Despite the efforts of people to urge the city council to butt out, Sacramento city council members voted nearly unanimously to sanction Arizona over their effort to control illegal immigration to their state. As usual, the latino cabal was there, babies in tow, but there was most definately opposition, but they were tuned out as they gave their two minute speeches.
I spoke, but did not record it this time. The city council records the meetings and I'll try to extract it later, but my effort was basically to point out the council's hypocrisy again. Most everyone else in opposition to this motion gave the usual, law n order, it's not our business, Sac city should be concentrating on our deficit type speeches. I thought to try something different.
Sacramento city sends their arrestee's to the county jail, where they know they will be profiled for immigration status. They also know that people found in violation will have immigration holds placed on their heads. That seems quite hypocritical for Sac to use the jail as a "straw man" to conduct their immigration checks, while they accuse and condemn AZ for the same. So I spent my two minutes asking why the council was not sanctioning Sac County, or breaking their contract with the county jail.
Here's a few pics of the tour
Notice that the signs this guy is carrying resemble SEIU signs?
Baby-Waving
Old glory not allowed to enter the building and is carried away
