Costa Mesa, CA: A “rule of law” community
Striking back at so-called sanctuary cities, the Costa Mesa City Council declared itself a “Rule of Law” city, setting itself up as a lightning rod in the latest wave of debate over immigration reform, it was reported today.
The vote came last night at the urging of Mayor Allan Mansoor, who was condemned by the Orange County branch of the Anti-Defamation League in April when he called for city efforts to help enforce immigration laws.
In 2005, Mansoor proposed training Costa Mesa police to enforce federal immigration laws, and that touched off a debate that culminated in a First Amendment lawsuit. Costa Mesa prevailed in the case when a jury rejected the ACLU-backed lawsuit in December.
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I guess the American in ACLU means anyone not from the United States.
I want to see this happen all over this country! We MUST stand up for what is right, or we are done as a sovereign nation.
Good for Costa Mesa! How will this bho and calderon spin this? I know the answer to that question.
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If you ask me , when Calderone speaks before Congress they should all get up and WALK OUT!
Good for Costa Mesa.
It would be very cool if there was a list of businesses in Costa Mesa that had some sort of online retail site that we could support by making some purchases and being vocal about that support.
I realize there’s no assurance that a particular proprietor supports this action by the City Council there, but it doesn’t matter.
It would be nice to see a news report that told of online business there booming right after this action.
This is what the liberals do not, and cannot, understand. The AZ law just tells it’s officers that they must enforce already existing federal law. Costa Mesa is just doing more of the same.
So what the liberals are fuming about is how dare anyone enforce federal law! Unless it’s a law allowing abortion.
Racist Tea baggers and bitter clingers?
On May 20th, 2010 at 10:25 am, TooMuchTime said:
…a jury rejected the ACLU-backed lawsuit…
I guess the American in ACLU means anyone not from the United States.
I lived in Costa Mesa for 6 years while I was in college. It is a beautiful town right next to Newport Beach, with one of the best outdoor swap meets. Now I miss it more then ever!!!
Is there a congressman that has the COJONES to ask Calderone if he would prefer the U.S. and Arizona adopt the Mexican immigration law instead.
Michele’s got them. Do it!
Well, here’s a business in Costa Mesa. All I know about them is they’re sole retail shop is based there and they carry some pretty trendy surf and sport stuff.
Surfside
233 E. 17th St.
Costa Mesa, CA
92627
http://www.surfsidemailorder.com/t-faq.aspx
I have been attempting to email Mayor Tony Villar. There have been over 24 million attempts to contact him and the site is shut down.
His vile advocacy for boycott of Arizona has stirred up the “folks”. I will attempt to contact his office by phone today. His love of his illegal brethren and their Reconquista mentality is not surprising, but his action is inappropriate for an elected official. How dare he stick his nose into another state’s business as the Mayor of Los Angeles. He doesn’t speak for me.
It is such an obvious and important question to ask this intruder on our soil!! Why is no one asking it? Just one person, please, stand up and ask Calderone that question!!!
I love Arizona’s response….
Turn out the lights on L.A.! Buycott Arizona and BOYCOTT any city, state, organization or corporation that instigates or initiates a boycott of Arizona!
I just hope and pray that this action, as well as Arizona’s, is maintained and has a helpful, lasting effect; and that it doesn’t end up being another meaningless statement like the “Drug-Free Zones” blah-blahed at schools.
Perhaps I’m oversimplifying, but if something is illegal, such as drugs, or giving sanctuary to illegal aliens – who by definition have broken the law; then enforce the law…don’t just tell me again that this time you really, really mean it wehen you say you are going to enforce it, the way the worthless, effeminate UN spews out one meaningless resolution after another.
As I said, I’m hoping and praying….
So, LaLa Land gets about 25% of its power from AZ and Commissioner Pierce just wants LA to sell of that 25% to someone else if they’re serious about the boycott. They’re not, of course. They’re just a bunch of hypocrites.
Maybe that 25% is doled out to Hollywood? I’d love to see Hollywood and the homes of the liberal elites go dark.
My buddy has a condo in Costa Mesa.
