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COMING TO YOUR
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The infamous "Los Angeles, Mexico"
billboard was put up in April 2004
by a Spanish language TV station who thought it was a fun marketing
idea. Reading "Los Angeles, CA" with the "CA" crossed out in red
and replaced with "Mexico" in large letters. It got an angry reaction
from Angelinos who failed to see the humor.
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Members of Latino Gang Charged with
Race Motivated Crimes
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-gang17oct17,0,749576.story?coll=la-home-center
By Ari B. Bloomekatz, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
Federal prosecutors today charged members of the Latino Florencia 13
street gang with racially motivated crimes against African Americans,
including several attempted homicides.
Authorities said the gang specifically tried to eliminate rival African
American gangs in South L.A. and the Florence-Firestone area in an
effort to "cleanse" the neighborhood. In doing so, they mistakenly
harassed and attacked innocent African American residents, according to
the indictment.
More than 60 members and associates of the Florencia 13 street gang
were charged with federal racketeering and drug charges. "In
their attempt to intimidate African Americans in the community, they
targeted innocent citizens," U.S. Attorney Thomas P. O'Brien said.
O'Brien said the arrests were the result of a nearly three year
investigation into the gang that culminated in federal indictments at
the end of the summer. The arrests come as both local and federal
officials have launched a crackdown on race motivated gang crime across
L.A. Authorities have already filed charges against a different Latino
gang in the Harbor Gateway area accused of crimes against African
Americans, including the slaying of a teenage girl last year.
Gang crime has been dropping across Los Angeles over the last few
years, but Police Chief William J. Bratton and other authorities have
expressed concern about isolated instances of racially charged gang
violence both on the streets and in L.A. County jails.
According to prosecutors, the defendants are named in two indictments:
one that charges violations of the federal Racketeer Influenced and
Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) and another on charges of federal
narcotics trafficking violations. The indictments were returned by a
federal grand jury Sept. 27 and were unsealed this morning, authorities
said.
Latino gang makes blacks its target in Canoga
Park
BY RICK COCA, Staff Writer LA Daily News
http://www.dailynews.com/ci_6552619
CANOGA PARK - Nickson Gilles came to Southern California last summer
with dreams of carrying a football to stardom - first as a Pierce
College running back, then maybe at USC or even the NFL.
Instead, he was carried out on a stretcher, his dream shattered by a
shotgun blast that police say was leveled at him by an alleged member
of the Canoga Park Alabama gang.
Gilles, an African American from Florida, was shot in the neck,
shoulder and left eye Sept. 3 after the Pierce Brahmas' first game of
the season. It was just one of many attacks against blacks that landed
Canoga Park Alabama on L.A.'s list of most dangerous gangs.
The Latino gang hasn't hidden the fact that it targets
African-Americans in this community, which just two years ago
earned
the prestigious All-America City designation, largely due to its racial
diversity. The city's gang list and another that branded Gilles'
accused assailant, Fernando Araujo, one of the city's most wanted
gangsters offer little solace to Gilles, who has undergone three eye
surgeries and hasn't played football since he was shot.
"That whole tragedy messed up my whole life right there," Gilles said
in a phone interview from Florida.
Since July 2006 there have been 12 shootings targeting Canoga Park
blacks. Following two recent attacks, police have stepped up warnings
to African-Americans to be wary of Canoga Park Alabama. Some
blacks in the community, as well as educators working with
African American students, said they have felt the wrath of the gang's
racist campaign of violence firsthand. But other blacks paint a more
idyllic picture of Canoga Park, one that helped it become the first Los
Angeles community to win the All-America honor in the award's 58-year
history.
Once a predominately white community, today Canoga Park is about 50
percent Latino, 28 percent white, 15 percent Asian and 4 percent black,
according to a 2005 American Community Survey listed in a California
State University, Northridge, report.
Although police can't pinpoint why "CPA" has focused on blacks, one
possibility is street culture emulating prison life, where black and
Latino inmates have repeatedly clashed as they align themselves along
racial lines.
"It could be a young guy trying to make his stripes (or) an order from
somewhere else or random gang stuff," Los Angeles Police Department Lt.
