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Cobb should heed the lessons being learned in California
D.A. King
Columnist
Marietta Daily Journal
Sept, 8, 2006

Unless you watch the daily Lou Dobbs show on CNN, or actively search for news on the internet, it is easy to miss the clear and present danger to the future of our children’s America that the ongoing crime of illegal immigration represents.

Most of the politically incorrect news from around the country on the crisis is intentionally absent from newspaper headlines and nightly news broadcasts.

Examples? Stop me if you heard this one from Illinois last year: A Chicago area schoolboy was reprimanded by his principal for not standing during the national anthem.

The Mexican national anthem.

Or this: Protesting recently passed U.S. House legislation aimed at securing our borders and controlling illegal immigration, in March, jeering students from neighboring districts lowered the American flag at California’s Montebello High School, replaced it with the Mexican flag and then flew beneath it – upside down – the Stars and Stripes.

Late last month, in another telling display of loyalty by illegals and those who support them, the American flag was taken down, defiled, and then the flag of Mexico was raised in its place over the United States Post Office in Maywood, California – USA.

Placards reading “go back to Europe! This is our continent and All Europeans are illegal since 1492! proudly reflected the agenda of the snarling ethnically motivated protestors.

Most Georgians have not heard about racist and seditious events like these – or of the town of Maywood. The small metropolitan Los Angeles suburb may seem totally unrelated to us because of its location and distance, but we can learn something of the true agenda of many illegal aliens and their leaders from what is happening there.

Without immediate and decisive local action here, California and Maywood could be examples of what to expect in Georgia and suburban Atlanta.

The federal government released a report last month showing that from 2000 to 2005, Georgia suffered the fastest growing population of illegal aliens in the entire nation – including California and all of the other Border States.
The illegal population in Georgia increased 114%; the next highest rate of growth was in Arizona, with 45%. One can only wonder what the citizens of Maywood thought when they got similar news on California more than twenty years ago. Their mistake is now easy to see: They trusted the federal government to remedy the problem.

Maywood, designed to accommodate about 10,000 people, is officially a town of 29,000 people – another estimate is around 46,000 when illegal aliens are counted.

A drive through Maywood today reveals many instances of five and six mailboxes per house, with garages, sheds and temporary buildings being used as residences.

In a town that is now 97% Hispanic – and nearly half illegal – the recently elected Maywood city council has eliminated its traffic police with the reasoning that too many Latinos were being cited for driving without a license and drunk driving. The new leaders described the previous traffic enforcement as “racist” and “oppressive”. “I don’t really see the legal and illegal distinction… we are all human beings” remarked Felipe Aguirre, the new deputy mayor.

One life-long resident is quoted in the British press as cautiously complaining, “you go to the city council and they all speak Spanish”.

There is a lesson here somewhere.

Earlier this year, the city government adopted guidelines that prohibit the city from any enforcement of U.S. immigration law, declaring the city a “haven for illegals”.

What does this have to do with Georgia?

No Georgia counties, Cobb included, have taken advantage of a 1996 law that provides federal training to expand existing local police authority to enforce immigration laws.

Last month, in Clayton County, the first government dual – language school in Georgia opened. Students at Unidos Dual Language Charter School get about 70 percent of their reading, writing, social sciences and math in Spanish, and 30 percent in English, reports school founder Dell Perry …”it’s [Spanish] sort of where things are going,” Perry said in an AP interview. “We’d be really arrogant to expect everybody to speak English.” one student’s mother explained.

Here in Cobb County, a Mexican citizen, Teodoro Maus, who is also a former Atlanta Mexican Consul General and organizer of the March 17 Alliance of Georgia, which staged massive rallies in Georgia this spring in a demand for amnesty and the “rights” of illegals, is the paid “cultural liaison” for the school system.

There is a lesson here somewhere.

dak