The Minuteman crowd went into a frenzy yesterday when John & Ken, of 640 AM Talk Radio, told their audience to call the Orange County Board of Supervisors to complain about the outsourcing of traffic ticket processing to a facility in Mexico, by Orange County’s Superior Court.
The O.C. Register reported today that apparently John & Ken screwed up. The Court is a state agency – and the O.C. Board of Supervisors has no say in what they do or who they hire.
So what exactly did the Courts do? “The court has contracted since March 2006 with Cal Coast Data Entry, Inc., a Cerritos company that has a facility in Nogales. Information from tickets
asthis story shows and this site sometimes promotes; just one more dumb ass reason for the racists of the world to unite
“The Minuteman crowd”
Have you heard of identy theft?
What kind of moron allows the personal identification of American Citizens to be exported to another country for processing?
This has nothing to do with Minutemen and everything to do with making sure our personal information is safe.
The Board of Sup’s has swung back and forth on the broader issue of contracting out – a couple years ago Supervisor Campbell gave a speech as incoming chair stating in essence “if you can find it in the yellow pages, then we should be buying the service, not doing it with government employees.” I don’t believe he said they had to be US yellow pages. More recenlty, though, the Board seems to cow-tow to organized labor and is open to brining work back in house, such as janitorial services. Perhaps Norby is in a time warp, or he may be out front, who knows! In any event, as I undestand it the Board of Supervisors has no jurisdiction over the purchasing and contracting process of the Courts -so Ken and John were indeed off the mark (not the first time, nor will it be the last!).
John and Ken are great entertainment, getting it all wrong? who cares they are in it for the ad dollars.
Once you understand what the motivation is, you can discount the negative crap and enjoy the show.
What Hypocrites!
Most all of the major companies in the U.S. have subcontracted work out to foriegn comapnies.Try googling “Indian call centers and see all the information. Yes, that’s right if you have a AT&T wireless account, all your personal information has probably paased by a customers service clerk in India or one in Mexico.
Many of major companies, like the court , have found that also processing paperwork can be cheeper and as good as doing it in th US. This is a global economy and if your all about getting the best for your tax dollars you mights want to be consistent and don’t single out Mexico because you hate mexicanS.
Then consider that there is any many corrupt people here in the U.S. working for $10 an hour as there are Mexicans working to keep their job at $10 a day in Mexico. Besides, don’t all you anti-mexican folk want the mexicans to improve there country and work in Mexico. So then what is the problem…..
thanks to Art for the rewrite and #5 Jose, I agree totally.
Rick,
Yes, Jose is quite right. This is much ado about nothing, as Shakespeare put it…just more GOP Mexican bashing.
very respectfully Mr. Pedroza, this is not much ado about nothing. I am a Mexican-American. I go to Mexico twice a year. I have much family there. In Mexico, sad to say, Police and Security Guards are bought off easily. 24-7 security means nothing, because the guards are probably very poorly paid. A good bribe from organized crime will take care of the security. Anything that has to do with Law enforcement (Baja California, Sonora) especially in the Northern states, I would be very careful.
The northern states are very much in the grip of the drug cartels. Very scary. I have family in the state of Tamaluipas. There is practically a war going on there. I would not put it past organized crime to develop a theft identity ring.
Carlos,
I am aware of those problems. But consider that India, another country we outsource data entry to, is right next door to Pakistan – which is rife with Al Qaeda – and where Bin Laden lives.
Perhaps the bottom line is that this kind of work ought to stay here in the U.S.?
Nevertheless, many safeguards appear to be in place.
I will be vacationing in Ensenada in week. I will let our readers know what that part of Baja looks like.