Tuesday, January 11, 2011

After the Shooting In Tucson - By David North WSWS.org

After the shooting in Tucson
By David North
11 January 2011

Who is responsible for Saturday's violence in Tucson, which left six people dead and 14 others wounded, including a congresswoman now fighting for her life?

It is indubitably true that there is a direct and immediate connection between the murderous rampage of the shooter, Jared L. Loughner, and the interminable stream of fascistic ravings from Republican Party politicians, corporate-funded "Tea Party" organizations, and television and talk-radio demagogues. The Washington Post's admonition that "it seems an unsupported leap to blame either the political climate or any particular individual group for inciting the gunman" flies in the face of well-known facts about the political dynamics, social constituency and psychology of the extreme right in the United States. The Post's claim that Mr. Loughner is simply "a disturbed young man with no coherent political philosophy" is utterly disingenuous. The American right has long understood the susceptibility of people suffering from serious forms of psychotic derangement to its message of hate, paranoia-tinged bigotry and anticommunism.

However, it would be inadequate to explain Loughner's actions as merely the product of the propaganda of the political right and its stable of talk show demagogues. There are deeper social causes for the bloody events in Tucson.

The Democratic Party and the liberal left, in a perpetual state of political demoralization, console themselves with the thought that America would be a far happier place if only a more civilized and polite form of discourse could be encouraged. The task before reasonable people, they argue, in accordance with the gospel of Jon Stewart, is to persuade everyone, on the "left" as well as the right, to "tone down" the rhetoric, to argue less and listen more, and to find a common ground.

This sickly spirit of universal conciliation has found a distinctly reactionary expression in the aftermath of the attempted assassination of Congresswoman Giffords. Richard Kim of the Nation proposes, as an antidote to the violence of the right, that the American people "cherish more dearly the practice of politics and citizenship as something noble in its intent, something to expand and celebrate--instead of something to denigrate as the enemy of the people."

These words are a devastating self-exposure of the political bankruptcy of what passes for the "left" in the United States, and show why it is possible for the extreme right (despite being funded to the hilt by corporate money) to exploit popular grievances and monopolize the rhetoric of social discontent.

The United States is entering the fourth year of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The official unemployment rate has been in the area of 10 percent (a figure which does not count those who have given up looking for a job), the collapse in housing prices has slashed the net worth of tens of millions of American families, and several million families have lost their homes due to foreclosures. Social inequality is at a level not seen since the 1920s. During the past 40 years, the income of American workers has stagnated. Virtually all of the growth in income since the 1970s has gone into the pockets of the richest one percent of the population.

After the eruption of the financial crisis in September 2008, the administrations of Bush and Obama devoted all their energies to protecting the wealth and interests of the financial and corporate elite, whose reckless speculations led directly to the disaster. Under Obama, the grip of the fin ancial interests over the state has grown even tighter. Not only has no one in the finance industry been held accountable for the disaster, the political power and wealth of the economic parasites have risen to new heights. Indeed, under Obama, the White House has come to serve as something of a combined branch office of Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase.

Millions of American workers feel instinctively and correctly that the politicians of both the Republican and Democratic parties are for sale, and that all the important decisions made by the government are for the rich. And yet it is this political system that the Nation wants the people to "cherish," "expand" and "celebrate." How can such a message appeal to masses of people in the midst of a terrible social crisis? Can it come as a surprise that the tributes of the Nation and like-minded "progressive" publications to the glories of American politics in general and the Obama administration in partic ular fall on deaf ears?

The frustration and anger of an ever-growing portion of the people increase month by month. They look and listen for a way out of the deepening crisis. But who is telling them what to do, who to fight, and, the most important question of all, how to fight? There is an immortal moment in director John Ford's cinematic rendition of Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath when a dirt-poor farmer, facing dispossession from the land he worked his entire life, asks in desperation, "Who should I shoot?" Unable to get a straight answer, he sinks to the ground in despair.

Millions of people today are in a similar situation. They are threatened with disaster. No, they do not want to shoot or kill anyone. But they do want change, and they are prepared to fight for it. But the entire social structure, and the political system erected upon it, seems to allow no possibility for protest and progressive change. An overwhelming majority of American working p eople has never had the opportunity to participate in a single act of organized social protest.

Before 1980, strikes and other forms of mass protest--including massive demonstrations and even urban uprisings--were part of the fabric of American life. Class struggle was, in one form or another, the engine of social progress. It should be pointed out that in the early 1980s, Arizona was a major center of the strike of copper miners against Phelps Dodge. One of the important focal points of that strike was a large mine in the town of Ajo, not far from Tucson. That strike, like every other of the 1980s, was betrayed.

For nearly 30 years, the official trade unions and civil rights organizations--which arose out of great social struggles between 1930 and 1965--have devoted themselves to blocking and suppressing every expression of popular discontent. Strikes and virtually every other form of social protest have disappeared. During the same period, administrations, De mocratic as well as Republican, have slashed taxes for the rich and helped them accumulate their massive personal fortunes.

But discontent builds relentlessly and seeks an outlet. To the extent that it cannot find a progressive and optimistic expression, in the form of collectively organized class struggle, it finds malignant expression in the outbursts of desperate individuals. Sections of society, and not only those who are psychologically disturbed, become susceptible to the demagogues of the extreme right, for whom corporate funding and publicity are always available.

The events in Tucson are a warning. The accumulating social discontent must find a new and progressive path of expression. That path can be opened only through the fight for socialism and the building of a new revolutionary movement of the working class.

It is to develop this fight that the Socialist Equality Party is sponsoring a public conference in Ann Arbor on April 9-10, 2011. Public conferences will also be held in Los Angeles on April 16 and in New York on April 30. We urge all those who wish to join this struggle to make their plans to attend these important events.

DEFAMATION NATION: Political Police, Mass Murder, and Witch Hunts - By William Gheen, ALIPAC.us

Defamation Nation: Political Police, Mass Murder, and Witch Hunts
Posted on Tuesday, January 11 @ 13:20:10 EST
Topic: Americans for Legal Immigration PAC
Released 1/11/2011 at 1:11pm EST

by William Gheen
President of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC
www.alipac.us


Can you imagine how you would feel if you turned on your computer and TV to find the news accusing you of having caused the assassination attempt on a member of Congress and the mass murder of citizens in Tucson, including a little girl?

You might be tempted to actually physically barricade your doors with plywood like the family of accused Jared Loughner did after the news broke. Or you might want to dispatch security to immediately secure your children as Glenn Beck had to do after he was falsely accused. Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin have to be careful as well as he is targeted, defamed, and blamed.

After all, having someone in the crowd jump up and point a finger at you screaming 'you did it'! before any facts are known could easily lead to great harm being committed against you and your property.

Welcome to the modern political witch hunt!


This is the case for you today (1/11/11) in America if you are a Republican, a conservative, a Tea Party supporter, a Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin fan, someone who opposed the recent health care legislation, or someone who supports Arizona's new law against illegal immigration as a majority of Americans do!

Since a majority of Americans support Arizona's immigration bill SB1070, oppose the new health care legislation, and consider ourselves conservatives, and since an attack on any American's Constitutional freedoms and free opinions should be considered an attack on us all, these well financed and orchestrated defamation attempts should be considered attacks on AMERICANS!

These false accusations and malicious attacks on the character of American citizens are no fluke or understandable reaction to an assassination attempt on a politician. These assaults on our freedoms and security are not situational, they are structural, and many of us who deal with contemporary political issues knew what was going to happen as soon as we heard Congresswoman Giffords had been shot.

We knew that there would be an orchestrated attempt to blame us all for the shooting. Illegal immigration issues were blamed without a shred of evidence within 24 hours of the shooting. Within 48 hours, my organization Americans for Legal Immigration PAC was accused as well.

You see, we are to blame according to Tom Hayden, writing for Talking Points Memo (TPM), because we supported Giffords' opponent Jesse Kelly in the 2010 elections. According to Senator John McCain and his allies at the Anti Defamation League (ADL), we are all 'supported' by scary skin heads and racists because someone once posted something on a website about calling Congress with ALIPAC to oppose Amnesty for illegal aliens and to ask for more border security.

Yes, according to Tom Hayden and TPM, these mysterious online posts about calling Congress with ALIPAC, placed either by skin heads or ADL operatives, all lead to ALIPAC, candidate Jesse Kelly, all conservatives, and all opponents of illegal immigration contributing to mass murder. Can't you see the obvious connections?

And with only one business day since this national tragedy gone by, left leaning politicians in Washington are rushing to infringe upon American 1st and 2nd amendment rights!

Now, real Americans do not blame the Constitution or American freedoms for mass murder by a madman, but some of these corrupt DC politicians and their pundits do. They are rushing to use this tragedy to transfer as much power from the American people to the elites as possible. Bills are being filed today to restrict American citizen access to guns, and to regulate what can and cannot be said about elected officials and members of the ruling class. Of course, these efforts are being launched before anyone in America has all the facts or any proof whatsoever that free speech or gun rights contributed to the mass murder in Tucson Arizona.

Is there a dangerous level of growing anger toward politicians in DC? Yes, there sure is. But the answer is not for DC elites to grab more money, power, and freedom away from the American public. It is that kind of behavior that is feeding the current climate of hostility and vitriol.

If politicians in DC are concerned about public hostility, then they should stop pursuing divisive legislation such as the recent health care bill and attempting to pass Dream Act Amnesty along with other legislation opposed by a majority of American citizens they are supposed to serve!

Call me old fashioned, but couldn't the 'tone' of American politics be improved by elected officials simply doing their jobs right? I think that most public servants want to do that, but many want to blame others for the problems they create.

Our government is making it clear that they are geared up to react to the actions of thinking men and women who might choose to pursue violence as a redress of grievances.

Could this response also be racially motivated? Would the media pundits and government react this way if the shooter had been any other demographic besides a white male?

Again, this defamatory response is not situational, it is structural, and luckily for Americans who value our way of life, you have an opportunity to see this political snare deploying around a very weak case that is starting to implode on those defaming American citizens, putting our lives and security at risk, and trying to steal our freedoms.

