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Columnist Michelle Malkin posted equally critical comments this morning on her blog
HotAir.com.
Noting that McCain has attempted to distance himself from the comprehensive immigration reform bill he co-sponsored with Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy, Malkin said the appointment of Hernandez “tells me that John McCain is as weak on border security now as he ever was.”
California spending annually $22 billion to support illegals
Going To the Top!
By Susan Tully
I've been at the immigration reform and enforcement table for about 20 years. I've worked with activists during all those years. But last week, in Los Angeles, I had a first-time-ever experience at an activist brain storming session.
Gathered for an update on Stop AB131, the petition drive to gather signatures to force a ballot initiative as to whether the California taxpayers should fund college grants to illegal aliens, I asked the top activist leaders from Southern California how the signature drive was going.
They started updating me with the positive response from California residents who signed the petitions, but then admitted about 500,000 more signatures were still needed. When I said there was only a little more than three weeks to go to meet the January 5th deadline, suddenly their faces dropped at once, and the room went completely silent.
It was easy to read on each of their faces; the task was nearly impossible! Without big money to pay signature gatherers or a tsunami of petitions flooding in, the taxpayers of California will be forced to give grant money to illegal aliens for college, on top of the $22 billion they are spending annually in California to support the illegal alien population.
While all of our minds were racing and searching for suggestions as to how to accomplish this daunting task of gathering signatures, Lupe Moreno, long time Hispanic leader from Santa Ana, said "Can we have a prayer?" Everyone agreed to pray.
As the prayer went around the table, people expressed their sorrow for the lack of leadership in the State of California and in the nation to protect the interest of American citizens, and asked for divine guidance in helping them understand the harm their policies are inflicting on millions of innocent people in the state. In all the years I have worked on this issue, I had not witnessed the sort of sincere emotion that was expressed in that room.
(THE FASTEST GROWING POLITICAL PARTY IN AMERICA IS THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA! AND WE ARE FORCED TO FUND IT!)
You see, the politicians in California are happy to give money the state doesn't have to illegal aliens to attend college, while they cut the budgets and slash programs for public safety, right and left. The American citizen's interests and safety are simply collateral damage for seeking and appealing to the illegal alien lobby.
These activists in California have already learned what the rest of the nation is about to learn. We the people. . . are the only ones looking out for the best interest of American citizens. With few exceptions, we have no national leadership on the issue of stopping the illegal migration flow into our nation.
American citizenship or the benefits thereof have become a commodity for politicians to pander and barter away. They will grant de facto citizenship through sanctuary policies, in-state tuition, non-compliance with Secure Communities, grants for college, etc., etc., etc. President Obama and most the Republican presidential hopefuls are peddling various versions of amnesty proposals if they are elected next year.
What do these politicians want in return? They are hoping to leverage enough votes in key states to put them over the top in 2012, no matter what it costs the American people. This is futures betting: The politicians are gambling the nation's future in hopes of winning the next election.
So while the state can't afford to pay its bills or provide decent services to citizens, these California activists watch their elected leaders lavish still more benefits for people who don't have a legal right to be in the country. And while their child might have to pay out-of-state tuition to go to college in another state, thousands of illegal aliens are going to college at in-state tuition rates in California that they are subsidizing.
In addition they know that millions of other illegal alien parents are receiving food stamps, Medicaid, housing assistance and dozens of other state and local benefits for their American-born children, while they have to decide which bills will be paid this month and which will have to wait.
It's not hard to understand why the activist of California need all the help they can get. Please go to www.stopAB131.com and lend a hand to our friends and family and the people of California to do what needs to be done for the good of our children first.
The anchor baby scam has proven lucrative for illegal aliens in Los Angeles County, at considerable cost to our own poor and downtrodden legal citizenry.
The numbers show that more than $50 million in CalWORKS benefits and food stamps for January went to children born in the United States whose parents are in the country without documentation. This represents approximately 23 percent of the total benefits under the state welfare and food stamp programs, Antonovich said.
"When you add this to $350 million for public safety and nearly $500 million for health care, the total cost for illegal immigrants to county taxpayers far exceeds $1 billion a year -- not including the millions of dollars for education," Antonovich said.
I love children and I'm all for compassion -- smart, teach-them-to-fish compassion. But when laws, the Constitution, and enforcement allow illegal aliens (the operative word here being "illegal") to insinuate themselves into our nation and bleed us of our precious financial resources, then laws, the Constitution and enforcement need to be changed.
Noting that McCain has attempted to distance himself from the comprehensive immigration reform bill he co-sponsored with Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy, Malkin said the appointment of Hernandez “tells me that John McCain is as weak on border security now as he ever was.”
Lou Dobbs
Tonight Tuesday July 8, 2008
Sens. McCain and Obama are fiercely courting the Latino
vote. Last month they spoke to the National Association of Latino Elected and
Appointed Officials; today it’s the League of United Latin American Citizens’
national convention; and this weekend they’re set to address the National Council of La Raza, one
of the most radical socioethnocentric interest groups in the country.
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INTRODUCTION TO MEXICAN LA RAZA FASCISM – THE FASTEST
GROWING POLITICAL PARTY in AMERICA WHICH IS FUNDED WITH TAX DOLLARS BY BARACK
OBAMA.
FIFTEEN THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
LA RAZA “THE RACE”
by Michelle Malkin
Only in America could critics of a
group called "The Race" be labeled racists. Such is the triumph of
left-wing identity chauvinists, whose aggressive activists and supine abettors
have succeeded in redefining all opposition as "hate."
Both Barack Obama and John McCain will
speak this week in San Diego at the annual conference of the National Council
of La Raza, the Latino organization whose name is Spanish for, yes, "The
Race." Can you imagine Obama and McCain paying homage to a
group of white people who called themselves that? No matter. The presidential
candidates and the media have legitimized "The Race" as a mainstream
ethnic lobbying group and marginalized its critics as intolerant bigots. The
unvarnished truth is that the group is a radical ethnic nationalist outfit that
abuses your tax dollars and milks PC politics to undermine our sovereignty.
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Here are 15 things you should know about "The
Race":
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15. "The Race" supports driver's licenses for
illegal aliens.
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14."The Race" demands in-state tuition discounts
for illegal alien students that are not available to law-abiding U.S. citizens
and law-abiding legal immigrants.
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13. "The Race" vehemently opposes cooperative
immigration enforcement efforts between local, state and federal authorities.
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12. "The Race" opposes a secure fence on the
southern border.
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11. "The Race" joined the American-Arab
Anti-Discrimination Committee in a failed lawsuit attempt to prevent the feds
from entering immigration information into a key national crime database -- and
to prevent local police officers from accessing the data.
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10. "The Race" opposed the state of Oklahoma's
tough immigration-enforcement-first laws, which cut off welfare to illegal
aliens, put teeth in employer sanctions and strengthened local-federal
cooperation and information sharing.
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9. "The Race" joined other open-borders,
anti-assimilationists and sued to prevent Proposition 227, California's
bilingual education reform ballot initiative, from becoming law.
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8. "The Race" bitterly protested common-sense
voter ID provisions as an "absolute disgrace."
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7. "The Race" has consistently opposed post-9/11
national security measures at every turn.
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6. Former "Race" president Raul Yzaguirre, Hillary
Clinton's Hispanic outreach adviser, said this: "U.S. English is to
Hispanics as the Ku Klux Klan is to blacks." He was referring to U.S.
English, the nation's oldest, largest citizens' action group dedicated to
preserving the unifying role of the English language in the United States.
"The Race" also pioneered Orwellian open-borders Newspeak and advised
the Mexican government on how to lobby for illegal alien amnesty while avoiding
the terms "illegal" and "amnesty."
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5. "The Race" gives mainstream cover to a
poisonous subset of ideological satellites, led by Movimiento Estudiantil
Chicano de Aztlan, or Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan (MEChA). The late GOP
Rep. Charlie Norwood rightly characterized the organization as "a radical
racist group … one of the most anti-American groups in the country, which has
permeated U.S. campuses since the 1960s, and continues its push to carve a
racist nation out of the American West."
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4. "The Race" is currently leading a smear
campaign against staunch immigration enforcement leaders and has called for TV
and cable news networks to keep immigration enforcement proponents off the
airwaves -- in addition to pushing for Fairness Doctrine policies to shut up
their foes. The New York Times reported that current "Race" president
Janet Murguia believes "hate speech" should "not be tolerated,
even if such censorship were a violation of First Amendment rights."
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3. "The Race" sponsors militant ethnic nationalist
charter schools subsidized by your public tax dollars (at least $8 million in
federal education grants). The schools include Aztlan Academy in Tucson, Ariz.,
the Mexicayotl Academy in Nogales, Ariz., Academia Cesar Chavez Charter School
in St. Paul, Minn., and La Academia Semillas del Pueblo in Los Angeles, whose
principal inveighed: "We don't want to drink from a White water fountain,
we have our own wells and our natural reservoirs and our way of collecting rain
in our aqueducts. We don't need a White water fountain … ultimately the White
way, the American way, the neo liberal, capitalist way of life will eventually
lead to our own destruction."
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2. "The Race" has perfected the art of the PC
shakedown at taxpayer expense, pushing relentlessly to lower home loan
standards for Hispanic borrowers, reaping millions in federal "mortgage
counseling" grants, seeking special multimillion-dollar earmarks and
partnering with banks that do business with illegal aliens.
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1. "The Race" thrives on ethnic supremacy -- and
the elite sheeple's unwillingness to call it what it is. As historian Victor
Davis Hanson observes: "[The] organization's very nomenclature 'The
National Council of La Raza' is hate speech to the core. Despite all the
contortions of the group, Raza (as its Latin cognate suggests) reflects the
meaning of 'race' in Spanish, not 'the people' -- and that's precisely why we
don't hear of something like 'The National Council of the People,' which would
not confer the buzz notion of ethnic, racial and tribal chauvinism."
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The fringe is the center. The center is the fringe. Viva La
Raza.
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“Wherever there’s a
Mexican, there is Mexico!”... President Calderone. As an American living under
Spanish speaking Mexican occupation, I would add to this “Where there’s a
Mexican, there’s a violent Mexican gang!”
Jose Pescador Osuna, Mexican Consul General We are
practicing "La Reconquista" in California."
IN CALIFORNIA THE
JOBS ALL GO TO ILLEGALS!
Meanwhile, increased levels of poverty put many in the city’s
working class at risk of joining the existing homeless population. The official
unemployment rate in San Diego remains at 8.1 percent, well above the national
rate of 7.6.
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LA RAZA FASCISM and the DEMOCRAT PARTY – PARTNERS IN BUILDING THE
LA RAZA SUPREMACY WELFARE STATE IN CALIFORNIA.
LA RAZA NOW CONTROLS THE STATE LEGISLATURE AND PASSES LAW AFTER LAW
BENEFITING MEXICANS ONLY.
• Mexican American Legal Defense Fund
founder Mario Obledo stated, “California is going to be a Hispanic state.
Anyone who doesn't like it should leave. Every constitutional office in
California is going to be held by Hispanics in the next 20 years.” People who don't like such demographic changes
“should go back to Europe.” (Incidentally,
Mr. Obledo was also the California Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
under Gov. Jerry Brown.)
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THE STATE PUTS OUT $22 BILLION IN
SOCIAL SERVICES WITH NO TALK OF CURTAILING LA RAZA’S LOOTING.
COUNTIES LIKE LOS ANGELES, WITH
RACIST LA RAZA SUPREMACIST GLORIA MOLINA ON THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, HANDS OUT
$600 MILLION IN WELFARE TO ILLEGALS, PRIMARILY ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS.
THERE ARE ONLY EIGHT STATES WITH A
POPULATION GREATER THAN LOS ANGELES COUNTY WHERE 93% OF ALL SERVICE AND CONSTRUCTION JOBS GO
TO ILLEGALS USING STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS. THIS SAME COUNTY HAS A TAX
FREE MEXICAN UNDERGROUND ECONOMY CALCULATED TO BE IN EXCESS OF $2 BILLION PER
YEAR.
THE LA RAZA-CONTROLLED STATE
LEGISLATURE PASSED A LAW MAKING IT ILLEGAL FOR EMPLOYERS TO USE E-VERIFY.
ILLEGALS COST PRIVATE ENTERPRISE
HOSPITALS MORE THAN $1.4 BILLION PER YEAR FOR “FREE” MEXICAN EMERGENCY ROOM AND
HEALTHCARE. MEXICAN CONSULATES ABOUND THAT WALK MEXICANS TO “FREE” GRINGO
HEALTHCARE.
…MEANWHILE, ACCORDING TO CA
ATTORNEY GEN. KAMALA HARRIS, HERSELF A LA RAZA DEM FOR AMNESTY, NEARLY HALF OF
ALL MURDERS IN CA ARE BY MEXICAN GANGS.
LOS ANGELES IS THE MEXICAN DRUG
CARTEL’S GATEWAY TO THE AMERICAN WEST. ACCORDING TO THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
MONITOR, L.A. IS THE CAPITAL OF MEXICAN GANGS, WHICH MURDER BLACK AMERICANS
ROUTINELY TO CLEANSE THEIR HOODS.
VIVA LA RAZA SUPREMACY? CA IS WHAT
HAPPENED WHEN THE HIGHLY CORRUPT DEM PARTY SOLD OUT LEGALS FOR HORDES OF
MEXICANS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED FOR THEIR PAYMASTERS!
…AND THEN THE TAX BILLS FOR LA
RAZA’S LOOTING AND CRIME TIDAL WAVE HIT THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS.
