New Haven Independent

Posted by: cedarhillresident | July 23, 2007 6:00 PM

I will be there tomorrow!! I support the card and incourage all to go and get one!

Posted by: veryconcernedcitizen | July 23, 2007 6:46 PM

Oh where or where has the City of New Haven gone?

I have been born, raised, worked, lived and paid taxes in this city for years. This is definately the straw that broke the camels back.

This administration is failing and is a joke to so many caring and wonderful citizens.

The Chief and Mayor need to go. They are laughed at and haven't a clue what people think of them. It is completely outrageous that after living here for years, I refuse to shop or do business in the city anymore. WHY? We have been afraid to park our cars. We have had things stolen, vandalized, witnessed crime I could care less to remember ever again, nevermind my children.

The statistics?! lol

I won't even let my kids take a bus downtown.

There are people within the police department that are SO MUCH MORE QUALIFIED to run this department than the current administration. Look at all the great people who have left DUE to this administration. Look at all the people who HAD to leave because this administration couldn't see a crime being committed in thier own building!!!!!

There has got to be someone better to run this administration.......let me go see what my four year old is doing right now.

Posted by: John | July 23, 2007 7:31 PM

Out of control crime, Police corruption and now a illegal alien haven...Fiddle John Fiddle....

Posted by: rizzo | July 23, 2007 8:46 PM

Great. Record them all, then use the data base to round em up. Then Professor Solomon can really make a cottage industry out of this nonsense after his cocky assurance that the city can keep these records secret under the FOIA proves to be alot of gas.

Posted by: Diego | July 23, 2007 11:27 PM

I was one of the first 50, Yay!

Posted by: Willie Williams Jr | July 24, 2007 4:18 AM

This Will Help STOP Racial Profiling of "Black Men" In New Haven. Police Take Notice: Who Do You Say I Look Like NOW!?. Now! When The Police STOP! Me, I Have An I.D. Card To Prove Who I Am. I Don't Have To Carry My U.S. Passport or Wear My Teachers I.D. Card.

Posted by: legalatina | July 24, 2007 8:14 AM

This is an affront and very offensive to all naturalized citizens and legal immigrants who play by the rules to assimilate, immigrate, succeed and enjoy the benefits and priliges of citizenship and legal residency. New Haven, CT. and it's wholly misguided officials, have clearly stated by this program that they have no regard for their obligations to place the safety, health and welfare of their law-abiding citizens and legal residents above the special interests of illegal aliens, their professional advocates, foreign governments and the profiteers of illegal immigration including local businesses that cater to that market, human smugglers, drug traffickers, and all the other criminal enterprises involved in the illegal immigration industry. Shameful and shameless. Basta Ya. Just SAY NO MAS to illegal immigration.

Posted by: Kristen | July 24, 2007 8:29 AM

This is the kind of city I want to live in. I am a White woman, born in the U.S. and I was one of the first 50.

And if the database goes to the INS, I hope that every single resident of the city of New Haven is on the list. Just like that town where every resident put on a Star of David when the Nazis started insisting that the Jews had to wear them.

And I love this card! Parking, library, parks, all in one.

Posted by: Taxed To Death | July 24, 2007 10:59 AM

Mark my words -- while this program is paid by a grant this year, it will show up in the budget next year sans a grant. And the music plays on...

P.S. Somebody please be honest with the illegals -- this card doesn't guarantee or allow you to open a bank account. Fact is, with proper identification - real indentification, you can open a bank account anyway. Junta and others, including DeStefano and Matos, have been very dishonest about this.

Posted by: Melisa Rodriguez | July 24, 2007 11:04 AM

Greetings from Kansas,

Iam ashamed to say that we dont have the open minded,Intlligent people that you do. Congraulations!! Your city will prosper for sure.
As sayings go. Treat others as you would like to b treated. What goes around comes around.

Posted by: Cyril | July 24, 2007 11:25 AM

I volunteered 2 years of my life in the service for the legal residents and safety of my country!
To think that a elected official has slapped me in the face by allowing illegal immigrants full benefits because they can climb a fence is beyond believe.
The Supreme Court has ruled this wrong and has nothing to do with George Bush!

Posted by: PowertothePeople | July 24, 2007 11:56 AM

I will be heading down shortly to get my id if for no other reason than to be able to no longer need to carry around a pocket full of quarters every time I park downtown.

As for enforcing the laws... if we're going to start enforcing some of the laws then lets enforce ALL of them. Let's enforce the traffic laws. More folks are harmed by bad driving than by immigrant families working. But if we did that I'll be every one of us would get several tickets a day... me included.

If the complaint is about immigrant families not paying taxes, then lets find a way to make them pay taxes (I like the idea of getting rid of income taxes and having a federal sales tax that was promoted in the NH Register editorial last week.)

The bottom line is we have a problem with immigration in this country. It is unfair and unreasonable and something needs to be done. The other fact is the people are here. If they are harming someone, committing violent crimes then by all means send them somewhere else (lets send our so-called "citizens who do the same thing somewhere also.) But if they are living decent lives and contributing to our society then leave them the heck alone!!!

Lastly, I am of mixed heritage. My ancestors either were forced to come here against their will or were here already. In both cases they were exploited in violation of several laws. Laws are designed to help us all get along. They are supposed to benefit EVERYONE. Current immigration law does not do that. I am not impressed by your laws and will, in the spirit of a true American (remember, my folks were here when you white folks thought the world was flat) resist any law that causes harm.

Stop fighting this ID card and let's debate the real issues. Theres is not a quick fix to this and the id cards will have very little impact on a fix. They just help a few folks get by a little easier.

