LOS ANGELES TIMES
Hawaiian Gardens gang named in racketeering indictment [Updated]
May 21, 2009 | 11:54 am
Federal authorities today unveiled a sweeping racketeering indictment accusing a southern Los Angeles County street gang of a litany of crimes, including killing a sheriff’s deputy and committing hate crimes against African Americans in order to rid them from their turf.
The indictment, along with several related ones, charges more than 100 members of the Varrio Hawaiian Gardens gang with murder, attempted murder, drug trafficking, weapons trafficking, extortion, kidnapping and witness intimidation. U.S. Atty. Thomas P. O'Brien, speaking at a news conference this morning, touted it as the “largest gang takedown in United States history.”
[Update at 12:20 p.m.: An earlier version of this post said the gang was named Varrios Hawaiian Gardens. The correct name is Varrio Hawaiian Gardens.]
The gang investigation began in 2005 after sheriff’s Deputy Jerry Ortiz was fatally shot while conducting an interview in Hawaiian Gardens, a gritty, largely Latino city east of the 605 Freeway and north of Long Beach.
The shooter was a Varrio Hawaiian Gardens gang member with devils' horns tattooed on his forehead. He has since been convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Authorities said the gang was formed in the 1950s or early '60s and today has more than 1,000 members spanning several generations, many of them with connection to the Mexican Mafia.
Although the gang started out with street robberies, drug dealing and turf wars with other gangs, it has since escalated its level of violence, authorities allege. The gang is accused of particularly brazen acts, such as scrawling “187,” the California penal code designation for homicide, on a Sheriff's Department patrol car.
The indictment details several alleged attacks on African Americans, most of them shootings. In one incident, a gang member is accused of using a racial epithet against an African American, yelling at him to “get out of town” and then attacking him with a garden rake. The indictment says one gang member was heard bragging about the slaying of Deputy Ortiz, saying the killing of a cop had put the gang “back on the map.”
The gang members, with monikers such as “Slasher, Shady, Diablo and Menace,” boasted about being racist, referring to themselves as “The Hate Gang,” according to 193-page indictment that outlines the racketeering case. “VHG gang members have expressed a desire to rid the city of Hawaiian Gardens of all African Americans and have engaged in a systematic effort to achieve that result by perpetrating crimes" against them, the document states.
The indictment details 476 “overt acts” that prosecutors say gang members committed as part of the alleged racketeering conspiracy between 1996 and 2009. The alleged crimes include the dealing of methamphetamine, heroin and crack, and the slaying of a fellow gang member suspected of cooperating with law enforcement.
-- Scott Glover
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“Wherever there’s a Mexican, there is Mexico!”... President Calderone.
THE LA RAZA AGENDA
AGENDA OF LA RAZA, et al
TAKEN FROM TRANSCRIPTS DATED 1995. MANY OF THESE LA RAZA POLITICIANS HAVE WON HIGHER OFFICES WITH THE VOTES OF ILLEGALS.
“WE WILL TAKE CONTROL OF OUR COUNTRY (U.S.) BY VOTE IF POSSIBLE AND VIOLENCE IF NECESSARY!”
Agendas of MEChA, La Raza, MALDEF, and Southwest Voter Registration Projects These are transcripts of live, recorded statements by elected U.S. politicians, college professors, and pro-illegal alien activists whose objective is to take control of our country "by vote if possible and violence if necessary!" 1. Armando Navarro, Prof. Ethnic Studies, UC Riverside at Latino Summit Response to Prop 187, UC Riverside, 1/1995
"These are the critical years for us as a Latino community. We're in a state of transition. And that transformation is called 'the browning of America'. Latinos are now becoming the majority. Because I know that time and history is on the side of the Chicano/Latino community. It is changing in the future and in the present the balance of power of this nation. It's a game - it's a game of power - who controls it. You (to MEChA students) are like the generals that command armies. We're in a state of war. This Proposition 187 is a declaration of war against the Latino/Chicano community of this country. They know the demographics. They know that history and time is on our side. As one community, as one people, as one nation within a nation as the community that we are, the Chicano/Latino community of this nation. What this means is a transfer of power. It means control."
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
LOS ANGELES POLICE TAKE ON MEX STREET GANGS
CALIFORNIA HAS THE LARGEST MEXICAN WELFARE SYSTEM IN THE COUNTRY. LARGER THAN MEXICO’S OWN SYSTEM. IT ALSO HAS THE LARGEST PRISON SYSTEM COSTING TAX PAYERS BILLIONS. IT IS THE LARGEST IN THE COUNTRY, AND HALF THE PRISON POPULATION ARE ILLEGALS FROM MEXICO.
MEXICANS ARE SOME OF THE MOST RACIST AND VIOLENT PEOPLE IN THE HEMISPHERE. AND YET OUR BORDERS ARE KEPT OPEN FOR THEIR CONVENIENCE.
“Though incarcerated, Mexican Mafia leaders are able to communicate with street gangs through conversations on cellphones that are smuggled into prisons, as well as by passing folded notes to visitors.”
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LOS ANGELES POLICE TAKE ON STREET GANG
Los Angeles police take on street gang
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A notorious street gang accused of terrorizing a neighborhood for years and killing a sheriff's deputy was the target of a coordinated assault by hundreds of law enforcement officials Tuesday.
Local police working with federal agents carried out a string of early-morning raids seeking key members of the Avenues street gang, a long-standing group that claims as its territory a swath of northeast Los Angeles. About 90 suspects were named in a massive federal racketeering indictment detailing criminal activity spanning more than a decade.
Officers in full body armor were seen at dawn Tuesday at a blocked-off staging area at the Dodger Stadium parking lot, where suspects were being processed at a portable booking area as media helicopters hovered overhead.
Scores of search warrants were served at 4 a.m. from Los Angeles to Kern County, and all the suspects were quickly rounded up, said Los Angeles police Deputy Chief Sergio Diaz. Within hours, several tattooed, shirtless men in handcuffs populated the parking lot.
There is "ironclad evidence of the crimes," Diaz said at the staging area.
"Our goal is to ... move these people out, occupy this community and support the law abiding people that deserve to live in dignity here."
