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Watching the war on terror.(RoundUps)
A Homeland Security Office Near You
Between 1990 and 2000, the Latino population in Hoover, Alabama grew by about 550 percent. That turns out to be a total of around 2,000 brown folks. What's a Birmingham suburb to do? That's right. Get your own Homeland Security Office.
The city council voted in December to create the state's first municipal Homeland Security agency. Although a city councilman said he didn't believe "al-Qaeda has come to Hoover," a city of 63,000 people, the new agency will try to get more federal dollars to enforce immigration laws. And there is money for the taking. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security put aside about $36 million this year to fight terrorism in Alabama, according to the Birmingham Business Journal.
Call us cynics, but some research suggests that fighting terror in Hoover means locking up Latinos.
The city has been dealing with what locals there call the "Lorna Road Problem." That's a beautified name for a familiar issue: day laborers waiting for work on a road near the highway and agitated white residents who blame new crime on these men. So it was no surprise that last year's mayoral race in Hoover became a showdown between two candidates who agreed on one thing: close the local center for day laborers and in general fight the evils of illegal immigration. Tony Petelos, the candidate who became Hoover's new mayor, pushed to get approval for the new local Homeland office.
But Homeland Security isn't just for Hoover. Mayor Petelos told reporters he wants to work with nearby towns to get a regional homeland security officer. "We'll wait and see what Congress does with the new immigration laws," Petelos told the Birmingham News. "At that time, I will go to Congress and see if we can get someone here." Hopefully, John Ashcroft won't be looking for a job by then.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Watching the war on terror.(RoundUps)