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.

Where Friedman Made a Mistake in Regards to Free Markets

Milton Friedman was a brillant economist, well-read and informed academic.

He brought forth a number of incredible, essential arguments to defend free enterprise and domestic economic liberty for businesses large and small. Don't get me wrong--I am all for free enterprise. Domestic economic freedom is an absolute must in any country, so that individuals can enjoy the highest standard of living possible.

BUT ... there is a place for government intervention in a number of issues.

1. Tariffs play an important role in securing the national security and interest of a country.

2. Illegal immigration and mass immigration are a bane for any country. No group of people, no mass movement of people should be permitted to overrun a country and complete change the contour and constitutional character of the nation.

This video exposes what the problem became for Milton Friedman's free market views--and Friedman himself admitted to the failure of one of his many tenets.

Check out this video from Reason Magazine here.

Friedman was convinced that the people of Hong Kong, China, elsewhere would rise up and oppose the taxpayer-funded subsidies for national businesses.

However, that never happened. Authoritarian regimes do not listen to the people whom they are supposed to care for. They do what they want. subsidize whatever businesses and interests they please. The pro-tariff arguments are stronger in these cases. Granted, tariffs can amount to a tax, but that only occurs if individuals purchase the goods from the other countries.

If authoritarian countries are subsidizing their goods and dumping them into other nations to undercut their industries, tariffs have to be imposed.

Friedman's argument in "Free to Choose" was not satisfactory for dealing with this problem. If a country lowers its tariffs in the face of countries with cheaper goods based on nationalized policies of currency manipulation and subsidies, the businesses in our country will fail and falter.

This problem occurs in Sub-Saharan countries, as well, in which Western nations offer a bunch of goods as "charity." For example, many countries will send in a bunch of free shoes to help an impoverished area. What happens, though? The local merchants go out of business, because they cannot compete with free."

Hence, the need for tariffs. The same idea is pervasive around the world. The United States was right to enact key tariffs to protect local industries against predatory policies from other countries. Open borders and open international markets can become problematic when these concerns are not taken into account.

Activists Need Fellow Warriors, Not More Cheerleaders

Someone writes to me:

Wow. Arthur, I’ve appreciated your work in organizing fellow SoCal conservatives against SB-54 this year, & there is reason to be concerned about some aspects of kids in the drag world, but what you just tweeted makes no sense. Where are you getting this rhetoric from???

— Eric Sewell- Fighting & Words (@fightinandwords) December 30, 2018

"Wow. Arthur, I’ve appreciated your work in organizing fellow SoCal conservatives against SB-54 this year, & there is reason to be concerned about some aspects of kids in the drag world ..."

Here's the thing ...

I DON'T NEED PEOPLE TO (JUST) APPRECIATE MY "WORK."

This "work" is called "the price of citizenship" or "the price of liberty." This is a calling, a mandate, if you will, for all free people who want to live in a free society. It's part of the citizenship package.

Appreciation is nice ... BUT:

I need people to work with me and the growing number of outraged American citizens and California residents who have had enough with the secular, tyrannical, regressive left.

I don't need a cheerleader. I need a fellow fighter.

I don't need a groupie. I need you to join our group.

I don't need a pew-warmer. I need a purposeful warrior.

I don't a layabout. I need a loyal laborer.

I don't need a fan or a follower. I want a fellow who will team up, join the group, and fight with me.

I think I speak well for many of the activists whom I have been honored to work with and learn from.

Final note: the highest compliments I have ever received were from individuals like Roger Hilmer, who said "I am out here recording and reporting on what my city council does because you were doing it"

Another high compliment, from Gregory Susca: "I just couldn't sit by anymore and watch Arthur put his life on the line." By the way, just before the liberal commissioner in Downey sentenced me with excessive penalties for sitting in a city council meeting, Susca again told me: "I wouldn't be doing what I am doing today if it weren't for you."

In turn, I wouldn't be doing what I am doing without the examples set by Robin Hvidston, Janet West, Chanell Temple, Joseph Turner and others stepping up and speaking out.

Cheerleading is nice, but not needed--and not enough. We who are activists are already doing so because we are proud of what we do to fight for our rights and our country.

So, I would appreciate it if those of you who appreciate what I am doing -- start doing what I am doing, too! Then more people can appreciate their liberties and fight for them, too!

Here's one way to start: Sign up for MassResistance:

http://www.massresistance.us/new_email_contact.shtml

Another way: sign up for We the People Rising:

https://wethepeoplerising.wordpress.com/about/

Glendora Town Hall Against SB 54 (Photos)