Houston Police Union, Mayor Square Off Over Immigration

Houston officers want ban against asking about status overturned
By JAMES PINKERTON
Copyright 2009 Houston Chronicle
July 2, 2009, 9:21PM

Houston’s largest police union, citing the death of six officers during Mayor Bill White’s tenure, called on the mayor and City Council this week to hire more officers, restore $14 million in overtime pay and overturn the long-standing policy of not questioning residents about their immigration status.

In a letter to White, Gary Blankinship, president of the Houston Police Officers Union, called last week’s slaying of veteran officer Henry Canales a “trifeca failureâ€

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Newly elected District H Councilman Ed Gonzalez, who appeared with White at his City Hall news conference, said residents of his district are concerned about crime, not about the citizenship of criminals.

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And who voted these idiots into office? The hundreds of thousands of Mickey Mouses registered by Acorn?

Yes Mayor White, Citizens do commit crimes but Houston Police Officers, U.S. Citizens, are dead because ILLEGALS were in the Houston; if they were not in Houston ILLEGALLY the Police Officers would be alive.

Below is the link to the above source article in case anyone wants to comment:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/met ... 09402.html

So the police union doesn't want to arrest criminals. That's nice.
They know it's a crime right or have they been fooled by Napolitano?

Dixie

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Originally Posted by AngryTX

White responded with a news conference Thursday to make clear there would be no change in the department’s policy on illegal immigrants.

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This man has no soul. Any MAN with any integrity at all would have stepped down from office after causing so many law enforcement deaths. Chief Hurtt is just as bad. While they sit around pointing the finger of blame at the federal government, Bill White is the one we elected to insure the safety of the taxpayers in and around Houston.The buck stops here.

For anyone in Houston, there will be a silent protest in front of the HPD Central headquarters at 2pm. Lots of people will be there just before we head off to the TEA Party.

I was talking to a HPD office yesterday and he told me that the problem with illegal aliens is so bad in Houston he doesn't think it can ever be solved. He said even if they had permission to ask about immigration status all of the illegals have REAL Texas drivers' licenses. There is no way to prove they are not legal when they claim they are and even have a State license.

Houston, we have a problem, a big problem. While we all sit back and wonder if the illegals are going to take over, they already have taken over Houston. The sad part is American citizens and taxpayers aren't doing anything about it. It's honestly sad to think about all the people in tis country's history that have fought and even died for what we have. Generations of my own family have paid the price only to see the majority of Americans just lay down and give away everything. I am truly sad.

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Originally Posted by bigtex

Generations of my own family have paid the price only to see the majority of Americans just lay down and give away everything.

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Actually the majority of Americans are on our side, especially now with high unemployment. The problem is making the system represent us, many times Americans have no choice at election time.

We ALWAYS have a choice. The choice sometimes just may be to roll over and stay silent, or voice our opinion.

We need to speak up more and get out of this victim mode of thinking we can't do anything about it so why speak up. There is always choice.

Speak up. Send emails. Make phone calls. Send faxes. Write letters. If people can get on this website and write responses to all these news items they can call, fax, email.

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Originally Posted by laughinglynx

We ALWAYS have a choice. The choice sometimes just may be to roll over and stay silent, or voice our opinion.

We need to speak up more and get out of this victim mode of thinking we can't do anything about it so why speak up. There is always choice.

Speak up. Send emails. Make phone calls. Send faxes. Write letters. If people can get on this website and write responses to all these news items they can call, fax, email.

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Yes we can take action in order to have a choice when voting, the best action to take is to get involved in the Political Party process. For example Tony Dolz ran for the State legislature. He didn't win but his showing was good enough to get I think five representatives on the State Republican Party central committee. If neither party is running a pro-American candidate, we need to enter the primaries or draft a pro-American candidate to run.

copy of letter here

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-161855.html

The Political Process is the way to achieve change in our Nation. I may be different then some and confess I feel good when I make comments on the source articles presented on this website from almost every state and find that most who comment from around our country believe as I do and I'm not alone.

