THE MEXICAN CRIME TIDAL
WAVE:
“The Obama Administration seems to be heeding to Mexico’s
request by openly halting the deportation of hundreds of thousands of illegal
immigrants. Additionally, the administration has a “backdoor amnesty” plan to
legalize millions of undocumented aliens in case Congress doesn’t pass
legislation to do it.” JUDICIAL WATCH
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.
California could use a management change
Over Sunday lunch, a friend was saying that he just got back from Los Angeles. He added that he had not seen that much filth in some of the third-world countries that he visits for business regularly. He looked at me and asked: " How do the voters put up with that?"
My answer was that voters have been voting with their feet for years. In other words, they leave the Golden State.
California is a mess indeed, as Jim Bredo wrote:
It has the worst ranking for homelessness, 8th worst for roads, and worst for teacher-to-student ratio. Its prisons are so crowded that the Supreme Court determined them to constitute cruel and unusual punishment, and it suffered the worst budget crisis of all the states during the Great Recession.But residents are so mesmerized by the amazing weather and beauty of the place that they tend to overlook the quality of the services. And as a result, management does not change. The state has been under the same Democratic Party management for years. Their monopoly on power is so safe that they now hold supermajorities in both houses of the Legislature despite California’s worsening condition. Management has no incentive to change when it keeps getting re-elected.Californians may not be voting out Democrats at the ballot box, but they have been voting with their feet. While California’s population has grown from 29 million to 39 million over the past 30 years, in each year during that period the state has seen a net loss in migration to other states.
So will things change? I don't see any change for now, although the article points out that Latinos get more conservative as they get more prosperous.
California will continue until they hit a financial wall or when the last taxpayer leaves the state. In the meantime, be careful when you walk the streets of LA, and I'm not talking about thieves.
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Illegal
Immigration Is a Powder Keg in LA
By Will Alexander
Townhall.com
My
oldest daughter lives in Los Angeles, a short walk from MacArthur Park.
She’s not political. Not that politics is bad, but the
practicalities of surviving in a tough city requires her to be no-nonsense
about what’s important to her success.
I’m
convinced she knows nothing about Beto, Bernie, Biden, Booker or Buttigieg. But
living at ground zero of one of the most sanctimonious of sanctuary cities, she
knows more about the perils of illegal immigration than all of them combined.
Politics was dumped at her doorstep and, like many, she’s cracking under
the weight.
Her
message? “The situation in LA is unbearable.”
Far
outside the political incubators of Nancy Pelosi, Kamala Harris, Eric Swalwell,
Adam Schiff and Maxine Waters – all of them California lawmakers – my daughter
bears the brunt of the raw political debris created by deeply devious
politicians who excrete pious lies about how much they care about minorities.
In utter
frustration, my daughter texted me a video that she filmed near her apartment.
I was shocked at what I saw: Cluster after cluster of illegals lined
along public streets selling anything they could find, spread over raggedy
blankets or anything else they could use to form a boundary for their slipshod
sidewalk stores.
“They
are above the law,” she wrote. “How can you sell so much food on the
street without a permit? Without the grading system? I didn’t know you
could have a business and not pay taxes. They're spreading, too. It used
to be just several blocks but if you turn the corner, they’re further down than
ever before. Both sides of the street. There are so many of them. This!
Is! Their! Country!!! Lol.”
My
daughter’s video was strikingly similar to one shot
by LA resident Shirley Husar, CEO of Urban Game Changer,
near LA’s MacArthur Park last year. The park, renamed after Gen. Douglas
MacArthur in the 1940s, was where Jimmy Webb composed the song “MacArthur
Park” that Richard Harris recorded in 1968.
“MacArthur
Park is melting in the dark,” Harris sang. Today, it’s “melting in the light”
as it has become quasi-home to an influx of illegals who live and sleep there.
Husar’s
video showed a woman using a shopping cart wrapped in aluminum foil to cook
food. A man sold heaps of crawdads stuffed inside a baby carriage.
No ice. No refrigeration. Another man sold piles of chili
peppers sprawled on the bare sidewalk under a rickety table. Others sold
bootleg CDs, phone chargers, hats and stuffed animals.
“I
really believe that they skim from the stores that they work in, and then they
bring them down here,” Husar said. “This is a public sidewalk. This
happens every weekend. I call this an underground economic operational
system where they pay cash, they don’t pay taxes, they don’t pay for the space
on the ground, they don’t pay sanitation [fees] or licensing.”