There is an elementary school down his street. Tons of anchor baby kids speaking Spanish walk by each day.
They took a liking to hanging on a branch of the tree in his front yard. Slowly the tree was starting to lean over. So he took axle grease and smeared it over the branch.
Next day little Paco grabs branch, lets go, looks at his hands and says “no bueno, no bueno”.
I am living in AZ; If you want to be an American of Mexican descent, I welcome you to immigrate here legally. If you want to be a Mexican living in the US illegally, go home. I believe that is the sentiment shared by a vast majority in this country but the left spins it as racism instead of nationalism. They are out of touch with their countrymen and need to know it, loudly and often.
I would have loved it if one of the elementary students meeting with Michelle Obama had asked “Mrs. Obama, since your husband supports breaking the law to enter the country illegally, how do we know which laws it is okay to break from his example?”
Remember Stubby, he cleans our toilets. I guess that means we can’t live without him.
I go to school in Costa Mesa. I’m a little happier about that now.
You can’t blame little Paco for doing what little boys do. You can blame U. S. officials for not doing what they are paid to do. Secure our borders! Tell the parents “Take little Paco and go home”.
My casa is not your casa unless you come here legally.
Average Americans are leading the way on this and the pols are desperately trying to keep up. We all need to continue to struggle, argue and debate the virtues of the rule of law and history with any Leftist who tries to spread their agitprop. Don’t expect any help from the Vichy “collaborateur” media though.
And dump this multicultural crap. Last night Mark Levin was quoting Arthur Schlessinger, and Eugene McCarthy in showing how even the old-line Democrats understood the importance of border integrity, immigration control, and yes, a homogenous American culture with one language. Without this understaning there is no America. But of course, this is the ultimate goal of the Leftists and their Eurotrash comrades.
LOL. TigerLady rocks! You crack me up girl!
It’s the tiger in me!! Thanks.
I’m liking Arizona more and more. Their Governor and others in the state are informing our nation on the inherent dangers of not enforcing FEDERAL immigration laws…I’m praying they are blessed for leading the way, hopefully, to secure borders and lawful enforcement.
Sort of related…
Calderon is now addressing the ‘migration’ situation in his speech to the Joint Session of Congress. 8:41am Pacific
He is telling migrants – ‘he is working hard for their rights’. He says he is working hard to create jobs in Mexico.
Other notable quotes:
‘Mexico is determined to assume its responsibility.’
‘We see migration as our problem as well’.
‘I fully support the right of any country to enact it’s own laws’.
Even better IMO all the Republicans get up and leave. let the dems show who they really are to the American public, when they sit there and listen to that drool.
Here is an idea that will put an end to the drug violence and illegals crossing the border: Americans can stop demanding their drugs and Americans can like you know…stop hiring them.
More from Calderon:
“I disagree with the recently adopted law in Arizona.”
(Raising the [bogus] issue of racial profiling).
Now, touting the presumed bright shared economic future of North America.
(end of speech)
You’re 1/3 of the way there.
A second third is to raise the punishment for employers of illegals to the point where the penalties would put them out of business.
The final third would be to put apprehended illegals into chain-gangs, building a wall (not a fence) that, when completed, will be so massive that it can be seen from orbit, will be manned by 20,000 border patrol agents so there are no unobserved segments, will go down into the ground at least 100 feet to prevent tunneling, and which will thereby persuade Paco, Pablo Juan and Manuel that if they spend 50% of the time and energy it’d take to get past it to better their situation right where they are, they could make decent lives for themselves in Mexico.
So…signs of SANITY breaking out in Kulifornia…!?!?!
Great!!!
Hmmm… Congress HAS established a uniform rule for Naturalization (ie how you get citizenship)… I see nothing prohibiting Arizona ENFORCING the law.
How this meme that ONLY the Feds can get involved in this started, I’m not sure, but someone must have blown an arguement before the Supremes somewhere….
Costa Mesa is home to South Coast Plaza, one of the best malls in the U.S. and my favorite place in SoCal to shop.
Wolf Blitzer did. Calderone beat up on Arizona and US law, then explained the Mexican law. Apparently it didn’t even occur to him to think about what he was saying.
