My
name is Arthur Schaper, long-time resident of Torrance, CA, and a proud member
of We the People Rising and the Remembrance Project.
A
pressing issue affecting the state of California depends on whether state
lawmakers will enact a “sanctuary state policy”, which would prevent law enforcement
officials, from local to state, from cooperating with ICE and exchanging
information for the detainment, capture, and deportation of illegal aliens in
our communities.
I believe
that the legislature should reject sanctuary state status, and should further
end sanctuary cities.
Here
are five reasons why:
·
Kate
Steinle
·
Ruben
Morfin
·
Ronald
De Silva
·
Sandra
Duran
·
Marcello
Bisarello
These
five Americans—plus an average of 25 per
day—are killed by illegal aliens. Where was their sanctuary?
I
am urging the city council to adopt a resolution condemning sanctuary cities
and signaling their opposition to SB 54, which has been misnamed “The Values
Act”, but which would enact that sanctuary state policy I had mentioned.
Kate Steinle |
West
Covina has already done so. State Senator Joel
Anderson will be hosting a press conference condemning SB 54. The conference
takes place tomorrow, in front of West Covina City Hall at 3pm. I have invited every councilmember to attend.
I hope that one of you will go
And
now, I want to get this issue resolved.
Why
I still have questions is based on the following memo from the Torrance Police
Department:
The
Torrance Police Dept (TPD) issued its ICE Detainers Training Bulletin 014-07 on
22 July 2014 establishing a de facto “sanctuary city” policy – review the
bulletin here.
It
based its TPD enforcement policy upon a legal decision in Oregon where the
judge determined ICE detainers were not mandatory and aggressive posturing of
ACLU threats for future lawsuits if cities did not adhere to the perspective
that ICE detainers are not mandatory .
The city of Laguna Nigel also opposed the bill
ReplyDeleteThis is BS. There are far more law abiding undocumented residents that are targeted, harassed, threatened and made otherwise generally unsafe by documented residents - like OP. The immigrants are not the problem. OP's, and everyone like them, lack of humanity is the problem.
ReplyDeleteWhy did Frida Kahlo think her father's family was Jewish?
ReplyDeleteKahlo always insisted her father was a German Jew.
However in 2005 it was discovered that her father was actually from a Lutheran family.
So what made her think she was Jewish? Maybe he was "ethnically Jewish."
A lot of German Jews converted to Christianity (some out of genuine
belief, others out of a desire to assimilate), such as the ancestors
of the famous composer Felix Mendelssohn.