We Get Comments on Reconquista Delgadillo
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6/5/02 -- Dear Mr. Delgadillo:

In reading your commentary (letter) to the President of these United States of America - have you really read what you wrote? Or, was it penned by one of your not-so-astute staffers?

Since when has Los Angeles succeeded from the USA? Is our fair city not first and foremost AMERICAN SOIL? Are not our citizens (Californian - Los Angeles) AMERICAN? Do not our citizens deserve the protection from "ALL" law enforcement agencies Federal, State, City government? Which would also include the LAPD - who by the way bears the slogan "to PROTECT and serve". Or has that changed recently to read: "To SERVE the

Interest of self serving politicians", "To SERVE the interests of THE LAW BREAKERS among us" or, perhaps "To SERVE the INTEREST OF FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS who wish to do us harm".

Do you not see the urgency of our times, in the DOJ's proposal, HAVE YOU NOT HEARD THE CRY of the people of the State of California - of the USA? Perhaps you haven't read that we (the USA is at war with TERROR) Do you, HAVE YOU read the papers, watched the news? Where have you been Mr. Delgadillo? Perhaps you didn't notice but since September 11, 2001 there are two skyscrapers missing from the downtown NY skyline that were ATTACKED by "illegal" immigrants!

Last time I recollect; when at war WE (the USA) used ALL resources (pull

out all the reasonable stops) available to us in order to protect and eventually win the conflicts of this nation. Fortunately they have mostly been fought and won on foreign soil - not true anymore. Today, the battle has

come to roost itself in our very own backyard. But, you by your statement imply: We are not at war, we are safe, we need not worry about intruders

(the aliens among us). Let us not upset the "illegal" populous that lives within our city limits, they won't talk to us... They're not talking to you now. Nor, are they going to talk to you Mr. Delgadillo if they would/could/should have done so in the past, gangs (many of whom are either here illegally or the prodigy of illegal aliens) would be a thing of the past, graffiti redden

neighborhoods in your jurisdiction would have long ago vanished - they don't and they won't!

But, alas what do you expect when the message you continually propound to these people is: "Your welcome to come here by Breaking our laws! Don't worry we won't call you to task for your violations! We won't ask you any questions about your immigration status... Prosecute you for violating our Immigration Laws, our Tax Laws, our Driving Laws, Penal Codes, Employment Laws, etc. Each time we wink at these "SEEMINGLY" Harmless violations the more brazen these violators will and do become! The higher the price is "We the People" of the USA pay! The message you send is we, OUR Cities, Our CITIZENS are open targets - take your shot!

Oh I know Mr. Delgadillo, those terrorist's weren't from Mexico. Try explaining this: http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/news/050202_nw_deputy_shot_suspect_identified.html . In this game of survival we should be inspecting and repairing the kinks in our (oh so penetrable) armor with the fixing of our southern border and now the streets and neighborhoods of our cities!

In case you've missed something Go read the polls http://monitortalk.csmonitor.com/cs-politics/messages?msg=972.1 - maybe that will get your attention! It's obvious far nothing else over these last six months has been able to do so.

A Very, Very Concerned Citizen

6/5/02 -- Dear City Attorney Delgadillo:

A Deputy Sheriff was recently murdered. The suspect is an illegal alien. My neighbor was recently by burglarized. The suspect awaiting trial is an illegal alien. Seven years ago our neighborhood was terrorized by a street gang. We worked with LAPD to get the gang evicted from the neighborhood. One of the gang members, an illegal alien, was arrested for dealing crack. He was tried, convicted and sentenced to three years in state prison and then deported. It was his forth felony conviction and FOURTH DEPORTATION!

Your job is to enforce the law. Please cooperate with the INS.

Sincerely,
Brendan B.

6/5/02 -- Mr. Delgadillo:

I am amazed and outraged at your position resisting measures to allow local law enforcement to enforce immigration law. The claim that illegal aliens will not report crime for fear of deportation is a sham argument. Illegal aliens certainly should be deported as our immigration laws define, but they don,t report crime primarily because they fear gang retaliation. I remind you of the three part series the Los Angeles Times printed some years ago about the 18th street gang a vicious gang of killers 20,000 strong, 60% of whom were illegal aliens. Former California Attorney General Lungren wrote his opinion that Special Order 40 is unconstitutional as it violates the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution. States, rights cannot conflict with the Constitution. Furthermore, in 1996 Congress passed Section 133 of illegal immigration reform legislation encouraging local law enforcement to cooperate with the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Section 133 has been challenged three times; three times appeals courts have upheld it. The federal Immigration And Nationality Act specifically empowers local law enforcement to enforce immigration law, as defined by the following portion: Title 8, Section 1324©: Authority to arrest: No officer or person shall have authority to make any arrests for a violation of any provision of this section except officers and employees of the Service designated by the Attorney General, either individually or as a member of a class, and all other officers whose duty it is to enforce criminal laws.