Aside from murdering rivals, dealing drugs, graffiti tagging and other gang crimes, the gang is accused of making threats and carrying out acts of violence against police officers, culminating in two attacks that rocked the law enforcement community last year.
The first of these, in February 2008, saw Avenues gang members open fire with handguns and an AK-47 on Los Angeles police officers. Police shot back, killing 20-year-old Daniel Leon and injuring another man.
Then on Aug. 2, 2008, off-duty Los Angeles County sheriff's Deputy Juan Escalante was shot dead in front of his parents' home in the Cypress Park neighborhood northeast of downtown.
Even before the killing, authorities were investigating the Avenues, but his death increased the urgency of the operation. Earlier this year, police charged three men in Escalante's death and a fourth suspect remains at large.
The indictment details several possible motives for the murder. Carlos Velasquez, one of the men accused of killing the deputy, was heard in a wire-tapped telephone conversation telling another Avenues gang member that he killed Escalante in retribution for the death of Leon, nicknamed "Clever."
"Clever took one with him," the indictment states Velasquez said.
The 222-page indictment also alleges Avenues members posted inflammatory remarks on websites, including "Avenidas don't get chased by the cops. We chase them," and, "Avenidas don't just hurt people. We kill them."
Members of the largely Hispanic gang would also spray paint racist threats around neighborhoods to intimidate black people, according to prosecutors.
"This indictment attacks a criminal organization that has terrorized a community for generations," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher Brunwin, the lead prosecutor in the case. "With all of the information collected over the past year, we assembled an indictment that led to dozens of arrests this morning and will make a significant difference in the neighborhoods in northeastern Los Angeles."
Tuesday's operation marks an ongoing focus on the Avenues gang, which gets its name from a series of streets running through the area.
In June 2008, another federal indictment took aim at the Drew Street clique of the gang. Prosecutors said Drew Street was the most active and violent clique within the Avenues and it produced significant drug-sale revenues for the Mexican Mafia, a prison-based gang that oversees much of Southern California's street gang activity.
That investigation resulted in the arrest of several of the clique's alleged leaders. Afterward, Mexican Mafia leaders attempted to re-organize the Avenues' presence in northeast Los Angeles by ending the clique rivalries within the gang and naming new Avenue leaders, Tuesday's indictment states.
Though incarcerated, Mexican Mafia leaders are able to communicate with street gangs through conversations on cellphones that are smuggled into prisons, as well as by passing folded notes to visitors.
MEXICANS ARE SOME OF THE MOST RACIST AND VIOLENT PEOPLE IN THE HEMISPHERE. AND YET OUR BORDERS ARE KEPT OPEN FOR THEIR CONVENIENCE.
“Though incarcerated, Mexican Mafia leaders are able to communicate with street gangs through conversations on cellphones that are smuggled into prisons, as well as by passing folded notes to visitors.”
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LOS ANGELES POLICE TAKE ON STREET GANG
Los Angeles police take on street gang
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A notorious street gang accused of terrorizing a neighborhood for years and killing a sheriff's deputy was the target of a coordinated assault by hundreds of law enforcement officials Tuesday.
Local police working with federal agents carried out a string of early-morning raids seeking key members of the Avenues street gang, a long-standing group that claims as its territory a swath of northeast Los Angeles. About 90 suspects were named in a massive federal racketeering indictment detailing criminal activity spanning more than a decade.
Officers in full body armor were seen at dawn Tuesday at a blocked-off staging area at the Dodger Stadium parking lot, where suspects were being processed at a portable booking area as media helicopters hovered overhead.
Scores of search warrants were served at 4 a.m. from Los Angeles to Kern County, and all the suspects were quickly rounded up, said Los Angeles police Deputy Chief Sergio Diaz. Within hours, several tattooed, shirtless men in handcuffs populated the parking lot.
There is "ironclad evidence of the crimes," Diaz said at the staging area.
"Our goal is to ... move these people out, occupy this community and support the law abiding people that deserve to live in dignity here."
Aside from murdering rivals, dealing drugs, graffiti tagging and other gang crimes, the gang is accused of making threats and carrying out acts of violence against police officers, culminating in two attacks that rocked the law enforcement community last year.
The first of these, in February 2008, saw Avenues gang members open fire with handguns and an AK-47 on Los Angeles police officers. Police shot back, killing 20-year-old Daniel Leon and injuring another man.
Then on Aug. 2, 2008, off-duty Los Angeles County sheriff's Deputy Juan Escalante was shot dead in front of his parents' home in the Cypress Park neighborhood northeast of downtown.
Even before the killing, authorities were investigating the Avenues, but his death increased the urgency of the operation. Earlier this year, police charged three men in Escalante's death and a fourth suspect remains at large.
The indictment details several possible motives for the murder. Carlos Velasquez, one of the men accused of killing the deputy, was heard in a wire-tapped telephone conversation telling another Avenues gang member that he killed Escalante in retribution for the death of Leon, nicknamed "Clever."
"Clever took one with him," the indictment states Velasquez said.
The 222-page indictment also alleges Avenues members posted inflammatory remarks on websites, including "Avenidas don't get chased by the cops. We chase them," and, "Avenidas don't just hurt people. We kill them."
Members of the largely Hispanic gang would also spray paint racist threats around neighborhoods to intimidate black people, according to prosecutors.
"This indictment attacks a criminal organization that has terrorized a community for generations," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher Brunwin, the lead prosecutor in the case. "With all of the information collected over the past year, we assembled an indictment that led to dozens of arrests this morning and will make a significant difference in the neighborhoods in northeastern Los Angeles."
Tuesday's operation marks an ongoing focus on the Avenues gang, which gets its name from a series of streets running through the area.
In June 2008, another federal indictment took aim at the Drew Street clique of the gang. Prosecutors said Drew Street was the most active and violent clique within the Avenues and it produced significant drug-sale revenues for the Mexican Mafia, a prison-based gang that oversees much of Southern California's street gang activity.
That investigation resulted in the arrest of several of the clique's alleged leaders. Afterward, Mexican Mafia leaders attempted to re-organize the Avenues' presence in northeast Los Angeles by ending the clique rivalries within the gang and naming new Avenue leaders, Tuesday's indictment states.