Just look at the laundry list of names that made false and defamatory accusations trying to tie the Tucson mass murder suspect to apple pie Americans! The list includes Keith Olberman of MSNBC, Juan Williams and Geraldo Rivera of Fox News, Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano, the National Organization of Women, Paul Krugman of the New York Times, etc... Unfortunately, there are many more names and publications that deserve to be on this list.

Let's also take a moment to thank all of those voices out there that are actively speaking out against this rampant anti-American defamation coming from these entrenched sources.

But most disturbing are the official statements being made by politically partisan law enforcement.

First we have the Democratic Party supported Sheriff of Pima County, Sheriff Clarence Dupnik who holds a press conference where the media and public await facts about this case. Instead of facts, we are forced to endure a political screed about hate and vitriol, and how this lawman is convinced that his political opponents on TV and radio are somehow responsible for the shooting.

Instead of calling for calm and sharing the facts, Sheriff Dupnik tried to incite an angry mob using unfounded political accusations that are far removed from the sound practices of most American law enforcers. He clearly injected immigration politics into the mass murder case by pronouncing Arizona as “A Mecca For Prejudice And Bigotry” in reference to Arizona's illegal immigration crackdown legislation SB 1070.


It appears that Dupnik may have been briefed by the Department of Homeland Security either immediately before speaking at this conference or over the last two years as Janet Napolitano's offices have sent him 'reports' warning all police to be on the lookout for angry Americans.

For almost two years now, our American police agencies and officers have been provided political propaganda from President Obama and Janet Napolitano's Department of Homeland Security warning police that their political opponents are a threat to the lives of police officers, lawmakers, and buildings and infrastructure.

According to Obama and Napolitano, and their newly deputized ideological police over in the George Soros funded smear factories called the Anti Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center, you are to be treated as a potential domestic terrorist by police if you show concerns about illegal immigration and border security, taxation, abortion, Communist regimes, decline of U.S. stature in the world, loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs to China and India, bad government finances, etc... Or if you are a returning veteran who is coming back from the theaters in Iraq or Afghanistan to learn that while you were deployed America was being invaded at home with the assistance of sellout politicians in DC that left our borders open and immigration laws unenforced despite the massive casualties suffered by innocent American citizens.

At first we were told that Jared Loughner was a soldier, when he was not.

Then Fox News reported that a DHS memo had been released that indicated Jared Loughner was probably inspired or associated with a white nationalist website called American Renaissance (AMREN) that is run by a man called Jared Taylor. The memo continued that American Renaissance was an anti-Semitic website and opposed Congresswoman Giffords' positions on immigration.

Homeland Security, the supposed top law enforcement agency in America, released official statements to the media suggesting the accused shooter was motivated to assassinate Giffords because she is Jewish and because she supports Obama and Napolitano's Comprehensive Immigration Reform Amnesty plans!

False claim after false claim has been made from upper level agencies trying to conform this shooter to their profile memos to American law enforcement.

The problem is there is no evidence, provided yet, that Jared Lee Loughner had any concerns about Giffords being Jewish or supporting Amnesty for illegal aliens. American Renaissance has no anti-Semitic tendencies and even the ADL backs them up on that. They have released a statement that Jared Loughner has never joined or contributed to American Renaissance, probably before barricading their doors and homes and trying to move their children to safe locations.

As soon as I heard Fox News report this disinformation, I asked our ALIPAC activists to help me locate the memo.

Reading the memo text, it read just like the leaked memos we've been reading for two years now from the DHS fiction writers.

What stood out was the fact that no facts were included. There was absolutely no mention in the DHS memo reported by Fox indicating why our top law enforcement politicians at DHS or any American should believe that Jared Loughner was inspired by or associated with American Renaissance. There was not one mention of real evidence Loughner was motivated by issues of immigration or religion, yet the accusation was being made!

You should be highly concerned and offended if you are an American who opposes illegal immigration.

You should be highly concerned and offended if you are an American who values the truth and expects professional not political responses from our law enforcement.

You should be highly concerned and offended by this because next time you and your own issues of concern may be the targets of this well organized and financed propaganda campaign that could have highly negative impacts on your personal and national security!

We have officially called for the resignation or employment termination of Janet Napolitano over the last year due to her focus on attacking the political opponents of the Obama administration with her department instead of defending our borders, immigration laws, and national security.

We are now asking Congress to consider disbanding the Department of Homeland Security all together because the agency is obviously being used as an aggressive political tool hostile to the interests and politics of a majority of American citizens.

DHS is creating a political police force that speaks and acts on defamatory rhetoric, false accusations, and politically motivated lies.

Americans of every race, political persuasion, and walk of life should unite in opposition to the creation of this political police force as this situation undermines the role of legitimate and brave public servants.

Our American police officers, agencies, and courts must strive for professionalism and accuracy lest America disintegrate further towards the failed state conditions in Mexico.

Those of us who are in politics, the media, or involved in activism can help today by working hard to clear up the disinformation put out by Obama's Department of Homeland Security.

At the time of this article, there is no evidence to support their claims that Jared Loughner was motivated to mass murder by Congresswoman Giffords' religion or immigration positions.

Therefore, there is no evidence that any organization, spokesperson, or group or issue supporter that supports border and immigration enforcement over Amnesty has any responsibility for, or role in, the mass murders of January 8, 2011.

The efforts by some government agencies, law enforcement, groups, and pundits to characterize the the tens of millions of Americans who oppose illegal immigration as being related to these murders are both reprehensible and a threat to national security as such defamation could inspire retaliatory violence by someone exposed to these false and defamatory allegations.

Our hearts and prayers go out to the many families that are mourning today. We also hope and pray that our fellow Americans will unite against the national defamation effort underway against a majority of Americans and the efforts to politicize American law enforcement against our citizenry.

And we can all thank God that this madman did not lash out at our President, because if that were the case this same wide scale political defamation of American citizens by partisan law enforcement would clearly escalate the resulting massive loss of life and property.

If we are to show any concern about murders being associated with a political issue or national policy, the only clear association like that is between the thousands of innocent Americans who are being killed by illegal aliens each year because our existing border and immigration laws go unenforced.

We all need to focus our attention on stopping those that would inject false vitriol against large groups of Americans in response to a high profile crime incident like this before very serious consequences result. The answer to America's problems are both peaceful and political if we can all do something about the dangerous liars attempting to incite violence against people because of their political views.

We all need to come together against the liars before some person influenced by this disinformation tries to retaliate for the Tucson incident which could launch this nation into a terrible spiral into madness and violence.

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CBO: 748,000 Foreign Nationals Granted U.S. Permanent Residency Status in 2009 Because They Had Immediate Family Legally Living in America
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
By Edwin Mora

These illegal immigrants, deported to Mexico on Wednesday, July 28, 2010, are shown near the Nogales Port of Entry in Sonora, Mexico. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

(CNSNews.com) – Foreign nationals with family ties to American citizens and green-card holders accounted for about two-thirds (748,000) of the total 1.1 million individuals who were granted legal permanent residency status by the U.S. government in 2009, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
The number of foreign nationals who became legal permanent residents (LPRs) of the U.S. in 2009 as a result of family ties (66 percent) outpaced those who became LPRs on the basis of employment skills (13 percent) and humanitarian reasons (17 percent), the CBO revealed in a December 2010 report entitled, Immigration Policy in the United States: An Update.
“People granted permanent admission to the United States are formally classified as legal permanent residents and given a green card,” noted the CBO. “LPRs are eligible to live and work in the United States, own property, and join the armed forces; eventually, they may apply for U.S. citizenship.”
An individual who becomes an LPR or U.S. citizen can then sponsor the admittance of immediate family members into the U.S.
“In 2009, the United States granted LPR status to 1.1 million individuals, which is about average for the 2005–2009 period,” the CBO later added. “Family-based admissions, which include admissions of immediate relatives of U.S. citizens and admissions under the program of family-sponsored preferences, together accounted for 66 percent of total admissions of legal permanent residents in 2009.”
“About 536,000—or almost half—of the LPRs admitted in 2009 were immediate relatives of U.S. citizens…other relatives admitted under family-sponsored preferences constituted the next largest category, accounting for 212,000 new LPRs in 2009,” the CBO stated.
There are five categories under which the U.S. grants permanent residency status to foreign nationals, according to CBO. They include: relatives of U.S. citizens, family-sponsored preferences, employment-based preferences, the Diversity Program, and humanitarian reasons.
The sub-categories under family-sponsored preferences admissions include – First preference: unmarried adult sons and daughters of U.S. citizens; Second preference: spouses and dependent children of LPRs, unmarried sons and daughters of LPRs; Third preference: married sons daughters of U.S. citizens; and Fourth preference: siblings of adult U.S. citizens.
According to CBO, family-based admissions of individuals who were granted permanent residency status under the immediate relatives of U.S. citizens and family-sponsored preferences categories refer to those granted to “certain relatives of U.S. citizens and LPRs (such as spouses, parents, and unmarried children under age 21).”
Annual limits apply to “admissions based on family-sponsored preferences, employment based preferences, and diversity,” meanwhile “admissions of immediate relatives of U.S. citizens and admissions for humanitarian reasons are unlimited,” explained the CBO.
Given the unlimited cap of admission for relatives of U.S. citizens, the CBO showed that between 2005 and 2009, admissions on that basis “were 26 percent greater than such admissions from 2000 through 2004.”
The employment-based preferences category refers to when “the United States grants LPR status to workers with specific job skills, including individuals with extraordinary abilities, professionals with advanced degrees, and unskilled workers in occupations with labor shortages,” the CBO stated.
“Other people may enter the United States under the Diversity Program, which provides a pathway for individuals to gain permanent legal residency,” the CBO added. “Some foreign nationals are admitted to the United States for humanitarian reasons (as refugees or asylum-seekers), which allows them to apply for LPR status.
Of the 1.1 million individuals who were granted legal permanent residency status in 2009, 66 percent were family-based admission, 17 percent were humanitarian admissions, 13 percent were granted under employment-based preferences, and four percent under the Diversity Program admissions, the CBO revealed.
From 2004 to 2009, “the two uncapped categories of LPR admissions (those of immediate relatives of U.S. citizens and those for humanitarian reasons) were the only ones that experienced any significant growth,” the CBO stated.
“By contrast, admissions in the other three categories (family-sponsored preferences,
employment-based preferences and the Diversity Program) are numerically limited, resulting in relatively little change from 2004 to 2009,” the CBO added.
The CBO also revealed that the majority of those who were granted LPR status in 2009 had both family ties to a U.S. citizen or LPR and were already in the U.S. as a “temporary resident or visitor.”
“In 2009, about 40 percent of the 1.1 million individuals granted LPR status entered the United States for the first time as a permanent resident. The other 60 percent were individuals who were already in the United States when they were granted LPR status,” the CBO stated.
“Eligible people who are in the United States can file an application with the U.S. government that, if approved, would change their status from temporary resident or visitor to legal permanent resident,” the CBO added.
“Most of those adjustments to LPR status were based on a family relationship with a current U.S. citizen or LPR,” the CBO also stated.
Furthermore, the CBO stated, “of the total LPR admissions in 2009, the largest share was people born in Mexico (15 percent) and the second largest share was people born in China (6 percent).”
However, a bigger picture by CBO of the 1.1 million individuals who were granted LPR status in 2009 showed that “413,000 (or 37 percent) were born in Asia and 375,000 (or 33 percent) were born in North America (which includes Central America).”
The remaining individuals were born in South America (9 percent), Europe (9 percent), and Africa (11 percent).

