A few months ago I worked on a high school in Bell, which borders Cudahy. I took video of the student population while on break and had considered creating a thread about what I saw.
I didn't for two reasons; the obvious violation of policy and privacy and the fact that I saw no way to frame to the thread in a way that would not get me branded instantly as racist.
Now that the issue is finally making mainstream news it seems worth debating.
First, let's talk about my source for the Cudahy story; The L.A. Weekly. It's known as a borderline radical leftist puplication. I read the sister rag the O.C. Weekly, and let me tell you the Bush hate there makes this forum seems like a Whitehouse lovefest.
I am usually somewhat bemused when people dismiss a link because its from FOX or WND without even bothering to read it. Thats shortsighted. You know one reason why I have liberal, and conservative views? Because I'm open minded and well read.
Now, lets see if you can refute what I'm saying without name calling.
http://www.laweekly.com/general/feature … got/15731/ ( source )
"Cudahy resembles a Mexican border town more than it does a Los Angeles suburb. Entrenched gangs and Mexican drug trafficking have trapped working-class legal and illegal immigrants in a cycle of violence and fear, in a city where less than a quarter of the 28,000 residents are eligible to vote. An uneducated city council, a deeply troubled police force imported from Maywood two towns over, and the raw power of the 18th Street Gang — a complex criminal organization with a knack for setting up business fronts and obscuring underground drug activity — make Cudahy residents seem like hostages in their own city.
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The high school I worked on is the 8th largest high school in the nation. I'm not linking to demographic data because it seems prudent not to mention the name of the school, but the gist of it is the the population is 90% hispanic, 40% of them being illegal aliens, 30% the legal children of illegal aliens and the rest natural born citizens.
The ways illegal immigration effects me directly is ( among other things );
1) Remember the " Day without a Immigrant Day " a few months back?
I remember it as the day with 30% of normal traffic. The civic planners did not account for tens of millions of peoples pouring unplanned across the border.
2) Remember when a good house painter could make 50k per year? ( many of you won't, but it was only 15 years ago )
That era is officially over. All of the trade skills have been devalued by desperate people coming across the border looking for work. Sure, they may come to pick crops, but the only do it for one season, next season they paint or flip burgers. Its still hard work, but the pay is better than picking crops at half of what it payed a citizen a few years back.
3) Taggers
Once they start to defile an area with their childish scribbles, the area is gone and you can't get it back.
Last edited by ATG (2007-02-28 21:55:40)
