Tonight: Menlo Park weighs 'sanctuary city' status, bike route

Making Menlo Park a sanctuary city, sets a poor example to our youth. It shows that it is acceptable to break Federal law if you don't agree with the law. What on earth are people thinking? It is never acceptable to break the law. If people want to change laws, they can do through proper channels.

I believe the local proponents of "sanctuary" status are primarily concerned with maintaining status quo for their domestic help, i.e., nannies, cleaning staff, and gardeners. Also, many local contractors use undocumented workers for less-skilled work @ construction jobs. There were several of those during a major remodel at my house a couple of years ago. The men digging with shovels, filling debris boxes, wetting down soil to minimize dust, etc., were definitely not documented.

The future of Safe Routes in Menlo Park is in jeopardy. The City Council must take action tonight to move forward with the approved Oak Grove Bike Pilot. Words alone do not keep kids safe.

Please see my opinion piece from yesterday:
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Email Council Council (city.council@menlopark.org) NOW and tell them to move forward with the approved Oak Grove Bike Pilot. Safety for our kids can not wait.

Sincerely,
Jen Wolosin
Parents for Safe Routes
www.parents4saferoutes.org

Not sure what the attraction is for citizens for anything resembling a sanctuary city. does MS -13 mean anything? does Kate Steinly and many others mean anything. Sanctuary for whom? not for the law-abiding citizens. Much of the California politicians have gone nuts--and for what reason? doesn't make any sense. Abide by the laws of the United States. if you want to live here--do it the right way. we don't need to protect criminals, thugs, people intent on doing harm--like MS-13.

Please wake up before it is too late. too many sanctuaries and too many safe zones are destroying the US.

Making Menlo Park a sanctuary city, sets a GREAT example to our youth.

There is no way the Menlo Park City Council should have the right to make any politically motivated decision (that not all residents agree with) which would negatively impact our City by giving up valuable federal funding. Focus on making safer bike and pedestrian routes and other matters of critical importance to all residents of Menlo Park!

I am AGAINST sanctuary status for Menlo Park.

Dear John, bragging about sexually assaulting women (to Billy Bush) sets a poor example for our youth. Council can set a good example by making sure all residents feel safe going to police.

The DOJ lawyers have explained that Trump is just mouthing off from a bully pulpit and we should not take his threats seriously.

Are you kidding me? How utterly disgraceful. So, Menlo Park's city council is now making law by considering saying to hell with federal law that has been in place since the writing of the constitution? In view of what is going on in our world, in addition to the laws of the land, the rule of law, the US constitution, how can this notion of a sanctuary city even be under consideration? This is anarchy. Treasonous. A community can't pick and choose which federal laws they are going to follow. That's what people do in banana republics.
Not everyone who comes here deserves to be here simply because they walked across the border. We need to know who they are. They need to go through the process designed to become citizens. I'm not anti-immigration, but I AM anti-illegal immigration.
And what kind of an example does this set for our youth? When Obama was president, we were told that states had no rights to oppose federal law. What's suddenly changed? Oh, yeah, the new president. So, now suddenly it's ok to have state rights again. Is this the kind of country we want to live in? Laws according to whims of the day? NO to sanctuary cities. It's against the law for good reason.

Wow, what a scary group of comments.

Please support the Sanctuary City Ordinance.

Constitutional Supporter should reflect on the values of the founding fathers. Some were slave owners, none were women.

what is scary-- despite what a couple of writers have indicated--that we are a bunch of losers because we don't support the constitution and our laws in place--is MS-13 who have come across the border with blessings from those who apparently are morally above everyone else. They came across our borders illegally-- approx 8000-10,000 who have gone into cities across the country --with the sole purpose of killing anyone and everyone. is this what the sanctuary city is for--to protect their "safety" so that they can go around killing our citizens and residents? the safety is for the people who are here lawfully--not for those who want to destroy others' lives. this is a vicious gang and they have come over the border with many other thugs and drug dealers. time to know who is here and who shouldn't be here. No one is complaining about the law-abiding citizens--it is the thugs and destruction makers who need to go. but, apparently, some enlightened few think they are so above everyone else that these people deserve protecting--even though they are hell-bent on destruction. enough with this "sanctuary" city non-sense. all it means, is that people who should be protecting its citizens are refusing to do their job. they are paid to protect its citizens--not its thugs. (notice there is no mention of any criteria other than unlawful thugs. these animals have got to go. What other country lets people come and go willy nilly? last time we went anywhere--a passport and more was required to go to any other country-we just didn't get on a plane and fly away to never never land, nor we were allowed to just walk across any borders. we all better wake up before it is too late. not only won't we have "sanctuary" cities--where citizens feel safe, we won't even have sanctuary homes--"locks on doors" won't be allowed to keep strangers out--and no one will be able to help when thugs do decide to visit you at home.

Fear: the Fox news staple. And they're going a little crazy these days without their O'Rielly harassment.

Making Menlo Park a sanctuary city, sets a GREAT example to our youth.

Thank you, Mayor Keith, for your wonderful leadership last night. Menlo Park is lucky to have you looking out for our kids.

For those of you who want to see for yourselves how things went at the City Council meeting, you can watch the whole proceedings here:
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Please note that the discussion about Oak Grove occurs at approximately hour 3:35:00. Be warned that the interface to watch is not very user friendly.

Parents for Safe Routes looks forward to continuing to work with members of the community to keep our kids safe getting to and from school.

Sincerely,
Jen Wolosin
Parents for Safe Routes
www.parents4saferoutes.org

Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome. Group members try to minimize conflict and reach a consensus decision without critical evaluation of alternative viewpoints by actively suppressing dissenting viewpoints, and by isolating themselves from outside influences.

Jen Wolosin is right. Residents should absolutely watch the meeting. It is a case study in how Groupthink develops and its pitfalls.

Last night a City Counclmember actually advocated threatening taxing a local Church to coerce it into providing parking in it's parking lot for high school students. The Mayor proposed that the attendees of weddings, funerals, and special events at Nativity Chuch be made to take shuttles to these services. And today Ms. Wolosin and her organization praises these actions.

Groupthink.

Wow--John: It is never acceptable to break the law? Good thing you weren't around during the era of MLK. Or maybe you were? In any case, it seems clear that you would not have agreed with him. "An unjust law is no law at all." (Letter from Birmingham Jail).

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