Surrounded by criminals, LA Mayor asks law enforcement to go away.
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is asking federal officials to rethink their policy on workplace immigration crackdowns that involve established businesses and to focus on employers that mistreat workers instead.
Umm, wouldn’t both of those things be the same? Something about illegals getting paid less that their legal counterparts?
The mayor said in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff that work-site raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement could have “severe and long-lasting effects” on the local economy, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday.
Yeah, crime would take a severe plunge and LA would turn into a place worth living in again.
ICE made more than 4,900 work-site arrests nationwide in fiscal 2007, a 45-fold increase over the number in 2001, authorities said.
More than 130 undocumented workers were arrested at a San Fernando Valley manufacturing company in February and over 60 workers were arrested for immigration violations at South Bay-area warehouses last week.
Creating 190 new job openings for legal residents and citizens to apply for, with the possibility that they can stop drawing unemployment benefits.
Hell, in LA, even the illegals have illegals doing their lawn care.
Villaraigosa needs to be arrested for impeding the investigations of ICE and stripped of his office.
Running him out of town after being tarred and feathered would simply be icing on the cake.