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."
I was born in Los Angeles on Easter Sunday 1947, at Queen of Angels Hospital, the beautiful one on the hill. During my 1950s childhood growing up in L.A., California was still a big part of the American dream. My mother had moved out from Nebraska via Illinois, my cousin and uncle too. My uncle married an Okie who had come out to work in the peach-packing plants. The majority of our neighbors were from the Midwest U.S.
There were streetcars going everywhere, and summer was a real summertime. The parks were pleasant and relatively safe. We went for boat rides in the man-made lake and we rode Angel's Flight downtown. The grand opening of Disneyland was a BIG deal.
I think the biggest change came in the 1980s, with the real estate boom, a mass influx of East Coasters and the infamous amnesty for illegals. L.A. has not looked back from that time and, among other things, permanent gridlock has begun.
It's a great place for foreigners, they love it. But for those of us whose hearts belong to the U.S.A. and all she stands for, it's time to move to Jesusland.
That's very naive. One third of the entire state's population is in L.A. County. To say that L.A. is just another city is disengenous at best. It's like saying that NYC is just another city in NY, never mind that it dwarfs the population of all the other cities combined.
Where is JEsusland?
LMAO
Couldn't happen to a nicer city.
Of course, he is also a member of LULAC, and Mecha. He follows the beliefs of www.aztlan.net, and is a true believer in the ways of RECONQUISTA. The dream of returning the American Southwest to Mexico. (for those of you who do not k now what that is).
I came here to California 15 years ago and in that time the state has changed. I'm out of here next month. Leaving paradise. Will miss the weather, but that's it.
Outa here!
He also is in an excellent position to ignite a national security crisis.
When Texas and Arizona become as solidly RAT as california.
'bout 20 years.
What happens in California so goes the rest of the nation!
Be very scared.
Or something of similar shape.
I was born in 1937 in L.A. and lived in the Los Feliz/Silverlake area and moved to Glendale in 66 (still have my home there) and my business was in L.A. (closed in 92) and my wife and I are both 5th generation So. Calif. and we are going to stick it out!
The gangs haven't changed in the area in 60 years that I know of except to get worse. 50 years ago they just fought and killed amongst their own when I was in high school. My office and warehouse is in Frog Town, west of Los Feliz Blvd is the Valley gang, and to the east is White Front. Where my office is in Frog Town it got so bad by 85 that I couldn't buy insurance and since I closed the business the neighborhood animals have broken in and what they couldn't steal they smashed.
I look for the S.F. Valley and South Bay to form their own cities and leave the core of L.A. with all the garbage and no tax base.
mexican first, mexican-american second.
Naive, indeed; The Mayor of LA has no power;he is just a figure representing that Mayoral Office.
Further more the Mayor has no legislative power; period.
If anybody thinks that the Mayor dictates anything, that person is dreaming. The City Council is the body who dictates and makes things work in LA.
Villaragosa is just grand standing to get Brownies among his peers.(the illegal/legal Mexicans)
IMHO I believe the real power a Mayor has, is when the Police Chief is elected, and also a few things withing City boundaries, no more no less.
Villaragosa is going to feel the heat for his comments, especially from the Blacks. Them pilgrims are not very happy campers, I will have you know!
I'd oblige for conversion by insemination were I not married with 4 spawn.
She sort of looked like Eva Mendes.
Yes.
The institutional enmity between American native blacks and Mexicans is a little discussed issue.
It's profound on the "street".
They regard one another with a racial hostility that would not be tolerated were Anglos involved. Kobe Bryant's cutie Mex wife is an exception to that entrenched rule. Here in Nashville, I see no Mexicans with blacks...never.
All hispanics are not alike are they?
Ain't that the truth..........
You are sooooooo right! Riots in the schools, violence at demonstrations and meetings and stabbings and beatings in Fallbrook. We are under SEIGE!! Read La Voz lately?
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