Thread: TX-EX POLICE HEAD HOUSTON NOT SANCTUARY CITY

I guess it all goes back to the meaning of SANCTUARY CITY! SANCTUARY CITIES in the UNITED STATES is a HUMAN RIGHT for ILLEGALS!

"It doesn’t seem to matter if it is Police Officer in Houston attempting to safe guard his city, a high school student in Los Angeles standing in front of his home while his mother is half way around the world defending her/our country, or a father and his sons in San Francisco driving home were all among thousands of other U.S. Citizens who became targets of ILLEGALS and were murdered because of the greed of "our" Elitist Politicians and their Elitist Contributors in search of "cheap labor" to help their "bottom line"!

Our FAMILIES are at the mercy of ILLEGALS and their Anchors being murdered, raped, infected with disease, or robbed. We can see the results of the ILLEGAL invasion in our courts every day! But NOT to worry the Chamber of Commerce will get their cheap labor increasing their privatized PROFITS while socializing the benefits for their ILLEGALS on the back of U. S. Citizens, thanks to our past and current Presidents, the Congressional Leadership(?), and local elected and appointed officials!

P.S. Sadly Houston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco are among the many SANCTUARY Cities in the United States!
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June 29, 2010
'Sanctuary' label follows former HPD chief to ICE

AP Photo/David J. Phillip
Former Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt listens to a question during a news conference on Dec. 17 in Houston.

Former Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt, who recently was appointed to a top Immigration and Customs Enforcement job, is taking a beating in the press and on the Web for being a "Sanctuary City" supporter.

Some of the headlines are brutal. (And, to be fair, inaccurate):
New ICE Director Supports Sanctuary for Cop Killing Illegal Aliens, one reads.
http://www.rightsidenews.com/2010062810 ... liens.html


Bill O'Reilly took on Hurtt's appointment in his Talking Points Memo, calling him "outwardly sympathetic to illegal aliens."
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/oreilly/t ... kingpoints

"As chief, he refused to enforce federal immigration law," O'Reilly wrote. "Now Hurtt is a federal immigration official? Come on. That's insane."

Hurtt has long insisted that Houston is not a Sanctuary City. Here is his explanation, in his own words, from last year about how Houston is mislabeled.
http://blogs.chron.com/thelist/2009/03/ ... _labe.html


In an interview Monday, Hurtt said he's feeling misunderstood.

"We had a great relationship working with ICE," Hurtt said. "To say that Houston is a sanctuary city is just untrue."

So what is a sanctuary city? We've written about this before, but we'll rehash it again.

Experts said there is no single, universally accepted definition of a Sanctuary City. The phrase is often misused in the news media and by politicians to describe cities with a wide range of policies on treatment of suspected illegal immigrants, critics said. The terminology emerged in the 1980s when certain U.S. cities, including San Francisco, offered sanctuary to Central American immigrants who crossed the border illegally after fleeing wars in their countries.

For years, Former Mayor Bill White and Hurtt tried to shed the sanctuary label, bestowed on Houston and more than 30 other cities and counties by a 2006 Congressional Research Service report. The report described sanctuary cities as having a "don't ask, don't tell" policy when it comes to questioning illegal immigrants about their immigration status.
Houston forbids officers from questioning people on the street about their immigration status.

But White and Hurtt both supported partnerships with ICE in the city's jails. In 2006, after Houston police Officer Rodney Johnson was killed by a previously deported felon, Hurtt and White announced they would run identity checks on suspects who did not carry valid IDs and allowed ICE access to its jails. (See reaction to Hurtt's appointment this week from Johnson's widow here. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06 ... pointment/ )

Last year, the city proposed participating in ICE's 287 (g) program, but instead signed on for ICE Secure Communities program, which automatically screens the immigration history of all suspects booked into jail.

But that fell short for some anti-illegal immigration critics, who wanted the city to enforce immigration laws outside of the jails.

"For us to concentrate on a misdemeanor of being in the country illegally, that just wasn't a good use of resources," Hurtt said.

Posted by Susan Carroll at June 29, 2010 01:08 PM
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People remember that Bill White, who is running for governor in Texas, ran a santuary city for years. Rick Perry is a POS but White is worse.

Originally Posted by Cujo47

People remember that Bill White, who is running for governor in Texas, ran a santuary city for years. Rick Perry is a POS but White is worse.

you are right, White was Hurtt's BOSS

Originally Posted by Cujo47

People remember that Bill White, who is running for governor in Texas, ran a santuary city for years. Rick Perry is a POS but White is worse.

White is pretty much running on "But at least I'm not Perry" and a LOT of people are falling for line that as hard as they fell for Obama's cult of personality. Even people who's stance on issues I know is 180° of his.

I grew up about 15 minutes south of downtown Houston.... If it's not a sanctuary city I'm purple hippo.

Houston's not a sanctuary city?? All you have to do is drive around and
see the all the day labor sites around the city. Or heres an idea, try
telling HPD Sergeant Josylyn Johnson that Houston is not a sanctuary
City, her husband Rodney Johnson was shot four times in the head by
an illegal alien.

I used to play pipes for the HPD police memorial every year. Bill White
and Hurtt would both be there and it made me sick to think of them acting
all emotional when they're at fault in some of those deaths because of
their immigration policies.

7,000 illegals marched last May day in support of illegal immigration in
Houston. Don't tell me Houston is not a sancuary city. Tell it to Rodney
Johnson or Frank Cantu or any of the US citizens who have been killed
at the hands of illegals in the city of Houston under White/Hurtt's watch.

Ptoo!!

Def

i think its safe to say that if white is governor of texas, he will make the entire state a sanctuary state for illegals

Originally Posted by Cujo47

People remember that Bill White, who is running for governor in Texas, ran a santuary city for years. Rick Perry is a POS but White is worse.

You are absolutely right. It is going to hurt my heart to have to vote YES for Rick Perry. He is definitely the lesser of two evils. We here in Houston know well what White will do for Texas. Every department in the Houston Police Department is paying the price still for what Chief Hurtt allowed to happen to them. We are having cases tossed out of court left and right because of the sloppy investigative lab work from finger prints to DNA.

not to mention that White and Hurtt were mayor and police chief when 4 houston police officers were killed by illegals and another one paralyzed by an illegal alien, twice removed, drug smuggler

Originally Posted by jamesw62

not to mention that White and Hurtt were mayor and police chief when 4 houston police officers were killed by illegals and another one paralyzed by an illegal alien, twice removed, drug smuggler

During their reign Hurtt sold out the Houston Police Department and White sold out the entire city of Houston as well as surrounding areas. Thanks to both fo them our police department is in shambles, officers are dead and the city is left in ruin full of criminals from New Orleans and south of the border. This one time great city will never be the same. An with the BP disaster leaving us with the possibility of job loses and Obama putting the knife in the back of NASA, this city has been left in a huge mess. Just imagine what could happen if White is left in charge of the whole state of Texas. Thanks to Rick Perry, this is a good possibility as lots of Texans will be voting for White out of spite. Most Texans have no idea what White is really like as they have not lived here or kept up with the news to understand.

WHITE can dream on he will NEVER win, the tea parties laugh when they hear his name.and we are spreading the word very fast. so be sure to tell everyone you know to not vote for him.and tell them to vote vote vote they will make a difference