WHO TAKES CARE OF AMERICANS? NOT
THE DEMS! THEY’VE JOINED THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN SERVICING WALL STREET AND THE
GOP HAS JOINED THE DEMS TO HISPANDER FOR THE ILLEGALS’ VOTES!
REP. DARREL ISSA, ONE OF CONGRESS’
BIGGEST WHITE COLLAR CRIMINALS, NOW JOINS OBAMA FOR OPEN BORDERS, NO E-VERIFY
AND MUCHO DREAM ACTS of WELFARE TO INDUCE MORE OF LA RAZA TO JUMP OUR BORDERS,
JOBS and VOTING BOOTHS.
LA RAZA FASCISM IN CALIFORNIA
THE
MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA IS THE FASTEST GROWING POLITICAL PARTY IN
AMERICA. IT IS FUNDED WITH TAX DOLLARS BY BARACK OBAMA, AND OPERATES OUT OF THE
OBAMA WHITE HOUSE UNDER LA RAZA SUPREMACIST CECILIA MUNOZ
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LA RAZA VOWS
TO TAKE OVER THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST… this notion is dated. LA RAZA has now
spread nationwide and the MEXICAN WELFARE state and crime tidal wave with it!
Our southern neighbor is not shy about expressing its
intention to conquer the American Southwest, which Mexico regards as territory
lost in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo in 1846. Mexican children are taught
in school that the United States stole that land, which they call “Aztlan.” Absurd rantings of political extremists? Consider…
• In 1997, then-President Zedillo proclaimed that “I have
proudly affirmed that the Mexican nation extends beyond the territory enclosed
by its borders. Our superior intellect and ambition will allow us to rule the
nation to the north.”
• Mexican American Legal Defense Fund
founder Mario Obledo stated, “California is going to be a Hispanic state.
Anyone who doesn't like it should leave. Every constitutional office in
California is going to be held by Hispanics in the next 20 years.” People who don't like such demographic changes
“should go back to Europe.” (Incidentally,
Mr. Obledo was also the California Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
under Gov. Jerry Brown.)
• Mexico's President Fox has been
unrelenting in his brazen demands on the United States, starting with open
borders even before he was elected. He has called for the border to be “a
joining line.” His
visits to the U.S. have been filled with endless requirements for Mexican
citizens illegally in this country — free food, free healthcare,
taxpayer-subsidized in-state tuition for illegals at state colleges and
universities, guestworker programs and amnesty for all. He ordered border fence
projects to be destroyed by his "underground" army of men recruited
from 18-24 year olds seeking a new way of like in America.
Propaganda distributed as far south as Mexico City declares
"The United States is our enemy. Take back our lands at all costs."
and advertise smuggling operations to gain access to Phoenix, Los Angeles,
Dallas and other large metroplexes where hispanics can blend in.
Encouraged by their leaders in both
countries, the 20 million Mexicans in America are similarly emboldened to
insist that the United States surrender to their demands, particularly amnesty
which will speed the acquisition of political power. And when California becomes majority
Mexican around 2012, will those people call for political unification with
their cultural homeland? Their leaders are planning for such a scenario. One
Mexican activist declared "bow down to the Mexican invasion or die. Simple
as that. Our sheer numbers will overwhelm you all"
It's hard to fathom how America's
elected Congressional leaders, those who swore to uphold the Constitution and
to protect the nation, are prepared to give it away for some perceived
short-term political gain, if that. The front man for globalist corporations who currently
occupies the White House is allowing Mexico City to dictate America's immigration
policy, while few in his party object. Does anyone think that Vicente Fox cares
about what happens to America? He sees the United States as a full
refrigerator and he is hungry, very hungry.
THE ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS ANCHORING
MEXICO’S OCCUPATION and EXPANDING THE LA RAZA WELFARE STATE NATIONWIDE
Why do American public officials value so
little what thousands have fought and died to protect? A foreign power has
stated its plans to conquer this nation by demographic warfare, but in
Washington, apparently no one cares. One
wonders what Secretary of State Colin Powell thinks about surrending American
sovereignty to a foreign power. He was a general in the U.S. Army and Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs, after all. Doesn't it bother him to be following the
wishes of a foreign leader? Why does the most powerful nation in the world
cower before the third-world country to the south? Because they grew soft and
want "civil rights" and open borders.
Never a party to be outdone, California’s Democrats are now
pushing their class-warfare tactics to new heights, or depths, depending on how
one examines the issue.
Now in control of every level of state government, they
manifest an abject reluctance to address (let alone acknowledge) their
financial negligence. The governor deflects rumors that he will resign, and
Assembly Speaker Herb Wesson trots around the state campaigning for increased
taxes, seeking a vindication of reality only he can understand.
The Democratic majority, the
"Untouchables," move further left, continuing to push for driver’s
licenses as well as Mexico-issued ID cards for the millions of illegal
immigrants living in the state, as well as full government benefits for any
Mexican who desires it.
Late-night comedy shows consistently find material from the
crazy legislation and knucklehead ideas that surface out of Sacramento and
become law. We tend to examine what each of the parties does on a partisan
basis, without any real discussion of who the individual legislators are, what
they believe or what they say. In fact, very few people in California can even
name their assembly person or state senator.
This piece examines what several very powerful California
politicians have revealed in their own words, perhaps divulging where ultimate
loyalties reside, using words many would consider incendiary and racist. If one
definition of loyalty is "faithful in allegiance to one’s lawful
government," then we may have some real problems on our hands.
The outward appearance of California Democrats actually performing
the job they raised their right hand and swore to do is both a myth and a
strategy.
The myth is that they are looking
out for the public’s best interest. The strategy is to thrust new taxes upon the public to
pay for services for illegal immigrants, knowing the "brotherhood of
silence" in the press has rubber-stamped a Hispanics-as-victims script
that trumps neutral pursuit of facts. Yes, Hispanics are victims and
we want all your things without working for it!
If this party had even a modicum of concern for both the
financial and security interests of California, it would engage in an honest
and open debate about the costs and sustainable assimilation of immigrants,
most of whom are decent people, balanced against the overwhelming burdens on
strapped taxpayers, enforcement of immigration law, and the legitimate threats
posed by porous borders. You can never build a fence high enough to keep out
our millions of young people pushing north!
Pictures From Below the Surface
The following quotes show these Democrats' true feelings.
LA RAZA MEXICAN FASCISM IN CALIFORNIA
– A LA RAZA OCCUPIED WELFARE STATE WHERE NO LEGAL NEED APPLY!
Art Torres, California Democratic
Party chairman, at the Latino Summit Response to Prop 187 at U.C. Riverside
(Jan. 14, 1995):
"Power is not given to you,
you have to take it! People say to me when I was on the Senate floor, when I
was in the Senate, why do you fight so hard for affirmative action programs.
And I tell my white colleagues: because you're gonna need them. Remember, 187 is the last
gasp of white America. Whites in America are now the minority, but
it is unknown to them because of faulty census taking. You need to watch your
back."
(DESPITE THE DISASTER HE LEFT MEX
GANG-INFESTED LOS ANGELES, VILLARAIGOSA IS EXPECTED TO RUN FOR GOVERNORSHIP AND
BE ELECTED BY ILLEGALS. HALF THE POPULATION OF CA IS NOW HISPANIC –
VILLARAIGOSA IS A MEMBER OF THE ULTRA SUPREMACIST FASCIST MOVEMENT OF
M.E.Ch.A., WHICH DID NOT PRECLUDE HIM FROM BEING OBAMA’S CO-CHAIR FOR
REELELECTION!
“the will of the people is null and void.”
THE HEART OF ALL FASCISM IS THAT THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE IS NULL AND VOID. FOR
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY, ONLY THE WILL OF LA RAZA MATTERS. NOT ONE AMERICAN (LEGAL)
VOTED FOR AMNESTY, TO BE LOOTED BY MEXICO, OR HAND OVER BILLIONS FOR MEXICO’S
WELFARE STATE IN OUR BORDERS!
Antonio Villaraigosa, former speaker of the California State
Assembly and present Los Angeles City Council member-elect, discussing Prop 187
with a KABC-TV, Los Angeles reporter (July 29, 1999):
Reporter: "What happens to the will of the
people?"
Villaraigosa: "Well, the will of the people is
something all of us have to respect, but when the will of the people is
unconstitutional, the will of the people is null and void. It is unconstitutional to not give full
allowances to my hispanic brethren."
Mario Obledo, former California secretary of health and
welfare and co-founder of Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
(MALDEF), interviewed on radio station KIEV, Los Angeles (June 17, 1998):
"We're going to take over all the
political institutions of California. California is going to be a Hispanic
state and anyone who doesn't like it should leave. If they [Anglos] don't like
Mexicans, they ought to go back to Europe. Whites go home! Mexicans now rule
here!"
OBAMA’S OTHER LA RAZA MAN IN LOS ANGELES IS
LA RAZA SUPREMACIST REP. XAVIER BECERRA, ELECTED BY ILLEGALS. HE PROMISD OBAMA
THE LA RAZA VOTE – see bottom
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Gloria
Molina, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, speaking at the 1997 Southwest
Voter Registration Education Project:
"We
demand to be counted. And what we know as well is that the big giant that they
keep talking about is awakening. And he's pretty angry about what's going on.
Ya basta! [Enough!] This community is no longer going to stand for it. … And
our vote is going to be important. But I gotta tell you that a lot of people
are saying, 'I'm going to go out there and vote because I want to pay them
back. I want revenge for what was taken from my forefathers. California is ours
again.'"
Pay who back?
(FABIAN
NUNEZ’ SON IS A MEXICAN GANG MEMBER WHO MURDERED A PERSON AND WENT TO PRISON.
FORMER GOV SCHWARZENEGGER PARDONED HIM, BUT THE COURTS LATER REVERSED THIS
CORRUPTION. ACCORDING TO CA ATTORNEY GEN. KAMALA HARRIS, NEARLY HALF OF ALL
MURDERS IN CA ARE NOW BY MEXICAN GANGS!)
MEXICAN FASCISM: “ We need
to shut down white political agendas and bring our own latin agenda into
being.”
Fabian Nunez, California assemblyman, at the Latino Summit
Response to Prop 187 at U.C. Riverside (Jan. 14, 1995):
"Each of you, get ten people to go with us on that
march in Washington, D.C., and I guarantee you just as we mobilized 150,000 to
the streets of Los Angeles on October 16, we will mobilize 1 million people and
bring Washington to a standstill, and those rednecks that are out there making
decisions for the betterment of their communities will think twice before they
push forward anti- immigrant legislation against our community. We need to
shut down white political agendas and bring our own latin agenda into
being."
State Sen. Nell Soto, D-Ontario, June 25, 2003, San
Bernardino Town Hall meeting to discuss SB60, the bill that would grant
driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, responding to critics who say the
legislation promotes illegal immigration:
"Guess what?" Soto said. "The immigrants are
already here. I welcome them. I hope they keep coming. They are my brothers and
sisters. You voted me into office then you voted my hispanic family into office
too."
Do any of these quotes strike anyone as marginally racist or
irresponsible?
'Since We Stole It, Let Them Steal It Back'
On June 17, I watched an incredible
exchange during the legislative hearing over the Matricula Consular card
(SB522) introduced by Manny Diaz, D-San Jose. The bill would require every
state public officer or employee to accept, for identification purposes, the
card as equivalent to a California driver’s license or ID card issued by the DMV.
( THESE PHONY “MATRICULA CONSULAR” CARDS
ARE HANDED OUT BY MEX CONSULATES – HEADQUARTERS FOR LA RAZA FASCIST, LIKE
GROCERY STORE COUPONS. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO LEGITIMACY TO THEM!)
Statements in favor included MALDEF, La Raza, the League of
California Cities, the City of Los Angeles, and The Friends Committee on
Legislation.
When the speaker stated "Opposition to the Bill?"
a clearly audible "Oh God, same white jerks" could be heard by all.
Statements opposed included several law enforcement and police
organizations and the Federation of Americans for Immigration Reform (FAIR).
Yeh Ling-Ling, the executive director of the Diversity Alliance for a
Sustainable America (DASA), stated:
"It frightens me to see that our government is
accepting ID cards issued by foreign governments. For example, in the land of
my ancestry, China, the level of fraudulent documents is very high. Let’s say
from the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, where I lived, with money you can buy
basically anything. Including documents. Yes, for just $10 USD you can get a fraudulent Mexican ID
card but who cares? Would you be able to tell us apart anyways? I
could give my ID card to my son, father, cousin, uncles, neighbors. And you
would not tell us apart! VIVA!
"After the bombings [Sept.
11], I urged Congress to protect our borders. Very few congressional members
listened. After the bombings, where thousands of people died, people were
saying, it was unthinkable. Please, think of the list of what Mexico has been
trying to do. What Mexican-American leaders, what many of them, have said. Mario Obledo
said in 1998, quote, ‘eventually we are going to take over all the political
institutions of California. You will not close the borders of Mexico and the
USA. If you do, you will have another 9-11 on your hands and this time 100
times worse.’
"They said publicly that they are going to use
immigration to control the Southwest, retake the Southwest, and eventually,
take over the entire U.S. So please listen to those statements carefully."
Interruption by State Sen. John Vasconcellos, D-San Jose
(SAN JOSE IS A MEX GANG INFESTED CITY): "Since we stole it from them, why
do you say it’s unfair to steal it back from us? This was my grandfather's land
and now it is my land. My people are welcome here."
Yeh Ling-Ling: "I’m sorry?"
Vasconcellos: "We stole it from them in the first
place."
Yeh Ling-Ling: "Exactly what do you want to have
happen?"