When I go to get my id, I hope no one gets in my face with their hatred because I am likely to slap them silly (make that silli-er)!!!

Posted by: legalatina | July 24, 2007 2:23 PM

I will be sure to start sending and referring the illegal aliens in my community to move to New Haven, CT as soon as possible. Perhaps your landlords can start readying the single-family apartments and houses for conversion into de facto boarding homes. I'm sure the schools in New Haven, will be happyt to accommodate even more illegal alien students and the taxpayers happy to obliging pay for it. I'm sure the hospital maternity wards will be more than ready to accommodate indigent illegal alien pregnant women and offer them free services, interpreters, medications etc. Better yet, why doesn't New Haven, CT just send out a press release to the Consulates of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras and invite their foreign nationals living here illegally to come and set up shop in NEw Haven?

Posted by: JT | July 24, 2007 2:35 PM

No bank OR ANY OTHER BUSINESS should accept these "IDs" & if that would adversely affect legal foreign residents or citizens, I say TOO BAD b/c they should have done more to prevent the city from doing this crap! The feds, the state & the county should IMMEDIATELY CUT-OFF ALL FUNDS FOR ALL THINGS normally sent to New Haven & once again if that adversely affects legal foreign residents OR citizens see my response above! Hopefully, but unfortunately doubtfully, ICE agents will be sent to "stake-out" the office & ask for ID of EVERYONE attempting to ENTER. It is against federal law for any jurisdiction to be a "sanctuary" for illegal aliens & this goes another step farther than that, hence, this is against federal law. I urge all legit residents of the city to boycott any business that accepts these "IDs"!

Posted by: Greg | July 24, 2007 2:37 PM

What New Haven is doing is a horrible idea on immigration. We in Texas now firsthand the dozens of problems of illegal immigration along wih open borders and the toll it has taken on all border states both financially and in social services. I could write a book on the problems but, suffice it to say its a disastrous idea. Some of the more prominent problem we have with open borders and illegal immigration in the border states are what prompted Governors like Janet Naolitano to write the recent letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. No wonder Oklahoma recenly announced it is taking steps to avoid becoming "another Texas or Arizona" on immigration. Even industrialized states like TX and CA are being overwhelmed at the costs on the two most populous states in the
USA.

Problems with Open Borders:

Human smuggling is a fact of life along the border stll. At up to 3000 dollars a person

The Drug Cartels of Mexico permeate the open border, many of those drugs wind up in New England States including CT cities and schools.

Wages are depressed and unemployment high in every border county. Much of the border is in sparse population areas of desert. The flood of
labor from across the border drives down wages and raises unemployment. San Luis,Ariz. had up to 70 percent unemployment. Still think Bush's open border ideas are a good one?

Assault weapons (many from third world countries)
flood across the border into the rest of the
United States. (I oppose gun control in the traditional sense by the way). Many of these assault weapons have come from such countries as
Burma, Bangladesh etc.)

In November, 2006 a Dallas policeman was killed
by an illegal alien.Numrous crimes are not
infrequent as crime databases show

Social Security fraud is also rampant. Recently,
a Soc.Security ring in Dallas was broken up printing some 1300 fraudulent Soc Sec. Cards out of a Dallas Apt. complex. Some of this money should likely have gone to Connecticut residents
instead went to illegal aliens.

7. Car theft, especially in Ariz. is epidemic and
also along the border in TX.

8. Illegal aliens from such countries as North
Korea, China and other unfriendly to the US
countries have been stopped by Border Patrol
Agents.

9. Border Patrol Agents have been kicked assualted
shot at and worse along the Texas/Mexico border
(especially in Zapata and El Paso Counties) by illegal aliens. Get control of the border, it's common
sense. All other countries of the world enforce
their border, we should to.
Greg in Texas

Posted by: Brian Harris | August 2, 2007 5:21 PM

Greetings from Utah.
I wish I could live in New Haven after hearing about the ID cards. I think it's a genius idea. If you have a problem with immigration, take it to the federal authorities, like DeStefano said. But I think that allowing for some basic luxuries will eventually reduce crime. Think of all the people that can now have a city-recognized form of identification. Why is opening a bank account such a bad thing to allow immigrants to do? So many illegal immigrants keep all the money they own in their homes or their cars because they can't put it anywhere else. If they all had bank accounts, they would be safer. In Charlotte, NC I saw a Hispanic man shot in the stomach on a Friday evening because everyone knows that Friday is payday, Hispanic workers are often paid in cash, and he probably had nowhere safe to keep his earnings. And someone took advantage of his insecurity. Letting immigrants open a bank account with a city ID keeps everyone safer from violent crime.
And allowing them to have library cards is a good way to give them an opportunity to be better educated and learn English, something that so many anti-immigration activists complain so loudly about. Give them some rights so they can benefit your society.

Posted by: Bill | August 14, 2007 9:33 AM

*sigh* What is it about the word "ILLEGAL" that you people do not understand? ILLEGAL means "forbidden by law."

So...can I now steal a car? It is ILLEGAL, however, the word holds no meaning anymore. ILLEGAL has become "well, not so forbidden."

DeStefano makes me laugh...."If you have a problem with illegal immigration, talk to President Bush". Ok, so in the meantime, let's perpetuate the problem. Heck, as usual, it is easier to pass the buck.

I have no problem with any race, creed or color. I welcome diversity. However, assimilate and become a citizen in a legal manner, and add something to society.

The current administration made a huge mistake. And the people who go the ID cards...dont be surprised when someone gets the list, and submits it to INS ;-)

Knock knock...