 43% of the goods that come in by sea.”
Garcetti said Los Angeles is “densely populated but we’re spread out so we have the chance to test new ways to deliver things on the street, in the air.”
He mentioned that Amazon Prime has made investments in Los Angeles and predicted Amazon would grow their investment in the city. Garcetti made the case that businesses like Amazon need to be in L.A. because the city is “a connector to the world and connector to the nation.”
Garcetti recently returned from a 10-day trip to Asia, and he has been slammed for not disclosing how much taxpayers are paying for his security detail during his trips across the country and abroad.
The potential 2020 presidential candidate has also made trips to Iowa and South Carolina, and the Los Angeles Times last year reported that Garcetti “had spent one-third of the previous 12 months out of town.”
After the LAPD refused to disclose how much taxpayers were paying for Garcetti’s security costs and Garcetti deferred requests to the LAPD, the Times recently filed a lawsuitdemanding the overall costs of Garcetti’s trips in addition to “the number of guards or officers accompanying the mayor, his family or staffers on each trip; the number of hours that each officer or security guard worked during trips; and costs including food, lodging and travel incurred by the security team during their travels outside California.”
As a growing number of Democrats and their allies call for abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), it’s important to remember that the overwhelming majority of illegal immigrants arrested by the agency have criminal convictions.
In 2017 immigrants with criminal convictions accounted for 74% of all arrests made by ICE, according to government data used by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center in a study published earlier this year. Sixteen percent of those arrested by ICE had pending criminal charges and only 11 % had no known criminal convictions or charges, the Pew analysis found.
Nearly 60,000 illegal aliens deported by ICE last year were convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol and another 57,438 for possessing or selling dangerous drugs such as opioids. More than 52,000 ICE arrestees were convicted of immigration offenses, including false claim to American citizenship and tens of thousands had pending criminal charges for assault, driving under the influence and a variety of other crimes. Some had pending charges for more violent crimes like sexual assault, kidnapping and homicide.
Los Angeles, an illegal alien sanctuary city, topped the list with nearly nine out of 10 ICE arrests consisting of immigrants with criminal convictions. Newark, New Jersey had the lowest number with 60% criminal arrests but every region had one thing in common: “In all ICE areas, considerable majorities of arrests were for those with prior convictions,” the Pew study says.
The figures make the calls to abolish ICE, the 20,000-employee Homeland Security agency, preposterous. The growing movement includes elected officials—some presidential contenders—at the federal, state and local level as well as those running for office. Among them are senators Elizabeth Warren (Massachusetts), Kamala Harris (California) and Kirsten Gillibrand (New York). Warren and Harris are reportedly making White House runs in 2020.
Other federal lawmakers calling for the dismantling of ICE include Wisconsin Congressman Mark Pocan and Massachusetts Congressman Mike Capuano. In a piece published by a mainstream media outlet, a law professor running for New York Attorney General writes that ICE is a “tool of cruelty and lawlessness and dehumanization.” The agency was born in xenophobia and fear, the lawyer asserts, and it is doing exactly what it was designed to do: “Terrorize immigrant communities, bring a police state inside our borders and treat people as less than human.”
Not surprisingly, the mainstream media appears to support the abolish ICE movement and has demonstrated it with biased reporting as well as the promotion of radical leftist ideas such as those published by the New York Attorney General candidate.
A mainstream national newspaper writes that the nation doesn’t need ICE and refers to it as an “agency that harms Latino and immigrant communities.” A northern California newspaper blames the Trump administration’s “hardline immigration policies” for transforming the idea of abolishing ICE from a pipe dream for liberal activists to a legitimate political issue. The article refers to abolish ICE as a movement that has seen a “remarkable rise from fringe issue to Democratic rallying cry.” A multitude of media outlets around the country have followed suit, shamelessly displaying their pom poms for the insane abolish ICE movement.
The reality is that ICE needs to be strengthened because the agency is overwhelmed, officers can’t keep up with monstrous workloads and repeatedly lose track of hardcore criminals inside the United States.
As a result hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens with criminal records are getting released by local authorities in the U.S., according to a federal audit released last year by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General. A surge in illegal immigrants under the Obama administration pushed matters into crisis mode with deportation officers so overworked that they often lose track of dangerous illegal aliens with serious criminal histories, the probe found.
This includes individuals who represent critical national security threats. One ICE agent cited in the report said this: “You might work 18 hours a day, but you still won’t get caught up.” Inspectors visited four key field offices and determined that the management deficiencies and unresolved obstacles make it difficult for the feds to deport aliens expeditiously. “ICE is almost certainly not deporting all the aliens who could be deported and will likely not be able to keep up with growing numbers of deportable aliens,” the DHS watchdog found.
Homeless Crisis in Los
Angeles Worst Since Great
Depression
The number of homeless people living on Los Angeles’s Skid Row is the
worst the city has seen since the Great Depression.
Those that protest such groups are then attacked by the establishment media and labeled as racists, despite the fact that the Plan of San Diego, a rallying cry for the hispanic Klan groups, advocates total eradication of any race but hispanics.
Mecha's own slogan reads, "For the race everything. For those outside the race, nothing."
TV stations owned by rich white industrialists erect giant billboards in Los Angeles claiming the city belongs to Mexico, as seen below.
Mainstream hispanics who love America abhor the virulent racism that the Mexican klan groups embrace.
And who bankrolls these pocket radicals? Billionaire tax-exempt foundations and NGO's owned by white men. Organizations like the Ford Foundation, groups who are zealous in their quest to eliminate the middle class and destroy America, turning it into a cashless society, compact city, surveillance control grid where only two tiers of society exist - the elite and the poor slaves.
During the May immigration protests, The Aztlanwebsite carried the following statement.
"If the racist "Sensenbrenner Legislation" passes the US Senate, there is no doubt that a massive civil disobedience movement will emerge. Eventually labor union power can merge with the immigrant civil rights and "Immigrant Sanctuary" movements to enable us to either form a new political party or to do heavy duty reforming of the existing Democratic Party. The next and final steps would follow and that is to elect our own governors of all the states within Aztlan."
Here is the open call for violent separatism and the overthrow of existing state government structures.
During the immigration demonstrations, which were orchestrated by Rob Allyn of Rob Allyn & Co. who is closely tied with George W. Bush, alarming reports of illegals carrying out violent beatings began to surface. In Santa Ana California, illegal aliens swarmed around in mobs invading schools, carrying out violent beatings and in one incident a county worker had a Mexican flag plunged into his chest.
The violent protests that began on May 1 last year were characterized by throngs marching under Mexican flags, many of which were illegal aliens, as a "day without gringos."
Imagine what the reaction would be if white middle class Americans marched in their millions and called the event "a day without blacks."
The media continues to run defense for a violent militant movement that seeks nothing less than the eradication of blacks and whites through ethnic cleansing and the takeover of the southern and western states. This is a separatist junta that has over 30,000 ruthless gang members at its disposal once the call for mobilization is heard, along with millions of illegal aliens pouring across the border.
WHAT IS THE ALTERNATIVES TO THE DETENTION PROGRAM?
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ICE
‘Raging Bull’ Operation Leads to Arrest of 267 MS-13 Gang Members
Nearly 300 MS-13 gang members are behind
bars following the conclusion of a joint
international law enforcement effort led by
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE). “Operation Raging Bull” resulted in
the
One-Third
of 214 Arrested MS-13 Gangsters Were ‘Unaccompanied Alien Children’
Almost one-third of 214 U.S.-based MS-13 gang members arrested in an international
sweep were invited into the United States by President Barack Obama’s
“Unaccompanied Alien Children” policy.
Illegal Immigration Costs U.S. Taxpayers a Stunning
$134.9 Billion a Year
A fifth-generation Californian laments his state’s ongoing economic collapse.
By Steve Baldwin
American Spectator, October 19, 2017
What’s clear is that the producers are leaving the state and the takers are coming in. Many of the takers are illegal aliens, now estimated to number over 2.6 million. The Federation for American Immigration Reform estimates that California spends $22 billion on government services for illegal aliens, including welfare, education, Medicaid, and criminal justice system costs. Liberals claim they more than make that up with taxes paid, but that’s simply not true. It’s not even close. FAIR estimates illegal aliens in California contribute only $1.21 billion in tax revenue, which means they cost California $20.6 billion, or at least $1,800 per household.
Nonetheless, open border advocates, such as Facebook Chairman Mark Zuckerberg, claim illegal aliens are a net benefit to California with little evidence to support such an assertion. As the Center for Immigration Studies has documented, the vast majority of illegals are poor, uneducated, and with few skills. How does accepting millions of illegal aliens and then granting them access to dozens of welfare programs benefit California’s economy? If illegal aliens were contributing to the economy in any meaningful way, California, with its 2.6 million illegal aliens, would be booming.
Furthermore, the complexion of illegal aliens has changed with far more on welfare and committing crimes than those who entered the country in the 1980s. Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute has testified before a Congressional committee that in 2004, 95% of all outstanding warrants for murder in Los Angeles were for illegal aliens; in 2000, 23% of all Los Angeles County jail inmates were illegal aliens and that in 1995, 60% of Los Angeles’s largest street gang, the 18th Street gang, were illegal aliens. Granted, those statistics are old, but if you talk to any California law enforcement officer, they will tell you it’s much worse today. The problem is that the Brown administration will not release any statewide data on illegal alien crimes. That would be insensitive. And now that California has declared itself a “sanctuary state,” there is little doubt this sends a message south of the border that will further escalate illegal immigration into the state.
Indeed, California goes out of its way to attract illegal aliens. The state has even created government programs that cater exclusively to illegal aliens. For example, the State Department of Motor Vehicles has offices that only process driver licenses for illegal aliens. With over a million illegal aliens now driving in California, the state felt compelled to help them avoid the long lines the rest of us must endure at the DMV. And just recently, the state-funded University of California system announced it will spend $27 million on financial aid for illegal aliens. They’ve even taken out radio spots on stations all along the border, just to make sure other potential illegal border crossers hear about this program. I can’t afford college education for all my four sons, but my taxes will pay for illegals to get a college education.