Vasconcellos: "I found your testimony (shaking his
head, putting his glasses down) … I don’t want to debate you."
Yeh Ling-Ling: (with a questioning look)
"Exactly?"
Vasconcellos: "I don’t want to debate you. I’ve
listened to what you’ve had to say, period. No more conversation. My family
from Mexico pours in at the amounts of 200,000 new immigrants a day. This is
unstoppable and unfathomable to you."
Since nobody in the chamber voiced any objection to
Vasconcellos’ remarks, the reasonable inference is, yes, the Left is moving
even further left, and American legislators like Vasconcellos believe that
since Mexico was stolen by the U.S., there really isn’t anything to debate.
It should be noted as well that Ling-Ling has been
confronted by other California Democrats while delivering similar testimony.
Recently, during a hearing on SB60 (driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants),
Sen. Nell Soto castigated Ling-Ling in a manner similar to Vasconcellos’,
stating that her remarks were "blatantly racist," had no place at a
legislative hearing and "really insulted the intelligence of some of us here."
Ling-Ling, whose group is based in Oakland, responded from
the audience: "They were quotes, OK, from Mexican-American leaders."
What could Soto say? It was an embarrassing moment for SB60
backers.
We All Need to Remember Our History
There are as many arguments that promote integration and
assimilation as promote separatism. What we need to be well aware of is the
history nobody can deny. In a nutshell, and not to oversimplify:
1821: Spain accepts Mexican independence.
1836: Texas breaks free of Mexican rule. White people are
slaughtered by the thousands around San Antonio.
1846-48: Mexico loses much of its territory in the
Mexican-American War. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo signed.
1867: American Union Army assists Mexico’s Benito Juarez, a
democratic reformer, removes France from Mexico.
1910: Mexican Revolution.
1914: U.S. Marines enter Veracruz. Marines list Mexicans as
the "#1 threat to our security"
1916: U.S. chases Pancho Villa out of New Mexico, thru El
Paso.
1938: Mexico nationalizes PEMEX. Cardenas and Roosevelt sign
Good Neighbor Policy. Mexico gets a handout of 200 million dollars in a peace
treaty
1960s: Tourism industry thrives, Mexican nationalism rises.
Mexico earns 500 billion a year in white tourism
1971: U.S. imposes 10 percent tariff on all imports, hurting
Mexico, which sends almost 70 percent of its exports to the U.S. Riots ensue.
Illegal imports become the norm.
1980s: Mexico supports nationalist movements in Nicaragua
and El Salvador. U.S. drug war creates mutual tensions. Mexico begins a huge
drug trafficking and trade. Gangs begin to form.
1995: Devastating Mexican peso devaluation. Mexican money
now worth 1/1000 it used to be. Corruption ensues.
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THE
LA RAZA WELFARE STATE MEXICO AND THE DEMS BUILT IN MEXIFORNIA (formerly the
American state of California)
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WILL OBAMA
SPREAD LA RAZA SUPREMACY TO ALL 49 OTHER STATES?
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.
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."
*California spending annually $22 billion to support illegals
Going To the Top!
By Susan Tully
I've been at the immigration reform and enforcement table for about 20 years. I've worked with activists during all those years. But last week, in Los Angeles, I had a first-time-ever experience at an activist brain storming session.
Gathered for an update on Stop AB131, the petition drive to gather signatures to force a ballot initiative as to whether the California taxpayers should fund college grants to illegal aliens, I asked the top activist leaders from Southern California how the signature drive was going.
They started updating me with the positive response from California residents who signed the petitions, but then admitted about 500,000 more signatures were still needed. When I said there was only a little more than three weeks to go to meet the January 5th deadline, suddenly their faces dropped at once, and the room went completely silent.
It was easy to read on each of their faces; the task was nearly impossible! Without big money to pay signature gatherers or a tsunami of petitions flooding in, the taxpayers of California will be forced to give grant money to illegal aliens for college, on top of the $22 billion they are spending annually in California to support the illegal alien population.
While all of our minds were racing and searching for suggestions as to how to accomplish this daunting task of gathering signatures, Lupe Moreno, long time Hispanic leader from Santa Ana, said "Can we have a prayer?" Everyone agreed to pray.
As the prayer went around the table, people expressed their sorrow for the lack of leadership in the State of California and in the nation to protect the interest of American citizens, and asked for divine guidance in helping them understand the harm their policies are inflicting on millions of innocent people in the state. In all the years I have worked on this issue, I had not witnessed the sort of sincere emotion that was expressed in that room.
(THE FASTEST GROWING POLITICAL PARTY IN AMERICA IS THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA! AND WE ARE FORCED TO FUND IT!)
You see, the politicians in California are happy to give money the state doesn't have to illegal aliens to attend college, while they cut the budgets and slash programs for public safety, right and left. The American citizen's interests and safety are simply collateral damage for seeking and appealing to the illegal alien lobby.
These activists in California have already learned what the rest of the nation is about to learn. We the people. . . are the only ones looking out for the best interest of American citizens. With few exceptions, we have no national leadership on the issue of stopping the illegal migration flow into our nation.
American citizenship or the benefits thereof have become a commodity for politicians to pander and barter away. They will grant de facto citizenship through sanctuary policies, in-state tuition, non-compliance with Secure Communities, grants for college, etc., etc., etc. President Obama and most the Republican presidential hopefuls are peddling various versions of amnesty proposals if they are elected next year.
What do these politicians want in return? They are hoping to leverage enough votes in key states to put them over the top in 2012, no matter what it costs the American people. This is futures betting: The politicians are gambling the nation's future in hopes of winning the next election.
So while the state can't afford to pay its bills or provide decent services to citizens, these California activists watch their elected leaders lavish still more benefits for people who don't have a legal right to be in the country. And while their child might have to pay out-of-state tuition to go to college in another state, thousands of illegal aliens are going to college at in-state tuition rates in California that they are subsidizing.
In addition they know that millions of other illegal alien parents are receiving food stamps, Medicaid, housing assistance and dozens of other state and local benefits for their American-born children, while they have to decide which bills will be paid this month and which will have to wait.
It's not hard to understand why the activist of California need all the help they can get. Please go to www.stopAB131.com and lend a hand to our friends and family and the people of California to do what needs to be done for the good of our children first.
OBAMA’S WAR ON
AMERICAN, OUR LAWS, BORDERS AND CULTURE AS HE HISPANDERS FOR THE ILLEGALS’
VOTES.
WHAT COULD BE
MORE DANGEROUS TO THIS NATION THAN MEXICO VOTING IN OUR BORDERS TO EXPAND THE
LA RAZA SUPREMACY WELFARE STATE???
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DECKER: Obama threatened by GOP governors
Better way
forward shown by Republican reform in the states
The Washington Times
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
The 2012 presidential election is a clash of ideologies. In this
battle between big-government liberalism and market-based conservatism, the
leftist media frequently criticizes Republican initiatives as risky and
untried. Nothing could be further from the truth. Across the nation, there are
conservative governors who have used statehouses as laboratories of democracy
to successfully enact cutting-edge reform.
The Obama administration is soft on border
protection and resisting state efforts to fight voter fraud because to win, Democrats
need to maximize the number of recent immigrants -- including illegal aliens --
participating in elections.
The Obama administration is soft on border
protection and resisting state efforts to fight voter fraud because to win,
Democrats need to maximize the number of recent immigrants -- including illegal
aliens -- participating in elections.
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LA RAZA SUPREMACIST BECERRA TO HISPANDERING OBAMA: I’ll
deliver the LA RAZA vote.
Here’s Becerra’s quote from the
same article in Congressional Quarterly:
But the wound was exacerbated earlier this
week when Rep. Becerra, one of Obama’s most prominent Hispanic supporters, told
Politico that he advised the Obama campaign that he could wrap up Hispanic
backing by saying “Just give him to me for a week, and I will deliver the
Latino vote” WHAT THE LA RAZA SUPREMACIST DID NOT SAY WAS THAT MEANS THE
ILLEGALS’ VOTES!
Congressman
Derided for Laughing at Suggestion to Recite the Pledge of Allegiance
A
Republican candidate for Congress in California is calling on U.S. Rep. Xavier
Becerra to "clarify his reaction" after the Democrat was caught on a
YouTube video laughing at a suggestion that the Pledge of Allegiance be recited
prior to a union meeting in Los Angeles.
If
the Pledge of Allegiance is a laughing matter, then the joke may be on a
California congressman.
A
Republican candidate for Congress in California is calling on U.S. Rep. Xavier
Becerra to "clarify his reaction" after the Democrat was caught on a
YouTube video laughing at a suggestion that the Pledge of Allegiance be recited
prior to a union meeting in Los Angeles.
The 46-second
video was captured
by an unidentified staffer who accompanied candidate Ari David to a Service
Employees International Union meeting on Saturday. By early Tuesday, the
video had been viewed roughly 10,000 times.
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“The principal beneficiaries of our current
immigration policy are affluent Americans who hire immigrants at substandard
wages for low-end work. Harvard economist George Borjas estimates that American
workers lose $190 billion annually in depressed wages caused by the constant
flooding of the labor market at the low-wage end.” Christian Science Monitor
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Slow path to progress
for U.S. immigrants
43% on welfare after 20 years
Immigrants lag behind native-born
Americans on most measures of economic well-being — even those who have been in
the U.S. the longest, according to a report from the Center for Immigration Studies,
which argues that full assimilation is a more complex task than overcoming
language or cultural differences.
The study, which covers all
immigrants, legal and illegal, and their U.S.-born children younger than 18,
found that immigrants tend to make economic progress by most measures the
longer they live in the U.S. but lag well behind native-born Americans on
factors such as poverty, health insurance coverage and homeownership.
The study, based on 2010 and 2011
census data, found that 43 percent of immigrants who have been in the U.S. at
least 20 years were using welfare benefits, a rate that is nearly twice as high
as native-born Americans and nearly 50 percent higher than recent immigrants.
But most politicians want legal
immigration expanded.
During his time in
the U.S. Senate, Barack Obama backed bills that would have dramatically boosted legal
immigration, potentially by hundreds of thousands a year. As president, he has
called for the same thing.
“We need to provide our farms a
legal way to hire workers that they rely on, and a path for those workers to
earn legal status. And our laws should respect families following the rules —
reuniting them more quickly instead of splitting them apart,” Mr. Obama said
in a major speech on the subject in El Paso, Texas, in 2011.
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HERE’S WHAT LA RAZA
FEINSTEIN’S FARM WORKERS COST CA:
The
Feinstein-Boxer LA RAZA Welfare State: (you're paying for it stupid gringo!)
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George Borjas, a Harvard University
professor, has argued that second-generation Americans — the children of
today’s immigrants — will fall behind in wages by about 10 percent by 2030.
IT’S
ALL ABOUT KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED AND PASSING ALONG THE STAGGERING COST OF
MEXICO’S OCCUPATION TO THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS.
DURING
OBAMA’S FIRST TERM HIS DOJ SUED FOUR AMERICAN STATES ON BEHALF OF HIS LA RAZA
SUPREMACY AGENDA AND THIS INCLUDED HIS ATTEMPT TO SABOTAGE E-VERIFY.
WORKPLACE
ENFORCEMENT OF LAWS PROHIBITING THE EMPLOYMENT OF ILLEGALS PLUMMETED 70% AND
ARE EXPECTED TO BE NON-EXISTENT AFTER LA RAZA REELECTED OBAMA.
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BOOK: Mexifornia: SHATTERING OF AN
AMERICAN DREAM (illegals call it their DREAM ACT)
JUDICIAL WATCH
SANCTUARY
COUNTY LOS ANGELES SPENDS $600 MILLION ON WELFARE FOR ILLEGALS
County Spends $600 Mil On Welfare For Illegal
Immigrants
Last Updated: Thu, 03/11/2010 - 3:14pm
For the second consecutive year taxpayers in
a single U.S. county will dish out more than half a billion dollars just to
cover the welfare and food-stamp costs of illegal immigrants.
Los Angeles County, the nation’s most
populous, may be in the midst of a dire financial crisis but somehow there are
plenty of funds for illegal aliens. In January alone, anchor babies born to the
county’s illegal immigrants collected more than $50
million in welfare benefits. At that rate the cash-strapped county will pay
around $600 million this year to provide illegal aliens’ offspring with food
stamps and other welfare perks.
The exorbitant figure, revealed this week by
a county supervisor, doesn’t even include the enormous cost of educating,
medically treating or incarcerating illegal aliens in the sprawling county of
about 10 million residents. Los Angeles County annually spends more than $1
billion for those combined services, including $500 million for healthcare and
$350 million for public safety.
About a quarter of the county’s welfare and
food stamp issuances go to parents who reside in the United States illegally
and collect benefits for their anchor babies, according to the figures from the
county’s Department of Social Services. In 2009 the tab ran $570 million and
this year’s figure is expected to increase by several million dollars.
Illegal immigration continues to have a “catastrophic
impact on Los Angeles County taxpayers,” the veteran county supervisor
(Michael Antonovich) who revealed the information has said. The former
fifth-grade history teacher has repeatedly come under fire from his liberal
counterparts for publicizing statistics that confirm the devastation illegal
immigration has had on the region. Antonovich, who has served on the board for
nearly three decades, represents a portion of the county that is roughly twice
the size of Rhode Island and has about 2 million residents.
His district is simply a snippet of a larger
crisis. Nationwide, Americans pay around $22 billion annually to provide
illegal immigrants with welfare benefits that include food assistance programs
such as free school lunches in public schools, food stamps and a nutritional
program (known as WIC) for
low-income women and their children. Tens of billions more are spent on other
social services, medical care, public education and legal costs such as
incarceration and public defenders.
