INS Cavalry Not Needed for Laborers

Welcome to the city of Santa Clarita, where death threats against a high school pep squad adviser and vice principal make headlines right along with the xenophobic City Council’s majority desire to call out the INS cavalry against Latino day workers seeking jobs along San Fernando Road.

Our august City Council claims their own daughters have been whistled at by these people.

Oh Lord, what next?

Our City Council claims these people violate traffic laws and disturb businesses. Oh my! But we have tolerated the open noontime lunch policies at the three high schools each day that create huge traffic jams, bother businesses and neighborhoods. Let’s call out the FBI to investigate that also, high school history teacher and Councilman Carl Boyer.

But let’s be sure to keep those rows of American flags flying tall and proud along Lyons Avenue so we don’t have to look at street level to see what is about to happen to our Spanish-speaking brothers.

We are in the midst of a tremendous expansion of representational opportunities for Latinos in L.A. City and County.

Instead of wanting to be part of that change, the Santa Clarita Valley wants to crawl into a dark cave of racism.

Let the Latino Marine private stick it out on a sand dune in the Persian Gulf for eight months to come home to East Newhall and find vans hauling away his relatives just because they were unemployed and begging for work.

Instead of spending $25,000 for a work hall for these folks, this City Council spends some of that money on American flags on Lyons Avenue and asks Washington to send in storm troopers to clean up the streets of this Western version of Harper Valley.

ANTHONY J. SKIRLICK JR., Valencia