Sanctuary
Cities Allowed Criminal Alien to Remain in U.S., Murder Kansas Deputy
An illegal alien who was drunk driving has pleaded guilty to killing a
Kansas deputy sheriff after causing a deadly car crash last year.
Sanctuary city policies in two jurisdictions allowed the previously convicted
drunk driver to remain in the U.S. leading to the murder of the deputy.
More than 52 million Americans live in economically distressed
communities
By Sandy English
Richard Alatorre, Los Angeles City Council "They're afraid we're going to take over the governmental institutions and other institutions. They're right. We will take them over. . We are here to stay."
Mario Obledo, California Coalition of Hispanic Organizations and California State Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Jerry Brown, also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Bill Clinton "California is going to be a Hispanic state. Anyone who doesn't like it should leave."
Jose Pescador Osuna, Mexican Consul General We are practicing "La Reconquista" in California."
Banned: The American Flag on Cinco de Mayo
by Kevin McCullough
Latino power comes full circle in L.A.
Once there was only Edward Roybal in a position of power. Today, as it did long ago, authority rests in many Latino hands.
By Cathleen Decker
April 11, 2010
JUDICIAL WATCH
Calls to Abolish ICE Omit that Majority of Immigrants Agency
Arrests are Convicted Criminals
As a growing number of Democrats and their allies call for abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), it’s important to remember that the overwhelming majority of illegal immigrants arrested by the agency have criminal convictions.
In 2017 immigrants with criminal convictions accounted for 74% of all arrests made by ICE, according to government data used by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center in a study published earlier this year. Sixteen percent of those arrested by ICE had pending criminal charges and only 11 % had no known criminal convictions or charges, the Pew analysis found.
Nearly 60,000 illegal aliens deported by ICE last year were convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol and another 57,438 for possessing or selling dangerous drugs such as opioids. More than 52,000 ICE arrestees were convicted of immigration offenses, including false claim to American citizenship and tens of thousands had pending criminal charges for assault, driving under the influence and a variety of other crimes. Some had pending charges for more violent crimes like sexual assault, kidnapping and homicide.
Los Angeles, an illegal alien sanctuary city, topped the list with nearly nine out of 10 ICE arrests consisting of immigrants with criminal convictions. Newark, New Jersey had the lowest number with 60% criminal arrests but every region had one thing in common: “In all ICE areas, considerable majorities of arrests were for those with prior convictions,” the Pew study says.
The figures make the calls to abolish ICE, the 20,000-employee Homeland Security agency, preposterous. The growing movement includes elected officials—some presidential contenders—at the federal, state and local level as well as those running for office. Among them are senators Elizabeth Warren (Massachusetts), Kamala Harris (California) and Kirsten Gillibrand (New York). Warren and Harris are reportedly making White House runs in 2020.
Other federal lawmakers calling for the dismantling of ICE include Wisconsin Congressman Mark Pocan and Massachusetts Congressman Mike Capuano. In a piece published by a mainstream media outlet, a law professor running for New York Attorney General writes that ICE is a “tool of cruelty and lawlessness and dehumanization.” The agency was born in xenophobia and fear, the lawyer asserts, and it is doing exactly what it was designed to do: “Terrorize immigrant communities, bring a police state inside our borders and treat people as less than human.”
Not surprisingly, the mainstream media appears to support the abolish ICE movement and has demonstrated it with biased reporting as well as the promotion of radical leftist ideas such as those published by the New York Attorney General candidate.
A mainstream national newspaper writes that the nation doesn’t need ICE and refers to it as an “agency that harms Latino and immigrant communities.” A northern California newspaper blames the Trump administration’s “hardline immigration policies” for transforming the idea of abolishing ICE from a pipe dream for liberal activists to a legitimate political issue. The article refers to abolish ICE as a movement that has seen a “remarkable rise from fringe issue to Democratic rallying cry.” A multitude of media outlets around the country have followed suit, shamelessly displaying their pom poms for the insane abolish ICE movement.
The reality is that ICE needs to be strengthened because the agency is overwhelmed, officers can’t keep up with monstrous workloads and repeatedly lose track of hardcore criminals inside the United States.
As a result hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens with criminal records are getting released by local authorities in the U.S., according to a federal audit released last year by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General. A surge in illegal immigrants under the Obama administration pushed matters into crisis mode with deportation officers so overworked that they often lose track of dangerous illegal aliens with serious criminal histories, the probe found.
This includes individuals who represent critical national security threats. One ICE agent cited in the report said this: “You might work 18 hours a day, but you still won’t get caught up.” Inspectors visited four key field offices and determined that the management deficiencies and unresolved obstacles make it difficult for the feds to deport aliens expeditiously. “ICE is almost certainly not deporting all the aliens who could be deported and will likely not be able to keep up with growing numbers of deportable aliens,” the DHS watchdog found.
Homeless Crisis in Los
Angeles Worst Since Great
Depression
David McNew / Getty
The number of homeless people living on Los Angeles’s Skid Row is the
worst the city has seen since the Great Depression.
This
year, nearly 2,500 homeless and near-homeless men, women and children were
served Thanksgiving lunch on Skid Row and in Pasadena and Canoga Park. “We
haven’t seen numbers like this since the Great Depression,” Georgia Berkovich,
the director of The Midnight Mission’s public affairs department, told
the Los Angeles Times.
In
2014, Breitbart News went to Skid Row to help
deliver Thanksgiving meals to nearly 300 people. The meals were provided
by My Friends House Foundation and Fair Game food truck.
The
Fred Jordan Mission, which is located nearby, reportedly served over
a ton of turkey drumsticks, 500 pounds of mashed potatoes, 80 gallons of gravy,
560 pounds of candied yams, 585 pounds of green beans, glazed carrots, and 400
pumpkin pies.
The Los Angeles Times also notes
that over 2,000 people were served a sit-down meal of turkey with
trimmings at the 30th annual Community Thanksgiving Day Dinner for San Fernando
Valley homeless and low-income families at the Guadalupe Community Center in
Canoga Park.
The
homeless epidemic that has swept Los Angeles has become so bad that in August,
the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a program to pay homeowners up to
$75,000 to house homeless people on their own properties.
In
January, the Times noted that although New York City
remains the number one city for homelessness in America, Los
Angeles leads the nation in the number of “unsheltered” homeless
people.
Meanwhile,
in Northern California, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf called on her
constituents to open their doors and residences to the city’s homeless during
her annual State of the City address earlier this month.
“Give
up that Airbnb. Fix up that back unit,” Schaff said according
to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Adelle Nazarian is a politics and national security reporter for
Breitbart News. Follow her on Facebook and Twitter.
Mexican Gangs "Ethnic Cleansing"
Blacks In L.A.
Latino thugs indiscriminately murder
blacks regardless of gang membership, genocidal purge aligns with radical
Aztlan theology
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Monday, January 22, 2007
Racist Mexican gangs are indiscriminately targeting blacks who
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Monday, January 22, 2007
Racist Mexican gangs are indiscriminately targeting blacks who
aren't even involved in gang culture, as
part of an orchestrated
ethnic cleansing program that is forcing
black people to flee Los
Angeles. The culprit of the carnage is
the radical Neo-Nazi
liberation theology known as La Raza,
which calls for the
extermination of all races in America
besides Latinos, and is being
bankrolled by some of the biggest
Globalists in the U.S.
A story carried on the liberal website Alternet, charts an explosion in brutal murders of blacks by Hispanic street gangs in L.A. Far from being gang on gang violence, the Latinos are targeting innocent blacks in accordance with a concerted ethnic cleansing campaign that seeks to eradicate all blacks from Hispanic neighborhoods.
In one instance, 21-year-old Anthony Prudhomme was shot in the face with a .25-caliber semi-automatic while lying on a futon inside his apartment, slain by a Latino gang known as the Avenues as part of a racist terror campaign in which gang members earn "stripes" for each black person they kill.
A story carried on the liberal website Alternet, charts an explosion in brutal murders of blacks by Hispanic street gangs in L.A. Far from being gang on gang violence, the Latinos are targeting innocent blacks in accordance with a concerted ethnic cleansing campaign that seeks to eradicate all blacks from Hispanic neighborhoods.
In one instance, 21-year-old Anthony Prudhomme was shot in the face with a .25-caliber semi-automatic while lying on a futon inside his apartment, slain by a Latino gang known as the Avenues as part of a racist terror campaign in which gang members earn "stripes" for each black person they kill.
In one typical case," writes
journalist Brentin Mock, "Three members of the Pomona 12 attacked an
African-American teenager, Kareem Williams, in his front yard in 2002. When his
uncle, Roy Williams, ran to help his nephew, gang member Richard Diaz told him,
"Niggers have no business living in Pomona because this is 12th Street
territory." According to witnesses, Diaz then told the other gang members,
"Pull out the gun! Shoot the niggers! Shoot the niggers!"
The fatwah against blacks began in the
mid-nineties, with a 1995 LAPD report concluding that Latinos had vowed to
"Eradicate black citizens from the gang neighborhood." In a follow up
report on the situation in east Los Angeles, the LAPD warned that "Local
gangs will attack any black person that comes into the city."
The author notes that since 1990 the
African-American population of Los Angeles has halved, partly as a result of
rampant illegal immigration and that there are noticeably fewer blacks walking
the streets because many have been forced to relocate in fear of the racist
gangs.
"The LAPD estimates there are now
22,000 Latino gang members in the city of Los Angeles alone. That's not only
more than all the Crips and the Bloods; it's more than all black, Asian, and
white gang members combined. Almost all of those Latino gang members in L.A. --
let alone those in other California cities -- are loyal to the Mexican Mafia.
Most have been thoroughly indoctrinated with the Mexican Mafia's violent racism
during stints in prison, where most gangs are racially based," writes
Mock.
Mock blames the "Mexican Mafia"
for ordering the campaign of ethnic cleansing from prison, as part of a turf
war with the Black Guerilla family, another prison gang, but fails to pinpoint
the racist creed from which the Mexican kingpins draw their inspiration - the
long standing Aztlan invasion agenda.