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THE BREEDERS – MEXICO “ANCHORS” THEIR OCCUPATION AND EXPANDS THE LA
RAZA WELFARE STATE BY BREEDING IT AT OUR COST!
NEXT TO DRUGS AND CRIMINALS, MEXICO’S BIGGEST EXPORTS IS PREGNANT
WOMEN!
“Through love of having children, we are going
to take over.” AUGUSTIN CEBADA,
BROWN BERETS, THE LA RAZA FASCIST PARTY
Anchor
Babies Grab One Quarter of Welfare Dollars in L.A. County
The anchor baby scam has proven lucrative for illegal aliens in Los Angeles County, at considerable cost to our own poor and downtrodden legal citizenry.
The numbers show that more than $50 million in CalWORKS benefits and food stamps for January went to children born in the United States whose parents are in the country without documentation. This represents approximately 23 percent of the total benefits under the state welfare and food stamp programs, Antonovich said.
"When you add this to $350 million for public safety and nearly $500 million for health care, the total cost for illegal immigrants to county taxpayers far exceeds $1 billion a year -- not including the millions of dollars for education," Antonovich said.
I love children and I'm all for compassion -- smart, teach-them-to-fish compassion. But when laws, the Constitution, and enforcement allow illegal aliens (the operative word here being "illegal") to insinuate themselves into our nation and bleed us of our precious financial resources, then laws, the Constitution and enforcement need to be changed.
ANCHOR BABIES BORN IN OUR BORDERS ARE STILL CITIZENS OF MEXICO!
"Remember 187 -- the Proposition to deny taxpayer funds for services to
non-citizens -- was the last gasp of white America in California."
---Art Torres, Chairman of the California Democratic Party
"Remember 187 -- the Proposition to deny taxpayer funds for services to
non-citizens -- was the last gasp of white America in California."
---Art Torres, Chairman of the California Democratic Party
Anchor Baby
Power
MEXICO
ANCHORS THEIR LA RAZA WELFARE STATE and EXPAND THE MEX OCCUPATION
La Voz de Aztlan has produced a video in honor of the millions of babies
that have been born as US citizens to Mexican undocumented parents. These
babies are destined to transform America. The nativist CNN reporter Lou Dobbs
estimates that there are over 200,000 "Anchor Babies" born every year
whereas George Putnam, a radio reporter, says the figure is closer to 300,000.
La Voz de Aztlan believes that the number is approximately 500,000 "Anchor
Babies" born every year.
The video below depicts the many faces of the "Anchor
Baby Generation". The video includes a fascinating segment showing a group
of elementary school children in Santa Ana, California confronting the
Minutemen vigilantes. The video ends with a now famous statement by Professor
Jose Angel Gutierrez of the University of Texas at Austin.
http://www.aztlan.net/anchor_baby_power.htm
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http://www.aztlan.net/anchor_baby_power.htm
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JUDICIAL WATCH.org
County’s Monthly Welfare Tab For Illegal
Aliens $52 Million
09/07/2010
As
the mainstream media focuses on a study that reveals a sharp decline in the
nation’s illegal immigrant population, monthly welfare payments to children of
undocumented aliens increased to $52 million in one U.S. county alone.
The
hoopla surrounding last week’s news that the annual flow of illegal immigrants
into the U.S. dropped by two-thirds in the past
decade overlooked an important matter; the cost of educating, incarcerating and
medically treating illegal aliens hasn’t decreased along with it, but rather
skyrocketed to the tune of tens of billions of dollars annually.
THIS FIGURE
DOES NOT INCLUDE EXTRA MILLIONS PAID FOR ANCHOR BABIES
Those
figures don’t even include the extra millions that local municipalities dish
out on welfare payments to the U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants,
commonly known as anchor babies. In Los Angeles County alone that figure
increased by nearly $4 million in the last year, sticking taxpayers with a
whopping $52
million tab to
provide illegal immigrants’ offspring with food stamps and other welfare
benefits for just one month.
That
means the nation’s most populous county, in the midst of a dire financial
crisis, will spend more than $600 million this year to provide families headed
by illegal immigrants with welfare benefits. In each of the past two years Los
Angeles County taxpayers have spent about half a billion dollars just to cover
the welfare and food-stamp costs of illegal immigrants. Additionally, the county spends $550 million on public safety and
nearly $500 million on healthcare for illegal aliens.
About
a quarter of the county’s welfare and food stamp issuances go to parents who
reside in the United States illegally and collect benefits for their anchor
babies, according to the figures from L.A. County’s Department of Social
Services. Nationwide, Americans pay around $22 billion annually to provide
illegal immigrants with welfare perks that include food assistance programs
such as free school lunches in public schools, food stamps and a nutritional
program (known as WIC) for low-income women and their children.
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ILLEGALS COST CALIFORNIA BILLIONS –
HOW “CHEAP” IS THE MEXICAN INVASION AND OCCUPATION.
ADD TO THIS THAT NEARLY HALF OF
ALL MURDERS IN CA ARE BY MEXICAN GANGS!
By Jerry
Seper
THE WASHINGTON
TIMES
Illegal immigration costs the taxpayers of California -- which has the
highest number of illegal aliens nationwide -- $10.5 billion a year for
education, health care and incarceration, according to a study released
yesterday. A key finding of the report by the Federation for American
Immigration Reform (FAIR) said the state's already struggling
kindergarten-through-12th-grade education system spends $7.7 billion a year on
children of illegal aliens, who constitute 15 percent of the student body. The
report also said the incarceration of convicted illegal aliens in state prisons
and jails and uncompensated medical outlays for health care provided to illegal
aliens each amounted to about $1.4 billion annually. The incarceration costs
did not include judicial expenditures or the monetary costs of the crimes
committed by illegal aliens that led to their incarceration. "California's
addiction to 'cheap' illegal-alien labor is bankrupting the state and posing
enormous burdens on the state's shrinking middle-class tax base," said
FAIR President Dan Stein. "Most Californians, who have seen their taxes
increase while public services deteriorate, already know the impact that mass
illegal immigration is having on their communities, but even they may be
shocked when they learn just how much of a drain illegal immigration has
become," he said. California is estimated to be home to
nearly 3 million illegal aliens. Mr. Stein noted that state and local taxes
paid by the unauthorized immigrant population go toward offsetting these costs,
but do not match expenses. The total of such payments was estimated in the
report to be about $1.6 billion per year. He also said the total cost of
illegal immigration to the state's taxpayers would be considerably higher if
other cost areas, such as special English instruction, school meal programs or
welfare benefits for American workers displaced by illegal-alien workers were
added into the equation. Gerardo Gonzalez, director of the National Latino
Research Center at California State at San Marcos, which compiles data on
Hispanics, was critical of FAIR's report yesterday. He said FAIR's estimates
did not measure some of the contributions that illegal aliens make to the
state's economy. "Beyond taxes, these workers' production and spending contribute
to California's economy, especially the agricultural sector," he said,
adding that both legal and illegal aliens are the "backbone" of the
state's $28 billion-a-year agricultural industry.
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HERE’S WHAT LA RAZA
FEINSTEIN’S FARM WORKERS COST CA:
The
Feinstein-Boxer LA RAZA Welfare State: (you're paying for it stupid gringo!)
*
In August, a similar study by the Center for
Immigration Studies in Washington, said U.S. households headed by illegal
aliens used $26.3 billion in government services during 2002, but paid $16
billion in taxes, an annual cost to taxpayers of $10 billion. The FAIR report
focused on three specific program areas because those were the costs examined
by researchers from the Urban Institute in 1994, Mr. Stein said. Looking at the
costs of education, health care and incarceration for illegal aliens in 1994,
the Urban Institute estimated that California was subsidizing illegal
immigrants at about $1.1 billion a year. Mr. Stein said an enormous rise in the
costs of illegal immigrants in 10 years is because of the rapid growth of the
illegal population. He said it is reasonable to expect those costs to continue
to soar if action is not taken to turn the tide. "1994 was the same year
that California voters rebelled and overwhelmingly passed Proposition 187,
which sought to limit liability for mass illegal immigration," he said.
"Since then, state and local governments have blatantly ignored the wishes
of the voters and continued to shell out publicly financed benefits on illegal
aliens. "Predictably, the costs of illegal immigration have grown
geometrically, while the state has spiraled into a fiscal crisis that has
brought it near bankruptcy," he said. Mr. Stein said that the state must
adopt measures to systematically collect information on illegal-alien use of
taxpayer-funded services and on where they are employed, and that policies need
to be pursued to hold employers financially accountable.
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From the Los Angeles Times
CAPITOL JOURNAL
Illegal immigrants are a factor in California's budget
math
George Skelton
Capitol Journal
February 2, 2009
From Sacramento — Based on my e-mail, a lot of folks think the solution to California's state budget deficit is to round up all the illegal immigrants and truck them down to Mexico.
Capitol Journal
February 2, 2009
From Sacramento — Based on my e-mail, a lot of folks think the solution to California's state budget deficit is to round up all the illegal immigrants and truck them down to Mexico.
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MEXICANOCCUPATION.blogspot.com
JOHN McCAIN AND HIS LA RAZA CONNECTION
THE FASTEST GROWING POLITICAL PARTY IN AMERICA IS LA RAZA
“THE RACE”, THE MEX FASCIST PARTY FOR MEX SUPREMACY AND EVER EXPANDING
OCCUPATION!
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LONG HISTORY OF HISPANDERING BY OBAMA & McCAIN
McCain, Obama to attend 'Open Borders' event endorsed by
Communist Party!
TRANSLATED FROM:
http://www.informador.com.mx/mexico/2008/20223/6/asistiran‑mccain‑y‑obama‑a‑congreso‑nacional‑latino‑en‑los‑angeles.htm
The two presidential candidates will discuss matters of
interest for the latin american community in this country.
The Angeles.‑ The two main presidential candidates,
Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama, will be the guests of honor
at the third Latin American National Congress, that will be carried out on July
18 and 19 in Los Angeles.
The organizers confirmed the participation of the two
politicians in the event, that will be performed in an exclusive hotel in
Downtown Los Angeles, where it is expected that more than 300 organizations of
20 cities will attend.
On the first day, McCain will be presented during lunch and
Obama at dinner. The two virtual presidential candidates will discuss matters
of interest for the latin american community in this country.
In the First National Latin American Congress of 2006, 70
resolutions on diverse issues were taken and 260 local and national
organizations assisted, in 2007 300 cities attended and 98 resolutions were
adopted.
Among the issues undertaken during both congresses were
educational reform, migration, public health, urban development and foreign
policy, among others.
The organizers advanced that they prepare an ambitious
agenda to promote the registration of millions of latin Americans as new voters
in order to continue growing like a political force that can influence the
elections next November.
The leader of Latin‑American Mexican Brotherhood and the
Mexican‑American Political Association (MAPA), Nativo López, indicated that the
young voters can make the difference in the electoral mobilization.
'In this electoral year we should move and act as a united
family and no one is left behind', indicated López, who considered that another
of the issues that will be emphasized in the debate will be driver's licenses
for ILLEGAL aliens.
Among the organizations that will attend the event are the
Willie C. Velásquez Institute, the League of Latin‑American United Citizens
(LULAC), the Mexican‑american Educational and Legal Defense Fund (MALDEF) and
the National Network of Day Laborers (NDLON).
As well as the Hispanic Federation, the Educational Project
of Registration of Voters of the Southwest (SVREP), the National Alliance of
Latin‑American and Caribbean Communities (NALACC) and the Hispanic National
Council on Environment (NHEC).
The Event will be on:
July 18th ‑ 19th 2008
The Westin Bonaventure in Los Angeles
& at the Sheraton Los Angeles Downtown
http://latinocongreso.org/
In the First National Latin American Congress of 2006, 70
resolutions on diverse issues were taken and 260 local and national
organizations assisted, in 2007 300 cities attended and 98 resolutions were
adopted.
Among the issues undertaken during both congresses were
educational reform, migration, public health, urban development and foreign
policy, among others.
The organizers advanced that they prepare an ambitious
agenda to promote the registration of millions of latin Americans as new voters
in order to continue growing like a political force that can influence the
elections next November.
The leader of Latin‑American Mexican Brotherhood and the
Mexican‑American Political Association (MAPA), Nativo López, indicated that the
young voters can make the difference in the electoral mobilization.
'In this electoral year we should move and act as a united
family and no one is left behind', indicated López, who considered that another
of the issues that will be emphasized in the debate will be driver's licenses
for ILLEGAL aliens.
Among the organizations that will attend the event are the
Willie C. Velásquez Institute, the League of Latin‑American United Citizens
(LULAC), the Mexican‑american Educational and Legal Defense Fund (MALDEF) and
the National Network of Day Laborers (NDLON).
As well as the Hispanic Federation, the Educational Project
of Registration of Voters of the Southwest (SVREP), the National Alliance of
Latin‑American and Caribbean Communities (NALACC) and the Hispanic National
Council on Environment (NHEC).
The Event will be on:
July 18th ‑ 19th 2008
The Westin Bonaventure in Los Angeles
& at the Sheraton Los Angeles Downtown
http://latinocongreso.org/
The National Latino Congreso is convened by the Hispanic
Federation (HF), the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA),
League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the Mexican American Legal
Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), the National Alliance of Latin American
and Caribbean Communities (NALACC), the National Day Labor Organizing Network
(NDLON), the National Hispanic Environmental Council (NHEC), Southwest Voter Registration
Education Project (SVREP), and the William C. Velasquez Institute (WCVI).
