Obama Funds the Mexican Fascist Party of LA RAZA “The
Race”
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.
Here are 15 things you should know about
"The Race":
15. "The Race" supports driver's licenses
for illegal aliens.
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.
13. "The Race" vehemently opposes
cooperative immigration enforcement efforts between local, state and federal
authorities.
12. "The Race" opposes a secure fence on the
southern border.
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.
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.
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.
8. "The Race" bitterly protested
common-sense voter ID provisions as an "absolute disgrace."
7. "The Race" has consistently opposed
post-9/11 national security measures at every turn.
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."
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."
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."
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."
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.
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."
The fringe is the center. The center is the fringe.
Viva La Raza.
"This is country belongs to Mexico" is said
by the Mexican Militant. This is a common teaching that the U.S. is really
AZTLAN, belonging to Mexicans, which is taught to Mexican kids in Arizona and
California through a LA Raza educational program funded by American Tax Payers
via President Obama, when he gave LA RAZA $800,000.00 in March of 2009!
IMMIGRATION AS ECONOMIC WAR ON THE AMERICAN
MIDDLE-CLASS.
Yes, it is by invitation of the Democrat and
Republican parties on behalf of their rich paymasters!
However, the dominant force in American politics for
the last two decades has been economic warfare against American citizens.
This economic warfare has two primary components; the
use of government to economically favor one group over another; and the
collusion of immigrant groups to economically inhibit Americans who oppose
replacement migration.
JOSHUA FOXWORTH – AMERICAN THINKER
"This is country belongs to Mexico" is said
by the Mexican Militant. This is a common teaching that the U.S. is really
AZTLAN, belonging to Mexicans, which is taught to Mexican kids in Arizona and
California through a LA Raza educational program funded by American Tax Payers
via President Obama, when he gave LA RAZA $800,000.00 in March of 2009!
The
“mother of all caravans” is
forming in Central America, and our border-enforcement system is at “the breaking point” — all
because Democrats in Congress rejects any effort to plug the legal loopholes that
drive the accelerating flood at the border. In effect, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck
Schumer are doing just what Cesar Chavez complained about 40 years ago:
placating employers by allowing the unhindered importation of cheap labor to
undermine the efforts of American workers to negotiate higher wages. MARK
KRIKORIAN
JAMES
WALSH
THE
OBAMA-BIDEN HISPANICAZATION of AMERICA… first ease millions of illegals
over our borders and into our voting booths!
How the Democrat party surrendered America to
Mexico:
“The watchdogs at Judicial Watch discovered documents
that reveal how the Obama administration's close coordination with the Mexican
government entices Mexicans to hop over the fence and on to the American
dole.” Washington Times
"This is country belongs to Mexico" is said
by the Mexican Militant. This is a common teaching that the U.S. is really
AZTLAN, belonging to Mexicans, which is taught to Mexican kids in Arizona and
California through a LA Raza educational program funded by American Tax Payers
via President Obama, when he gave LA RAZA $800,000.00 in March of 2009!
The “zero tolerance” program was dismantled by
Attorney General Erc Holder once it had successfully cut the
transit of migrants by roughly 95 percent. Initially, officials made
140,000 arrests per year in the mid-2000s, but the northward flow dropped so
much that officials only had to make 6,000 arrests in 2013, according to
a 2014 letter by
two pro-migration Senators, Sen. Jeff Flake and John McCain.
“The cost of the Dream Act is far bigger than the
Democrats or their media allies admit. Instead of covering 690,000 younger
illegals now enrolled in former President Barack Obama’s 2012 “DACA” amnesty,
the Dream Act would legalize at least 3.3
million illegals, according to a pro-immigration group,
the Migration Policy Institute.”
Obama Quietly Erasing Borders (Article)
WIKILEAKS EXPOSES THE OBAMA CONSPIRACY TO FLOOD
AMERICAN WITH DEM VOTING ILLEGALS
“The watchdogs at Judicial Watch discovered documents
that reveal how the Obama administration's close coordination with the Mexican
government entices Mexicans to hop over the fence and on to the American
dole.” Washington Times
"This is country belongs to Mexico" is said
by the Mexican Militant. This is a common teaching that the U.S. is really
AZTLAN, belonging to Mexicans, which is taught to Mexican kids in Arizona and
California through a LA Raza educational program funded by American Tax Payers
via President Obama, when he gave LA RAZA $800,000.00 in March of 2009!