Though incarcerated, Mexican Mafia leaders are able to communicate with street gangs through conversations on cellphones that are smuggled into prisons, as well as by passing folded notes to visitors.
An AMERICAN SPEAKS - Why Doesn't Mexico Help Its Own? IT'S CHEAPER IF WE DO!
Do you ever wonder where Mexico's shame is when they ship their pregnant women over our border for "free" medical?
AN AMERICAN SPEAKS:
Illegal aleins will always do more harm than good (America)
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Date: 2009-09-21, 4:37PM PDT
Tell your friends and family to contact there Reps...
Tell President Obama and any of your Senators and Congressman to tell President Felipe Calderón to take care of his own people and stop his people from crossing our border period.
President Calderón is a horrible president who cares less about his people and just hopes he can get rid of them by shipping his people to us.
The billions we spent on his people is ridicules. Yes our taxes, President Felipe Calderón is a fiend to the American people, and our representatives who believe in helping illegal aliens at our taxpayer expense.
Just look at what Felipe Calderón did to California, he’s allowed his citizens to give California high crime, use of taxpayer schools, taxpayer health care, taxpayer food, taxpayer housing, He such a thief.
Felipe Calderón should be treated in the same manner as any other tyrant; we should not even allow our people to vacation there. He does nothing to curb illegal aliens from coming here he just encourages it by doing nothing and pushing for reform in our country.
Hopefully someday there will be reform but stronger now than ever, new immigrants should be here on a trial bases only and should already be self sufficient and not be allowed social services for at least 20 years. And should be picked by special immigration reform government which means picking equal amount from each country and the max a year should not extent 5000 people a year. People coming in the millions is ridicules we don’t have enough jobs now and so we give them to the new people coming or maybe they are already filing for some sort of social service since after saying I do to citizenship they are entitled to a free ride.
Example, if they come and 6 months down the road they need government services we will be able to send them back this should show no free rides here, they laugh at us now as it is, they must be able to pull their own wait, not depend on a free ride like our government allows now. That’s the American dream to illegal immigrants everything’s free.
The American dream for American taxpayer has long been gone and illegal immigration has a play in that also.
Please let’s demand the arrest of President Felipe Calderón for crimes against his people and American taxpayer who suffer daily, minute by minute from this criminal.
Border states should put a lean on Mexico's foreign aid monies to help cover for some of the services they steal from the tax payers . I don't understand why we have to help his people here and give Mexico money also
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MEXICO PREFERS TO EXPORT ITS POOR, NOT UPLIFT THEM
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0330/p09s02-coop.html
Mexico prefers to export its poor, not uplift them At this week's summit, failed reforms under Fox should be the issue, not US actions.
By George W. Grayson
WILLIAMSBURG, VA. - At the parleys this week with his US and Canadian counterparts in Cancún, Mexican President Vicente Fox will press for more opportunities for his countrymen north of the Rio Grande. Specifically, he will argue for additional visas for Mexicans to enter the United States and Canada, the expansion of guest-worker schemes, and the "regularization" of illegal immigrants who reside throughout the continent. In a recent interview with CNN, the Mexican chief executive excoriated as "undemocratic" the extension of a wall on the US-Mexico border and called for the "orderly, safe, and legal" northbound flow of Mexicans, many of whom come from his home state of Guanajuato. Mexican legislators share Mr. Fox's goals. Silvia Hernández Enriquez, head of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations for North America, recently emphasized that the solution to the "structural phenomenon" of unlawful migration lies not with "walls or militarization" but with "understanding, cooperation, and joint responsibility." Such rhetoric would be more convincing if Mexican officials were making a good faith effort to uplift the 50 percent of their 106 million people who live in poverty. To his credit, Fox's "Opportunities" initiative has improved slightly the plight of the poorest of the poor. Still, neither he nor Mexico's lawmakers have advanced measures that would spur sustained growth, improve the quality of the workforce, curb unemployment, and obviate the flight of Mexicans abroad. Indeed, Mexico's leaders have turned hypocrisy from an art form into an exact science as they shirk their obligations to fellow citizens, while decrying efforts by the US senators and representatives to crack down on illegal immigration at the border and the workplace. Insufficient revenues mean that Mexico spends relatively little on two key elements of social mobility: Education commands just 5.3 percent of its GDP and healthcare only 6.10 percent, according to the World Bank's last comparative study. Transparency International, a nongovernmental organization, placed Mexico in a tie with Ghana, Panama, Peru, and Turkey for 65th among 158 countries surveyed for corruption. Geography, self-interests, and humanitarian concerns require North America's neighbors to cooperate on myriad issues, not the least of which is immigration. However, Mexico's power brokers have failed to make the difficult decisions necessary to use their nation's bountiful wealth to benefit the masses. Washington and Ottawa have every right to insist that Mexico's pampered elite act responsibly, rather than expecting US and Canadian taxpayers to shoulder burdens Mexico should assume.
AN AMERICAN SPEAKS:
Illegal aleins will always do more harm than good (America)
________________________________________
Date: 2009-09-21, 4:37PM PDT
Tell your friends and family to contact there Reps...
Tell President Obama and any of your Senators and Congressman to tell President Felipe Calderón to take care of his own people and stop his people from crossing our border period.
President Calderón is a horrible president who cares less about his people and just hopes he can get rid of them by shipping his people to us.
The billions we spent on his people is ridicules. Yes our taxes, President Felipe Calderón is a fiend to the American people, and our representatives who believe in helping illegal aliens at our taxpayer expense.
Just look at what Felipe Calderón did to California, he’s allowed his citizens to give California high crime, use of taxpayer schools, taxpayer health care, taxpayer food, taxpayer housing, He such a thief.
Felipe Calderón should be treated in the same manner as any other tyrant; we should not even allow our people to vacation there. He does nothing to curb illegal aliens from coming here he just encourages it by doing nothing and pushing for reform in our country.
Hopefully someday there will be reform but stronger now than ever, new immigrants should be here on a trial bases only and should already be self sufficient and not be allowed social services for at least 20 years. And should be picked by special immigration reform government which means picking equal amount from each country and the max a year should not extent 5000 people a year. People coming in the millions is ridicules we don’t have enough jobs now and so we give them to the new people coming or maybe they are already filing for some sort of social service since after saying I do to citizenship they are entitled to a free ride.