CATALINA ISLAND - NEWEST GATEWAY FOR THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS & ILLEGALS IN OUR JOBS! VIVA MEXICO! VIVA LA RECONQUISTA!

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CATALINA ISLAND UNDER MEXICAN OCCUPATION

THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT HAS NEARLY 50 CONSULATES SCATTERED AROUND THE COUNTRY TO HAND OUT PHONY I.D, SO LA RAZA DONOR BANKS LIKE WELLS FARGO and BANK of ILLEGALS CAN ILLEGALLY OPEN BANKS ACCOUNTS FOR ILLEGALS.

IN CONTRAST, THE UNITED KINGDOM HAS ONLY 8 CONSULATES.
THE EVER EXPANDING MEXICAN SUPREMACY – HOW SOON WILL IT BE “PUSH ONE FOR SPANISH, TWO FOR STUPID GRINGOS”

MEXICO AND HISPANDERING OBAMA’S CONTEMPT FOR OUR LAWS AND BORDERS
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But the cards are usually used to skirt U.S. immigration laws, since Mexicans in the country legally have documents proving that status, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said.

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"It amazes me every time that the Mexican government has the gall to tell us what to do," said an ICE official, who asked not to be named. "More surprisingly is how many times we stand by and let them. This is just an example of one of hundreds of requests we've had to deal with."

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The time is Now to Start Fighting Back! (Firebomb Mexico)
Mexico opens California office to provide ID for illegals

By: Sara A. Carter

National Security Correspondent
June 3, 2010

The Mexican government is opening a satellite consular office on Catalina Island -- a small resort off the California coast with a history of drug smuggling and human trafficking -- to provide the island's illegal Mexican immigrants with identification cards, The Washington Examiner has learned.

The Mexican consular office in Los Angeles issued a flier, a copy of which was obtained by The Examiner, listing the Catalina Island Country Club as the location of its satellite office. It invites Mexicans to visit the office to obtain the identification, called matricular cards, by appointment.

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a Republican whose district includes Catalina Island, said handing out matricular cards will exacerbate an already dangerous situation.


CATALINA ISLAND – PORTAL FOR ILLEGALS TO INVADE.


"Handing out matricular cards to Mexicans who are not in this country legally is wrong no matter where it's done," he said. "But on Catalina it will do more damage. It's a small island but there's evidence it's being used as a portal for illegals to access mainland California."

Rohrabacher added, "If there were a large number of Americans illegally in Mexico and the U.S. consulate was making it easier for them to stay, Mexico would never permit it."

Mexican officials with the consular office in Los Angeles could not be reached immediately for comment. The matricular consular identification card, is issued by the Mexican government to Mexican nationals residing outside the country, regardless of immigration status. The purpose is to provide identification for opening bank accounts and obtaining other services. But the cards are usually used to skirt U.S. immigration laws, since Mexicans in the country legally have documents proving that status, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said.

In 2004 testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, FBI officials called the card an unreliable form of identification. The agency said that Mexico lacks a centralized database for them, which could lead to forgery, duplication, and other forms of abuse.

Officers with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said their agency was asked by Mexican officials not to enforce U.S. immigration laws on the island while the cards were being issued.

"It amazes me every time that the Mexican government has the gall to tell us what to do," said an ICE official, who asked not to be named. "More surprisingly is how many times we stand by and let them. This is just an example of one of hundreds of requests we've had to deal with."

In April, Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies seized a boat carrying large quantities of marijuana and detained three Mexican nationals who said they were being smuggled into the United States.

The island has a sizable Mexican migrant population. Most are undocumented low-income workers.

CAR THIEVES & ILLEGALS - Hey, It's A Living!

ID theft and shop lifting costs legals millions.

What about CAR THEFT?


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Vehicles
America's Car Theft Hot Spots
Jacqueline Mitchell 07.11.08, 5:12 PM ET


What are the three most important things when buying a home or setting up a business? Location, location, location. Turns out those are the three most important things to car thieves too.

The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB), which has been tracking stolen vehicle rates by state since 1985, released its annual report identifying the most stolen cars in 2007 earlier this week. Ahead of that report's release, in the spring the group announced which American cities have the highest rates of car theft. Like everyone else, car thieves just love sunny California.

MEXIFORNIA WINS “HOTTEST MEXICAN CAR THEFT ZONE AWARD”


The NICB tracks metropolitan statistical areas for vehicle theft rates, determining them by the number of vehicle theft offenses per 100,000 habitants using the 2007 U.S. Census population estimates. Four of the top 10 cities for auto theft in 2007 are in California and all four are in the top five, in fact.

Modesto, Calif., ranks at No. 1, with San Diego/Carlsbad/San Marcos in the third spot, Stockton in fourth and San Francisco/Oakland/Fremont in fifth place. The city in second place, the only one in the top five not in California, is Las Vegas/Paradise.

"One huge factor is that there are more vehicles in California than any other state, making it a target rich environment to begin with," says Frank Scafidi, NICB spokesman. "The proximity to international borders and seaports is also a factor. Both are widely used in the illegal exportation of stolen vehicles."

Used Cars Make A Comeback But the main attractions are the car theft hot spots conveniently located near the Mexican border. A quick trip across and crooks can quickly unload stolen cars or their parts without hassle or question. That's why Texas, New Mexico and Arizona are "all high theft states" as well, Scafidi notes.

"There is a secondary market that is operating outside of the mainstream that buys and sells parts from stolen vehicles," says Rod Davis, vice president of programs and services for the Council of the Better Business Bureau. "We don't know how big this market is, but they are doing a lot of business in the border area. Chop shops in Mexico are more prevalent."

That's not to say car thieves don't do the same sort of thing without crossing the border, but they have to know which auto service centers and garages will take stolen parts and vehicles without proof of ownership. If you take your car to a service center, keep in mind that all replacement parts should come with a warranty, and if they don't, there is a chance you're getting a stolen part, says Davis. Also, ask your service technician where the part was purchased.

Have you had car theft trouble in your community? Share your experiences in the Reader Comments section below.

"Legitimate garages have systems in place for getting parts from proper streams of commerce," says Davis. "If it is not legitimate business and you are doing business there, then you are more likely to encourage stolen vehicle activity."

There is a bright side to all this, however. Despite the prevalence of car theft in certain areas, there are early indications that motor vehicle thefts overall were down nearly 9% in 2007, compared with 2006, the NICB says. The final data will be released later this year.
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
Car Thief Got L.A. County Jail's Green Light
An offender's repeated arrests and early releases illustrate the strain on crowded lockups and its consequences for society.


