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To the editor: Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and County Supervisor Hilda Solis in December announced the creation of a $10-million legal aid fund to “hire lawyers to defend local immigrants without legal status.†(“A $10-million fund will help immigrants fight deportations. But should it help those with violent criminal convictions?†April 17)
My street hasn’t been swept for years. When I tried to find out why, I was told that my area is not “on the list†because there are no longer enough machines and people to drive them. Services that I continue to pay for have been stopped.
If there is enough money around to help illegal immigrants, surely there is enough to begin sweeping my dirty street again. Shouldn’t citizens come before illegal residents?
In Los Angeles and other Democratic Party sanctuary jurisdictions, no, sorry, you come last, and the LA City council will continue this trend
(CBS LA) The Los Angeles City Council voted on several measures Tuesday regarding what they see as Donald Trump’s agenda against undocumented immigrants and their families.
The council approved the expansion of the L.A. Justice Fund, a collaboration between the city, L.A. County and the California Community Foundation whose purpose it is to provide legal aid “to individuals and families dealing with deportation and removal proceedings in Los Angeles County.â€
The additional $10 million approved Tuesday is intended specifically for children in the L.A. area separated from their families due to Trump’s zero-tolerance policy on immigration by undocumented persons. It is estimated more than 100 children in the area have been separated from their parents, AP reported.
The fund is now at $30 million a year. How many residents could be helped by that money? How many homeless Americans could be sheltered and fed?
They also approved joining several legal briefings which are against cracking down on illegal aliens, and
District 1 Councilman Gil Cedillo, who represents the largely immigrant enclaves of Lincoln Heights, Pico Union and Highland Park, among others, introduced a resolution in support of the eliminations of ICE.
“The president’s zero-tolerance policy is repressive and inhumane. His focus should be on fixing our broken immigration system, instead of penalizing refugees seeking asylum,†Cedillo said Tuesday.
Less than 8% of illegals from Central America are being approved for asylum claims, because most simply come from crummy countries, rather than being in dire straights. They’re also just making up claims, because that is what they’ve been taught. And, our system is not broken: we have laws in place that work just fine. It’s the politicians who are broken, as they take the side of illegal aliens over American Citizens, and even use their positions to entice people to come to America illegally.
But, if we want to fix the system
In the latest Harvard/Harris Poll, 77 percent of white voters, 53 percent of black voters, and 51 percent of Hispanic voters said they believe the U.S. needs to crack down on immigration laws.
Overall, 70 percent of Americans said the U.S. needs stricter immigration enforcement, not looser enforcement as Democrats and the Republican establishment has pushed for.
Huh.
More: here are the streets of LA
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He could barely contain himself. Jimmy Fallon, then just a few months into his new gig as host of “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon,†stood on the South Lawn for the Obama administration’s first Independence Day celebration in 2009. The comedian was, to use the his own words, “like freaking out.â€
Over the past 50 years, bald eagles in the U.S. have returned from the brink of extinction. Now, the birds perch on tree branches over rivers and lakes across much of the country.
The night sky above Aspen will light up with a patriotic display this Fourth of July as always – just not with the usual fireworks.
As travelers hit the road for July –Fourth, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is alerting consumers to the potential harm to consumers and the U.S. economy of the Trump administration’s plan to roll back fuel economy standards. NRDC estimates how much more consumers would pay to be on the road nationally and in five states: Colorado, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
William Lloyd Garrison, the 19th-century abolitionist, had a different idea for how to observe the holiday. Every flag should be either taken down or flown at half-staff, he wrote in his newspaper, The Liberator, and “all signs of exultation, parade and boasting should be studiously suppressed.†The usual rounds of celebratory music, marching and fireworks must be abandoned until “the millions of our oppressed countrymen are emancipated.†In the meantime, the Fourth of July “should be made THE DAY OF DAYS for the overthrow of slavery.â€
But this attitude fundamentally misunderstands the nature of the holiday. July 4 commemorates a protest so incendiary that its participants, the signers of the Declaration of Independence, risked execution as traitors to the crown. These dissidents came together to affirm their commitment to a political community based on equality, at least in theory. For a century and a half, social-justice activists honored this history by continuing it, trying to hold the nation to its own standards on the anniversary of the day they were declared.
