Nativo and Sheriff Carona aren’t buddies anymore
Did anyone note the irony when Nativo Lopez stood up at a meeting where Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona was pleading with Latino leaders to help him with his new plan to train deputies to enforce immigration laws? Just a few years ago Carona endorsed Lopez not once but twice, in successive elections, for the Santa Ana School Board. Now Lopez is calling for a boycott of the City of Costa Mesa, where Mayor Alan Mansoor is putting a plan in place that is similar to Carona’s. Lopez is also essentially promising civil disobedience and a protest march that is supposed to take place on President’s Day weekend.
I guess Lopez won’t be on Carona’s Christmas card list anymore. The fact that he is encouraging his followers to refuse to cooperate with police should be a wake-up call for everyone. Lopez has gone from being a poverty pimp, to being recalled from the Santa Ana School Board, to being a rabble-rouser in the same mold as Socialist President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez. I have had enough of this guy – I think it is time to boycott Nativo and his ilk.
It would be easy to pull Nativo’s campaign finance records from his school board elections and identify who is business contributors are – and let them know that we are now officially boycotting them until such time that they repudicate Nativo’s dangerous antics. Furthermore, any businesspeople that are seen to be hanging around Nativo should also be put on notice that their respective businesses will be boycotted.
Lastly, if Nativo and his mob do decide to descent on the City of Costa Mesa, I say that the city should set up a checkpoint and try to identify any drunks that might be in their midst. These drunk driver checkpoints are common during holidays. Moreover, police should be on alert and should be ready to arrest any of Nativo’s allies who misbehave. They should be arrested for everything from jaywalking, to marching without a parade permit, to littering. They have a right to protest, but Costa Mesa’s police department has a right to make arrests for any disturbances or other criminal actions, even the most minor misdemeanors. If we’re lucky, some of these guys will be on parole or will be wanted for felonies. Then we can deport them and be done with them once and for all.
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Art,
Once again you seem to simplify the issue and choose one person to blame for all the ills of the county. Nativo is not, as much as you would like to wish for, a criminal. I say this since not once has he been charged with any crime, thus he can not be called a criminal.
You accuse Nativo Lopez of being aligned with presidents of Venezuela, and other socialists govts, and thats fine, you are entitled to your opinion, but keep that in mind, it is your opinion with no proof or even legitimate reason to believe that.
Nativo is a immigrant activist, radical at times, and perhaps over the edge to many people, but, in my opinion, certainly not more than the very same individuals you see trying to instill such laws. Poltiicians such as the Mayor of Costa Mesa, the minutemen project, friends of the border, and many other organizations aimed at targeting a single group.
This very same accusation can be made about you and the way in which you have written this post. You make a prejudgment of those whom follow Nativo are criminals and also may not have documentation of residency in the U.S. It is because of thoughts such as those, and actions of the aforementioned groups that we need people like Nativo Lopez around and continuing to stir up issues. I would only hope we could take all these groups on both sides of the issues and have them duke it out with each other on some deserted island so the rest of us can live in a peaceful, colorless, borderless society.
There is a need for all sides of issues to speak up and share theire thought and ideas, the problems come when they cannot hear or understand the other persons perspective.
To me there is a big difference between the Mayor of Costa MEsa and the minutemen and the even more radical CCIR.
The mayor has simply implemented a policy almost identical to the one the Anaheim has had for over 10 years.
There has to be control over the borders and who enters the country, but those who wish to come here to work should not have to go through a 2-5 year process should they wish to stay and become citizens.
The system is a mess and needs drastic repair, change is painful but needed and should fall on all equally, businesses who explot undocumented labor, the undocumented regardless of the country of orgin, etc.
JRB,
I wish it were 2-5 years. Many members of my community and some family members are going on to 12 years and counting. According to the USCIS, they are currently working on those petitions which were filed in 1994.