Boasting a population that is 97% Hispanic, more than half foreign born, and 40% illegal, the Los Angeles County, Calif., incorporated city ofMaywoodhas achieved the Reconquista goal. It is now as lawless and chaotic as any place inMexico.Maywoodis a warning to every city and town inAmerica.
The Maywood City Council announced this week that after years of radical policies, corruption and scandal, the city was broke and all city employees would be laid off and essential city services contracted out to neighboring cities or toL.A.Countygovernment.
How did this happen? Until recently,Maywoodwas the model for "brown power" politics.
Maywood was the first California city with an elected Hispanic City Council, one of the first "sanctuary" cities for illegal aliens, the first city to pass a resolution calling for a boycott of Arizona after that state passed a law to enforce federal immigration laws, the first California city to order its police department not to enforce state laws requiring drivers to have licenses to drive, the first American city to call on Congress to grant amnesty to all illegals.
Council meetings were conducted in Spanish.Maywoodwas the leader in the peaceful, democratic achievement of the La Raza goal to take power in theU.S.
The City ofMaywoodstarted out quite differently. Back after World War II,Maywoodwas a booming blue-collar town with good jobs, a multi-ethnic suburb of Los Angeles .
On the 25th anniversary in 1949 ofMaywood's incorporation as a city, the town celebrated with a beard-growing contest, a rodeo, and wrestling matches inCityPark. Chrysler operated an assembly plant there until 1971.
But the early 1970s saw these industrial jobs in aerospace, auto and furniture manufacturing, and food processing evaporate under the pressure of higher taxes, increased local and state regulation, and the attraction of cheaper land and cheaper labor elsewhere.
The multi-ethnicMaywoodof the post-war years was transformed in the ’80s and ’90s by wave after wave of Hispanic immigrants, many of them illegal.
In August 2006, a "Save Our State" anti-illegal immigration rally inMaywooddrew hundreds of protesters—but a larger number of defenders of illegal immigration. The pro-illegal protesters carried signs which read "We are Indigenous ! The ONLY owners of this Continent!" and "Racist Pilgrims Go Home" and "All Europeans are Illegal Here."
According to newspaper reports at the time, objectors to illegal aliens were subject to physical attacks. A 70-year-old man was "slashed," a woman attacked, and cars vandalized. Pro-illegal demonstrators raised the Mexican flag at the U.S. Post Office.
The illegal population and their sympathizers became increasingly radicalized. Elections to the City Council saw "assimilationist" incumbent Hispanic council members ousted by La Raza supporting radical challengers.
For years, the Maywood City Council authorized police checkpoints to stop drunk driving. Drivers without licenses had their cars impounded. Illegals inCaliforniacannot get drivers licenses. By 2005, the number of such impounds were in the hundreds. A community campaign was launched forcing the City Council to suspend the checkpoints.
Cars were still being impounded whenever a police traffic-violation stop resulted in a driver without a license. Felipe Aguirre, a community activist with Comite Pro-Uno, an "immigration service center," coordinated a new campaign against any impounds. He was elected in 2005 to the City Council. He is the mayor ofMaywoodtoday.
Aguirre and a new majority of the council dismantled the Traffic Department. Illegals were given overnight-parking permits and impounds stopped. You didn't need a license to drive inMaywood. The Los Angeles Times wrote glowingly of this "progress" in a story entitled "Welcome toMaywood, Where Roads Open Up For Immigrants".
The Maywood Police Department was restructured by the new council. A new chief and new officers were hired. Later it turned out that many of the new officers had previously been fired from other law enforcement agencies for a variety of infractions. The Maywood P.D. was known as the "Department of Second Chances."
Among those hired was a former L.A. Sheriff's deputy terminated for abusing jail inmates; a former LAPD officer fired for intimidating a witness; and anex-HuntingtonParkofficer charged with negligently discharging a handgun and driving drunk.
Even the L.A. Times called the Maywood Police Department a "haven for misfit cops." Their story alleged that a veteran officer was extorting sex from relatives of a criminal fugitive; that another officer tried to run over the president of the Maywood Police Commission; and that another officer has impregnated a teenage police-explorer scout.
Charges of corruption and favoritism led to one recall of city council members and threats of more recalls are heard to this day.
Maywoodis represented in the state Senate by Democrat "One Bill" Gil Cedillo. He earned the nickname by introducing every year in the state legislature a bill to grant drivers licenses to illegals.Maywoodis represented in Congress by Democrat Lucille Roybal-Allard, a staunch advocate of amnesty for illegals.
Today,Maywoodis broke. Its police department dismantled along with all other city departments and personnel. Only the city council remains and a city manager to manage the contracts with other agencies for city services inMaywood.
Maywoodis the warning of what happens when illegal immigrants, resisting assimilation as Americans, bring with their growing numbers the corruption and the radical politics of their home countries. Add the radical home-grown anti-Americanism of Hispanic "leaders" and groups like La Raza and you get schools where learning is replaced with indoctrination, business and jobs replaced by welfare and gangs, and a poisonous stew of entitlement politics.
In too many American communities, this sad tale is all too familiar.
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To Believe In Legal Immigration And Not Illegal Immigration Does Not Make One A Racist (Quote: Lou Dobbs CNN)
This I beleive will stop real soon.More and more cities and States realize we the USA have a major problem with illegals.There will always be the liberals who cry for civil rights for the people who are not legal citizens.
I see the same thing altough on a smaller scale happening in the town of Bound Brook, N.J. where most of us on this forum grew up. The illegals already took over the Main Street in town as 90% of the stores there cater to the Illegal Crowd. Half of the children in school there from what I understand are those of Illegal Immigrants all paid for on the backs of Legal American Taxpaying residents who have to foot the bill for schooling. I say enough is enough already. Towns need to adopt the same SB1070 law as Arizona and many are across the USA.
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To Believe In Legal Immigration And Not Illegal Immigration Does Not Make One A Racist (Quote: Lou Dobbs CNN)
