With many phone calls to the City Manager Charles Strome’s Office, Mayor Bramson’s Office and local City Council Representatives, it is now very clear that New Rochelle City Hall and all our Elected and Appointed City Officials Care NOT for our children’s safety or for the safety of most people in the South End of New Rochelle.
The Sycamore Park area of New Rochelle, located in the South End, has been plagued with serious on street parking issues, landscape company owners using residential zoned property to park and store commercial vehicles and equipment on their property, and above all speeding vehicles on the local narrow two-way streets.
Many Sycamore Park home owners and residents have complained about these and many other issues that have fallen on deaf ears within City Hall. The New Rochelle Police Department can only do so much; their hands are tied with the lack of cooperation from City Hall.
The narrow streets of Sycamore Park are filled with children, especially when the weather is nice. Many home owners and residents, who are parents, have called City Hall over the past few years to help them remedy the speeding vehicles issue. All would like City Hall to install speed humps throughout the roads within Sycamore Park. Speed humps are found in many public residential roadways. To avoid driver discomfort, the vehicle must slow down to a speed of 15-20 mph while traveling over them. By installing speed humps, vehicles would need to keep their speed low. By installing speed humps the percentage of safety increases for our children.
City Manager Charles Strome, Mayor Bramson and City Council representatives have not done anything to control or stop the illegal use of residential property being used for commercial business. Landscape owners are destroying residential quality of life in neighborhoods by using residential zoned property to park commercial vehicles, and store material, equipment and hazardous materials. They are also decreasing the neighborhoods safety by having illegal, undocumented, migrant workers enter once safe neighborhoods.
Do you recall Mary Nagle of New City in Rockland County?
She was the woman who was raped and murdered by illegal immigrant Ronald Douglas Herrera Castellanos. Herrera was an employee of Color-On, a contractor that employed Herrera. On April 27, 2005, Herrera was sent to the Nagle’s home to work on their rear deck. This is a crime that should never have happened, but unfortunately it did. This wasn’t the first nor will it be the last heinous crime committed by illegal immigrants. Many people should be responsible for crimes committed by illegal immigrants such as companies and individuals that employ these people and politicians that allow companies and individuals to hire these illegal immigrants. Should a crime happen within New Rochelle by an illegal immigrant while working for an employer, that employer should be held liable for the crimes committed. The City of New Rochelle should be held liable for the crimes committed for allowing companies and individuals to employ illegal immigrants as well and not upholding the laws set forth by our government.
All local officials better start working for the people of this City rather then their own self interests.
Clean up New Rochelle and Clean Out City Hall!!!
Clean Up New Rochelle Before it’s to Late…
According to the US Department of Justice – Federal Bureau of Prisons, State of the Bureau 2008 Report, 26.5% of inmates held in U.S. Prisons are of Mexican (17.2%), Columbian (1.5%), Cuban (0.9%), Dominican (1.4%), Others/Unknown (5.5%) citizens. This means they are illegal immigrants.
I don’t know about you, but tax dollars paid for by U.S. Citizens pay for their incarceration.
Mr. Sanchez, I’d like to ask you a few simple questions.
1. Do you think these landscape company owners run a background check on their employees who are illegal immigrants? Yes or No
2. Do they know if any of them have a criminal background? Yes or No
3. Can you guarantee that any illegal immigrant working for any contractors in New Rochelle are with out criminal records and will not commit crimes while working for these contractors? Yes or No
Mr. Sanchez, nor the contractors that these illegal immigrants work for, cannot guarantee that any of them are without criminal backgrounds or will not commit any criminal activity while working for them.
Bypassing a background check of employees definitely decreases the safety of the employer, other workers, the company’s clients, and the communities in which these illegal immigrants are working in.
Mr. Sanchez, are you willing to risk your safety or the safety of your family and community? Would you want an unfortunate incident like the murder and rape of Mary Nagle to happen to you or a member of your family or community? I know, wouldn’t.
So, I’m sure we both agree that measures must be taken to enforce the safety of our communities and punish those contractors who jeopardize the safety of our communities for their own ill gotten gains.
Mr. Sanchez, let us bury the hatchet and work together to make the greedy, money hungry, uncaring, low lives that sit comfortably in City Hall who are ruining our City and our communities, work for the people and not for their own self interest.
Sycamore Park needs to be cleaned up before it gets to the Point of No Return. The speeding vehicles, the illegal commercial business operations out of private homes, the out of control parking situation must be taken care of immediately!
CLEAN UP NEW ROCHELLE BY CLEANING OUT CITY HALL!!!
