Posted on 07/13/2006 8:12:12 AM PDT by LNewman
Deputy clerk has been linked to an alleged plot to kill a councilman in the 'sanctuary city' for illegal immigrants.
After the city of Maywood made national headlines earlier this year for its embrace of illegal immigrants, Councilman Felipe Aguirre and Mayor Thomas Martin began receiving threats in the mail.
Now, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office and Maywood police are investigating whether the town's deputy city clerk not only sent some of the hate mail but also tried to have Aguirre killed.
Hector Duarte, 29, was arrested last week by Maywood police officers on suspicion of soliciting to commit murder, ...
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As soon as he got into office, Aguirre and the council majority enacted policies that benefited illegal immigrants.
The city eliminated the Maywood Police Department's Traffic Division after complaints that officers unfairly targeted illegal immigrants. Then the city made it much more difficult for police to tow cars whose owners didn't have driver's licenses, a practice that had affected mostly undocumented people who could not obtain licenses.
In January, the City Council passed a resolution opposing a proposed federal law that would criminalize illegal immigration and make local police enforce immigration law.
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"There's been a lot of bad blood," said Peña, a political rival of Aguirre. "They talk about a city of no laws and order, and I think Maywood is becoming that. When you let go of the Traffic Division, which takes care of moving violations in your city, you have a problem."
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Maywood, south of downtown Los Angeles, is one of the nation's most densely populated cities — nearly 45,000 people (when illegal immigrants are factored in) live in 1.2 square miles. An estimated 96% of the residents are Latino and more than half are foreign-born.
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Let him while about his "hate mail" all he wants. I'll be impressed when he goes to Hidalgo county and rides with the cops down there.
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Good Grief!!!
Estúpidoville would be an excellent choice.
Have you ever read or have a link for anything that might compare the Mexican/American (illegal immigration/reconquista) to Palestinian/Israeli conflict?
Seems I remember reading something along those lines.
I've been calling illegal immigration "our palestinian problem" for several years now.
Make that about 75% illegal alien. The town looks like a third world city where trash and anchor babies are the only products.
Quit talking about my city! Oh I thought you said Bakersfield......;)
Big freepin' deal. That's about HALF as densely populted as my home county, New York County, aka Manhattan Island. And that's just the folks who live here, not the million plus who commute in every work day.
Have they suspended the Traffic Division on Manhattan in fear they will net too many illegals if they perform a function vital to public safety?
Politics, Latin American style. The huge inflow of immigrants has overwhelmed America's ability to assimilate them. They are now assimilating us. Soon, the violence and corruption will replace the respect for individual rights and the rule of law, the same way salsa has replaced ketchup.
Really? I could have sworn I read comparative articles on it on the net somewhere, but perhaps I'm just remembering your reference here at FR.
Have you ever read anything on it?
I've seen no change in any services here. Those headlines were just headlines.
Here's my opinion in a word:
anarchy (as in "disorder") n. : a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government)
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