Posted on 07/25/2012 9:37:11 AM PDT by kevcol
The fate of Baltimore may rest with immigrants like Alexandra Gonzalez.
A native of Puebla, Mexico, Gonzalez feels more at home in Baltimore with every passing year. She attends city-run nutrition and exercise classes in Spanish and takes her two young children to a Spanish-language storytelling hour at her neighborhood library. She plans to earn a GED and become a teacher.
“I like living here,” said Gonzalez, 24, as she pushed a stroller holding her sleeping 1-year-old daughter and bags of purchases from a dollar store
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Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake (D) has told Latinos, in particular, that she is counting on them to help Baltimore gain 10,000 families within a decade. As a first step, she signed an order in March prohibiting police and social agencies from asking anyone about immigration status — and in the order, she explicitly asked federal immigration authorities to tell anyone they arrest that they are not agents of the city.
Baltimore joins an increasing number of U.S. cities, most of them manufacturing behemoths fallen on hard times, that are courting immigrants to reverse half a century of population loss.
The Global Detroit effort includes programs that help immigrants start small businesses, get driver’s licenses and learn English. As part of the Welcome Dayton Plan adopted last year, the Ohio city sponsors a soccer tournament for immigrant teams. Not to be outdone, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D) says he wants his home town to be known as the most “immigrant-friendly city in the country.”
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” Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake (D) has told Latinos, in particular, that she is counting on them to help Baltimore gain 10,000 families within a decade. As a first step, she signed an order in March prohibiting police and social agencies from asking anyone about immigration status “
Figures....
They want `em so bad up there they will get some of the ones here in Dallas.
A bit too big to just print out and toss at the ones standing on street corners but I sure can post this on the “hispanic” boards in this area...
http://www.daytonohio.gov/welcomedaytonreport
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Time to put Sheriff Joe Arpaio in charge of schools and the ACLU attorney’s in his jail.
No, no relation there, none!
we now call it Isabellaland.... not maryland
and the madness will continue as long as our state circles the cesspool of washington dc.
fortunately i am on the right coast of maryland
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The Mayor wants more democrats from the looks of what she's pushing... short term gain - long term disaster...
Hey, bringing in lots of cheap labor - uneducated Muslims worked for Europe... right? /s
Just what they need, Muslim gangs raping their daughters.
Our sales tax was raised 20 percent. And I don’t believe Alexandra will have any problem getting a driver’s license. I’m pretty sure they don’t check immigration status at the DMV.
Maryland "Freak State" PING!
Maybe,
For years illegals flocked to Maryland because it had a ID loophole for them to get drivers licenses. And American man who lost his license due to not paying child support would have trouble using it to get another license under another name, unless he was an immigrant.
When the GWB/Republican (2006) congress's Real ID went into effect O Malley proposed a special drivers license for illegals, which he got little traction on because the idea was so stupid, However it did get him some Hispanic votes in 2010 AND cowardly RINO Ehrlich never brought it up in the race, nor the Dream act, nor same sex marriage,
With Obama as POTUS the Feds may not be enforcing Real ID on states so you may be right.
Any city or locale whose elected officials willfully and deliberately encourage or protect circumvention of immigration laws (establishing “sanctuary” cities) should face HEAVY jail time and severe monetary penalities.
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