Aztlan's goal, known as La reconquista, is to cede and take over the entirety of the southern and western states by any means necessary and impose a Communist militant dictatorship. President Bush's blanket amnesty program goes a long way to helping the extremists achieve their aim.
Aztlan's goal, known as La reconquista, is to cede and take over the entirety of the southern and western states by any means necessary and impose a Communist militant dictatorship. President Bush's blanket amnesty program goes a long way to helping the extremists achieve their aim.
LOS ANGELES
GANGS
WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING, MEXICO WAS
LOOTING, MURDERING and SENDING BILLIONS BACK TO MEXICO!
THE COUNTY OF MEX-GANG INFESTED LOS
ANGELES PUTS OUT ONE BILLION DOLLARS TO ILLEGALS!
Despite the
fact that the majority of documented hispanics oppose illegal immigration, as
do the majority of Americans, Aztlan and La Raza race hate groups have become
the self-appointed voice for a separatist movement that threatens a violent
overthrow of the Constitutional system and a barbaric program of ethnic cleansing.
This is held up by the media as 'diversity' and to vociferously oppose it is
scorned as racism.
Aztlan and Mecha groups advocate killing all whites and blacks and driving them out of the southern states by means of brutal ethnic cleansing. Flags and placards carried at marches depict white people having their heads cut off, as seen in the picture below.
Aztlan and Mecha groups advocate killing all whites and blacks and driving them out of the southern states by means of brutal ethnic cleansing. Flags and placards carried at marches depict white people having their heads cut off, as seen in the picture below.
Those that protest such groups are then attacked by the establishment media and labeled as racists, despite the fact that the Plan of San Diego, a rallying cry for the hispanic Klan groups, advocates total eradication of any race but hispanics.
Mecha's own slogan reads, "For the race everything. For those outside the race, nothing."
TV stations owned by rich white industrialists erect giant billboards in Los Angeles claiming the city belongs to Mexico, as seen below.
Mainstream hispanics who love America abhor the virulent racism that the Mexican klan groups embrace.
And who bankrolls these pocket radicals? Billionaire tax-exempt foundations and NGO's owned by white men. Organizations like the Ford Foundation, groups who are zealous in their quest to eliminate the middle class and destroy America, turning it into a cashless society, compact city, surveillance control grid where only two tiers of society exist - the elite and the poor slaves.
During the May immigration protests, The Aztlanwebsite carried the following statement.
"If the racist "Sensenbrenner Legislation" passes the US Senate, there is no doubt that a massive civil disobedience movement will emerge. Eventually labor union power can merge with the immigrant civil rights and "Immigrant Sanctuary" movements to enable us to either form a new political party or to do heavy duty reforming of the existing Democratic Party. The next and final steps would follow and that is to elect our own governors of all the states within Aztlan."
Here is the open call for violent separatism and the overthrow of existing state government structures.
During the immigration demonstrations, which were orchestrated by Rob Allyn of Rob Allyn & Co. who is closely tied with George W. Bush, alarming reports of illegals carrying out violent beatings began to surface. In Santa Ana California, illegal aliens swarmed around in mobs invading schools, carrying out violent beatings and in one incident a county worker had a Mexican flag plunged into his chest.
The violent protests that began on May 1 last year were characterized by throngs marching under Mexican flags, many of which were illegal aliens, as a "day without gringos."
Imagine what the reaction would be if white middle class Americans marched in their millions and called the event "a day without blacks."
The media continues to run defense for a violent militant movement that seeks nothing less than the eradication of blacks and whites through ethnic cleansing and the takeover of the southern and western states. This is a separatist junta that has over 30,000 ruthless gang members at its disposal once the call for mobilization is heard, along with millions of illegal aliens pouring across the border.
Homeland Security is losing track of one in five illegal
immigrants who have been trusted to live in communities before they are
deported, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal.
allows more than 73,000 foreigners to live in
towns and cities across the United States as
part of the controversial Alternatives to
Detention (ATD) program.
Instead of being locked up in detention centers, they are
allowed to relocate before they are processed and sent back to their native
countries.
They are required to check in regularly with immigration
officials or wear ankle bracelets so their movements can be tracked.
But figures released to DailyMail.com through a Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) request states ICE is losing track of more than 18% of
the individuals chosen to be part of the program - including suspected gang
members and residents from President Trump's six travel ban countries.
Some have wreaked havoc in the communities they have been
relocated to, while others are arrested for violent crimes.
The shocking statistics have raised questions
as to why potentially dangerous illegal
immigrants are being placed in the program,
which comes at a huge cost to taxpayers.
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The majority that are allowed into the program are from
Central America.
The most (18,853) hail from El Salvador - a country that is
struggling to deal with deadly gang violence.
Guatemala (18,280), Honduras (15,362) and Mexico (8,343)
follow closely behind.
Of those enrolled, 212 come from Trump's eight travel ban
countries.
Immigrants from Romania (1,128) and Armenia (251) make up
the highest proportion from Europe, while India (701), Haiti (5,238) and China
(701) also feature in the top countries.
Eighteen are from Uzbekistan, the native country of
Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov, the terror suspect accused of killing eight
people by mowing down with a Home Depot truck in New York on Halloween.
He was on a visa and not in the program.
WHAT IS THE ALTERNATIVES TO THE DETENTION PROGRAM?
The system was put in place by
Immigration and Customs Enforcement as a way to make sure illegal immigrants to
meet the requirements of their 'detention', but while still living in the
community.
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They
use certain methods to keep track of those involved, including:
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Parole/release
on own recognizance
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Bond
Check-ins at ICE offices Home visits and check-ins
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Telephonic
monitoring GPS monitoring through an electronic ankle bracelet
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Some are seeking asylum from the brutal MS-13 gang while
others are trying to escape the constant violence created by drug cartels.
The documents also show where the illegal immigrants have
been permitted to live and how many are residing in each area.
Cities where ATD immigrants are living
Miami, Florida - 5,669
New York, New York - 4,557
Los Angeles, California - 4,083
Houston, Texas - 3,927
Baltimore, Maryland - 3,429
San Francisco, California - 3,085
Newark, New Jersey - 2,561
Dallas, Texas - 2,161
Charlotte, North Carolina - 2,034
Boston, Massachusetts - 1,963
Atlanta, Georgia - 1,759
Washington DC - 1,629
San Diego, California - 1,516
Delray, Florida - 1,388
San Bernardino, California - 1,364
New Orleans, Louisiana - 1,354
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - 1,323
Detroit, Michigan -1,132
Orlando, Florida - 1,112
Nashville, Tennessee - 1,052
Manassas, Virginia - 1,011
Charleston, South Carolina - 1,005
Miami has the highest number of immigrants in the program
(5,669), followed by New York (4,557).
Los Angeles, Houston, Baltimore and San Francisco also have
more than 3,000 illegal immigrants living among residents waiting to be
deported.
The alarming absconder rate raises questions over whether
these illegal immigrants should be confined to a detention center, rather than
be left in the community.
The ATD program is also expensive for the government. The
ankle monitoring is sub-contracted to a host of private companies.
Jessica Vaughan, the Director of Policy Studies for the
Center of Immigration Studies, told DailyMail.com: 'These stats are
fascinating. It appears that many of them are asylum seekers, and part of the
explosion in asylum seekers in recent years, primarily from Central America, as
the citizenship data show.
'It is very interesting to see the geographic spread of the
cases.'
'The absconder rate is rather concerning. ATD is an
expensive option for ICE, and if one out of five are skipping out on their due
process, then it is clear that ICE needs to be more careful about who is
enrolled.
'It becomes even more expensive when ICE has to track down
people for hearings and deportation, not to mention the fact that they join the
rest of the illegal population.
'When weighing different options for how to deal with asylum
seekers, DHS has to balance the need for humane treatment with the need to
ensure that the process has some integrity and that people are not gaming the
system by filing frivolous asylum claims knowing they will be released with or
without a monitoring bracelet.
'Cost is also a factor, considering that all of this due
process is at taxpayer expense. I believe it would be more cost-effective and
humane to process asylum seekers as quickly as possible in the border region,
where they are usually encountered, and avoid the need for long-term
monitoring.'
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'People would get an answer on their claim right away,
meaning that the genuine cases will be allowed in immediately to live their new
lives, and the people filing bogus cases can be returned home quickly, which
makes it much harder for the smugglers who encourage this premeditated asylum
fraud to find clients.'
Nationalities of ATD members
1. El Salvador - 18,853
2. Guatemala - 18,280
3. Honduras - 15,362
4. Mexico - 8,343
5. Haiti - 5,238
6. Brazil - 1,930
7. Romania - 1,128
8. India - 701
9. China - 346
10. Ecuador - 268
Earlier this month, one member of the program who was
wearing an ankle monitor was arrested and charged with murdering a community
activist in San Francisco.
On August 14, 23-year-old Abel Ezquivel was shot and killed
on the street in the city's Mission District.
Erick Garcia-Pineda, one of them charged in the slaying,
was wearing an ankle monitor issued to him by ICE.
Garcia-Pineda was claiming asylum in the United States -
claiming he was being hounded by MS-13 gang members, according to reports.
The gun used in the murder was registered to a San
Francisco Police officer and was believed to have been stolen.
In July, it was reported that Romanian immigrants,
some of whom who were part of the Alternatives to Detention, were wreaking
havoc in the town of California, Pennsylvania.
Furious residents said they were defecating in the streets
and publicly decapitating chickens.
Members of the Californian Borough community in Washington
County said they were repulsed by the behavior of their new neighbors, with
over 600 residents signing a petition demanding that they alter their
lifestyle.
'What I've seen is men and
children - never usually the women - the men and the children dropping their
pants in the middle of the street, defecating, pulling their pants up and going
on their way,' one man told Pittsburgh's Action 4 News.
Borough leaders the federal government is responsible for
relocating the eastern Europeans to their town.
ICE confirmed that they were placed in the town as part of
the ATD program.
The same happened with Romanian illegal immigrants who
settled in Washington County, California, and provoked outrage among the 7,000
residents.
The families are believed to be Roma, a stateless ethnic
minority from Eastern Europe, started arriving.
