LAT: Schwarzenegger Urged to Call Border Emergency

[DeepModem Mom]

Gov. Urged to Call Border Emergency
Schwarzenegger resists the tactic as lawmakers seek money to fight crime associated with illegal immigration from Mexico.

By Nancy Vogel, Times Staff Writer


SACRAMENTO — Pressure built Thursday within Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's own party for him to follow the example of Democratic governors in New Mexico and Arizona and declare a state of emergency along the Mexican border.

Even though Schwarzenegger insists that border conditions aren't dire enough to justify such a declaration — and that California law would not permit it anyway — four Republican lawmakers announced plans to introduce legislation that would give the governor explicit authority to declare an emergency because of illegal immigration.

"There is no question the problem of illegal immigration has reached emergency proportions," said one of the lawmakers, Assemblyman Ray Haynes, whose Murrieta district covers parts of Riverside and San Diego counties. He said migrant trafficking often makes people in his district fear for their lives.

Earlier this month, emergency declarations by Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson freed up more than $2 million to deal with human trafficking, drug smuggling, kidnapping, murder and destruction of property along their borders.

Since then, bipartisan pressure has been building in California for Schwarzenegger to bolster order efforts with money diverted from other state projects....


http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-border26aug26,0,6619086.story?coll=la-home-local

[leesa]

1. I live in San Diego. Does much of this stuff they are saying happens

actually occur? Mostly it's people peacefully coming over looking for jobs the Republicans are giving them. They are trying to create hysteria.

[oneold1-4u]

2. Somewhere recently

there was posted information on the number of illegals entering the US each day and year. If the information was near accurate it was a greater number than all the births in each of the states of WA, OR, ID, and maybe a couple more! All the new real citizens are going to need jobs too, and they don't need all the illegal drugs!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

5. Here are the facts and figures

http://www.urban.org/Template.cfm?Section=ByTopic&NavMenuID=62&template=/TaggedContent/ViewPublication.cfm&PublicationID=8685

And those "real" citizens are the ones actually being imported through work programs to drive wages down in the tech sector.

Furthermore, if nobody "needed" all the illegal drugs, they wouldn't sell here although I do agree that our drug policy is what makes the borders more dangerous...remove all the criminal penalties for drug use and you get rid of a huge black market. Black markets create violence.

[David__77]

3. If he does, it will hurt him more than help him.

It would rightly be perceived by Latinos as a racist ploy to incite white support for him. But the whites aren't terribly concerned from what I see, except those who would never vote for a Democrat anyways.

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[Sequoia]

6. Wine too.

In Yuma, AZ the border crosser threw stones at a border patrol chopper and brought it down. No one was hurt. I'm sick because I thought it was funny. Stone age weapons against the mighty machine.

If these crying baby men got their way I doubt you'd see them heading to the fields to pick cucumbers and peaches, or sending their big haired lily white wives to make beds and serve food.

[xxqqqzme]

7. '...make beds, serve food..'

fix their meals, tend to their children, mow their grass, prune their hedges, staff convalescent homes.......California @ a standstill - 'Day Without a Mexican' watch it.

[DeaconBlues]

8. I got it

Who cares about a little wage slavery, if it keeps the price of you pinot noir down.