La Opinión Asks Jerry Brown to Withdraw from Secure Communities

La Opinión Asks Jerry Brown to Withdraw from Secure Communities

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Editor's Note: The governors of Illinois, New York and Massachusetts have suspended their states' participation in the federal Secure Communities program, which requires police to share fingerprint data of all arrestees with immigration authorities. Now editors of the Los Angeles Spanish-language newspaper La Opinión are asking the question, Is California next?


Illinois, New York and Massachusetts have withdrawn from the Secure Communities program based on the assessment that it is ill-conceived and misguided, it has damaged relations between police immigrant communities and it has not achieved the goals it is was designed to achieve.

California should do the same as these other states. What are you waiting for, Gov. Brown?

Serious questions about the program began to emerge at the same time that the acting Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security, Charles K. Edward, began an official investigation into the costs and accuracy of the program that is supposed to protect the public by identifying and deporting dangerous undocumented criminals.

But in practice, this is a public safety strategy that, in a city like Los Angeles, for example, delivers into the hands of federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents everyone from murderers to mothers who sell food on the street without a license. The data show that the vast majority of those deported are in fact not the most dangerous criminals.

This misuse does not seem to bother Los Angeles Sheriff Lee Baca, whose main interest seems to be reducing the prison population, even though the program wasn’t designed for that purpose. In fact, this is one of his arguments in support of the program.

Baca’s enthusiasm for Secure Communities is not shared by many of his colleagues in law enforcement in California, Illinois, New York, and other states that have significant immigrant populations.

This is all the more reason why Baca’s position is distressing and why Gov. Jerry Brown’s silence on the issue and his reticence to withdraw California from the Secure Communities program is unacceptable. It is true that as Attorney General of the state, Brown gave a green light to the program. But today there are sufficient reasons to suspend operations, at least until many of the program’s problems are cleared up.

We believe that given California’s history, economy, demographics, and culture, the state should make a strong and clear statement by withdrawing from Secure Communities.


 

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Anonymous

Posted Jun 6 2011

Why are we giving the country to these third world rejects?

Anonymous

Posted Jun 7 2011

And CA will pay for Illegal Aliens (With who's $$$$$$$$$$????????)

Once the cost of this is exposed, and legal residents learn that they will have to pay ever increasing Higher
Taxes to cover Rewarding Illegal Immigrants. They Will Realize:

Enough is Enough ! ! !

Want To Really Stop This And Any more Tax Payer Give Away To Ilegal Aliens By The Dimocrats:

Just Vote No On The Funding The CA TAX EXTENSIONS THIS NOVEMBER ! ! !

Anonymous

Posted Jun 7 2011

As the TEA PARTY emanates from the decrepit, but still flourishing Republican Party, my vote will go to Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) in 2012. To me, and possibly millions of other TEA Partier's that she rivals all of the other presidential possibilities. With a (B-) grade on her stand against illegal immigration, she is a very sharp lady and unless you are against feminine personages in the White House for whatever reason, she is distinctly ahead of the class. Her score card so far as attributed to her illegal immigration record that is important to taxpayers, as she has stated that opposes Immigration reform that really is a disguised Amnesty. If it wasn’t for such a non-profit Foundation as the Heritage, the amount of money to support another amnesty of $2.6 TRILLION DOLLARS would have not released. Dollar numbers like this remain intentionally unrecorded, especially in the Liberal oriented media.

This makes absolute conclusive sagacity, when the first main 1986 Immigration act cost $76 Billion. What really doesn’t make any sense, that the Pew Research Center, delivered an explosive problem, that while our own unemployed walk the streets, 8 million foreign nationals plus have jobs. In the same issue “Attrition through Enforcement” is the mandatory operation of E-Verify, Secure Communities on a nationwide policing basis. She also opposes any federal funding for Sanctuary City ordinances, and a much tougher border for our national security. The controversial instant citizenship for babies of illegal parents has drawn her ire, plus she wants to reduce all immigration legal and illegal. Bachmann is intensely loyal to an America to free ourselves of this blight of a multiculturalism society. She sees it as highly volatile to the English language and is embittered by the changes, she sees as eroding our way of life.

