Mexican Flag raised over US Post Office

[Marshal Murat]

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2006/08/176008.php

Yes, an Mexican flag has been raised over a post office in southern California where the police office has been disbanded, traffic alowed to flow past with illegals without liscense at the wheel. God I love this country.

[Strike For The South]

disgusting

[InsaneApache]

It's your own fault for throwing us out.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Oh yay, the UK is having no trouble with immigrants.

You're right, this is disgusting.

Disgusting that the criminal loving city council stopped enforcing the law because they were catching criminals, and supremely disgusting that the US flag was taken down and a Mexican flag put up, and that the PO workers and Police did nothing.

If the illegals love Mexico so much, why don't they move back?

Crazed Rabbit

[Tribesman]

What a bunch of pussies , if I was hispanic and living in Maywood I would have made sure there was a mexican flag on every lampost and every building for the duration of the minuteman protest .

If the illegals love Mexico so much, why don't they move back?

They have moved back , to old mexico .

[Strike For The South]

What a bunch of pussies , if I was hispanic and living in Maywood I would have made sure there was a mexican flag on every lampost and every building for the duration of the minuteman protest .

If the illegals love Mexico so much, why don't they move back?

They have moved back , to old mexico .

You have infuriated me greatly We fought and died for this land they lost it to us. Its our not theres

[Crazed Rabbit]

What a bunch of pussies , if I was hispanic and living in Maywood I would have made sure there was a mexican flag on every lampost and every building for the duration of the minuteman protest .

If the illegals love Mexico so much, why don't they move back?

They have moved back , to old mexico .

They can't move back if they, nor their ancestors, ever lived there.

Should we call Ireland "Old England"? It makes as much sense as calling SW America 'old mexico'.

[Husar]

and that the PO workers and Police did nothing.

Police tried to pull the Mexican flag down but the ropes got stuck and it still flies at this time.

It is such a short newspost that you could have taken the time to read it...

[AntiochusIII]

So...

When are we gonna wrap ourselves in (Made in China) star-something flags and declare war?

Surely the glorious Republic of Calexico cannot stand against this most humiliating offense?

[Papewaio]

So the fight is over the particular dye combination and pattern thereof on cloth all of which is made in China.

Since some state that Iran made missiles used by Hezbollah makes the Iranians the responsible party, by that logic this is all Chinas fault for making the cloths that are causing issues.

[Patriarch of Constantinople]

Oh yay, the UK is having no trouble with immigrants.

I think its easier to cross a border than the atlantic ocean

[Samurai Waki]

... meh. I Live in South California. I see mexicans every single day of my life... do I care that they have national pride? no... not really. I just think it's more intuitive to raise a flag on your porch that says "**** Mexico, the Arapaho spirit will live in this land forever."

[Duke of Gloucester]

I think its easier to cross a border than the atlantic ocean

Of course the UK does have a land border. It is so easy to cross that unless you are alert you might not realise you have passed from one country to another.

[Tribesman]

Natural selection has been unable to take place and waves upon waves of lazy stupid ingrates swell their ranks.
You really shouldn't talk about the Minutemen like that Divinus .

[JFC]

I apologise in advance for this, but the BBC have this:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Latino suburb welcomes illegals
By James Coomarasamy
BBC News, Maywood, California

Immigrant woman working in a field
Much of California's manual work is carried out by immigrants
Driving around Maywood there is little to distinguish this small Los Angeles suburb from any other predominantly Hispanic area.

Maywood is 97% Latino. You can hear the Spanish tones on every street and on every radio station.

Familiar strip malls are peppered with signs such as Clinica Latina, Pescaderia and Agua.

But Maywood is a trend setter. In the midst of an intense national debate about immigration the city council has officially declared Maywood a safe haven for illegal immigrants.

At a weekly immigrants' support group meeting there is a sense of purpose in the air.

It is chaired by the driving force behind the controversial decision, Maywood's deputy mayor Felipe Aguirre.

"We don't think that people are breaking the law if they simply don't have documents, so we decided to turn this place into a sanctuary city," he said.

Police accused

Not everyone in Maywood is pleased, but at the Saint Rose of Lima church they seem to be singing with one voice - in favour of the council's decision.


We don't think that people are breaking the law if they simply don't have documents
Felipe Aguirre
Deputy Mayor of Maywood
The congregation is strongly backing the move, which is seen less as a statement about national immigration reform than an answer to the local police setting up check points and impounding cars belonging to the many local people without documents.

"I used to see women having to walk home with tiny children," explained Rosa Pecheko.

"The police said they were stopping people to check for drunk drivers, but that's not what they were really doing. They were just taking away the cars from those without driving licenses and taking money from them."

When he is not preaching to his flock, Pastor David Velasquez is speaking in revolutionary tones.

"The people felt that they were being persecuted, but now they have the power over the police. They can't tell us what to do."

At the local police station, Lieutenant Pine agreed to share his concerns about enforcing the law in a city that has declared itself above it.

"We need clarity. We don't know what's going on," he said.

He denied that the police checkpoints were an attempt to make money from illegal immigrants: "At those checkpoints we caught a lot of people breaking the law. We found drunks, felons - we even found one man who had just murdered his wife and still had blood on his hands and the knife in his car."

Wider debate

If the police are confused, many Californians are angry.

On the John and Ken show on local Los Angeles radio station KFI 640 Maywood's mayor was angrily accused of turning his city into a magnet for illegal immigrants.

Felipe Aguirre says he has had threatening phone messages and other council members have received physical threats. But he remains defiant.

"We don't consider these immigration laws to be just. It's not right that if I'm talking to someone who doesn't have the correct papers, I could be considered a felon. No, we answer to a higher law."

And other communities are beginning to follow Maywood's lead.

It is not clear whether this stance will help the cause of illegal immigrants.

But what it does make plain is just how polarised - and passionate - the debate about them has become in the US.

As you can see, it seems that infact Mayor of Maywood is encouragiing patriotism of Mexico to the Latino people?