Example, if they come and 6 months down the road they need government services we will be able to send them back this should show no free rides here, they laugh at us now as it is, they must be able to pull their own wait, not depend on a free ride like our government allows now. That’s the American dream to illegal immigrants everything’s free.
The American dream for American taxpayer has long been gone and illegal immigration has a play in that also.
Please let’s demand the arrest of President Felipe Calderón for crimes against his people and American taxpayer who suffer daily, minute by minute from this criminal.
Border states should put a lean on Mexico's foreign aid monies to help cover for some of the services they steal from the tax payers . I don't understand why we have to help his people here and give Mexico money also
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MEXICO PREFERS TO EXPORT ITS POOR, NOT UPLIFT THEM
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0330/p09s02-coop.html
Mexico prefers to export its poor, not uplift them At this week's summit, failed reforms under Fox should be the issue, not US actions.
By George W. Grayson
WILLIAMSBURG, VA. - At the parleys this week with his US and Canadian counterparts in Cancún, Mexican President Vicente Fox will press for more opportunities for his countrymen north of the Rio Grande. Specifically, he will argue for additional visas for Mexicans to enter the United States and Canada, the expansion of guest-worker schemes, and the "regularization" of illegal immigrants who reside throughout the continent. In a recent interview with CNN, the Mexican chief executive excoriated as "undemocratic" the extension of a wall on the US-Mexico border and called for the "orderly, safe, and legal" northbound flow of Mexicans, many of whom come from his home state of Guanajuato. Mexican legislators share Mr. Fox's goals. Silvia Hernández Enriquez, head of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations for North America, recently emphasized that the solution to the "structural phenomenon" of unlawful migration lies not with "walls or militarization" but with "understanding, cooperation, and joint responsibility." Such rhetoric would be more convincing if Mexican officials were making a good faith effort to uplift the 50 percent of their 106 million people who live in poverty. To his credit, Fox's "Opportunities" initiative has improved slightly the plight of the poorest of the poor. Still, neither he nor Mexico's lawmakers have advanced measures that would spur sustained growth, improve the quality of the workforce, curb unemployment, and obviate the flight of Mexicans abroad. Indeed, Mexico's leaders have turned hypocrisy from an art form into an exact science as they shirk their obligations to fellow citizens, while decrying efforts by the US senators and representatives to crack down on illegal immigration at the border and the workplace. Insufficient revenues mean that Mexico spends relatively little on two key elements of social mobility: Education commands just 5.3 percent of its GDP and healthcare only 6.10 percent, according to the World Bank's last comparative study. Transparency International, a nongovernmental organization, placed Mexico in a tie with Ghana, Panama, Peru, and Turkey for 65th among 158 countries surveyed for corruption. Geography, self-interests, and humanitarian concerns require North America's neighbors to cooperate on myriad issues, not the least of which is immigration. However, Mexico's power brokers have failed to make the difficult decisions necessary to use their nation's bountiful wealth to benefit the masses. Washington and Ottawa have every right to insist that Mexico's pampered elite act responsibly, rather than expecting US and Canadian taxpayers to shoulder burdens Mexico should assume.
CITY of LOS ANGELES cuts wages BUT NOT WELFARE TO ILLEGALS!
MEXICANOCCUPATION.blogspot.com
The many rapes of the American middle class
“In this, the two parties of big business are counting on the active support of the unions, which can no longer be considered organizations of the working class in any meaningful sense. The treacherous role of the Los Angeles city unions during these latest negotiations confirms this fact.”
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Lou Dobbs Tonight
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Gov. Schwarzenegger said California is facing “financial Armageddon”. He is making drastic cuts in the budget for education, health care and services. But there is one place he isn’t making cuts… services for illegal immigrants. These services are estimated to cost the state four to five billion dollars a year. Schwarzenegger said he is “happy” to offer these services. We will have a full report tonight.
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There are only eight states that have a larger population than LOS ANGELES. LOS ANGELES IS NOTHING BUT A MEXICAN DUMPSTER. IT IS WHAT ALL OF AMERICAN WILL LOOK LIKE AS AMNESTY IS GRANTED TO 38 MILLION MEX FLAG WAVERS BREEDING LIKE BUNNIES.
You won’t read about Los Angeles County cutting the $50 million in welfare paid to ILLEGALS PER MONTH.
You can do a search on Los Angeles Times to find daily news on Mexican gangs which have spread across the country from Los Angeles. The Christian Science Monitor characterizes Los Angeles as the “Mexican gang capital of America”.
One in five births here are by ILLEGALS paid for by the American people. One in ten in the rest of the country.
In Los Angeles 93% of all arrest for murder are of ILLEGALS from Mexico. There are 500 to 1,000 of these murders every year which is more than the entire EUROPEAN UNION AND UNITED KINGDOM.
Los Angeles is a sanctuary city, like West Hollywood, and San Francsico. This means that laws are not obeyed pursuant to the illegal hiring of illegals. 47% of those employed in Los Angeles are ILLEGALS.
WHO PAYS FOR THIS?
You won’t hear the virulently racist LA RAZA party mayor, ANTONIO “TACO RUNT” VILLARAIGOSA asking Mexico to pay for the Mexican welfare state he’s created in Los Angeles.
The Mexican occupation is paid for by the assault on the AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS.
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Los Angeles unions back Democrats’ assault on city workers
By Dan Conway
22 September 2009
The city of Los Angeles, California faces a $405 million deficit during the current fiscal year. The administration of Democratic Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, with the full collaboration of unions representing city workers, has begun to impose severe cuts in workers’ wages and benefits in order to make the working class pay for the crisis.
Last Friday, the City Council met with members of the Coalition of LA City Unions, which includes the local chapters of the AFL-CIO, Service Employees International Union (SEIU), American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and the Teamsters. After the meeting the mayor said the coalition had accepted “real” givebacks and boasted, “The people will feel these concessions in the pocketbook.”
The concessions include what is being called an Early Retirement Incentive Package, or ERIP. The scheme had originally offered workers a $15,000-$30,000 incentive to retire five years early. The payoff has now been delayed for a year or more and workers must contribute an additional 0.37 percent of their paychecks to cover the cost of their own buyout. Workers who accept the ERIP must also pay an additional 1 percent of their monthly pension to cover the cost.
