The author.
"See? Immigrants are great!"
Posted on 09/05/2025 3:58:00 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
He had eluded the police all summer, but they finally identified him and released his photo to the public. He emerged that Sunday morning on a bus at the edge of downtown and moved east into Boyle Heights, the heart of Latino L.A. and the entry point for countless undocumented immigrants coming from Latin America in the 1980s.
What happened next has become Los Angeles legend and is perhaps best described by one Boyle Heights denizen: “He picked the wrong neighborhood!”
Block after block, residents recognized the long-haired loner from newspaper photos and gave chase. Ramirez ran for two miles before emerging on Hubbard Street in East L.A.. “El maton! El maton!” one woman screamed.
He tried stealing several cars and hit a woman, but neighbors fought back. One man beat Ramirez on the head with a steel pipe, and with the help of neighbors, subdued him until police arrived. Anyone living in L.A. at the time remembers the TV images: Ramirez, his head bandaged, in the back of a sheriff’s cruiser, the “heroes” telling their stories in Spanish, with neighbors translating.
The Nightstalker and today’s immigration raids
It is hard not to mark the anniversary of the Ramirez capture in this summer of ICE without looking at it at least in part through the prism of immigration.
Like now, the mid-1980s were marked by crackdowns on illegal immigration and rhetoric about America being “overrun.”
The summer of 1985 saw a series of high-profile federal immigration raids, including one that...
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In case you were wondering why the La La Times brought this up.
I meant to quote this: “It is hard not to mark the anniversary of the Ramirez capture in this summer of ICE without looking at it at least in part through the prism of immigration.”
Weird and pathetic and factually false argument grasping at straws to justify illegal immigration.
So ... 40 years ago ... some immigrants did something ...
I guess that means that the 30 million recent illegal immigrants have the right to stay? Is that how it works? I was not aware.
Oh, wow. I did not know this. Stop all deportations now! /s
immigrant spawn.
That is one ridiculous and low IQ quote. I would have said “bus riders” but at the time there was an BOLO for him.
Yeah, this justifies keeping them here. Not.....
Yes, he must be freed to kill again. And if re-arrested, be let free on cashless bail.
Oh, and let us give him free health care, food stamps and a cellphone so he can apply for more services.
He is one of the Democrats key constituents. We must encourage him to vote Democratic if not just helping towards Democratic apportionment with the U.S. House of Representatives.
Never mind that his vote will erase a citizens vote(s).
And if ICE catches him, just let him out the back door behind the Demokratic Judge. Give him a Commercial Drivers license for a big rig and let him go to Florida to eliminate more citizens there!
Long Live DemoKracy under Marist Leninism. Deconstruct America, it's organizations and its family.
/Sarcasm OFF
Not sure that ratting someone out equates to catching him.
Well, good on those folks who helped apprehend this murderer. But you know, that’s not carte blanche for a billion illegals to enter. Sorry, it is not!
Why is it difficult?
“Immigrant” bounty hunters. Legal or illegal?
True story.
The author.
"See? Immigrants are great!"
That Mexican author is an obese toad and will die young.
Back during the Richard Ramirez days, illegal aliens worked, had to buy their own houses and were not getting all of the government freebies they receive now.
Since 2008, democrats have been shipping them in, offering a free ride in return for their votes.
The LA Times can go jump in an amoeba infested pond.
At least 3 a day. No catsup!
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