Calderon has enough on his plate running his own country and should keep his opinions about our immigration policy to himself. As long as his plans for our country conflict with our plans for our country he should stay on his side of the border.
As a gesture of goodwill and North American unity I think the Tea Party movement should propose joining with our friends to the South and enforcing a common immigration law……Mexico’s.
Watch Barry squirm…….
I applaud Costa Mesa and would add “Mr. Calderon, MYOB, GO HOME and take your citizens with you before they have to suffer the consequences that our laws REQUIRE of those who break them”.
Calderon referred to a “broken system” that’s needs fixed. In that regard, I would tell him that OUR system is none of his business and if he does not want our laws to punish his citizens, then he should take them home. He has no standing to lecture Arizona or to question the laws that American Citizens have enacted for the United States of America.
Apparently, Calderon was on Wolf Blitzer last night and said the AZ law was a very bad law and it was profiling. Wolf asked him if people could come in from Honduras and other countries through their southern border without papers and he said, “No, of course not. We stop them, make sure they are using their right name, check their background for criminality” (paraphrasing). Then Wolf said, do you stop people in your country and ask for their papers? “Of course.” “If they are in Mexico illegally, what do you do?” “We.deport.them.”
So, that is fine for Mexico. But the Arizona law is profiling. This man has a rip in his marble bag.
Bingo!
rambler, you get today’s blue ribbon!
This is like the Berzerkley city council passing some resolution about an issue that is specified in the constitution to be the purview of the federal gov’t. Are all the potholes filled on all the roads in Berkeley? I guess they are since the council makes pronouncements about federal issues.
Are all of Mexico’s problems fixed? They must be; Calderone is now sticking his nose into our business.
Hey, Calderon:
Stop meddling in the affairs of the United States of America. You are not a citizen, you have no rights….now show your papers.
It would seem that Mr. Calderon, LA, Seattle, Boston, Obama and organizations like La Raza (the RACE), seem to believe that the United States does not have any rights. The only country in the world that helps the most in the world, yet the world demands that US citizens do not have the right to create our own laws.
Costa Mesa has it right. WE HAVE RIGHTS TOO!
Here is another good reason to secure the border.
http://www.nwcn.com/news/Edmonds-rape-suspect-deported-4-times-94292944.html
And our dumba$$ president stands with him and AGAINST American citizens in Arizona. The two of them are one stooge short of a B movie. Paging John McCain….
BHO and crew will call it racist and not even read what they passed in 3…2…1.
tv commercials for republican canidates try to gain support by showing who is more conservative. at the bar yesterday, talk was loud and long for supporting existing immigration law. the hooters in costa mesa is the best.
Unfortunately, open borders advocates have so distorted the illegal immigration issue that a “Rule of Law” city in California is news.
Well done Costa Mesa.
Costa Mesa hosts on a fantastic Highland Games Festival every Memorial Day weekend.
I highly recommend it.
Can every American citizen victim of a crime perpetrated by an illegal sue the Federal Government as a class action?
Apologize if this has already been said…but it’s beyond pathetic a city has to POINT OUT the fact that they are law-abiding.
Costa Mesa was known in the early days as Goat Hill. There is a Tavern on the 55 freeway through Costa Mesa into Newport Beach called Goat Hill Tavern.
The reason it is called Goat Hill is that when famous Hollywood actors like John Wayne left Los Angeles and moved to less populous coastal areas to the south, an affluent area developed known as Newport Beach. The affluent people there, including many celebrities needed domestic help such as gardeners and maids. The bluff above Newport Beach, which is Costa Mesa (bluff on the coast) had many Mexican families there that had lived there for generations. They tended goats for a living and were farmers. While the men tended goats, the women began to take jobs as maids for the wealthy in Newport Beach. The wealthy called the area on the bluff Goat Hill.
The legacy of Goat Hill is that there are generations of Mexican families living there. It became a magnet for Mexicans moving across the border 2 hours away looking for work.
Santa Ana is just a few miles up the road and became an even larger hub of Mexican immigrants. These people worked in the strawberry fields and orange groves as migrant workers. Many just stayed.