Another key component of the concessions agreement is the elimination of all cost-of-living increases for city workers.
The budget package also includes $78 million in so-called “hard concessions.” While the details of these concessions have yet to be publicly released, the Los Angeles Times says the list includes strict rules on overtime pay along with the imposition of a 50 percent pay cut on the 10 holidays per year city workers are allowed to take.
Like their counterparts at the state level, the city administration is implementing wage and benefit cuts through unpaid furloughs and reduced holidays—presenting this as a less onerous method of slashing labor costs. In fact, it is a substantial reduction in the living standards of workers. The implementation of three unpaid furlough days per month by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, for example, has resulted in a net reduction in pay of approximately 14 percent for state workers.
The 6,400 city workers who belong to the Engineers and Architects Association (EAA), which is not part of the Coalition of LA City Unions, will be required to take 26 unpaid furlough days per year. These furloughs will be devastating, not only for the workers themselves, but for the public that will be hit by reductions in services already depleted by decades of budget cuts.
The nation’s second largest city will now have fewer resources and workers at its disposal to repair its dangerously outdated infrastructure. The city experienced 34 water main blowouts during the month of September alone, not to mention the massive damage caused by frequent wildfires on the city’s outskirts.
One such water main break, which occurred in the Los Angeles suburb of Valley Village, caused a large sinkhole, which swallowed up half of a fire truck that had responded to the scene. Another blowout in the suburb of Studio City—caused by the bursting of a water main that had been installed prior to the First World War—resulted in flooded homes and businesses.
The unions have unhesitatingly agreed to all of the concessions, despite the fact that Villaraigosa had earlier promised them that the cuts would be limited to the ERIP. Councilman and former LA Police Chief Bernard Parks, now a multimillionaire, claimed in early September that the ERIP was dead and that drastic measures had to be taken to avoid bankruptcy. Mayor Villaraigosa followed suit, prompting the unions to complain that they hadn’t been consulted earlier to help carry out the “hard decisions” to overcome the budget crisis.
In a statement posted on its web site, officials from the Engineers and Architects Association responded to Parks’ comments: “Unfortunately, what he [Parks] says is probably true and it mirrors the position that EAA has taken all along: that the ERIP costs too much to help the City, the City has a spending problem, and the longer the City Council puts off making the hard decisions, the more drastic the decisions must be.”
After originally saying he would achieve cost savings by the early retirement package alone, Villaraigosa declared that he would veto any agreement that did not include far more sweeping concessions than the buyout program alone. In a recent press conference he claimed there was overwhelming public support for cutting workers’ wages. In reality, there is widespread opposition to such measures, except within the corporate and political establishment.
The mayor began his political career as field organizer for the United Teachers of Los Angeles and as president of the Los Angeles chapter of the American Federation of Government Employees. His attack on city workers is the logical outcome of the transformation of the unions into instruments of the corporations and government, as well as the anti-working-class character of the Democratic Party.
The mayor also served on Barack Obama’s Transition Economic Advisory Board. His attack on city workers is in line with the efforts by the Obama administration to exploit the economic crisis to destroy long-standing achievements of the working class. While handing trillions to Wall Street, the White House has rejected any serious aid to bankrupt states like California, which is experiencing the worst unemployment rate since 1940.
In this, the two parties of big business are counting on the active support of the unions, which can no longer be considered organizations of the working class in any meaningful sense. The treacherous role of the Los Angeles city unions during these latest negotiations confirms this fact.
The Socialist Equality Party urges workers to vote down the concessions agreement at the ratification meetings being held in less than three weeks. City workers should form rank-and-file committees, in collaboration with all public and private sector workers, in order to break the stranglehold of these organizations and conduct a struggle against the Democratic Party and the corporate interests it represents.
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“What's needed to discourage illegal immigration into the United States has been known for years: Enforce existing law.” CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
WHY THE NEW JOBS GO TO IMMIGRANTS
By David R. Francis
Wall Street cheered and stock prices rose when the US Labor Department announced last Friday that employers had expanded their payrolls by 262,000 positions in February.
But it wasn't entirely good news. The statisticians also indicated that the share of the adult population holding jobs had slipped slightly from January to 62.3 percent. That's now two full percentage points below the level in the brief recession that began in March 2001.
Why the apparent contradiction? Reasons abound: population growth, rising retirements. But one factor that gets little attention is immigration. In the past four years, the number of immigrants into the US, legal and illegal, has closely matched the number of new jobs. That suggests newcomers have, in effect, snapped up all of the new jobs. "There has been no net job gain for natives," says Andrew Sum, an economist at Northeastern University.
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MEXICO PREFERS TO EXPORT ITS POOR, NOT UPLIFT THEM
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0330/p09s02-coop.html
Mexico prefers to export its poor, not uplift them At this week's summit, failed reforms under Fox should be the issue, not US actions.
By George W. Grayson
WILLIAMSBURG, VA. - At the parleys this week with his US and Canadian counterparts in Cancún, Mexican President Vicente Fox will press for more opportunities for his countrymen north of the Rio Grande. Specifically, he will argue for additional visas for Mexicans to enter the United States and Canada, the expansion of guest-worker schemes, and the "regularization" of illegal immigrants who reside throughout the continent. In a recent interview with CNN, the Mexican chief executive excoriated as "undemocratic" the extension of a wall on the US-Mexico border and called for the "orderly, safe, and legal" northbound flow of Mexicans, many of whom come from his home state of Guanajuato. Mexican legislators share Mr. Fox's goals. Silvia Hernández Enriquez, head of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations for North America, recently emphasized that the solution to the "structural phenomenon" of unlawful migration lies not with "walls or militarization" but with "understanding, cooperation, and joint responsibility." Such rhetoric would be more convincing if Mexican officials were making a good faith effort to uplift the 50 percent of their 106 million people who live in poverty. To his credit, Fox's "Opportunities" initiative has improved slightly the plight of the poorest of the poor. Still, neither he nor Mexico's lawmakers have advanced measures that would spur sustained growth, improve the quality of the workforce, curb unemployment, and obviate the flight of Mexicans abroad. Indeed, Mexico's leaders have turned hypocrisy from an art form into an exact science as they shirk their obligations to fellow citizens, while decrying efforts by the US senators and representatives to crack down on illegal immigration at the border and the workplace. Insufficient revenues mean that Mexico spends relatively little on two key elements of social mobility: Education commands just 5.3 percent of its GDP and healthcare only 6.10 percent, according to the World Bank's last comparative study. Transparency International, a nongovernmental organization, placed Mexico in a tie with Ghana, Panama, Peru, and Turkey for 65th among 158 countries surveyed for corruption. Geography, self-interests, and humanitarian concerns require North America's neighbors to cooperate on myriad issues, not the least of which is immigration. However, Mexico's power brokers have failed to make the difficult decisions necessary to use their nation's bountiful wealth to benefit the masses. Washington and Ottawa have every right to insist that Mexico's pampered elite act responsibly, rather than expecting US and Canadian taxpayers to shoulder burdens Mexico should assume.
