Protest Targets Maywood’s Illegal Immigration Stance
Both sides shout it out in the tiny city that is known as a ’sanctuary’ for illegal immigrants.

By Ted Rohrlich
August 27th, 2006

For a couple of hours Saturday, a small group of demonstrators made Slauson Avenue in the tiny city of Maywood feel like the red-hot center of the national debate over immigrant rights.

A few dozen people from Save Our State and like-minded groups lined up behind police barricades, shouted into bullhorns and waved American flags to protest characterizations of the heavily Latino, square-mile city by some elected officials as a sanctuary for illegal immigrants.

Separated from the Save Our State contingent by other barricades and a line of riot-ready police a block away, about 200 counter-demonstrators shouted into their own bullhorns that it was time for amnesty and for the “racists” to go home.

Joseph Turner of San Bernardino, founder of Save Our State, said his group staged the protest in Maywood “to punish the city … for their transgressions” by disrupting traffic and commerce and making the city pay for extra police.

Protester Roger Young, an aerospace engineer from Lake Forest, said he had been involved in two traffic accidents with illegal immigrants who had no driver’s licenses or insurance and tried to walk away, even though they were at fault. He said he was upset about people breaking laws, adding that it is difficult to get his point of view heard. “To voice a different opinion in this city,” he said, “it takes 100 policemen for an escort.” (….Full Article)

 
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British Jews to celebrate 350 years in England

By Vanessa Bulkacz
August 27th, 2006

Concerns about safety in the wake of the Israel-Hezbollah war, as well as the recently foiled terror plot in London, are creating a cloud over upcoming celebrations of the 350th anniversary of Jews in Britain.

On Sept. 17, the yearlong celebration of Oliver Cromwell’s decision to readmit Jews to England 350 years ago is scheduled to culminate in a daylong festival in Trafalgar Square, one of London’s most public spots. The festival is being presented by Jewish Culture UK.

The Simcha on the Square festival will feature comedians, cantors, klezmer bands and Sephardi choirs, as well as art exhibitions and traditional Jewish food. Mayor Ken Livingstone will not be included on the program, as he continues to battle legal and personal charges of inappropriate and anti-Semitic remarks. Instead, his deputy will represent the Mayor’s Office of the Greater London Authority, which has contributed nearly $115,000 to the event. (….Full Article)

 
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Mexican Crime Families Run Most of State’s Pot Farms

By Mike Geniella
August 28th, 2006

Illegal marijuana production is surging on the North Coast and across the state as a result of rising dominance of Mexican crime families over the state’s underground pot economy.

Scores of Mexican nationals are being sneaked across the border to grow, guard and harvest marijuana gardens inside California because tightened border security has crimped smuggling of Mexican-grown pot into the state, according to local, state and federal drug agents.

Mexican-controlled operations now account for as much as 70 percent of all the marijuana cultivated in the state’s rural regions, including the North Coast, the agents said.

Although multiagency teams are only in the early weeks of their annual marijuana crackdown statewide, the estimated street value of nearly 1 million pot plants uprooted this summer already equals last year’s record $4.5billion. The number of seized plants in Mendocino, Lake and Sonoma counties and the Mendocino National Forest account for about 62 percent of the statewide total.

“There’s more marijuana than ever growing out there,” said Sgt. Rusty Noe, veteran director of Mendocino County’s local anti-marijuana growing efforts. (….Full Article)

Word Games: Immigrant vs. Alien, Illegal vs. Undocumented

By Citizen Conservative
August 27, 2006

Those arguing on behalf of illegal aliens, and their “rights,” often play word games in appealing to the pride of real Americans.

“Immigrants Built America” and “We are all Immigrants” are popular slogans at pro-illegal alien protests and in jargon used by those who favor open borders, regardless of the impact on America’s homeland security, economy or culture. What the anti-rule of law crowd omits is the crucial word legal, as in legal immigrants. While it’s true we are all descendants of immigrants, it is not true that our forefathers came to America illegally. America was not built by illegal aliens!

Migrating to America legally is, and should be, a long, drawn out procedure meant to protect the interests of American citizens. It involves more than simply jumping a fence and heading north in pursuit of free health care, education, food stamps and other handouts paid for by U.S. taxpayers.

Legal migration means enduring rigorous obstacles like background checks to detect a criminal background or possible ties to terrorists; medical examinations to detect diseases still prevalent in third-world nations, but long since eradicated here; proof of financial solvency so as to prevent newcomers from becoming a burden on U.S. taxpayers; testing for knowledge of American history and English skills, and similar “hoops.” (more…)