If you follow the link above and check out the endorsers
page, you will find the following endorsers:
2008 Organizational Endorsers (24)
* California Latinas for Reproductive Justice
* California Latino School Board Association
* Cesar Chavez Youth Leadership Conference‑Sierra College
* Cesar E. Chavez National Holiday
* Chicano Consortium
* Coalition Against Militarism in our Schools
* Committee to Close the School of the Americas
* Communist Party USA
* Drug Policy Alliance Network
* Fontana Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
* Hispanic Enpowerment Association of Roseville
* Int'l Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban 5
* L.A. Community Legal Center and Educational
* La Raza Lawyers Association of Sacramento
* La Raza Network
* Labor Council Latin America Advancement‑Sacramento Chapter
* LULAC Council #1111 ‑ Maricopa County, AZ
* LULAC‑Lorenzo Patino Council #2862
* Mexican‑American Political Assocaition ‑ San Diego County
* Palisadians for Peace
* Respect Respeto
* School of the Americas Watch
* SEIU Local‑DLC 765
* Sierra Club
2008 Elected Official Endorsers (4)
* The Honorable Victoria Baca, Trustee, Moreno Valley
Unified School District
* The Honorable Pablo Catano, Mayor Pro‑tem, City of
Hawthorne, CA
* The Honorable Steve Gallardo, State Representative ‑D13 ‑
House Minority Whip, State of Arizona
* The Honorable Paul Solano, Vice President, Bassett Unified
School District
2008 Individual Endorsers (12)
* Felipe Agredano
* Rene Aguilera
* Michael Cruz
* Tommy Escarcega
* Tommy Escarcega
* Fr. Richard Estrada,cmf
* Lydia Guzman
* Richard Lujan
* Hermelinda Martinez
* John Mireles
* Adrian Perez
* Miguel Perla
AMERICAN TAXPAYERS BEING FORCED TO SUPPORT LATINO
NAZI PARTY…your tax dollars at work???
THE
FUNDING OF LA RAZA FASCISM UNDER OBAMA HAS BEEN SIGNFICANTLY INCREASED. LA RAZA
NOW OPERATES FROM THE OBAMA WHITE HOUSE UNDER LA RAZA SUPREMACIST CECLIA MUNOZ.
In
2005, the Latino group known as La Raza (The Race) was given $15.2 million in
U.S. federal grants. La Raza also received an additional $4 million in
so-called 'earmarks' tucked into the 2005 Housing Bill, which our Congress
passed and President Bush signed. Considering the racist agenda of La Raza,
giving federal funds to this group is tantamount to the U.S. funding the Nazis
in the 1930's.
By Dave Gibson (09/17/2006)
In 2005, the
Latino group known as La Raza (The Race) was given $15.2 million in U.S.
federal grants. La Raza also received an additional $4 million in so-called
'earmarks' tucked into the 2005 Housing Bill, which our Congress passed and
President Bush signed. Considering the racist agenda of La Raza, giving federal
funds to this group is tantamount to the U.S. funding the Nazis in the 1930's. The comparison to the Nazi Party
is well deserved. La Raza openly supports pushing all but Latino Americans out
of a portion of the United States (ethnic cleansing), they call for
'Reconquista' or the re-conquest of the American Southwest by Mexico (the
re-occupation of the Sudetanland), and the establishment of 'Atzlan' which is
the utopian all-Latino version of the American Southwestern states (Adolf
Hitler planned to called his utopia Germania). Karl Rove was one of the keynote
speakers at this year's annual National Council of La Raza Conference. The
event was held in Los Angeles (the eventual capital of Atzlan). Other speakers
included Jesse Jackson, Bill Clinton, and the virulent racist L.A. Mayor
Antonio Villaraigosa. The fact that Karl Rove is the President's top political
adviser and addressed the group with Bush's blessing, is a strong indicator that
this nation is being subverted at the very highest levels. If La Raza was a
white supremacist group with equally deep pockets, the U.S. government would
place them on a terrorist watch list, infiltrate them with undercover FBI
agents, and subject them to constant harassment by the Internal Revenue
Service. Eventually, the group's leaders would be jailed and the group itself
would be rendered irrelevant. However, because La Raza is a Latino supremacist
group, the Bush administration and most of Congress offer them financial
support!
One of La Raza's biggest supporters
is Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV). In 2001, Reid asked the Senate Appropriations
Committee for $5 million to help further the racist goals of that organization.
That same year, La Raza gave Sen. Reid their Capital Award for "his
commitment to advance legislation priorities of the Latino community."
Reid in turn praised La Raza by saying: "La Raza is like the biblical
David, fighting all these Goliaths." Taxpayer funds are also funneled to
La Raza through the Department of Health and Human Services, The Environmental
Protection Agency, and even NASA. Tax dollars are hidden in these government
agencies, earmarked to be specifically given away to La Raza. Inside the halls
of Congress, the practice is known as discretionary funding...In the real world
it is known as money laundering! In 2005, $7.9 million was stolen from the
American taxpayers and given out to Latino-only charter schools in the form of
U.S. Department of Education grants. The following is a list of a few of those
schools: -La Academia Semillas del Pueblo (Los Angeles) -Atzlan Academy
(Tucson, AZ) -Mexicayotl Academy (Nogales, AZ) -The Dolores Huerta Prepatory
High School (Pueblo, CO) -Academia Cesar Chavez Charter School (St. Paul, MN)
These schools stress Latino culture, the Spanish language, the reconquest of
the American Southwest, ethnic cleansing and the establishment of the mythical
Atzlan, and even Aztec math!...Again, all taught on your dime! According to the
Capital Research Center, La Raza has assets well in excess of $50 million. This
same group reports that La Raza spends about $1 million annually on lobbying
and fundraising. Can you imagine a high-ranking member of the Roosevelt
administration making a trip to Berlin to show support for the Nazi Party? Or
perhaps the Congress appropriating money to the Ku Klux Klan? While those
scenarios both sound absurd, the support that our elected officials are giving
to the racist group known as La Raza is no different. One has to wonder, if the
KKK offered extremely cheap labor to unscrupulous American businesses and
potential votes to equally unscrupulous politicians...Would Congress fund
whites-only charter schools?
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HERE’S WHAT OBAMA AND McCAIN HAVE DONE TO THE BORDERS OF
ARAIZONA!!!
Using
a Mexican holiday, Cinco de Mayo, as a launching point, Mr. McCain's
presidential campaign announced a Spanish-language Web site
(www.johnmccain.com/ espanol), and said the senator from Arizona will speak to
this year's National Council of La Raza convention in San Diego in July to try
to court Hispanic voters. "I believe the majority of the Hispanics share our view that
the border must be secured, and the border must be
secured first. But they also want us to have an attitude, which I think most Americans
do, that these are God's children, and they must be taken care of, and the
issue must be addressed in a humane and compassionate fashion," Mr. McCain
told reporters at an Arizona news conference yesterday.
LA RAZA-OWNED JOHN “McAMNESTY” McCAIN
Article
published May 6, 2008
McCain
courts Hispanic voters
May
6, 2008 By Stephen Dinan
Sen. John McCain said yesterday
that Republicans have shed support among Hispanic voters because of the party's
get-tough approach to illegal immigration, but he predicted that his
enforcement-then- legalization approach will rebuild those bridges. Using a Mexican
holiday, Cinco de Mayo, as a launching point, Mr. McCain's presidential
campaign announced a Spanish-language Web site (www.johnmccain.com/ espanol),
and said the senator from Arizona will speak to this year's National Council of
La Raza convention in San Diego in July to try to court Hispanic voters.
"I believe the majority of the Hispanics share our view that the border
must be secured, and the border must be secured first. But they also want us to
have an attitude, which I think most Americans do, that these are God's
children, and they must be taken care of, and the issue must be addressed in a
humane and compassionate fashion," Mr. McCain told reporters at an Arizona
news conference yesterday. Hispanic support for President Bush in the
2004 election topped 40 percent by most estimates, but has fallen in the wake
of the congressional immigration debate. Now, nearly a year after the Senate
rejected the immigration legalization bill supported by Mr. McCain, Mr. Bush
and Democratic leaders, the issue is rising again, but a viable solution seems
no closer. House Democrats want a compromise that would allow more foreign
workers for farms, high-tech firms and seasonal businesses, but the
Congressional Hispanic Caucus has said it will oppose such a bill unless it
also allows for some form of legal status for current illegal immigrants.
Meanwhile, a vocal group of conservative Democrats and Republicans is demanding
an enforcement-only approach. Today, the House will hold a hearing on an
enforcement bill that would require employers to check a government database
known as the E-Verify system before they hire. That bill is sponsored by Rep.
Heath Shuler, a North Carolina Democrat who has broken with his party's general
stance on immigration, and is backed by House Republicans who are running a
petition drive to try to force a floor vote on the measure. Yesterday, U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Services announced it was adding new databases to
the E-Verify system to reduce false hits for naturalized citizens whose
work-authorization records aren't up-to-date. That should cut more than half of
false hits, agency officials said. Mr. McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential
nominee, has tried to straddle the line on immigration after his support for
legalizing illegal immigrants nearly cost him the nomination. In 2006 and 2007,
he was a chief backer, along with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts
Democrat, of a bill to legalize most illegal immigrants and to dramatically
boost immigration. Last year, that bill failed when a majority of senators
joined a filibuster to block it. Some opponents said the bill amounted to a
lenient "amnesty," while others called it too harsh. Mr. McCain said
the bill failed because voters didn't trust the government to handle the
security side. Since then, he has said his first priority would be to secure
the borders and require border state governors to certify that before turning his
attention to a legalization program for the country's illegal immigrants. The
Democratic National Committee said he will have to choose between enforcement
or legalization. The Democratic presidential candidates, Sen. Hillary Rodham
Clinton of New York and Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, have said they would
allow for legalization. "It's hard to know what someone's real vision for
our country is when they consistently take every side of the issues," said
DNC spokesman Luis Miranda. "John McCain cannot have it both ways. He
cannot pander to the right wing of his party by promising an enforcement-only
approach to immigration while telling Hispanics that he supports comprehensive
reform." Immigration advocates said an enforcement-first approach is still
too harsh. “LET’S LEGALIZE EVERYBODY!” "Anti-immigrant-light is no more
acceptable than anti-immigrant," said Eliseo Medina, international
executive vice president of the Service Employees International Union, who
added that the proper solution was to offer legal status across the board.
"Let's legalize everybody, and then let's figure out what we need to do to
ensure we have a legal program going forward." Mr. McCain has acknowledged
his close call with voters on this issue in the primaries. Asked whether he
feared voter backlash again in the general election, the senator said that's
out of his hands. “FUCK THE GRINGOS! I WORK FOR MY CORPORATE MASTERS, THE LA
RAZA DONORS THAT MUST HAVE CHEAP LABOR subsidized by the stupid gringos!”
"I don't know, but I can't worry about that," he said.
*
Friends of ALIPAC,
NEWSFLASH!
John McCain (202-224-2235) and his proxy operative SC Senator Lindsey Graham (202-224-5972) have returned to negotiations with the Obama administration on Amnesty for illegals!
Is there anyone on our lists who actually believed McCain's campaign promises to abandon his support for Amnesty in 2010? Many Arizona voters told us "he has changed" and they were wrong.
Many of you will recall that almost a year ago ALIPAC knocked Graham away from the negotiating table to buy the American public time for another election. The elections have passed and those of you betting on how long it would take for McCain and Graham to return to their efforts to pass Amnesty for illegal aliens can now settle your bets.
Article
Graham, McCain Return to Negotiating AMNESTY for Illegal Aliens!
http://www.alipac.us/article-6064-thread-1-0.html
*
NEWSFLASH!
John McCain (202-224-2235) and his proxy operative SC Senator Lindsey Graham (202-224-5972) have returned to negotiations with the Obama administration on Amnesty for illegals!
Is there anyone on our lists who actually believed McCain's campaign promises to abandon his support for Amnesty in 2010? Many Arizona voters told us "he has changed" and they were wrong.
Many of you will recall that almost a year ago ALIPAC knocked Graham away from the negotiating table to buy the American public time for another election. The elections have passed and those of you betting on how long it would take for McCain and Graham to return to their efforts to pass Amnesty for illegal aliens can now settle your bets.
Article
Graham, McCain Return to Negotiating AMNESTY for Illegal Aliens!
http://www.alipac.us/article-6064-thread-1-0.html
*
“To protect us in retirement, Social Security has never been more
important. But John McCain has
voted three times in favor of privatizing Social Security. McCain says, ‘I
campaigned in support of President Bush’s proposal.’ Cutting benefits in half.”
--- John McCain
*
From the Los Angeles
Times
John McCain accuses Barack Obama of
scuttling immigration overhaul
The Republican's effort
to court Latino voters is challenged by both sides of the issue.
By Nicole Gaouette
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
9:34 PM PDT, September 17, 2008
WASHINGTON — With the race for the White House grown tight, Republican presidential candidate John McCain has begun using the issue of immigration to try to dent Democrat Barack Obama's lead among Latino voters, who could prove decisive in the Southwest.
Polls have shown Obama leading McCain among Latino voters by margins of 2 to 1 or more. But immigration, an issue important to many Latinos, largely has been relegated to the back burner in the campaign.
The issue resurfaced this week as McCain issued a Spanish-language ad in the key states of Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico that sought to blame Obama for the failure of congressional immigration overhaul efforts in 2007. McCain repeated that argument at an appearance before a Puerto Rican group in Florida.
McCain's assertions were denounced by Democrats and immigration organizations as misleading. Immigration hard-liners, on the other hand, were perplexed by McCain's campaign tactic.