She
asked eight policemen chatting across the street how they could stand by while
laws were being broken.
“The
mayor says it’s legal,” one policeman said. That mayor is Eric Garcetti,
a visceral Trump-hater who vowed to keep defending his sanctuary policy after
the president said that defying federal law would cost these cities federal
funding.
“Slashing
funds for first-responders, for our port and airport, for counterterrorism,
crime-fighting and community-building serves no one,” Garcetti said. “Not
this city, not the federal government, not the American people.”
Yawn.
That
kind of Trojan Horse rhetoric falls on deaf ears for the people who are stuck
in the Twilight Zone of illegal immigration. They have no political
connections. They have no voice. They’re unsophisticated in the
twisted political language that defies the realities on the ground. They are
placated, marginalized and ignored, and they’re growing angrier as they realize
that no one speaks for them.
No one
except Trump.
One
black man wearing a MAGA cap and a red Trump-Pence T-Shirt told county leaders
that he’s ready to take the law into his own hands.
“Make
California Great Again!” he said in a County
of Los Angeles Board of Supervisors meeting about SB 54,
California’s sanctuary state bill. “We gonna handle this! If you
guys don’t, I will! And if Mr. Trump would have lost, I would have
organized some brothers, and we [would] put all your asses under … citizens
arrest (pointing to a group of pro-illegal immigrant protesters).”
At
a different
meeting about the bill, long-time activist Lupe
Moreno offered deeply emotional comments about the murder victims
of illegal immigrants.
“Our beautiful
children have been sacrificed at the altars of elected officials and
non-profits; as we could see how many non-profits are making money off of our
dead children ... We want you to stop this now! Now! I have it on
good authority that our side wins because you have weeping mothers, not only in
California, but throughout the United States. Stop trying to blur the
difference between legal and illegal. There’s a big difference!
We’re Americans!”
Ted Hayes, an articulate Civil Rights
homeless activist in
Los Angeles has been speaking out for years against the perils of illegal
immigration, especially on black people.
“I don’t blame the people,” he said.
“I blame the politicians for failing to protect us.”
Unlike Hayes, I do blame illegals for
knowingly breaking laws to pursue a better life at the expense of others.
Politicians hand them the keys to someone’s house against the owner’s
will, and illegals gladly rush in to help themselves while police sit back and
do nothing. Politicians have fortified the plight of illegals with police
power.
Like my daughter, LA residents who once
recoiled at the noise of today’s politics are finding themselves at city halls,
watching political programs and chiming in on social media because, for them,
this issue is dire and getting worse. And growing numbers of these
minorities are MAGA-hat-wearing Trumpsters.
Partly to spite Trump, California
politicians have forced illegal immigration down the throats of their most
vulnerable citizens. And while they clippity-clop around the country
promising to bring La-La Land to the entire nation, they’re telling their most
powerless citizens to “shut up and get over it” while they make them second-class
citizens at the taxpayer's expense.
From a safe distance, California
politicians are playing with matches on top of a political powder keg.
Chatting with my daughter from ground zero, you get the feeling that it
wouldn’t take much for things to explode, not only in LA but across the nation.
FACTS ON THE
“REAL LATINO AMERICA” OF MEXICAN OCCUPIED LOS ANGELES:
1. "40%
of all workers in L.A. County are working for cash and not paying taxes. . . .
This is because they are predominantly illegal immigrants working without a
green card."
2. "95%
of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens . . . "
3. "75%
of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens."
4.
"Over 2/3 of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien
Mexicans on Medi-Cal, whose births were paid for by taxpayers."
5.
"Nearly 35% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican
nationals here illegally."
6. Over
300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages.
7. "The
FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal
aliens from south of the border."
This is
another "fact" spun from the 2004 op-ed by Heather Mac Donald, whose
article refers to a single Los Angeles gang and the conjecture of an unnamed
federal prosecutor.
8.
"Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal."
immigrants.
9. 21 radio
stations in L. A. are Spanish speaking.
10. In L. A.
County 5.1 million people speak English, 3.9 million speak Spanish.
*
Exclusive: The Truth About the
Mexican fascist party ‘La Raza’ ‘The Race’ now calling itself UNIDOSus and
funded by billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg, most of the Fortune 500 and
American tax dollars.
http://humanevents.com/2006/04/07/emexclusive-emthe-truth-about-la-raza/
The
nation’s television screens many days recently have been filled with scenes of
huge crowds carrying the colorful green and red flag of Mexico viewers could
well have thought it was a national holiday in Mexico City.
