HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC RESO 9702RESOLUTION NO.
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF NATIONAL CITY, STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
URGING AND ENCOURAGING LEGISLATORS OF THE
UNITED STATES AND THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
AND APPROPRIATE GOVERNMENTAL OFFICIALS TO
SERIOUSLY CONSIDER CLOSING THE UNITED
STATES-MEXICAN BORDER TO AMERICAN MINORS,
SEEKING ENTRY TO MEXICO, UNLESS SAID MINORS
ARE ACCOMPANIED BY A PARENT OR OTHER
RESPONSIBLE ADULT AND RELATING TO THE
CURTAILMENT OF THE NARCOTICS, MARIJUANA
AND DANGEROUS DRUG PROBLEM IN CALIFORNIA
AND THE CITY OF NATIONAL CITY
WHEREAS, the distribution and use of dangerous drugs,
marijuana and narcotics by American minors has become an extremely
serious problem in the State of California, and particularly in
the City of National City; and
WHEREAS, all State of California and Federal Law
enforcement agencies, directly involved in attempting to eliminate
this problem, have advised the City Council of the City of
National City, California, that considerable quantities of said
dangerous drugs, marijuana and narcotics are brought into the
State of California by American minors who enter Mexico by cross-
ing the California -Mexican border, obtain such products in Mexico,
and return with them to the State of California; and
;uHEREAS, the City of National City within the past few
months has experienced an outbreak in the distribution and use
of dangerous drugs and marijuana by minors, particularly, students
attending local Junior and Senior High Schools, with ample evidence
that such products were brought to this City from Mexico by
American minors; and
WHEREAS, the General Assembly of the League of
California Cities, assembled at its 70th Annual Conference in
Los Angeles on October 16, 1968, passed a resolution urging the
United States Congress to conduct hearings in Southern California
to consider the closing of the California -Mexican border to minors,
unless said minors were accompanied by a parent or other responsible
adult;
NOSa, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of
the City of National City that it hereby resolves, in conjuction
with the League of California Cities and other California cities,
to urge and encourage members of the United States Congress, State
of California Legislators and all Federal and State governmental
officials to seriously consider closing the United States -Mexican
border to American minors seeking entry to Mexico, unless said
minors are accompanied by a parent or other responsible adult;
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Clerk is hereby
directed to send copies of this resolution to Senator George
Murphy, Governor Ronald Reagan, City Councils of all California
cities, Attorney General of the State of California, Attorney
General of the United States Department of Justice and Commissioner
Raymond F. Farrell, United States Department of Justice, Immigra-
tion and Naturalization Service.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 79th day of November, 1968.
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