The 30-second ad, "Which Side Are They On?" opens with a narrator saying: "Obama and his congressional allies say they are on the side of immigrants. But are they?"
The ad goes on to cite media reports that the campaign said showed Obama supported provisions that doomed passage of the immigration bill. It finishes by asking, "Is that being on our side?"
Campaigning in Florida this week, McCain again accused Obama of helping scuttle immigration reform last year.
"Sen. Obama proposed amendments that would have killed the legislation," McCain said in Orlando, speaking Monday before the Puerto Rican Assn. of Central Florida. "I fought for it."
McCain cosponsored a failed immigration overhaul bill in 2006 with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.). Perhaps fearful of conservative anger over his immigration stance, McCain conspicuously avoided getting involved in talks on the 2007 bill.
Democrats and immigration groups also pointed out that in January, during the GOP presidential primary, McCain dramatically scaled back his support for immigration overhaul efforts.
"Enough is enough," Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) said in a statement about the ad. "The man who said he would vote against his own immigration bill during the Republican presidential debates, who was unwilling to stand up to his own party when they approved an anti-immigrant platform, cannot attack Democrats on immigration in Spanish while pandering to the extreme right . . . of the Republican Party in English."
Although 40% of Latino voters backed President Bush in 2004, a conservative Republican backlash against illegal immigration has hurt McCain, who has garnered only 20% to 30% of Latino support in recent polls.
Frank Sharry, executive director of America's Voice, a group that advocates for immigrant rights, called the ad "stunning in its misrepresentation."
Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which favors greater limits on immigration, noted that McCain had dropped his support for the overhaul bill he once sponsored.
"How can McCain say he no longer supports this legislation and then turn around and attack his opponent and say he undermined it?" Stein asked. "It's enough to make you cynical."
Both McCain and Obama voted in favor of the 2006 and 2007 immigration bills. If passed, the measures would have given many illegal immigrants legal status, created guest worker programs and added border security.
The McCain ad charged that Obama proposed or voted for several changes to the 2007 bill that caused its failure. The ad says: "The result: No guest worker program. No path to citizenship. No secure borders. No reform."
The 2007 bill was a fragile compromise among a bipartisan team of senators who worked closely with the White House. Their aim was to create a bill that would earn enough Republican support to pass, so it took a harder line than the failed 2006 bill written by McCain and Kennedy.
To protect the bill, the bipartisan group behind it agreed to fend off amendments that would change it.
As the measure followed a contentious path, Obama supported several amendments that conservatives said made their support impossible. And despite the late addition of extra enforcement provisions favored by conservatives, several key Republicans eventually withdrew their support. Many observers attribute the bill's failure to their opposition.
"To say that Obama and his congressional allies were ready to block immigration reform is an outrageous misrepresentation of why it failed," Sharry said. "It failed because Republicans opposed it."
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
9:34 PM PDT, September 17, 2008
WASHINGTON — With the race for the White House grown tight, Republican presidential candidate John McCain has begun using the issue of immigration to try to dent Democrat Barack Obama's lead among Latino voters, who could prove decisive in the Southwest.
Polls have shown Obama leading McCain among Latino voters by margins of 2 to 1 or more. But immigration, an issue important to many Latinos, largely has been relegated to the back burner in the campaign.
The issue resurfaced this week as McCain issued a Spanish-language ad in the key states of Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico that sought to blame Obama for the failure of congressional immigration overhaul efforts in 2007. McCain repeated that argument at an appearance before a Puerto Rican group in Florida.
McCain's assertions were denounced by Democrats and immigration organizations as misleading. Immigration hard-liners, on the other hand, were perplexed by McCain's campaign tactic.
The 30-second ad, "Which Side Are They On?" opens with a narrator saying: "Obama and his congressional allies say they are on the side of immigrants. But are they?"
The ad goes on to cite media reports that the campaign said showed Obama supported provisions that doomed passage of the immigration bill. It finishes by asking, "Is that being on our side?"
Campaigning in Florida this week, McCain again accused Obama of helping scuttle immigration reform last year.
"Sen. Obama proposed amendments that would have killed the legislation," McCain said in Orlando, speaking Monday before the Puerto Rican Assn. of Central Florida. "I fought for it."
McCain cosponsored a failed immigration overhaul bill in 2006 with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.). Perhaps fearful of conservative anger over his immigration stance, McCain conspicuously avoided getting involved in talks on the 2007 bill.
Democrats and immigration groups also pointed out that in January, during the GOP presidential primary, McCain dramatically scaled back his support for immigration overhaul efforts.
"Enough is enough," Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) said in a statement about the ad. "The man who said he would vote against his own immigration bill during the Republican presidential debates, who was unwilling to stand up to his own party when they approved an anti-immigrant platform, cannot attack Democrats on immigration in Spanish while pandering to the extreme right . . . of the Republican Party in English."
Although 40% of Latino voters backed President Bush in 2004, a conservative Republican backlash against illegal immigration has hurt McCain, who has garnered only 20% to 30% of Latino support in recent polls.
Frank Sharry, executive director of America's Voice, a group that advocates for immigrant rights, called the ad "stunning in its misrepresentation."
Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which favors greater limits on immigration, noted that McCain had dropped his support for the overhaul bill he once sponsored.
"How can McCain say he no longer supports this legislation and then turn around and attack his opponent and say he undermined it?" Stein asked. "It's enough to make you cynical."
Both McCain and Obama voted in favor of the 2006 and 2007 immigration bills. If passed, the measures would have given many illegal immigrants legal status, created guest worker programs and added border security.
The McCain ad charged that Obama proposed or voted for several changes to the 2007 bill that caused its failure. The ad says: "The result: No guest worker program. No path to citizenship. No secure borders. No reform."
The 2007 bill was a fragile compromise among a bipartisan team of senators who worked closely with the White House. Their aim was to create a bill that would earn enough Republican support to pass, so it took a harder line than the failed 2006 bill written by McCain and Kennedy.
To protect the bill, the bipartisan group behind it agreed to fend off amendments that would change it.
As the measure followed a contentious path, Obama supported several amendments that conservatives said made their support impossible. And despite the late addition of extra enforcement provisions favored by conservatives, several key Republicans eventually withdrew their support. Many observers attribute the bill's failure to their opposition.
"To say that Obama and his congressional allies were ready to block immigration reform is an outrageous misrepresentation of why it failed," Sharry said. "It failed because Republicans opposed it."
*
New York Times
August 17, 2008
The Long Run
Response to 9/11 Offers Outline of McCain Doctrine
WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain arrived late at his Senate office on the morning of Sept. 11,
2001, just after the first plane hit the World Trade Center. “This is war,” he murmured
to his aides. The sound of scrambling fighter planes rattled the windows,
sending a tremor of panic through the room.
Within hours, Mr.
McCain, the Vietnam War hero and famed straight talker of the 2000 Republican
primary, had taken on a new role: the leading advocate of taking the American
retaliation against Al Qaeda far
beyond Afghanistan. In a marathon of television and radio appearances, Mr.
McCain recited a short list of other countries said to support terrorism,
invariably including Iraq, Iran and Syria.
“There is a system out
there or network, and that network is going to have to be attacked,” Mr. McCain
said the next morning on ABC News. “It isn’t just Afghanistan,” he added, on
MSNBC. “I don’t think if you got bin Laden tomorrow that the threat has
disappeared,” he said on CBS, pointing toward other countries in the Middle
East.
Within a month he made
clear his priority. “Very obviously Iraq is the first country,” he declared on
CNN. By Jan. 2, Mr. McCain was on the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt in the Arabian Sea, yelling to a crowd of
sailors and airmen: “Next up, Baghdad!”
Now, as Mr. McCain
prepares to accept the Republican presidential nomination, his response to the
attacks of Sept. 11 opens a window onto how he might approach the gravest
responsibilities of a potential commander in chief. Like many, he immediately
recalibrated his assessment of the unseen risks to America’s security. But he
also began to suggest that he saw a new “opportunity” to deter other potential
foes by punishing not only Al Qaeda but also Iraq.
“Just as Sept. 11
revolutionized our resolve to defeat our enemies, so has it brought into focus
the opportunities we now have to secure and expand our freedom,” Mr. McCain
told a NATO conference in Munich in early 2002, urging the
Europeans to join what he portrayed as an all but certain assault on Saddam Hussein. “A better world is already emerging from the
rubble.”
To his admirers, Mr.
McCain’s tough response to Sept. 11 is at the heart of his appeal. They argue
that he displayed the same decisiveness again last week in his swift calls to penalize
Russia for its incursion into Georgia, in part by sending peacekeepers to
police its border.
His critics charge that
the emotion of Sept. 11 overwhelmed his former cool-eyed caution about
deploying American troops without a clear national interest and a well-defined
exit, turning him into a tool of the Bush administration in its push for a war
to transform the region.
“He has the personality
of a fighter pilot: when somebody stings you, you want to strike out,” said
retired Gen. John H. Johns, a former friend and supporter of Mr. McCain who
turned against him over the Iraq war. “Just like the American people, his
reaction was: show me somebody to hit.”
Whether through ideology
or instinct, though, Mr. McCain began making his case for invading Iraq to the
public more than six months before the White House began to do the same. He
drew on principles he learned growing up in a military family and on
conclusions he formed as a prisoner in North Vietnam. He also returned to a
conviction about “the common identity” of dangerous autocracies as far-flung as
Serbia and North Korea that he had developed consulting with hawkish foreign
policy thinkers to help sharpen the themes of his 2000 presidential campaign.
While pushing to take on
Saddam Hussein, Mr. McCain also made arguments and statements that he may no
longer wish to recall. He lauded the war planners he would later criticize,
including Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney. (Mr. McCain even volunteered that he would have given the same
job to Mr. Cheney.) He urged support for the later-discredited Iraqi exile Ahmad Chalabi’s opposition group, the Iraqi National
Congress, and echoed some of its suspect accusations in the national media. And
he advanced misleading assertions not only about Mr. Hussein’s supposed weapons
programs but also about his possible ties to international terrorists, Al Qaeda
and the Sept. 11 attacks.
Five years after the
invasion of Iraq, Mr. McCain’s supporters note that he became an early critic
of the administration’s execution of the occupation, and they credit him with
pushing the troop “surge” that helped bring stability. Mr. McCain, though,
stands by his support for the war and expresses no regrets about his advocacy.
In written answers to
questions, he blamed “Iraq’s opacity under Saddam” for any misleading remarks
he made about the peril it posed.
The Sept. 11 attacks
“demonstrated the grave threat posed by a hostile regime, possessing weapons of
mass destruction, and with reported ties to terrorists,” Mr. McCain wrote in an
e-mail message on Friday. Given Mr. Hussein’s history of pursuing illegal
weapons and his avowed hostility to the United States, “his regime posed a
threat we had to take seriously.” The attacks were still a reminder, Mr. McCain
added, of the importance of international action “to prevent outlaw states —
like Iran today — from developing weapons of mass destruction.”
Formative Years
Mr. McCain has been
debating questions about the use of military force far longer than most. He
grew up in a family that had sent a son to every American war since 1776, and
international relations were a staple of the McCain family dinner table. Mr.
McCain grew up listening to his father, Adm. John S. McCain Jr., deliver
lectures on “The Four Ocean Navy and the Soviet Threat,” closing with a slide of an image he
considered the ultimate factor in the balance of power: a soldier marching
through a rice paddy with a rifle at his shoulder.
“To quote Sherman, war
is all hell and we need to fight it out and get it over with and that is when
the killing stops,” recalled Joe McCain, Senator McCain’s younger brother.
Vietnam, for Senator
McCain, reinforced those lessons. He has often said he blamed the Johnson
administration’s pause in bombing for prolonging the war, and he credited
President Richard M. Nixon’s renewed attacks with securing his release
from a North Vietnamese prison. He has made the principle that the exercise of
military power sets the bargaining table for international relations a
consistent theme of his career ever since, and in his 2002 memoir he wrote that
one of his lifelong convictions was “the imperative that American power never
retreat in response to an inferior adversary’s provocation.”
But Mr. McCain also took
away from Vietnam a second, restraining lesson: the necessity for broad
domestic support for any military action. For years he opposed a string of
interventions — in Lebanon, Haiti, Somalia, and, for a time, the Balkans — on
the grounds that the public would balk at the loss of life without clear
national interests. “The Vietnam thing,” he recently said.
In the late 1990s,
however, while he was beginning to consider his 2000 presidential race, he
started rebalancing his view of the needs to project American strength and to
sustain public support. The 1995 massacre of 5,000 unarmed Bosnian Muslims at
Srebrenica under NATO’s watch struck at his conscience, he has said, and in
addition to America’s strategic national interests — in that case, the future
and credibility of NATO — Mr. McCain began to speak more expansively about
America’s moral obligations as the only remaining superpower.
His aides say he later
described the American air strikes in Bosnia in 1996 and in Kosovo in 1999 as a
parable of political leadership: Mr. McCain, Senator Bob Dole and
others had rallied Congressional support for the strikes despite widespread
public opposition, then watched approval soar after the intervention helped to
bring peace.
“Americans elect their
leaders to make these kinds of judgments,” Mr. McCain said in the e-mail
message.
It was during the Balkan
wars that Mr. McCain and his advisers read a 1997 article on the Wall Street
Journal editorial page by William Kristol and David Brooks of The Weekly Standard — both
now Op-Ed page columnists at The New York Times — promoting the idea of
“national greatness” conservatism, defined by a more activist agenda at home
and a more muscular role in the world.
