At the July 21 meeting, the Greensboro City Council is scheduled to consider a grant from the US Department of Justice that with past City Councils would be a routine matter.
However, in January, the Greensboro City Council turned down a Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) from the Department of Justice because someone from the Working class & Homeless Organizing Alliance (WHOA) didn’t like some of the language in the small print.
This was a grant that the city had accepted without discussion for years from the Department of Justice, and in December city councilmembers thought they had accepted the grant, but then after one complaint from WHOA decided to put it back on the agenda for another vote.
The issue that caused the City Council not only to turn down $138,000 for Greensboro but also $61,000 for Guilford County and $51,000 for High Point was a clause that stated the city wouldn’t interfere with sharing information regarding “citizenship or immigration status with federal agencies.”
City Councilmember Justin Outling explained that the Greensboro Police Department didn’t collect information on citizenship or immigration status on people stopped or arrested and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) didn’t request the information from the city.
But that was not good enough for the majority of the City Council to agree to accept the JAG, and Mayor Nancy Vaughan and Councilmembers Michelle Kennedy, Sharon Hightower, Tammi Thurm and Yvonne Johnson all voted not to accept the federal money.
The question about this upcoming grant from the Justice Department, which is to provide funding to prevent, prepare for and respond to possible future outbreaks of the coronavirus, is whether the City Council will accept it or not.
The grant would provide funding for the Police Department, the Fire Department and the Neighborhood Development Department and would be used to purchase equipment for decontamination of city facilities, disinfecting emergency response vehicles and personal protective equipment for city employees.
The city staff reportedly doesn’t see a problem with this particular grant, but the city staff didn’t see a problem with the previous Justice Department grant either. Perhaps the City Council will need to wait and see if WHOA gives its approval before making a decision.
Ask Ms. Hightower. She has the visual aid with her.
If the Greensboro City Council votes to turn down this funding, they should all be removed from office. Do they not understand that they represent the entire population and not just a few? Illegal immigrants are law breakers, period. They should be fearful. They have broken the law. Their reasons are not important. Someone may rob a bank to support his/her family, but they still broke the law. We cannot have elected officials deciding which laws to enforce. When they are elected, they take an oath to support the rules, regulations and laws that are in effect.
I’m not upset that they turned down the funding, even though their reason for it was flimsy. There is no “federal money.” Washington is not just broke– it’s 23 TRILLION dollars beyond that! There are no money tree orchards behind the Capital, where unicorns frolic all day long. For Washington to give us anything requires that they first take it from us. The idea that we can get something for nothing is asinine, and just shows us to be the fools that we are.
Yes, Wayne, it’s just all about which government pot it comes out of, but in the end, it comes out of my pot and your pot and his pot. It doesn’t come out of the state pot or the City’s pot or the County’s pot or the federal pot or the VA’s pot or Medicare’s pot or Medicaid’s pot or even China’s pot.
It’s OUR money! People just don’t get that because so many of them don’t actually pay taxes. They don’t have jobs, don’t own property (or if they are in the process of paying a mortgage don’t realize they are paying property tax monthly), don’t run a business, and most likely are getting several government benefits that aren’t taxed monthly (and don’t realize some of those benefits may be income tax advances for the next year’s taxes).
That’s what the schools have done so successfully with “new math”, kept people uneducated. The plan to indoctrinate this country is working.