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Pasadena set to discuss Arizona immigration law
By Dan Abendschein, Staff Writer
Posted: 05/16/2010 07:03:12 AM PDT
PASADENA – The national uproar over Arizona’s national immigration law could be about to go local, with the Pasadena City Council set to discuss an official response to the law at Monday night’s meeting.
The response could range from a condemnation to a boycott on doing business within the state, according to Councilman Victor Gordo, who requested a discussion of the law for Monday night’s meeting last week.
“This law represents significant damage to this country,” Gordo said. “I believe it is not only constitutionally deficient, but representative of laws this country has historically condemned.”
Arizona’s law would allow police to ask for proof of U.S. citizenship from people suspected of committing a crime, as long as police had reasonable cause to believe the suspect was in the country illegally.
Critics like Gordo have charged that it will lead to racial profiling, and discrimination against Latinos.
Gordo said he will push the City Council for whatever response he thinks he can get the votes for. The important thing, he said, is that Arizona should be opposed.
Gordo, who was born in Mexico, said he also has personal reasons to oppose the law.
“My father is a U.S. citizen, but he does speak English with a heavy accent,” Gordo said. “Does that mean he should have to show proof of his citizenship?”
Several of Gordo’s fellow council members said that while they oppose the law, they are not sure the
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Council should step in and take a stand on it.
“I think the Arizona law is disgusting,” said Councilwoman Margaret McAustin. “At the same time, we have a lot of Pasadena issues we need to work on.”
Council members Terry Tornek and Steve Haderlein echoed the view that the Council has higher priorities to work on, though Haderlein said he also does not have a strong opinion on the Arizona immigration law at this time.
Councilman Chris Holden said that he would be most supportive of a resolution that urges the city’s Congressional representatives to fix the country’s immigration problem with federal legislation.
Councilwoman Jacque Robinson said she could back a boycott of Arizona businesses, a step already taken by the Los Angeles City Council.
“I’m supportive of us having a discussion,” Robinson said. “But I’d need more information from staff on what a boycott would mean for the city financially.”
Perhaps the most obvious ties the city has to Arizona are its contracts with state power plants. The city gets about 5 to 6 percent of its power from an Arizona nuclear power plant, according to Eric Klinkner, the assistant general manager of Pasadena Water and Power.
The city is tied into a long term contract with the plant that would make it difficult to break, he added.
The utility also has a contract with an Arizona power project that would use methane gas from a landfill to generate power, Klinkner said. However, that project may not end up going through because of technical issues at the plant, he added.
The Arizona law has already been brought up by Interim Police Chief Chris Vicino at strategic planning session last month. Vicino said in a later interview that the law makes it harder for police.
“It undermines community policing,” Vicino said. “If you have a group of Hispanics afraid to work with police it puts us in a bind.”
He said that the Pasadena Police Department has the policy of not asking about anybody’s legal status unless it is a matter of national security.
Whatever city officials ultimately chose to do, it appears there is significant interest in the issue in the community.
Randy Jurado Ertll,the executive director of El Centro de Accion Social, said that there is likely to be a good turnout for the discussion on Monday.
Ertll, an opponent of the law, said he favors the idea of an Arizona boycott for the city.
“The big question will be whether \ is symbolic or substantive,” Ertll said. “I think the law is not so far removed from the South Africa apartheid issue, so we can’t remove ourselves from it.”
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