Another local Mayor stands up to the illegal anarchists and the chanting of "racist" begins to fly.  Congratulations to Mayor Daryl Hickman of Lake Elsinore who called for the Border Patrol to handle the day laborers who are congregating on Main Street.  Some estimate over 200 illegals have been rounded up by Border Patrol.

From a councilmember who has been there for upholding U.S. law, my smiling visage plastered on posters with a red slash over it, the words "Stop Racism" underneath, I urge Mayor Hickman to stand strong for the laws of our United States of America against the pressure and the name calling.  Against the egging and stone throwing of your business.  

The simple act of enforcing laws already on the books creates this stir of arrogance by the supporters of illegal activity.  That is because we have created an atmosphere of overlooking the issue until it began to affect us all locally.  The Feds have failed the cities through the past decade by turning the other way.  Now Mayor Hickman and his city council have to take the hits and deal with the problem

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LAKE ELSINORE: Immigrant rights protesters, council face off
Self-described activists ask city leaders to explain alleged uptick in Border Patrol activity
By Aaron Claverie - Staff Writer | Tuesday, August 26, 2008

LAKE ELSINORE, CA ---- Lake Elsinore residents and self-described immigrant rights activists staged a protest on the front steps of the city's Cultural Center during Tuesday night's City Council meeting.

The protest followed marches and other types of demonstrations targeting City Hall and the city's police station that attempt to call attention to what the protesters contend is a crackdown on undocumented immigrants that is breaking up families.

Supporters of the recent actions by the U.S. Border Patrol say the immigrants targeted by the agency are here in the country illegally, undercutting the protester's claims of rights violations.

The protesters, addressing the council at the start of the meeting, asked the council or city administrators to explain what they called, an "extremely high" level of Border Patrol activity in the city recently.

"I don't think you're fully aware of the level of fear within the community," said Debbie McClain, one of the activists.

Some residents and the activists contend Border Patrol agents have staged raids within the city and deported more than 200 undocumented immigrants, mostly men from Mexico or Guatemala.

A Border Patrol spokesman in the agency's San Diego office has said there have been no large-scale raids conducted in Lake Elsinore recently. He said any noticeable increase in agency presence can be attributed to increased hiring and regular patrols of the area out of the agency's Murrieta station.

The spokesman also said the agency does not respond to requests by city officials for more agents. He said that request only would be heeded if it came from Washington, D.C.

McClain told the council that members of the city's Latino community are saying city officials called for a beefed up Border Patrol presence and she asked the council to make it clear if that was true or not.

At the end of the meeting, Mayor Daryl Hickman addressed the issue from his seat on the council dais and told the protesters that he asked the office of U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Vista, for support because day laborers were congregating on street corners on Main Street, the main thoroughfare into the city.

Hickman said the city has long allowed day laborers to seek work along Spring Street to the north, a street that has bathrooms and other facilities specifically placed there for day laborers.

When the laborers couldn't be convinced by members of the city's business community to move to Spring, Hickman said he called Issa's office. He said the issue needed to be addressed because some members of the community were afraid to drive down Main Street, "especially women."

"That's where we're at ---- that's what happened," he said.

Hickman said residents of the city support his action.

"I've received some 100 e-mails from people in support and zero against," he said.

City Councilman Bob Magee said the Border Patrol is enforcing federal law and the people opposed to the action of the agents should lobby the federal government to change the law.

"They need to go to the Democratic and Republican conventions," he said.

Talking about the issue of people living with fear, Magee said no one in the city who is obeying federal law should have anything to fear.

A resident in favor of the mayor's action, James Brady, told the council that the protesters should be required to pull a permit if they want to stage an event in the city. And he questioned why there wasn't more of a police presence during a protest on Aug. 17.

"My wife and I and guests from out of town were going to go to Guadalajara's (a Main Street Mexican food restaurant) and we saw 50 to 100 people shaking signs in some sort of demonstration. We turned around and went to Temecula," he said.

Following the meeting, Hickman addressed the protesters on the front steps of the cultural center. He stressed that the people targeted by U.S. Border Patrol were here illegally in violation of federal laws.