Post by yardscam on Jun 4, 2009 21:02:15 GMT -5
Amazing that in all the news stories about California’s budgetary crisis, political correctness, I gather, has kept anyone in the national media from mentioning the prime cause of the problem.
Any state that has a large percentage of its population, mostly low income upon arrival, there without following proper immigration processes puts enormous duress
to it social services infrastructure.. As illegal immigration makes it way across the sunbelt in increasing numbers, other states can expect growing financial pressures.. Eventually , as states start to come forward with admissions of budgetary shortfalls..there will become a point where the cause and effect will have to be discussed. If it is in fact not political correctness, it must be some pretty shoddy investigative journalism. Here in Charlotte, our schools are now 19% Hispanic in 2009. What % is illegal I dont know..but I would guesstimate the majority. I know there are only 70, 000 h1 visas issued a yr nationally...Fast forward 10 yrs..what will that % in schools be.. 28%? 35%?. Three yrs ago we were forced to pass a 550 million dollar school bond package to address school overcrowding or the stress on the cops.., In the observer, all the stories surrounding said overcrowding, its amazing how the root cause was not a pertinent factor worthy of mention. Carolinas medical Center, as well as other local health care facilities, are experiencing enormous duress from individuals who have moved north to our region with the intent of letting someone else pay their tab. A cop friends tells me he is almost positive that one country, Salvador or Honduras, i cant recall which, has, he feels, emptied their prisons by virtue of the pattern of criminals from below the border here in Charlotte. It happened in 1980 when castro emptied the prisons during the 1980 Mariel boat lift, so its not that implausible. Data shows The majority of Hispanic students
are under the free or assisted lunch programs.. so in one school near us, which has 430 hispanic students, an abnormally high amount..thats 430 folks whose lunch is paid for by someone else.. thats ONE school, ONE day, ONE town.. and somehow this empirical data the observer feels is irrelevant to the readership.. is it that they feel we should not know?..is it that they feel it will create a negative sentiment? are we we too fragile? One can only guess. but one must wonder whats happens at the observer daily staff meetings.. When Data like that arises.. do they openly nix it? do the young reporters look at each other and think yikes... Its amazing that some there dont harken back to their days of journalism school and think..hey this isnt right..were, with due respect, lying , if you will ..plain and simple..to further an agenda.. its disappointing....Observer Columnist Mary Newson last week cited anti illegal immigrant folks..as saying something like "send them all home, or jail them all..or something like that.(in fairness i cant recall). To cite the most extreme and unreasonable opponent is so Juvenile..so unprofessional..it makes one wonder is this the thought process of those that favor open borders..I was taken aback because i thought i was reading a high school columnist, if thats her reasoning.. is this the thought process of those in the media? In fairness no Local TV reporter at BT, NBC6, CH14, Or wsoc seems to deem the cause and effect
as it pertains to cost, as newsworthy.. Does no young reporter in those newsrooms think the busses that arrive daily from latin america on eastway and tryon arent worth covering? When a population is increased by 20% in one fell swoop.., and the cost are proportionately higher, is it not pertinent to cite the source? The 80k hispanics they cite officially in charlotte is so far outdated, its laughable.. When you think that so many are in just one town, its startling to think of how many are here nationwide..and moreover why no reporters ever do stories about how some areas in latin america are becoming ghostowns..? Not good copy? maybe if the obsever can throw the word "diversity " in there somewhere they could run with it.. dream on.. Some local TV station need sto reach down deep and serve their community.
