The San Diego Unified School District Board of Education voted unanimously to condemn Arizona's new immigration law and will not let employees travel or do business in Arizona until they repeal the new legislation.
The initial resolution drawn up by School Board President Richard Barrera included a travel advisory warning for students K-12 and their parents about the dangers lurking in the state of Arizona. “This law is wrong,” he said.
However, board member Katherine Nakamura, who eventually voted for the resolution, recalled the increasing violence in Mexico and the board decision not to warn the student body about the thousands of murders and decapitations taking place 30 miles to the south.
Good point.
Upon reading Arizona’s new 16-page law, citizens will find it mirrors, nearly word for word, the federal law on immigration. Governor Jan Brewer said the fact that the White House has failed to respond to the growing violence in her state for more than a year has left her no choice but to let state law enforcement officers do the job Washington D.C. does not want to do.
This hasn’t stopped open-border activists from pressuring Democrat leaders and attending public meetings from city councils to school boards up and down California. Several cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego have adopted resolutions to boycott Arizona.
All this time and resources have been spent by city officials in a state that is broke, broke, broke.
Meanwhile, the majority of the country supports Arizona’s attempt to regain law and order in a state where its social programs are severely over burdened and law enforcement overwhelmed.
With all the media in place, a handful of speakers shared their two cents about why or why not the board should be taking up this issue.
Illegal immigrant activist, Javier Valdovinos, from the San Diego chapter of La Raza Educators, said Arizona's new law reminded him of how the Nazis treated the Jews in Germany.
“We need to remind students we can't remain silent when they see wrong,'' he said.
A parent of two Hispanic children, Sheila Boling, who used to live in Arizona, saw things much differently than the school board and open border activists. “The board seems to trust us to elect them and teach our kids, but we are inept at decided where we should travel. The schools have no money to teach anymore and they are worried about what another state is doing to protect their residents? It makes no sense,” said Boling.
She even went further and blamed big business for continuing their practice of hiring illegal immigrants encouraging them to cross into the country illegally for jobs. “If the government did their job and put big fines on these businesses the prospect of jobs would disappear and so would the flood of illegal immigrants to this country.”
Another community leader, Reverend David Brown gave the school board a stern warning that drew applause. “We elected the school board of this city to educate our kids not get involved in outside issues.”
Teri Linnell, who is running against Duncan Hunter for Congress, put it a little differently. “The resolution is a waste of time and money and is only increasing divisiveness.”
The school board resolution denouncing Arizona in part stated the law “undermines fundamental civil rights and civil liberties and poses a special threat to people of color who live in and travel through Arizona.”
According to the board members the Arizona law contains criminalization of unlawful presence that could lead to racial profiling and threaten public safety by hindering the relationship between law enforcement and the Latino community.
Needless to say, the bill calls for no racial profiling, and will not target anyone walking down the street – if you are abiding by the laws in Arizona there is no reason to worry.
The claim that “people of color” will be treated like Jewish people in Nazi Germany are flat out false, according to Arizona resident Al Garza, who is also Latino. “When you drive you are expected to have your driver’s license with you and if you travel to Mexico and pass through check points you are expected to provide Mexican officials with your ‘papers.’”
In April Arizona Gov. Brewer signed the controversial new bill and said she would “not tolerate racial discrimination or racial profiling in Arizona. As committed as I am to protecting our state from crime associated with illegal immigration, I am equally committed to holding law enforcement accountable should this statute ever be misused to violate an individual's rights.”
Barrera's first version of the resolution asked the district to advise students and parents against traveling to Arizona.
“If we're truly concerned about our children, I wonder why we don't send a travel advisory 30 miles south in Mexico,'' chimed board member Nakamura, and just like that the travel advisory was deleted.
The provision also called on Congress to adopt federal immigration reform, the sooner the better.
This week the Los Angeles City Council also adopted a resolution demanding Arizona repeal the new law.
Councilman Ed Reyes said the law was un-American. “I cannot go to Arizona today without a passport,” he said. “If I come across an officer who's had a bad day and feels that the picture on my I.D. is not me, I could be summarily deported - no questions asked. That is not American.”
In Arizona, if that indeed happened, the Governor said there would be severe consequences and pointed out Arizona’s law enforcement is top-notch.
However, the council suspended all travel to Arizona for city-related business and told city department heads not to negotiate any contracts with companies in Arizona if it is legally and fiscally possible.
The city council also ordered a review of existing city contracts with Arizona-based companies in order to terminate them as quickly as possible. They also suggested the city attorney prepare legal ordinances to steer clear of Arizona businesses.
Legally the city doesn’t have the authority to tell its proprietary departments to end existing contracts; they can only suggest they terminate them.
