By Will Alexander
Townhall.com
https://townhall.com/columnists/willalexander/2019/04/24/illegal-immigration-is-a-powder-keg-in-la-n2545270
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.
Tattoo faced killer charged with gruesome beheading of cellmate inside a California prison after 'severing the victim's fingers, removing his eye and cutting out part of his lung'
- Jaime Osuna, 31, could face the death penalty after being charged with the brutal murder of his prison cellmate Luis Romero, 44
- The gruesome attack happened inside California's Corcoran State Prison on March 9
- The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is conducting an internal investigation
- Osuna was serving life in prison without the chance of parole over the horrific 2011 slaying of a mother-of-six
- Romero was also serving a prison sentence for murder, but would have been eligible for parole
Jaime Osuna (pictured in 2017) has been charged with the brutal slaying of Luis Romero inside Corcoran State Prison
A tattoo-faced killer has been charged with murdering his prison cellmate in what authorities are calling an exceptionally sadistic slaying.
Jaime Osuna, 31, allegedly tortured and beheaded Luis Romero, 44, inside California's Corcoran State Prison, northeast of Santa Barbara, on March 9.
Romero is reported to have bled to death from the attack, which was conducted with 'a sharp metal object wrapped in string and attached to a handle'.
Osuna is said to have decapitated Romero, in addition to severing his fingers, removing his eye and cutting out part of his lung.
An autopsy report released Friday described Romero's body as 'mutilated'.
It's unclear how much of the mutilation occurred while Romero was still alive, but Kings County District Attorney Phil Esbenshade says he believes the victim was 'conscious for at least a portion of the time'.
Luis Romero (pictured in 2018) was brutally tortured and decapitated inside his prison cell on March 9
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is conducting an internal investigation, and would not provide details on how prisoners are overseen during the night. Romero was found dead in his cell about 7:30 a.m.
Osuna pleaded not guilty, and could face the death penalty over the gruesome slaying.
The murder charge filed against Osuna describes the killing of Romero as 'especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel, manifesting exceptional depravity'.
Osuna has been additionally charged with torture, mayhem and weapons possession.
The torture charge alleges that he acted 'with the intent to cause cruel and extreme pain and suffering for the purpose of revenge, extortion, persuasion and for a sadistic purpose.'
Officials have not stated how long Osuna and Romero had been cellmates for.
The gruesome slaying of Romero occurred at Corcoran State Prison (pictured)
Osuna was serving a life sentence without parole for the brutal killing of Yvette Pena, 37, at a California motel in 2011.
During his 2017 trial for that crime, he frequently laughed during court appearances and 'mocked the victim's family', according to Bakersfield.com.
Pena, a mother-of-six, had only met Osuna the night before her death, and was found with knives and a pair of scissors in her back.
Osuna was serving a life sentence without parole for the brutal killing of Yvette Pena. He is pictured during that trial in 2017
Meanwhile, Romero also was serving a life term for a Los Angeles County slaying, but with the possibility of parole.
He has been incarcerated since 1992.
Osuna has been transferred to a Stockton prison for inmates needing medical or mental health care, though officials wouldn't say why, citing privacy laws.
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