By Megan Garvey Times Staff Writer
July 23, 2006
Salvador Alvarado was behind the wheel of a stolen white 1994 Honda Civic in Eagle Rock in the early morning hours of June 13 when he caught the eye of passing police officers on the lookout for car thieves. Their clue that the car was hot? They looked through a car window and could see there was no key in the ignition. Alvarado, 30, led them on a short chase, running red lights and driving dangerously. Then he jumped from the car and started to run. But within a few paces, he lay down and waited for the officers to arrest him. It was his!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! fifth arrest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in a year on suspicion of stealing cars or possessing burglary tools. Los Angeles Police Department officials have pointed to his case as an illustration of the toll taken by career criminals. But it also highlights the strained Los Angeles County justice system, in which overcrowded courts and a lack of jail space have been a recipe for plea bargains and truncated time behind bars — giving career criminals such as Alvarado more time on the streets to find new victims. On the day police caught him in Eagle Rock, Alvarado should have been in jail on a previous conviction. In November, he had been sentenced to a year in county jail for stealing another Honda — a felony conviction. At the time, he was driving without a license because of a previous drunk driving conviction. Even with credit for good behavior, he was due to be behind bars until today. (MEXICANS KNOW OUR LAWS AND CRIME ENFORCEMENT IS JUST ONE MORE SILLY GRINGO JOKE) Instead, after serving just 38 days, he was released early — one of more than 150,000 county jail inmates in recent years who have served only fractions of their sentences, in part because of budget cutbacks and a shortage of sheriff's deputies. Alvarado's early release in January came despite another recent conviction for car theft. He'd been sentenced to four months in jail in June 2005 but served only five days before being released to a work program. By July 1, he had quit reporting to the program and suffered no immediate repercussions. For Alvarado, the revolving door kept spinning quickly. Like others who commit nonviolent offenses, Alvarado was at low risk to serve significant time behind bars. The pace of his releases and rearrests was accelerated by his willingness to appear in downtown's Division 50, an express court that allows defendants who admit their guilt to proceed directly to sentencing. The use of such courts is meant to ease the county's overwhelming caseload and spare the expense of preliminary hearings. But when a sentence to county jail is imposed, a defendant often ends up back on the street within days or weeks of an arrest, officials acknowledge. "He's beating the system in terms of punishment," Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca said after listening to Alvarado's list of offenses and convictions. "But in all fairness, Mr. Alvarado's types of crime pale next to the murderers and gang members and many people in the county jail right now who have been to state prison in the past." Baca said that although he takes car theft seriously, his priority remains holding the most dangerous offenders, given federal limits on crowding in his jails. "The reality is that if you have only a 20,000-bed capacity and yet you have a 30,000-prisoner volume, the system breaks down when it comes to county sentences," Baca said. "It collapses." Regardless of the reasons, the result is criminals who !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"think it's a joke,"!!!!!!!!!!!!!! said LAPD Lt. Steve Flores, who supervises officers who have repeatedly arrested Alvarado and other frequent offenders. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"There's no consequences, and they know it,"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! he said. After he got out of jail in January, he was rearrested March 6 on suspicion of possessing burglary tools. The next day, he pleaded guilty. He got 30 days in jail and probation but !!!!!!!!!!was released within hours !!!!!!!!!because the sheriff does not hold county prisoners sentenced to less than three months — a policy meant to make room for more serious offenders. Alvarado was picked up again May 11, again on suspicion of possessing burglary tools; he got out on bail three days later. "These are the kinds of people who nickel and dime us to death," LAPD Cmdr. Charlie Beck said. "We spend so much time trying to deal with them, and one guy who commits 30 or 40 [property crimes] in a short time just kills an area in terms of crime statistics. And if someone stole my car or your car, as far as we're concerned that's public enemy No. 1." Beck said thieves disproportionately affect people who own older vehicles, which are easier to steal and are in demand for parts. "When you steal the family's only car and they may or may not have insurance, it's much more serious," he said. Nine days after his most recent arrest, Alvarado pleaded guilty to taking a vehicle without the owner's consent. This time he got a two-year prison sentence — his first commitment to a state penitentiary. Janet Moore, director of central operations for Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley, said her office was "extremely pleased" by Alvarado's sentence to state prison. "We have a guy with no serious or violent priors. He could have easily gotten low term and he got midterm, and we did it at the early stage so the taxpayers and LAPD were saved the cost of [preliminary hearings] with a disposition that's pretty doggone good," she said, noting that the charges filed against Alvarado call for a 16-month, two-year or three-year prison term under state sentencing recommendations. Moore said the previous sentences would have been appropriate had Alvarado actually done the time the court ordered. "This time he'll be off the street, and it won't be for a few days like it would be if we sent him to county jail," she said. But Officer Hector Olivera, who arrested Alvarado last month, shook his head when told of the outcome. "I'll see him again. I have no doubt. He'll be right back here stealing cars," said Olivera, who has worked out of the Northeast Division for eight years. "There's guys I've arrested four, five times, and they're right back out again. You're doing all this work and what for? When we arrested Alvarado, he recognized the officers in one of the backup units because they arrested him for the same thing last year." Alvarado is serving out the rest of the county jail time he owed on previous convictions and is scheduled to be sent to state prison in mid-September. Because his convictions are not considered serious or violent, he will be eligible for parole after serving half of his prison sentence, according to court officials. In many respects, Alvarado's case is ordinary. He is one of the tens of thousands of defendants who come through Los Angeles County's criminal justice system each year. A Times investigation earlier this year found nearly 16,000 cases of people being arrested on suspicion of new crimes when jail records indicated they would have been in jail on previous convictions if not for early releases. Those arrests date from mid-2002 when Sheriff Baca shut down jail facilities after his department took a major budget hit. Alvarado was in the news earlier this month when he was cited along with three other men arrested by LAPD officers working out of the Northeast Division as being responsible for more than 500 property crimes in Eagle Rock and Highland Park. The others are awaiting trial. The cases were highlighted by police as examples of the toll taken by serial offenders. Though the rest of the city saw a 10% drop in property crime last year, the Northeast Division fell far short with a 4% reduction. Detectives investigating the disparity found that car thefts were high in certain neighborhoods. For one victim of car theft in the area where Alvarado is known to have stolen vehicles, the facts of the case were disturbing but not shocking. "Because they weren't violent offenses, I'm cynically not surprised," said Stephen Falk, a writer who has lived in Eagle Rock for two years. "In Los Angeles [car theft] seems like an impossible thing to stop." Ten days before Alvarado's arrest in November, Falk's 1988 Honda Civic was stolen from outside his home. Falk's car turned up months later on a street in Highland Park, its tape deck and AM/FM radio missing, the back seat ripped out. Falk, who said police never traced the car back to a thief, had no replacement insurance and already had bought an older car to get around. For about a month after the theft, Falk said, "I was really freaked out and a little suspicious and changed my route down the hill. "The car had a lot of sentimental value to me. It was my family's car. I learned to drive in it. I lost my virginity in that car. When it finally died, I was going to send it out in style."

Mexican President Calderon Says FUCK GRINGOS That Don't Like Giving Their Jobs to His Exported Jobless!

CALDERÓN NOTES THE CHANGING U.S. POLITICAL PICTURE

By Ruben Navarrette Jr. 02/13/2008

Less than two years after taking office, Mexican President Felipe Calderón is getting mixed reviews from the Mexican people. On the one hand, he gets high marks for reforming the tax system, fixing a massive public pension fund and launching a $25 billion public works initiative. But he is also getting flak for not being vocal enough in protesting what many Mexicans see as the harsh and unfair treatment of their sons and daughters in the United States.

That is a fascinating turnabout. Not long ago, Mexicans were much too proud to think about the migrants who fled to the north searching for better opportunities. Now they're demanding that their leaders go to bat for these expatriates against what they see as a cruelty born of American xenophobia.

And that's why Calderón is on a whirlwind, five day swing though the United States with stops in Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Sacramento. Aides say that the main purpose of the trip is to focus attention on the Mexican immigrant community in this country.


Even before leaving Mexico City, Calderón set off fireworks with provocative interviews in U.S. newspapers. He surveyed the U.S. presidential race and without mentioning specific candidates noted approvingly that moderates have done well. "The most radical and anti immigrant candidates have been left behind and have been put in their place by their own electorate," he told one reporter.

Indeed, the three leading candidates for president John McCain, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton all support a comprehensive approach that provides a path to legalization. Although McCain now says that his first priority would be to secure the border, he hasn't ruled out legalization once the border is under control. Nor has McCain flirted with the sort of nativist arguments that other Republicans find so hard to resist, about how immigrants are destroying the national identity and changing the country's landscape for the worse.
Yet, Calderón noted to another reporter, conservative talk show hosts and others are ratcheting up their anti immigrant rhetoric and creating a hostile environment for all Mexicans in the United States. Calderón said this has produced "an atmosphere full of prejudice, an anti immigrant atmosphere with certain themes that are also anti Mexican, that benefits no one." And, he said, the worst thing that can happen is that countries mistake neighbors for enemies.

Many Americans commit that error. They're so reluctant to accept any responsibility for illegal immigration a self inflicted wound that they bring upon themselves by aggressively hiring illegal immigrants they can't wait to pin the blame on Mexico and its leaders.

I hear it all the time. It's as if many Americans are waiting around for Mexico to solve our immigration problem by creating jobs south of the border or physically restraining those intent on crossing into the United States. If so, they're going to be waiting a long time. Mexico now takes in about $23 billion annually in remittances from Mexicans living in the United States. It has no interest in turning off the golden faucet.

Calderón would probably argue with me about that, just as he did when we were graduate school classmates in 2000. He believes, as many Mexicans are slowly realizing, that the country is losing some of its best people and that the Mexican family perhaps the country's most beloved institution is disintegrating because of massive migration. This week, Calderón told an audience at Harvard University, his alma mater, that he didn't want to lose more people to the United States, only to better serve and protect those Mexicans who are already here.

For me and, I dare say, for many Mexican Americans who are loyal to this country and not the one that had little use for our parents or grandparents the immigration debate is an issue of national sovereignty. Calderón accepts that nations have the right to enforce their laws and control their borders. But, for him, this is also an issue of human rights rights that don't vanish at the U.S. Mexico border.

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ARE YOU SICK OF YOUR JOBS GOING TO ILLEGALS SO AN EMPLOYER CAN PAY MISERABLE WAGES AND YOU MAKE UP THE DIFFERENCE IN WELFARE COST TO THAT ILLEGAL?

REP. TOM TANCREDO’S OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT CALDERON ON CALDERON’S BRAZEN HYPOCRISY!