“I wouldn’t call it a
‘eureka’ moment, but there was a sense that this is where we are headed and this
is what we are trying to articulate and they have already done a lot of the
work,” said John Weaver, a former McCain political adviser. “And, quite
frankly, from a crass political point of view, we were in the making-friends
business. The Weekly Standard represented a part of the primary electorate that
we could get.”
Soon Mr. McCain and his
aides were consulting regularly with the circle of hawkish foreign policy
thinkers sometimes referred to as neoconservatives — including Mr. Kristol, Robert Kagan and Randy Scheunemann, a former aide to Mr. Dole who became a
McCain campaign adviser — to develop the senator’s foreign policy ideas and
instincts into the broad themes of a presidential campaign. (In his e-mail
message, Mr. McCain noted that he had also consulted with friends like Henry A. Kissinger, known for a narrower view of American
interests.)
One result was a series
of speeches in which Mr. McCain called for “rogue state rollback.” He argued
that disparate regional troublemakers, including Iraq, North Korea and Serbia,
bore a common stamp: they were all autocracies. And as such, he contended, they
were more likely to export terrorism, spread dangerous weapons, or start ethnic
conflicts. In an early outline of what would become his initial response to the
Sept. 11 attacks, Mr. McCain argued that “swift and sure” retribution against
any one of the rogue states was an essential deterrent to any of the others.
But Mr. McCain’s advisers and aides say his “rogue state” speeches stopped
short of the most sweeping international agenda put forth by Mr. Kristol, Mr.
Kagan and their allies. Mr. McCain explicitly disavowed direct military action
merely to advance American values, foreswearing any “global crusade” of
interventions in favor of relying on covert and financial support for internal
opposition groups.
As an example, he could
point to his 1998 sponsorship of the Iraqi Liberation Act, which sought to
direct nearly $100 million to Iraqis who hoped to overthrow Saddam Hussein. The
bill, signed by President Bill Clinton, also endorsed the ouster of Mr. Hussein.
Mr. McCain said then
that he doubted the United States could muster the political will to use ground
troops to remove the Iraqi dictator any time soon. “It was much easier when
Saddam Hussein was occupying Kuwait and threatening Saudi Arabia,” the senator
told Fox News in November 1998. “We’d have to convince the American people that
it’s worth again the sacrifice of American lives, because that would also be
part of the price.”
Hard Calls
Mr. McCain spent the
afternoon of Sept. 11 in a young aide’s studio apartment near the Capitol.
There was no cable television, nothing but water in the kitchen, and the
hallway reminded him of an old boxing gym. Evacuated from his office but
stranded by traffic, he could not resist imagining himself at the other end of
Pennsylvania Avenue. “There are not enough Secret Service agents in the world
to keep me away from Washington and New York at a time like this,” Mr. McCain
told an adviser.
Over the next days and
weeks, however, Mr. McCain became almost as visible as he would have been as
president. Broadcasters rushed to him as a patriotic icon and reassuring voice,
and for weeks he was ubiquitous on the morning news programs, Sunday talk
shows, cable news networks, and even late-night comedy shows.
In the spotlight, he
pushed rogue state rollback one step further, arguing that the United States
should go on the offensive as a warning to any other country that might condone
such an attack. “These networks are well-embedded in some of these countries,”
Mr. McCain said on Sept. 12, listing Iraq, Iran and Syria as potential targets
of United States pressure. “We’re going to have to prove to them that we are
very serious, and the price that they will pay will not only be for punishment
but also deterrence.”
Although he had
campaigned for President Bush during the 2000 general election, he was still
largely frozen out of the White House because of animosities left over from the
Republican primary. But after Mr. Bush declared he would hold responsible any
country condoning terrorism, Mr. McCain called his leadership “magnificent” and
his national security team the strongest “that has ever been assembled.” A few
weeks later, Larry King of CNN asked whether he would have named Mr. Rumsfeld and Colin L. Powell to a McCain cabinet. “Oh, yes, and Cheney,” Mr.
McCain answered, saying he, too, would have offered Mr. Cheney the vice
presidency.
Even during the heat of
the war in Afghanistan, Mr. McCain kept an eye on Iraq. To Jay Leno in
mid-September, Mr. McCain said he believed “some other countries” had assisted Osama bin Laden, going on to suggest Iraq, Syria and Iran as
potential suspects. In October 2001, when an Op-Ed page column in The New York
Times speculated that Iraq, Russia or some other country might bear
responsibility for that month’s anthrax mailings, Mr. McCain interrupted a
question about Afghanistan from David Letterman on that night’s “Late Show.” “The second phase
is Iraq,” Mr. McCain said, adding, “Some of this anthrax may — and I emphasize
may — have come from Iraq.” (The Federal Bureau of Investigation says it came from a federal government
laboratory in Maryland.) By October, United States and foreign intelligence
agencies had said publicly that they doubted any cooperation between Mr.
Hussein and Al Qaeda, noting Al Qaeda’s opposition to such secular
nationalists. American intelligence officials soon declared that Mr. Hussein
had not supported international terrorism for nearly a decade.
But when the Czech
government said that before the attacks, one of the 9/11 hijackers had met in
Prague with an Iraqi intelligence official, Mr. McCain seized the report as
something close to a smoking gun. “The evidence is very clear,” he said three
days later, in an Oct. 29 television interview. (Intelligence agencies quickly
cast doubt on the meeting.)
Frustrated by the dearth
of American intelligence about Iraq, Mr. McCain’s aides say, he had long sought
to learn as much as he could from Iraqi opposition figures in exile, including
Mr. Chalabi of the Iraqi National Congress. Over the years, Mr. McCain often
urged support for the group, saying it had “significant support, in my view,
inside Iraq.”
After Sept. 11, Mr.
Chalabi’s group said an Iraqi emissary had once met with Osama bin Laden, and
brought forward two Iraqi defectors who described terrorist training camps and
biological weapons efforts. At times, Mr. McCain seemed to echo their
accusations, citing the “two defectors” in a television interview and attesting
to “credible reports of involvement between Iraqi administration officials,
Iraqi officials and the terrorists.”
Growing Impatient
But United States
intelligence officials had doubts about Mr. Chalabi at the time and have since
discredited his group. In 2006, Mr. McCain acknowledged to The New Republic
that he had been “too enamored with the I.N.C.” In his e-mail message, though,
he said he never relied on the group for information about Iraq’s weapons
program.
At a European security
conference in February 2002, when the Bush administration still publicly
maintained that it had made no decision about moving against Iraq, Mr. McCain
described an invasion as all but certain. “A terrorist resides in Baghdad,” he
said, adding, “A day of reckoning is approaching.”
Regime change in Iraq in
addition to Afghanistan, he argued, would compel other sponsors of terrorism to
mend their ways, “accomplishing by example what we would otherwise have to
pursue through force of arms.”
Finally, as American
troops massed in the Persian Gulf in early 2003, Mr. McCain grew impatient, his
aides say, concerned that the White House was failing to act as the hot desert
summer neared. Waiting, he warned in a speech in Washington, risked squandering
the public and international support aroused by Sept. 11. “Does anyone really
believe that the world’s will to contain Saddam won’t eventually collapse as
utterly as it did in the 1990s?” Mr. McCain asked.
In retrospect, some of
Mr. McCain’s critics now accuse him of looking for a pretext to justify the
war. “McCain was hell-bent for leather: ‘Saddam Hussein is a bad guy, we have got
to teach him, let’s send a message to the other people in the Middle
East,’ ” said Senator John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts.
But Mr. McCain, in his
e-mail message, said the reason he had supported the war was the evolving
threat from Mr. Hussein.
“I believe voters elect
their leaders based on their experience and judgment — their ability to make
hard calls, for instance, on matters of war and peace,” he wrote. “It’s
important to get them right.”
*
From the Los Angeles
Times
1.
CAMPAIGN '08
McCain shifts his message toward Latino immigrants
He says their needs matter as much as
border security and helping businesses.By Peter Wallsten and Maeve RestonLos
Angeles Times Staff WritersJuly 9, 2008WASHINGTON — John McCain, angling to win
a bigger share of the fast-growing Latino vote, is taking the risky step of
placing an immigration overhaul at the center of his appeal.The presumed
Republican presidential nominee, who trails Barack Obama among Latinos, had
been focused on assuring conservatives that securing the U.S. border with
Mexico would be his immigration priority. But McCain has adopted a message that
gives equal weight to helping employers and immigrant workers and their
families. That suggests that as president he would back the kind of legislation
that has roiled many in his party -- most notably, a legalization plan for
undocumented workers. McCain's approach was on display Tuesday when he told the
League of United Latin American Citizens gathering here that he would deal
"practically and humanely with those who came here, as my distant ancestors
did, to build a better, safer life for their families."And in a new series
of advertisements -- in Spanish and English -- and a five-minute video, McCain
talks about his long ties to Latinos and says immigrants' needs are "as
important" as helping businesses and securing the border."We will
solve it with legislation that's practical and fair," McCain says of
immigration in the video, according to a script obtained by The Times. "We
will abide by the law in every way. We will secure our borders first and ask
border-state governors to certify that the border is secure."Then we will
address the burden U.S. employers are enduring by creating a temporary-worker
program, so employers can hire and people can have jobs. And as important, we
will be sensitive to the immigrant workers and their families who are doing the
work that must be done," he adds. McCain steers clear of directly calling
for a pathway to citizenship. But his subtle language matches that of
legalization advocates.The video, filmed recently in New Mexico, may be shown
publicly next week, when McCain is scheduled to address another large Latino
group, the National Council of La Raza, which is meeting in San Diego.His move
to highlight immigrants' needs underscores the importance of Latino voters --
particularly in the key battleground states of Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado and
Florida -- and suggests that whoever wins the presidency will be committed to
giving some kind of legal status to many of the estimated 12 million illegal
immigrants now in the U.S.Obama, the presumed Democratic nominee, has promised
to support an immigration overhaul that would include a legalization plan and
enhanced border security.On Tuesday, Obama, who also addressed the Latin
American citizens group in Washington, accused McCain of abandoning his support
for a path to citizenship.He noted that during the GOP primary season, McCain
had said he would not vote for the legalization plan he once championed because
"people want the border secured first." Obama suggested that Latino
voters should not trust McCain as a loyal friend."Sen. McCain used to buck
his party on immigration," Obama said. "Well, for eight long years,
we've had a president who made all kinds of promises to Latinos . . . but
failed to live up to them in the White House, and we can't afford that anymore.
We need a president who isn't going to walk away from something as important as
comprehensive reform when it becomes politically unpopular."Obama signaled
that part of his Latino outreach would be to draw links between his life and
the immigrant story. He likened new immigrants' desires to those of his father,
who came to the U.S. from Kenya.The Illinois senator also suggested he might
benefit from the political fervor in the Latino community, demonstrated when
hundreds of thousands took to the streets in Los Angeles and other cities to
protest critics of a legalization plan. "During the immigration marches
back in 2006, we had a saying: 'Today, we march. Tomorrow, we vote,' "
Obama said. "Well, that was the time to march. And now comes the time to
vote."Surveys show Obama holds a strong lead among Latino voters, 59% to
29%, according to the most recent Gallup Poll. That puts McCain far below the
40% President Bush won four years ago.Strategists in both parties believe that
Republican support among Latino voters suffered when congressional
conservatives blocked compromise legislation to overhaul immigration law --
forged mainly by McCain and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) -- in 2006 and
2007.And McCain distanced himself from the compromise in the heat of a
competitive GOP primary in which immigration emerged as a top concern among the
party's overwhelmingly white, conservative base. Now, however, he rarely misses
an opportunity to brag about his role in the debate -- even invoking the name
of Kennedy, a figure reviled by conservatives but beloved by many Latinos.GOP
strategists believe that Obama too has some vulnerabilities on the issue. They
say that he played a minor role in the negotiations last year, despite efforts
to describe himself as a more central player, and that he voted for amendments
that sponsors believed helped stymie the compromise.Although McCain continues
to talk of securing the borders first, he does not rule out a legalization
program.On Tuesday, after pledging to work for better border enforcement, he
was quick to add: "But we must not make the mistake of thinking that our
responsibility to meet this challenge will end with that accomplishment. We
have economic and humanitarian responsibilities as well, and they require no
less dedication from us."McCain has sought a delicate balance in recent
weeks, but his shifting rhetoric has prompted some complaints from
conservatives. After a recent closed-door meeting with Latino leaders in Chicago,
one anti-illegal-immigration activist in attendance accused the Arizona senator
of making different promises to different groups, and argued that strict border
enforcement was unworkable if existing undocumented workers were given a path
to citizenship."He's being two-faced," said Rosanna Pulido, director
of the Illinois Minuteman Project.McCain's new ad campaign not only embraces
his past work on immigration, but also distances him from the conservatives who
opposed him.In the video, he refers to the harsh rhetoric that many in his
party used to oppose the legislation, saying that "too often, new
immigrants have been treated as objects of fear instead of symbols of
hope."Some ads, such as a Spanish-language radio spot released last week,
feature McCain's Latino Naval Academy roommate, Frank Gamboa, who has recorded
messages in both languages extolling his longtime friend's virtues. Though he
did not directly mention immigration, Gamboa noted that McCain "has stood
for our community even in the most difficult of times."Strategists expect
some ads will contain footage of McCain's trip last week to Mexico, where he
visited cultural sites with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush -- whose wife is
Mexican American and who polls show is hugely popular among Latino voters in
his home state.
MCCAIN AND LA RAZA FASCISM
It’s a bit of a joke to think that John McAmnesty ever actually “HEARD
THE PEOPLE” as he has pretended. Even while the old man was making that
statement he had hired a Mexican La Raza racist, also an agent for the
Government of Mexico, to be his Hispandering consultant.