Previous generations of immigrants did not believe
they were racially superior to Americans. That is the view of La
Raza Cosmica, by Jose Vasconcelos, Mexico’s former
education minister and a presidential candidate. According to this book,
republished in 1979 by the Department of Chicano Studies at Cal State LA,
students of Scandinavian, Dutch and English background are dullards, blacks are
ugly and inferior, and those “Mongols” with the slanted eyes lack enterprise.
The superior new “cosmic” race of Spaniards and Indians is replacing them, and
all Yankee “Anglos.” LLOYD BILLINGSLEY/ FRONTPAGE mag
*
GLOBALIST BARACK OBAMA AND NANCY PELOSI’S CONSPIRACY
TO SABOTAGE HOMELAND SECURITY AND KEEP AMERICA FLOODED WITH DEM VOTING ILLEGALS
"Along with Obama, Pelosi and Schumer are
responsible for incalculable damage done to this country over the eight years
of that administration." PATRICIA McCARTHY
“One of the most disgusting things to come out of the
Obama administration was "Operation Fast and Furious," where members
of the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) allowed
illegal gun sales to go through – commonly referred to as "gun
walking" – in order to track buyers and sellers they believed were
connected to the Mexican drug cartels. Nearly 2,000 firearms were sold and were
eventually found throughout the United States and Mexico. Two of them were used
to k ill Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.” BETH BAUMANN
DURING OBAMA'S 8 YEAR BANKSTER REGIME,
HE OPERATED LA RAZA (NOW CALLING ITSELF UNIDOSus FROM THE WHITE HOUSE
UNDER LA RAZA V.P. CECILIA MUNOZ. HE FUNDED THE MEX FASCIST PARTY WITH
U.S. TAX DOLLARS.
BOTH OF OBAMA’S SECRETARY of (ILLEGAL) LABOR WERE LA
RAZA SUPREMACIST. THESE WERE HILDA SOLIS AND TOM PEREZ.
The “zero tolerance” program was dismantled by
Attorney General Erc Holder once it had successfully cut the
transit of migrants by roughly 95 percent. Initially, officials made
140,000 arrests per year in the mid-2000s, but the northward flow dropped so
much that officials only had to make 6,000 arrests in 2013, according to
a 2014 letter by
two pro-migration Senators, Sen. Jeff Flake and John McCain.
Jose Angel Gutierrez, professor, University
of Texas, Arlington and founder of La Raza Unida political party
screams at rallies: "We have an aging white America. They are d ying.
They are s hitting in their pants with fear! I love it! We have got
to eliminate the g ringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the
worst, we have got to k ill him!"
Previous generations of immigrants did not believe
they were racially superior to Americans. That is the view of La
Raza Cosmica, by Jose Vasconcelos, Mexico’s former
education minister and a presidential candidate. According to this book,
republished in 1979 by the Department of Chicano Studies at Cal State LA,
students of Scandinavian, Dutch and English background are dullards, blacks are
ugly and inferior, and those “Mongols” with the slanted eyes lack enterprise.
The superior new “cosmic” race of Spaniards and Indians is replacing them, and
all Yankee “Anglos.” LLOYD BILLINGSLEY/ FRONTPAGE mag
The Democrat Party’s Legacy of the
'Hispanicazation' of America
By: James Walsh
Casting a shadow on economic recovery efforts in the
United States is the cost of illegal immigration that consumes U.S. taxpayer
dollars for education, healthcare, social welfare benefits, and criminal
justice. Illegal aliens (or more politically correct, “undocumented
immigrants”) with ties to Mexican drug cartels are contributing to death and
destruction on U.S. lands along the southern border.