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Littleton) today sent a letter to Mexican President Felipe Calderon questioning the motives behind his current visit to the United States as well as the charges levied by Mr. Calderon against the fairness of American immigration policy. A copy of the letter is below: President Calderon: I was disappointed by misguided comments you recently made regarding U.S.-Mexico relations and U.S. immigration laws. Purveying misinformation and absurd allegations is hardly a positive step to building a constructive partnership. According to the Associated Press you recently said, “You have two economies. One economy is intensive in capital, which is the American economy. One economy is intensive in labor, which is the Mexican economy. We are two complementary economies, and that phenomenon is impossible to stop.” Yes, both countries benefit by the 85% of Mexico’s manufacturing exports that come to the U.S., but people are not commodities. While I appreciate your concern for our joint prosperity, the economic and social ills that plague your country cannot be resolved by simply exporting your citizens to the United States. It is undeniable that Mexico faces major challenges. Endemic corruption and the power of violent drug cartels still dominate everyday life across Mexico. Beyond the headlines, Mexico has deep institutional maladies. Mexico’s absurdly antiquated Napoleonic-inquisition styled legal system and the squandering of robust energy-industry opportunity by a poorly managed, state-run Pemex monopoly are just two examples of the kind of self-inflicted wounds that hobble your troubled nation. I understand that you are attempting to resolve some of these problems and applaud your leadership in trying to do so. But what would contribute more to the long term stability of your economy and your country would be to focus more energy on addressing your domestic challenges and less on lobbying the U.S. to provide amnesty for Mexicans who have illegally entered this country with the blessing of your government. In doing so, you might be able to keep Mexico’s “best and brightest young men” in Mexico – where they can contribute more to Mexico’s economy than remittance payments. Unfortunately, your recent comments indicate that Mexico will continue its policy of encouraging illegal immigration and treating the United States as little more than a dumping ground for your social and economic problems. In your speech yesterday to the California State legislature, you lectured the American people on how to improve our immigration policies. Why did you not propose that we model our policies on Mexico’s own policies toward illegal entry across your own southern border? Mexico expends enormous resources to prevent Guatemalans, Hondurans and Salvadorans from entering the country illegally, but you castigate the United States for wanting secure borders. Mr. President, in my neighborhood that is called hypocrisy. You proposed in your Sacramento speech that “migration” be made “legal, safe and organized.” Mr. President, we already have such a program and it is called legal immigration. Over one million legal immigrants come through our ports of entry each year, not across our border fences. The American people set limits on the number of legal immigrants through our immigration laws, and it is not the job of the Mexican government to revise or expand those limits. President Calderon, you are insulting the American people when you tell us that fifteen to twenty million illegal aliens in our country bring only benefits and no costs. I challenge you to give one concrete example of how the enforcement of our existing immigration laws violates anyone’s human rights. The people of Oklahoma are not anti-Mexican for passing laws to require verification of employment eligibility. The people of Indiana are not anti-immigrant for passing laws to require photo identification for voting. The people of California are not anti-Mexican for denying driver’s licenses to illegal aliens. The people of Arizona are not anti-immigrant for passing laws that deny welfare benefits to people who are in that state unlawfully. It is no secret that the purpose of your visit is to influence the American election, and in fact your trip has been billed as a high-stakes effort to shape the immigration debate underway in the U.S. presidential race. What is perhaps more disappointing, however, is your attempt to insinuate that anti-amnesty sentiment here in the U.S. is the same as anti-Mexican sentiment. I am referring to your statement, “I need to change in the perception that the Americans are the enemy, and it is important to change the perception that the Mexicans are the enemy.” It is both disingenuous and dangerous for you to inject this kind of xenophobia into this debate. The fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans support the enforcement of our immigration laws and take issue with the notion that we should reward illegal behavior, hardly qualifies as ethnic animosity or international enmity. What you must understand is that a treasured aspect of our national foundation is a respect for the rule of law. Perhaps if corruption were not so widespread and commonplace in Mexico, it would be easier for you to understand this.
President Calderon, in many ways your trip thus far has been a long series of mixed messages. You accuse the United States of recent protectionist trends, yet you heavily restrict foreign entry into Mexico’s energy sector through a massive, state-run Pemex monopoly. You assure American politicians that an open flow of cheap Mexican labor is not only benign but vitally necessary, but you take great care in securing your own southern border with Guatemala. You come to the United States purportedly to promote better political and economic ties with the U.S., but then issue a thinly veiled threat that Mexicans will regard the U.S. as an enemy if we refuse to provide millions of illegal aliens with unconditional amnesty. President Calderon, I respectfully suggest that the next time you visit our country, rather than trying to influence U.S. policymakers or our election process, you take time to listen to Americans rather than lecture them. If you want to make changes in government policies, apply your energies to Mexico’s laundry list of problems rather than meddling in domestic American politics.


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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
Mexico prefers to export its poor, not uplift them

“Washington and Ottawa have every right to insist that Mexico's pampered elite act responsibly, rather than expecting US and Canadian taxpayers to shoulder burdens Mexico should assume.”

March 30, 2006 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0330/p09s02-coop.html By George W. Grayson
WILLIAMSBURG, VA. - At the parleys this week with his US and Canadian counterparts in Cancún, Mexican President Vicente Fox will press for more opportunities for his countrymen north of the Rio Grande. Specifically, he will argue for additional visas for Mexicans to enter the United States and Canada, the expansion of guest-worker schemes, and the "regularization" of illegal immigrants who reside throughout the continent. In a recent interview with CNN, the Mexican chief executive excoriated as "undemocratic" the extension of a wall on the US-Mexico border and called for the "orderly, safe, and legal" northbound flow of Mexicans, many of whom come from his home state of Guanajuato. Mexican legislators share Mr. Fox's goals.. Washington and Ottawa have every right to insist that Mexico's pampered elite act responsibly, rather than expecting US and Canadian taxpayers to shoulder burdens Mexico should assume.

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REP. TOM TANCREDO RESPONDS TO MEXICAN PRESIDENT’S ENDLESS DEMANDS AS TO WHAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE OWE MEXICAN CRIMINAL INVADERS. WHAT DOES MEXICO OWE THEIR OWN PEOPLE? NOTHING MORE THAN A MAP TO OUR BORDERS?


WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Littleton) today sent a letter to Mexican President Felipe Calderon questioning the motives behind his current visit to the United States as well as the charges levied by Mr. Calderon against the fairness of American immigration policy. A copy of the letter is below: President Calderon: I was disappointed by misguided comments you recently made regarding U.S.-Mexico relations and U.S. immigration laws. Purveying misinformation and absurd allegations is hardly a positive step to building a constructive partnership. According to the Associated Press you recently said, “You have two economies. One economy is intensive in capital, which is the American economy. One economy is intensive in labor, which is the Mexican economy. We are two complementary economies, and that phenomenon is impossible to stop.” Yes, both countries benefit by the 85% of Mexico’s manufacturing exports that come to the U.S., but people are not commodities. While I appreciate your concern for our joint prosperity, the economic and social ills that plague your country cannot be resolved by simply exporting your citizens to the United States. It is undeniable that Mexico faces major challenges. Endemic corruption and the power of violent drug cartels still dominate everyday life across Mexico. Beyond the headlines, Mexico has deep institutional maladies. Mexico’s absurdly antiquated Napoleonic-inquisition styled legal system and the squandering of robust energy-industry opportunity by a poorly managed, state-run Pemex monopoly are just two examples of the kind of self-inflicted wounds that hobble your troubled nation. I understand that you are attempting to resolve some of these problems and applaud your leadership in trying to do so. But what would contribute more to the long term stability of your economy and your country would be to focus more energy on addressing your domestic challenges and less on lobbying the U.S. to provide amnesty for Mexicans who have illegally entered this country with the blessing of your government. In doing so, you might be able to keep Mexico’s “best and brightest young men” in Mexico – where they can contribute more to Mexico’s economy than remittance payments. Unfortunately, your recent comments indicate that Mexico will continue its policy of encouraging illegal immigration and treating the United States as little more than a dumping ground for your social and economic problems. In your speech yesterday to the California State legislature, you lectured the American people on how to improve our immigration policies. Why did you not propose that we model our policies on Mexico’s own policies toward illegal entry across your own southern border? Mexico expends enormous resources to prevent Guatemalans, Hondurans and Salvadorans from entering the country illegally, but you castigate the United States for wanting secure borders. Mr. President, in my neighborhood that is called hypocrisy. You proposed in your Sacramento speech that “migration” be made “legal, safe and organized.” Mr. President, we already have such a program and it is called legal immigration. Over one million legal immigrants come through our ports of entry each year, not across our border fences. The American people set limits on the number of legal immigrants through our immigration laws, and it is not the job of the Mexican government to revise or expand those limits. President Calderon, you are insulting the American people when you tell us that fifteen to twenty million illegal aliens in our country bring only benefits and no costs. I challenge you to give one concrete example of how the enforcement of our existing immigration laws violates anyone’s human rights. The people of Oklahoma are not anti-Mexican for passing laws to require verification of employment eligibility. The people of Indiana are not anti-immigrant for passing laws to require photo identification for voting. The people of California are not anti-Mexican for denying driver’s licenses to illegal aliens. The people of Arizona are not anti-immigrant for passing laws that deny welfare benefits to people who are in that state unlawfully. It is no secret that the purpose of your visit is to influence the American election, and in fact your trip has been billed as a high-stakes effort to shape the immigration debate underway in the U.S. presidential race. What is perhaps more disappointing, however, is your attempt to insinuate that anti-amnesty sentiment here in the U.S. is the same as anti-Mexican sentiment. I am referring to your statement, “I need to change in the perception that the Americans are the enemy, and it is important to change the perception that the Mexicans are the enemy.” It is both disingenuous and dangerous for you to inject this kind of xenophobia into this debate. The fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans support the enforcement of our immigration laws and take issue with the notion that we should reward illegal behavior, hardly qualifies as ethnic animosity or international enmity. What you must understand is that a treasured aspect of our national foundation is a respect for the rule of law. Perhaps if corruption were not so widespread and commonplace in Mexico, it would be easier for you to understand this.
President Calderon, in many ways your trip thus far has been a long series of mixed messages. You accuse the United States of recent protectionist trends, yet you heavily restrict foreign entry into Mexico’s energy sector through a massive, state-run Pemex monopoly. You assure American politicians that an open flow of cheap Mexican labor is not only benign but vitally necessary, but you take great care in securing your own southern border with Guatemala. You come to the United States purportedly to promote better political and economic ties with the U.S., but then issue a thinly veiled threat that Mexicans will regard the U.S. as an enemy if we refuse to provide millions of illegal aliens with unconditional amnesty. President Calderon, I respectfully suggest that the next time you visit our country, rather than trying to influence U.S. policymakers or our election process, you take time to listen to Americans rather than lecture them. If you want to make changes in government policies, apply your energies to Mexico’s laundry list of problems rather than meddling in domestic American politics.

MEXIFORNIA MUST STEM FLOODS AND HORDES OF ILLEGALS - But Will Obama Sue Legals Like He Did Arizona? WILL MEX RANT ABOUT RACIST GRINGOS?

STEVE POIZNER IS FORMER GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE FOR MEXIFORNIA.
THAT OFFICE WAS WON BY HISPANDERING JERRY BROWN (LA RAZA DEM) AND THE VOTES OF ILLEGALS. BROWN’S CAMPAIGN WAS FINANCED BY THE SPECIAL INTERESTS THAT BENEFIT FORM “CHEAP” MEX LABOR, OPEN BORDERS, GRINGOS PAY FOR FREE BIRTHING!

latimes.com
Opinion
California must stem the flow of illegal immigrants
The state should go after employers who hire them, curb taxpayer-funded benefits, deploy the National Guard to help the feds at the border and penalize 'sanctuary' cities.
By Steve Poizner
March 27, 2010
The United States, and California in particular, has been built by immigrants who legally crossed our borders in search of a brighter future. For generations, these legal immigrants have made immeasurable contributions to creating a unique and vibrant California. As Americans and Californians, we are right to welcome people from all over the globe when they obey our laws and are willing to play by the rules.

Illegal immigration is another matter entirely. With the state budget in tatters, millions of residents out of work and a state prison system strained by massive overcrowding, California simply cannot continue to ignore the strain that illegal immigration puts on our budget and economy. Illegal aliens cost taxpayers in our state billions of dollars each year. As economist Philip J. Romero concluded in a 2007 study, "illegal immigrants impose a 'tax' on legal California residents in the tens of billions of dollars."