Santa Ana developed major gang problems. The gangs began to move into Costa Mesa but the city put a quick stop to that with aggressive anti gang enforcement. That worked for them. They have never been anti immigrant because the community is based on immigrants, but are certainly anti criminal. That includes the breaking of any laws, including immigration laws. They have an INS officer in their jail to facilitate deportation of criminals. All of these efforts have been successful in keepng the city safe from the gang terror that still plagues neighboring Santa Ana. Obey the law is all they are saying. Whats wrong with that?
At least, thats my two cents worth.
We the People of the United States of America have the right to have our borders and our laws respected and enforced.
Citizens of other countries illegally in our country have no right to demand anything from our government. They most certainly have the right to petition the governments of their home countries for change if they are unhappy with their home country. If they want to be Americans, we have a path to citizenship, more generous than any other nation, and it starts in their home country.
We need to insist on the equal protection, application and enforcement of the law or devolve into anarchy. Our Republic only functions if everyone follows the same rules. We should not change the laws to accomodate those breaking them.
If America annouces to the world “We can’t stop you, so come on in” with another amnesty, the deluge will be overwhelming. If 3,000 a day didn’t get your attention, then wait until it’s 10,000 a day. We cannot sustain this influx and survive as a nation. We must speak up and speak to each other about this and not let false claims of racism or bigotry be used to intimidate us into silent assent. America is not Congress’ to give away. America belongs to We the People. Speak to your neighbors, speak to your coworkers, but please speak up to your Congressmen and Senators. It’s O.K. for us to enforce our laws, no really, it is.
Someone please tell Sen. McCain.
And that Calderone guy, too, whoever he is….
Now that’s funny,………….and sad.
Since Calderon was talking about his citizens how about kicking in the cost of supporting them while in the US?
Yeah, I didn’t think so.
Calderon is just addicted to American cash. He should keep his citizens and put them to work printing their own money instead.
Why wait for a congressman? Why don’t we fax the same to the Mexican Consulate all over the United States? I faxed the local Mexican Consulate with this:
Una mensaje por su Presidente:
Senor Calderon:
Cómo es maravilloso que usted admite a sus insuficiencias. Usted no puede mantener a sus paisanos caseros porque no hay nada para ellos allí. Todas lo que usted tiene son aberturas para los corredores de la droga y del arma. Usted y Obama están animando anarquía. Qué grandes líderes usted es. ¡NO!
(How wonderful that you admit your inadequacies. You cannot keep your countrymen home because there is nothing for them there. All you have are openings for drug and gun runners. You and Obama are encouraging lawlessness. What great leaders you are. NOT!)
Bravo indeed, Costa Mesa! The fact that we are even cheering a municipality for enforcing the laws that are in every way in keeping with our Constitution is beyond sad.
But that said, “deez are da conditions dat prevail.”
So every victory along the long and arduous road to the restoration of our Republic is to be savored.
Fight on!
Bravo, Mayor Allan Mansoor and the Costa Mesa City Council!
Bravo, indeed!
The line has been drawn: those who support the Rule of Law, and those who actively seek to undermine it.
I don’t think it’s any stretch at all to say that those who actively seek to undermine our Constitution and the Rule of Law should be prosecuted for TREASON.
Good for them, about time people in California start to wake up! The Illegals are part of the reason they are bankrupt!
Nice bit of trivia T-Bone, I used to go to the Goat Hill Tavern quite a bit when I lived in OC but never knew where the name came from. My favorite watering hole was the Harp Inn just down the street from GHT run by two Irish immigrants, legal, I assume!
El Presidente Cartoon Character Calderone el Toto will be speaking to and about Costa Mesa.
Pass the Kleenex.
In related news our buffoon President Blue Lips w/ears is in BIG Trouble with the ventriloquist union: he failed to register his dummy, El Presidente Cartoon Character Calderone el Toto, with the union before appearing on television. El Presidente Cartoon Character Calderone el Toto is a scab dummy!
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Let your sidearm be like Master Card:
Don’t Leave home without it.
ACLU….rejected!!!