dave from oceanside wrote on Jul 27, 2007 5:34 AM:PRESIDENTS HOOVER & EISENHOWER DEPORTED ILLEGALS! Operation Wetback deported approximately 80,000 Mexican nationals in the space of almost a year, although local INS officials claimed that an additional 500,000-700,000 had fled to Mexico before the campaign began. The INS estimates rested on the claim that most undocumented people, fearing apprehension by the government, had voluntarily repatriated themselves before and during the operation. Checking for legal status in this country was and is still NOT a crime. It is our right and duty to protect this country.

Go listen to the chief wrote on Jul 27, 2007 5:37 AM:He is doing a great job for the community of Escondido.

Oh Chief, might we remind wrote on Jul 27, 2007 7:13 AM:you that illegal aliens who are in the United States have commited crimes! Or you going to sit in the doughnut shop and look at all the doughnuts rather than see the illegal aliens who are in our city?

So Cal Native wrote on Jul 27, 2007 7:33 AM:What is the North County Times coming to by posting a Wetback comment. What a racist paper! Does this mean I can say [deleted content] and whatever else I want. Editor's Note: Operation Wetback was the official name of a 1950s border patrol initiative. Discussion of the initiative using it's official name does not constitute violation of our name-calling policy. The deleted content above did.

Concerned wrote on Jul 27, 2007 8:26 AM:I hope there is standing room only in support of Chief Maher. He's the only Chief that has the guts to make a stand on illegal immigration. Illegal immigration has all but wrecked several neighborhoods in Escondido and is on the verge of taking several more.

To go listen wrote on Jul 27, 2007 9:45 AM:He is NOT DOING ENOUGH! All you have to do is work in a construction office, deal with multiple families living in one apartment, or drive down Quince to KNOW they are not doing enough. I think Escondido needs to hire about 50 ICE agents full time!

Hey So Cal wrote on Jul 27, 2007 10:17 AM:Know your history (AMERICAN HISTORY) before you jump to conclusions and pull the race card. You are IGNORANT.

So Cal Native wrote on Jul 27, 2007 11:46 AM:This national amnesia isn't new for most of you people, but it's glaring and supremely paradoxical at a moment when politicians warn of the threat posed to our culture and identity by an invasion of immigrants from across the Mexican border. If Americans hit the books, they'd find what would be called an inconvenient truth. The early history of what is now the United States was Spanish, not English, and our denial of this heritage is rooted in age-old stereotypes that still entangle today's immigration debate whom most are racist. Forget for a moment the millions of Indians who occupied this continent for 13,000 or more years before anyone else arrived, and start the clock with Europeans' presence on present-day United States soil.

jc wrote on Jul 27, 2007 12:40 PM:Ok SoCal so now you want to pull out the history book. Good. Tell me the history of Mexico? How about I share a little for you. All of North, Central, and South America was populated BEFORE Spanish settlers came to accross the oceans. Remember the Incas? Or more close to home, remember the Mayans? They were there before Southern California was populated and explored by Catholic missionaries up and down the coast. So, when you want to talk history, don't conveniently leave out that part of the story. And yes, the United States IS populated by immigrants - we are a Nation of immigrants. However, the immigrants that came to this country to give it the 'melting pot' nickname came here LEGALLY, embraced the culture, the language, and the opportunity they had to make a better life. THAT is what this country is about!

NewBoss wrote on Jul 27, 2007 1:23 PM:We own the escondido now. You should watch out for us. This news paper now should write in spanish. Our people are so many you are not going to make us leave. The government even they say we can stay. And soon you will go.

dave from oceanside wrote on Jul 27, 2007 1:45 PM:So Cal Native, read JC's post at least 10 times then you might get it. This country LOVES immigrants of ANY nationality as long as they are here legally. Also, If our country did not focus on one language it would have imploded years ago. Does the name "Tower of Babylon" ring any bells? That fable or gospel would represent the current state of the US without English as it one language.

So Cal Native wrote on Jul 27, 2007 1:55 PM:OK jc-it seems you are having amnesia as well. Did you miss the class thats say the indians were here long before anyone, like 13,000 years. What do think they were thinking whent he Mayflower came over. SAME THING you are thinking now about illegals. Then, they had to brutally take this soil and break every treaty written. My ancestors have been here since the late 1600's as well as many other families whom are indigenous to this continent.

Sorry New Boss wrote on Jul 27, 2007 2:56 PM:but I am an American of Mexican descent and we find out who is selling the fake Social Security cards and other documents and report to ICE, FBI and the other agencies they all get involved, too bad they can't work together, this way you have multiple agencies working on the same group of illegals and if one agency doesn't do anything the others will, especially when we report it to our Senators to look into the matter! We are AMERICANS GET IT!

All the other immigrants wrote on Jul 27, 2007 3:20 PM:from Europe and Russia and China, Japan and Ireland DID it LEGALLY and did not receive the SOCIAL SERVICES THE current ILLEGAL aliens demand. Yes they DEMAND them and they get them. We are the ONLY COUNTRY in the world who is stupid enough to put up with this BS.

