California suburbanites are engaged in a fight with the federal government over its attempt to turn a residential building into a detention center for illegal-immigrant children.
The Department of Health and Human Services submitted an application to the city of Escondido’s Planning Commission to use a 35,200 square-foot facility to house almost 100 children. On Tuesday night in this suburb of San Diego, the city commission held a hearing to review the request and unanimously voted to oppose the application. Several hundred people filled the chamber hall to make their voices heard, and people at the meeting say the overwhelming majority opposed the application. The standing-room-only crowd spilled over into an adjacent room and nearby hallways, and onto the grass outside...
A 2005 nationwide study listed the city of Escondido as one of the most conservative cities in America.[44] The city is particularly known for its positions on illegal immigration. Approximately half of the population is Hispanic, and then-council member Sam Abed estimated in 2006 that 35,000 people, or 25% of the city population, are undocumented. Since 2010 federal immigration officials have worked out of the Escondido police station in an unprecedented city-federal partnership.[45] In 2006 the city council proposed and then abandoned an ordinance to punish landlords who rent to illegal immigrants.[45] Due to a public outcry and legal challenges to that proposed housing ordinance,[46] as well as the election of Diaz to the City Council, the council has ceased any overt measures against illegal immigrants.[47] Council policies now focus on "quality of life" issues instead. Periodic police checkpoints are set up which randomly stop drivers to check drivers licenses, registration, and insurance.[45] An overnight parking ordinance has been proposed that would limit the number of cars each household can legally park on city streets.[48] The city is estimated to have lost as much as a quarter of its non-citizen population between 2006 and 2007; Latino activists attribute this to a perception of the city as hostile to immigrants.[49]
This is what has been happening all over California. There are plenty of conservatives, but the constant flood of illegals, coupled with complicit government officials, are destroying the state.
I don't know a single person who isn't in the process of planning their escape, if they haven't already gone. I am on the cusp myself. I'd probably stay and fight to the death but I have too many small grandchildren to raise and I don't want them here when all hell breaks loose.
My father brought us here in 1961 to escape Detroit, and to see this now...really, it breaks my heart.