Hoax alert!
SACRAMENTO – Prominent Hispanic elected officials, including the mayor of Los Angeles and California's lieutenant governor, have received threats in the midst of a heated national debate over immigration policy, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said.
Schwarzenegger told reporters Monday about the threats against Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, both Democrats, during a news conference in his office Monday.
“There's something very important that I need to speak to my fellow Californians about,” he said. “It has come to my attention that our Lieutenant Governor Bustamante and our Los Angeles Mayor Villaraigosa and other elected officials of Mexican heritage have received disturbing and hateful death threats.”
Schwarzenegger said he also was disturbed to learn that vandals had torched and spray-painted ethnic insults on a Mexican-owned restaurant in San Diego County earlier this month.
Sheriff's officials ruled the April 10 attack a hate crime.
“That is not what California stands for,” Schwarzenegger said. “I've asked the district attorneys throughout our state to be vigilant and swift in their actions against those who practice hate against our fellow citizens.”
Bustamante spokesman Steve Green said the lieutenant governor appeared at some immigration rallies with Villaraigosa at the end of March and received “nasty e-mails” afterward. The threat came about three weeks ago on a blank postcard, he said.
“We got one postcard from Pasadena that said words to the effect, 'All you dirty Mexicans should go back to Mexico. The only good Mexican is a dead Mexican,'” Green said.
He said the threat was forwarded to the California Highway Patrol.
“The CHP investigates threats made against public officials, but we don't discuss the details of those threats,” spokeswoman Fran Clader said.
A spokeswoman for Villaraigosa said she didn't know whether the mayor had received any threats because of his position on the immigration debate.
“With any elected official, you get threats from unstable people. I'm not aware of any threats directly related to his position on immigration,” spokeswoman Janelle Erickson said.
Villaraigosa told the Spanish newspaper La Opinion he wasn't concerned about the threats.
“The important thing is that I have a responsibility to represent everybody in Los Angeles, including immigrants, and I am not going to abandon that responsibility because of the extremists who are making threats,” the mayor said in the paper's April 14 edition.
A Los Angeles police spokeswoman declined to comment Monday.
The governor made the comments Monday before signing an executive order creating a new administration position of crime-victims' advocate.
He “felt compelled to express his disappointment in this sort of activity and the zero-tolerance the state has for that kind of crime,” said Adam Mendelsohn, the governor's communications director.
The fire at a restaurant in the eastern San Diego County town of Jamul occurred April 10, the day after an estimated 50,000 people marched during a pro-immigration rally in downtown San Diego, but sheriff's officials didn't cite a connection.
Obscenities were spray-painted in red on the front door, on a poster advertising NASCAR events and on the side wall of Mariachi's Mexican Bar and Grill, sheriff's officials said. Investigators determined that gasoline or another accelerant was used to set the fire, which caused about $10,000 damage.
A representative of the sheriff's bomb-arson squad could not be reached Monday, and an FBI spokesman did not return a telephone message from The Associated Press.
Schwarzenegger has said he opposes amnesty for illegal immigrants, but also called a massive deportation of the estimated 11 million foreigners living illegally in the United States unrealistic. President Bush gave the same message Monday, the final day of a four-day visit to California.
In Irvine, Bush spoke in support of a stalled Senate bill that includes provisions that would allow for eventual citizenship to some of the illegal immigrants already here. Some conservatives say that would amount to amnesty.
A divided Congress was expected to resume the immigration debate after returning Monday from a two-week recess.
On Sunday, Schwarzenegger gave his most detailed comments to date on a proposal to build a 700-mile wall along the border with Mexico to deter illegal immigration, which was included in legislation enacted in the U.S. House of Representatives.
During an interview on ABC's “This Week,” the Republican governor said the wall would amount to “going back to the Stone ages.” He also urged the federal government to use high-tech gear and more patrols to secure the nation's southern boundary.
Schwarzenegger has said previously that fences might be appropriate in some areas, but raised doubts about the effectiveness of a wall snaking along the border.
Now, when illegals threaten someone? Illegals, just threatening people American citizens don't want to threaten.
I'm sure Tom Tancredo hasn't received any death threats. /sarc
I am so glad I did not vote for Arnold, or I would be totally embarassed by it.
They might be latinos but they sure are not leaders.
As opposed to comforting and loving death threats.
Public officials receive threats frequently. If you can't deal with it, resign. And stop playing the race card.
Latino invasion threatens US sovereignty = ok
US Latino leaders who side with invasion get called on it = not ok
Something in that equation just does not compute.
As soon-to-be-elected leaders of Aztlan, these two idiots need not worry about threats. As soon as Calipornia becomes the lead state in Aztlan, they are in free as the political leaders of the movement. Bustamante is a known member of one of the Mexican groups, Mecha, proposing the Mexican annexation of California. We watch our country go down the tubes and nothing is being done to stop it.
Wasn't Antonio Villaraigosa a member of "MECHa"? Not exactly a pack of sweethearts...
http://www.mayorno.com/WhoIsMecha.html
Aren't these guys elected by all of the people?
