Schwarzenegger says immigration debate has prompted threats

[Kadie]

Schwarzenegger says immigration debate has prompted threats
By JULIET WILLIAMS, Associated Press Writer

Monday, April 24, 2006


(04-24) 17:09 PDT SACRAMENTO, (AP) --


Prominent Hispanic elected officials, including the mayor of Los Angeles and California's lieutenant governor, have received threats in the midst of a heated national debate over immigration policy, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Monday.


Schwarzenegger told reporters about the threats against Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, both Democrats, during a news conference in his office Monday.


"There's something very important that I need to speak to my fellow Californians about," he said. "It has come to my attention that our Lieutenant Gov. Bustamante and our Los Angeles Mayor Villaraigosa and other elected officials of Mexican heritage have received disturbing and hateful death threats."


Schwarzenegger said he also was disturbed to learned that vandals had torched and spray-painted ethnic insults on a Mexican-owned restaurant in San Diego County earlier this month.


Sheriff's officials ruled the April 10 attack a hate crime.


"That is not what California stands for," Schwarzenegger said. "I've asked the district attorneys throughout our state to be vigilant and swift in their actions against those who practice hate against our fellow citizens."

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[brook]

1. "...not what California stands for"

Just Republicans, Govenor.

Don't tell me these bubble boys have never had FR called to their attention. I find it very significant that I have never, ever seen a GOPer distance themselves from that fertid flophouse.

[MisterP]

2. first AHNULD invites the Minutemen troopers, then he gets mad at violence

must be election year

[Robbie Michaels]

3. It Was Mariachi's Bar & Grill In Jamul, CA

Jamul is only a few miles northwest of Campo, where The Minuteman Project set up their base and patrolled the border. I saw pictures on a couple of web sites and it's disgusting that these people (allegedly) did it.

La Voz de Aztlan claims they have video captures from security of two vehicles (one SUV, one minivan) entering the parking lot that evening. Are those the people who did it? Who knows. It's he said/she said for all we know.