Posted on 05/26/2005 10:54:33 PM PDT by greatgranny
Los Angeles mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa said Wednesday that Mexico will play an important role in shaping his policies, reports Mexico's EL UNIVERSAL Online.
"We are starting a new era. Instead of closing the borders, as stated by Schwarzenegger, we should look at our border as an opportunity," Villaraigosa said. "This is a time of great importance, not just for us to rediscover our roots, but looking to create a mutually beneficial relationship," added the city's first Latino mayor since 1872.
The top L.A. Democrat lamented that the recent passage by Congress of The Real ID Act would prevent illegal aliens from getting driver's licenses if signed into law.
"Politicians in the United States need to understand that immigrants come here for the same reason that immigrants have always come: To work," Villaraigosa told EL UNIVERSAL. "Instead of punishing and demonizing them, we should try to integrate them."
Villaraigosa also told EL UNIVERSAL that he would not support policies that persecute the city's large migrant population.
"I support Special Order 40 [prohibiting police from making migration-related arrests]," he said. "We need our police officers to fight gangs and organized crime. That will keep them more than busy."
L.A. Major wants hot sauce in every households kitchen!
That being said, the people of LA have elected the Mayor they deserve. The Demographics have shifted enough so the Aztlan is on the fast track to reality.
America has slumbered into a deep sleep and I wonder if it will die before it awakens.
Does anyone know Mr. Villaraigosa's citizenship status?
Is he a native born American, if so which generation?
Is he a naturalized citizen?
LA should be made to know that they will lose state and federal funding if they want to be so damned independent.
Why do idiots flee their third-world cesspools to come here and the first thing they do is re-create the "culture" and lifestyle they fled?
It's over...
That's what you get with compromise and appeasement. Everytimne we compromise or appease the Dummos we lose. Makes you waonder who are the DUMMO'S!!
AS far as I'm concerned every border state needs to be invaded. Walls need to be built with checkpoints and the $2000.00 that is being offered by the Kennedy-McCain bill to illegal immigrants, who are already in this country to come forward to register, should be offered as a bounty on their asses to any one who turns them in to the police.
All of the mayors/assemblymen in the cities that have claimed sanctuary cities should be arrested.Their BS Sanctuary laws are not in compliance with the Federal Laws.
It's time for the MAJORITY to make the MINORITY understand that it is the MAJORITY that will make the rules and enforce the US Constitution and US Laws.
All we need is a nuclear bomb to be set off somewhere in the United States, and I think that ought to send them packing. We're between a rock and a hard place. I was born and raised here in the Los Angeles area. I used to think that was a nice heritage for my children. Hah!
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Los Angeles mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa said Wednesday that Mexico will play an important role in shaping his policies, reports Mexico's EL UNIVERSAL Online.
"We are starting a new era. Instead of closing the borders, as stated by Schwarzenegger, we should look at our border as an opportunity," Villaraigosa said. "This is a time of great importance, not just for us to rediscover our roots, but looking to create a mutually beneficial relationship," added the city's first Latino mayor since 1872.
Hi Hangfire, AnnaZ and feinie. Can you believe it? Were you at Barbara Coe's the other nite? The police did nothing, Hal was lucky they let him off.
California is just about ready to pop like a giant zit.
This idiot seems unable to understand that 2/3 of those wanted for murder in LA are illegals, and the majority with LA arrest warrants against them are illegals.
Clearly he wants to be a mayor for illegals than he does a mayor for the CITIZENS.
Click here!
So much for his oath to uphold the laws.
Travis had better write faster.
It all Bush's fault, we keep asking and asking and asking for our immigration laws to be enforced and Bush does NOTHING, the GOP does NOTHING, so remember these do NOTHING big spending globalist fools in the 06 election, throw the bums D and R out. All of them, evict every damn elected person up for a vote in 06.
It gets worse and worse. I'll always treasure my ten years in Los Angeles as the best in my life. But I left in 1977 and can never go back thanks to the appalling crime rate and prejudice against "Anglos" in what was once the most incredible place in America to live and raise kids.
WE lived in Santa Monica, which was a marvel of friendliness and community feeling back then....but when I visited a friend there a couple of years ago, no one smiled at anyone on the streets or shops and hardly anyone even went out to jog without a big threatening dog at their side.
The city and environs could always absorb legal immigrants who came there to work.....but so many now come to deal drugs and commit crimes, it can only get worse. Especially with a mayor who openly invites criminals to crash what's left of social services and cause even more chaos.
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