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A spokesman for ICE told DailyMail.com: 'The Alternative to
Detention (ATD) program is a flight-mitigation tool that uses technology and
case management to increase compliance with release conditions and facilitate
compliance with court appearances and other case requirements.
'Each case is evaluated individually, and, as such, not
every case requires electronic monitoring from release to removal. Individuals
can be enrolled and removed from electronic monitoring multiple times before
their case is fully adjudicated.
'The effectiveness of ATD is measured by whether the
enrollee has met the requirements necessary within their case that led to them
bring enrolled in ATD.
'Additionally, it is important to note that individuals are
enrolled in the appropriate level of supervision based on their individual
flight-risk factors , which is crucial to the success of ATD and contributes to
the rates of compliance seen throughout the life of the program.'
They also commented on the case involving Garcia-Pineda.
They said he was complying with the requirements of his detention until August,
when he failed to appear for his scheduled appointment with ICE officials.
He was arrested for domestic violence, but was released
from jail and was free at the time of the slaying.
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'U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has lodged
an immigration detainer against Mr. Garcia-Pineda. Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) databases indicate he is currently in removal proceedings before
the Department of Justice's Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR),'
they told DailyMail.com.
'Mr. Garcia-Pineda entered ICE custody in December 2016. He
was detained by the agency until April of this year at which time an
immigration judge with EOIR ordered Mr. Garcia-Pineda released with the
requirement that he wear a GPS monitoring bracelet and report to ICE in-person
on a regular basis.
'Databases indicate Mr. Garcia-Pineda was complying with
terms of his release until August when he failed to appear for his scheduled
appointment with ICE.
'It's important to note that following Mr. Garcia-Pineda's
arrest in September on a domestic violence charge, ICE lodged a detainer
against him with the San Francisco County Jail. Despite the detainer, local
authorities released him back into the community without providing any
notification to ICE.'
'Records reviewed by U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) indicate that Mr. Garcia-Pineda's GPS ankle bracelet was
removed on August 19 while Mr. Garcia-Pineda was physically on the premises of
850 Bryant Street, which is the location of the San Francisco County jail.
'On that date, the contractor responsible for monitoring
aliens released by ICE on ankle bracelets received a tamper alert emitted by
Mr. Garcia-Pineda's device.
'Subsequently, ICE initiated efforts to locate this
individual, but because the tracking device was no longer functioning the
search was initially unsuccessful. ICE then communicated with Mr.
Garcia-Pineda's attorney, instructing him to direct his client to report to ICE
in person immediately. However, Mr. Garcia-Pineda failed to appear.
'Following Mr. Garcia-Pineda's arrest Sept. 3 by the San
Francisco Police Department, ICE received an electronic notification through
its Secure Communities system and lodged an immigration detainer against him.
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'As previously stated, local authorities failed to honor
that detainer and released Mr. Garcia-Pineda back into the community.
'However, by that time ICE Enforcement and Removal
Operations was aware this individual was the subject of an ongoing criminal
investigation and accordingly didn't take any action that might impede or
jeopardize that investigation.'
Other investigations into ICE by DailyMail.com have
uncovered that border officials use private jets to fly immigrants back to
their home countries - costing the taxpayers $300,000 every day.
The agency spent $116 million in 2015 to transport 235,413
people in the United States illegally back to their home countries.
More than 40 per cent of those who had violated visa
restrictions were convicted criminals while more than 1,000 were identified as
gang members.
The ICE revealed to DailyMail.com that the average cost of
every immigrant in 2015 was $12,213.
The cost includes identifying the immigrant, apprehending
them, placing them in a detention center, their process through immigration
court and their subsequent removal.
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More documents obtained through a Freedom of Information
Act request also found that housing an alien in the US' biggest immigration
center in Dilley, Texas, costs more than a night's stay in the nearest
five-star hotel.
Jesse Lerner-Kinglake from Just Detention International, a
group campaigning to end all sexual abuse behind bars, highlighted the
troubling accusations of guards sexually assaulting detainees.
He told DailyMail.com: 'These reports of staff sexual
misconduct paint a depressing picture of US immigration detention facilities.
And it's especially chilling to think how much longer the list of infractions
would be if detainees felt safe reporting sexual abuse.
'The good news is that the Department of Homeland
Security's Prison Rape Elimination Act standards provide a roadmap for
protecting all immigration detainees.
'The incoming Trump Administration must make adopting these
rules a priority.'
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ICE
‘Raging Bull’ Operation Leads to Arrest of 267 MS-13 Gang Members
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Nearly 300 MS-13 gang members are behind
bars following the conclusion of a joint
international law enforcement effort led by
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE). “Operation Raging Bull” resulted in
the
arrests
of 214 MS-13 members and
affiliates
in the U.S. and 53 in El Salvador.
ICE Homeland
Security Investigations (HSI) agents executed Operation Raging Bull in
support of the Department of Justice’s recent prioritization of enforcement
actions against violent transnational gangs.
“MS-13 has
long been a priority for ICE. However we are now combating the gang with
renewed focus and an unprecedented level of cooperation among DHS’s components
and our domestic and international partners,” ICE Deputy Director and Senior
Official Performing the Duties of the Director Thomas Homan said in a statement
obtained by Breitbart Texas. “ICE has the ability to pursue complex criminal
cases using our statutory authorities and to prevent crime by using our
administrative arrest authorities to remove gang members from the country. We
will not rest until every member, associate, and leader of MS-13 has been held
accountable for their crimes, and those in this country illegally have been
removed.”
Phase one of
the operation followed up on the results of an 18-month investigation in El
Salvador. The probe led to the arrests of 53 MS-13 gang members and affiliates
in El Salvador. In early October, the second phase began in the States. Running
from October 8 to November 11, law enforcement officers and agents from
federal, state, and local agencies arrested 214 gang members and affiliates
across the U.S.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions repeatedly stressed the
importance of defeating MS-13.
“With more
than 10,000 members across 40 states, MS-13 is one of the most dangerous
criminal organizations in the United States today,” Sessions said in a
statement on Thursday. “President Trump has ordered the Department of Justice
to reduce crime and take down transnational criminal organizations, and we will
be relentless in our pursuit of these objectives.”
“So far this
year, we have secured convictions against more than 1,200 gang
members and worked with our partners in Central America to arrest and charge
some 4,000 MS-13 members,” the AG explained. “These 267 arrests are the next
step toward making this country safer by taking MS-13 off of our streets for
good.”
Ninety-three
of the 214 arrests made in the U.S. were based on federal and/or state criminal
charges, officials stated. Those charges include: murder, aggravated
robbery, racketeering influenced corrupt organization (RICO) offenses, violent
crime in aid of racketeering (VICAR) offenses, narcotics trafficking, narcotics
possession, firearms offenses, domestic violence, assault, forgery, driving
under the influence, and illegal entry/reentry. Immigration violations
made up the remaining 121 arrests.
Operation Raging Bull – Nations of Origin chart – ICE
Only 16 of
those arrested were U.S. citizens, the report states. Illegal aliens made up
the overwhelming majority of those arrested. Officials arrested a total of 198
immigrants — 193 of which had no legal status. The MS-13 gang members came
from El Salvador (135), Honduras (29), Mexico (17), Guatemala (12),
Ecuador (4) and Costa Rica (1).
Of those
arrested after entering the U.S. illegally, ICE officials reported that 64 came
to the U.S. as Unaccompanied Alien Children — most of those are now adults.
Operation Raging Bull – Arrest Map – ICE
ICE
officials provided examples of the types of crimes carried out by these MS-13
gang members:
- In Baltimore, Maryland, the arrest and indictment of four MS-13
members on charges that include violent crimes in aid of racketeering and
conspiracy to commit murder in aid of racketeering.
- In McKinney, Texas, the arrest of an MS-13 gang member
and citizen of El Salvador who is wanted for homicide by the National
Civil Police of El Salvador (PNC).
- In Denver, Colorado, the arrest of an MS-13 gang member
and citizen of El Salvador who is wanted on an outstanding warrant for DUI
and was found with three machetes in his possession.
- In Los Angeles, California, the arrest of an MS-13 member
and citizen of El Salvador, subject of an INTERPOL Red Notice for gang
offenses and involvement with the murder of an PNC officer in El Salvador.
- In San Francisco, California, the arrest of an MS-13
member and citizen of El Salvador, who is a wanted fugitive in El Salvador
on an arrest warrant for violent crimes including homicide.
ICE
officials added six MS-13 gang members to their most wanted list, including one
wanted in Montgomery County, Texas, on murder charges. The other five fugitives
are suspected of murdering Salvadoran police officers.
Operation Raging Bull – Most Wanted List – ICE
ICE
uses the following criteria in confirming MS-13 gang membership or affiliation:
Individuals
are confirmed as gang members if they admit membership in a gang; have been
convicted of violating Title 18 USC 521 or any other federal or state law
criminalizing or imposing civil consequences for gang-related activity; or if
they meet certain other criteria such as having tattoos identifying a specific
gang or being identified as a gang member by a reliable source.
Gang
associates are individuals who exhibit gang member criteria but who are not
formally initiated into the gang. Law enforcement officers encountering these
individuals will determine whether indications of gang association are present
by referring to the gang membership criteria.
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One-Third
of 214 Arrested MS-13 Gangsters Were ‘Unaccompanied Alien Children’
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Almost one-third of 214 U.S.-based MS-13 gang members arrested in an international
sweep were invited into the United States by President Barack Obama’s
“Unaccompanied Alien Children” policy.
The
successful “Raging Bull’ sweep was announced by
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Deputy Director Tom Homan
in a joint press conference at ICE headquarters in Washington, D.C. on
Thursday.
The operation is a “significant step towards
dismantling and eradicating MS-13 in the United States and in El Salvador,”
said Deputy Assistant Attorney General David Rybicki, the second-ranking
official at DOJ’s Criminal Division. El Salvador police also arrested 53
gang members in El Salvador.
Sixteen of the 214 arrestees in the
United States are U.S. citizens. Five were legal immigrants.
Ninety-three of 214 arrestees are charged
with federal or state criminal offenses and will face prison time in the United
States, said Derek Benner, the deputy executive associate director of the
Homeland Security Investigations division.
