Small beach town in CA passes Welcoming Cities for refugees; local RWNJs go ape
The Imperial Beach city government's passage of a Welcoming Cities Proclamation in mid August was a positive and benevolent occasion, but it is has generated a backlash among local right-wing voices recently.
"This means a lot to me," said mayor Serge Dedina during the presentation of the proclamation. "My dad came to this country in 1939 as a refugee. He escaped the Nazi occupation of Europe. My mom was bombed by the Germans and ended up coming to America."
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The backlash in Imperial Beach is led by a former Tea Party activist couple from Missouri now living in Imperial Beach — John and Gina Loudon, best known for Gina Loudon's 2013 participation in the reality TV show Wife Swap, on which she called President Obama a “communist.”
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"The cabal pushing the proclamation on Imperial Beach was headed by the San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium.... 'Welcoming Cities' is a scheme to flood communities in the United States with as many immigrants as possible, legal and illegal, without regard to resist public safety and public health," Loudon wrote.
Ogden alleges in the video that "Leftist groups" are "pushing for cities like this all around the U.S. to promote unvetted Muslim refugees from areas dominated by terrorist groups and to promote illegal immigration in general." He also said "subversive groups" are behind the resolutions with "the left-leaning city council approving it on the sly without any input from opposition at all." Ogden's video includes John Loudon's comments to the city council on September 7th, when Loudon proposed that the Welcoming Cities Proclamation was part of a "hidden political agenda" to bring refugees "from Africa" into the city.
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2016/sep/13/stringers-imperial-beach-right-wing-backlashed/