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The many rapes of the American middle class
“In this, the two parties of big business are counting on the active support of the unions, which can no longer be considered organizations of the working class in any meaningful sense. The treacherous role of the Los Angeles city unions during these latest negotiations confirms this fact.”
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Lou Dobbs Tonight
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Gov. Schwarzenegger said California is facing “financial Armageddon”. He is making drastic cuts in the budget for education, health care and services. But there is one place he isn’t making cuts… services for illegal immigrants. These services are estimated to cost the state four to five billion dollars a year. Schwarzenegger said he is “happy” to offer these services. We will have a full report tonight.
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There are only eight states that have a larger population than LOS ANGELES. LOS ANGELES IS NOTHING BUT A MEXICAN DUMPSTER. IT IS WHAT ALL OF AMERICAN WILL LOOK LIKE AS AMNESTY IS GRANTED TO 38 MILLION MEX FLAG WAVERS BREEDING LIKE BUNNIES.
You won’t read about Los Angeles County cutting the $50 million in welfare paid to ILLEGALS PER MONTH.
You can do a search on Los Angeles Times to find daily news on Mexican gangs which have spread across the country from Los Angeles. The Christian Science Monitor characterizes Los Angeles as the “Mexican gang capital of America”.
One in five births here are by ILLEGALS paid for by the American people. One in ten in the rest of the country.
In Los Angeles 93% of all arrest for murder are of ILLEGALS from Mexico. There are 500 to 1,000 of these murders every year which is more than the entire EUROPEAN UNION AND UNITED KINGDOM.
Los Angeles is a sanctuary city, like West Hollywood, and San Francsico. This means that laws are not obeyed pursuant to the illegal hiring of illegals. 47% of those employed in Los Angeles are ILLEGALS.
WHO PAYS FOR THIS?
You won’t hear the virulently racist LA RAZA party mayor, ANTONIO “TACO RUNT” VILLARAIGOSA asking Mexico to pay for the Mexican welfare state he’s created in Los Angeles.
The Mexican occupation is paid for by the assault on the AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS.
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Los Angeles unions back Democrats’ assault on city workers
By Dan Conway
22 September 2009
The city of Los Angeles, California faces a $405 million deficit during the current fiscal year. The administration of Democratic Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, with the full collaboration of unions representing city workers, has begun to impose severe cuts in workers’ wages and benefits in order to make the working class pay for the crisis.
Last Friday, the City Council met with members of the Coalition of LA City Unions, which includes the local chapters of the AFL-CIO, Service Employees International Union (SEIU), American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and the Teamsters. After the meeting the mayor said the coalition had accepted “real” givebacks and boasted, “The people will feel these concessions in the pocketbook.”
The concessions include what is being called an Early Retirement Incentive Package, or ERIP. The scheme had originally offered workers a $15,000-$30,000 incentive to retire five years early. The payoff has now been delayed for a year or more and workers must contribute an additional 0.37 percent of their paychecks to cover the cost of their own buyout. Workers who accept the ERIP must also pay an additional 1 percent of their monthly pension to cover the cost.
Another key component of the concessions agreement is the elimination of all cost-of-living increases for city workers.
The budget package also includes $78 million in so-called “hard concessions.” While the details of these concessions have yet to be publicly released, the Los Angeles Times says the list includes strict rules on overtime pay along with the imposition of a 50 percent pay cut on the 10 holidays per year city workers are allowed to take.
Like their counterparts at the state level, the city administration is implementing wage and benefit cuts through unpaid furloughs and reduced holidays—presenting this as a less onerous method of slashing labor costs. In fact, it is a substantial reduction in the living standards of workers. The implementation of three unpaid furlough days per month by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, for example, has resulted in a net reduction in pay of approximately 14 percent for state workers.
The 6,400 city workers who belong to the Engineers and Architects Association (EAA), which is not part of the Coalition of LA City Unions, will be required to take 26 unpaid furlough days per year. These furloughs will be devastating, not only for the workers themselves, but for the public that will be hit by reductions in services already depleted by decades of budget cuts.
The nation’s second largest city will now have fewer resources and workers at its disposal to repair its dangerously outdated infrastructure. The city experienced 34 water main blowouts during the month of September alone, not to mention the massive damage caused by frequent wildfires on the city’s outskirts.
One such water main break, which occurred in the Los Angeles suburb of Valley Village, caused a large sinkhole, which swallowed up half of a fire truck that had responded to the scene. Another blowout in the suburb of Studio City—caused by the bursting of a water main that had been installed prior to the First World War—resulted in flooded homes and businesses.
The unions have unhesitatingly agreed to all of the concessions, despite the fact that Villaraigosa had earlier promised them that the cuts would be limited to the ERIP. Councilman and former LA Police Chief Bernard Parks, now a multimillionaire, claimed in early September that the ERIP was dead and that drastic measures had to be taken to avoid bankruptcy. Mayor Villaraigosa followed suit, prompting the unions to complain that they hadn’t been consulted earlier to help carry out the “hard decisions” to overcome the budget crisis.
In a statement posted on its web site, officials from the Engineers and Architects Association responded to Parks’ comments: “Unfortunately, what he [Parks] says is probably true and it mirrors the position that EAA has taken all along: that the ERIP costs too much to help the City, the City has a spending problem, and the longer the City Council puts off making the hard decisions, the more drastic the decisions must be.”
