Posted on 02/18/2015 5:08:22 AM PST by Colofornian
EL MONTE >> More than a week after officials announced that Eric McBride would be the city’s next police chief, the top cop-to-be abruptly withdrew his candidacy amid sharp criticism of his stance on undocumented immigrants.
McBride, who is currently San Bernardino Police Department Assistant Police Chief, was to be sworn in as El Monte police chief Feb. 25.
McBride’s decision came after immigrants rights activists over the weekend began to rally opposition against him because of anti-illegal immigration policies he pushed while he served on the Hemet City Council from 2006-2010.
“This selection is a slap in the face of the community and it is dangerous given his radical views on so-called illegal immigration,” El Monte resident and activist Veronica Tomas-Castro said...
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In 2010, McBride, then Hemet mayor, introduced a resolution in support of Arizona’s controversial anti-illegal immigration law. That law, SB 1070, requires police officers to check the immigration status of everyone they stop if they suspect the person might be an undocumented immigrant.
While McBride’s resolution — unanimously passed by the Hemet council — just showed symbolic support and had no policy implications, McBride said he would like California to pass a similar law, according to published reports.
Four years earlier, in 2006, McBride also sounded off on the issue of day laborers working in the city, Tomas-Castro said. He proposed requiring people seeking day labor to hold business licenses as a way to both regulate the practice and provide a means of locating and deporting undocumented residents, he told a Hemet weekly newspaper.
“In El Monte, so many people would be in danger … we have so many street vendors, tamale vendors, day labor sites,” said Tomas-Castro...
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El Monte is 69 percent Latino and 25 percent Asian, according to the latest U.S Census data...
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What an affront!
How dare he try to do his job and treat criminals like criminals!
There's people from numerous countries who've been waiting in that line for years.
The line-crashers effectively disable every orderly line in America.
Standing in line for something?
(Hey, you might NEVER get to the front of the line due to the never-ending presence of line-crashers)
Where do we send donations, Eric?
Needs more diversity.
CC:The Reverend Al Sharpton
Eric Holder
No,Senor Tomas-Castro,the slap in the face is to the good people of the United States that obey all of the laws AND the people who have been waiting on line for years to enter this country legally many of whom have something to offer be it in the sciences or engineering;and you are ignorant enough to be concerned about tamale and taco vendors? Or could it be that you, just like the present occupant of the White House,have a blatant disregard for the laws that do not fit your true agenda ?
I paid about $10,000 DOLLARS and went through an Anal Exam by every Federal Agency we have to get my Wife a Green Card The LEGAL WAY! And I had to PERSONALLY FINANCIALLY GUARANTEE she would NOT be a Public Charge for 7 years.
DEPORT EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM!!
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