It was
instead, downtown Los Angeles, Calif., although the scene was recreated in
numerous other cities around the country with substantial Mexican populations.
Hordes of Mexican expatriates, many here illegally, were protesting the very
U.S. immigration laws they were violating with impunity. They found it
offensive and a violation of their rights that the U.S. dared to have immigration
laws to begin with.
Los Angeles
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa mounted the podium, but any hopes that he would
quiet the crowds and defend the law were soon dashed. Villaraigosa, himself,
has spent a lifetime opposing U.S. immigration law.
For
law-abiding Americans without knowledge of the dark side of our current illegal
immigration crisis, all this is unfathomable. For those who know the truth
about the “La Raza” movement,
these demonstrations were a prophecy fulfilled.
It is past
time for all Americans to know what is at the root of this outrageous behavior,
and the extent to which the nation is at risk because of “La Raza” — The Race.
There are
many immigrant groups joined in the overall “La Raza” movement. The most
prominent and mainstream organization is the National Council de La Raza — the
Council of “The Race”.
To most of
the mainstream media, most members of Congress, and even many of their own
members, the National Council of La Raza is no more than a Hispanic Rotary
Club.
But the
National Council of La Raza succeeded in raking in over $15.2 million in
federal grants last year alone, of which $7.9 million was in U.S. Department of
Education grants for Charter Schools, and undisclosed amounts were for
get-out-the-vote efforts supporting La Raza political positions.
The Council
of La Raza succeeded in having itself added to congressional hearings by
Republican House and Senate leaders. And an anonymous senator even gave the
Council of La Raza an extra $4 million in earmarked taxpayer money, supposedly
for “housing reform,” while La Raza continues to lobby the Senate for virtual
open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens.
The
Mexican flag flew over a crowd of pro-amnesty marchers in New York. Marches
like this across the U.S. have been supported by the “La Raza” movement.
(Reuters/Seth Wenig)
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Radical ‘Reconquista’ Agenda
Behind the
respectable front of the National Council of La Raza lies the real agenda of
the La Raza movement, the agenda that led to those thousands of illegal
immigrants in the streets of American cities, waving Mexican flags, brazenly
defying our laws, and demanding concessions.
Key among
the secondary organizations is the radical racist group Movimiento Estudiantil
Chicano de Aztlan, or Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan (MEChA), one of the
most anti-American groups in the country, which has permeated U.S. campuses
since the 1960s, and continues its push to carve a racist nation out of the
American West.
One of
America’s greatest strengths has always been taking in immigrants from cultures
around the world, and assimilating them into our country as Americans. By being
citizens of the U.S. we are Americans first, and only, in our national
loyalties.
This is
totally opposed by MEChA for the hordes of illegal immigrants pouring across
our borders, to whom they say:
“Chicano is
our identity; it defines who we are as people. It rejects the notion that
we…should assimilate into the Anglo-American melting pot…Aztlan was the
legendary homeland of the Aztecas … It became synonymous with the vast
territories of the Southwest, brutally stolen from a Mexican people
marginalized and betrayed by the hostile custodians of the Manifest Destiny.”
(Statement on University of Oregon MEChA Website, Jan. 3, 2006)
MEChA isn’t
at all shy about their goals, or their views of other races. Their founding
principles are contained in these words in “El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan” (The
Spiritual Plan for Aztlan):
“In the
spirit of a new people that is conscious not only of its proud historical
heritage but also of the brutal gringo invasion of our territories, we, the
Chicano inhabitants and civilizers of the northern land of Aztlan from whence
came our forefathers, reclaiming the land of their birth and consecrating the
determination of our people of the sun, declare that the call of our blood is
our power, our responsibility, and our inevitable destiny. … Aztlan belongs to
those who plant the seeds, water the fields, and gather the crops and not to
the foreign Europeans. … We are a bronze people with a bronze culture. Before
the world, before all of North America, before all our brothers in the bronze
continent, we are a nation, we are a union of free pueblos, we are Aztlan. For
La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada.”
That closing
two-sentence motto is chilling to everyone who values equal rights for all. It
says: “For The Race everything. Outside The Race, nothing.”
If these
morally sickening MEChA quotes were coming from some fringe website, Americans
could at least console themselves that it was just a small group of nuts behind
it. Nearly every racial and ethnic group has some shady characters and
positions in its past and some unbalanced individuals today claiming racial
superiority and demanding separatism. But this is coming straight from the
official MEChA sites at Georgetown University, the University of Texas, UCLA,
University of Michigan, University of Colorado, University of Oregon, and many
other colleges and universities around the country.