Tom Smart said. "Hopefully, it's a little flare-up and not a continuing
trend, especially as the summer heats up."
With the last two attacks on blacks in and around Lanark Park separated
by mere days and feet, police want African-Americans to be on alert for
any trouble.
"I feel we have an obligation to let (black people) know that they
could be targeted," Smart said. "I'd like to remind them to be mindful.
It's random."
The most recent shooting occurred about 10:40 p.m. on June 13 when a
23-year-old African-American man drove into the parking lot of Lanark
Park. His attackers, believed to be several Latino males who
remain at large, walked up to the car, asked where he was from - a
common gang challenge - shouted racial slurs and shot him in the chest
and shoulder.
Two days after that shooting, two 15-year-old black boys helping their
uncle's girlfriend move out of a nearby apartment on Lanark Street were
allegedly beaten in an unprovoked attack by several CPA members. At
least one of the attackers shouted a racial epithet during the beating
that was caught on an apartment surveillance camera, police said.
Gabriel Chavez, 18, Juan Carlos Sanchez, 20, and two Latino minors were
arrested for allegedly taking part in the beating and face felony
assault, hate crime and gang crime enhancement charges. Despite
recent criticism of the city's anti-gang efforts in the Valley, which
has seen about a 15 percent increase in gang crime so far this year,
Smart said a gang injunction and suppression efforts have been
effective - until recently.
After CPA, with about 400 active members, was put on the city's
most-dangerous gangs list, the additional manpower from the
department's violent crime task force and other agencies led to dozens
of arrests and helped bring the gang's attacks under control for a
while, Smart said.
"We did go five months without any reported shootings because of all
the suppression and energy we've poured into there," he said. "We
created what we thought was a safe community, and now it has reared its
ugly head again."
Clashes near campus
Karen Cano is principal of the Coutin School, a small alternative
education center in Canoga Park serving elementary through high school
students with behavior or academic problems. She said CPA has
increasingly become a problem as mostly young, teenage members
challenge her black students and others through the school's fence.
Now, she doesn't let her black students walk outside campus.
"We're in a constant battle," Cano said. "We've had fights. ... They
come up to the fence, flash their gang signs."
In April, Cano said there was a brawl between about six of her students
and six members of the gang in a park where her students go for
supervised physical education activity. Cano said the CPA members
said to the black students in the group: "`You n------ better watch
yourselves,"' Cano said.
Following the brawl, Cano received a phone call from the father of an
injured CPA member. He repeated the gang's warning: "`You better
watch your n------,"' Cano - a white woman who grew up in Canoga Park -
said the man told her. "It made the hairs on the back of my neck stand
up. I just don't know who thinks that way anymore. I guess they
do." Cano said the situation is exacerbated by the fact that many
of her students come from troubled backgrounds themselves.
In September, 17-year-old Dazohn Tony Roberts, a former Coutin student,
was killed in a gunbattle with another gang member outside Birmingham
High School in Van Nuys. Both Roberts and his assailants were black.
"I'm not saying my kids are totally innocent by any means," Cano said.
"They wouldn't be here if they were."
She has tried to reason with the CPA members, even suggesting they
attend her school, to no avail. She's hoping more attention recently
promised by LAPD gang unit officers materializes into a police presence
that she and her staff say has been grossly inadequate. With some
staff members describing the current environment as "a war zone," Cano
said there is a sense of urgency to resolve the tension. "This
year, ... the level of violence escalated," Cano said, adding, "We're
pretty much on high alert. We've been in this neighborhood for 30 years
and we've never had any problems, but all of a sudden, it's like
everything changed."
Eldred Betters, 27, who is black, has lived in Canoga Park for six
years. He said he has had several run-ins with CPA members. Still, he's
not willing to alter his life to avoid the gang. "You can't just
sit in the house and say, `There's some CP (members) targeting black
people,"' said Betters, who grew up in the notorious Nickerson Gardens
public housing projects in Watts.
