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50,000 Chaldeans live in El Cajon
No I am not an El Cajon resident. Years ago I operated a business in El Cajon. But given the current demographics I would never consider operating a business or owning real estate in that community. It has become a refugee welfare state-city. Who would want to operate or own anything here there is so much tension between the "new guard" (lazy perma-welfare collecting Arabs) and the old guard which is dying, leaving and disinvesting in what is to become a "no-go-zone" cultural island.— April 22, 2016 10:31 p.m.
Accused gambling scofflaws get day in court
Pancer built his practice representing local mafia, mobsters, drug dealers and money launderers. Like Carmine "Lillo" Galante, Fred Mendoza (narco trafficking/money laundering), Derek Galanis (ties to Gambino crime family), Douglas Powanda (Peregrine swindle), Ralph Inzunza (political corruption), Roger Hedgecock (political corruption), Rene Martin Verdugo-Urquidez (narco trafficking) and many more.— April 22, 2016 9:52 a.m.
50,000 Chaldeans live in El Cajon
NewzUuse, says "The refugees in El Cajon, are striving daily, to meet, and exceed, the requirements, set down, by local, state, and federal offices." Would you care to cite your sources? What requirements are they suppose to meet?— April 22, 2016 9:11 a.m.
50,000 Chaldeans live in El Cajon
Ooo. Jamba Juice. That will rock the economy. I hope they accept EBT so the locals can have a smoothie.— April 22, 2016 9:04 a.m.
50,000 Chaldeans live in El Cajon
Coming from someone who claims to have "hung out in front of home depot for about 2 years" I doubt we can have an intelligent debate. Our backgrounds are different universes. You said "the typical Mexican has always been portrayed as a lazy man taking a siesta under his sombrero at midday." That is a negative stereotype. Most Mexicans are hard-working, family loving, people who learn our languages and customs and integrate into our society. They can find work in a few days, not 7 years.They don't marry off their children, make their wives wear ridiculous headwear and treat women as second class citizens. The previous mayor said something about the Iraqi's driving up to the welfare office in Lexus and Mercedes Benz's. The Iraqi's have learned real fast how to scream discrimination and squelch speech using politically correct dogma. And they have apparently learned how to game the system.— April 22, 2016 9:01 a.m.
50,000 Chaldeans live in El Cajon
It takes more than 7 years? It takes Mexicans one or two weeks to find work. I can see it with my own eyes driving through El Cajon. Adult men standing around on every corner, smoking cigarettes and talking. They are not looking for work, they are content with welfare. Most are uneducated and illiterate and unskilled.— April 22, 2016 8:50 a.m.
50,000 Chaldeans live in El Cajon
I'd like to see a conversation about why they don't work. Mexicans that come over illegally mostly manage to find work even if they have to hang out in front of Home Depot to find work. It seems the Iraqi's have an aversion to work. Is it because the asylum welfare is enough to keep them happy. Do they work under the table at their various liquor stores. 85% of Iraqi men over the age of 45 unemployed? Is it really a good policy to keep inviting these people here if they are going to remain unproductive residents?— April 21, 2016 1:13 p.m.
50,000 Chaldeans live in El Cajon
According to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study on the health of Iraqi refugees who settled in the United States after 2009, 67 percent of adults are unemployed, including 85 percent of those over 45 years old. This could be caused by a number of factors. Maybe someone can answer why there are so many Iraqi men that do not work?— April 20, 2016 12:13 p.m.
Sale of 4th&B could mean the end of the venue
Sad. There are fewer and fewer intimate venues for music acts. It pushes prices up at the remaining larger venues.— April 20, 2016 10:30 a.m.
Avocado growers disappointed by El Nino
When I was very young, I lived in Yorba Linda. It was "out in the sticks" back then. We had dozens of avocado trees and an orange grove. I recall when they watered the avocado groves they opened up big valves and flooded the fields with water. So perhaps less water means smaller avocado's.— April 20, 2016 7:33 a.m.