As we move forward in charlotte, say 15 yrs one can only speculate
what charlotte will be like.. Will we be on our 3rd school bond package.?. and two 500 Mill packages due to overcrowding solely because central and latin america are here illegal. If we were in there shoes..we would do same.. Why not move somewhere where the govenment will pay my maternity costs, pay for that surgery that has been needed for yrs to adjust a vertebrae issue, my mother in laws health care costs as she become disabled..?....why not move to a county where they bend over backwards to accommodate me.. where if anyone stands up and says hey 30 million is enough lets cool it, they get vilified by the likes of Keith olbermann or the charlotte observer.. Why not move to a country where i will not be charged any surcharge on my money orders back home, nor will my employer be taxed anything additional, unless he has impervious land and we can up the stormwater tax.. why not move to a country where i can START OVER and ignore my rap sheet, and if caught doing something illegal i can simply move unfettered from community to community for every alliance that American law enforcement coordinates with one another to track immigrants is shot down by the newly seated government.. Why not move to a country where president Clintons welfare reform has been gutted by the newly seated president enabling me to bring my family north with no limits to generational welfare.......Yet every state and municipality is under enormous financial duress because of their presence.. One state, California, has imploded and oddly the main cause fails to make itself part of any news story.That state has more people in the wagon being pulled than folks doing the pulling.... As of 2008 89 California hospitals have closed due to the strain of non paying customers.`CNN in fairness ran a story in April that Mexican cartels have taken up residence in the northern suburbs of atlanta and now comprise 21% of the population.. CNN headline news ran a story A major Salvadoran drug dealer was arrested in California
and he stated his destination was Charlotte NC. Somehow this failed to make our daily paper. Many Traditional proud charlotte neighborhoods have lost so much of their value as a resort of rampant illegal immigration.. a university of texas study in 06 or 07 stated that approximately 75-80% of illegal immigrants dont have high school educations.... It is fair to assume these individuals will cost our infrastructure or social services? Of course..look at California..
So looking forward for our once proud city, will 1 in 3 students in our schools be here illegally detracting from out teachers time? At that point does the Charlotte Observer slide that tidbit into a story? What will those lunches cost us EVERY SINGLE day..? Mrs Newson, am i a hatemonger for being concerned about that? What possible reason will there be for the balance of latin America NOT to come to Charlotte and the united States? Should i be concerned that the lines to private schools are out the door, paid for mostly by equity lines from folks that can ill afford it? Am i racist Mrs newson for griping when i have to pay for another school bond package when im forking out moneys for private schools? Will my kids kids be able to safely use our own public schools ? Will we have to pay protection money to MS 13 to walk the halls? When im paying for my visit to the emergency room at CMC Pineville when those to my left and right are letting me pay their tab.. am i hatedul mrs newson for bring perturbed about that?
At what point does our country put political correctness aside to ask ourselves what the wholesale relocation of latin and central americas poor to to our country affects my country.? Look at what they are leaving..thats what is being brought here.. When that 30 million turns into 70 million, and socialized medicine is the biggest expense to out federal government, at that point do the politically correct, say hey how did this happen? Whether your for open borders or against it, a reasonable person must admit that eventually political correctness has to be put aside and hard decision must be made.... decisions that will bring the wrath of the likes of NBC news and the charlotte Obsever..
When I watch HBO's JOHN ADAMS and especially the movie SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, i get emotional when i think that my dad and step dad fought for is being destroyed before our eyes..This isnt a plicy argument that will come and go.. this isnt an immigration issue.. its an invasion.. Sadly, we cannot unring a bell.
FROM CNN,.com in April
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Mexican drug cartels thrive in suburban Atlanta
Story Highlights
City outpaces all others in the United States in drug-related cash seizures
$30 million has been confiscated in Atlanta this fiscal year
Location, proximity to other cities and highways cited in trafficking growth
Drug dealers "hide in plain sight" in suburban Gwinnett County
By Lateef Mungin
CNN
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Oscar Reynoso owed his bosses $300,000, and he was running out of time.
Gunmen snatched Reynoso and locked him in the basement of a home to try to settle the drug debt.
He was chained to a wall of the basement by his hands and ankles, gagged and beaten. His captors, members of a powerful Mexican drug cartel, held Reynoso for ransom, chained in the sweltering, dirty basement for six days without food.
Reynoso's ordeal could've been a scene from the drug war in Mexico. But it played out recently in suburban Atlanta, Georgia.
U.S. federal agents are fighting to keep that kind of violence from gripping Atlanta, as the city known for Coca-Cola and Delta Air Lines has become a major distribution hub for Mexican drug cartels.
In fiscal year 2008, authorities confiscated about $70 million in drug-related cash in Atlanta, more than anywhere else in the United States, the Drug Enforcement Administration says.