We do have the rampant illegal immigration in Sanctuary States as California and Nevada so we must watch for election fraud in voter registrations, as well as many other States? The 2012 voter attendance could very well be a turning point in immigration law, without too much interference from adverse entities, who see this as a constraint to their power. The Governor of California, the Mayors of big cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles are ineffective and in the Leftist Capitol monopoly of Sacramento and are unlikely to enforce any E-Verify, Secure Communities as they don’t want to demonize the illegal population. Only by dislodging the hypocrites in Sacramento from their “Super-Glue” seats, will anything change to release the taxpaying public from the ordeal from the $26 billion dollar deficit? Then again, is Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick going to renege on E-Verify or the police law "Secure Communities?" How many other Governors throughout America are going to drop out.of these policing laws, without thinking of the ramifications on taxpayers? Illegal aliens will begin pouring across their state border, searching for the public welfare trough.

With the E-Verify law and Secure Communities law recognized by the Supreme Court, as one journalist stated" The dam has been breached.' This removes the torment from State Capitols that can now go ahead, spreading the good news that the Liberals, cannot easily rescind. States now have the right to activate their own mandated E-Verify, so all workers must pass through the verifying steel gauntlet for a job. Businesses have finally are going to be held liable through sweeping audits, that if they knowingly hire illegal alien workers, their goose is cooked? Now the penalty phase must be rigidly enforced, which should include not only a canceled business license for a week, but at least six months, but loss of company assets, large fines and for incorrigible companies six months to five years in jail.

This would be a harsh example for anybody, willing to take the risk on hiring illegal labor. As ugly as it might seem American citizens and legal residents, should carefully observe employed at their workplace. Because of the rampant fraud in companies of every imaginable situation, there has been an upsurge in Whistle Blowers. People should not betray themselves in spiteful retaliation to get back at an unreasonable manager or an owner, who refuses to raise their wages. This is for the sake of placing a jobless legal countryman, who has a family to support or a home behind in several payments. Only to validate legal workers who are just being hired, just doesn't cut it. Everybody on the payroll should be checked and those with irregularities had better travel to the nearest Social Security office. This will save any human services department being sued for discrimination by any legalized immigrant who thinks he has a right to work.


None of these deterrents would have been needed if every administration over the past thirty years, had accomplished building a real border fence, and defended the nation with the laws provided in the 1986 Immigration Act. Liberals, Democrats, Republicans and other party affiliates, with the bleeding hearts of churches and a wide array of special interests groups are to blame for this mess. By pulling the desperate, the indigent, the impoverished, the criminals, the economic foreigners here, we are now drowned in a federal and State wide financial reservoir of debt. America is a magnet for every poor nation’s people in the world. But by taking in these unfortunates, it just adds to the layers of our own under unprivileged, forcing them further into poverty? It’s inconceivable to thousands of pro-sovereignty organizations, why the legislators never made it a felony to trespass in the United States, without proper documents? No other industrial country is lax in its laws as the US, otherwise police would have a right to question a person on their immigration status; specially today with people coming across our Southern border, with intentions to harm us?


If Congress is under new federal management in 2012, Tea Party representatives will never again let different party entities; drive America to the brink of insolvency. Try explaining it to your children or grandchildren, that when they are taxpayers in future years, the IRS man is going to arrive demanding extra money from their wages to pay for the support of illegal people who came here from our uncompleted border fence, or arrived here as a tourist and had no intentions of leaving?


Liberals for some obscure reason see the TEA Party as a waning minority of old, white people. But if you wander around the huge crowds, you see a growing discontent from every race of ordinary people. The Tea Party does not discriminate against any person of color as long as they came through legal immigration channels to join the American people. It is important to understand that immigrants, who apply to come here, should have the necessary skills to earn a living and already be secure in a job from a reputable company. Rooted American workers should have first priority, when it comes to any kind of highly skilled occupations. America is in the doldrums economically through undeclared wars on two fronts, costing a million a day. If you see American rebounding back from this nasty recession, look towards the new faces in Congress, as not yet corrupted by political ambition, wealth and power. I don't see this in the Conservative moderates known as the Tea Party, whose ambitions will be held responsible by the American--TEA PARTY--people?


The American people who unemployed need to contact their federal and State Representatives to insist they enact mandatory E-Verify for every State at Senate—202-224–3121/ House—202-225–3121.

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