Apartment complex in Knoxville tells illegals to hit the road

Well finally! Somebody in Knoxville is standing up to the "La Raza" crowd. The owners of Lakeview Apartments has sent out a letter to all its tenants, telling them that if they are in this country illegally, they need to get out or they will be reported (from Knoxville News Sentinel):

LOUISVILLE, TN — Managers of an apartment complex with a high concentration of Hispanics have told residents that if they are illegal immigrants, they must move out by the end of the month.

“This management company and the building owner will not accept or allow any illegal aliens to live in the apartments,” reads the opening line of a three-paragraph letter addressed to all tenants of Lakeview Apartments in Louisville.

The letter orders all illegal immigrants to vacate their apartments by the end of August or face the threat of being reported to “the proper authorities. You will be arrested and deported,” it states.

But the threat by Meadowland Property Management may not have any legal teeth. J. Carlos Maciel, general manager of Lakeview Apartments, sent the letter Monday, leaving tenants 18 days to get out.

So, send out another one saying they have 30 days, whatever.

But, of course, you got some around here who just have to pander:

Late Wednesday, Lisa Barba, a community organizer for the immigrant coalition, met with a group of nearly 20 illegal immigrant residents of Lakeview Apartments in a sweltering upstairs unit and “gave them information on their rights and told them what to do in case of a raid or arrest.”

Addressing the group in Spanish, she gave them a list of attorneys who either speak Spanish or have an assistant who does and furnished them with a card in English that they can give to an arresting officer asserting their rights to be silent and to have an attorney.

Juana Sanchez and Jose Barillas, both illegal immigrants who work two jobs each in the food service industry, are among the Lakeview residents affected by the vacate order. The Mexico natives say they are trying to find another place to live and do not know exactly what they will do.

So, they have at least 20 illegals living there now.

Question: If the ICE got a tip that there were illegals living in these apartments, raided the complex, and levied fines, wouldn't the management have a good reason to be angry with the illegals? Therefore, shouldn't management be able to make sure they themselves are abiding by the law, and protect themselves? Or are they supposed to just look the other way and allow law-breakers to continue breaking the law on their premises?

Sorry, folks. People in this ocuntry are waking up to the fact that we have to do something about this problem, and amnesty is not going to be a solution!