This fiscal year, Atlanta continues to outpace all other U.S. regions in such seizures, with $30 million confiscated so far. Next are Los Angeles, California, with about $19 million, and Chicago, Illinois, with $18 million.
"There is definitely a center of this type of drug activity here, and we are working to make sure the violence does not spill out to the general public," Atlanta U.S. Attorney David Nahmias said.
Atlanta has become a stopping point for truckloads of Mexican cocaine, heroin, marijuana and methamphetamine, agents say. The drugs are held in stash houses before being distributed up the East Coast.
"The money comes down here also to money managers in Atlanta, who get the books in order before it is sent out," said Rodney Benson, Atlanta's chief of the DEA.
Agents attribute the growth in drug trafficking to Atlanta's location, proximity to other major cities and access to major highways.
Authorities also point to the growth of the Hispanic population in Atlanta, which allows practitioners of the Mexican drug trade to blend in among hard-working, law-abiding Hispanics.
No place is that more evident than in Gwinnett County, a community about 20 miles north of Atlanta.
Gwinnett's Hispanic population rocketed from 8,470 in 1990 to 63,727 in 2000, according to the U.S. Census. By 2010, 20 percent of the county's projected population of 700,000 is expected to be Hispanic.
"In Gwinnett County, the drug dealers are able to hide in plain sight," county District Attorney Danny Porter said. "To combat this, we have to be much more coordinated between my office, the police department and the federal authorities. The presence of the organizations is a dilemma enough that we have to develop new tactics."
Federal agents say arrests and drug-related violence in Atlanta have been linked to the two most powerful Mexican organizations: the Sinaloa and Gulf cartels.
A battle over drug routes has been blamed for the recent surge in violence in Mexican border towns, bloodshed that has included hundreds of deaths.
The fear is that the battle will extend deeper into the United States, causing more to suffer a fate similar to Reynoso's ordeal in the Gwinnett County basement.
Lucky for Reynoso, federal agents had a wiretap on his captors' phones. Agents stormed the home just as it appeared that the debt would not be paid and Reynoso would be killed.
"There is no doubt in my mind that we saved his life that day," said the DEA's Benson.
One case resolved, as cartels thrive in Atlanta.
Any state that has a large percentage of its population, mostly low income upon arrival, there without following proper immigration processes puts enormous duress
to it social services infrastructure.. As illegal immigration makes it way across the sunbelt in increasing numbers, other states can expect growing financial pressures.. Eventually , as states start to come forward with admissions of budgetary shortfalls..there will become a point where the cause and effect will have to be discussed. If it is in fact not political correctness, it must be some pretty shoddy investigative journalism. Here in Charlotte, our schools are now 19% Hispanic in 2009. What % is illegal I dont know..but I would guesstimate the majority. I know there are only 70, 000 h1 visas issued a yr nationally...Fast forward 10 yrs..what will that % in schools be.. 28%? 35%?. Three yrs ago we were forced to pass a 550 million dollar school bond package to address school overcrowding or the stress on the cops.., In the observer, all the stories surrounding said overcrowding, its amazing how the root cause was not a pertinent factor worthy of mention. Carolinas medical Center, as well as other local health care facilities, are experiencing enormous duress from individuals who have moved north to our region with the intent of letting someone else pay their tab. A cop friends tells me he is almost positive that one country, Salvador or Honduras, i cant recall which, has, he feels, emptied their prisons by virtue of the pattern of criminals from below the border here in Charlotte. It happened in 1980 when castro emptied the prisons during the 1980 Mariel boat lift, so its not that implausible. Data shows The majority of Hispanic students
are under the free or assisted lunch programs.. so in one school near us, which has 430 hispanic students, an abnormally high amount..thats 430 folks whose lunch is paid for by someone else.. thats ONE school, ONE day, ONE town.. and somehow this empirical data the observer feels is irrelevant to the readership.. is it that they feel we should not know?..is it that they feel it will create a negative sentiment? are we we too fragile? One can only guess. but one must wonder whats happens at the observer daily staff meetings.. When Data like that arises.. do they openly nix it? do the young reporters look at each other and think yikes... Its amazing that some there dont harken back to their days of journalism school and think..hey this isnt right..were, with due respect, lying , if you will ..plain and simple..to further an agenda.. its disappointing....Observer Columnist Mary Newson last week cited anti illegal immigrant folks..as saying something like "send them all home, or jail them all..or something like that.(in fairness i cant recall). To cite the most extreme and unreasonable opponent is so Juvenile..so unprofessional..it makes one wonder is this the thought process of those that favor open borders..I was taken aback because i thought i was reading a high school columnist, if thats her reasoning.. is this the thought process of those in the media? In fairness no Local TV reporter at BT, NBC6, CH14, Or wsoc seems to deem the cause and effect
