Immigrant Gangs: Pols still don’t get it
Someone left the faucet on, and now water's spilling over the counter onto the floor. What do you do? Obviously, you have to choose between cotton swabs or paper towels to clean up the mess. At least, that's what North Carolina politicians SAY they believe:
Rep. Mickey Michaux, a Durham Democrat and chief sponsor of the House bill, said he would not support the anti-gang initiatives if there's little or no money pumped into prevention. He has pledged to put $10 million in the state budget for prevention grants to communities.
Just before the Senate vote, a coalition of youth service providers held a second news conference to press for an additional $5 million to be given to Juvenile Crime Prevention Councils, which fund programs to steer youths from crime.
Yeah, that's all you need -- "prevention grants." Maybe some government-funded arts and crafts programs to give these young people a new channel for their energies will stop them from carjacking.
That's the oh-so-politically correct approach to the problem of immigrant gangs -- though politicians are careful not to label them as such. Law enforcement agencies, with real eyes focused on real streets, see what's happening, and understand action -- real action -- must be taken now. Fayetteville Police Department Capt. Mark Bridgeman, the president of the North Carolina Gang Investigators' Association, put it this way:
"We don't want to end up the California of the future. They have 300,000 gang members in California," Bridgeman said. "We can see it coming down the tracks."
Of course it's coming. And the Open Borders crowd is now trying to fool us again into believing the only thing to be debated is Q-tips vs. Bounty. The idea of cutting off the water is just out of the question. Instead, they pretend we can eliminate gangs without cutting off their source of new members:
In their quest for open borders, many politicians still fail to understand the link between immigration and the growth of gangs.
The latest example is chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Rep. Joe Baca (D-Calif.) – who happens to have one of the worst records on immigration enforcement. In the next Congress, Baca plans to introduce an initiative to fight gangs. It sounds like a great idea, but if his past efforts are a guide, it’s likely that this initiative will focus only on prevention programs akin to the anti-drug program known as D.A.R.E. ...
But not only is Baca failing to be pro-active in reducing gangs through immigration enforcement, he’s actually making things worse by advocating policies that would benefit gang members: an end to workplace enforcement measures and a massive illegal alien amnesty.
Baca's proposal would make the illegal immigration and gang problem worse, while funneling even more money into the hands of government. But that's the government's attitude about all problems: Solutions are not the answer. Growing government IS.
posted by Old Rebel @ Wednesday, January 07, 2009
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I believe I read somewhere that North Carolina has one of the fastest growing Latino population in America. That stat makes it clear that problems like immigrant gangs are only beginning for that state.
In Virginia (where I live) the northern part of the state has been completely overrun by immigrants from the world over. Indeed, Northern Virginia is no longer culturally part of the South or even Virginia anymore.
Unfortunately, if current trends continue it might not be very long before most of the South resembles Northern Virginia.
kg,
Unfortunately, you're correct about the rate of Third-World immigration. Much of Charlotte is not only no longer Southern, it isn't even American any more.
Georgia has also had a very fast growing Latino, and overall immigrant (legal and illegal), population. Before the economy put a small damper on the inflow, some Georgia sheriffs and county governments that were suffering from high levels of immigration, gangs and crime became part of the federal government's 287(g) program which places ICE officers in the jails and trains local deputies to expedite the process to get any arrested illegal alien deported. These programs won't fix the problem completely, but they help alot. And it sends the message to illegals that they're not welcome. I encourage anyone who has an illegal/criminal problem in their local jurisdiction to let their local leaders know they want their jail to become part of the 287(g) program.
Georgia Boy,
Absolutely! Here in Mecklenburg, Sheriff Pendergraph used that program to catch illegals. The local lefties despised him for it, which made us conservatives love him even more!
Sadly, he took a job in the Department of Fatherland Security, supposedly to teach other counties how to implemente the program. I smelled a rat from the beginning, seeing as how Chertoff was pro-amnesty. As it turned out, Pendergraph and was effectively roadblocked. Now he's back, but no longer as sheriff.
Mission accomplished, Chertoff.
Sorry to hear about your local sheriff. I hope the program is still in place.
Gwinnett County, which is in the metro Atlanta area and near where I live, is working on getting the program put in place. For the next month they will have ICE agents at the jail so ICE can see how many illegals they'll have to process each day. From Gwinnett's unofficial stats I was able to determine that they average one illegal arrested every hour of the day 24 hours a day/7 days a week/365 days a year. And checking the first full day of arrests at the jail I saw there were holds for immigration placed on at least 25 people. So, the unoffical numbers are basically accurate. Every hour of the day, all year long, an illegal alien is arrested for a crime. I think ICE is worried about the number of illegals they'll have to process, because Gwinnett's numbers are so high and nowhere near the number of the three Georgia counties currently in the program.
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