April 5, 2012

SandBoxBlogs: Denver Post "Colorado lawmaker soon will air issue of school resource officers doubling as immigration police"

State Rep. Roger Wilson  (D-Glenwood Springs) has not accomplished a single thing while in office.

Elected at mid-terms by a very small margin, he was the hope of liberals in the Glenwood Springs area who had just lost Tresi Houpt and Tom Dalessandri at mid-terms 2010.

The sudden interest from Rep. Wilson in the 'Strawberry Days Massacre' story, that led to the war being waged by CIRC and AYUA against regional law enforcement, is transparent at best.

Here's a news flash to Rep. Wilson:

Our SRO's are trusted by the majority of  the latino population of the RE1 School District.  Interestingly enough,  they are mostly all legal immigrants.

Nancy Lofholm:"ICE spokesman Carl Rusnok said he views the issue as more of a local one that doesn't involve his agency.

"This issue exclusively belongs to individual school districts," Rusnok said. "These (school resource officers) are not ICE employees."

"Wilson said he views the underlying issue as one of trust and he thinks there needs to be "a firewall" between immigration enforcement and school resource officers.

"There is a general principle here and it has to do with the trust of school resource officers...They need to be trusted," Wilson said.

Wilson said the earliest he might propose any legislation would be next year. He has not yet set a date for Roaring Fork representatives to come to Denver to lay out their problems before legislators...."
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"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."

12 comments:

sumfu said...

This won't go anywhere because RE1 has gone as far as they're going to go. And that's the point. This push of publicity, politicians, rally and talk about Feds investigating our local SRO's and cops is nothing but show. The problem I have with it and keep coming back to is the same thing as when they were after Agon. It's like we're all held human hostage with these kinds of tactics. I'll bet that not one of these people did what O'Connor, Schilling and Wilson told them to do and that was to come in and have a sit down with the cops. Instead our towns and citizens are forced to put up with tactics that if we, as legal citizens ever tried we would be arrested. I'm just not buyin, any more, Lou holding up the boundaries of the law they say they can't cross. It's just not fair and it's not right to put the citizenry through this time and time again for these groups. It's up to the chiefs and the sheriff to take some kind of stand. These people need to abide by the law and go through all the same political processes as legal Americans do. Enough is enough.

hammerandnails said...

I'm with you, fu. Said it when CIRC and AJUA started rumblings that they were going to smear us as a political stmt. all over the land.

Not buyin what Lou's been sellin as the reason they can't do more being that the law doesn't allow. Whether he likes it or not he's also a politician and whether the Chiefs like it or not they're public figures. It's obviously not working just being cops and they've got an entire county out here that's made to suffer everywhere from being upset about the injustice of CIRC and AJUA and their local groupies that encourage what they do to our schools and law enforcement to our financial losses supporting the whole mess.

Like it or not the influence of our Sheriff and our Chiefs means something and they need to find a different way to get their message across. Our SRO's do obey the laws, they are respected and appreciated and it's not OK to run them out of town or plaster them in the worst ways all over the web. We do have laws and if you are illegal you will be arrested and sent back to your country of origin and your family will go with you. We have never gone into our schools and raided them but we are tiny little towns and everybody knows who you are if you're illegal, get real. Take your politics to lawmakers in D.C. and stop bullying the locals.

The message in the way it's being said by our local cops is not getting across to these radical extremist groups.

The ones to deliver that message is our Sheriff and our Chiefs. Think of a way and get the job done. Pretty simple and pretty basic.

Like it or not.

Anonymous said...

If they're illegals they do this kind of thing because they don't have to pay for it and there's no consequences. If they're children of illegals they're raised to think they can do anything and use the resources of the USA with no consequences.

Until the day comes when we start charging illegals with financial crimes at the same time they're busted for illegal status AND put major, significant fines on each body that's here illegally on their country of origin it will never end.

Go to the money at the same time we lock the border so we can sit down at the table once that's done and finally get to the problem of reforming immigration.

hotmama said...

Oh, come on. They solicited Roger Wilson who only has a couple months left in office and has been a lame duck the entire time. We all know which local activists put AJUA up to this. So what I would like to know is legal status. If illegal parents are still using their kids as human shields then we have the answer as to why they never went the first step and went to sit down with the chiefs. This is nothing but a publicity stunt. That doesn't mean that nails and sumfu's comments aren't spot on. They are. It's the Sheriff and the police chiefs who need to make some kind of change and deal with this in a way that's going to stop enabling all the rest of us to carry the burden of these activist groups.

Anonymous said...

