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Title: The Most Racist City In America: Hazleton, PA
Source: news.newamericamedia.org
URL Source: http://news.newamericamedia.org/new ... ceaa4f44dbf1a693a3ff825f236d81
Published: Jul 28, 2006
Author: Daniel Muñoz
Post Date: 2006-07-28 15:54:32 by Mind_Virus
Keywords: None
Views: 536
Comments: 35

The Most Racist City In America: Hazleton, PA

La Prensa San Diego, Editorial, Daniel Muñoz, Jul 28, 2006

On July 12th, the Hazleton, Pennsylvania City Council voted to approve an Illegal Immigration Relief Act, creating one of the strictest anti-immigrant laws in the United States. This Relief Act will impose severe penalties on landlords who rent space to illegal immigrants, suspend the licenses of businesses that employ them and declared English the city’s official language.

The law will require anyone seeking to rent in the city to apply for a residency license and submit to an investigation of citizenship status. Landlords found renting to people without licenses will be fined $1,000 a day. Business owners found hiring, renting property to or providing goods and services to illegal immigrants will lose their business permit for five years on a first offense and 10 years on a second.

The motivation behind this, according to Hazleton Mayor Norman Tarantinois, is “the loss of the quality of life.” All pretenses have been cast off and the real reasons surrounding the immigration debate are out in the open. Now, maybe we can start to talk about the real issues that are behind what is driving this divisive discussion on immigration. We ask: What is really scaring white America?

Hazleton is a non-descript mining town in Pennsylvania that has seen better days. The Hispanic population has quickly grown to represent 30 percent of the city’s population of 31,000 (up from a low of 23,000). Hispanics are pumping vitality back into this city. But the older white population feels threatened. They believe they are slowly losing their grip on power and are not able to keep up with the younger Hispanic population.

The mayor of Hazleton is using the oft-repeated polarizing imagery of a crime wave that he says is growing with the rising Hispanic population. This image has been used in San Diego since the days of then County Supervisor Susan Golding. But, much like Golding, Mayor Tarantino has no facts or figures to back up his claim. In fact, according to the Pennsylvania State Police there has been a reduction in the number of total arrests in the city. But the mayor wouldn’t let the facts get in the way of a good political slogan.

What is happening in Hazleton is a microcosm of what is happening across our country: the white population is afraid to give up power to a growing Hispanic population.

The debate on the U.S.-Mexican border, in San Diego and other impacted border regions, is not so much about drugs, crime, or terrorism. It is about how they, the white community, can keep brown faces from coming into their neighborhoods. How can they keep control and power while the Hispanic community continues to grow?

On July 27, the New Jersey town of Riverside followed the lead of Hazleton, banning the hiring and housing of undocumented immigrants. The California town of Escondido is considering taking a similar action.

Hazleton is now being viewed as an example for other towns across the country that are trying to figure out how to maintain control and power in a city where white minorities are losing the population race. If they don't represent a significant part of the population, they forfeit any claim to rule.

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#7. To: Mind_Virus (#0)

Hazleton is a non-descript mining town in Pennsylvania that has seen better days.

Non-descript???

What is all of Mexico?????

Call us racists or whatever, here in the hills of Pa. we do not want them.

Cynicom  posted on  2006-07-28   17:54:49 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Cynicom (#7)

Are you here too, Cyni?

Jethro Tull  posted on  2006-07-28   17:55:55 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: Jethro Tull (#8)

Are you here too, Cyni

Two hours drive..

They are slowly infiltrating here. I live on NY border.

Lived in small town in NC until last year, they were flooding the place, all illegals.

These people that cry racism never speak of legal or illegal.

Cynicom  posted on  2006-07-28   18:01:49 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: Cynicom (#9)

I live in NC and I wish like hell the mayor of our town had the GUTS to stand up and fight FOR the legal citizens here like the mayor of Hazelton did! My beautiful NC home has turned into a cesspool of illegal MS-13 and Asian gang neighborhoods. I also get fed up with the Mexicans saying, "This is STOLEN land". When the hell did Mexicans EVER occupy NC? .......NEVER. DEPORT, DEPORT, DEPORT ALL ILLEGALS! Hey guys, check out the new billboars in Asheville, NC(a small mountain coumminty FLOODED by illegals): Scroll down the page to see the anti-illegal immigrant billboards causing such a stir: http://www.theactionclub.com/webl og.htm

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#23. To: nc_girl_speaks_up (#17)

Hey guys, check out the new billboards in Asheville, NC(a small mountain community FLOODED by illegals)

I'll be in Asheville for the 'Bele Chere' festival tomorrow...I'll keep an eye out for those billboards.

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