Mike Scott
February 18, 2005
RE: KABC Mayoral Debate
Mr. Villaraigosa:
During last week's KABC mayoral debate, host Doug McIntyre asked the following question, "Knowing that Los Angeles is a target city for terror groups, why should the city of Los Angeles make a document that is only needed by illegal immigrants available so people can move freely about the city?"
Answering for what I'm certain is the opinion of three-quarters of the American people, candidate Walter Moore responded, "Our city is aiding and abetting a large-scale violation of federal immigration laws. We need to let our police investigate, enforce and cooperate with federal immigration".
Candidate Antonio Villaraigosa responded, "These people come for a job. They come for a better life. When you invest in those other countries, they stay there. It's not rocket science".
Although this isn't a matter of rocket science, it certainly is a matter of jaundiced ideologies. So what if "these people" come here for a better life? Does that mean the rest of us are obligated to subsidize them to the tune of $8.7 billion in unfunded mandates, year after year after year? Does it also mean that "these people" get to stay in contravention of our immigration laws? Does it mean we can't demand that our elected officials enforce our laws? Does it mean we shouldn't vote/kick-out those elected officials who knuckle-under to yada yada slurs of racist/bigot, ect?
Let's go back to college. While at UCLA in the mid-70s, you were president of Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA). This is a Chicano organization that advocated (at that time) the return, by force if necessary, of Texas, California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Wyoming to Mexico. The MEChA Constitution says, "general membership shall consist of any student who accepts, believes and works for the goals and objectives of MEChA, including the liberation of AZTLAN, (the American Southwest) meaning self-determination of our people in this occupied state and the physical liberation of our land."
Now lets go back to May 31, 2001, when you were was asked by Frank Mottek of KNX, "It has been reported Mr. Villaraigosa that when you were at UCLA you were active in a Latino rights group which among other things says in its constitution that it is in favor of forming a separate republic in the Southwest United States. Do you hold the beliefs of that organization as your own and do you still support the group and what do you tell kids that see this kind of stuff on the Internet?"
Your response to Mr. Mottek was a mixture of Cobol and razzmatazz that didn't come close to responding to the question. Perhaps MEChA or you have modified their/your views on this subject. Whatever the answer is, you ducked the question because you didn't want the voters to know where you stand on American sovereignty over the American Southwest.
And when you combine the above with your nutty ideas about driver's licenses for illegal aliens, I believe the residents of Los Angeles should have proper concerns about your qualifications to become their mayor. Certainly a valid question is raised about a candidate's possible desire to flood this region with millions of illegal aliens, with little or no concern for the welfare of those Americans already living here.
While in college I was exposed to Victor Hugo, who wrote some 153 years ago, "There is one thing stronger than all the kings and queens, and all the armies of the world combined, and that is the power of an idea whose time has come". And that idea is that in the final analysis, no democratic society can indefinitely allow a relentless flood of illegal immigrants to contravene its laws, violate its borders, overwhelm its infrastructures and social systems, diminish employment possibilities for its indigenous uneducated and poor, and degrade its way of life, as is happening here in California.
Tick tick tick tick.
Mike Scott
Glendora
