ICE DETAINERS PUT ON 52 SUSPECTED ILLEGAL ALIENS IN AUGUST--SAME NUMBER, EXACTLY, AS IN JULY---HMMMM?
Back in CM PRESS # 199 published on August 23, we wrote this:Sure, we have an ICE agent in our jail, but the CM PRESS keeps hearing a buzz from citizens who believe there are some within local law enforcement and local government who are resisting bringing some illegal aliens to the notice of the ICE agent.
With this latest monthly report showing that 52 ICE detainers were put on suspected illegal aliens both in July and in August, the buzz is sure to increase.
If someone is imposing some sort of informal quota, it should be easy to detect by examining internal documents (not available to the public) showing the who, why, what, where and when surrounding the details of the detentions of suspected illegal aliens. From these documents, one might expect to see certain patterns emerge if there is such a quota system in place.
As with most residents of Costa Mesa, the CM PRESS is a big supporter of the CMPD, but we've been around long enough to know that there is a small clique of hold-over officers in the department who are highly politicized and it wouldn't surprise us to learn some may be letting personal feelings that favor illegal aliens color their judgement in a number of ways.
We personally witnessed this when we were trying to keep grade school kids safe by having the CMPD stop allowing cars to park with engines running at a red curb at Davis School. Every day we would see little kids darting between these cars and we expected to see a kid hit by a car at any time.
When we tried to get the CMPD to do something about this, one cop laughed at us and actually told us that it was okay for motorists to park in front of the red curb and that the CMPD wouldn't do anything. Even after we read the law to him on this point he just laughed and said it was okay.
Our guess as to why this cop was acting this way was because most of those parking at the red curb might have been suspected illegal aliens.
We've experienced the same thing in other instances, and we get reports from around the city of similar things.
At the City Council meeting this Tuesday, a resident went to the podium and told the City Council that he and his wife can't sleep at night because of barking dogs in a nearby house.
He said the police wouldn't do anything about the problem and that the last cop who showed up actually told him that the "Dogs have a first amendment right to bark." This got a number of guffaws from those present at the meeting, and City Manager Allan Roeder shook his head and suggested that the resident speak to the Chief of Police who just happened to be sitting in the audience that night.
The resident and the Chief then spoke outside of earshot. We don't know the resolution of this issue, but from everything we've heard so far, Chief Shawkey is doing a good job as police chief and we're sure he is looking into this matter.
One important thing about this resident who was complaining about the barking dogs, is that we've never seen him at City Council meetings before. Our guess is that like most citizens he probably doesn't like going to such meetings and speaking out about problems and would prefer to handle neighborhood disputes out of the public eye.
But, in this instance he apparently felt so frustrated about the situation that he felt the only thing he could do was to come to an open meeting and discuss his problem publicly.
Now, we don't know if this barking dog situation involves illegal aliens or not. Not every situation does, but because we do keep hearing a buzz from citizens who believe that some cops are reluctant to take action on quality of life issues, when those who are impinging on the quiet enjoyment of our properties are suspected illegal aliens, it wouldn't surprise us to learn that the owners of the barking dogs may be suspected illegal aliens.
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IN THE DAILY PILOT ISN'T BIASED DEPARTMENT
The latest scribe at the Daily Pilot to tell readers that the paper--run by publisher Thomas H. Johnson of Newport Beach who was a founder of the Latino Business Council--is not slanted and doesn't favor Latino illegal aliens, etc. is Joe Bell. Ho hum.
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