Other voices on illegal aliens

Once again, from the League of Women Voters Candidate Night, March 30th. First Brenda Harris Khan, then Mike Warren:
Brenda Harris Khan: I believe that things that we can do right now to help the situation of illegals in any city. One of the things we can do is to get together as neighbors in a neighborhood, get together with your neighborhood organization and make citizen patrols. Make your neighborhoods a nice place for families to live and walk around and make it an unpleasant place for those who are illegal and in gangs and who want to conduct their illegal business. Make it unpleasant for them. Make it uncomfortable for them. Don’t hide in your houses. Go out. Get together with flashlights. Walk around and say, if you see someone, ask them what they’re doing. Ask them if they’ve seen anything going on that shouldn’t be going on, and find out what’s going on. And tell them that you’re watching. Tell them that you’re out there and you’re watching. Make it unpleasant for them. They’ll leave.

Mike Warren: I think you’ve heard a lot about illegal immigration and the programs that the city has. I think I would bring a balanced approach. We need to work with our neighborhoods. We need to work with our police department. We also need to work with our neighbors. We need to work with the county level, the Fox Valley area, because it is a problem that Elgin cannot solve. But I think it goes back to being safe in your home. We need to make sure that we devote the resources to have strong neighborhood groups and a strong conduit to our police department and our city council and city hall. Make sure that we devote the resources to those areas, that everybody feels safe in their home.

Warren seems to have borrowed the neighborhood involvement idea from Khan and the coalition idea from Prigge.