It’s Not Just Sycamore Park
Take a ride down Stephenson Blvd. Maintenance of the road and park has all been forgotten. The park has been reduced to a dirt patch from lack of resolve of the parks dept heads, or anyone else for that matter, to work with the residents to reduce the nonresident (New Rochelle non resident-I’m not talking about illegals or immigrants, so don’t blow a gasket), organized games on the park grounds. It’s so bad, many of the residents who live along the park can’t bring their kids to play in the field. We’ve spoken with Zimmerman and Coleman. Stand on Pratt, Rhodes, Jackson, Lincoln, or any other street in the East End and watch the speeders. We’ve even considered paying for the speed humps out of a community collection because it’s so bad and the city is so disinterested.Pratt and Adams averages one car accident every ten months. Overcrowding in the houses cripples parking and now we might lose parking along Stephenson Blvd to accomodate the ill conceived Echo Bay project. Commercial vehicles are never ticketed. I understand it’s difficult to distinguish between just some guy trying to make a living and someone operating a business out of his house, but multiple commercial vehicles/ out of state vehicles should get a cursory review with the owners. While chasing grandiose dreams of tall buildings and a bigger city, they completely forget the issues that maintain the quality of life. East End, Sycamore Park, the South End all face the neglect of the mayors office. Keep up the fight and remember you/we can change things at the voting booth.
Let’s Evolve
So it would appear that with the two arguments presented by Mr. Sanchez and the user “MakeNewRoBetter” that the undocumented population of the United States both contributes positively and negatively to our society.
Let us evolve to a frame of mind where we do not punish a certain population for the crimes of misgivings of some of their members. To punish a population whose extreme minority are criminals is illogical. Too many times in history the excuse of punishing those who deserve it has been used to cover political persecution along with genocide.
New Rochelle High School was first named after President Wilson. Where this dedication is reads a quote of his pushing for people to “put the needs of humanity above their own”. Let us fix the issues that cause some criminal trends in immigrant population, while also cherishing the contributions they make to our economy and our society. Let’s put some humanity into law.
Landscapers operating businesses in residential areas
I do not live in Sycamore Park, but do live in southern New Rochelle. There is at least one landscaping business that run their operations at least partially from houses in my neighborhood. We have complained to the city about them, too. They store chemicals in their garages, have large commercial vehicles in their garages, and sometimes have workers congregate in the mornings before the work day. Our complaining has made their operation less visible. They planted large shrubbery around their backyard and garage area. Also, there are fewer workers. But the business continues to operate. I see the trucks come and go from the garage. The city will send someone if you call, but by then the truck is gone.
This is a problem because it degrades a residential neighborhood. It decreases property values and changes the characteristics of the neighborhood.
For starters, the city can look at their building codes that allow commercial style garages to be built in residential neighborhoods. Some of the garages that house these businesses are new.
Man Speak With Forked Tongue
TO: MakeNewRoBetter -The issue here is the City’s incompetence in regulating it’s own laws. Attack the City for this, but don’t drag the issue of immigrants and immigration.
Immigrants have always been an integral part of the fabric of the United States, and continue to be so today. Most Americans take for granted the presence of immigrants in their workplaces, schools and neighborhoods. But familiarity does not always equal tolerance. Almost every person in the U.S. has an immigration history, whether in the distant familial past or in more recent times. As a nation of immigrants, the United States has long struggled with how best to create unity within a pluralistic society, as typified in the motto on the Great Seal of the United States (and the dollar bill): E Pluribus Unum.
A common misconception exists that immigrants use up national resources. However, immigrants actually contribute $1,800 more on average in annual taxes than they receive in benefits, according to a 1997 study by the National Academy of Sciences. Immigrants pay local taxes through work, purchases, and housing, as well as direct federal taxes. Young immigrant workers contribute to Social Security through payroll taxes. Immigration is also key to a vital economy; in the U.S. immigrants add about $10 billion annually to the U.S. economy. Immigrants to the U.S., documented and undocumented, contribute a great deal to our national economy and government.
So, before you brand every immigrant a criminal, think of the impact your speech has on the community of learners; our children. Because one person committed a wrong act, as if we are the only ones, research and educate yourself.
“The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.” (Leviticus 19:34)
Martin Sanchez
Martin, Read What is Written…
As usual Martin Sanchez misinterprets the article that is posted. The article clearly states illegal undocumented immigrants. I never mentioned anything about any other type of immigrants. A legal immigrant is more then welcome to be in this fine Country of ours.
As for your comment, that I brand every immigrant a criminal, you have some nerve. And if you actually look up the laws of our great Country, all illegal immigrants have broken the law as soon as they crossed our borders. So to call every “illegal” immigrant a law breaker is a fact.
See this Article:
http://www.usillegalaliens.com/impacts_of_illegal_immigration_crime_summary.html
While this report has attempted to put a personal face on the collateral damage of illegal alien crime, note that many of the links in this report detailing some of the crime are dependent on the archiving time of some of the various sources making their articles available. Once taken down, many of the crimes simply “disappear” from American consciousness.
As an example, I’m willing to bet that most people living outside of the Denver metro are not aware that in the fall of 1999 five Asian gang members, illegal aliens as it was reported many years latter, kidnapped and gang raped a University of Colorado coed. Initiation rites were involved and they specifically targeted a “white woman.”