The group of 214 include 193 illegal aliens,
including 121 arrestees who will be deported but will not face criminal
charges.
Sixty-four of the 193 illegals – nearly one
in three – are would-be “dreamers” because they illegally crossed the
border while claiming to be minors. Their unscreened claims to be children —
not adults — won them the legal status of “Unaccompanied Alien Children,” which
allowed them to claim federal aid and be released into the United States.
The status was provided by Obama’s
administration, which was seeking ways to welcome migrants from Central
America into the United States. That invite spiraled out of control, resulting
in a huge wave of migrants in 2014, which helped Donald Trump get elected.
“Definitely some UACs end up being
bad people and enter the country to do bad things,” said Homan, who is serving
as acting ICE director and was nominated on Tuesday by Trump to head the
agency. “That’s why we asked for several policy changes in [the requests] we
sent to the Hill.”
Criminal charges against the 214
gang-members include racketeering and conspiracy to commit murder in the
furtherance of racketeering. According to Rybicki, an entire eight-man MS-13
“clique” (a local division of a gang) was arrested in the operation. This
“Sailors Clique” operated in suburban Maryland, a hotspot of
MS-13 activity, and has been linked to at least three murders.
U.S. Border Patrol Deputy
Chief Scott Luck explained that the operation worked with El Salvadoran
intelligence agencies to identify people with links to MS-13.
The gang was created in Los Angeles during
the 1980s because the U..S government failed to enforce immigration laws, which
allowed El Salvador youths to sneak into the United States. Without economic
skills in California’s diverse society, they formed their own national gang —
and then recreated that gang in their own homeland once the illegal immigrants
were repatriated home.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
(USCIS) Director Francis Cissna explained that his agency’s work to identify
illegal aliens with gang affiliations was vital to Raging Bull’s success. USCIS
had one of its Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate (FDNS)agents at the Raging Bull command center full time to
work to that effect. “That individual reviewed asylum claims for MS-13 members
targeted by the operation and assisted in assembling target packages for the
immigration and/or criminal court proceedings of these gang members arrested
during the operation,” Cissna said.
As Attorney General Jeff Sessions bemoaned in
October, gang members and other unworthy illegal aliens often use the United
States’s generous asylum policies to tie up their cases in administrative
proceedings, often needing only a “credible claim” of persecution in their home
country to avoid deportation for years.
“FDNS also notified ICE HSI regarding asylum
applicants with strong ties to MS-13 or other significant gang indicators,”
Cissna continued. “Our headquarters FDNS officers search USCIS systems for
information regarding 195 targeted MS-13 members and associates identified by
the operation for additional vetting.”
Operation Raging Bull carries on a series of
nationwide and international efforts against the brutal gang. In July, Attorney
General Sessions went to El Salvador to announce nearly
600 arrests in that country. Earlier in the summer, ICE’s “Operation
Matador” netteddozens of
arrests in the United States.
El Salvador police also arrested 53 gang
members in el Salvador.
Illegal Immigration Costs U.S. Taxpayers a Stunning
$134.9 Billion a Year
Adios, California
A fifth-generation Californian laments his state’s ongoing economic collapse.
By Steve Baldwin
American Spectator, October 19, 2017
What’s clear is that the producers are leaving the state and the takers are coming in. Many of the takers are illegal aliens, now estimated to number over 2.6 million. The Federation for American Immigration Reform estimates that California spends $22 billion on government services for illegal aliens, including welfare, education, Medicaid, and criminal justice system costs. Liberals claim they more than make that up with taxes paid, but that’s simply not true. It’s not even close. FAIR estimates illegal aliens in California contribute only $1.21 billion in tax revenue, which means they cost California $20.6 billion, or at least $1,800 per household.
Nonetheless, open border advocates, such as Facebook Chairman Mark Zuckerberg, claim illegal aliens are a net benefit to California with little evidence to support such an assertion. As the Center for Immigration Studies has documented, the vast majority of illegals are poor, uneducated, and with few skills. How does accepting millions of illegal aliens and then granting them access to dozens of welfare programs benefit California’s economy? If illegal aliens were contributing to the economy in any meaningful way, California, with its 2.6 million illegal aliens, would be booming.
Furthermore, the complexion of illegal aliens has changed with far more on welfare and committing crimes than those who entered the country in the 1980s. Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute has testified before a Congressional committee that in 2004, 95% of all outstanding warrants for murder in Los Angeles were for illegal aliens; in 2000, 23% of all Los Angeles County jail inmates were illegal aliens and that in 1995, 60% of Los Angeles’s largest street gang, the 18th Street gang, were illegal aliens. Granted, those statistics are old, but if you talk to any California law enforcement officer, they will tell you it’s much worse today. The problem is that the Brown administration will not release any statewide data on illegal alien crimes. That would be insensitive. And now that California has declared itself a “sanctuary state,” there is little doubt this sends a message south of the border that will further escalate illegal immigration into the state.
Indeed, California goes out of its way to attract illegal aliens. The state has even created government programs that cater exclusively to illegal aliens. For example, the State Department of Motor Vehicles has offices that only process driver licenses for illegal aliens. With over a million illegal aliens now driving in California, the state felt compelled to help them avoid the long lines the rest of us must endure at the DMV. And just recently, the state-funded University of California system announced it will spend $27 million on financial aid for illegal aliens. They’ve even taken out radio spots on stations all along the border, just to make sure other potential illegal border crossers hear about this program. I can’t afford college education for all my four sons, but my taxes will pay for illegals to get a college education.
. . .
Sanctuary
Cities Allowed Criminal Alien to Remain in U.S., Murder Kansas Deputy
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County Sheriff's Office
An illegal alien who was drunk driving has pleaded guilty to killing a
Kansas deputy sheriff after causing a deadly car crash last year.
Sanctuary city policies in two jurisdictions allowed the previously convicted
drunk driver to remain in the U.S. leading to the murder of the deputy.
Adrian
Espinosa-Flores, a 39-year-old illegal alien, pleaded guilty to reckless
second-degree murder charges in Johnson County, Kansas after crashing his
vehicle into Master Deputy Brandon Collins, killing him, as Kansas City
Star reported.
On
Sept. 11, 2016, Collins had pulled a vehicle over on U.S. 69. Collins’ patrol
car was parked when Espinosa-Flores recklessly drove into the sheriff deputy’s
vehicle, crashing it into the SUV that had been pulled over.
Collins
was killed at the scene of the accident. When the illegal alien was taken into
custody, it was discovered that he had been driving despite being more than
twice over the blood-alcohol legal limit. The illegal alien admitted to police
after being taken into custody that he had been drinking that night.
The
illegal alien’s sentencing hearing will take place next year. Should
Espinosa-Flores be released from prison at any time, he will be deported back
to his native country.
Espinosa-Flores
managed to stay in the United States following a previous DUI conviction after
California officials refused to notify U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) officials of the illegal alien’s crime, Breitbart Texas’ Bob Price reported in
September 2016.
Two
U.S. Senators wrote to then-DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson, demanding an
investigation into the failure of Los Angeles County to report the conviction
to ICE.
“It
appears that Flores was able to evade removal by taking advantage of at least
one sanctuary jurisdiction. As a result, a law enforcement officer was killed,
allegedly by Flores while again driving under the influence,” Senator’s Charles
Grassley (R-IA) and Andy Alcock (R-KS) wrote.
The
Overland-Park, Kansas Police Department arrested the illegal alien in 2013 for
driving without a license. That department also failed to notify ICE officials.
“ICE
was not notified by authorities in California or Kansas of either arrest,” ICE
spokesman Shawn Neudauer wrote in his email response to an AP inquiry.
“It
seems Deputy Collins died at the hands of someone who broke our laws and should
not have been allowed to remain in the United States following his multiple
interactions with law enforcement,” the two senators concluded.
More than 52 million Americans live in economically distressed
communities
By Sandy English
28 September 2017
A new analysis of Census data shows that
the so-called economic recovery under the Obama administration was an
unmitigated catastrophe for the 20 percent of the American population that live
in the poorest areas of the United States and that gains of jobs and income
have gone overwhelming to the top 20 percent richest areas.
“The
2017 Distressed Communities Report,” published by the
Economic Innovation Group (EIG), analyzes the census data for 2011-2015 for
people living in each of the nearly 7,500 American zip codes according to
several criteria.
The EIG’s Distressed Communities Index
(DCI) considers the percentage of the population without a high school diploma,
the percentage of housing vacancies, the percentage of adults working, the
percentage of the population in poverty, the median income ratio (the
percentage of median income that a zip code has for its state), the change in
employment from 2011 to 2015, and the change in the number of businesses in the
same period.
The report divides the findings for zip
codes into five quintiles based on these indicators, rated from worst- to
best-performing: distressed, at risk, mid-tier, comfortable, and prosperous.
The results show that distressed
communities—52.3 million people or 17 percent of the American
population—experienced an average 6 percent drop in the number of adults
working and a 6.3 percent average drop in the number of business
establishments.
“Far from achieving even anemic growth
from 2011 to 2015,” the report notes, “distressed communities instead
experienced what amounts to a deep ongoing recession.”
Further, “fully one third of the
approximately 44 million Americans receiving SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program or food stamps) and other cash public assistance benefits
(such as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)) live in distressed
communities.” The report notes that most distressed communities have seen zero
net job growth since 2000.
Residents in these zip codes are five
times more likely to die than those in prosperous zip codes. Deaths from
cancer, pregnancy complications, suicide, and violence are even higher. “Mental
and substance abuse disorders are 64 percent higher in distressed counties than
prosperous ones, with major clusters in Appalachia and Native American
communities where rates exceed four or five times the national average,” the
report continues.
One other important and alarming fact
which the report highlights is that over a third of the distressed zip codes
contain so-called “brownfield” sites—areas which are polluted or contaminated
in some way. Not only do these have impacts on real estate and business
development, they present a whole array of health hazards to the very poorest
Americans.
Distressed communities can be found all
over the United States but are concentrated in the South: 43 percent of
Mississippi’s zip codes are distressed, followed by Alabama, West Virginia,
Arkansas and Louisiana. According to the report, [the South] “is home to a
staggering 52 percent of all Americans living in distressed zip codes—far above
its 37.5 percent share of the country’s total population.”
