Al wrote on Jan 21, 2007 11:04 PM:EscoMexico, such a fine town it is! Thank you Mayor(Do Nothing) Pheiler, EL Grupo and the ACLU for allowing this city to turn into a freaking cesspool of crime, gangs, unlicensed drivers, ILLEGAL's immigrants and low-income earning city dwellers. You don't see this crap in Rancho Bernardo, Poway or Sabre Springs but you see it rotinely here.

More individuals that earned the right to be in prison for many years wrote on Jan 22, 2007 5:02 AM:Hopefully the authorities will put together a solid case that will keep the suspects in jail for many years.

deport them! wrote on Jan 22, 2007 5:57 AM:take them back down South!

John Q wrote on Jan 22, 2007 7:17 AM:Deport them back to Mexico...Let's hit gang members hard. Escondido is not South LA or Oceanside.

Concerned wrote on Jan 22, 2007 7:55 AM:There is a group of kids that hand out late at night in a church parking lot off of Chestnut. The cops have been called numerous times but not sure if they are doing anything. Not sure the name of the church but it is one of the voting places in escondido. I bet it is this group. It's sad to see the violence raising in NoCo, especially the growth in number of the children being involved. Will it ever stop???

Ashley wrote on Jan 22, 2007 9:10 AM:Just because a few people got into trouble doesn'y mean we should send everyone back to Mexico. Most people living in Escondido don't go around causing problems and fighting in the streets, so it's completly irrational to lump all Mexicans into a group and say they should all be sent back!

Yoda wrote on Jan 22, 2007 9:23 AM:Escondido's two major gangs are made up of Latino's including many "illegals" The city council keeps their heads in the sand downplaying the graffiti, vandalism and violence that the gangs perpetrate denying and repressing the growing problem. The good citizens hide their heads until they are the victim. "People get the kind of laws they want and deserve" Abraham Lincoln. Note* Substance of a Lincoln quotation

NON RACIST! wrote on Jan 22, 2007 9:42 AM:Can you please get the fact rigth! you are asking to deport them, come and please read the article again and get the fact rigth, not all gang members are hispanic, so why are you guys so racist, most of this kids are born here even they have latino's names. Richard Charles Boyett doesn't sound hispanic at all!

Jorge wrote on Jan 22, 2007 9:46 AM:Send them all, including Boyett before any American judge. They will QUICKLY be released on their own recognisance or very low bail. This is how it's done in America! We are preparing for the mingling of Canada, Mexico and the U.S. A ONE WORLD ORDER, DONT'CHA KNOW?

glad to see wrote on Jan 22, 2007 10:16 AM:Glad to see racism is alive and well in Escondido.

Hey Ashley wrote on Jan 22, 2007 10:35 AM:wake up and smell the coffee (beans) and realize that most of the crime is being committed by our border buddies from the south! All illegals need to be deported NOW!!

Lets see wrote on Jan 22, 2007 10:43 AM:we have EVD's and the others and now we have M13, El Salvador army gangs. Why is it that our government is allowing illegals into our country? Maybe we should hang the politicians?

AResident wrote on Jan 22, 2007 12:23 PM:Yes the problem is out of hand in Escondido as well as in Vista, San Morcos and Oceanside. If the elected officials in our town refuse to hit the problem hard before it boecomes S. LA, We should start protesting against them. Have them resign. Don't re-elect them. Run for an office yourself. All of this can be done. With all the talk in these blogs. Sure looks like there are enough people to make a difference.

Yoda wrote on Jan 22, 2007 12:52 PM:For Non Racist and Fair Ashley: Fair Ashleys "few people" and Non Racist "facts" really are: The Diablos and West Side Gangs have very few tall Swedish Nuns among their membership. Their membership is overwhelmingly Latino with many "illegals", some repeatedly deported then return to gang drug, robbery, assault and auto theft crimes on your streets. Their combined documented and associates membership number in the hundreds. Your police department staff is 150 officers. Try to comprehend the "facts" about the "few people" and when you are the victim call your liberal hippy friends for help.

This is MY neighborhood wrote on Jan 22, 2007 1:06 PM:and I am furious! It is NOT safe and it is getting worse! It is because latinos, regardless of where they are from are allowed to invade our neighborhoods illegally. I want to SUE someone!

SICK OF THESE ... wrote on Jan 22, 2007 1:41 PM:There are 20,000,000 illegal aliens in this country and every last one of them should be deported along with their "anchor babies". Not one dime of taxpayer money should be spent on helping them to eat, get housing, get an education, get medical care, have babies, go to college here, or anything else. If you think I'm wrong, think about the American man, a tourist, who got sick in Mexico and was supposed to be transported back to the U.S. to save his life and those b______s in Mexico, wouldn't let him leave until his hospital bill was paid in full and his wife stood by helplessly with their children desperately trying to get the money wired while her husband died, compliments of the Mexicans. Meanwhile we're paying the bills for all these illegals and the Mexican government is giving them beepers wit GPS so they can get rescued when the creep over our border. I'm thoroughly disgusted with Mexico and the U.S. Governments. Send them all back and let them figure out how to make their own country work out.

esco wrote on Jan 22, 2007 1:43 PM:i know richard from high school,he aint a latino...

Answers have me stupified wrote on Jan 22, 2007 3:03 PM:Just because they are Mexican does not mean they are illegal. Get off it already. If you want to be heard this is not the place. Go to a board meeting or shut up.