MEChA was in
fact reported to be one of the main organizers of those street demonstrations
we witnessed over the past weeks. That helps explain why those hordes of
illegal immigrants weren’t asking for amnesty — they were demanding an end to
U.S. law, period. Unlike past waves of immigrants who sought to become
responsible members of American society, these protesters reject American
society altogether, because they have been taught that America rightfully
belongs to them.
MEChA and
the La Raza movement teach that Colorado, California, Arizona, Texas, Utah, New
Mexico, Oregon and parts of Washington State make up an area known as “Aztlan”
— a fictional ancestral homeland of the Aztecs before Europeans arrived in
North America. As such, it belongs to the followers of MEChA. These are all
areas America should surrender to “La Raza” once enough immigrants, legal or
illegal, enter to claim a majority, as in Los Angeles. The current borders of
the United States will simply be extinguished.
This plan is
what is referred to as the “Reconquista” or reconquest, of the Western U.S.
But it won’t
end with territorial occupation and secession. The final plan for the La Raza
movement includes the ethnic cleansing of Americans of European, African, and
Asian descent out of “Aztlan.”
As Miguel
Perez of Cal State-Northridge’s MEChA chapter has been quoted as saying: “The
ultimate ideology is the liberation of Aztlan. Communism would be closest [to
it]. Once Aztlan is established, ethnic cleansing would commence: Non-Chicanos
would have to be expelled — opposition groups would be quashed because you have
to keep power.”
MEChA Plants
Members of
these radical, anti-American, racist organizations are frequently smoothly polished
into public respectability by the National Council of La Raza.
Former MEChA
members include Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who was officially
endorsed by La Raza for mayor and was awarded La Raza’s Graciela Olivarez
Award. Now we know why he refuses to condemn a sea of foreign flags in his
city. California Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante is also a former MEChA member. He
delivered the keynote address at La Raza’s 2002 Annual Convention.
The National
Council of La Raza and its allies in public office make no repudiation of the
radical MEChA and its positions. In fact, as recently as 2003, La Raza was
actively funding MEChA, according to federal tax records.
Imagine
Robert Byrd’s refusing to disavow the views of the KKK, or if Strom Thurmond
had failed to admit segregation was wrong. Imagine Heritage or Brookings
Foundation making grants to the American Nazi Party.
Is the
National Council of La Raza itself a racist organization? Regardless of the
organization’s suspect ties, the majority of its members are not. When one
examines all the organization’s activities, they are commendable non-profit
projects, such as education and housing programs.
But even
these defensible efforts raise the question of whether education and housing
programs funded with federal tax dollars should be used in programs
specifically targeted to benefit just one ethnic group.
La Raza
defenders usually respond by calling anyone making these allegations “a racist”
for having called attention to La Raza’s racist links. All the groups and
public officials with ties to the La Raza movement can take a big step towards
disproving these allegations by simply following the examples of Senators Byrd
and Thurmond and repenting of their past ways.
If they are
unwilling to admit past misdeeds, they can at least state — unequivocally —
that they officially oppose the racist and anti-American positions of MEChA,
and any other groups that espouse similar views.
Through
public appearances, written statements, and on their respective websites, La
Raza groups and allies must:
1. Denounce
the motto “For La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada,” as repugnant, racist, and
totally incompatible with American society or citizenship.
2.
Acknowledge the right of all Americans to live wherever they choose in the U.S.
without segregation.
3. Commit to
sponsorship of nationwide educational programs to combat racism and
anti-Semitism in the Hispanic community.
4. Denounce
and sever all ties with MEChA and any other organizations with which they have
ever been associated which held to the racist doctrines held by MEChA.
5.
Acknowledge the internationally recognized borders of the U.S., the right of
the citizens of the U.S. to determine immigration policy
through the democratic process, and the right of the U.S. to undertake any and
all necessary steps to effectively enforce immigration law and defend its
border against unauthorized entry.
6. Repudiate
all claims that current American territory rightfully belongs to Mexico.
If the
National Council of La Raza, other La Raza groups, and local and national
political leaders with past ties and associations with the radical elements of
the La Raza movement can publicly issue such a statement and live by every one
of these principles, they should be welcomed into the American public policy
arena, with past sins — real or imaginary — forgiven.
