Posted on 06/14/2005 6:50:55 PM PDT by kingattax
No, I think we can't win if we continuously make gratuitous insults to Hispanics. ie; "Hispanics are destroying our neighborhood, ruining our culture, lowering our education levels, etc... Inserting the word "illegal" doesn't fool anyone.
We have been doing real well attracting Hispanic voters with our traditional conservative issues of God, family and country.
But it only takes a few jerks to destroy years of goodwill.
It only takes a few crooks to create a national problem.
The word "illegal" is inserted because that's who we're referring to, Einstein, ILLEGAL ALIENS. Thanks anyway for injecting the illegal immigration lobby's spin into this thread. But guess what? You aren't fooling anyone.
He's got my vote. I'm up to my armpits with these guys here in a suburb outside of Los Angeles.
No you're not. When y'all post pictures of Hispanic looking men standing on a street corner you don't know whether they are native born Americans, naturalized citizens, legal immigrants or illegal aliens. All you know is that they look Hispanic.
When you say you've seen emergency rooms filled with illegals, everyone knows you really mean you've seen them filled with Hispanic looking people. You don't know anything about their citizenship or immigration status.
When you complain of hearing illegals speaking Spanish everyone knows you really mean you are complaining about Hispanics because you don't know their immigration status.
When you talk about an "invasion" in California of illegals, everyone knows that you are talking about the increased percentage of the population that is Hispanic due to births and legal immigration, because the per cent of illegals has not increased in a number of years.
I wouldn't care at all about how much animosity you generate from Hispanics if it weren't for the fact that they think you are Republicans or conservatives.
The crime rate is the lowest its been in several decades nationwide and in California.
That is a bayourod classic, worthy of the Baghdad Bob award. Here's what the treason lobby's open borders have actually brought to LA:
Massive Police Action Nets 19 Gang Arrests 900 Law Enforcement Officers Act Simultaneously
POSTED: 6:50 am PDT June 21, 2005 UPDATED: 9:27 am PDT June 21, 2005
BURBANK, Calif. -- At least 19 arrests were made overnight in a raid targeting a violent San Fernando Valley gang suspected of killing two police officers.
The early-morning raid began at 3:30 a.m. Tuesday, when officers began serving 43 search and arrest warrants on members of the Vineland Boyz gang in Los Angeles, Palmdale, Rosamond, Valencia, Bakersfield and Simi Valley, police said. The Vineland Boyz gang is suspected in the fatal shooting of Los Angeles Officer James Beyea in 1988 and the 2003 shooting death of Burbank Officer Matthew Pavelka.
By 5:30 a.m., at least 19 of the 43 gang members being sought were in custody, and "Operation Silent Night" was continuing, said Los Angeles police Chief William Bratton. He promised an update at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday.
"We're very pleased this morning with the results of this operation," Bratton said.
Pavelka's father, also a police officer, told NBC4's Robert Kovacik how he felt about the murder of his son at the hands of gang members.
"I feel some responsibility for what happened because Matthew followed in my footsteps, on a path that was a dangerous one, and, unfortunately, he was one of those officers that paid the ultimate price."
The arrests were made under the federal RICO law, which was enacted to dismantle organized crime groups.
During a rare 5 a.m. news conference just hours after the arrests, LAPD Chief William Bratton called the gang a "modern-day Mafia."
The task force that served the warrants and made the arrests involved 900 local and federal law enforcement officers and nine police helicopters acting simultaneously.
The Vineland Boyz gang is a criminal organization, "involved in drug trafficking, murders, attempted murders and extortion," Bratton said.
Bratton said Tuesday's operation was the culmination of an 18-month investigation.
Bratton called the Vineland Boyz gang members "poster boys" who had been targeted by the LAPD.
http://www.nbc4.tv/news/4633562/detail.html
Now that is how you solve the gang problem, not by minutemen sitting in lawn chairs with water bottles for dehydrated border trekkers.
Thanks for the info.
PS. and the crime rate is too the lowest it's been in many years in California.
Link? Oh never mind.
In a real big way. He runs, he wins in my opinion. Most American's have lost their patients with D.C. on the immigration issue.
California's Crime Rate Is at a 35-Year Low
You might also be interested to know that the percent of illegal aliens in California has not increased in recent years.
And you would probably be shocked to learn that California's economy is booming. It's not really true that the sky is falling.
Why didn't you link the 2004 Calfacts? It shows the crime rate increasing.
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