as it pertains to cost, as newsworthy.. Does no young reporter in those newsrooms think the busses that arrive daily from latin america on eastway and tryon arent worth covering? When a population is increased by 20% in one fell swoop.., and the cost are proportionately higher, is it not pertinent to cite the source? The 80k hispanics they cite officially in charlotte is so far outdated, its laughable.. When you think that so many are in just one town, its startling to think of how many are here nationwide..and moreover why no reporters ever do stories about how some areas in latin america are becoming ghostowns..? Not good copy? maybe if the obsever can throw the word "diversity " in there somewhere they could run with it.. dream on.. Some local TV station need sto reach down deep and serve their community.
As we move forward in charlotte, say 15 yrs one can only speculate
what charlotte will be like.. Will we be on our 3rd school bond package.?. and two 500 Mill packages due to overcrowding solely because central and latin america are here illegal. If we were in there shoes..we would do same.. Why not move somewhere where the govenment will pay my maternity costs, pay for that surgery that has been needed for yrs to adjust a vertebrae issue, my mother in laws health care costs as she become disabled..?....why not move to a county where they bend over backwards to accommodate me.. where if anyone stands up and says hey 30 million is enough lets cool it, they get vilified by the likes of Keith olbermann or the charlotte observer.. Why not move to a country where i will not be charged any surcharge on my money orders back home, nor will my employer be taxed anything additional, unless he has impervious land and we can up the stormwater tax.. why not move to a country where i can START OVER and ignore my rap sheet, and if caught doing something illegal i can simply move unfettered from community to community for every alliance that American law enforcement coordinates with one another to track immigrants is shot down by the newly seated government.. Why not move to a country where president Clintons welfare reform has been gutted by the newly seated president enabling me to bring my family north with no limits to generational welfare.......Yet every state and municipality is under enormous financial duress because of their presence.. One state, California, has imploded and oddly the main cause fails to make itself part of any news story.That state has more people in the wagon being pulled than folks doing the pulling.... As of 2008 89 California hospitals have closed due to the strain of non paying customers.`CNN in fairness ran a story in April that Mexican cartels have taken up residence in the northern suburbs of atlanta and now comprise 21% of the population.. CNN headline news ran a story A major Salvadoran drug dealer was arrested in California
and he stated his destination was Charlotte NC. Somehow this failed to make our daily paper. Many Traditional proud charlotte neighborhoods have lost so much of their value as a resort of rampant illegal immigration.. a university of texas study in 06 or 07 stated that approximately 75-80% of illegal immigrants dont have high school educations.... It is fair to assume these individuals will cost our infrastructure or social services? Of course..look at California..
So looking forward for our once proud city, will 1 in 3 students in our schools be here illegally detracting from out teachers time? At that point does the Charlotte Observer slide that tidbit into a story? What will those lunches cost us EVERY SINGLE day..? Mrs Newson, am i a hatemonger for being concerned about that? What possible reason will there be for the balance of latin America NOT to come to Charlotte and the united States? Should i be concerned that the lines to private schools are out the door, paid for mostly by equity lines from folks that can ill afford it? Am i racist Mrs newson for griping when i have to pay for another school bond package when im forking out moneys for private schools? Will my kids kids be able to safely use our own public schools ? Will we have to pay protection money to MS 13 to walk the halls? When im paying for my visit to the emergency room at CMC Pineville when those to my left and right are letting me pay their tab.. am i hatedul mrs newson for bring perturbed about that?