While the declining job market in the United States
may be discouraging some would-be border crossers, a flow of illegal aliens
continues unabated, with many entering the United States as drug-smuggling
“mules.”
THE INVADING CRIMINALS:
A county by county
chart:
OBAMA’S INVASION OF ILLEGALS IS WORKING!
They’re already signed up to vote LA RAZA SUPREMACY
DEM!
“According to Immigration and Customers Enforcement
data first obtained by the Associated Press this week, about 70 percent of the
40,000 migrant family members arrested at the border since May did not follow
up their arrest with a necessary visit to an immigration office.”
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY and the RISE OF THE
MEXICAN FASCIST WELFARE STATE and MEX FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA “The Race” NOW
CALLING ITSELF UNIDOus.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/02/larry-elder-who-said-this-about-illegal.html
Not long ago, both Democrats and Republicans
advocated safe, secure borders and an immigration policy of admitting
immigrants who benefit, not burden, Americans. Que pasó? ….. LARRY ELDER – FRONT
PAGE MAG
Mecha's (M.E.Ch.A.) own slogan reads,
"For the race everything. For those outside the race, nothing."
LA RAZA: The Mexican Fascist Party of LA RAZA “THE
RACE” and the Reconquista and surrender of America to NARCOMEX.
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).
Jose Pescador Osuna,
Mexican Consul General We are practicing "La Reconquista" in
California."
"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
DACA Amnesty Would Render Border Wall
Useless, Cost Americans $26B
A
deal in which President Trump accepts an amnesty for millions of illegal aliens
enrolled and eligible for President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals (DACA) program in exchange for minor border wall funding would be
counterproductive to the “America First” goals of the administration,
depressing U.S. wages in the process ahead of the 2020 election.
DACA Amnesty Would Render Border Wall
Useless, Cost Americans $26B
Eric
Baradat/AFP/Getty- mages
5:36
A
deal in which President Trump accepts an amnesty for millions of illegal aliens
enrolled and eligible for President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals (DACA) program in exchange for minor border wall funding would be
counterproductive to the “America First” goals of the administration,
depressing U.S. wages in the process ahead of the 2020 election.
As Breitbart News has extensively
chronicled, Attorney General Jeff Sessions
ended the DACA program last year, although it’s official termination has
been held up in court by left-wing judges.
Since then, a coalition of establishment
Republicans and Democrats have sought to ram an amnesty for up to 3.5 million
DACA-enrolled and eligible illegal aliens through Congress, an initiative
supported by the
donor class.
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Such a plan, most recently, has been
touted in an effort to negotiate a deal in which Trump receives anywhere
between $1.6 tand $5 billion for his proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall in
exchange for approving a DACA amnesty for millions.
The amnesty would render the border wall
useless, as it would not only trigger increased illegal immigration at the
border — which is already set to hit the highest
annual level in a decade next year — but
increased legal immigration to the country.
Last year, Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen
admittedthat even discussion of a DACA amnesty increased
illegal immigration at the southern border, as
migrants surge to the U.S. in hopes of making it into the country to later cash
in on the amnesty.
Kansas Secretary of State Kris
Kobach previously
predicted that a DACA amnesty would trigger
an immediate flood of a million illegal aliens arriving at the U.S.-Mexico
border. In 2014, when Obama enacted DACA by Executive Order, the temporary
amnesty caused a surge at the southern border, as noted by
the Migration Policy Institute.
In terms of legal immigration, a DACA
amnesty would implement
a never-ending flow of foreign relatives to the DACA
illegal aliens who can be readily sponsored for green cards through the process
known as “chain migration.”
According to Princeton University
researchers Stacie Carr and Marta Tienda, the average number of family
members brought to the U.S. by newly naturalized Mexican immigrants stands at
roughly six. Therefore, should all 1.5 million amnestied illegal aliens
bring six relatives each to the U.S., that would constitute a total chain
migration of nine million new foreign nationals entering the U.S.
If the number of amnestied illegal
aliens who gain a pathway to citizenship under an immigration deal were to rise
to the full 3.3 million who would be eligible for DREAM Act amnesty, and if
each brought in three to six foreign family members, the chain migration flow
could range from 9.9 million to 19.8 million foreign nationals coming to the
U.S.