JOHN
McCAIN.... endorsed by La Raza. Hired Mexican racist Juan Hernandez, an
agent for the government of Mexico is his “Hispanic Outreach Director”.
Hernandez advocates there is no border. Borders are just one more stupid gringo
notion. Mexicans must continue to invade, pillage, get welfare, birth at our
costs, then return to their real country at will with their stolen cars to
collect their social security, according to McCain’s man, Hernandez.
John McCain’s open-borders outreach director:
The next DHS secretary?; Update: A “non-paid
volunteer”
By Michelle
Malkin • January 25, 2008 10:03 AM
Update: Hernandez is a “non-paid
volunteer,” says the McCain
campaign. Was he “non-paid” at the Reform Institute, too? And does McCain share
his “Mexico First/” “Just A Region”/”Free Flow of People” views or not? Ask.
***
Dr. Juan Hernandez, McCain Hispanic outreach director: “We must not only have a free flow of goods and services, but also start working for a free flow of people.”
Dr. Juan Hernandez, McCain Hispanic outreach director: “We must not only have a free flow of goods and services, but also start working for a free flow of people.”
Last
month, I received an e-mail from a concerned reader. She wrote:
“Hispanic
Republicans here in Nevada had a chance to speak by conference to Sen. John
McCain and many of us were appalled to learn that his National Director of
Hispanic Outreach is none other that Dr. Juan Hernandez, notorious for his open
borders stance. How can McCain reconcile the fact that he says he “learnt his
lesson w/the American people” with choosing as his Hispanic Ntl. Dir. someone
whose views and interests are so clearly anti-security and not in the interest
of the American people or for that matter us legal Hispanic immigrants. Can
someone question him directly on this?”
Bryan
at Hot Air confirmed it.
Here’s a photo he found on McCain’s
daughter’s campaign website. The ethnocentrist, border obliteration activist is in tight
with the top echelons of the McCain camp. McCain campaign guru Mark MacKinnon
is in the foreground. Maybe sending e-mails about their future shamnesty plans
with Teddy Kennedy and Lindsay Graham.
Hernandez
and I go way
back. He had a bad habit
of calling you “My friend” during TV debates while smoothly peddling
open-borders propaganda. I cured that bad habit several years ago during a Fox
News segment by pointing
out that he was not, in fact, “my friend.”
He
is not your friend, either.
Hernandez
was a close advisor to Vicente “Welcome
to North America” Fox and headed up a
Mexican bureaucracy called the “Presidential Office for Mexicans Abroad.” It
was designed to allow Hernandez to travel across the country, meddling with
local, state, and federal immigration enforcement on behalf of millions of illegal
aliens in America. He lobbied for illegal alien driver’s licenses and Mexico
first, defended
Mexican bus operators carrying illegal aliens to the USA, and promoted
extending banking privileges to illegal aliens.
In
an interview on ABC News’s Nightline, Hernandez stated bluntly that he was
betting that the Mexican American population in the United States –all
generations– “will think Mexico first…”I want ‘em all to think Mexico first.”
Here’s the audio clip from Nightline, June 7th 2001:
And
here’s Tom
Tancredo recounting how
Hernandez told him that Mexico and the U.S. are not two separate countries, but
“just a region:”
TANCREDO: I had a great argument one time with a gentleman by
the name of Juan Hernandez who was at that time the minister of that ministry
that I just mentioned, the Ministry for Mexicans Living in the United States.
And I asked him that very question. What he told me the purpose
of his ministry was to push people into the United States, it was to—by the
way, it was also AFC work with them so that they did—he was with the community,
he said. He was three days a week in the United States, four in Mexico.
By the way, he himself is a dual citizen born in Texas,
university—teaching at the University of Texas and on the Vicente Fox cabinet.
And he said, “I work with the community in the United States, the Mexican
community because I don‘t want them essentially going native on us. We want
them continually tied emotionally, linguistically, politically to Mexico,
because then they‘ll continue to send money home.”
And I said to him, that does not sound like—you know, you‘re
doing something that‘s actually the act of an unfriendly government.
CARLSON: Well, of course, it doesn‘t in any way serve American
interests. It undermines our country in a pretty direct and direct and obvious
way.
TANCREDO: Tucker, his response. Let me tell you his response.
CARLSON: Yes.
TANCREDO: At the end he goes, “Congressman,” in an incredibly
condescending way. He goes, “Congressman, it‘s not two countries; it‘s just a
region.”
CARLSON: That is not my view, to put it mildly.
TANCREDO: Not mine either.
Now,
incredibly, Juan Hernandez is GOP presidential candidate John McCain’s Hispanic
Outreach Director. He is, as my Nevada reader wrote, a sovereignty-undermining
extremist who “whose views and interests are so clearly anti-security and not
in the interest of the American people or for that matter us legal Hispanic
immigrants.”
Next
stop for his friend Juan Hernandez: DHS Secretary?
***
More
reax:
Mark
Krikorian…”Does McCain agree
with this? Has he offered Hernandez, a former high-level foreign government
official who presumably swore an oath to uphold the Mexican constitution, a
place in a future McCain Administration? That’s not a rhetorical question.”
Gateway
Pundit: “When Senator McCain
insisted that he had not changed his position on immigration in an interview
after the South Carolina Republican Primary, he wasn’t kidding!”
Jake
Jacobsen: “You have got to be
freaking kidding me.”
Sundries Shack: “Let’s ask his Hispanic Outreach Director
whether he’d work for a politician who intended on securing the borders before
offering amnesty. What do you think his answer would be?”
Oh,
I know too well what it would be. Hernandez would smile, lie through his teeth,
and tell you he supports securing the border, just like his good friend John
McCain does…
*
*
“I want the third generation, the seventh generation, I
want them all to think ‘Mexico first.’ ” These are the words of Juan
Hernandez, John McCain’s “Hispanic outreach director,” on Nightline June 7, 2001. The blogosphere has been abuzz over the news of Hernandez’s position in the McCain campaign, thanks to the spadework of Michelle Malkin (see here, here, and here) and Jerry Corsi. Thanks also to the power of the Internet, McCain was actually asked about this at an event in Florida Sunday, though he tap-danced his way out of answering directly. But this potentially explosive story hasn’t gotten any traction in the mainstream press. The first explanation that comes to mind, of course, is that McCain is the media’s preferred Republican, a sense reinforced not only by Thursday’s endorsement of him by the New York Times , but also the Washington Post’s quasi-endorsement on Sunday. But the more likely explanation is that many people don’t see the news value. After all, whom do you expect McCain would name as his Hispanic outreach director but a fellow supporter of amnesty and accelerated mass immigration? But this is a bigger deal than that. Contrary to some of the more enthusiastic venting on the web, the problem is not that McCain has a Hispanic outreach director; while the government shouldn’t have anything to do with race or ethnicity, it’s perfectly natural for a political campaign to do outreach to any and every kind of voter. In fact, McCain’s “very close” friend, Hillary Clinton, last spring named Raul Yzaguirre to lead her Hispanic outreach effort. Naturally, Yzaguirre is a big supporter of amnesty and mass immigration — until he retired in 2004, he was president of the National Council of La Raza. But even Yzaguirre has never been a foreign government official. After Vicente Fox was elected in 2000, he named the U.S.-born dual citizen Hernandez (a professor at the University of Texas at Dallas) to head the newly created, cabinet-level Presidential Office for Mexicans Abroad (making him, in effect, Fox’s “Hispanic outreach director”). Hernandez’s oath of office was presumably similar to the one taken by his boss:
I swear to follow and uphold the Political Constitution of the
United Mexican States and the laws that emanate from it, and to perform the
job of President of the Republic which the people have conferred upon me with
loyalty and patriotism, in all actions looking after the good and prosperity
of the Union; and if I do not fulfill these obligations, the Nation will
demand them of me.
“Loyalty,” “patriotism” — it’s a good oath.
For a Mexican. Not for an American.Before Earl Warren started making up emanations and penumbras of the Constitution (in this instance, the case of Afroyim v. Rusk in 1967), Hernandez would have been stripped of his American citizenship for having committed an “expatriating act,” specifically “accepting, serving in, or performing the duties of any office, post, or employment under the government of a foreign state or a political subdivision thereof.” (8 USC 1481) On the radio Saturday, Hugh Hewitt and Michelle Malkin noted the incongruity of the McCain campaign’s embrace of this former foreign government official:
HH: I know. I’ve got a question for you. If John Kerry had
employed as a senior adviser a dual citizen who had served in the French
cabinet under any of our many French adversaries/allies, how would the
Republicans have treated that Kerry adviser position? Wouldn’t we have raised
holy hell about that?
MM: Oh, yeah, it would be worth five Drudge sirens in 100 point,
World War IV font.
No
kidding.
The contempt for American citizenship that
McCain has shown by naming this political bigamist to a post in his campaign
isn’t even the whole problem. One might also ask how McCain could even
consult with a person of such extreme views, let alone name him
Hispanic outreach director. McCain’s support for amnesty and accelerated mass
immigration is bad enough, but you can, at least in theory, be for those
things and still support firm borders and patriotic assimilation.But McCain’s Hispanic outreach director is a man who has spent years opposing the very legitimacy of America’s borders and Americanization in the most public way possible. The man has been on every TV-news show in creation rejecting as passé the very idea of sovereign borders and patriotic assimilation into the American mainstream. (Digger’s Realm has compiled a greatest-hits video.) Before teaming up with McCain, Hernandez became (he still is) a senior fellow at the Reform Institute, the think tank McCain set up after his unsuccessful 2000 presidential campaign — Brian Anderson of City Journal described it as “the 2008 McCain-for-President campaign-in-waiting.” And Hernandez’s job there is to run — what else? — the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Initiative. If any more evidence of the institute’s leanings were needed, note that last year it sponsored an online contest to “Design Your Portion of the Border Fence” and gave top honors to a design that explicitly compared border fencing to the Berlin Wall. (See all the entries here.) This is much worse than the similar controversy over Ron Paul’s ghost-written newsletters; it’s obvious McCain and his people knew perfectly well what Hernandez was about, and they didn’t see anything wrong with it. That tells us all we need to know about the sincerity of McCain’s newfound support for secure borders. – Mark Krikorian is executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies and an NRO contributor. |
*
ELECTION 2008
McCain aide touts 'Mexico first'
policy
Skeptics of candidate's immigration stance highlight
appointment
Published:
01/25/2008 at 12:45 PM
Jerome R. Corsi, a Harvard Ph.D., is a WND
senior staff reporter. He has authored many books, including No. 1 N.Y. Times
best-sellers "The Obama Nation" and "Unfit for Command."
Corsi's latest book is "Where's the REAL Birth
Certificate?"
Juan Hernandez, center, with President Bush and former Mexican President Vicente Fox |
The Hispanic outreach director for Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign is a dual American-Mexican citizen known for his “Mexico first” declarations to immigrants in the U.S., WND has confirmed.
Word of the appointment, made in November, spread across the Internet last night, sparking reaction from secure-border activists who charge Juan Hernandez’s position in the campaign belies the Republican candidate’s attempt to position himself as an advocate of border security.
McCain campaign spokesman Brian Rogers emphasized to WND that Hernandez is “a non-paid volunteer to the campaign, and he does not play a policy role.”
“Juan works with us to reach out to the Hispanic community to meet with the folks in the various states,” Rogers said.
Asked if the McCain campaign has repudiated Hernandez’s “Mexico first” declarations, Rogers did not give a direct answer.
Twice he referred WND to McCain’s immigration position on the campaign presidential website arguing for border security.
In an appearance on ABC’s Nightline in 2001, Hernandez said, referring to Mexican immigrants in the U.S., “I want the third generation, the seventh generation, I want them all to think ‘Mexico first.’”
Hernandez told the Associated Press the same year, “I never knew the border as a limitation. I’d be delighted if all of us could come and go between these two marvelous countries.”
Last August, Hernandez published a book entitled “The New American Pioneers: Why Are We Afraid of Mexican Immigrants?” in which he argued Mexican immigrants, both legal and illegal, were at the forefront of establishing a new North American market combining the U.S. with Mexico.
Sen. John McCain |
Mark Krikorian, director for the Center for Immigration Studies, asked last night on a National Review Online blog, “Has McCain offered Hernandez, a former high-level foreign government official who presumably swore an oath to uphold the Mexican constitution, a place on a future McCain Administration? That’s not a rhetorical question.”
Columnist Michelle Malkin posted equally critical comments this morning on her blog HotAir.com.
Noting that McCain has attempted to distance himself from the comprehensive immigration reform bill he co-sponsored with Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy, Malkin said the appointment of Hernandez “tells me that John McCain is as weak on border security now as he ever was.”
While McCain is now emphasizing border security, the policy posted on his website repeats many of the “flexible labor market” arguments advanced in the Kennedy-McCain comprehensive immigration reform bills, arguing for the necessity of a guest-worker program.
No fence
Hernandez has appeared on various cable news talk shows aggressively arguing against building any fence on the Mexican border, insisting the frontier need to remain wide open so illegal immigrants can easily cross into the U.S.
Hernandez was the first U.S.-born cabinet member to serve President Vicente Fox, operating from Los Pinos, the Mexican White House. Hernandez represented the 24 million Mexicans living abroad whom Fox then called “heroes” for representing Mexico in the foreign nations in which they lived.
In 1996, Hernandez was responsible for inviting Fox, then governor of the Mexican state of Guanajuanto, to speak at the University of Texas, Dallas, where he met George W. Bush, then governor of Texas, for the first time.
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