It's not like they're coy about their goal of reconquista.
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Posted on 09/30/2007 1:07:57 PM PDT by Dubya
RVING -- When pro-immigrant activists held a rally Wednesday against a police program that has led to more than 1,500 deportations this year, they told the crowd to call City Hall and demand an end to the program.
City officials said they were swamped with nearly 500 calls the next day. But the calls were overwhelmingly in favor of the police crackdown, called the Criminal Alien Program.
"We received a ton of phone calls at City Hall, ... and they have mostly been in support of our program," Mayor Herbert Gears said. He said he also got 265 e-mails Thursday, only two of them opposing the program.
City Hall receptionist Edna Brown said she had about triple the number of calls she usually gets.
"It was so many calls, I even had 45 calls on hold," she said. "The majority of them were for it, and not that many were against it."
One of the organizers of Wednesday's rally, Carlos Quintanilla, said he was undaunted by the city's assertion and accused Gears and his staff of lying.
"They're trying to rally their base," Quintanilla said. "Their base is not as passionate as us."
Quintanilla said he will focus on getting Hispanics elected to office in Irving. The City Council has no Hispanic members.
"We're going to shock Irving when we take power," Quintanilla said.
Irving looms large among immigration activists and at the Mexican and Salvadoran consulates in Dallas, which have cried foul. Mexican Consul General Enrique Hubbard Urrea has said he suspects racial profiling.
Irving police launched the Criminal Alien Program in September 2006 to identify and remove illegal immigrants suspected or convicted of crimes. In June, the City Council endorsed the program, passing a resolution that in part states that the crackdown "is an extraordinarily successful and cost efficient response to a serious challenge for this community."
Under the program, police screen every person arrested in the city to help determine whether he or she is in the country legally. If questions exist, those arrested are referred to the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
The referrals are so numerous that immigration officials said Irving turns over more illegal immigrants than any other law enforcement agency in North Texas.
Ninety percent of people Irving police turned over to the immigration agency are from Mexico and Central America, according to a Star-Telegram analysis of Irving police data.
Ninety-three percent were men. Sixty-nine percent of them were from Mexico, and 15 percent were from El Salvador.
Gears said warrants were the No. 1 cause of arrests for people who were turned over to immigration authorities. Public intoxication was the second.
Gears said the high number of people from Latin America does not prove racial profiling because Irving has so many Hispanic residents. Forty-two percent of the city's population is Hispanic, according to the U.S. census.
But pro-immigration activists say critics need only to look at traffic stops to see whether racial profiling occurs.
According to the Irving Police Department's 2006 racial profiling report, more Anglos were pulled over than members of any other ethnic group. Hispanics made up about a third of the 42,534 traffic stops made in 2006, the report states.
The report says, however, that Hispanics were searched more than any other ethnic group.
Police spokesman David Tull said the numbers do not necessarily prove racial profiling.
"Just looking at the hard numbers, there's not a quick way to answer that. ... Is this profiling, or is this not profiling?" he said.
"Bottom line is, you stop everyone for violations, and what you walk up on is what you deal with."
"They're trying to rally their base," Quintanilla said. "Their base is not as passionate as us."
Quintanilla said he will focus on getting Hispanics elected to office in Irving. The City Council has no Hispanic members.
"We're going to shock Irving when we take power," Quintanilla said.
“”We’re going to shock Irving when we take power,” Quintanilla said.”
Racist pig!
You said it.
These people hate us and our country.
Take power. I hope people are reading this.
susie
“Paging ICE, please pick up the white phone in the lobby! Paging ICE!!!”
I cannot believe the gall of lawbreakers threatening Irving!!
The absolute NERVE!!!
Please, God, let ICE come to their senses and start ENFORCING THE LAWS!!!
“These people hate us and our country.”
La Raza symathisers. I am english irish and want those folks deported today if they are illegal!
I couldn’t agree more.
As a matter of fact, I want all La Raza sympathzers out of here because the ones who are legal are traitors.
Texas: It’s ours now but we’re losing it Ping
How much more blatant does their hate have to get before something is done!
La Raza - Spanish for Das Volk.
Can't lay it out any plainer than that. I worry it's too late for Texas.
Not only that, their older women roam the streets acting a fool like Britney Spears.
It's not like they're coy about their goal of reconquista.
Quintanilla is the enemy of his cause.
Yeah, they just love America!
Pray for Jack Black!
And here we go again.
I am getting really tired of this crap.
Let’s just annex Mexico (or make it a territory) already; we practically support the country as it is.
http://www.cityofirving.org/elected-officials/city-council-members.html
Irving City Council Members
To find out more about each council member, simply click on the links below. To send an online message to the city council , email Irving City Council at: ccouncil@cityofirving.org
To send a message to the Mayor, email at: mayor@cityofirving.org
Isn’t that a photo of the old parade route where Sadam exhibited his toys?
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