At this rate of chain migration solely
from a DACA amnesty, the number of legal immigrants arriving to the U.S. with
family relations to the amnestied population would potentially outpace
the population of New York City, New York — where
more than 8.5 million residents live.
Should the goal of Trump’s proposed
border wall be to reduce illegal immigration and eventually incentivize lawmakers
to reduce legal immigration levels — where the U.S. imports 1.5 million
immigrants every year — to raise the wages of America’s working and middle
class, a DACA amnesty would have the opposite impact, increasing illegal and
legal immigration levels.
The president has also touted the wall
as a benefit to American citizens in terms of cost. A border wall is projected
to cost about $25 million, a tiny figure compared to the $116
billion that illegal immigration costs
U.S. taxpayers every year.
A DACA amnesty, coupled with a border
wall, would have steep costs for American citizens — wiping out the
cost-benefit to taxpayers of the wall.
For example, a DACA amnesty would cost
American taxpayers about
$26 billion, more than the border wall, and that
does not include the money taxpayers would have to fork up to subsidize the
legal immigrant relatives of DACA illegal aliens. And because amnesties for
illegal aliens tend to be larger than initially predicted, the total cost would
likely be even higher for taxpayers.
Additionally, about one in
five DACA illegal aliens, after an
amnesty, would end up on food stamps, while at least one in
seven would go on Medicaid, the CBO has
estimated.
The number of DACA illegal aliens who
will go on Medicaid following an amnesty is likely to be much larger than what
the CBO reports.
Previous research by
the Center for Immigration Studies indicates that the average immigrant
household in the U.S. takes 44 percent more Medicaid money than the average
American household. The research also noted that 56 percent of households
led by illegal aliens have at least one person on Medicaid.
Another study, reported by Breitbart
News, indicates that the CBO estimate of
DACA illegal aliens who would end up on Medicaid after an amnesty is the lowest
total possible of illegal aliens who would go on the welfare program.
Meanwhile, a DACA amnesty would drag
increasing U.S. wages down for the country’s working and middle class,
delivering benefits to the business lobby while squashing the intended goals of
the Trump administration ahead of the 2020 presidential election. The plan
is also likely to hit the black American community the
hardest, as they are forced to compete for
blue collar jobs against a growing illegal and legal immigrant population from
Central America.
On Tuesday, Trump said he would be
willing to shut down the federal government in order to secure funding for his
proposed border wall. Democrat leaders Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Rep. Nancy
Pelosi (D-CA) have previously indicated that they would be willing to swap an
amnesty in exchange for funding border “security measures.”
“Attorney General Eric Holder's tenure
was a low point even within the disgraceful scandal-ridden Obama
years.” DANIEL GREENFIELD / FRONTPAGE MAG
Senate Hearing: Obama’s DACA and Flores Orders Spiked Illegal
Migration
Sen. Ron Johnson
NEIL
MUNRO
23 May 201918
4:54
The illegal migration of “family units” and
“unaccompanied alien children” spiked after former President Barack Obama
signed off on the “DACA” amnesty and the Flores court
order, according to a graphic used by the chairman of the Senate Homeland
Defense Committee.
Committee chairman Rep. Ron Johnson,
R-Wisc., touted the jarring graphic by printing it on paper cups used by the
committee members. The graphic contradicts claims by Democrats that the huge
wave of Central American economic migrants are really refugees from a
humanitarian disaster caused by crime and crop failures in Central
America.
Officials expect almost one million
Central American migrants in the 12 months prior to October 2019. The migrant
wave includes hundreds of thousands of people in “family units.” These units
consist of adults who bring youths and children to help trigger the border
catch-and-release loophole.
The primary catch-and-release loophole
is the Flores court order, because it requires
border agencies to release migrants within 20 days if they bring children. Once
released, the migrant adults take jobs in American workplaces and their
children are sent to the schools used by the children of blue-collar Americans.