There are so many ramifications that come from social and personal pressure that we have no assistance with in our communities. Our suicide rate is one of the highest in the nation. We have substance abuse going through the roof. We have at least 40% of the population of Pitkin county and upper Glenwood Springs and upper Garfield county basically living false lives where they look more solvent or affluent than they are. Just so they can keep going in a working class or small business environment that they must present a certain image for. When do all these things add up to being enough that our Sheriffs and Chiefs step forward and do exactly as another commenter said on a different post? Have a come to jesus meeting with elected officials and start making some very serious changes on numerous levels in our social communities?

Start right here by the Chiefs appearing at this meeting with Rep. Wilson and straightening out the untruths these activists are spreading. It is true that like it or not our Sheriffs and our Chiefs are also politicians to a certain extent. There is a duty here and do not stop there. What they did to Officer Agon was terrible.

Anonymous said...

Our local law enforcement need to forget about political allies, sitting councils and boards and trustees. They need to remember that they are the last line and remember that standing in front of the citizens is what they do. They need to forget about politically correct and quit trying to find credibility to attach to their gut feelings before they act as they're supposed to. The only answers in any of the octopus reaches the filth in the valley has can't come out in the open unless the law makes it. When we need covert operations and investigations just so we can reveal to leaders that very real and serious problems are everywhere then the sad reality is that means our law enforcement is failing in the other half of their duty. To protect. All sheriffs in the district and all chiefs in the district need to sit down with diplomacy and their powerful hand and restate exactly what the boundaries of law are for these groups and politicians. Along with that they need to put clear boundaries on all the collateral harm these people are doing to the district. That is not CIRC and AJUA's Strawberry Days, SRO's, school districts, police officers. The citizens who oppose them in views against illegal foreign nationals are not bullseye targets unless CIRC and AJUA members are legal Americans with the right to vote. The right to free speech, civil disobedience in safe ways and the rights to access our politicians and legislators are American rights that are surrounded and protected by the law and enforced by law enforcement. All sheriffs and chiefs need to do is collectively, powerfully have that public conversation and do it in a big way so it is seen, heard and able to be capitalized on by media. There are two sides here but somehow it seems as though law enforcement has forgotten that every time they put the we can only go so far so we give up speech in front of legal Americans. People want balance but they don't stand a chance of getting it without the line in front of them being upheld.

Anonymous said...

Cops gear up every shift with one thing on their minds. How to watch out for the covert, manipulative, scheming minds of motorists and miscreants aka civilians.

It is what they do. It is what they are. If they're good at it, they get to know the folks for all that we really are.

Is it really so hard for top cops to figure out a way to have a politically correct Come to Jesus with these most covert, manipulative kinds of people? For the sake of everyone they serve?

Roger Wilson should be ashamed of himself for rattling a sabre when he's had the worst run in office in the history of the district.

staple said...

we don't need no stinking badges.

mack said...

How's that soap taste, son?

Not bad ideas. Maybe CIRC and AJUA just don't know what the law limitations really are and need to be told. Like an educational seminar.

Anonymous said...

04/14/2012

"Vietnamese businessman Pham Dinh Nguyen flew to the U.S. for the first time, drove to a tiny, frigid trading outpost and bought his own piece of the American dream: Buford, Wyo. — population 1.

He said that although he is not exactly sure what he will do with the town just off Interstate 80, he expects to use it to sell items made in Vietnam."

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_20393341/purchase-tiny-wyo-town-vietnamese-businessman-buys-piece#ixzz1s1Mp0g9R

Maybe what he really did is this below: (Buy commercial property-get a Green Card)

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)-

"Entrepreneurs (and their spouses and unmarried children under 21) who make an investment in a commercial enterprise in the United States and who plan to create or preserve ten permanent full time jobs for qualified United States workers, are eligible to apply for a green card (permanent residence)."

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.eb1d4c2a3e5b9ac89243c6a7543f6d1a/?vgnextchannel=cf54a6c515083210VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD&vgnextoid=cf54a6c515083210VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD

mack said...

Now this is an ICE law I didn't know existed. Unbelievable that all somebody has to do is invest in a certain way and that locks in a green card. How could they possibly fall for this guy calling this a legitimate business investment?

jbend said...

There has to be more than that to the deal. What do they think that some guy like this obviously rich one isn't going to eventually pull something like this? Back to the topic of Wilson and AJUA, CIRC, something I've noticed in news from a couple of places is that groups like that see to be organizing a lot of rallies. Probably just for Obama's campaign. Even if they don't sit them down, the chiefs and Lou need to go to this mtg. for a presence. Still bothers me that Agon felt to get a life back he had to move.