FBI: Iraqis Being Smuggled Across the Rio Grande
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/07/fbi-iraqis-bein.html
Brian Ross Reports: July 17, 2007
The FBI is investigating an alleged human smuggling operation based in
Chaparral, N.M., that agents say is bringing "Iraqis and other Middle
Eastern" individuals across the Rio Grande from
Mexico.http://logo.cafepress.com/5/1336169.3817565.jpg
An FBI intelligence report distributed by the Washington, D.C. Joint
Terrorism Task Force, obtained by the Blotter on ABCNews.com, says the
illegal ring has been bringing Iraqis across the border illegally for
more than a year.
Border Patrol officials in the area said they were unaware of the
specifics of the FBI's report, and federal prosecutors in New Mexico
told ABCNews.com they had no current cases involving the illegal
smuggling of Iraqis.
The FBI report, issued last week, says the smuggling organization "used
to smuggle Mexicans, but decided to smuggle Iraqi or other Middle
Eastern individuals because it was more lucrative." Each individual
would be charged a fee of $20,000 to $25,000, according to the report.
The people to be smuggled would "gather at a house on the Mexican side
of the border" and then cross the Rio Grande into the U.S., the report
says.
"Unidentified individuals would then transport them to train stations
in El Paso, Texas or Belen, New Mexico," according to the FBI document.
A spokesman in Albuquerque said the FBI had "no viable information"
that could lead to a case.
Until recently, the United States has kept its doors all but shut to
the estimated two million refugees fleeing the violence in Iraq. Until
this year, the country had taken in fewer than 800 Iraqi refugees,
according to the State Department. This May, the Bush administration
pledged to resettle 7,000 Iraqi refugees here by the end of the year.
The Town the Law Forgot
An
L.A. ’burb is mired in gangs, cartels and south-of-the-border-style
politics
LA WEEKLY By Jeffrey Anderson, February 21, 2007
Cudahy resembles a
Mexican border town
more than it does a Los Angeles suburb. Entrenched gangs and Mexican
drug trafficking have trapped working-class legal and illegal
immigrants in a cycle of violence and fear, in a city where less than a
quarter of the 28,000 residents are eligible to vote. An uneducated
city council, a deeply troubled police force imported from Maywood two
towns over, and the raw power of the 18th Street Gang — a complex
criminal organization with a knack for setting up business fronts and
obscuring underground drug activity — make Cudahy residents seem like
hostages in their own city.
By most accounts, Cudahy City
Council members — two retired union managers, an insurance salesman, a
waitress and a grocer — do not run the city as they were elected to do.
Rather, they defer to City Manager Perez, a former janitor who is known
to favor revenue traps such as DUI and driver's license checkpoints
over aggressive tactics that make gangs and drug dealers less
comfortable. More-
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Ed Meese - We Were Wrong About
Amnesty In 1986
An Amnesty by Any Other Name, By EDWIN
MEESE New York Times, May 24, 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/24/opinion/24meese.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
IN the debate over immigration, "amnesty" has become something of a
dirty word. Some opponents of the immigration bill being debated in the
Senate assert that it would grant amnesty to millions of illegal
immigrants. Supporters claim it would do no such thing. Instead, they
say, it lays out a road map by which illegal aliens can earn
citizenship...
In the mid-80's, many members of Congress — pushed
by the Democratic majority in the House and the Select Commission on
Immigration and Refugee Policy — advocated amnesty for long settled
illegal immigrants. President Reagan considered it reasonable to adjust
the status of what was then a relatively small population, and I
supported his decision...
The difference is that President Reagan called
this
what it was: amnesty. Indeed, look up the term "amnesty" in Black's Law
Dictionary, and you'll find it says, "the 1986 Immigration Reform and
Control Act provided amnesty for undocumented aliens already in the
country."...
There is a practical problem as well: the 1986 act
did not solve our
illegal immigration problem. From the start, there was widespread
document fraud by applicants. Unsurprisingly, the number of people
applying for amnesty far exceeded projections. And there proved to
be a
failure of political will in enforcing new laws against employers.