ACLU wrote on Jan 22, 2007 4:36 PM:will protect these punks lives, while allowing criminals to kill innconet citizens. It is time for the ACLU to be charged with AIDING AND ABETTING MURDER.

Once again... wrote on Jan 22, 2007 4:54 PM:...my comment didn't get printed. NCT you control freaks!

Another Violent Crime wrote on Jan 22, 2007 4:55 PM:Guaranteed, at least some of them are illegal or the anchor babies of illegals. We'll find out if the Escondido Sherriff calls in the INS-meanwhile, people like "Answers have me stupified" are a big part of the problem in this country. He/She needs to get off it already, this is the place to be heard, this is a public forum and I absolutely will not "shut up". Illegals are illegal and they're destroying this country by overloading it with overwhelming numbers of people with little or no education, very few skills, who are big drains on the public services. They bring diseases into the country like TB and are far more likely to be involved in gangs. California is plagued with Hispanic gangs who make life a misery for honest people. Say what you want, I have no problem with Mexicans who are here legally but I have a huge problem with those who violate our laws in order to be here.

NCT wrote on Jan 22, 2007 5:01 PM:NCT just likes to show illegal immigrant comments. They must be the ones posting all of them.

Clean up the 78 Corridor wrote on Jan 22, 2007 5:02 PM:Escondido, San Marcos, Vista and Oceanside should form a coalition and crack down on gangs. Use the RICO Act, use deportation. Deport them and teir families if they're illegal. Make it illegal for them to be out in public together. Bust them for every broken tail light, spit on the sidewalk, drunken Friday night. I say pay for more and more Sherriffs until they get the message. If they're born here and their parents are illegal, deport their parents till they figure out they can't make life horrible for everyone and get away with it.

ILLEGAL wrote on Jan 22, 2007 5:06 PM:Illegals are the reason people are disgusted with illegals. It isn't racism, it isn't bias, IT"S THAT THEY'RE ILLEGAL, get it? ILLEGAL. I follow the laws of my country. When I go to Mexico I follow the laws in Mexico. I respect their country and I expect the same in return.

Todd wrote on Jan 22, 2007 8:23 PM:Send all gang members to Iraq and bring home the National Guard.

jecenia wrote on Jan 23, 2007 4:16 PM:this country is made illegals!!! all you racist smart ones go back to history class!! and then come back and say something we don't already know!right now they are illegals but when they are cleaning your home,raising your kids,cleaning your yards,building your homes,no one has anything to say about that !!

Huh? wrote on Jan 24, 2007 2:02 AM:Hey Jecenia, I've read your response several times, and I'm still astounded by the grammatical errors. How long did you spend composing your message? No worries, I'm sure you did the best you could. By the way, I clean my own home, I have no kids, I clean my own yard, and I don't know who built it but it's been here 60 years...what's your point? I'm sick of crime from ANY source, but lately we've all been seeing how much crime is committed by ILLEGAL ALIENS. Hey, if you wanna cross over to find a better life, I can understand that. Once you commit another crime, though, you're in double jeopardy and I feel instead of deportation, you should face the death penalty. No problem for all the "law-abiding" illegal immigrants, right?

jecenia wrote on Jan 24, 2007 10:15 AM:responding to the comment ...you only speak of the crime that we see out on the streets,what about all the child predators and sickos that go after our children.Have you checked the stats on that I believe they are all not illegals,mostly americans.If you don't have kids you wouldn't know.And I am not talking about 60 years ago, but in fact the present.

John wrote on Jan 24, 2007 10:37 AM:If there is such a problem with illegals in Escondido why not move to another city.R.B or Poway where there is no crime!! Stop complaining and deal with it or move! Where do you think you social security check comes from?? Millions of dollars that illegals never claim but sure are used to pay americans every 1st of the month and to keep the war in Iraq!

To NCT: wrote on Jan 25, 2007 6:53 AM::"NCT just likes to show illegal immigrant comments. They must be the ones posting all of them." >>> Not too many as most are illiterate. Try the Hispanic Activists, or better yet the young socialists who are for no borders. By the way most young socialists wanabes, still live at home with their parents paying all of the bills. It is easy to give everything away when you have never had to pay for anything to begin with.

Skip wrote on Jan 25, 2007 6:59 AM:I am starting to think that only Hispanics live in Escondido now. How else can you explain all of the crime stories this week and all of the suspects have Hispanic surnames. Let’s there was the hit-and-run, the video store robbery, the numerous police car chases, the gang violence, the graffiti, and the drug and driving offenses. If this is not enough then last week, how about the 1000 or so cars that were impounded by the police for the drivers not being licensed. Oh and did I forget all of the car theft and carjacking stories. Who is going to call me a racist for pointing that out? I read the paper every day and I have eyes and ears.

Robert wrote on Jan 25, 2007 7:40 AM:"NCT just likes to show illegal immigrant comments. They must be the ones posting all of them." >>> I always get the impression that they downplay if the people involved are illegal Aliens. You almost always have to read to the code words to figure out what they mean. I head a new one yesterday. "Agricultural Worker". Then there is Mexican National, undocumented immigrant, and migrant worker. More key words are Immigration hold, unlicensed, and Guest worker. See it is not too hard.

bryan wrote on Jan 25, 2007 10:09 AM:Illegals cost california tax payers 10billion dollars a year. Dont even say that they contribute economically to our economy they are a huge drain.