February 26, 2007

The "Mexican border town" in Los Angeles: Cudahy

Somewhat surprisingly, the L.A. Weekly offers the seven-screener "The Town the Law Forgot", all about the 1.2-square-mile city of Cudahy, California, located in southeast Los Angeles County near such tourist destinations as Maywood and South Gate. The story shows the dangers of allowing Mexican-style politics to be imported to the U.S.
Cudahy is a strange little city; some say a scary one. In 2003, city leaders fired the L.A. County Sheriff's Department — which had policed Cudahy for 14 years, focusing on gang and drug crime — in favor of a nearby municipal police force that recently erupted over public allegations of police brutality and kickbacks to police and city officials from a towing company.

In Cudahy, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency has seized almost 20 times more cocaine over the past five years than in Bell, a bordering city of similar size...

...Cudahy resembles a Mexican border town more than it does a Los Angeles suburb. Entrenched gangs and Mexican drug trafficking have trapped working-class legal and illegal immigrants in a cycle of violence and fear, in a city where less than a quarter of the 28,000 residents are eligible to vote...
Related:
Anne Taylor Fleming not on immigration
"Corruption hits cities in L.A.'s shadows"

UPDATE: Those living in other parts of the country should pay attention to this quote from Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa:
take a snapshot of Los Angeles and in 25 or 30 years so will go Topeka, Kansas and Des Moines, Iowa.




Posted to Immigration2007a at February 26, 2007 10:38 PM

Comments

You got to this story 2 days ahead of Drudge. Good job.

Posted by: Stacy at February 28, 2007 11:43 AM


Non-"liberal" coverage of immigration, Iraq, terrorism, multiculturalism, Los Angeles, California, privacy, and occasionally celebrities and wacky humor...




« Minneapolis Star-Tribune immigration editorial lies to readers «

» Bay City News Wire demands to know why ICE is doing their job »






Main

Atom feed · RSS 2.0 feed · RSS 0.91 feed · WML

Subscribe with Bloglines
Add to My Yahoo!
Add to My MSN

Search

Support this site

Amazon Honor SystemClick Here to PayLearn More

Categories

Immigration 2008a · Immigration 2007b · Immigration 2007a · Immigration · Immigration (6/05 to 12/05) · Immigration (1/05 to 6/05) · Immigration (8/04 to 12/04) · Immigration (before 8/04) · Immigration & Terrorism · Immigration & Driver's Licenses · Immigration & Consuls · Immigration & Media Bias · Immigration & Europe · North American Union

Blogging Across America

MultiCulti Madness · General Politics · Privacy · Miscellaneous · The "Peace" Movement

Los Angeles · California · Outdoors and sports · Celebrities · Wackiness · Inside Blogging

Iraq · Beltway Sniper · Terrorism & Extremism · The Saudis · Warblogging · War On Drugs

Archives

All Posts(links to each post by title)


Recent Entries
Powered by
Movable Type 3.15