After this, the Southwest and Great Lakes
region have the largest share. In the Northeast, most distressed communities
tend to be found in urban areas and in the South, primarily in rural areas.
The biggest cities with the largest
numbers of distressed zip codes are Cleveland, Ohio, Newark, New Jersey,
Buffalo, New York, Detroit, Michigan and Toledo, Ohio. Mid-sized cities with
the highest number of distressed zip codes include Youngstown, Ohio, Trenton,
New Jersey, Camden, New Jersey, Gary, Indiana, Hartford, Connecticut and Flint,
Michigan.
Urban counties with the highest number of
distressed zip codes include Cook County in Illinois, with Chicago at its
center, Los Angeles County in California, Harris County in Texas, with Houston
at its center, and Wayne County in Michigan, encompassing Detroit. Most of
these urban areas were once industrial centers and home to the industrial
working class.
Distressed zip codes that have a majority
of minorities living in them are more than twice as likely to be distressed as
zip codes that are majority white. “In total,” the report notes, “45 percent of
the country’s majority-minority zip codes are distressed and only 7 percent of
them are prosperous.” At the same time there are numerous distressed
communities that are almost completely white. A quarter of the total distressed
population is under 18.
The report found that the economic
benefits
of the recovery after the 2008
recessions
have gone to the top quintile of
zip codes,
where the
wealthier layers of the population
live,
including not only the very rich but also
the upper
middle class.
These areas, which the DCI terms
prosperous, and make up roughly 85 million Americans or 27 percent of the US
population, have for the most part the economic wherewithal to finance higher
levels of education, have the lowest housing vacancy, highest percentage of
working adults, and have had the lion’s share of job and business expansion.
“The job growth rate in the top quintile
was 2.6 times higher than nationally from 2011 to 2015, and business
establishments proliferated three times faster than they did at the national
level,” the report notes. “Prosperous zip codes stand worlds apart from their
distressed counterparts, seemingly insulated from many of the challenges with
which other communities must grapple. The poverty rate is more than 20 points
lower in the average prosperous community than it is in the average distressed
one.”
The report makes much less of an analysis
of the other three, middle quintiles, the at risk, mid-tier, and comfortable
categories, but it does note some trends that address the overall trends
nation-wide. “A remarkably small proportion of places fuel national increases
in jobs and businesses in today’s economy. High growth in these local economic
powerhouses buoys national numbers while obscuring stagnant or declining
economic activity in other parts of the country.”
One of the more telling aspects of the
report is that extreme poverty in the US is presided over by both capitalist
parties: Democratic and Republic politicians have equal numbers of distressed
communities in their constituencies. Democrats, in fact, “represent six of the
10 most distressed congressional districts.”
Another observation from the voting data,
and one of the few that looks at conditions beyond the bottom and top
quintiles, is worth quoting in full:
“President Trump accumulated a 3.5 million
vote lead in counties that fell into the bottom three quintiles of well-being
(equivalent to 9.4 percent of all votes cast in these counties). A vast array
of factors determined voting patterns in the 2016 election, but it stands that
the ‘continuity’ candidate performed better in the places benefiting most from
the status quo, while the ‘change’ candidate performed better in the places one
would expect to find more dissatisfaction.”
Broader figures and the historical view of
wealth distribution in the US—that one percent of the population control 40 percent
of the wealth or the decades-long decline in the percentage of the national
income that goes to the working class—is not brought out in the report but the
data add to a complete picture of social conditions across the United States,
the character and geographical distribution of social and economic conditions
in a country of more than 320 million.
The portrait provided by the EIG report
is not simply one of increasing misery and poverty for the bottom 20 percent,
and not only one in which only a minority of Americans are achieving anything
like “prosperity,” but of growing and explosive dissent among tens of millions.
It exposes as a bold-faced lie the
claim
that President Obama made at the
end
of his second term, that “things
have
never been better” in America.
While you were sleeping, Mexico was invading, occupying,
looting and voting Democrat for more.
“In 1960, according to a USC demographic study, fewer than 10%
of the people in the Los Angeles County area were Latino. By 2008, according to
federal census estimates, almost half were Latino. Roughly the same was true in
the city of Los Angeles.”
''California is going to be a
Hispanic state," said Mario Obeldo, former head of MALDEF. "Anyone
who does not like it should leave." And MEChA's goal is even more radical:
an independent ''Aztlan,'' the collective name this organization gives to the
seven states of the U.S. Southwest – Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New
Mexico, Texas and Utah.”
LA RAZA AGENDA: 3 ExamplesRichard Alatorre, Los Angeles City Council "They're afraid we're going to take over the governmental institutions and other institutions. They're right. We will take them over. . We are here to stay."
Mario Obledo, California Coalition of Hispanic Organizations and California State Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Jerry Brown, also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Bill Clinton "California is going to be a Hispanic state. Anyone who doesn't like it should leave."
Jose Pescador Osuna, Mexican Consul General We are practicing "La Reconquista" in California."
Here are a few facts you should
consider when you finally look around yourself and see only Mexicans….Mexicans
driving, Mexicans in our jobs, Mexicans in our welfare office, Mexicans
flooding our healthcare systems, and Mexicans and only Mexicans at all
construction sites.
CALIFORNIA UNDER MEXICAN
OCCUPATION:
The State Government of CA hands
illegals more than $30 BILLION per year in social services. That’s the state
level we’re talking about. Counties hand out even more with Mex-occupied Los
Angeles leading at $1 BILLION in welfare for Mexico’s anchor baby breeders. No
legal in Los Angeles or California were ever given the opportunity to vote on
Mexico’s welfare state in our open borders.
California has the largest and most
expensive state prison system in the nation. Half the inmates are illegals from
Mexico.
There have been more than 2,000
Californians murdered by Mexicans that fled back across the border to avoid
prosecution.
According to former CA Attorney
General Kamala Harris, now CA senator and advocate for amnesty, nearly HALF the
murders in CA are by Mexican gangs.
Los Angeles is America’s and
Mexico’s second largest city. Approximately 93% of the murders are committed by
Mexicans.
The Los Angeles Police department
publishes a list with images of the 200 most wanted criminals in Los Angeles.
About 186 at any given time are Mexicans. Most of the rest are Russian and
Armenians.
The County of Los Angeles spends
about $300 million yearly to jail Mexican criminals.
The City of Los Angeles spends
about $10 MILLION per year to clean up Mexican graffiti.
The City of Los Angeles has more
than 100,000 homeless and bout 5 MILLION illegals housed and in jobs.
The tax-free underground economy in
Los Angeles County is estimated to be in excess of $2 BILLION per year.
The City of Los Angeles tetters on
bankruptcy. It will be the largest bankruptcy in American history and will end
all City employee pensions. Still there will be no cuts related to the Mexican
occupation.
California ranks No. 48 out of 50
states for abominable lower education quality.
Mexicans loathe literacy and
speaking the gringo language. Most Mexicans graduate from high school not being
able to read at a third-grade level.
At Santee Public High School in Los
Angeles, classes are taught in Spanish. Books are in Spanish and school
assemblies end in “!Viva Mexico, Viva Mexico!”.
Many public schools in CA have
prohibited Legals from wearing American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo day.
California’s Attorney General
Xavier Becerra has been described in the press as a “Puss spewing racist”.
Mexicans think of themselves as LA RAZA “The Race”. The A.G.’s website no
longer list California’s most wanted criminals as they were all MEXICANS. Becerra,
as Congressman, sucked in bribes from Mexican criminals.
There have been more than 82
private enterprise hospitals and clinics in CA driven into bankruptcy due to
Mexico’s occupation of CA. It’s calculated that Mexico’s “free” gringo-paid
healthcare in CA cost legals $1.5 BILLION per year. No illegal in Mexico
received ANY medical attention, welfare or jobs.
The La Raza Sanctuary City of West
Hollywood, which employs hordes of illegals, banned the use of gas leaf blowers
in 1987. No City ordinances anywhere in CA ever apply to illegals. The City
handed out more than 400 fines to gardeners who were all illegals from Mexico.
The fines were never paid and were deemed uncollectable as these gardeners all
had fraudulent IDs. Therefore they were out there driving unlicensed and
uninsured. No illegal caught using a gas leaf blower and with fraudulent ID was
or will ever be prosecuted. In CA La Raza is above the law.
In Los Angeles there have been
numerous murders of innocent black Americans by Mexican gangs who were
“ethnically cleansing” their hoods.
LA RAZA Gov Jerry Brown has signed
each and every bill put before him that would expand Mexico’s supremacy in CA.
Both houses of the state legislature are now controlled by Mexico.
Gov Jerry Brown has openly proclaimed
that California is the Mexican’s “second home”, but when it comes to jobs, a
tax-free lifestyle, welfare, “free” medical, education and housing for many, CA
is the Mexican’s first home.
Former Mayor of Los Angeles and now
candidate for Governor, Antonio Villaraigosa is a former member of the racist,
violent, fascist separatist movement of M.E.Ch.A.
Mexico has 50 consulates in
American compared with the United Kingdom which has only 8. These consulates
are LA RAZA headquarters to help Mexicans claim their “rights”, which is more
welfare and “free” medical.
Jose Pescador Osuna, Mexican Consul General We are practicing
"La Reconquista" in California."
ILLEGALS
COSTING CALIFORNIA BILLIONS
By
Jerry Seper 2004 ( THINK IT’S GOTTEN ANY BETTER SINCE 2004?)
