L.A. City Council votes to ban travel and future contracts with Arizona because of tough new immigration law

Los Angeles City Council jumped the gun without thinking this through. If they had bothered to check for themselves instead of listening to some of the hysterical people interviewed by the media, they would discovered that what Arizona has put in their law is already part of Federal law that you have to carry identification with you at all times to prove you have a right to be in this Country. What's wrong with that?

What's wrong when the police stop people to ask for your identification. We have to provide a driver's license if pulled over by the police so why are immigrants to this Country not required by every State to provide identification since the Federal Government has abdicated their roll in controlling illegal immigration. If you are here legally, you have nothing to be concerned about. If you are not here legally, there is a simple way to avoid all of this -- GO HOME! If you want to live in this Country then illegals need to go back home and come back into the Country legally. None of this rewarding anyone for breaking the law.

California is deeply in debt and now their largest city wants to start a boycott of Arizona? Maybe what they should be concerned about is all the money that has been drained from the California treasury to support illegals and led to the state being bankrupt. No wonder business want to move out of California when places like Los Angeles put illegals over the rights of legal citizens.

In the end Los Angeles will lose more than the the State of Arizona with this foolish boycott. Los Angeles City Council reminds us of the Democrats in Congress -- vote on a bill before reading. Not very smart. Some of their remarks are not very smart either. Democrats love to resort to calling names when they don't agree with something. Being called racist and compared to Hitler doesn't change the basic facts that we have an illegal immigration problem in this Country that is getting worse not better and every state needs to step up and do what Arizona has done.

The Southern border fence needs to be built now and National Guard sent to the border to stop the flow of illegals into the United States. The crime that is brought into the United States today by the illegals is far more deadly today than ever before and needs stopped.

Los Angeles City Council is a perfect example of political correctness run amok. Wonder how their citizens are going to like being laid off because the city is almost bankrupt when a lot of Los Angeles resources like the State of California resources have gone to support illegals? The residents of Los Angeles may not like what they will be seeing out of the lack of city services in the months ahead. Instead of doing something about the Budget, the City Council passes a bill to partially boycott Arizona. Ridiculous waste of energy!

L.A. City Council votes to ban travel and future contracts with Arizona because of tough new immigration law
May 12, 2010 12:23 pm

The Los Angeles City Council, protesting Arizona’s crackdown on illegal immigration, on Wednesday voted to ban most city travel to Arizona and future contracts with companies in that state.

During a morning-long debate on the resolution, council members compared Arizona’s action to Nazi Germany and the beginning of the Holocaust, as well as the internment and deportation of Japanese Americans during World War II. A new Arizona law, which will take effect July 23, will require police to determine whether people they stop are in the country illegally, which critics say will lead to racial profiling.

“Los Angeles the second-largest city in this country, an immigrant city, an international city. It needs to have its voice heard,’’ said Councilman Ed Reyes, one of the resolution’s sponsors. “As an American, I cannot go to Arizona today without a passport. If I come across an officer who’s having a bad day and feels that the picture on my ID is not me, I can be … deported, no questions asked. That is not American.’’

The action was approved 13-1, with Councilman Greig Smith casting the sole dissenting vote.

The council’s action fell short of a total boycott or canceling all of the city’s $58 million worth of contracts with Arizona companies. Officials with the Port of Los Angeles and Los Angeles International Airport expressed concern about potential effects on those agencies. The council asked boards overseeing the port, airport and city utilities to review all contracts with ties to Arizona, however.

LAX receives $22 million in revenue from two Arizona-based airlines -- US Airways and Mesa Air. The port relies on three Arizona firms for new, low-emission big rigs, part of the city’s “clean truck’’ program that is expected to reduce truck-related pollution at the port by 80% by 2012.

-- Phil Willon in Los Angeles City Hall

Source: LA Times