Law Enforcement Matters: ICE Comes to Torrance, CA

The sob stories are considerable coming out of Torrance, CA regarding immigration enforcement.

I cannot tell you how many local politicians told me that illegal immigration is not an issue in the South Bay.

What a crock!

Check out this report:

Concerned teachers and community members are rallying together to help a Southern California fourth grader after he was detained by immigration officials.

Martir Garcia Lara, 9, is a student at Torrance Elementary School. On May 29, he attended an immigration hearing in downtown Los Angeles with his father, Martir Garcia-Banegas, 50.

However, instead of receiving an update on his father’s immigration status, the boy and his father were both detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and separated from each other.

If you are in the country illegally, you are breaking the law. I have no compassion for the parents putting their children in harm's way like this. What is doubly disturbing is that the school districts not only do not object to illegal aliens enrolling in public schools, they rely on them for funding, since more parents are just taking their kids out of public schools entirely on account of the bad education, the radical indoctrination, and the lack of safety.

Despite protests and claims otherwise, I think these issues plague Torrance Unified, as well.

“He’s alone and he’s not able to return home,” said PTA president Jasmin King.

This sounds like a lie. He was detained by ICE along with his father, was he not? The PTA is all in on protect illegal aliens and championing every left-wing cause imaginable. They are the biggest source of the rot and collapse in public education.

Teachers at Torrance Elementary reached out to King and the rest of the PTA, asking them for help in somehow getting the young boy and his father released and back to Southern California.

He's not coming back, folks. He was in the country illegally, and so was his son. There is no excuse for any entity in the United States to harbor illegal aliens, to aid and abet their unlawful presence. 

That includes the kids.

“We have not received any information on why they were detained,” King said. “All we know is that Martir is just a fourth-grader who’s by himself, without his dad, without a parent, and just in a place that he probably doesn’t know, so we can only imagine what he might be feeling.”

King said the boy has been a student at Torrance Elementary since the first grade.

Why is the local press playing this up? It's a sob story to induce compassion for open borders, to stir people up against the enforcement of our immigration laws. Enough already. During the previous administration, the federal government allowed just about anyone to come into this country illegally. The migrancy effect overwhelmed local cities, states, and their institutions. The American people have had more than enough of mass illegal immigration. All the plays and ploys on our compassion will no longer work.

PTA members have since reached out to federal, state and local leaders to intervene and are asking other parents and community members to help in any way they can.

King said she and other PTA members are also prepared to help the boy and his father with any legal aid or financial assistance should they need it.

Why doesn't the PTA focus on helping American students for a change? How about helping the law-abiding citizens for once? Perhaps the Trump Administration to investigate and file charges against school districts and local PTAs for flouting and frustrating our nation's federal immigration laws, too.

Final Reflection

This story hits home for me on two levels.

First, Torrance is my hometown. I am glad to live hear, and I hope never to leave here. Second, I graduated from Torrance Elementary, the "Greatest Little School in the West!" It's sad that all this open border-illegal immigration madness is no weighing in and imposing on our city, too.

Perhaps this is the reality check that Torrance residents need to grapple with in order to stop voting for the same vain, lame politicians who celebrate lawlessness and corruption rather than upholding law and order and ensuring public safety.