Charlotte City Council Declares ICE Racist!

On Monday night an amazing contingent of idiots elected to Charlotte City Council every two years trimmed their toe nails and picked their teeth while Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Offices made a plea for higher wages.

The rank and file officer's message, that higher wages would help stop the exodus from the department (CMPD is down 180 Officers and will likely lose another 40 before the year is over.) was simple yet lost on council members who were more concerned with a pending vote to give themselves four year terms because running for re-election is hard work. (The effort by democrat libtards to double their own life expectancy died after weeks of hand wringing and distraction 3-7)

But while council members didn't give one F about officer pay they were totally triggered when it came to honoring Charlotte's every growing illegal immigrant population. Pay close attention Kids, on Monday Charlotte’s City Council approved a measure to allow illegal immigrants the right to serve on city council appointed boards.

I’ll give you a moment to let that sink in.

Motion to change from a voter registration requirement to simple residency (and allow undocumented immigrants) on city boards passed, 8-2, with Republicans Ed Driggs and Tarig Bokhari (No relation to that DB on HGTV's Flip or Flop) voting no.

The entire discussion was unpleasant and included democrats calling republicans on council racist. 

Targi went on to vent about the effort to further undermine our immigration laws with a pseudo OpEd on blog Longleaf Politics:

This week’s City Council meeting was a painful reminder for me. When leaders are more concerned with scoring points than solving problems, bad things can happen. The theme of the night, unexpectedly, was illegal immigration. The issue came up during a simple, rote agenda item to accept a state grant that helps the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department reduce DWIs across our city. But the discussion quickly took a hard left turn, and became a forum to grill CMPD over their supposed involvement with federal ICE over the last week. During that time, this federal agency conducted several raids in Charlotte to arrest illegal immigrants.

Let’s put aside the fact there is no correlation whatsoever between this simple agenda item and ICE. These checkpoints are based on empirical data and scheduled up to a year in advance. ICE is not told about them, and CMPD is not made aware of ICE activities. Let’s also put aside the amazing results these checkpoints have had on our community. Over the last year, over 1,100 violations were identified in these stops, many of which resulted in taking impaired drivers off the road before lives are lost. We cannot use our police officers as pawns or props and demonize them for doing this important work just because some are afraid it might raise the “anxiety” of illegal immigrants living in Charlotte.

Cedar's Take: 

Tariq is so far out in right field that even the deer have GPS, first check points have little impact on taking drunk drivers off the road. Maybe they are good for expired tags and revoked or no operator license but DWI nope. You want to get drunks off the street you put more units on the street. You can't do that if your department is understaffed.

The pandering of the left to the plight of illegal immigrants is misguided as well.  

The problem is that we have Latino communities in Charlotte that are simply concentrations of immigrants. Where within these concentrations there are factions as well as ethic diversity. Central Americans over here, Mexicans over there, and the gangs and drugs here and there and they all hate the Hondurans. 

It is against this backdrop that the illegal immigrants exist and try to blend in. You have a population (both legal and natura) that inherently does not trust Policia because throughout Mexico and Central America police are agents of the state and corruption is the standard. So, add another 10 thousand that are in the country illegally and you have a mess of distrust that no amount of pandering will over come.

Tarig says, "Unintended Consequences - but the reality is that people in Charlotte including Tarig don’t understand the role of Customs and Immigration vs ICE vs HLS, US Marshals, DEA and FBI and how CMPD works tirelessly with all of them. They are indeed coordinated. And as far as the Latino community I don’t care if Chief Putney gives them his cell number, they are not going to call him, La Policia or 911.

The only way fix the trust issue is to recruit Latino officers, not just a couple of token officers or some guy that lives in Gastonia who took Spanish in college but from the community and you can’t do that when you don’t pay our CMPD officers enough! 

There are leaders within the Latino community but they have long since assimilated into Charlotte's mainstream culture. I still have Dan Ramirez's phone number on my iPhone. But reaching that other segment is not going to be easy without a Ramirez on the dais.  

To make matters worse Sherriff McFadden's campaign pledge to end 287(g) did just the opposite of what voters thought was a plus. 287(g) was one way hard working members of Charlotte's real legal immigrant and natural born Latino community could trust the government and a way that they could weed out the bad. 

Sadly even those who are natural born Americans are unfairly lumped into a group of sub illegal citizens which are the only ones McFadden and the majority of Charlotte's City Council are actually pandering to.  

And that's Racist!