Retired
cop says Mexican drug cartels rig elections to take over U.S. cities
By
Joseph Farah © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com June 27,
2006
WASHINGTON
– Rep. Tom Tancredo's charge that Mexican
drug cartels are buying up legitimate businesses in U.S. cities to
launder money and using some of the proceeds to win local mayoral and
city council seats for politicians who can shape the policies and
personnel decisions of their police forces, has been backed up by a
veteran gang investigator.
Richard
Valdemar, a retired sergeant with the L.A. County sheriff's department
and a longtime member of a federal task force investigating gang
activity, went beyond the charges made by Tancredo, the chairman of the
House Immigration Reform Caucus who has led the fight to secure
America's southern border.
In
fact, he cited first-hand experience in investigating attempts to
take
over seven cities in Los Angeles County – Southgate, Lynwood, Bell,
Bell Gardens, Cudahy, Hawaiian Gardens and Huntington Park.
He
also told WND in an exclusive interview that he has since become aware
of similar efforts by Mexican drug cartels throughout the Southwest –
in New Mexico, Arizona and Texas.
AL QAEDA
SEEKS TIE
TO LOCAL
GANGS
The Washington Times By Jerry
Seper 9/28/2004
A top al Qaeda lieutenant has met with leaders of a violent Salvadoran
criminal gang with roots in Mexico and the United States — including a
stronghold in the Washington area — in an effort by the terrorist
network to seek help infiltrating the U.S. - Mexico border, law
enforcement authorities said.
Adnan G. El Shukrijumah, a key al Qaeda cell leader for whom the U.S.
government has offered a $5 million reward, was spotted in July in
Honduras meeting with leaders of El Salvador's notorious Mara
Salvatrucha gang [MS-13], which immigration officials said has smuggled
hundreds of Central and South Americans — mostly gang members — into
the United States. Although they are actively involved in alien, drug
and weapons smuggling, Mara Salvatrucha members in America also have
been tied to numerous killings, robberies, burglaries, carjackings,
extortions, rapes and aggravated assaults — including at least seven
killings in Virginia and a machete attack on a 16-year-old in
Alexandria that severely mutilated his hands.
The Truth About 'La Raza'
MEChA and the La Raza movement teach that Colorado, California,
Arizona, Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Oregon and parts of Washington State
make up an area known as "Aztlan" -- a fictional ancestral homeland of
the Aztecs before Europeans arrived in North America. As such, it
belongs to the followers of MEChA.
These are all areas America should surrender to "La Raza" once enough
immigrants, legal or illegal, enter to claim a majority, as in Los
Angeles. The current borders of the United States will simply be
extinguished.
This plan is what is referred to as the "Reconquista" or reconquest, of
the Western U.S.
But it won't end with territorial occupation and secession. The final
plan for the La Raza movement includes the ethnic cleansing of
Americans of European, African, and Asian descent out of "Aztlan."
Imagine Robert Byrd's refusing to disavow the views of the KKK, or if
Strom Thurmond had failed to admit segregation was wrong. Imagine
Heritage or Brookings Foundation making grants to the American Nazi
Party.
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Sarcastic Questions For Sappy
News Coverage of Illegal Aliens
-- When are you going to do a sting operation on
illegal employers and renters?
-- If illegal aliens pay taxes, whose social security
number have they
stolen?
-- Aren't bank robbers just trying to support their
families too?
-- Have you compared the crime rate of sanctuary cities against cities
who deport their illegal criminals?
-- When is your next story about
becoming a LEGAL immigrant?
-- When are you going to investigate voter registration fraud?
-- When are you going to investigate foreign nationals living in
subsidized government housing?
-- When is your next report on the effects of identity
fraud on US
citizens?
-- How come we can depose a dictator and take over a country but
deporting a few lawbreakers at
home is "too hard"?
-- If you don't differentiate between legal and illegal immigrants
aren't you contributing to a backlash against ALL immigrants?
-- Didn't the slave owners say our
economy would
collapse without
cheap
labor too?
-- Would it be OK for politicians to address other race-based
groups like
the Aryan Nation? -- in German?
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Rescind
Special Order 40 Deport Criminal Illegal Aliens
