The paletas!
Dont infringe on the paletas!!!
Posted on 02/17/2011 7:22:21 PM PST by moonshinner_09
Getty Images It's late morning in North Hollywood, and Felipe Olmedo joins a couple of dozen other food vendors gathering to stock their carts for another long afternoon.
Olmedo serves North Hollywood, Pacoima, San Fernando and Sylmar. On a given day, he may cover 20 to 30 miles on his bicycle cart, selling everything from ice cream to chips and soda.
Today he gets an unexpected visit from Antonio Bernabe, an activist with the "Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles," CHIRLA. Bernabe has brought a warning, and a flyer with specific instructions. Basically, it is a "how to" guide for dealing with an arrest for minor business license or zoning infractions.
"When you are doing the booking, you have to put your origin and your social security?" says Bernabe.
That's important, because of what happened a couple of weeks ago to a vendor named Blanca Perez. She was pushing her cart through a neighborhood in Van Nuys, when she was cited for coming within 500 feet of a school, a relatively minor infraction. But what happened next was not minor.
Perez was arrested and booked into jail. And that's where authorities learned that she was, by her own admission, an illegal immigrant. Now she faces deportation.
For now, Perez is still here in Southern California, sitting at home, wearing an electronic device on her ankle.
Bernabe says the case could have turned out differently if Perez had known her legal rights. She didn't know that she had the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney.
That may seem simple to millions of Americans who have heard police officers recite the Miranda rights on countless TV shows. But it's different for the vendors.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbclosangeles.com ...
People back in Mexico wish they had those rights.
“Bernabe says the case could have turned out differently if Perez had known her legal rights. She didn’t know that she had the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney.”
Really? When she was arrested she wasn’t read these rights? I highly doubt it, and I imagine they were read in spanish.
I’d rather have the US populated with people who want to work, illegal or otherwise, than people who sit on their ass all day doing nothing.
Watch though,crime in my neighborhood shot up because of these vendors.Police said:”keep your garages closed,and things put away,that some of these guys scout out the areas,looking for easy targets”.
We tell our kids under no circumstances are they to buy the "ice cream" from the Mexican pushcart clowns. God only knows what's in there, they have no licenses, no food inspection, no nothing. No one knows where any of it comes from.
Yes Sir!
That's why we need to get rid of most entitlement programs. It breed sloth and dependence.
Where do you live?
Crybabies. They’re shooting each other in Monterey County. Yes, that’s right — one ice cream vendor shot and killed another one because she was on his “turf”.
I’ll have one of those beef and bean Paletas,
like the one on the left. mmmmmmmm
So while senor illegal is peddling ice cream, mamasita is busy hatching more anchor babies, collecting section 8 housing, TANF cash, EITC cash, food stamps, electricity subsidies, a free cell phone, free medical care and if she's a wise latina, SSI for all her "disabled" children. Meanwhile, her little creeps are getting free lunch and free breakfast while disrupting classrooms because they don't speak English.
Yeah, we really need more of that kind of "working people".
Deport ALL illegals NOW and their anchor babies along with them.
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