After originally saying he would achieve cost savings by the early retirement package alone, Villaraigosa declared that he would veto any agreement that did not include far more sweeping concessions than the buyout program alone. In a recent press conference he claimed there was overwhelming public support for cutting workers’ wages. In reality, there is widespread opposition to such measures, except within the corporate and political establishment.
The mayor began his political career as field organizer for the United Teachers of Los Angeles and as president of the Los Angeles chapter of the American Federation of Government Employees. His attack on city workers is the logical outcome of the transformation of the unions into instruments of the corporations and government, as well as the anti-working-class character of the Democratic Party.
The mayor also served on Barack Obama’s Transition Economic Advisory Board. His attack on city workers is in line with the efforts by the Obama administration to exploit the economic crisis to destroy long-standing achievements of the working class. While handing trillions to Wall Street, the White House has rejected any serious aid to bankrupt states like California, which is experiencing the worst unemployment rate since 1940.
In this, the two parties of big business are counting on the active support of the unions, which can no longer be considered organizations of the working class in any meaningful sense. The treacherous role of the Los Angeles city unions during these latest negotiations confirms this fact.
The Socialist Equality Party urges workers to vote down the concessions agreement at the ratification meetings being held in less than three weeks. City workers should form rank-and-file committees, in collaboration with all public and private sector workers, in order to break the stranglehold of these organizations and conduct a struggle against the Democratic Party and the corporate interests it represents.
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“What's needed to discourage illegal immigration into the United States has been known for years: Enforce existing law.” CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
WHY THE NEW JOBS GO TO IMMIGRANTS
By David R. Francis
Wall Street cheered and stock prices rose when the US Labor Department announced last Friday that employers had expanded their payrolls by 262,000 positions in February.
But it wasn't entirely good news. The statisticians also indicated that the share of the adult population holding jobs had slipped slightly from January to 62.3 percent. That's now two full percentage points below the level in the brief recession that began in March 2001.
Why the apparent contradiction? Reasons abound: population growth, rising retirements. But one factor that gets little attention is immigration. In the past four years, the number of immigrants into the US, legal and illegal, has closely matched the number of new jobs. That suggests newcomers have, in effect, snapped up all of the new jobs. "There has been no net job gain for natives," says Andrew Sum, an economist at Northeastern University.
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MEXICO PREFERS TO EXPORT ITS POOR, NOT UPLIFT THEM
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0330/p09s02-coop.html
Mexico prefers to export its poor, not uplift them At this week's summit, failed reforms under Fox should be the issue, not US actions.
By George W. Grayson
WILLIAMSBURG, VA. - At the parleys this week with his US and Canadian counterparts in Cancún, Mexican President Vicente Fox will press for more opportunities for his countrymen north of the Rio Grande. Specifically, he will argue for additional visas for Mexicans to enter the United States and Canada, the expansion of guest-worker schemes, and the "regularization" of illegal immigrants who reside throughout the continent. In a recent interview with CNN, the Mexican chief executive excoriated as "undemocratic" the extension of a wall on the US-Mexico border and called for the "orderly, safe, and legal" northbound flow of Mexicans, many of whom come from his home state of Guanajuato. Mexican legislators share Mr. Fox's goals. Silvia Hernández Enriquez, head of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations for North America, recently emphasized that the solution to the "structural phenomenon" of unlawful migration lies not with "walls or militarization" but with "understanding, cooperation, and joint responsibility." Such rhetoric would be more convincing if Mexican officials were making a good faith effort to uplift the 50 percent of their 106 million people who live in poverty. To his credit, Fox's "Opportunities" initiative has improved slightly the plight of the poorest of the poor. Still, neither he nor Mexico's lawmakers have advanced measures that would spur sustained growth, improve the quality of the workforce, curb unemployment, and obviate the flight of Mexicans abroad. Indeed, Mexico's leaders have turned hypocrisy from an art form into an exact science as they shirk their obligations to fellow citizens, while decrying efforts by the US senators and representatives to crack down on illegal immigration at the border and the workplace. Insufficient revenues mean that Mexico spends relatively little on two key elements of social mobility: Education commands just 5.3 percent of its GDP and healthcare only 6.10 percent, according to the World Bank's last comparative study. Transparency International, a nongovernmental organization, placed Mexico in a tie with Ghana, Panama, Peru, and Turkey for 65th among 158 countries surveyed for corruption. Geography, self-interests, and humanitarian concerns require North America's neighbors to cooperate on myriad issues, not the least of which is immigration. However, Mexico's power brokers have failed to make the difficult decisions necessary to use their nation's bountiful wealth to benefit the masses. Washington and Ottawa have every right to insist that Mexico's pampered elite act responsibly, rather than expecting US and Canadian taxpayers to shoulder burdens Mexico should assume.
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NEW YORK TIMES - hispanderin mouthpiece for LA RAZA?
The Times is unabashedly PRO AMNESTY, OPEN BORDERS, PATHWAY TO THE FRONT OF THE LINE FOR MEXICANS, AND NO E-VERIFY publisher.
You won’t read about the staggering crime rates that come with the MEXICAN INVASION and OCCUPATION. Nothing on gang murders, ID theft, car theft, shop lifting to the scale of operations pulling in millions from theft.
You won’t read in the Times anything on the Mexican’s contempt for our language, culture, or flag. The inherent Mexican racism is never discussed while Mexicans call every American that thinks the Mexicans should obey our laws, or speak English “RACIST”.
The reason we don’t read about the Mexican occupation from the NEW YORK TIMES is because that struggling paper is 10% owned by CARLOS SLIM, the Mexican billionaire.
While Mexico has more billionaires than Saudi Arabia or Switzerland, you won’t hear in this country or Mexico, any notions that the Mexican oligarchy should do something to help its people other than dumping 38 million of them over our border. 38 million of their poor, illiterate, criminal and frequently pregnant to depress wages $200 - $300 BILLION PER YEAR. No wonder the FORTUNE 500 are generous LA RAZA DONORS!
EVERY YEAR 1.5 MILLION ILLEGALS CROSS OVER OUR BORDERS AND INTO OUR JOBS.
EVERY YEAR 1.5 MILLION AMERICAN FALL INTO POVERTY.