I saw that on the news last night...what a bunch of B.S. A random post card? That isnt a death threat.
There is no racial issue here; it is cultural and ethnic, to be sure, but their racial makeup is that of the world.
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This is not about workers rights or fair immigration policies. It has to do with international communist/socialist orgs looking to gain the political upperhand in the U.S..
Posted by JeffHead Jeff links to Mexica.org's 'after protest' pic fest. You can see there what the marchers thought they were marching for.
A poster for Friday’s march. March 31. This poster lists the Latino orgs that are promoting the protests. They are all communist/socialist front orgs.
Here is my analysis of what is going on behind the scenes.
Here is some evidence that 'amnesty' increases illegal entries. These people knew before the demonstrations that the time was ripe.
Smith Act of 1940 This is the U.S. statute that ought to apply to the organized gathering of tens of thousands of foreign nationals calling for the overthrow of our country.
I need to make a correction to my previous postings. H.R. 4437 does not simplify the process of documenting employees. The article at that last link says this:
No Elimination and Reduction of Employment Eligibility Documents. One of the few positive aspects of a mandatory employment eligibility system would be the simplification of the hiring process by reducing the number of documents employers would have to verify to one or two. The bill does not do so. Several other reform proposals (such as the Dreier bill, H.R. 98) provide for such simplification by requiring the use of a tamperproof Social Security card and no others. The bill only studies the use of such documents but does not eliminate the use of any documents and the confusion such documents cause employers.
My apologies to all for proliferating confusion on that. This means that H.R. 4437, the best of all bills so far put forward by our esteemed Congress, isn't too good after all.
Understand that the provision that the protesters say is 'racist,' that makes illegals felons, was inserted by the Dems a short time ago. That clarifies why Hillary happened to discover the immigration issue a week before the marches. Why she demonized Republicans as "making Jesus a criminal."
Keep in mind just who organized these protests. Who provided the tens of thousands of T-shirts, the thousands of professionally made signs, the hours and hours of promotion on Spanish language radio and TV stations. It has been noticed that Islamic orgs names and logos appear on some of these signs as well. Remember that NEA teachers and administrators are the ones who have assisted the march organizers by providing bussing for their students, hoisting Mexican flags at school and overlooking the truancy.
Don't forget that the last two Presidential elections were nearly 50/50. Think about how our Congress is looking for a way to appease these foreign nationals through legislation. No election necessary. The outcome of legalizing 11 million illegals and encouraging more to come will be a solid lock for the left forevermore in national elections. We don’t need an ‘immigration’ bill. We need and want a border security and illegal aliens bill. An immigration/guest worker bill can come after that is done.
Mexico is Rich- Mexican wealthy play American taxpayers for suckers
Good thread for any that missed it. It should really make you mad.
Every dollar spent in U.S. taxes for social services for illegal aliens frees up additional cash to be sent south as part of the annual remittances which provided $20 billion in 2005. According to the CNN news show Lou Dobbs Tonight (3/21/05), "Remittances, as they're called, are expected to become Mexico's primary source of income this year, surpassing the amount of money that Mexico makes on oil exports for the first time ever."
Mexico’s Ideal Immigraton Law – Let’s try it here at home Read how Mexico deals with foreigners. Where is the equanimity?
Mayans in Chiapas Region Convert to Islam
The bill that was just defeated in the Senate was an amnesty, plain and simple. But take a look at what these treasonous scumbags tried to hide in it. They will be back and we can expect more of this if we do not act decisively.
Hidden Bombs (Extremely Important Article on Immigration)
The second nasty surprise? Just before the committee approved the bill on the evening of March 27, Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) offered the "DREAM Act" as an amendment. It passed on a voice vote.The DREAM Act is a nightmare. It repeals a 1996 law that prohibits state universities from offering in-state tuition rates to illegal aliens. The principle, of course, is that no illegal alien should be entitled to receive a taxpayer-subsidized benefit that out-of-state U.S. citizens can't get. But the committee's bill allows illegals to be treated better than those U.S. citizens on tuition.
Here is another reason Washington doesn't seem to want to do anything helpful.
CFR's Plan to Integrate the U.S., Mexico and Canada
Globalization: The Final Demise of National Security
What does the White House think about all of this?
U.S. Senator John McCain is offering $50.00 an hour to anyone willing to stay in Yuma for 1 year and pick lettuce. (the season is actually about 18 weeks in mid-winter)Here are his numbers. They will ask you for your name address and phone number.
241 Russell Senate Ofc. Bldg. United States Senate , Washington DC 20510 Phone: (202) 224-2235 Fax: (202) 228-2862
Phoenix 5353 North 16th Street Suite 105 Phoenix, Arizona 85016 Phone: (602) 952-2410 Fax: (602) 952-8702
Tempe 4703 S. Lakeshore Drive Suite 1 Tempe, Arizona 85282 Phone: (480) 897-6289 Fax: (480) 897-8389
Tucson 407 W. Congress Street Suite 103 Tucson, Arizona 85701 Phone: (520) 670-6334 Fax: (520) 670-6637