Yesterday I had the day off and spent many happy and determined hours making the move locally here in Waukegan Illinois. This board motivated me all the way. I encourage anyone who hasn't approached their city yet -to do so. I don't know what will happen -but they have the info now and their talking about it.

1. I emailed a respectful letter and a copy of the recent Hazleton article about illegals leaving. Learn from my mistake -the council meeting was last night, so it will be another 2 weeks before they all meet and discuss this. But I bet the halls will be buzzing. I haven't heard from the aldermen yet, but the planning administrator said he would forward on a copy to the city lawyer. And the director of government services said he would tell the mayor and aldermen about it.

2. I emailed a respectful follow up email this morning to all of the aldermen and city officials with my background; that I went to school in Wkgn k-12, worked there, etc...

3. I emailed a thank you letter (using one of the form letters in archive here) to Mayor Barletta. I tagged on a paragraph about my town. I asked if he had a form email of encouragement for other mayors to send it to mine!

4. I put many suggestions on my town site for citizens to do. Here is where I'm discouraged -only one person emailed that they would email the mayor too. If you have time check out my posts from yesterday (last few pages) and my two responses.

http://www.waukegan.org/Forum/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=4

5. We were driving home Friday night around 10pm. It was through quiet residential areas. All of a sudden that changed. Both sides of the street for 2 or 3 blocks was completely lined with cars. Same with the next street over. Following street -1 car... so yesterday I emailed Waukegan's Code Compliance office. SURE enough my instincts were right. She emailed me that they had 'busted that area before for illegal basements and overcrowding.' She would ask her officers to keep an extra eye on this area -they just couldn't go into a house with out cause

6. I emailed the police chief as well. Asked him to check for city stickers and if there were Wisconsin plates (big sign in this town that it is illegal aliens driving). Haven't heard from him yet.

SO what do you think? It's a big step -my hands were clammy when I was typing the city officials yesterday! I haven't called ICE yet. Bit nervous. Someone give me a kick in the pants. I'm going to post again in a minute as to what a city offical said to do next. Sounds formidable...

Stay tuned.