Oakland Supports Illegal Immigration
Thursday, April 26th, 2007The City of Oakland is becoming a sanctuary for illegal aliens:
Oakland city officials today announced two new resolutions condemning recent federal immigration raids and formalizing the city’s intention not to cooperate with the U.S. government effort to deport undocumented residents.
The resolutions, one by Mayor Ron Dellums and the other by Council President Ignacio De La Fuente, both condemn the recent raids, which included one on Friday at an East Oakland manufacturer.
Both resolutions are also an effort to update Oakland’s 1986 “City of Refuge” ordinance which only applies to refugees fleeing political violence in Haiti, El Salvador, Nicaragua and South Africa, De La Fuente said. His proposed ordinance would give refuge to any undocumented immigrant regardless of national origin.
The council president, Dellums, Police Chief Wayne Tucker, City Councilwomen Jean Quan and Jane Brunner, and other city officials appeared at a City Hall news conference to support both resolutions.
The measure by De La Fuente and co-sponsors Quan and Brunner would direct city departments and staff not to cooperate with any federal immigration investigation, detention, or arrest procedures. They will introduce the measure Thursday to the City Council Rules Committee, De La Fuente said.
This means that Oakland is joining cities such as San Francisco, Virginia Beach, and others in allowing illegal aliens to come to their town, settle in, get a job, and suck up all the welfare benefits, education benefits, and free medical care they can.
Here’s an idea: If these cities really want to pay for all of the welfare benefits, education benefits, and medical care these illegal aliens are going to use, the Federal Government should let them. That is to say, the Federal Government should immediately stop any federal funds which are being sent to these cities for such services and let the local taxpayers foot the bill. As a taxpayer who lives in Texas, there is no reason I should have to pay for education, medical care and welfare for illegal aliens in California, so stop using federal money in these cities to pay for these things.
The wack-jobs in these so-called “sanctuary cities” are awfully loose with other people’s money; let’s see how loose they are with their own money.
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April 26th, 2007 at 4:52 pm
I hope they enjoy themselves. While their social services budget balloons out of control and they approach bankruptcy, they can have that warm fuzzy feeling all over. They helped a bunch of illegal aliens at the expense of their constituents.