THE
WASHINGTON TIMES Published December 7, 2004
Illegal
immigration costs the taxpayers of California -- which has the highest number
of illegal aliens nationwide -- $10.5 (NOW $30 BILLION) billion a year for
education, health care and incarceration, according to a study released
yesterday. A key finding of the report by the Federation for American
Immigration Reform (FAIR) said the state's already struggling
kindergarten-through-12th-grade education system spends $7.7 billion a year on
children of illegal aliens, who constitute 15 percent of the student body. The
report also said the incarceration of convicted illegal aliens in state prisons
and jails and uncompensated medical outlays for health care provided to illegal
aliens each amounted to about $1.4 billion annually. The incarceration costs
did not include judicial expenditures or the monetary costs of the crimes
committed by illegal aliens that led to their incarceration. "California's
addiction to 'cheap' illegal-alien labor is bankrupting the state and posing
enormous burdens on the state's shrinking middle-class tax base," said
FAIR President Dan Stein. "Most Californians, who have seen their taxes
increase while public services deteriorate, already know the impact that mass
illegal immigration is having on their communities, but even they may be
shocked when they learn just how much of a drain illegal immigration has
become," he said.
ALIEN NATION: Secrets of the
Invasion….. It
S all about keeping wages depressed!
May
2006 – ALIEN NATION: Secrets of the Invasion – Why America's government invites
rampant illegal immigration
It's
widely regarded as America's biggest problem: Between 12 and 20 million aliens
(MOST SOURCES SUGGEST THERE ARE MUCH MORE LIKELY NEARLY 40 MILLION ILLEGALS
HERE NOW) – including large numbers of criminals, gang members and even
terrorists – have entered this nation illegally, with countless more streaming
across our scandalously unguarded borders daily.
The
issue polarizes the nation, robs citizens of jobs, bleeds taxpayers, threatens
America's national security and dangerously balkanizes the country into
unassimilated ethnic groups with little loyalty or love for America's founding
values. Indeed, the de facto invasion is rapidly transforming America into a
totally different country than the one past generations have known and loved.
And
yet – most Americans have almost no idea what is really going on, or why it is
happening.
While
news reports depict demonstrations and debates, and while politicians promise
"comprehensive border security programs," no real answers ever seem
to emerge.
But
there are answers. Truthful answers. Shocking answers.
In
its groundbreaking May edition, WND's acclaimed monthly Whistleblower magazine
reveals the astounding hidden agendas, plans and people behind America's
immigration nightmare.
Titled
"ALIEN NATION," the issue is subtitled "SECRETS OF THE INVASION:
Why government invites rampant illegal immigration." Indeed, it reveals
pivotal secrets very few Americans know. For example:
Did
you know that the powerfully influential Council on Foreign Relations – often
described as a “shadow government" – issued a comprehensive report last
year laying out a five-year plan for the "establishment by 2010 of a North
American economic and security community" with a common "outer
security perimeter"?
Roughly
translated: In the next few years, according to the 59-page report titled
"Building a North American Community," the U.S. must be integrated
with the socialism, corruption, poverty and population of Mexico and Canada.
"Common perimeter" means wide-open U.S. borders between the U.S.,
Mexico and Canada. As Phyllis Schlafly reveals in this issue of Whistleblower:
"This CFR document asserts that President Bush, Mexican President Vicente
Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin 'committed their governments' to
this goal when they met at Bush's ranch and at Waco, Texas, on March 23, 2005.
The three adopted the 'Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America'
and assigned 'working groups' to fill in the details. It was at this same
meeting, grandly called the North American Summit, that President Bush pinned
the epithet 'vigilantes' on the volunteers guarding our border in
Arizona."
The
CFR report – important excerpts of which are published in Whistleblower – also
suggests North American elitists begin getting together regularly, and
presumably secretly, "to buttress North American relationships, along the
lines of the Bilderberg or Wehrkunde conferences, organized to support
transatlantic relations." The Bilderberg and Wehrkunde conferences are
highly secret conclaves of the powerful. For decades, there have been
suspicions that such meetings were used for plotting the course of world events
and especially the centralization of global decision-making.
Did
you know that radical immigrant groups – including the League of United Latin
American Citizens (LULAC), the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational
Fund (MALDEF), the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA) and the National Council of La Raza (La Raza) – not only share a
revolutionary agenda of conquering America's southwest, but they also share
common funding sources, notably the Ford and Rockefeller foundations?
''California
is going to be a Hispanic state," said Mario Obeldo, former head of
MALDEF. "Anyone who does not like it should leave." And MEChA's goal
is even more radical: an independent ''Aztlan,'' the collective name this
organization gives to the seven states of the U.S. Southwest – Arizona,
California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas and Utah. So why would the
Rockefeller and Ford foundations support such groups? Joseph Farah tells the
story in this issue of Whistleblower.
Why
have America's politicians – of both major parties – allowed the illegal alien
invasion of this nation to continue for the last 30 years unabated? With
al-Qaida and allied terrorists promising to annihilate major U.S. cities with
nuclear weapons, with some big-city hospital emergency rooms near closure due
to the crush of so many illegals, with the rapid spread throughout the U.S. of
MS-13, the super-violent illegal alien gang – with all this and more, why do
U.S. officials choose to ignore the laws of the land and the will of the people
to pursue, instead, policies of open borders and lax immigration enforcement?
The
answers to all this and much more are in Whistleblower's "ALIEN
NATION" issue.
Is
there hope? Or is America lost to a demographic invasion destined to annihilate
its traditional Judeo-Christian culture, and to the ever-growing likelihood
that nuclear-armed jihadists will cross our porous borders and wreak
unthinkable destruction here?
There
most definitely is hope, according to this issue of Whistleblower. Although
most politicians of both major political parties have long since abdicated
their responsibility for securing America's borders and dealing effectively
with the millions already here illegally, there are a few exceptions – most
notably Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo.
May's
Whistleblower includes an exclusive sneak preview of Tancredo's forthcoming
blockbuster book, "In Mortal Danger: The Battle for America’s Border and
Security." In an extended excerpt, Whistleblower presents Tencredo's
expert and inspired analysis of exactly how to solve the nation's most vexing
problem.
MEXICANOCCUPATION.blogspot.com
REALITY OF THE MEXICAN OCCUPATION AND MEXICAN
SUPREMACY:Banned: The American Flag on Cinco de Mayo
by Kevin McCullough
When
200 hispanic students skipped school last week and marched through downtown
Morgan Hill, California chanting "Si se puede" intermixed with
"We want respect," none were banned from school attendance on their
return.
When
five students, one of them an American from latino roots, wore American flags
to school as a sign of patriotic speech, they were labeled incendiary. They
were instructed to turn their shirts inside-out so as to cover up the American
flag. And when they refused to surrender their first amendment right to
expression, they were given unexcused absences.
Assistant
Principal Miguel Rodriguez called the flag draped wardrobe
"incendiary" because the students had chosen to worn them on May 5,
popularly known as Cinco de Mayo. (A date that "celebrates" Mexico's
defeat of the French in a single battle, in a war that Mexico eventually lost.)
The
school's administration went further in claiming the five students were
attempting "to start a fight" and "adding fuel to the
fire."
Latino
parents chimed in and chided the five students (one of which is of Mexican
ethnic heritage) saying, "we're all offended by it."
One
parent, Teresa Casillas, claimed her hispanic children were upset by the
behavior of the boys wearing the flagged shirts, calling it disrespectful.
Yet
for all the outcry, not an ounce of proof has erupted that the boys made any
actions of provocation--except wear the shirts on Cinco De Mayo.
One
of the more ignorant utterances by one of the hispanic student protestors
summed up the stupidity best, "It's disrespectful to do it on Cinco de
Mayo," said Jessica Cortez, a Live Oak sophomore. "They can be a
patriot on some other day. Not that specific day."
And
so this is what the argument has been reduced to.
I
mean, you do understand don't you that Cinco de Mayo is not even celebrated en
masse by Mexicans?
Yet
the militant, belligerent, children of latinos living in Morgan Hill are
exhibiting symptoms of a problem that is widespread. Raw naked entitlement that
not only flouts the laws, but has now led to the limiting of the most
legitimate expression whose freedom should always be protected: patriotism.
It
was bad enough that the Obama administration went on a systematic campaign to
discredit the recent right of the state of Arizona to reinforce federal
guidelines for immigration. It was bad enough that the lies were widely told,
and never retracted by news agencies that should have known better.
THE WEEKLatino power comes full circle in L.A.
Once there was only Edward Roybal in a position of power. Today, as it did long ago, authority rests in many Latino hands.
By Cathleen Decker
April 11, 2010
The announcement last week that Archbishop Jose
Gomez of San Antonio will replace Cardinal Roger Mahony as head of the local
Catholic diocese capped an assertion of power on the part of Latinos in Los
Angeles that is remarkable in its seeming speed.
For decades, only one Latino held unquestioned
public power: Edward R. Roybal, the first Latino to win a seat on the Los
Angeles City Council. He spent 13 years there, then moved to Congress to serve
30 years, most of that time as the region's only Latino representative.
Now the power positions held by Latinos in the Los
Angeles area are multiple and manifest. Besides the Mexico-born archbishop, who
is in line to become the first U.S. prelate of Latino heritage to become a
cardinal, there is the mayor. The speaker of the Assembly. The sheriff. A
county supervisor. Several members of the City Council, of Congress, of the
Legislature, of the Los Angeles school board. The head of the most influential
civic entity, organized labor.
"It is coming full circle," said UC
Berkeley associate professor Lisa GarcÃa Bedolla, the author of two books on
Latino politics. "That's what Los Angeles looked like before becoming part
of the United States."
It is hardly accidental, however. The moves to the
top in politics and other endeavors have required equal parts population
shifts, hard-fought legal pursuit and political strategizing.
Population numbers are only the most obvious
propellant for the ambitions of both the community and its leaders.
In
1960, according to a USC demographic study, fewer than 10% of the people in the
Los Angeles County area were Latino. By 2008, according to federal census
estimates, almost half were Latino. Roughly the same was true in the city of
Los Angeles.
While trailing the population levels -- because of
lagging citizenship numbers -- the ranks of Latino voters also swelled over
those decades.
But their efforts to win elections were thwarted by
political lines drawn to diminish their heft. In the mid-1980s, legal
challenges began to chip away at those hurdles. First came a legal assault on
the Los Angeles City Council's district boundaries, which led to the creation
of what was called at the time a "Latino district."
GLORIA MOLINA – RACIST LATINA BITCH
Next came a federal court fight over the Board of
Supervisors. A judge ultimately decided that the board had drawn its lines to
intentionally discriminate against Latinos. The judge's ruling led directly to
the election, in early 1991, of Gloria Molina to the board.
