Posted on 01/19/2006 6:08:35 AM PST by kellynla
SANTA ANA – As local law enforcement appealed to Latino leaders Wednesday to help with controversial plans to enforce immigration laws, one Hispanic activist threatened protests in Costa Mesa if the proposals are approved.
Nativo Lopez said if the plans are enacted he will ask Latinos to refuse to cooperate with Costa Mesa police through a campaign of "non-confidence and silence," will launch a boycott of businesses within the city, and will hold a mass march and rally there on President's Day weekend.
Lopez was among several people, including Sheriff Mike Carona and Costa Mesa Police Chief John Hensley, who spoke at a discussion organized by the Orange County Community Forum, an organization of faith, ethnic and grass-roots groups.
Police sweeps are nothing new, Lopez said, but now police and politicians are using fears brought on by the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to justify a public policy that they say will help cut crime.
"The fallacy of these arguments about crime and security is that they have been tried before, but previously the anti-immigrant crowd did not have the Twin Towers as their big fig leaf," Lopez said.
Carona and Hensley didn't react to Lopez's threat during the forum. Both asked Latino leaders for help in educating the community on their plans, which they said have been mischaracterized as racial profiling and sweeps aimed at undocumented immigrants.
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ya know, you have just worn out your welcome on this thread with your stupid remarks...
Those of us who are American citizens who live, work and pay taxes in CA are fed up with the illegals and if you were any kind of American or for that matter Mexican-American you of all people would want to deport those who are taking jobs away from Mexican-Americans, lowering the wage scales and depleting the quality of life for ALL Americans.
Go some place else because your presence and inane posts are no longer needed or wanted.
Class dismissed!
I think the $9 billion was what California spends on illegal immigration. "Completely sealing the border" means an Israel-style wall or Duncan Hunter's double fence at 15' (someone said that was already $3 Billion to build from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean) which then frees up border patrol personnel to concentrate on interior enforcement - so yes I assume that means "roundups and mass deportations" - anything else you need to know to answer the hypothetical?
Time to send a load back and repeat as necessary.
The vast majority of illegal immigrants (and, technically speaking, their American-born and therefore U.S. Citizen children) who commit no other crime.
I guess so, why do you ask? And, how was Lou Dobbs?
Are you the Official Freeper Welcoming Committee?
Did you know that, including illegals, this wave of hispanic/mexican immigration is larger by raw numbers and by percentage of the whole than any other wave of immigrants ever in the US? Why should hispanics and specifically mexicans be given preference in our immigration policies?
If we could get a sealed border for $9 billion total ($750 per illegal) all-inclusive cost, I'd take it in a heartbeat. We'd make it up in less than a year.
You didn't really mean to post that to me, did you?
no genius, this my thread and you have just been officially dismissed.
now go find some other thread to flame bait and quit bothering me and everyone else here.
Either that or Econ_grad
We shouldn't even call this phenomenon a wave at this point, because it has been constant for over a decade. Mexico is depending on sending hundreds of thousands of illegals indefinitely just to keep its head above water. There is absolutely no end in sight. Mexico would have to grow at 9% per annum just to get unemployment under control. China's not even growing that fast, and Mexico's growth is something like 2-3%. There's a huge gap that they expect and demand us to fill, as though it were our responsibility and not theirs.
Illegal immigrants , by definition, have broken the law of being in the U.S. illegally . Specifically, breaking immigration law, did they not?
Sorry - I've been "officially dismissed" : (
What does otherwise mean? They broke one law coming here, but haven't broken any laws since then? So what. What if the first law they broke was the one proscribing murder? Would it make a difference then?
ROFLMAO!!!
Sorry Jinxie, but this persons post just sent me into fits of laughter. Give me a minute to compost myself!!!
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