Posted by
Bob Parks on Friday, April 11, 2008 10:58:09 AM
Many of us have heard the story of Jamiel Shaw, the promising young Los Angeles high school football star shot to death by an illegal-alien-gangbanger. We know that his mother, Army Sgt. Anita Shaw, got the news while serving her country in Iraq. We know that the punk who killed her son was at one point in custody, but was released without having his immigration status scrutinized.
“The guy who killed my son was in custody. He had a long prison record ... and he was let out without any kind of hearing. He was let out into the community on a Saturday night with no supervision and within 24 hours, he had gotten another gun.”
– Jamiel Shaw, Sr.
The incident has aroused the passions surrounding the city’s long-standing directive, Special Order 40, which prohibits the LAPD from asking arrestees about their immigration status. Immigrants’ rights advocates are busy screaming their traditional charges of xenophobia and racism, while anti-illegal immigration activists seize on another example of an alien who killed again.
I wonder if the Los Angeles City Council would be so seemingly lenient on illegals if say, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s son or daughter was the teenager shot dead in the street? Continued...