Thread: California Hispanic Leaders Get Death Threats Over Immigrati

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,192959,00.html

Monday, April 24, 2006


SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The lieutenant governor and the mayor of Los Angeles, both Hispanic Democrats, have received threats amid a national debate over immigration policy, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Monday.

Schwarzenegger told reporters about the threats against Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante during a news conference in his office Monday.

Other elected officials of Mexican heritage have also received threats, Schwarzenegger said, but he did not name them.

Bustamante spokesman Steve Green said the lieutenant governor appeared at some immigration rallies with Villaraigosa in March and received "nasty e-mails" afterward. The death threat — "The only good Mexican is a dead Mexican" — came about three weeks ago on a postcard, he said.

The California Highway Patrol, which investigates threats against public officials, declined to comment.

Janelle Erickson, a spokeswoman for Villaraigosa, said she didn't know whether the mayor had received threats related to the immigration debate.

Bustamante and Villaraigosa have opposed the criminalization of illegal immigrants and have said they support legal pathways to helping undocumented workers become citizens.


Schwarzenegger said he also was disturbed that vandals had spray-painted ethnic insults on and torched a Mexican-owned restaurant in San Diego County this month. Officials ruled the April 10 attack a hate crime.

"That is not what California stands for," Schwarzenegger said. "I've asked the district attorneys throughout our state to be vigilant and swift in their actions against those who practice hate against our fellow citizens."

Schwarzenegger's comments came the same day that President Bush addressed illegal immigration during a speech in Orange County, near Los Angeles.

The governor has said he opposes amnesty for illegal immigrants, but he also called a massive deportation of the estimated 11 million foreigners living illegally in the U.S. unrealistic.

Bush gave the same message Monday.

I am not convinced the death threats and other violence isn't an
inside job to gain sympathy and to stregthen their causes.

Threats are part of the Position. But they are able to make open threats against the Legal People of this country.

I'm going to go out and get some more tissues.
I think that I will be crying myself to sleep tonight.

boohoo cry me a freakin river, with that kind of job comes threats day in and day out, if you can't take it then get out of office.

This is such a non-story. Minutemen have been threatened by the illegal thugs and their supporters. But is THAT reported on the news? The so-called "threats" to Vilagrossa and Busta mericamoney are just your typical that get sent to politicans. Like do I get to boohoohoo cry some crocodile tears down that river too?

I'm with you concernedcitizen, I think it's bull. BTW, LA is now Mexico for all those who don't know

When they start becoming more concerned about our well being then we'll talk. Until then STFU.

This is one-sided reporting again. Do you know how many threats the president of this country and other politicians receive each year? They are just trying to make us look bad in the press again.

Gee, those e-mails are mild in comparison to Jose Angel Guiterrez saying "we will kill the gringo if we have to."