As inspiring to the community as the two legal
moves were, however, they essentially accounted for a single seat each. A more
prosaic development, term limits, would ultimately do far more, according to
GarcÃa Bedolla.
Beyond the churning of legislative and council
seats was the coincident rise of organized labor as a factor benefiting Latinos
and other minority candidates. Miguel Contreras, who took over the county labor
federation in 1996, ran it like a powerhouse until his death in 2005. His widow
and fellow union leader, Maria Elena Durazo, now heads the labor organization.
"They explicitly included immigrants . . .
[which] made the Latino community a political force in progressive politics in
a way they hadn't been before," GarcÃa Bedolla said.
A conspiring assist came, at the same time, from
the non-Latino head of the local Catholic Church. Mahony had made a name as a
friend of immigrants and Latinos before he arrived in Los Angeles in 1985. As
the Latino population of the area swelled, he waded into a host of civic
entanglements on their behalf.
He publicly defended janitors during a nasty
strike. He came out early and forcefully against Proposition 187, the 1994
measure to strip state services from illegal immigrants. (It passed
overwhelmingly but was largely struck down by the courts.)
Kenneth Burt, the author of "The Search for a
Civic Voice," a history of California Latino politics, credited Mahony for
keeping peace in Los Angeles between groups seeking power and those afraid of
losing it.
"He had a tremendous impact in empowering the
Latino community and in sending a powerful signal that the rise of Latinos
should not be seen as a threat," he said. "Even though he's Irish,
he's the first Latino cardinal in spirit."
All told, the taking of power has been stunning in
its breadth. A Loyola Marymount University study of the top 100 elected
positions in Los Angeles from 1959 to 2009 found that for years, only one man
-- Roybal -- made the list. The numbers increased only gradually until 1991,
when altered political lines and long-thwarted ambition pushed the percentage
of Latino seats to 18%. By last year, 33% were held by Latinos.
More subtle, perhaps, has been the more or less
tranquil way that change has been accomplished. Although there have been
periods of contention, the flow of power from whites and blacks to Latinos has
happened with far less gnashing than might have been expected years ago.
In part, that is because both politicians and
interest groups have worked at it. Los Angeles' mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa,
won election in his second attempt by attracting African American voters to go
along with the Latino and Jewish voters who had earlier supported him. One of
the main forces behind the career of former Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, an
African American now running for Congress, has been the Latino-dominated labor
movement.
Still, tensions are never far from view. The
Republican primary for governor is currently aboil with the subject of illegal
immigration, a perennial flash point. Although so far the issue has been of
little consequence in the campaign, its presence suggests that some element of
the public remains uncomfortable.
"I don't think you can get rid of so many
decades of that competition and animosity quickly," said GarcÃa Bedolla.
"I think it's going to be a while before we stop having that sense that
anything that is good for me is bad for you."
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Feds Probe University’s Device To Help Illegal
Border Crossers
Last Updated: Wed, 04/07/2010 - 12:21pm
Nearly half a year after a professor at a public
university spent taxpayer dollars to create a tool that helps Mexicans enter
the United States illegally, the area’s congressional delegation has finally
decided to investigate the matter.
The activist Chicano professor (Ricardo Dominguez)
at the University of California San Diego, a major public institution not far
from the Mexican border, proudly announced his new invention—Transborder
Immigrant Tool—in November without scrutiny from university officials or the
feds. The idea is to help Mexicans enter the U.S. illegally by mapping the
safest routes through the notoriously rigorous southern border desert.
The innovative technology is a simple mobile
application —inserted into the cheapest available cell phone on the
market—which guides illegal aliens through the least dangerous routes, areas
with shelter, food, water and so-called Quaker help centers that provide
medical attention and directions to the nearest major U.S. highway. The mobile
program is touted as an “intelligent agent algorithm” that parses out the best
routes and trails on a particular day and hour so that Mexicans can cross the
“vertiginous landscape” as safely as possible.
Dominguez, a tenured visual arts professor, was
inspired to create the technology by the thousands of Mexicans who have died on
their journeys north because they got lost in the treacherous terrain. For
months he boasted about his new Transborder Immigrant Tool, but the publicity
campaign has come to a screeching halt and his tenure is at risk because
federal lawmakers are finally looking into the matter.
(CONGRESSMEN BILBRAY, AND HUNTER ARE TWO OF THE
VERY FEW ELECTED IN MEXIFORNIA NOT WORKING FOR EXPANDING THE MEXICAN INVASION)
The area’s three representatives in the U.S.
House—Brian Bilbray, Duncan Hunter and Darrell Issa—are demanding that the
university’s chancellor provide a precise accounting of public funds associated
with the Transborder Immigrant Tool. Referring to it as a “troubling use of
taxpayer dollars,” the legislators point out that those who worked on the
device may be committing a federal felony by encouraging illegal immigration.
Dominguez has dismissed the probe as a sort of witch
hunt, assuring that he used less than $10,000 in taxpayer grants and suggesting
the congressman should be more concerned about the cost of investigating him.
That amount, the professor believes, will be much more than what he spent on
the entire project to help illegal border crossers.
Mexico’s government has provided its nationals with
valuable tools to help them cross the border safely but Dominguez is the first
American resident, with a salary provided by U.S. taxpayers, to openly promote
such a gadget. A few years ago Mexican officials published a 32-page booklet
(Guia Del Migrante Mexicano) with safety tips for border crossers and
distributed hand-held satellite devices to ensure the violators complete their
journey safely.
Poverty among Los Angeles community college students reaching
crisis levels
By Glenn Mulwray
26 August 2017
26 August 2017
One in every five of the Los Angeles Community College District’s
(LACCD) 230,000 students are homeless and nearly two thirds can’t afford
regular meals. These are the results of a fall 2016 survey of LACCD’s nine
campuses conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and released earlier
this year. More than 6,000 students took part in the survey and reported crisis
levels of social neglect related to the high cost of living in Los Angeles.
In regard to housing, 19 percent of those surveyed are or were
recently homeless. Eight percent had been thrown out of family homes; 4 percent
had been evicted from rental housing; 3 percent were living in shelters; 6
percent had resorted to living in abandoned buildings, cars or other locations
not meant for habitation; and 11 percent did not know where they would be
sleeping on a night-to-night basis.
Since 1980, median real rent for an apartment in Los Angeles has
increased by 55 percent to $2,511, while income levels increased only 13
percent in that time. Nationally, the decade with the greatest rent-wage
discrepancy was 2000-2010, when rents increased 12 percent while incomes
actually declined 7 percent. These are some of the most striking indications of
the destruction of living standards resulting from the 2008 global recession.
As of 2017, Los Angeles has the highest rent burden of any city in
the country, with the average tenant paying 48.7 percent of their income to
rent. The city’s large and overwhelmingly working class black and Latino
communities spend an astronomical 63 percent of average household income on
rent.
Recent Los Angeles City College graduate, Andre Medina, reported,
“When I started at LACC a few years ago I moved into a studio across from
campus for about $800 per month. A new tenant I spoke with last week is now
paying $1,200 for a similar unit. Living near campus has become impossibly
expensive.”
The Los Angeles County Housing Authority is responsible for the
disbursement of Section 8 vouchers, the federal government’s housing assistant
program. As of April this year the Housing Authority had a waiting list of
40,000 people, with an average wait of 11 years before receiving a voucher.
Because of the backlog they have stopped accepting new names for the waiting
list.
The Trump administration plans to cut $6 billion from the 2018
budget of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which would
include a $974 million reduction in funding for Section 8 vouchers.
According to various studies, homelessness in Los Angeles
County has reached epidemic proportions, with estimates in the range of
47,000-58,000 homeless on any given night. (See: “Homelessness
sharply increases in Los Angeles County”)
The housing crisis forces residents to make difficult budgetary
choices, and is a significant cause of food insecurity. Fifty-nine percent of
those surveyed reported being unable to afford enough food, 65 percent couldn’t
eat balanced meals, 52 percent skipped meals to save money, 50 percent ate less
than they felt they should, and 42 percent reported being regularly hungry.
According to Rachael Garcia, another recent graduate from LACC, “When
I first moved into LA to be closer to LACC, I moved into a two-bedroom
apartment in Hollywood. I shared a bedroom with my boyfriend for $1,200 a
month. Food was a constant issue. I had to cook for every meal including
bringing my lunch to school, which is a really difficult demand on your time
when you’re juggling school and a full-time job, considering how long it takes
using public transportation in LA. When I didn’t have time to cook, the only
option was getting a taco or something at a fast food restaurant and it’s just
not enough food. You get used to being hungry, really.
“Once I went into the pizzeria by school and my card got declined
because my financial aid was late. The guy behind the counter commented how
often he’s been seeing that happen with students lately. Last semester I didn’t
see a dime of my financial aid until the school year was already over! I was
lucky that my dad was able to help out with some money to get by, but I can’t
imagine what I would have done otherwise, which is the situation many of my
friends are in that don’t have family to help out.”
The recent study of LACCD students is entirely in line with
other recent studies, including a 2016 study from
the University of California that concluded four in 10 UC students cannot
afford to get enough to eat, while a 2015 study from
the California State University system revealed that 21 percent of CSU students
experienced food insecurity.
Despite the growing levels of poverty among college and university
students revealed by these studies, this year school officials moved to raise
tuitions in both UC and CSU university systems. The UC regents approved a 2.5
percent tuition increase, the first increase in six years, while the CSU Board
of Trustees moved to raise tuitions by 5 percent.
Shifting the financial burden of running the school systems onto
the backs of the students has been the deliberate policy of California’s
Democratic Party leadership. In response to the 2008 recession, the state
slashed nearly one third of its support to the CSU system while more than
doubling its tuition, to $5,472, between 2006 and 2011.
The shifting of the burden to the students is reflected even more
drastically in the punishing funding cuts Democratic Governor Jerry Brown has
inflicted on the state’s community colleges. In the years 2007 to 2013, a
combined $1.5 billion was sliced from the budgets of the community college
districts, this despite a near doubling of tuition over the last decade.
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