At what point does our country put political correctness aside to ask ourselves what the wholesale relocation of latin and central americas poor to to our country affects my country.? Look at what they are leaving..thats what is being brought here.. When that 30 million turns into 70 million, and socialized medicine is the biggest expense to out federal government, at that point do the politically correct, say hey how did this happen? Whether your for open borders or against it, a reasonable person must admit that eventually political correctness has to be put aside and hard decision must be made.... decisions that will bring the wrath of the likes of NBC news and the charlotte Obsever..
When I watch HBO's JOHN ADAMS and especially the movie SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, i get emotional when i think that my dad and step dad fought for is being destroyed before our eyes..This isnt a plicy argument that will come and go.. this isnt an immigration issue.. its an invasion.. Sadly, we cannot unring a bell.
FROM CNN,.com in April
______________
Mexican drug cartels thrive in suburban Atlanta
Story Highlights
City outpaces all others in the United States in drug-related cash seizures
$30 million has been confiscated in Atlanta this fiscal year
Location, proximity to other cities and highways cited in trafficking growth
Drug dealers "hide in plain sight" in suburban Gwinnett County
By Lateef Mungin
CNN
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Oscar Reynoso owed his bosses $300,000, and he was running out of time.
Gunmen snatched Reynoso and locked him in the basement of a home to try to settle the drug debt.
He was chained to a wall of the basement by his hands and ankles, gagged and beaten. His captors, members of a powerful Mexican drug cartel, held Reynoso for ransom, chained in the sweltering, dirty basement for six days without food.
Reynoso's ordeal could've been a scene from the drug war in Mexico. But it played out recently in suburban Atlanta, Georgia.
U.S. federal agents are fighting to keep that kind of violence from gripping Atlanta, as the city known for Coca-Cola and Delta Air Lines has become a major distribution hub for Mexican drug cartels.
In fiscal year 2008, authorities confiscated about $70 million in drug-related cash in Atlanta, more than anywhere else in the United States, the Drug Enforcement Administration says.
This fiscal year, Atlanta continues to outpace all other U.S. regions in such seizures, with $30 million confiscated so far. Next are Los Angeles, California, with about $19 million, and Chicago, Illinois, with $18 million.
"There is definitely a center of this type of drug activity here, and we are working to make sure the violence does not spill out to the general public," Atlanta U.S. Attorney David Nahmias said.
Atlanta has become a stopping point for truckloads of Mexican cocaine, heroin, marijuana and methamphetamine, agents say. The drugs are held in stash houses before being distributed up the East Coast.
"The money comes down here also to money managers in Atlanta, who get the books in order before it is sent out," said Rodney Benson, Atlanta's chief of the DEA.
Agents attribute the growth in drug trafficking to Atlanta's location, proximity to other major cities and access to major highways.
Authorities also point to the growth of the Hispanic population in Atlanta, which allows practitioners of the Mexican drug trade to blend in among hard-working, law-abiding Hispanics.
No place is that more evident than in Gwinnett County, a community about 20 miles north of Atlanta.
Gwinnett's Hispanic population rocketed from 8,470 in 1990 to 63,727 in 2000, according to the U.S. Census. By 2010, 20 percent of the county's projected population of 700,000 is expected to be Hispanic.
"In Gwinnett County, the drug dealers are able to hide in plain sight," county District Attorney Danny Porter said. "To combat this, we have to be much more coordinated between my office, the police department and the federal authorities. The presence of the organizations is a dilemma enough that we have to develop new tactics."
Federal agents say arrests and drug-related violence in Atlanta have been linked to the two most powerful Mexican organizations: the Sinaloa and Gulf cartels.
A battle over drug routes has been blamed for the recent surge in violence in Mexican border towns, bloodshed that has included hundreds of deaths.
The fear is that the battle will extend deeper into the United States, causing more to suffer a fate similar to Reynoso's ordeal in the Gwinnett County basement.
Lucky for Reynoso, federal agents had a wiretap on his captors' phones. Agents stormed the home just as it appeared that the debt would not be paid and Reynoso would be killed.
"There is no doubt in my mind that we saved his life that day," said the DEA's Benson.
One case resolved, as cartels thrive in Atlanta.