El Paso City Council: Minutemen Not Welcome

[Desertdog]

Maybe they should move the mexican border to the opposit ends of the city and let V. Fox be their president. I wonder how the city council would like that.


EP City Council: Minutemen Not Welcome
Aug 23, 2005, 9:13 PM
http://www.kvia.com/global/story.asp?s=3757649&ClientType=Printable

EL PASO, TX. - Another chapter in the controversial story of the Minutemen was written Tuesday by the City Council. By a 7-to-1 vote, Council members approved a resolution that effectively says, "The Minutemen are Not Welcome in El Paso."

Representative Eddie Holguin proposed a resolution saying the controversial border watch group is not welcome in the Sun City. Only one Council member, Alexandro Lozano, didn't vote for the resolution.

The Minutemen were in El Paso last week, recruiting and training some locals to be a part of the Civilian Border Patrol group.

According to Chris Simcox, the group acts as an auxiliary to Border Patrol agents, simply reporting sightings of people trying to cross illegally into the US to them.

Critics say the group is "racist" and patrolling the border should be "left to trained federal agents."

For more information regarding the city or the Minutemen, click on the links provided.

Below is the text of the City's Resolution.

WHEREAS: The City of El Paso and its people share a long and common cultural, economic, and social history with Ciudad Juarez, the State of Chihuahua, and the Country of Mexico; and

WHEREAS: The future prosperity and global competitiveness of the El Paso and Cuidad Juarez border region will depend on a spirit of cooperation and good-will; and

WHEREAS: The citizens of the great City of El Paso, Texas want to ensure safe, legal passage of immigrants and visitors to our city and country; and

WHEREAS: The City of El Paso and its elected officials fully support duly authorized law enforcement officials in enforcing the rule of law concerning immigration regulations; and

WHEREAS: The City of El Paso and its elected officials firmly reject civilian attempts to enforce immigration law;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL PASO: That the City of El Paso strongly opposes the establishment of any "Minutemen" installments, or affiliated groups, in the City of El Paso.

 

[Art Eatman]

Regardless of the lip service, elected officals' actions show that they generally regard themselves as little tin gods whose opinions are far more important than those of the citizenry at large.

By and large, our elected officials have allowed all the problems with illegals to happen. They avoid responsibility by spinning in circles, pointing fingers at somebody else, crying, "It's not my responsibility, it's theirs!"

When elements of the citizenry begin to signs of restiveness, the effort then becomes one of shifting the onus with such falsities as "Racism!" or "Only professionals..."

The same old CYA business-as-usual stuff...

Art

 

[Johnnybgood]

Simple

Vote them out of office.

 

[wingman]

Texas politicians do not want to speak of illegal immigration let alone do anything about it.
I have written and contacted most in my area with poor results.

Texas has a school funding problem with thousands of people from across
the border and from around the world flooding into the state we cannot
build enough schools. hospitals and jails to control the problem, still our leaders do nothing.

I seen a report that stated 25% of whites drop out of high school and
that number is above 50% for hispanic and blacks. If you consider the
high numbers of illegals coming across most have less then an 8th education
where does that put this country in the future in terms of a work force.

 

[Henry Bowman]

Critics say the group is "racist"

"You keep using that word. I don't think that word means what you think it means."

 

[MikeIsaj]

Granted I don't have a dog in this fight but, I'd love to see the minutemen come to El Paso now. I think it would be enlightening for all to see if the city could, or would, do anything to stop them.

 

[Silver Bullet]

The response I hope to see:

Minutemen: El Paso City Council Not Welcome

 

[longeyes]

somos carnales

Only one question:

Why was this resolution written in English...?

 

[Henry Bowman]

longeyes - Outstanding observation!

 

[Old Fuff]

Legal Immagration?

>> The citizens of the great City of El Paso, Texas want to ensure safe, legal passage of immigrants and visitors to our city and country; ...<<

Boy I am sure out of it ...

I didn't know that "safe, LEGAL PASSAGE of immigrants" was an issue. The Minute Men have yet to address any problems with LEGAL immigration.

Here I thought the problem was ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.

I NEED TO GO TO ONE OF THOSE LIBERAL RE-EDUCATION CENTERS ...

 

[DelayedReaction]

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL PASO: That the City of El Paso strongly opposes the establishment of any "Minutemen" installments, or affiliated groups, in the City of El Paso.

This has the same legal force as me declaring I don't like my mom's purple casserole.

 

[longeyes]

"safe, LEGAL PASSAGE of immigrants"

Now that would be your "Latino traveler" contingent, is that right?

Interesting evolution: illegal alien > undocumented immigrant > Latino traveler. The Left is nothing if not creative.

Over in the British isles the teachers want to change "fail" to "deferred success." I guess we can call illegal aliens deferred citizens.

 

[Standing Wolf]

Critics say the group is "racist" and patrolling the border should be "left to trained federal agents."

Same old snivelling and whining from the same old sore losers.

Why was this resolution written in English...?

That hit the nail squarely on the proverbial "head"!

 

[Sistema1927]

I guess that they are also opposed to Neighborhood Watch groups in El Paso.

(I knew there was a reason why I left El Paso and never plan to go back.)

 

[CAPTAIN MIKE]

...Uh...Could You Repeat That in Spanish???

No need for Neighborhood Watches or Border Patrol in El Paso & Juarez, right?
I think the Border Patrol should conceded that part of Texas and set up a new border fence at the Oklahoma State Line !!

 

[foghornl]

Hmmmm

Sounds like the border needs to be moved about what...30 miles or so North?


I have no idea of the actual size of El Paso.

 

[Aguila Blanca]

Perhaps the Minutemen should secure the border for a hundred miles on both sides of El Paso, and leave a gap in the middle. If El Paso welcomes the immigrants ... let them have 'em.

 

[stevelyn]

Legislative resolutions are not legally binding. They are nothing more than official opinions of a governing body.

 

[longeyes]

Not binding but certainly reflective of the prevailing attitudes of people with political clout. Hence not to be ignored.

We are never going to be able to build schools fast enough--even if we had the money--to deal with an influx of people arriving in the thousands per day--unless we are preparing to enact a confiscatory tax system that "puts kids first" at the expense of citizen rights.

 

[Pilgrim]

I seen a report that stated 25% of whites drop out of high school and that number is above 50% for hispanic and blacks. If you consider the
high numbers of illegals coming across most have less then an 8th education
where does that put this country in the future in terms of a work force.

I suppose there is a limit to the number of gardeners, fruit pickers, bricklayers, and chicken pluckers this country can gainfully employ.

Pilgrim