If it wasn’t for the archiving efforts of some groups fighting illegal immigration general knowledge of such incidents would be lost to all but the most serious researcher. Even with the internet it is very difficult to track down and report the participation level of illegal aliens in crime because NOBODY IS KEEPING TRACK! However, as this report has detailed and documented, it is quite considerable and is the direct consequence of our unfettered immigration policy, porous borders, sanctuary cities, and lack of enforcement.
In recent Testimony of District Attorney John M. Morganelli before the House Subcommittee on immigration, Border, Security and Claims he stated:
“Unfortunately, the majority of illegal aliens who are here are engaged in criminal activity. Identity theft, use of fraudulent social security numbers and green cards, tax evasion, driving without licenses represent some of the crimes that are engaged in by the majority of illegal aliens on a daily basis merely to maintain and hide their illegal status.
In addition, violent crime and drug distribution and possession is also prevalent among illegal aliens. Over 25% of today’s federal prison population are illegal aliens. In some areas of the country, 12% of felonies, 25% of burglaries and 34% of thefts are committed by illegal aliens.”
Ignoring the “minor crime” such as ID theft and property crimes being committed by illegal aliens, here is a summary on some of the collateral damage reaped in crimes as a result of tolerating illegal aliens in the USA:
• In Los Angeles, 95% of some 1,500 outstanding warrants for homicides are for illegal aliens. About 67% of the 17,000 outstanding fugitive felony warrants are for illegal aliens.
• There are currently over 400,000 unaccounted for illegal alien criminals with outstanding deportation orders. At least one fourth of these are hard core criminals.
• 80,000 to 100,000 illegal aliens who have been convicted of serious crimes are walking the streets. Based on studies they will commit an average of 13 serious crimes per perpetrator.
• Illegal aliens are involved in criminal activities at a rate that is 2-5 times their representative proportion of the population.
• In 1980, our Federal and state facilities held fewer than 9,000 criminal aliens but at the end of 2003, approximately 267,000 illegal aliens were incarcerated in U.S. correctional facilities at a cost of about $6.8 billion per year.
• At least 4.5 million pounds of cocaine with a street value of at least $72 billion is smuggled across the southern border every year. ..
• 56% of illegal aliens charged with a reentry offense had previously been convicted on at least 5 prior occasions.
• Illegal aliens charged with unlawful reentry had the most extensive criminal histories. 90% had been previously arrested. Of those with a prior arrest, 50% had been arrested for violent or drug-related felonies.
• Illegal aliens commit between 700,000 to 1,289,000 or more crimes per year.
• Illegal aliens commit at least 2,158 murders each year – a number that represents three times greater participation than their proportion of the population.
• Illegal alien sexual predators commit an estimated 130,909 sexual crimes each year.
• There may be as many as 240,000 illegal alien sex offenders circulating throughout America. Based on studies, they will commit an average of 8 sex crimes per perpetrator before being caught.
• Nearly 63% of illegal alien sex offenders had been deported on another offense prior to committing the sex crime.
• Only 2% of the illegal alien sex offenders in one study had no history of criminal behavior, beyond crossing the border illegally.
• In Operation Predator, ICE arrested and deported 6,085 illegal alien pedophiles. Some studies suggest each pedophile molests average of 148 children. If so, that could be as many as 900,580 victims.
• Nobody knows how big the Sex Slave problem is but it is enormous.
• The very brutal MS-13 gang has over 15,000 members and associates in at least 115 different cliques in 33 states.
• The overall financial impact of illegal alien crimes is estimated at between $14.4 and $81 billion or more per year. Factor in the crime as a result of the cocaine and other drugs being smuggled in and the number may reach $150 billion per year.
Still think illegal immigration is a “victimless crime” and we don’t need to control our borders? Remember, about 60% of the crimes being committed are by illegal aliens who were previously deported.
Allowing our borders to be disregarded coupled with little national commitment about doing anything about it has resulted in growing mayhem by illegal alien criminals, not a “victimless crime.”
As the previous sections have detailed, the dark side of illegal immigration includes a lot of horrific crime being perpetrated by the hard core criminal element of the illegal alien population. In the cost-benefit tradeoff of tolerating illegal immigration, how much collateral damage are we willing to accept?
In tolerating illegal immigration, how many Americans do YOU accept being molested, raped and murdered each year to save ten cents on a head of lettuce?
Your citation
The site you quote from is compiled by room-temperature IQ people who are xenophic and mis-read statistics to suit their myopic view of the United States. How sad, but understandable and you have fallen for it. The site you are using for your statistics is hate-filled organization whose membership is comprised of extreme white-power only, aryan anti-everybody people. To suggest that these people can attribute all ills of our society on people of color and immigrants is a testament to the desperate and careless ability of people who wish harm on immigrants. It is the hatred of immigrants that creates violence against them. Before attacking immigrants, documented or not, look in the mirror. It is because of the antipathy towards us, that yo are now creating a suspect class. Perhaps you are advocating to revive the auction block. Focus on creating bridges of friendship and tolerance. We all want to make our communities better and inclusive. Try it.