It is your duty to see to it that our laws are enforced. Instead, you insist on maintaining Los Angeles as a sanctuary city for illegal aliens as well as any terrorists who wish to kill us. About a year ago, Mexico's security chief Zinser informed the world that Hezbollah terrorist cells are operating in Northern Mexico. You, Mr. Delgadillo, share responsibility with the city council for past and future attacks against our citizens by unlawfully present people.

E. M., Los Angeles

Letter to Rocky Delgadillo

Mr. Rockard J. Delgadillo, Los Angeles City Attorney

I read about your displeasure with the federal request to assist in enforcing immigration laws. Besides the obvious fact that your department has always overlapped law enforcement with the feds, you response I'm afraid is more politically correct than professionally oriented.

Even semi-conscious people are acutely aware that the LA is heading for the trash pit in large part because of the very people you resist including in the marginal policing efforts in your city. If "communities" will not cooperate with you because you "may" enforce federal law...there is a reason for their reluctance.

Let me help you with your job....these are precisely the people you want removed from LA. They are currently destroying your schools, health care system and are filling your jail cells. Have a talk with the City Auditor..get on the same page as the people paying the bills...or those that are leaving LA.

Your are paid a lot of money to enforce the law......not to pick and choose based on personal or ethnic preferences. If you are unable to fulfill your commitment....get out of the way and make room for someone with the moral and ethical compass to perform the requisite duties of the City Attorney. It is not an office to gather ethnic favor as a spring board to subsequent higher office.

Regards,

Tom W.

Letter to Rocky Delgadillo

June 4, 2002

Rockard J. Delgadillo
City Attorney
1800 City Hall East
200 North Main Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Dear Mr. Delgadillo:

Reference is made to your comment, "Immigrants from around the world come to this city to pursue their dreams, and those dreams would be quashed if we are forced to enforce immigration laws at the local level."

So when the law seems to jeopardize your political future, regardless of whether it's best for the nation as a whole, you find ways to duck your fiduciary obligations to your country and pass the buck to the federal government. The minimum Americans should expect from any of their law enforcement officials is strict compliance with the spirit of our laws, all of our laws. We should never be confronted by officials who find ways to ignore federal laws they don't agree with. Nor should our law enforcement officials ever undertake actions inimical to the welfare of the people they've sworn to protect. Such is the case with the above statement about "quashing dreams", - which in reality is a transparent justification of pandering.

Illegal aliens have no right to work or be in this country, so why all this stuff about pursuing dreams? Why do anything that makes their illegal presence appear to be legal? Why are you unconcerned that multiple federal and state laws must be broken to keep illegals here? Why become part of a shameful pantomime that attempts to negate our immigration laws for the sole purpose of pandering to special interest groups? Are you aware, or do you even care that twenty-eight percent of all workers in Los Angeles County are paid in cash as part of an underground economy that's costing various governmental agencies and estimated $1.1 billion annually in safety-net funding?

The three most in-vogue euphemisms currently used to defend illegal alien presence are that illegals significantly contribute to our economy, - that they perform work Americans won't, and without them our economy would collapse. None these notions are remotely true, and none of them can be defended logically, - only ideologically.

There are approximately 3.5 million illegal aliens in California. Of the 6 million K-12 students in our public schools, 500,000 are illegal aliens, - each costing taxpayers $7,092 annually, or $3.54 billion annually. There are approximately 96,000 illegal alien births in California county hospitals annually, - all paid for by taxpayers. The average cost is $3,800, or $365 million annually.

These new citizen infants are eligible for TANF benefits, and most of the illegal moms gladly cash their welfare checks month after month after month. The average monthly TANF payment is $479. Although no one in the Department of Social Services seems to know how many illegal moms are involved in this scam, just the first year's batch of 96,000, not counting multiple births in previous or succeeding years, totals out at $552 million annually. And it's a good bet that if all the illegal moms' check cashing activity from all the years of rip-offs were added-up, just for the above three items, we'd be way over $5 billion annually. Then add another $557 million annually to incarcerate 25,000 illegal aliens in California prisons and we're well on the way to $6 billion annually.

By in large, illegal alien workers are overwhelmingly unskilled. By increasing the supply of unskilled labor, illegals have reduced the wages of unskilled American workers who lack high school educations. Currently 8.7 million illegal aliens nationally directly compete with 10 million uneducated and unskilled Americans for the same jobs. It's not that Americans won't do these dirty jobs, the truth is they won't live 2 & 3 families in a garage and suffer all the exploitation that illegals do, just to offer their labors at third-world levels. There's no evidence that the United States has a shortage of unskilled workers that needs to be satisfied by illegal immigrants. All we're doing is allowing sleazy employers to save on labor costs while California's taxpayers are forced to pay these shameful societal costs, against their collective wills, while an equally shameful California infrastructure mumbles incongruent slogans about family values and hard work to satisfy murky ideological and/or political objectives.

Harsh words for sure Mr. Delgadillo, but we deserve lots better from you. At minimum, your office should at least attempt to cooperate with federal officials in enforcing immigration laws. It's difficult to forecast how all this will eventually play out, but what seems certain is that if a sequel is ever written to President Kennedy's "Profiles in Courage", you won't be mentioned.

Sincerely,

Michael S.

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