Santa Ana faces calls to stop impounding immigrants' cars

Santa Ana faces calls to stop impounding immigrants' cars
- May 4, 2011
- Louis DeSipio, Chicano/Latino studies department chair and political science associate professor, is quoted in the Orange County Register May 3, 2011
From the OC Register:
Councilman Vincent Sarmiento said that he misspoke at the previous council meeting
on April 18, when he called Santa Ana "a Latino city." That statement came as he spoke
in support of sprucing up a brick plaza at Fourth and French streets to create a space
reminiscent of Mexican village plazas. "We're a multicultural city, and that's what
I should have called the city," he said Monday. "It isn't a Latino city. It's a multicultural
city that's predominantly Latino." Santa Ana's City Council is not unlike those of
other cities in having "a sense of being pulled in multiple directions," but "one
of the obligations of the city is to sort of reflect Latino culture in various ways,"
said Louis DeSipio, a political science professor at UC Irvine who studies immigration
and Latino politics.
For the full story, please visit http://www.ocregister.com/news/city-298990-council-latino.html.
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