Posted on 09/02/2007 12:23:14 AM PDT by Niteflyr
LOS ANGELES - Retired utility worker Charles Warren worries his quality of life is slipping and says that illegal immigrants are to blame.
The 55-year-old retiree complains about day laborers waiting for work outside the nearby Home Depot, saying they give his neighborhood "a Third World look."
"Ten or 15 years ago, the neighborhood wasn't like this," Warren said. "The states are overpopulated, there is oversprawl, and immigration is contributing to this."
After seeing a television commercial that blamed many of California's woes on illegal immigrants, Warren immediately donated $50 to the sponsoring group, Californians for Population Stabilization.
And he's not the only one. Since the Santa Barbara-based group aired the commercials, it has collected thousands of membership applications.
Other anti-immigrant groups have watched their rolls and coffers swell, from California to New York. Most of the organizations are small affairs, started by one or two people, such as California Coalition for Immigration Reform or Save Our State.
Other groups, such as CAPS or Numbers USA, which center on population control, provide statistical data and research-oriented services.
But anti-illegal-immigrant groups say growing interest is a wider backlash against pro-immigrant street protests that swept the country last spring and frustration with federal officials whose immigration-reform bill has stalled.
Critics warn that the upsurge in activity - also being replicated among pro-immigrant groups - is evidence of a growing anti-immigrant sentiment sweeping the United States.
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Written by another genius (not you, I know) who never read the failed Senate bill. The bill devoted an entire section to recognizing that Mexico and its "culture of corruption" is the issue.
Rachel Uranga, Age: 31
Rachel Uranga (Fall 1999), reporter at the Daily News in Los Angeles, covers Latino affairs and transportation. She is also the president of the Los Angeles Chapter of the California Chicano News Media Association (CCNMA). Uranga was a Chips Quinn intern at The Contra Costa (Calif.) Times Richmond bureau. She and Rick Coca (Spring 2006) became friends while sitting across from each other in the busy Daily News office in Woodland Hills, Calif., where Coca is a reporter. Uranga invited Coca and a host of other staff members to sit on an in-house diversity committee to discuss the papers coverage of different communities.
ty, kcvl. Ping to post #43.
City will stop seizing autos of unlicensed
City Attorney’s Office says it may be unconstitutional
BY RACHEL URANGA, Staff Writer
Article Launched: 08/29/2007 12:00:00 AM PDT
The Los Angeles Police Department will no longer impound vehicles of unlicensed drivers, a practice decried for years as unfair to illegal immigrants.
MAKING A PLACE FOR WORKERS STORES WOULD BE FORCED TO SHELTER DAY LABORERS.(News)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); 9/11/2005
Dan Laidman and Rachel Uranga Staff Writers
Los Angeles would become one of the first major cities in the nation to require big home-improvement stores to create shelters for day laborers under a recently drafted city ordinance that takes aim at regulating the controversial issue.
Rachel Uranga reports in the Daily News on the phenomenon of L.A. immigrants skipping English to learn whatever is spoken in their neighborhood
THanks for saying it so well bump to what you said!
At risk of sounding like a hack, I think we simply must get out of the habit of calling these people "liberals." Our founders were liberals. People like that professor are IMO better described as leftists (I've got better terms but, well you know).
That said, I note that FReeper Travis McGee posted (35) the cover of his excellent book. One of it's characters is a leftist professor who meets a fate that I personally would wish on most leftist professors.
What troubles me is how the ethos of those professors has metastasized down through our high schools and elementary schools. Public schools seem to me to be nothing more than leftist indoctrination pens anymore.
“”This is a bunch of crap,” says Glenn Spencer of American Border Patrol. “ABP applies high-technology to the border problem and the people it spots crossing the border aren’t immigrants, they are illegal aliens.” “Not only does this sad excuse for a reporter show her bias by calling these invaders immigrants, when she repeats the Southern Poverty Law Center’s baseless claim that our high-tech firm is a hate organization, she exposes her anti-American bias,” he added. Spencer says there is no doubt that Uranga is hit-lady for big-money globalists. “
B T T T
How so were our founding fathers liberal? You mean, because they wanted change?
I mean liberal in the classic sense. They believed in liberty for the individual. The Constitution they wrote was intended to be a constraint on government rather than on citizens. Modern so-called liberals can't seem to empower government ennough.
At that time in human history I suppose you could say they wanted change, but it was their intent to subordinate government to the people.
The Bill of Rights stated what the government may not do, and of course you see what we now have. I like to think that the Founders would have put many of our present day "representatives" in jail for violation of the Bill of Rights, because again, they are laws intended to constrain government.
I hope I explained myself a little better.
ping
So one group is a full 50 percent of the problem and we aren't supposed to focus on that? It's "dangerous" to deal in truth?
That's a lot of bull. Mexicans are 65-70% of all illegal aliens and Hispanics are 90% of all illegal aliens we have today. Mexicans have a head start due to coming here illegally long before others caught on to our open borders
Thanks Presidente Jorge!!
Ditto with the word Progressive. Teddy Roosevelt was a Progressive who sought to move the blessings of the American way beyond our shores. Most Lieberals who call themselves Progressive today seek to replace the American way with outmoded Marxism.
Bttt!
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