by Marvin J Ramirez
Marvin J. Ramirez
Many of you who are fanatics of the only newscasts in the nation monopolized by a few that transmit ‘the news’ for the [North] American people, might have heard that Gavin Newsom is the favorite of the Democratic Party to run for governor of California.
And many of you who faithfully read El Reportero every week, might have read in the past, that the San Francisco Mayor did not showed up in two of the most important marches held by mostly Latino immigrants yesteryear.
But now that he is planning to run for governor, we hear and read that he is one way or another, supporting the City’s Sanctuary, which, “symbolically,” protects undocumented immigrants’ rights from the persecution of ICE (the federal immigration service).
Newsom and Sup. Tom Ammiano recently launched a public awareness campaign to promote the San Francisco Sanctuary announcing that “accessing city services does not make an individual vulnerable to federal authorities.”
But how about making them vulnerable to city authorities?
What the campaign is saying, is that city employees (the police) will not report individuals or their immigration status to federal immigration agents, but it doesn’t say that its agents will go like the feds after their cars, because is profitable for the city’s coffers.
However, I question the sincerity of these two democratic politicians, who for years, have ignored requests from this writer, to extend that protection to the undocumented’s vehicles, which everyday the city’s employees (the police) keep confiscating their cars.
“As much as I want to help him,” said a police officer who had just stopped a vehicle driven by an unlicensed driver, “I don’t want lose my job. I have to impound the car,” he told El Reportero.
The officer opened the vehicle’s trunk and found it filled of carpentry tools, while his 6-year-old daughter was in the car waiting for the mother to pick her up. It happened on 24th Street.
The brother of the unlicensed driver arrived and started helping him unload the tools.
The red, compact, car, would not sleep at home that and possibly many nights, or ever again. It will end up at the City’s towing garage, where it probably will cost the humble worker, a few thousands if it is impounded for 30 days.
If you don’t know, the San Francisco Municipality, as every one in the country, when they over spend beyond their fi scal budget, they go after the citizenry, increasing the fi nes or creating new ones and new excuses to tax the people, regardless if they are taking the money for their medicines and food or if they already are unemployed.
And the money they collect now from its citizens, is not to pay for this year’s city services and salaries, but for the future, since the Federal Reserve Bank already paid or loaned the money for this year’s. I know, you’re probably thinking while scratching your head: “how can this happen? Only a few politicians know the truth.
Remember, there is not real money in circulation, only debt certifi cates called: Federal Reserve Notes. Look at one dollar bill. Finally, I feel pain in my heart for that humble man who got his car confiscated.
