Conservatives Clash at Briefing on Pr. William Crackdown {on illegals}

Washington Post ^ | December 15, 2007 | Kristen Mack

[3AngelaD]

The chairman of a federal civil rights panel clashed yesterday with Prince William Board of County Supervisors Chairman Corey A. Stewart over the recent crackdown on illegal immigrants approved by the board. Linda Chavez, a conservative commentator who heads a U.S. Commission on Civil Rights panel examining whether the crackdown violates federal antidiscrimination laws, said she believed the supervisors based their action largely on anecdotal evidence of problems....

"Watching this, it seemed like there was little fact-finding prior to the board's consideration of this resolution. You seemed to have made up your minds [in advance]," Chavez said....

Stewart (R-At Large), who led the effort to curtail some county services, accused Chavez of having a "clear past and agenda here." ..."We've found it difficult to quantify the problem," Stewart said of the cost and impact of illegal immigration on the county. "But that doesn't mean it's not a problem."

The county did look at the impact of illegal immigration on the community, Stewart said, citing crime, residential overcrowding and increased use of hospital emergency rooms. Later, in an interview, Stewart called Chavez "an illegal immigrant apologist."...

Chavez is co-chairman of the immigration subcommittee of the Virginia state advisory committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights...Within the next year the subcommittee plans to issue a report to the state advisory committee, which will determine whether to make recommendations to the commission...

Because the panel restricted testimony to invited officials, some people on different sides of the issue who attended lamented not having an opportunity to be heard. "Citizens' input seems to be marginalized," said Donna Widawski of Haymarket, who supports the county's crackdown. "What I saw was a predetermined agenda that would favor those who support illegal immigrants."....

[3AngelaD]

Linda Chavez, of all people! We know how she feels about illegals: bring them into your house and support them. And the reason is is difficult to quantify the problem is that the federal government is not doing its job. So, Chavez subcommittee will issue a report about what the state commission she recommend. I can hardly wait.

[rogue yam]

Linda Chavez is a living embodiment of Jorge Bush’s intellectual shortcomings.

[3AngelaD]

I really like the way the Post sets this up as a “clash of conservatives.” Linda Chavez is as lib as they come on immigration.

[GovernmentIsTheProblem]

Chavez mouth is moving but Jorge’s words emerge.

[Joe Boucher]

Round up ALL illegals and send them back to from where they came. Regardless of how much of a craphole it may be.
Even saudi arabia.

[jnsun]

Linda Chavez is a living embodiment of Jorge Bush’s intellectual shortcomings.

It is even more: It is an explicit example of the Washington Post trying to manipulate the readership into an arranged perception. That is, show division and conquer. This is going on everywhere.

"They" ARE NOT dumb, just sinister.

[cowdog77]

Chavez and Bush go “way back”.
She’s a stooge.

[businessprofessor]

I cannot comprehend her blinders on illegal immigration. Her work against racial preferences has been outstanding. For some reason, she cannot even acknowledge the perspective of enforcement of immigration laws. She seems to take the illegal immigration issue as racial discrimination. The great paradox in her position is the flood of racial preferences resulting from ammesty and open borders. If another amnesty passes, the huge wave of illegals will demand racial preferences. The rats and compassinate rinos will happily comply.

[Logical me]

Linda Chavez, a conservative commentator who heads a U.S. Commission on Civil Rights panel examining whether the crackdown violates federal antidiscrimination laws, said she believed the supervisors based their action largely on anecdotal evidence of problems....

Chavez, you dope nut job, illegals have no discrimination rights. The only "right" they have is to be kicked back where they came from. And, if possible, at their own expense.

[freeangel]

“anectdoatal evidence”

Hmm, ILLEGALS aare choking our health and education systems. And victims of ILLEGALS’ crimes and drunk driving would not be victims if they were not here. It sounds pretty solid to me.

[dbacks]

Salvador Reza is an Anglophobe, racist, criminal enterprise apologist who is using the foulist, vile language to attack those of us trying to keep the illegals from despoiling our state.

Tha Arizona Republic is equally hateful in their reporting and consistently refuses to use the word “illegal”, instead calling them immigrant laborers.

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Casey Newton
The Arizona Republic
Dec. 15, 2007 12:00 AM

Mayor Phil Gordon’s efforts to resolve the day-labor protests at M.D. Pruitt’s Home Furnishings have come to a stalemate.