If they
cannot publicly and fully support these principles, Congress needs to take
appropriate steps and immediately bar any group refusing to comply from
receiving any future federal funds. Both the House and Senate should strike
these groups from testifying before any committees, and the White House should
sever all ties. Both political parties should disengage from any further
contact with these groups and individuals.
There are
plenty of decent, patriotic Hispanic organizations and elected officials to
provide Congress with necessary feedback on specific issues confronting
Americans of Latino heritage. Any group or individual who can agree with the
simple six points should be welcomed into that fold.
If not, the
American people will know there’s a wolf in their midst, and take the necessary
precautions to defend our Republic against an enemy.
More Illegal Aliens Giving Birth to Anchor Babies in Los Angeles
than Total U.S. Births in 14 States
10 Oct 2018448
There are now more illegal aliens giving birth to anchor babies in the
Los Angeles, California metro area than there are total United States births in
14 states and the District of Columbia.
New
wide-ranging analysis by the Center
for Immigration Studies‘ Steven Camarotta reveals that there are an
estimated 28,000 births to illegal aliens every year in the Los Angeles metro
area, exceeding the total number of U.S. births in 14 states and
the District of Columbia.
The children of illegal aliens are
commonly known as “anchor babies,” as they anchor their illegal alien and
noncitizen parents in the U.S. and eventually are allowed to bring an unlimited
number of foreign relatives to the country through the process known as “chain migration.”
About 1-in-5 U.S. births — or
791,000 — are to legal and illegal immigrant mothers, with legal immigrant
mothers accounting for about 12.4 percent of those births and illegal alien
mothers accounting for 7.5 percent.
In the Los Angeles, California metro
area, illegal alien births make up nearly 18 percent of all births in the
region. In the Las Vegas, Nevada metro area, illegal alien births
account for about 17 percent of all births.
California — a sanctuary state for
illegal aliens — has the largest number of illegal alien births with about
65,000 illegal alien births every year. Texas has about 51,000 illegal alien
births every year, while Florida has about 16,000 illegal alien births every
year.
There
are an estimated 12 million illegal aliens living across the U.S. at any given
time. Most recent research by Yale University and the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, however, revealed that there is likely an
estimated 22 million illegal
aliens in the U.S. Additionally, every year, 1.5 million legal immigrants are
admitted to the country.
Mayor Garcetti Says LA ‘East Coast of China’
16 Aug 201814
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.”
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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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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 (file picture)
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This map shows the top three cities in the US with ATD immigrantswith
Miami, Florida having the most (5,669)
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:
·
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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Abel Ezquivel, 23, was shot and killed with a stolen gun in
San Francisco in August. One of the suspects charged in his murder was wearing
an ankle monitor issued to him by ICE
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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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
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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
'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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Miami (above) has the highest number of immigrants in the
program (5,669), followed by New York (4,557)
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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Those in the program are required to check in regularly
with immigration officials or wear ankle bracelets so their movements can be
tracked
'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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Prototype sections of a border wall between Mexico and the
United States are under construction in Tijuana
'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.'
ICE
‘Raging Bull’ Operation Leads to Arrest of 267 MS-13 Gang Members
Photo:
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
Mugshot/Johnson
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 Examples
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."
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.
Poverty among Los Angeles community college students reaching
crisis levels
By Glenn Mulwray
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.
BLOG: THE MEXICAN TAX-FREE ECONOMY IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY IS ESTIMATED TO BE IN EXCESS OF $2 BILLION YEARLY. THIS SAME COUNTY HANDS ILLEGAL ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS MORE THAN $1 BILLION IN WELFARE!
Eligibility would be determined by the same rules of Medicaid, based on annual income. As many young illegals are working off the books, for cash, they will have no official reported income regardless of how much they actually earn, insuring their eligibility for Medi-Cal.
California Says: ‘Go West, Young Illegals, Go West’
Doctors and hospitals are in the gunsights of many Democrats who want Medicare-for-all as a draconian price control scheme by government over all medical care in the US. Hospitals are told they charge too much and doctors are vilified for earning too much.
What a relief that a sugar daddy has appeared, a rich boyfriend, a benefactor with a fat wallet, ready to bestow his financial largess on financially strapped healthcare providers.
This sugar daddy is named Gavin, tall and handsome with good hair. I speak of California Governor Gavin Newsom, who finalized a deal with the California legislature, “to provide full health benefits to low-income illegal immigrants under the age of 26.”
California is the first state to provide such benefits to illegal or undocumented immigrants, depending on which term you prefer. Specifically, this group of adults, age 19 to 25 will have access to the state’s Medi-Cal program, California’s version of Medicaid.