Some have said that illegal immigration is an issue for the federal government, not the states, and that there's little a governor can do to fix the problem. Those people are wrong.

In government at any level, federal or state, a chief executive's duty is to preserve the rule of law. This also means confronting those who flout it, including illegal immigrants and those who shield them.

I believe there are many ways our state can stem the flow of illegal immigration, including social services reform and beefed-up border security. The state needs to confront the problem in a way that is fair and decent but also unapologetically aggressive.

Above all, California has too many policies that reward illegal aliens and act like magnets, drawing them to and keeping them in our cities and communities. We have to change those policies.

Ten other states, including neighboring Arizona, have passed laws to cut taxpayer-funded benefits for illegal immigrants. We need such legislation too. In this time of fiscal crisis, we can't afford to subsidize the presence of illegal aliens.

One taxpayer-funded benefit for illegal aliens that should be stopped is in-state tuition at our public colleges and universities. Today, California is one of just 10 states that allow illegal immigrants access to reduced college tuition at taxpayer expense.

California must also do its part to help secure the border by deploying the state's National Guard to assist federal authorities. We should also work with other border states to create a multi-state partnership for sharing information, resources and manpower.

Confronting illegal immigration also means confronting those who offer assistance to those who are flouting the law. We need to end "sanctuary city" policies, in which communities (San Francisco, for example) openly offer haven to illegal aliens. Counties, cities and towns that put in place sanctuary policies should lose state funds.

Why? We have seen the tragic consequences that can stem from offering sanctuary to protect criminals who are in our country illegally. Consider, for example, the case of Edwin Ramos. An illegal alien from El Salvador, Ramos was twice convicted of felonies as a juvenile but was shielded from deportation by San Francisco's sanctuary policy. Subsequently, he was charged with murdering three people and is now awaiting trial. Ramos should have been sent back to his country of origin when he was first arrested. And the same should be true of any illegal alien arrested for committing a crime.

Businesses that knowingly employ illegal aliens also undermine the rule of law. Jobs are a major reason people immigrate to California. We need to be tough on employers who hire -- and at times prey on -- an illegal workforce. We must require employers to verify the immigration status of their workers, and we should revoke the state-issued licenses of businesses that make a practice of knowingly employing people who aren't authorized to work in this country.

Legal immigration is a great thing for California, but we can no longer afford illegal immigration. If we eliminate the public benefit magnets, step up border enforcement and crack down on the cities and businesses that shield illegal aliens who are already here, we can go a long way toward stemming the tide of illegal immigration.

Immigration law is defined by the federal government. But the consequences and costs of illegal immigration fall on the states. That is why California must do everything possible to address this pressing problem. And in any debate on the future of immigration policy, state officials should voice the interests of their constituents.

To those currently debating a new immigration bill in Washington, I have just two words: no amnesty.

Steve Poizner is California's insurance commissioner and a Republican candidate for governor.

AZTLAN UNDER MEXICAN CONTROL - HOW FAR WILL MEXICAN OCCUPATION EXTEND?

THE AZTLAN INVASION & THE LA RAZA FASCIST PARTY FOR MEXICAN SUPREMACY

“The radicals seek nothing less than secession from the United States whether to form their own sovereign state or to reunify with Mexico. Those who desire reunification with Mexico are irredentists who seek to reclaim Mexico's "lost" territories in the American Southwest.”

MULTICULTURALISM, IMMIGRATION AND AZTLAN

By Maria Hsia Chang Professor of Political Science, University of Nevada Reno



One of the standard arguments invoked by those in favor of massive immigration into the United States is that our country is founded on immigrants who have always been successfully assimilated into America's mainstream culture and society. As one commentator put it, "Assimilation evokes the misty past of Ellis Island, through which millions entered, eventually seeing their descendants become as American as George Washington."1 Nothing more vividly testifies against that romantic faith in America's ability to continuously assimilate new members than the events of October 16, 1994 in Los Angeles. On that day, 70,000 people marched beneath "a sea of Mexican flags" protesting Proposition 187, a referendum measure that would deny many state benefits to illegal immigrants and their children. Two weeks later, more protestors marched down the street, this time carrying an American flag upside down. Both protests point to a disturbing and rising phenomenon of Chicano separatism in the United States — the product of a complex of forces, among which are multiculturalism and a generous immigration policy combined with a lax border control. The Problem Chicanos refer to "people of Mexican descent in the United States" or "Mexican Americans in general." Today, there are reasons to believe that Chicanos as a group are unlike previous immigrants in that they are more likely to remain unassimilated and unintegrated, whether by choice or circumstance — resulting in the formation of a separate quasi-nation within the United States. More than that, there are Chicano political activists who intend to marry cultural separateness with territorial and political self-determination. The more moderate among them aspire to the cultural and political autonomy of "home rule". The radicals seek nothing less than secession from the United States whether to form their own sovereign state or to reunify with Mexico. Those who desire reunification with Mexico are irredentists who seek to reclaim Mexico's "lost" territories in the American Southwest.

Whatever their goals, what animates all of them is the dream of Aztlan. According to legend, Aztlan was the ancestral homeland of the Aztecs which they left in journeying southward to found Tenochtitlan, the center of their new civilization, which is today's Mexico City. Today, the "Nation of Aztlan" refers to the American southwestern states of California, Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, portions of Nevada, Utah, Colorado, which Chicano nationalists claim were stolen by the United States and must be reconquered (Reconquista) and reclaimed for Mexico. The myth of Aztlan was revived by Chicano political activists in the 1960s as a central symbol of Chicano nationalist ideology. In 1969, at the Chicano National Liberation Youth Conference in Denver, Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales put forth a political document entitled El Plan de Aztlan (Spiritual Plan of Aztlan). The Plan is a clarion call to Mexican-Americans to form a separate Chicano nation: In the spirit of a new people that is conscious not only of its proud historial heritage, but also of the brutal "gringo" invasion of our territories, we, the Chicano inhabitants and civilizers of the nothern land of Aztlan from whence came our forefathers ...declare that the call of our blood is...our inevitable destiny.... Aztlan belongs to those who plant the seeds, water the fields, and gather the crops, and not to the foreign Europeans. We do not recognize capricious frontiers on the bronze continent.... Brotherhood unites us, and love for our brothers makes us a people whose time has come .... With our heart in our hands and our hands in the soil, we declare the independence of our mestizo nation. We are a bronze people with a bronze culture. Before the world, before all of North America, before all our brothers in the bronze continent, we are a nation, we are a union of free pueblos, we are Aztlan.

How Chicanos are Unlike Previous Immigrants Brent A. Nelson, writing in 1994, observed that in the 1980s America's Southwest had begun to be transformed into "a de facto nation" with its own culture, history, myth, geography, religion, education, and language. Whatever evidence there is indicates that Chicanos, as a group, are unlike previous waves of immigrants into the United States. In the first place, many Chicanos do not consider themselves immigrants at all because their people "have been here for 450 years" before the English, French, or Dutch. Before California and the Southwest were seized by the United States, they were the lands of Spain and Mexico. As late as 1780 the Spanish crown laid claim to territories from Florida to California, and on the far side of the Mississippi up to the Great Lakes and the Rockies. Mexico held title to much of Spanish possessions in the United States until the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican-American war in 1848. As a consequence, Mexicans "never accepted the borders drawn up by the 1848 treaty."

That history has created among Chicanos a feeling of resentment for being "a conquered people," made part of the United States against their will and by the force of arms. Their resentment is amply expressed by Voz Fronteriza, a Chicano student publication,
which referred to Border Patrol officers killed in the line of duty as "pigs (migra)" trying to defend "the false frontier."
Chicanos are also distinct from other immigrant groups because of the geographic proximity of their native country. Their physical proximity to Mexico gives Chicanos "the option of life in both Americas, in two places and in two cultures, something earlier immigrants never had." Geographic proximity and ease of transportation are augmented by the media. Radio and television keep the spoken language alive and current so that Spanish, unlike the native languages of previous immigrants into the United States, "shows no sign of fading."

A result of all that is the failure by Chicanos to be fully assimilated into the larger American society and culture. As Earl Shorris, author of Latinos: A Biography of the People, observed: "Latinos have been more resistant to the melting pot than any other group. Their entry en masse into the United States will test the limits of the American experiment...." The continuous influx of Mexican immigrants into the United States serve to continuously renew Chicano culture so that their sense of separateness will probably continue "far into the future...." There are other reasons for the failure of Chicano assimilation. Historically, a powerful force for assimilation was upward social mobility: Immigrants into the United States became assimilated as they rose in educational achievement and income. But today's post-industrial American economy, with its narrower paths to upward mobility, is making it more difficult for certain groups to improve their socioeconomic circumstances. Unionized factory jobs, which once provided a step up for the second generation of past waves of immigrants, have been disappearing for decades. Instead of the diamond-shaped economy of industrial America, the modern American economy is shaped like an hourglass. There is a good number of jobs for unskilled people at the bottom, a fair number of jobs for the highly educated at the top, but comparatively few jobs for those in the middle without a college education or special skills. To illustrate, a RAND Corporation study forecasts that 85 percent of California's new jobs will require post-secondary education. For a variety of reasons, the nationwide high-school dropout rate for Hispanics (the majority of whom are Chicano) is 30 percent — three times the rate for whites and twice the rate for blacks. Paradoxically, the dropout rate for Hispanics born in the United States is even higher than for young immigrants. Among Chicanos, high-school dropout rates actually rise between the second and third generations. Their low educational achievement accounts for why Chicanos as a group are poor despite being hardworking. In 1996, for the first time, Hispanic poverty rate began to exceed that of American blacks. In 1995, household income rose for every ethnic group except Hispanics, for whom it dropped 5 percent. Latinos now make up a quarter of the nation's poor people, and are more than three times as likely to be impoverished than whites. This decline in income has taken place despite high rates of labor-force participation by Latino men, and despite an emerging Latino middle class. In California, where Latinos now approach one-third of the population, their education levels are far lower than those of other immigrants, and they earn about half of what native-born Californians earn. This means that, for the first time in the history of American immigration, hard work is not leading to economic advancement because immigrants in service jobs face unrelenting labor-market pressure from more recently arrived immigrants who are eager to work for less. The narrowing of the pathways of upward mobility has implications for the children of recent Mexican immigrants. Their ascent into the middle-class mainstream will likely be blocked and they will join children of earlier black and Puerto Rican migrants as part of an expanded multiethnic underclass. Whereas first generation immigrants compare their circumstances to the Mexico that they left — and thereby feel immeasurably better off — their children and grandchildren will compare themelves to other U.S. groups. Given their lower educational achievement and income, that comparison will only lead to feelings of relative deprivation and resentment. They are unlikely to be content as maids, gardeners, or fruit pickers. Many young Latinos in the second and third generations see themselves as locked in irremediable conflict with white society, and are quick to deride successful Chicano students as "wannabes." For them, to study hard is to "act white" and exhibit group disloyalty. That attitude is part of the Chicano culture of resistance — a culture that actively resists assimilation into mainstream America. That culture is created, reinforced, and maintained by radical Chicano intellectuals, politicians, and the many Chicano Studies programs in U.S. colleges and universities. As examples, according to its editor, Elizabeth Martinez, the purpose of Five Hundred Years of Chicano History, a book used in over 300 schools throughout the West, is to "celebrate our resistance to being colonized and absorbed by racist empire builders." The book calls the INS and the Border Patrol "the Gestapo for Mexicans."
For Rodolfo Acuna, author of Occupied America: The Chicano's Struggle Toward Liberation, probably the most widely assigned text in U.S. Chicano Studies programs, the Anglo-American invasion of Mexico was "as vicious as that of Hitler's invasion of Poland and other Central European nations...." The book also includes a map showing "the Mexican republic" in 1822 reaching up into Kansas and Oklahoma, and including within it Utah, Nevada, and everything west and south of there.