Salvador Reza, who has led demonstrations at the furniture store for two months in protest of the off-duty Maricopa County sheriff’s deputies patrolling the neighborhood for day laborers, said he will not meet until the deputies go away.

“I remain hopeful that Mr. Reza and Mr. Sensing will agree to meet me with each other so that they can make an attempt to help mediate their differences,” Gordon said.

“I will continue to extend an offer for the three of us to meet together.”

Reza wrote a letter to the mayor Friday saying he and his group, the 35th and Thomas Organizing Committee, will not meet with Pruitt’s owner Roger Sensing until Sensing quits hiring deputies on Saturdays.

Pruitt’s makes request
The letter came a day after Sensing sent Gordon a letter calling for a full audit of Reza’s funding, saying he had “reason to be concerned that citizen taxpayer dollars committed to subsidize Reza’s various operations and activities may have been used to fund his protest activities outside Pruitt’s.”

Sensing also called for an immediate stop to the weekly protests in front of his business and full enforcement of solicitation, trespass and loitering laws outside his business.

In an earlier letter to Gordon, Reza said Sensing himself was not the problem.

“The dispute you mention is not between Mr. Reza and Mr. Sensing,” Reza wrote.

“It is a dispute with the Sheriff’s Department’s indiscriminate profiling and arrests of members of the commu- nity.”

Year-old feud
Reza and Sensing have feuded since over a year ago, when Sensing asked Sheriff Joe Arpaio for help keeping day laborers off his property, saying they were intimidating customers.

Arpaio’s patrols have resulted in dozens of illegal immigrants being deported, outraging protesters.

Counterprotesters also now come to Pruitt’s to cheer on Arpaio and his deputies.

[Fee]

Linda Chavez has mixed loyalties. Country versus her own ethnicity. It may not be a PC thing to say, but that is what I observe. Where would she stand if the US and Mexico had to fight each other in a war????

[3AngelaD]

Just damn. What unmitigated gall. Why does Reza think he has been named dictator-for-life and get to tell business owners what they can and cannot do on private property? If I lived there I would be in Pruitt’s parking lot on Saturdays cheering on the deputies and hooting at Reza’ shock troops — in Spanish. And Reza’s finances need a state and federal colonoscopy. Wonder how much taxpayer funding he is getting to run his little operation.

[3AngelaD]

Lookie what I found. First entered illegally, no concept of the Rule of Law: Salvador Reza was born in Chihuahua, Mexico. When he was 10, his family moved to Ysleta, Tex., where his father was a farm worker under the bracero program, which granted Mexicans work permits. "I had my first rude awakening on my first recess when I was taken into the principal's office, told to put my hands on my knees and swatted with a wooden board. With tears in my eyes, I asked, '¿Porque me pegan?' (Why do you spank me?) An interpreter, shaking an accusatory finger, said, 'No Español.' Coming from Mexico, tops in my class, it took me a while to understand the hate emanating from the principal, the interpreter, and the teachers who kept on giving me zeros because I could not speak, read, nor write English." A few months later, the Reza family was deported. They moved to the Mexican border town of Zaragosa, where Salvador began learning English by reading dictionaries. When the demand for labor returned, the family again found its way to Texas. In high school Reza joined the R.O.T.C. and a sergeant helped him become a citizen so that he could join the service. "When I was in the Air Force in Germany I passed by a 'Gast Haus' with a sign that said, 'Turken und Chien Verboten.' Turks and Dogs Forbidden. That was in 1974, 13 years after I had read, in Ysleta, Texas, across the street from the Ysleta Mission, 'No Mexicans or Dogs Allowed.' I realized that borders, oceans or continents do not hold bigotry and racism back. It is a universal illness." His life, he says, has motivated him "to change the injustices faced by individuals and communities because of their culture, skin color or origin." After graduating from the University of California, San Diego, he worked for California immigrant advocacy groups and was drawn to Phoenix because he is among those who consider the city the center of Aztlan, the original land of the Aztecs before they moved south to what later became Mexico.

[dbacks]

He is nothing more than a race-baiting SOB.

[dbacks]

In fact, I believe he is one of the people calling for the death of the gringo so “they” can take back their country. And then they can kill all Los Indios.