March to end police brutality, in Santa Ana, on Oct. 22, at 12 noon

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• How about people picking on Admin brutality! That s#%t has got to stop man! Peace out.

• Is this a joke?

• Whats worse?
  1) Cops taking a vehicle of someone here illegally or drunk?
  2) Illegals taking free money, health care, child care, education and so on?

  Its not like they just drive up to you and say, give me your car. dont get me wrong, I am all for illegals or whatever they wish to be called as long as they live a productive life within society. some say the cops and firefighters are abusing the system, at least you are getting something in return for what they get.

• "More funds for the community, not for the police"...... Hmmmmm

  That is why you have defended and promoted action of the Magnificent Seven?.... to appoint permanently the COP Paul Walters to be the city manager?..... so he will allocate more funds for community not for police?

  I think you are overdue for your physical exam including the colonoscopy since some of your gray matter may hide there Zorro.

• JDParks says:

  October 22, 2011 at 2:21 pm

  Whats worse?
  1) Cops taking a vehicle of someone here illegally or drunk?
  2) Illegals taking free money, health care, child care, education and so on?

  Its not like they just drive up to you and say, give me your car. dont get me wrong, I am all for illegals or whatever they wish to be called as long as they live a productive life within society. some say the cops and firefighters are abusing the system, at least you are getting something in return for what they get.

  First the taking of property as practiced in the DUI check points has been found by the USA courts to be unconstitutional.

  Secondly, from SWIKIPEDIA:

  Consumer demand

  Texas has the second highest population of illegal immigrants, and The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas indicates that putting a halt to current deportation policies will improve the US economy by encouraging increased economic consumption.[105]

  The decline in consumer demand created by declining immigrant population matches the start of the Great Recession that began with foreclosures in 2007.[106] An almost identical economic decline occurred from 1929 through 1937 during the period of Mexican Repatriation following the Mexican Revolution, when over half a million illegal immigrants and legal US citizens of Latin descent were forcibly deported out of the country following racist campaigns by most news organizations within the US.[107][108]

  Reverse migration of illegal immigrants from the US back to Mexico has reduced consumer demand in the United States due to an overall decline in the population.[109][110][111][112][113] According to the Center for Immigration Studies, US Census estimates indicate 6 of 7 illegal immigrants are leaving the country on their own, so this trend has nothing to do with border enforcement and deportation efforts.[114]

  Approximately 0.5 million dwellings have become permanently vacant as a result of a reduction in the illegal immigrant population since 2007.[110][111][112] The greatest impact has been on the California economy, where illegal immigrants comprise approximately 1/3 of the total population.[110][111][112][113] The reduced demand for housing created permanent unemployment for hundreds of thousands of building contractors, realtors, and mortgage brokers.[110][111][112][113]

  Economic decline caused by reduced spending by illegal immigrants in the US began at about the same time as the rise in unemployment of approximately 1 million additional US citizens since 2007.[110][111][112][113] This segment of the unemployed population used to provide goods and services for the illegal immigrant population either directory or indirectly.[110][111][112][113]

  UCLA research indicates economic activity produced by illegal immigrant employment produces $150 billion in consumer spending that employs about 5% of the total legal US workforce.[110][111][112][113] Illegal immigrants occupy over 3 million dwellings, or just under 4% of the total number of homes in the US.[110][111][112][113]

  Nearly every dollar earned by illegal immigrants is spent immediately, and the average wage for US citizens is $10.25/hour with an average of 34 hours per week. This means that approximately 8 million US jobs are dependent upon economic activity produced by illegal immigrant activities within the US.[110][111][112][113]

  [edit] Taxes and social services

  Illegal immigrants are estimated to pay in about $7 billion per year into Social Security.[115]

  A paper in the peer reviewed Tax Lawyer journal from the American Bar Association asserts that illegal immigrants contribute more in taxes than they cost in social services.[116] The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office reviewed 29 reports published over 15 years to evaluate the impact of unauthorized immigrants on the budgets of state and local governments, and found that the tax revenues that unauthorized immigrants generate for state and local governments do not offset the total cost of services provided to those immigrants, but that the amount that state and local governments spend on services for unauthorized immigrants represents a small percentage of the total amount spent by those governments to provide such services to residents in their jurisdictions.[117]

  [edit] Mortgages

  Around 2005, an increasing number of banks saw illegal immigrants as an untapped resource for growing their own revenue stream and contended that providing illegal aliens with mortgages would help revitalize local communities, with many community banks providing home loans for illegal immigrants.[118]