The Flores decision
“has been the essential driver, frankly, for the increase in family units,”
said Kevin McAleenan, the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland
Security in a May 23 committee hearing. He continued:
That certainty, that knowledge, that
they will be allowed to stay in the US. indefinitely, pending a court [asylum]
proceeding that could be years away … is a huge draw. Smugglers have
capitalized on that. They’re advertising that fact. We hear that routinely from
our interviews with families.
The 2015 extension of the 1993 Flores judgment
was accepted by the Obama administration, even though it requires border
agencies to release migrants within 20 days if they bring children. Obama’s
legal team could have fought the decision by filing appeals with higher courts,
but it instead signed an agreement to implement the decision.
Under policies set by judges, the 2015
agreement by Obama, ACLU activists, and the judge binds President Donald Trump,
even though he did not approve it, and even though the Supreme Court did
approve the extension.
Obama’s 2012 DACA amnesty offered a
sanctuary from deportation, plus work permits and Social Security Numbers, to
roughly 800,000 migrants who had been smuggled over the border by their parents.
The giveaway is legally
shaky, but it prompted many other illegal
migrants to get
their children delivered from Central America by smugglers
to U.S. border agencies, which then passed the children to the parents.
This government-enabled smuggling
operation helped bring tens of thousands of
carefuly smuggled Unaccompanied Minor Children (UACs) into the United States.
Very few migrants have been sent home, according to federal data.
Democratic legislators have refused to
reform the border rules, ensuring that 100,000 migrants — including 40,000
children — walked over the border in April 2019, into the nation’s job sites
and schools.
However, Trump’s deputies are preparing
a regulation that would allow them to detain migrants with children for more
than 20 days.
But Obama holdovers in the agencies have
slowed the regulation. The Flores requirement
that state officials set up a health and safety inspection process for family
detention centers has also delayed the regulatory fix.
Democrats say the migration is a
humanitarian crisis but deny their role in creating the disaster, which is now
emptying parts of Guatemala.
University of California President Janet Napolitano Resigns
SHE WAS NO MORE THAN OBAMA’S AGENT FOR THE MEXICAN INVADERS
University of California (UC) President Janet
Napolitano announced her resignation on Wednesday. During her rocky tenure over
the UC system, Napolitano championed sanctuary campuses and was accused of
interfering in a state investigation into the system’s budget.
Napolitano made her
announcement at the UC regents meeting at UCLA, according to a report by Los
Angeles Times, which added that the
university president’s management of the UC system has sparked criticism.
While a president of
UC, Napolitano championed sanctuary for illegal aliens, and defended “safe
space” and “trigger warning” culture on college campuses, among other issues.
Prior to her role as UC
president, Napolitano served as Arizona governor from 2003 to 2009, and the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary under President Barack Obama,
from 2009 to 2013.
During her time as
DHS secretary, Napolitano played a key
role in providing sanctuary to illegal
aliens by helping the Obama Administration bypass
congress to grant de facto amnesty to
young illegal aliens by enacting key parts of DACA with a memo — calling
for law enforcement officials to ignore immigration law — without
any Congressional vote.
As UC
president, Napolitano spearheaded a lawsuit to stop the Trump
administration’s actions regarding the DACA program, which in turn,
resulted in more than 500,000 DACA recipients renewing their authorizations to
remain in the United States, notes to Los Angeles Times.
In 2017, a state
audit revealed that Napolitano’s
office hid $175 million, even as it raised tuition for students in the UC
system.
“The audit found that
Napolitano’s office ‘used misleading budgeting practices, provided its
employees with generous salaries and atypical benefits, and failed to
satisfactorily justify its spending on systemwide initiatives,'” noted
Breitbart News reporter Chriss Street.
Moreover, the
auditor testified that Napolitano
and her office had attempted to interfere with — and to smear publicly —
the investigation, in an effort to prevent revelations of the hidden money.
“Napolitano approved a
plan instructing UC campuses to submit responses to confidential questionnaires
for review by each college’s chancellor and her aides before returning them to
the state auditor,” noted Los Angeles Times. “Those steps and
others ‘constituted interference,’ the investigation said.”
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