California anticipates providing coverage to 100,000 people. I’m not sure how they arrived at this number since I’ve always heard that illegal immigrants “live in the shadows,” meaning we really don’t know how many there are. And when word gets out to the rest of the country, expect that 100,000 number to grow exponentially just as it would if California announced it was giving away cars to this same group of people.
BLOG: THE MEXICAN TAX-FREE ECONOMY IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY IS ESTIMATED TO BE IN EXCESS OF $2 BILLION YEARLY. THIS SAME COUNTY HANDS ILLEGAL ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS MORE THAN $1 BILLION IN WELFARE!
Eligibility would be determined by the same rules of Medicaid, based on annual income. As many young illegals are working off the books, for cash, they will have no official reported income regardless of how much they actually earn, insuring their eligibility for Medi-Cal.
This scheme is to be funded by taxing those who do not have health insurance. Who might that be? Not the young illegals who how have free insurance. How about the small businessman who earns too much to qualify for Medicaid but can’t afford an Obamacare policy with massive premiums, copayments, and deductibles? Or the struggling wannabe actors and actresses in the same financial boat as the small businessman? Or the 60-year-old retiree, not yet eligible for Medicare but unable to afford private insurance given the higher premiums at her age?
How nice of California taxpayers, those American born or here legally, having their earnings confiscated to pay the medical bills of those not here legally. Who pays the medical bills of those Americans who can’t afford their medical care?
Interestingly undocumented elderly are not covered under this new plan. Sugar Daddy Newsom opposed this, preferring the young over the elderly, likely due to the much higher medical costs for those over age 65 compared to those under age 25.
This may have to do with voting preferences. It is unknown how many illegals vote, but younger voters tend to vote Democrat compared to older voters who lean Republican. Is this healthcare scheme a form of voter outreach?
Why are doctors and hospitals across America so grateful for their new sugar daddy?
Americans subsidize health care for illegal immigrants to the tune of $18.5 billion a year according to Forbes. Imagine being able to now offload some of this care to California?
Hospitals are required by law to render emergency care to everyone, regardless of a person’s ability to pay. A pregnant woman illegally enters the US, and when she goes into labor, the hospital is required to deliver the baby, caring for both baby and mother, at an average cost of $32,000.
What if the baby is born premature and needs a few weeks in the neonatal intensive care unit, or is born with a heart or bowel defect, requiring additional surgery? The costs quickly escalate into 6-figure sums.
Labor and delivery is certainly common in the 19-25 age group. So are injuries that may require non-emergency treatment, such as a retinal detachment or a ligament tear in the knee. For the doctor, these patients are considered self-pay. Despite promises to pay all of their medical bills, some patients, once reasonably stable after surgery are gone with the wind, with no way to contact them, and no payment made for rendered services.
What if doctors and hospitals, when discussing costs of medical treatment, can now give the patient a map? A few hundred years ago, newspaper editor and author Horace Greeley advised the 19 to 25-year-olds of the day to “Go west young man”. The same phrase may become popular again, particularly in states adjacent to or close to California.
When faced with patients with non-emergent medical problems, direct these patients to the nearest east-west interstate, I-40, I-70, or I-80, and drive toward the setting sun until seeing the “Welcome to California” sign. Go west and allow generous California taxpayers to pick up the tab.
Hospitals won’t be stuck with bad debt and physicians won’t be stiffed after offering their time and expertise without compensation.
Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman said this about an open-border immigration policy. "It's just obvious you can't have free immigration and a welfare state." Which is exactly what California offers, providing free healthcare to living in the state against the law.
While at the same time, California has an out of control homelessness problem, many of those homeless being American veterans. They are living legally in their own country yet living on the streets, in squalor, with rats and other vermin bringing back historic diseases like typhus and typhoid fever. Where is their sugar daddy governor? Busy pandering to those here illegally.
Down on their luck Americans are told to pound sand while illegals are lavished with drivers licenses, welfare benefits, and now healthcare. California cannot care for its own residents, but is opening its doors to the world, promising goodies that will do nothing but attract more of the world, regardless of laws.
When does it end? I’ve suggested that the Trump administration send refugees and illegals to sanctuary cities, so those cities have the opportunity to live with the consequences of their virtue signaling. Now doctors and hospitals can do the same. If California wants to be an open borders welfare state, it’s the least the rest of the country can do to help out by sending young undocumented immigrants to the land of milk and honey.
Instead of “the doctor will see you now”, expect to hear, “go west young man.”
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