Rep. Joe Baca (La Raza) MEXIFORNIA - Demands State Secede to Mexico!

JOE BACA – ON THE AMERICAN PAYROLL WORKING HARD FOR ILLEGALS!

Agendas of MEChA, La Raza, MALDEF, and Southwest Voter Registration Projects These are transcripts of live, recorded statements by elected U.S. politicians, college professors, and pro-illegal alien activists whose objective is to take control of our country "by vote if possible and violence if necessary!" 1. Armando Navarro, Prof. Ethnic Studies, UC Riverside at Latino Summit Response to Prop 187, UC Riverside, 1/1995
"These are the critical years for us as a Latino community. We're in a state of transition. And that transformation is called 'the browning of America'. Latinos are now becoming the majority. Because I know that time and history is on the side of the Chicano/Latino community. It is changing in the future and in the present the balance of power of this nation. It's a game - it's a game of power - who controls it. You (to MEChA students) are like the generals that command armies. We're in a state of war. This Proposition 187 is a declaration of war against the Latino/Chicano community of this country. They know the demographics. They know that history and time is on our side. As one community, as one people, as one nation within a nation as the community that we are, the Chicano/Latino community of this nation. What this means is a transfer of power. It means control."
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THERE ARE NOW 90 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS IN THE CONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS WORKING FOR AMNESTY AND THE EXPANSION OF THE MEXICAN WELFARE STATE.

REP. JOE BACA, THE LA RAZA PARTY
“THE LATINOS ARE COMING... THE LATINOS ARE COMING!!! AND THEY’RE GOING TO VOTE!”
8. JOE BACAK, former CA Assemblymember, currently member of Congress at Latino Summit Response to Prop 187 UC Riverside 1/1995 and Southwest Voter Registration Project annual conference in Los Angeles, 6/1996 "We need more Latinos out there. We must stand up and be counted. We must be together, We must be united. Because if we're not united you know what's going to happen? We're like sticks - we're broken to pieces. Divided we're not together. But as a unit they can't break us. So we've got to come together, and if we're united, si se puede (it can be done) and we will make the changes that are necessary. But we've got to do it. We've got to stand together, and dammit, don't let them divide us because that's what they want to do, is to divide us. And once we're divided we're conquered. But when we look out at the audience and we see, you know, la familia, La Raza (the family, our race), you know, it's a great feeling, isn't it a good feeling? And you know, I started to think about that and it reminded me of a book that we all read and we all heard about, you know, Paul Revere, and when he was saying, 'The British are coming, the British are coming!' Well, the Latinos are coming, the Latinos are coming! And the Latinos are going to vote. So our voices will be heard. So that's what this agenda is about. It's about insuring that we increase our numbers. That we increase our numbers at every level. We talk about the Congressional, we talk about the Senate, we talk about board of supervisors, board of education, city councils, commissions, we have got to increase out numbers because the Latinos are coming. Because what's going on right now, with 187, the CCRI (CA Civil Rights Initiative against affirmative action), and let me tell you, we can't go back, you know, we're in a civil war. But we need to be solidified, we need to come together, we must be strong, because united we form a strong body. United we become solidified, united we make a difference, united we make the changes, united Latinos will win throughout California, let's stick together, que si se puede, que no? (it can be done, right?)

“IF THEY’RE SUPPORTING LEGISLATION THAT DENIES THE UNDOCUMENTED DRIVER’S LICENSE, THEY DON’T BELONG IN OFFICE, FRIENDS. THEY DON’T BELONG HERE!”

MAYOR OF LOS ANGELES, Antonio Villaraigosa DECLARES LOS ANGELES MEX WELFARE & GANG CAPITAL of AMERICA - OBAMA PAYS STATE VISIT TO MEXFORNIA

MAYOR ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA OF LOS ANGELES IS A LONG STANDING MEMBER OF MEChA!

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At a MEChA conference in 1996, Acuna referred to Anglos as Nazis: "Right now you are in the Nazi United States of America." The effect of books such as those is to radicalize young Chicanos. As an example, although Chicano undergraduates at Berkeley lacked any sort of strong ethnic identity before entering college, in Berkeley they became "born again" as Chicanos because of MEChA and Chicano Studies departments. The strident rhetoric of intellectuals is echoed by some Mexican-American politicians. Former California state senator Art Torres called Proposition 187 "the last gasp of white America" and spoke of "reclaiming" Southern California. The Mexican government also contributes to the Chicano sense of separateness through its recent decision that migrants will not forfeit their Mexican citizenship by becoming U.S. citizens and are allowed to vote in Mexican elections. Multiculturalism and Immigration All of this is exacerbated by the U.S. government's immigration policy and a new ethic of multiculturalism that has become almost an official dogma in the mass media and in academe. Exponents of multiculturalism maintain that all cultures are equal, and that the United States must accept its destiny as a universal nation, a world nation, in which no one culture — especially European culture — will be dominant. "The ideal of multiculturalism is a nation which has no core culture, no ethnic core, no center other than a powerful state apparatus." The social ethic of multiculturalism is actively supported by an official government policy of "corporate pluralism" which militates against America's earlier ideal of assimilation. According to Gunnar Myrdal, "corporate pluralism" refers to a society where racial and ethnic entities are accorded formal recognition and standing by the state as groups in the national polity, and where political power and economic reward are based on a distributive formula that postulates group rights and defines group membership as an important factor in the outcome for individuals. By replacing individual meritocracy with group rewards, corporate pluralism "strongly discourages assimilation in the conventional sense because if a significant portion of one's rational interests are likely to be satisfied by emphasis on one's ethnicity, then one might as well stay within ethnic boundaries and at the same time enjoy the social comforts of being among people of one's own kind." Corporate pluralism is realized through such government policies as affirmative action, court-ordered busing, and bilingual education. In the case of the latter, by the late 1970s, bilingual education has become "a Hispanic institution." A bilingual establishment has been formed which "fights for jobs and perks" and is determined to maintain Spanish as both language and culture.* Being supported by government laws, that establishment cannot easily be dislodged.

Conclusion Chicanos are not the only ethnic groups in the United States who resist assimilation and are geographically concentrated in certain areas and cities. The Cubans in Miami and Chinese in Monterey Park are other examples, but neither group is large enough to practice autonomism or separatism. Chicanos in the Southwest, however, are great in numbers and "are producing spokesmen for...autonomism, separatism, and even irredentism." Since 1977, INS has apprehended over a million illegals a year, the majority Hispanics; anywhere from 2 to 5 million eluded the INS. By the early 1980s, the number of illegal aliens in the United States, mostly Hispanic, totalled 3 to 12 million. In 1980, the Census Bureau counted 14.6 million Hispanics in the United States, increasing to 15.8 million by 1982, and 17.3 million by 1985 — making America the 5th or 4th largest Spanish-speaking country in the world.27 According to the 1990 Census, Latin America accounted for 38 percent of America's foreign-born, well over half of whom were from Mexico. The real percentage is probably higher because illegal aliens avoid the census and most illegals are from Latin America. According to a report by the Urban Institute in 1984 entitled The Fourth Wave: California's Newest Immigrants, by the year 2000, 42 percent of Southern California's residents will be Caucasian, 41 percent Hispanic, 9 percent Asian and 8 percent black. Demographers Leon F. Bouvier and Cary B. Davis in Immigration and the Future Racial Composition of the United States expect that, by 2080, Hispanics (more than half Chicano) will constitute 34.1 percent of the total U.S. population, even if immigration were restricted to 2 million entrants a year from all areas of the world and birthrates of Hispanics converge with those of non-Hispanics. In 2080, Hispanics will be either a plurality or a majority of the population in California and Texas at 41.4 percent and 53.5 percent, respectively, assuming an influx of a conservative one million immigrants a year. Former Senator Eugene McCarthy, writing in 1987, had warned of a "recolonization". McCarthy's warning was sounded five years earlier by a historian of race relations, George Fredrickson. Speaking at a colloquium on race relations in 1982, Fredrickson observed that: There are two ways that you can gain territory from another group. One is by conquest. That's essentially the way we took California from Mexico and... Texas as well. But what's going on now may end up being a kind of recolonization of the Southwest, because the other way you can regain territory is by population infiltration and demographic dominance .... The United States will be faced with the problem that Canada has been faced with... and which our system is not prepared to accomodate. Mario Barrera, a faculty member of U.C. Berkeley's Department of Ethnic Studies, admitted that multiculturalism "would help prepare the ideological climate for an eventual campaign for ethnic regional autonomy." In January 1995, El Plan de Aztlan Conference at UC Riverside resolved that "We shall overcome...by the vote if possible and violence if necessary." The rise of Mexican irredentism as a serious political movement "awaits only the demographic transformation of the Southwest." As an article entitled "The Great Invasion: Mexico Recovers Its Own" in 1982's Excelsior, Mexico's leading daily newspaper, put it: The territory lost in the 19th century by...Mexico...seems to be restoring itself through a humble people who go on settling various zones that once were ours on the old maps. Land, under any concept of possession, ends up in the hands of those who deserve it.... [The result of this migration is to return the land] to the jurisdiction of Mexico without the firing of a single shot. Multiculturalism and United States government's immigration policy have contributed towards the rise of Chicano ethnic separatism within the American Southwest that has all the makings of an incipient Nation of Aztlan. NOTES * Paper presented at the Second Alliance for Stabilizing America's Population Action Conference, Breckenridge, CO, August 6, 1999. 1. Scott McConnell, "Americans No More?" National Review (December 31, 1997), p. 30. 2. Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996), pp. 19, 20. 3. Mario Barrera, Beyond Aztlan: Ethnic Autonomy in Comparative Perspective (NY: Praeger, 1988), p. 7. 4. "It is not clear whether most Chicano nationalists favor independence for Aztlan itself or seek its annexation by Mexico." Brent A. Nelson, America Balkanized: Immigration's Challenge to Government (Monterey, VA: American Immigration Control Foundation, 1994), pp. 31, 26. 5. Reconquista! The Takeover of America (California Coalition for Immigration Reform, 1997), p. 2. 7. 1. http://www.aztlan.org/planaztl.html
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A bilingual establishment has been formed which "fights for jobs and perks" and is determined to maintain Spanish as both language and culture.*