The good news is that most of the comments on the source articles are NOT Pro-ILLEGAL. I have noticed in the last few months that even in the North and Northeast most of the comments have NOT been Pro-ILLEGAL to the "Pro-ILLEGAL articles". Citizens continue to comment on these articles while our Politicians with any luck weaken, hopefully the Politicians read or are informed about the comments their Pro-ILLEGAL articles receive.

This is why it is important to comment at the individual source articles level even though it may seem redundant to the commenter; the Citizens reading the articles and comments on their home news source may have never been exposed to the points we attempt to communicate and/or they may find that most who comment from around our country believe as they do and they are not alone.

The comments on the source article are again falling back on calling anyone who is not Pro-ILLEGALS a RACIST! - " For a LACK of defensible arguments to protect their ILLEGALS the Pro-ILLEGAL Elitists, Elitist Politicians, Elitist Political Contributors, ILLEGAL EMPLOYERS, and other Special Interest Groups benefiting from the ILLEGALS always fall back on name calling, attacking anyone who disagrees attempting to label them as racists."

I agree with him..it's unfair to punish a whole group of people for one's persons mistake. Illegal immigrants have to settle for what they are willing to get..unlike actual citizens who all they can think about is the money. I agree that anyone who commits a crime should be punished..whether its an illegal resident or legal. People come to America to make a better living and all the racism going on and laws being passed is not really helping, it takes real courage to accept the fact that not everyone is responsible for ones stupid decisions...all everyone sees around is how they are going to do this and that to illegal immigrants but no one ever speaks up or enforces something big on a person who commits a crime and is a legal citizen where is the human equality on that.

Some of the posters do not have to identify as an "educated" lawyer or a want to be lawyer; the condescending, patronizing, and arrogant character of their comments demonstrates to anyone that they are superior individuals although being an "educated" lawyer or a want to be lawyer authenticates their professed Elitist status. My concern is my family and my country that your fellow "educated" Elitist Politicians, no doubt a good number are "educated" lawyers, and their Elitist Political Contributors desire to turn our nation into just another Third World Country for all of our Citizens except of course the want to be lawyers and the other "educated" Elitists they represent. The problem is the "educated" Elitist Politicians from the two "major" Political Parties are willing to turn the United States into a welfare state to insure most of our Citizens obtain Third World status by importing ILLEGALS to take United States Citizen’s jobs or outsourcing United States Citizen’s jobs to Third World Countries. There is no surprise in the fact that the want to be lawyers will continue to defend the ILLEGALS serving their Special Interest Groups by insuring their "bottom line" will improve while United States Citizens provide the benefits to their ILLEGALS.

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People come to America to make a better living and all the racism going on and laws being passed is not really helping,

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"We got a lot of racism goin on round here." That is a paraphrase of some famous quote, or maybe its a line from a movie, I can't remember. I can hear it though. It seems it was an older guy, with a deep voice, with maybe a southern accent? The original line didn't have anything to do with racism, I added that....... Anyway, sorry, I digress.

Lawyer2be - You have received inadequate counsel. Your "racism" accusation just exposes your complete lack of any good argument to justify the illegal invasion of a sovereign nation, so you try to silence the rational opposition with the ol' racism thing. I'm kind of surprised you thought that would work in these here parts.

The Ethnocentric Enablers have apparently been able to convince you the racism charge would work. They are mistaken.

You state we want to "punish a whole group of people for one person's mistake". We just want the whole group of people who are illegal aliens to go home now.

You state "the actual citizens only think about money". The illegal aliens violate our borders and laws for more money.

You state the illegal aliens "have to settle for what they can get", unlike US citizens. Uh, ya. Illegal aliens should be getting diddly squat here.

Signed,
InvaderFree2Be

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So the police union doesn't want to arrest criminals. That's nice.
They know it's a crime right or have they been fooled by Napolitano?

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Yes, the police union does want to question residents about their immigration status. It's the mayor who is against it. The police union is fed up with it, especially since six of their own have been killed by illegal aliens.

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The union asked White to order Chief Hurtt to drop the 1993 general order prohibiting Houston police from questioning residents about their immigration status, or reporting them to immigration agents.

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