EVERY DAY THERE ARE 12 AMERICANS MURDERED BY ILLEGALS FROM MEXICO.
EVERY DAY THERE ARE 8 CHILDREN MOLESTED BY ILLEGALS FROM MEXICO.
THE REASON THE WALL ISN’T BUILT ISN’T JUST BECAUSE WE’RE NOT FIGHTING THE TERRORIST ON OUR MEXICAN BORDER, WHO MURDER, RAPE, KIDNAP AND LOP OFF HEADS, AND NOT BECAUSE WE’RE SQUANDERING BILLIONS DEFENDING THE BIG BUSH SAUDIS OVER THERE AGAINST SADDAM, IT’S BECAUSE THE SPECIAL INTERESTS DON’T WANT IT BUILT!
OBAMA IS DETERMINED TO BUY THE ILLEGALS’ VOTES WITH AMNESTY.
NANCY PELOSI HIRES ILLEGALS AT HER ST. HELENA, NAPA WINERY. SHE VOWS THE WALL WILL NEVER BE BUILT.
NEW YORK TIMES
September 22, 2009
EDITORIAL
Border Fantasies
Members of Congress who voted for the Southwest border fence as the fix for illegal immigration professed shock — shock at the news that the project is running years behind, and billions of dollars ahead, of the Bush administration’s early, rosy projections.
Auditors reported last week that the high-tech, 28-mile “virtual” section of the fence was running a mere seven years behind this month’s planned opening. Initially, designers talked of using off-the-shelf technology for the radar, cameras and other sensors, but problems cropped up. (Imagine, discovering that cameras tremble in rough weather.) “I’m trying to figure out why this is so difficult,” said Representative Michael McCaul of Texas. “These are basically cameras on a pole.”
The current cost estimate for the Buck Rogers barrier? $1.1 billion.
Investigators from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office report that the larger, actual fence — covering a 600 mile-plus stretch between San Diego and Brownsville, Tex. — cost $2.4 billion to build and will cost an extra $6.5 billion in upkeep across two decades.
Investigators also concluded that there’s no good way of gauging the effectiveness of the fence.
The current decline in border arrests could be because of the bad economy as much as the fence (which the innovative have already learned to breach with cutters, torches and ladders). Even then, the fence covers only the more manageable third of the border with Mexico.
Members of the House border security subcommittee voiced grave concern but didn’t peer much beyond fencing technology to the more complex reality: the need for Congress to reform the nation’s immigration laws. No fence can keep a determined immigrant out or absolve Congress of that responsibility.
You won’t read about the staggering crime rates that come with the MEXICAN INVASION and OCCUPATION. Nothing on gang murders, ID theft, car theft, shop lifting to the scale of operations pulling in millions from theft.
You won’t read in the Times anything on the Mexican’s contempt for our language, culture, or flag. The inherent Mexican racism is never discussed while Mexicans call every American that thinks the Mexicans should obey our laws, or speak English “RACIST”.
The reason we don’t read about the Mexican occupation from the NEW YORK TIMES is because that struggling paper is 10% owned by CARLOS SLIM, the Mexican billionaire.
While Mexico has more billionaires than Saudi Arabia or Switzerland, you won’t hear in this country or Mexico, any notions that the Mexican oligarchy should do something to help its people other than dumping 38 million of them over our border. 38 million of their poor, illiterate, criminal and frequently pregnant to depress wages $200 - $300 BILLION PER YEAR. No wonder the FORTUNE 500 are generous LA RAZA DONORS!
EVERY YEAR 1.5 MILLION ILLEGALS CROSS OVER OUR BORDERS AND INTO OUR JOBS.
EVERY YEAR 1.5 MILLION AMERICAN FALL INTO POVERTY.
EVERY DAY THERE ARE 12 AMERICANS MURDERED BY ILLEGALS FROM MEXICO.
EVERY DAY THERE ARE 8 CHILDREN MOLESTED BY ILLEGALS FROM MEXICO.
THE REASON THE WALL ISN’T BUILT ISN’T JUST BECAUSE WE’RE NOT FIGHTING THE TERRORIST ON OUR MEXICAN BORDER, WHO MURDER, RAPE, KIDNAP AND LOP OFF HEADS, AND NOT BECAUSE WE’RE SQUANDERING BILLIONS DEFENDING THE BIG BUSH SAUDIS OVER THERE AGAINST SADDAM, IT’S BECAUSE THE SPECIAL INTERESTS DON’T WANT IT BUILT!
OBAMA IS DETERMINED TO BUY THE ILLEGALS’ VOTES WITH AMNESTY.
NANCY PELOSI HIRES ILLEGALS AT HER ST. HELENA, NAPA WINERY. SHE VOWS THE WALL WILL NEVER BE BUILT.
NEW YORK TIMES
September 22, 2009
EDITORIAL
Border Fantasies
Members of Congress who voted for the Southwest border fence as the fix for illegal immigration professed shock — shock at the news that the project is running years behind, and billions of dollars ahead, of the Bush administration’s early, rosy projections.
Auditors reported last week that the high-tech, 28-mile “virtual” section of the fence was running a mere seven years behind this month’s planned opening. Initially, designers talked of using off-the-shelf technology for the radar, cameras and other sensors, but problems cropped up. (Imagine, discovering that cameras tremble in rough weather.) “I’m trying to figure out why this is so difficult,” said Representative Michael McCaul of Texas. “These are basically cameras on a pole.”
The current cost estimate for the Buck Rogers barrier? $1.1 billion.
Investigators from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office report that the larger, actual fence — covering a 600 mile-plus stretch between San Diego and Brownsville, Tex. — cost $2.4 billion to build and will cost an extra $6.5 billion in upkeep across two decades.
Investigators also concluded that there’s no good way of gauging the effectiveness of the fence.
The current decline in border arrests could be because of the bad economy as much as the fence (which the innovative have already learned to breach with cutters, torches and ladders). Even then, the fence covers only the more manageable third of the border with Mexico.
Members of the House border security subcommittee voiced grave concern but didn’t peer much beyond fencing technology to the more complex reality: the need for Congress to reform the nation’s immigration laws. No fence can keep a determined immigrant out or absolve Congress of that responsibility.
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