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    Barrio Safari

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    Barrio Safari
    Posted by Derek Olson
    June 29, 2007 10:48 AM
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    The city of Santa Ana's EPIC Commission, a group of local politicians and activists formed to prevent gang violence, offered a guided tour through what one official called "one of the worst neighborhoods" for crime in Santa Ana June 27.

    At a natural break point during its three-hour meeting, politicians, some local youth, some older ex-gang members, pastors at local churches and four police officers—two in bulletproof vests, two in a cruiser—set off on an evening stroll through the neighborhood.

    The streets we walk are located a few blocks to the west of where the meeting was held, the Boys and Girls Club on Highland Street between Flower and Shelton streets.

    As we arrive at Shelton Street, I already feel intrusive just being a member of what looked like nothing so much as tourists on a ghetto safari, eyeballing residents' living rooms through open doors.

    A man walking next to me says 95 percent of the residents here are illegal immigrants. Noticing the glares shooting our direction, I ask him if this is a dangerous street to walk down alone, or if the obvious tension is a direct result of our arriving with an armed escort. He says it's the spectacle and I would be safe here by myself—at least during the daytime.

    One resident says it best as she sees our group: “Uh-uh, Hell no. This ain't normal.â€
    Just your ordinary, average, everyday, American mom!

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    Candy from Mexico, high in lead. Sounds like instead of coming to America the illegals are just trying to make America Mexico.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Beckyal
    Candy from Mexico, high in lead. Sounds like instead of coming to America the illegals are just trying to make America Mexico.
    That is exactly what they are trying to do. Azatlan is this movement with LaRaza and other racial hate groups pushing the way.
    not only does the candy have lead, some of the candy has quicksilver or mercury in it.

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    Loud Mexican music blasts from many of the homes' open front doors. Inside one home, a couple of men sit watching TV in dirty T-shirts. In another, a mother is preparing dinner.
    Yep...these poor poor people....living in the shadows.

    Next we make our way to West Brook Street. Santana says this neighborhood is so bad that the city walled it off in both directions, creating an island where it is so dangerous and difficult to deter crime that most officers do not even come here under normal circumstances.
    Yep...just hard-working, God-fearing people trying to make a better life for themselves and their families.
    Calderon was absolutely right when he said...."Where there is a Mexican, there is Mexico".

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