Thread: Texas Mayor Caught in Deportation Furor

April 5, 2009
Texas Mayor Caught in Deportation Furor
By RANDY KENNEDY

IRVING, Tex. — Just after sunrise one morning last summer, as his two sons hurried out the door to school, Oscar Urbina might have presented a portrait of domestic stability in this Dallas suburb, a 35-year-old man with a nice home, a thriving family and a steady contracting job.

But a few weeks earlier, after buying a Dodge Ram truck at a local dealership, he had been summoned back to deal with some paperwork problems. And shortly after he arrived, so did the police, who arrested him on charges of using a false Social Security number.

Mr. Urbina does not deny it; he has been living illegally in the Dallas area since coming to the country from Mexico in 1993. But the turn of events stunned him in a once-welcoming place where people had never paid much attention to Social Security numbers.

If the arrest had come earlier, it might have had little effect on his life. But two years ago, Irving made a decision, championed by its first-term mayor, Herbert A. Gears, to conduct immigration checks on everyone booked into the local jail. So Mr. Urbina was automatically referred to the federal authorities and now faces possible deportation, becoming one of more than 4,000 illegal immigrants here who have ended up in similar circumstances.

As battles over illegal immigration rage around the country, Irving’s crackdown is not unusual in itself. What makes it striking is that it happened with the blessing of a mayor like Mr. Gears, an immigrant-friendly Democrat with deep political ties to the city’s Hispanic leaders, a man who likes to preach that adapting to immigration — especially in a city like his, now almost half-Hispanic — is not a burden but an opportunity, or as he says, it’s “not a have-to, it’s a get-to.â€

[quote]“I let my instincts rule the moment in that instance,â€

He's just trying to get reelected this May.

One week, he's sucking up to Vicente Fox and the voters pounded down on him so hard, that he changed course. That's what the snide comment is about, he's still upset that he has to represent the voters and not Fox.

Dixie

[quote]“To me the program itself is a crime, in human terms,â€

I would suspect money is involved somehow,it alway is.

But Mr. Gears’s position is one he seems to struggle every day to defend, said Carlos Quintanilla, a vocal advocate who, like many other Hispanic leaders, initially supported the jail program but now deplores it.



This convicted felon is an excellent representative of the criminal illegals ...

Is this what they call immigration? I think somebody ought to rethink their terminology on this and what is happening across this nation. I will leave it there as not to say what I really have on my mind at the present time.

In 1970, when the city’s population hit 100,000, the Census estimated that less than 5 percent was Hispanic. By 1990 the percentage had tripled, during the next decade it doubled, and it is now thought to be 45 percent or higher. In the fall of 2008, the last time a count was taken, 70 percent of the students enrolled in kindergarten through fifth grade in Irving’s schools were Hispanic.

IRVING, Tex. — Just after sunrise one morning last summer, as his two sons hurried out the door to school, Oscar Urbina might have presented a portrait of domestic stability in this Dallas suburb, a 35-year-old man with a nice home, a thriving family and a steady contracting job.

But a few weeks earlier, after buying a Dodge Ram truck at a local dealership, he had been summoned back to deal with some paperwork problems. And shortly after he arrived, so did the police, who arrested him on charges of using a false Social Security number.

Hmm...so I suppose the NY Times expects me to believe that no American citizen would be interested in a contracting job that affords them the opportunity to buy a home in a nice suburb and also purchase a new vehicle?

This illegal invader STOLE everything he has from this country and our citizens! Figures this propaganda/SOB piece would come from the NY Times, now the official mouth piece for mexico and their illegal invaders.

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http://www.alipac.us/article4108.html

Mr. Gears should be tormented: By guilt that he's more committed to illegal aliens than the Citizens he's supposed to be representing!