Hail To The Chief wrote on Jul 27, 2007 7:22 PM:Marvelous! Love it! Do it now! Be our next mayor Chief. We need to stop Esco from sliding any further into a 3rd world Mexico.

Al wrote on Jul 27, 2007 7:29 PM:Great plan Chief! Support you 110%. It is waaaaaay overdue. Why have we not enforced the law already? We should have been. If we had, we wouldn't be the north county armpit with a negative perception by every other town in San Diego county. Well, almost every one, I forgot about Barrio Logan.

bryan wrote on Jul 27, 2007 9:41 PM:We need to require that only one family can live in a single family residence. If someone files a complaint the police could go to the residence and require that everyone shows proof that they are related (one family). It doesnt matter who was here first or last, this is america and we have laws that the illegls are breaking. Enforce our current laws.

To New Boss: wrote on Jul 28, 2007 1:03 AM:And so we will go? Then what will you do? Follow us, thats what, because without our funding your free education, food stamps, car registrations, paying for uninsured motorists to cover you not having any, your free medical and every other thing you get from us will be gone, and then what will you do? Might as well go back to Mexico, because thats what this will be.

Carson wrote on Jul 28, 2007 2:31 AM:That meeting is going to be better than Woodstock! Take your friends!

On Ike's deportation wrote on Jul 28, 2007 5:32 PM:The cruel deportation Eisenhower plan for the end of the Bracero program was derisively conceived and derisively named. It ended decades of formal and de facto encouragement for border crossing with wholesale deportation, of men, women, and children who "looked Mexican," regardless of legal standing, and dumped them in Mexican border towns. The U.S. has hit that wall once more: how to get rid of the people we desperately needed, used and abused, and now want to dispose of? And we appear headed down the same path: deport 'em all, all the dark-skinned Spanish-surnamed folks, and sort it out later. And Escondido is right there, on the cutting edge. We should be hanging our heads in shame.

Steve wrote on Jul 28, 2007 9:06 PM:It is Mexicans who are the racists. They are the ones who want special treatment for Mexicans who break our laws. This is racist. Also, La Raza means "The race" and it is a Mexican organization which advocates special treatment for Mexicans. Americans welcome legal immigrants, we don't welcome criminals. A minority of Mexicans want to give special treatment to Mexican who are criminals. That makes the Mexicans the racists.

Are Mexicans Friendly To American Indians? wrote on Jul 29, 2007 1:56 AM:Forget history, look what is happening NOW to the American Indian. www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/07/29/news/sandiego/16_08_237_28_07.txt

John wrote on Jul 30, 2007 8:03 AM:Police chief talking to the Democratic Club? This will be interesting.Like talking to a wall .The cops need to enforce the law.

dave from oceanside wrote on Jul 30, 2007 8:19 AM:PRESIDENTS HOOVER & EISENHOWER DEPORTED ILLEGALS! Operation Wetback deported approximately 80,000 Mexican nationals in the space of almost a year, although local INS officials claimed that an additional 500,000-700,000 had fled to Mexico before the campaign began. The INS estimates rested on the claim that most undocumented people, fearing apprehension by the government, had voluntarily repatriated themselves before and during the operation. Checking for legal status in this country was and is still NOT a crime. It is our right and duty to protect this country.

Get a life people wrote on Jul 31, 2007 2:59 PM:To all the racist haters that have nothing else to do. Please get a life and get involved in our community. What are you doing to make it better? Stop whinning and your hating. You just have to face it. Latinos are here to stay and soon they will be the majority in California. I love those people, they work hard and are very loving. Maybe you can learn something from them? or if you really hate so much, why don't you apply at a farm that way you take their jobs away and get all their benefits. Maybe your GOD teach you how to love your neighbor, no matter what color he/she is.

oseas wrote on Aug 1, 2007 10:52 PM:thats truth you are all a bunch of haters u.s.a would be nothing without illegal immigrants or what tell me who washes your car the carwash who does your lawn, who did the tile at ur house who picked the fruit that u have in your table who cleans yous house this country needs illegal immigrants

again wrote on Aug 3, 2007 2:20 AM:NCT not posting comments that disagree with its PRO ILLEGAL immigration stance...way to be a "factual" paper. RAG!

Excuse me? wrote on Aug 5, 2007 5:03 AM:I wash my own car, thank you. I don't need a criminal alien to do it. They usually scratch the paint anyway and they stink it up.

Larry wrote on Aug 9, 2007 7:24 AM:I applaud the Escondido Police Chief is doing. I agree that there needs be more done. I truly wish that the Mayor would get off her polical butt and not cater to illegal aliens and criminals. Our tax dollars are going for support of this pandering. Thanks to the Police Chief for a good start in the right direction.

now were standing up america wrote on Aug 11, 2007 10:35 AM:Its all over the news, Illegal alien crackdown, not illegal immigrant crackdown, huge fines for employeers hiring illegals, police enforcing immigration laws, I love it. Now with no work or life here, illegals are finished in the USA. This is just the start of a positive step towards evicting 12-15 million illegals for good. We the American people will find ways to fill the jobs that illegals will no longer have here, its not a problem, we are America, we will conquer all. To OSEAS, get it right,it illegal alien, not illegal immigrant, we welcome legal immigrants.