Posted on 08/29/2025 11:43:26 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Latinos make up more than half of Oxnard’s 202,000 residents, and they have long taken pride in helping to build this sprawling city by the sea.
Constructed around the same agriculture fields where Cesar Chavez organized migrant laborers before establishing the United Farm Workers of America, Oxnard is a place where Latino influence is omnipresent — from music festivals to eateries.
At City Hall, officials have made it a priority to protect the area’s immigrant residents and workforce — whether that involves bolstering tenant rights against predatory landlords, or joining a civil rights lawsuit against indiscriminate raids.
But a summer of immigration sweeps has fueled distrust in the community, and put city officials on the defensive.
The Trump administration’s crackdown has sparked street protests, as well as complaints that city officials need to be more proactive and forceful in the face of federal immigration enforcement.
“Tensions are high in the community right now and relations are being strained,” said Lucas Zucker, co-executive director of Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy, the same group behind new tenant protections. “It takes a lot of work to build trust with the immigrant community and any law enforcement or government.”
At a City Council meeting last month, speakers criticized police and city leaders for not doing enough to help the immigrant population. Some called for legal action.
“Our community is under attack by the federal government,” Veronica Miranda, 65, told the council that evening. “I don’t know what you can do, but I’m going to ask you to do something — a gesture, can we look at an eviction moratorium?”
“You’re not able to stop the federal government,” said Pastor Greg Runyon. “I don’t fault you for that … but you do have a weapon — it’s a bully pulpit.”
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Good. America doesn’t need foreign colonies taking over our government.
Some country’s people were building a small illegal colony in the United States and it got uncovered.
A vibrant community of illegals?
CC
This is very sad.
Now get out of my country!
that headline alone tells a story
like, how the Los Angeles Times screwed up a HUGE Monopolistic media franchise
into the
krappy little commie/leftist propaganda rag it’s made of itself today
Bull S^^t!. If they are here illegally get them the hell out! Legal immigrants are very welcome, Illegals GET OUT!
If Trump’s not careful he’s going to lose the illegal alien demographic when he runs for reelection in 2026.
Last time I went through Oxnard, it was like going to Mexico or east LA.
Usually these US “Latino Communities” are miniature replicas of Latin American slums - trash everywhere, street vendors aggressively hawking questionable food and useless trinkets to all passers-by, lots of vandalism/theft and other petty crime, and an overall squalid, run-down feel. It isn’t exactly a culture or mode of life we need to import or encourage - if that’s what’s considered “vibrant”, I think that I might prefer “low key”.
“...Trump raids are shattering it...”
FANASTIC! Now they can build a vibrant community in their own shithole country.
“Cesar Chavez organized migrant laborers”
Commies love rewriting history.
Illegal aliens, not Latinos. Plenty of Latinos migrate here legally. It is the only way, all others get the boot.
I learned long ago, “vibrant” means nonwhite. It’s a code word if you’re researching neighborhoods, apartments, etc.
squatters you mean
The Oxnard area also has a significant Asian population.
I’ve never seen any “protestors” waving the Vietnam, Korean, etc flag.
Only one?
Texas has several along its border. They even have a name:
Colòniales? I think it was.
It takes a lot of work to build trust with the immigrant community and any law enforcement or government
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ICE is building that trust
trust that if you are illegal
you will be deported
AMF!
They live off of us.
I have a boat in a Ventura marina. Oxnard is a ghetto. The people who live along the coast there in million dollar houses won’t even say they live in Oxnard. It’s The Channel Islands.
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