AT LOS ANGELES HIGH SCHOOL, THE SANTEE EDUCATIONAL COMPLEX, THE STUDENT BODY IS OVERWHELMINGLY HISPANIC. EVEN THOSE STUDENTS BORN HERE OF ILLEGAL PARENTS, ONLY IDENTIFY AS BEING MEXICAN.
CLASSES AT SANTEE ARE TAUGHT IN SPANISH. BOOKS ARE IN SPANISH. HANDOUTS ARE IN SPANISH. THE STUDENTS SIT ON THEIR ASS WHEN THE NATIONAL ANTHEM IS PLAYED, AND SCHOOL ASSEMBLIES END IN ! VIVA MEXICO! VIVA MEXICO!

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THE EVER EXPANDING MEXICAN OCCUPATION and WELFARE – PRISON STATE

PUBLIC COMMENTS FROM TWO RACIST MEXICAN LA RAZA MEMBERS, ANTONIO “TACO RUNT” VILLARAIGOSA, MAYOR OF LOS ANGELES, AND LOS ANGELES SUPERVISOR, GLORIA MOLINA.

Antonio Villaraigosa, Chair of MEChA (student wing of Aztlan movement) at UCLA, former CA assemblymember, former CA Assembly speaker, currently Los Angeles City Mayor, and formerly Councilman at Southwest Voter Registration Project Conference in Los Angeles, 6/1997 "Part of today's reality has been propositions like 187 (to deny public benefits to illegal aliens, 1994), propositions like 209 (to abolish affirmative action, 1996), the welfare reform bill, which targeted legal immigrants and targeted us as a community. That's been the midnight. We know that the sunny side of midnight has been the election of a Latino speaker - was the election of Loretta Sanchez, against an arch-conservative, reactionary hate-mongering politician like Congressman Dornan! Today in California in the legislature, we're engaged in a great debate, where not only were we talking about denying education to the children of undocumented workers, but now we're talking about whether or not we should provide prenatal care to undocumented mothers. It's not enough to elect Latino leadership. If they're supporting legislation that denies the undocumented driver's licenses, they don't belong in office, friends. They don't belong here. If they can't stand up and say, 'You know what? I'm not ever going to support a policy that denies prenatal care to the children of undocumented mothers', they don't belong here."
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“I’M GONNA GO OUT THERE AN VOTE BECAUSE I WANT TO PAY THEM BACK!”
10. Gloria Molina, one of the five in Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors at Southwest Voter Registration Project Conference, 6/1996 "This community is no longer going to stand for it. Because tonight we are organizing across this country in a single mission, in a plan. We are going to organize like we've never organized before. We are going to go into our neighborhoods. We are going to register voters. We are going to talk to all of those young people that need to become registered voters and go out to vote and we're are politicizing every single one of those new citizens that are becoming citizens of this country. And what we are saying is by November we will have one million additional Latino voters in this country, and we're gonna march, and our vote is going to be important. But I gotta tell you, there's a lot of people that are saying, 'I'm gonna go out there and vote because I want to pay them back!' And this November we are going to remember those that stood with us and we are also going to remember those that have stood against us on the issues of immigration, on the issues of education, on the issues of health care, on the issues of the minimum wage."
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“LONG LIVE OUR RACE!”
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11. Vicky Castro, former member of Los Angeles Board of Education at Southwest Voter Registration Project Conference, 6/1996 "Que viva la raza, que viva la raza (long live our race)! I'm here to welcome all the new voters of 18 years old that we're registering now in our schools. Welcome, you're going to make a difference for Los Angeles, for San Antonio, for New York, and I thank Southwest for taking that challenge. And to the Mechistas (MEChA students) across this nation, you're going to make that difference for us, too. But when we register one more million voters I will not be the only Latina on the Board of Education of Los Angeles. And let me tell you here, no one will dismantle bilingual education in the United States of America. No one will deny an education to any child, especially Latino children. As you know, in Los Angeles we make up 70% of this school district. Of 600,000 -- 400,000 are Latinos, and our parents are not heard and they're going to be heard because in Los Angeles, San Antonio and Texas we have just classified 53,000 new citizens in one year that are going to be felt in November!"

“I STARTED THIS VERY QUIETLY BECAUSE THERE ARE THOSE THAT IF THEY KNEW THAT WE WERE CREATING A WHOLE NEW CADRE OF BRAND NEW CITIZENS IT WOULD HAVE TREMENDOUS POLITICAL IMPACT.”
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“WE HAVE PROCESSED A LITTLE OVER 78,000 BRAND NEW CITZENS.”
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12. Ruben Zacarias, former superintendent of Los Angeles Unified School District at Southwest Voter Registration Project Conference, 6/1997 "We have 27 centers now throughout LAUSD. Every one of them has trained people, clerks to take the fingerprints. Each one has the camera, that special camera. We have the application forms. And I'll tell you what we've done with I.N.S. Now we're even doing the testing that usually people had to go to INS to take, and pretty soon, hopefully, we'll do the final interviews in our schools. Incidentally, I started this very quietly because there are those that if they knew that we were creating a whole new cadre of brand new citizens it would have tremendous political impact. We will change the political panorama not only of L.A., but L.A. County and the State. And we do that we've changed the panorama of the nation. I'm proud to stand here and tell you that in those close to three years we have processed a little over 78,000 brand new citizens. That is the largest citizenship program in the entire nation."
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“I HAVE PROUDLY AFFIRMED THAT THE MEXICAN NATIONAL EXTENDS BEYOND THE TERRITORY ENCLOSED BY ITS BORDERS....”
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13. Ernesto Zedillo, former president of Mexico announcing the Mexican constitutional amendment allowing for dual citizenship on 6/23/97 "I have proudly affirmed that the Mexican national extends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders, and that Mexican migrants are an important - a very important part of it. For that reason my government proposed a constitutional amendment to allow any Mexican with the right as he desires to acquire another nationality to do so without being forced to first give up his or her Mexican nationality. Fortunately, the amendment was passed almost unanimously by our federal Congress and is now part of our constitution. I am also here today to tell you that we want you to take pride in what each and every one of your Mexican brothers and sisters are doing back home.
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“WE’RE HERE... TO SHOW THE WHITE ANGLO-SAXON PROTESTANT L.A., THE FEW OF YOU WHO REMAIN, THAT WE ARE THE MAJORITY, AND WE CLAIM THIS LAND AS OURS, IT’S ALWAYS BEEN OURS, AND WE’RE STILL HERE, AND NONE OF THE TALK ABOUT DEPORTING. IF ANYONE’S GOING TO BE DEPORTED IT’S GOING TO BE YOU!”

“WE ARE THE MAJORITY IN L.A. THERE’S OVER SEVEN MILLION MEXICANS IN L.A. COUNTY ALONE.”
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14. Augustin Cebada, Information Minister of Brown Berets, militant para-military soldiers of Aztlan shouting at U.S. citizens at an Independence Day rally in Los Angeles, 7/4/96 "Augustin Cebada, Brown Berets, we're here today to show L.A., show the minority people here, the Anglo-Saxons, that we are here, the majority, we're here to stay. We do the work in this city, we take care of the spoiled brat children, we clean their offices, we pick the food, we do the manufacturing in the factories of L.A., we are the majority here and we are not going to be pushed around. We're here in Westwood, this is the fourth time we've been here in the last two months, to show white Anglo-Saxon Protestant L.A., the few of you who remain, that we are the majority, and we claim this land as ours, it's always been ours, and we're still here, and none of the talk about deporting. If anyone's going to be deported it's going to be you! Go back to Simi Valley, you skunks! Go back to Woodland Hills! Go back to Boston! To back to the Plymouth Rock, Pilgrims! Get out! We are the future. You're old and tired. Go on. We have beaten you, leave like beaten rats. You old white people, it is your duty to die. Even their own ethicists say that they should die, that they have a duty to die. They're taking up too much space, too much air. We are the majority in L.A. There's over seven million Mexicans in L.A. County alone. We are the majority. And you're going to see every day more and more of it, as we manifest as our young people grow up, graduate from high school, go on to college and start taking over this society. The vast majority of our people are under the age of 15 years old. Right now we're already controlling those elections, whether it's by violence or nonviolence. Through love of having children we're going to take over." Other demonstrators: "Raza fuerza (brown race power), this is Aztlan, this is Mexico. They're the pilgrims on our land. Go back to the Nina, the Pinta, the Santa Maria."

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CAN WE AFFORD MORE OF THE LA RAZA LIFER-POLITICIANS’ SELLING US OUT?