It’s also worth pointing out that Los Angeles is completely broke and must make a number of cuts in services or raise taxes on the already overtaxed residents in the city.
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Comments
Deport Richard Barrera. Wonder how much Mexico paid him for his anti-American resolution? What's your price, La Raza punk? Or do you just hate America so much, you abuse your power for kicks?
Barrera has now identified himself as an enemy of the state and will now be dealt with appropriately.
So the San Diego school board is condoning people breaking the law. That sets a great example for kids. If I was a resident of San Diego, I would push to vote everyone of those board members out as soon as possible. They are pushing to violate federal law on illegal immigration. I guess they expect the people of Arizona to just live with the crime coming into the State. Maybe those same board members should be required to go live along the border towns of Arizona for awhile. They just might wake up. Furthermore what does the San Diego board of education have to do with politics in Arizona. Why don't they try working on their schools to make them a place of learning?
This guy Barrera is just another flea that infests our world , where does he come off regarding what goes on in Arizona, or any where else . This guy is part of the problem get rid of him , a disgrace to the San Diego City shools. OUT , Out. with these unamerican traitors .
These board members AND the San Diego City Council are completely OUT OF TOUCH with the majority - 70% last time I checked - who are in favor of legal immigration and opposed to ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. Has anyone of them checked Mexico's immigration laws? VOTE THESE ACTIVISTS OUT!!
Maybe the school board should spend more time teaching the three"R's." and stay out of politics. Does it make sense to tell their employees not to travel or do business with Arizona, but not consider the total chaos, corruption, murders, drugs, cartels, etc, etc, going on in Mexico? Are they aware of the Arizona rancher who was murdered by an illegal alien, or the Border Patrol agent who was shot with an AK-47 recently, or the numerous reports of destruction of property and home break-ins on the U.S. side of the border by illegal aliens? (Take a look at the picture at the top of this article.) Finally, I would certainly hope that the Injunction does not mean that a member of the school district cannot travel to Arizona if they wish to, if only for the pleasure of the trip.)
Isn't it against the law to advocate "collective punishisment" of Arizona businesses? The result of collective punishment against innocent parties will not impact the passing of this bill. Rather, it targets individuals and families in Arizona for something that they had nothing to do with. How can San Diego Unified/City Council defend breaking any contracts with businesses in Arizona? Read the bill - we're talking about people who come here illegally. What rights do they have to demand anything from taxpayers? I don't get their argument.
Has the San Diego Unified School District Board of Education voted unanimously not to let employees travel to or do business in Hawaii. Why I ask this, is that the Adult Mental Health Division of the Hawaii Dept of Health supports death and kidnapping threats against Facebook users, derogatory quack psychiatric evaluations of Facebook users and Facebook banning Facebook accounts for no good reason, when the Facebook user would wish to engage in rational and reasoned discussion of political issues in the line of thinking of Ronald Reagan or Senator Barry Goldwater. The AMHD also appears to look favorably on the political ideologies of Dr David Duke PhD former Grand Wizard of the KKK and the former British MP George Galloway.
For persons not familiar with the rhetorical style and political ideology of the former British member of Parliament, Mr George Galloway. Check out the following item on Youtube.
Galloway Openly Calls for Jihad
It is interesting that a Hawaii State agency in the shape of the Adult Mental Health Division of the Hawaii Department of Health, can be fellow travelling with the likes of Mr Galloway, is it the position of the AMHD that it is legitimate to kill US Army personnel in Iraq travelling in Humvees by blowing them up with improvised explosive device mines ? See following Youtube at position 7:40 to 8:06 approximately.
Terrorist Supporter George Galloway
So as Az becomes safer and mejico more dangerous, maybe they will learn their lesson the hard way
The stupidity of comments by Ed Reyes and the board chairman simply relfect the wisdom of the comments by Sheila Boling on the board. Arizona's law actually is everybody's business because it affects the safety and security of all Americans. I used to enjoy visiting San Diego. I refuse to visit there as long as stupidity reigns in local government.
Ms. Jackson, clean up the punctuation on your campaign site. (shoo
Vote out these liberal idiots on our City council and the San Diego Unified/City Council. The majority of legal San Diegans are with Arizona all the way. Have people lost their minds?
California penal code section 834b is almost identical to the Arizona Immigration Law. We protect our borders, not only because illegal immigration is a burden to our taxpayers, schools, hospitals, and insurance payers, it is also a safety issue. It is also unfair for immigrants from other countries who have spent thousands of dollars and have waited years to come to the United States the legal way.
When you do not protect the borders and enforce our federal and state immigration laws, you give the human traffickers, drug smugglers, and terrorists an incentive to use our border states to enter the United States. Why fly when you can just simply walk across?
This new law in AZ has turned out to be a two-fer, in that it is getting rid of both illegals and progressives!
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