- Boasting a population that is 97% Hispanic, more than
half foreign born, and 40% illegal, the Los Angeles County, Calif., incorporated
city of Maywood has achieved the Reconquista goal. It is now as lawless
and chaotic as any place in Mexico. Maywood is a warning to every city
and town in America.
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- The Maywood City Council announced this week that after
years of radical policies, corruption and scandal, the city was broke and
all city employees would be laid off and essential city services contracted
out to neighboring cities or to L.A. County government.
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- How did this happen? Until recently, Maywood was the
model for "brown power" politics.
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- Maywood was the first California city with an elected
Hispanic City Council, one of the first "sanctuary" cities for
illegal aliens, the first city to pass a resolution calling for a boycott
of Arizona after that state passed a law to enforce federal immigration
laws, the first California city to order its police department not to enforce
state laws requiring drivers to have licenses to drive, the first American
city to call on Congress to grant amnesty to all illegals.
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- Council meetings were conducted in Spanish. Maywood
was the leader in the peaceful, democratic achievement of the La Raza goal
to take power in the U.S.
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- The City of Maywood started out quite differently. Back
after World War II, Maywood was a booming blue-collar town with good jobs,
a multi-ethnic suburb of Los Angeles.
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- On the 25th anniversary in 1949 of Maywood's incorporation
as a city, the town celebrated with a beard-growing contest, a rodeo, and
wrestling matches in City Park. Chrysler operated an assembly plant there
until 1971.
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- But the early 1970s saw these industrial jobs in aerospace,
auto and furniture manufacturing, and food processing evaporate under the
pressure of higher taxes, increased local and state regulation, and the
attraction of cheaper land and cheaper labor elsewhere.
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- The multi-ethnic Maywood of the post-war years was transformed
in the '80s and '90s by wave after wave of Hispanic immigrants, many of
them illegal.
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- In August 2006, a "Save Our State" anti-illegal
immigration rally in Maywood drew hundreds of protesters-but a larger number
of defenders of illegal immigration. The pro-illegal protesters carried
signs which read "We are Indigenous! The ONLY owners of this Continent!"
and "Racist Pilgrims Go Home" and "All Europeans are Illegal
Here."
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- According to newspaper reports at the time, objectors
to illegal aliens were subject to physical attacks. A 70-year-old man
was "slashed," a woman attacked, and cars vandalized. Pro-illegal
demonstrators raised the Mexican flag at the U.S. Post Office.
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- The illegal population and their sympathizers became
increasingly radicalized. Elections to the City Council saw "assimilationist"
incumbent Hispanic council members ousted by La Raza supporting radical
challengers.
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- For years, the Maywood City Council authorized police
checkpoints to stop drunk driving. Drivers without licenses had their
cars impounded. Illegals in California cannot get drivers licenses.
By 2005, the number of such impounds were in the hundreds. A community
campaign was launched forcing the City Council to suspend the checkpoints.
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- Cars were still being impounded whenever a police traffic-violation
stop resulted in a driver without a license. Felipe Aguirre, a community
activist with Comite Pro-Uno, an "immigration service center,"
coordinated a new campaign against any impounds. He was elected in 2005
to the City Council. He is the mayor of Maywood today.
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- Aguirre and a new majority of the council dismantled
the Traffic Department. Illegals were given overnight-parking permits and
impounds stopped. You didn't need a license to drive in Maywood. The
Los Angeles Times wrote glowingly of this "progress" in a story
entitled "Welcome to Maywood, Where Roads Open Up For Immigrants".
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- The Maywood Police Department was restructured by the
new council. A new chief and new officers were hired. Later it turned
out that many of the new officers had previously been fired from other
law enforcement agencies for a variety of infractions. The Maywood P.D.
was known as the "Department of Second Chances."
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- Among those hired was a former L.A. Sheriff's deputy
terminated for abusing jail inmates; a former LAPD officer fired for intimidating
a witness; and an ex-Huntington Park officer charged with negligently discharging
a handgun and driving drunk.
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- Even the L.A. Times called the Maywood Police Department
a "haven for misfit cops." Their story alleged that a veteran
officer was extorting sex from relatives of a criminal fugitive; that another
officer tried to run over the president of the Maywood Police Commission;
and that another officer has impregnated a teenage police-explorer scout.
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- Charges of corruption and favoritism led to one recall
of city council members and threats of more recalls are heard to this day.
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- Maywood is represented in the state Senate by Democrat
"One Bill" Gil Cedillo. He earned the nickname by introducing
every year in the state legislature a bill to grant drivers licenses to
illegals. Maywood is represented in Congress by Democrat Lucille
Roybal-Allard, a staunch advocate of amnesty for illegals.
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- Today, Maywood is broke. Its police department dismantled
along with all other city departments and personnel. Only the city council
remains and a city manager to manage the contracts with other agencies
for city services in Maywood.
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- Maywood is the warning of what happens when illegal immigrants,
resisting assimilation as Americans, bring with their growing numbers the
corruption and the radical politics of their home countries. Add the radical
home-grown anti-Americanism of Hispanic "leaders" and groups
like La Raza and you get schools where learning is replaced with indoctrination,
business and jobs replaced by welfare and gangs, and a poisonous stew of
entitlement politics.
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- In too many American communities, this sad tale is all
too familiar.
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