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I used to live in Mexico City for years and currently live in one of the largest cities in the San Diego County. The border is only 40 minutes away from where I live. The local media (San Diego News) have been reporting the situations regularly such as the tunnels were discovered, selling the babies, Americans stuck in the Mexican jails, migrant camps, human smuggling (such as Chinese smuggling and coyotes), the illegals trying to across the border, border patrol, Mexican cops, and Minutemen.
Years ago, there was one of the incidents that I still remember. The Mexican seller from Tijuana came to sell kitten dolls at the vendor booth. He did follow the US policy except one thing. It had turned out that kitten dolls were actually real kittens. He was selling dead kittens. He had faced animal cruelty charges on US soil. I have been listening to tons of stories on how illegals push the limits in order to sneaking into the US. Unfortunately the human smuggling activity exists in Carlsbad, Oceanside, Carmel Mountain, and almost every city in the whole San Diego County. Some illegal immigrants use their naturalized US citizen family member's SSI and name in order to get a job and can be able to form the businesses easily. There are some hangouts where you can get them for a quick job.
I know two councilmen and a councilwoman who voted to pass the law for fining the landlords for renting illegals in the apartments. One of the councilmen, Sam Abed is a naturalized US citizen from Lebanon who supported the law. They have accused him of being a racist at the city hall meetings. He had received death threats. His gas station is only two blocks away from me. I have witnessed the meetings where they discussed the bill before they voted it twice. According to CA law, once they pass the bill, they have to pass it again. Many people applauded Sam Abed and showed up at his gas station to fill the gas by showing the support. There were also others boycott his business and had tried to destroy his gas station business, but the business is getting stronger. A councilwoman, Marie Waldon, who was the one who came up with a proposal who had received two bodyguards from the police department for a while. They have vandalized her business, egging her house, calling her a racist etc. Now, The judge Houston blocked the law before it went in effect. The city hall gave up the fight because paying the private lawyers cost a fortune.
There are some Latin countries born Minutemen who are against illegal immigration as well. There are Hispanic organizations that oppose illegal immigration such as "Don't speak for me organization" And the illegals have accused Hispanics of being racists, too.
A friend of mine plans to join in the politics after he finishes public administration in master degree. He thinks he came up with a solution called "indentured servants." Oh, well..
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