Political Quotes

“When people argue a kind of knee-jerk liberal argument that this is unfair to Mexicans who want to come over to work, they haven't thought it through. It is just the opposite. Every person that we want to be a guest in our country, that we need their help, we want to be friends. We want them to work here. Their life is made miserable because when they are here, they are the victims of crime by the illegals who come from their own country of birth. I rode all night in a police car within the last 2 weeks in Santa Ana. I learned about gangs I had not heard of, illegal immigrant gangs called lopos, which were formed to defend themselves against other gangs in beautiful Santa Ana, CA. I saw crack houses with 10 or 15 people outside running around. They all run inside, like the opposite of what you see when you attack a place and people flee. They were all going inside. The police did not hassle them. They could not. Although the reporter from the L.A. Times riding with me tried to do a good story, she made out like we were not seeing any crime at all, like we were seeing a quiet night. There has been a post-earthquake kind of depression of crime, like people are thinking about God, the big one coming, greater, transcendent, metaphysical things in life. The next night I rolled in a car where a man appeared to be dying in a van where a bullet went through one side and out the other. He probably lost a third of his blood. I called later, they said he would live.…”