Maywood, CA

[PapaJohn454]

Surprised this one hadn't been posted:

Welcome to Maywood, Mexico (Op/Ed)





Maywood, California collapse - A Lesson to Be Learned

by Roger Hedgecock

Posted 06/25/2010 ET



Boasting a population that is 97% Hispanic, more than half foreign born, and

40% illegal, the Los Angeles County, Calif., incorporated city of Maywood

has achieved the Reconquista goal. It is now as lawless and chaotic

as any place in Mexico.



Maywood is a warning to every city and town in America.



The Maywood City Council announced this week that after years of radical

policies, corruption and scandal, the city was broke and all city employees

would be laid off and essential city services contracted out to neighboring

cities or to L.A. County government.



How did this happen? Until recently, Maywood was the model for

"brown power" politics. Maywood was the first California city with an elected

Hispanic City Council, one of the first "sanctuary" cities for illegal aliens,

the first city to pass a resolution calling for a boycott of Arizona after that

State passed a law to enforce federal immigration laws, the first California

city to order its police department not to enforce state laws requiring drivers

to have licenses to drive, the first American city to call on Congress to grant

amnesty to all illegals. Council meetings were conducted in Spanish.



Maywood was the leader in the peaceful, democratic achievement of the La

Raza goal to take power in the U.S. The City of Maywood started out quite

differently. Back after World War II, Maywood was a booming blue-collar town

with good jobs, a multi-ethnic suburb of Los Angeles. On the 25th anniversary

in 1949 of Maywood's incorporation as a city, the town celebrated with a

beard-growing contest, a rodeo, and wrestling matches in City Park.

Chrysler operated an assembly plant there until 1971. But the early 1970s

saw these industrial jobs in aerospace, auto and furniture manufacturing,

and food processing evaporate under the pressure of higher taxes, increased

local and state regulation, and the attraction of cheaper land and cheaper

labor elsewhere.

The multi-ethnic Maywood of the post-war years was transformed in the '80s

and '90s by wave after wave of Hispanic immigrants, many of them illegal.

In August 2006, a "Save Our State" anti-illegal immigration rally in Maywood

drew hundreds of protesters-but a larger number of defenders of illegal

immigration. The pro-illegal protesters carried signs which read "We are

Indigenous ! The ONLY owners of this Continent!" and "Racist Pilgrims Go

Home" and "All Europeans are Illegal Here."

According to newspaper reports at the time, objectors to illegal aliens were

subject to physical attacks. A 70-year-old man was "slashed," a woman

attacked, and cars vandalized. Pro-illegal demonstrators raised the Mexican

flag at the U.S. Post Office.



The illegal population and their sympathizers became increasingly

radicalized. Elections to the City Council saw "assimilationist" incumbent

Hispanic council members ousted by La Raza supporting radical challengers.

For years, the Maywood City Council authorized police checkpoints to stop

drunk driving. Drivers without licenses had their cars impounded. Illegals

in California cannot get drivers licenses. By 2005, the number of such impounds

were in the hundreds. A community campaign was launched forcing the City

Council to suspend the checkpoints.



Cars were still being impounded whenever a police traffic-violation stop

resulted in a driver without a license. Felipe Aguirre, a community activist

with Comite Pro-Uno, an "immigration service center," coordinated a new

campaign against any impounds. He was elected in 2005 to the City Council.

He is the mayor of Maywood today. Aguirre and a new majority of the

council dismantled the Traffic Department. Illegals were given overnight-parking

permits and impounds stopped. You didn't need a license to drive in Maywood.



The Los Angeles Times wrote glowingly of this "progress" in a story entitled

"Welcome to Maywood, Where Roads Open Up For Immigrants".

The Maywood Police Department was restructured by the new council. A new

chief and new officers were hired. Later it turned out that many of the new

officers had previously been fired from other law enforcement agencies for a

variety of infractions. The Maywood P.D. was known as the "Department of

Second Chances."

Among those hired was a former L.A. Sheriff's deputy terminated for abusing

jail inmates; a former LAPD officer fired for intimidating a witness; and an

ex-Huntington Park officer charged with negligently discharging a handgun

and driving drunk.



Even the L.A. Times called the Maywood Police Department a "haven for misfit

cops." Their story alleged that a veteran officer was extorting sex from

relatives of a criminal fugitive; that another officer tried to run over the

president of the Maywood Police Commission; and that another officer has

impregnated a teenage police-explorer scout.



Charges of corruption and favoritism led to one recall of city council

members and threats of more recalls are heard to this day.

Maywood is represented in the state Senate by Democrat "One Bill" Gil

Cedillo. He earned the nickname by introducing every year in the state

legislature a bill to grant drivers licenses to illegals. Maywood is

represented in Congress by Democrat Lucille Roybal-Allard, a staunch

advocate of amnesty for illegals. Today, Maywood is broke. Its police

department dismantled along with all other city departments and personnel.

Only the city council remains and a city manager to manage the contracts

with other agencies for city services in Maywood.



Maywood is the warning of what happens when illegal immigrants, resisting

assimilation as Americans, bring with their growing numbers the corruption

and the radical politics of their home countries. Add the radical home-grown

anti-Americanism of Hispanic "leaders" and groups like La Raza and you get

schools where learning is replaced with indoctrination, business and jobs

replaced by welfare and gangs, and a poisonous stew of entitlement politics.

In too many American communities, this sad tale is all too familiar.



Roger Hedgecock is a nationally-syndicated radio talk host.

Visit rogerhedgecock.com. The Roger Hedgecock Show is syndicated on the

Radio America network.

[Vince E]

It's in the middle of south central LA.
Last time I was there (south central but not Maywood) they had just burned down their own neighborhood and it wasn't Mexicans doing it.
I think the area (south central) has a history of lawless behavior but not so lawless that Maywood didn't dismantle their police force and contract the service out to neighboring municipalities.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maywood,_California

[Greg_Cornish]

I'd probably move.