Monday, July 30, 2012

OBAMA'S DREAM: 49 More Mexifornias? By Mayor Roger Hedgecock


 OBAMA’S DREAM Written by Roger Hedgecock, former Mayor of San Diego

Posted By: RumorMail

OBAMA’S DREAM
Written by Roger Hedgecock, former Mayor of San Diego
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
I live in California. If you were wondering what living in Obama's second term would be like, wonder no longer. We in California are living there now.
California is a one-party state dominated by a virulent Democrat Left enabled by a complicit media where every agency of local, county, and state government is run by and for the public employee unions. The unemployment rate is 12%.
California has more folks on food stamps than any other state, has added so many benefits and higher rates to Medicaid that we call it "Medi-Cal." Our K-12 schools have more administrators than teachers, with smaller classes but lower test scores and higher dropout rates with twice the per-student budget of 15 years ago. Good job, Brownie.
This week, the once and current Gov. Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown had to confess that the "balanced" state budget adopted five months ago was billions in the red because actual tax revenues were billions lower than the airy-fairy revenue estimates on which the balance was predicated.
After trimming legislators' perks and reducing the number of cell phones provided to state civil servants, the governor intoned that drastic budget reductions had already hollowed out state programs for the needy, law enforcement and our schoolchildren. California government needed more money.
Echoing the Occupy movement, the governor proclaimed the rich must pay their fair share. Fair share? The top 1% of California income earners currently pays 50% of the state's income tax. California has seven income tax brackets. The top income tax rate is 9.3%, which is slapped on the greedy rich earning at least $47,056 a year. Income of more than $1 million pays the "millionaires' and billionaires'" surcharge tax rate of 10.3%.
Brown's proposal would add 2% for income over $250,000. A million- dollar income would then be taxed at 12.3%. And that's just for the state. Brown also proposed a one-half-cent sales tax increase, which would bring sales taxes (which vary by county) up to 7.75% to as much as 10%. Both tax increases would be on the ballot in 2012. The sales tax increase proposal immediately brought howls of protest from the Left (of Brown!). Charlie Eaton, a sociology grad student at UC Berkeley and leader of the UC Student-Workers Union, said, "We've paid enough. It's time for millionaires to pay."
At least five other ballot measures to raise taxes are circulating for signatures to get on the 2012 ballot in California . The governor's proposals are the most conservative. The Obama way doesn't end with taxes.
The governor and the state legislature continue to applaud the efforts of the California High Speed Rail Authority to build a train connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco . Even though the budget is three times the voter-approved amount, and the first segment will only connect two small towns in the agricultural Central Valley . But hey, if we build it, they will ride. And we don't want to turn down the Obama bullet-train bucks Florida and other states rejected because the operating costs would bankrupt them. Can't happen here because we're already insolvent.
If we get into real trouble with the train, we'll just bring in the Chinese. It worked with the Bay Bridge reconstruction. After the 1989 earthquake, the bridge connecting Oakland and San Francisco was rebuilt with steel made in China . Workers from China too. Paid for with money borrowed from China . Makes perfect sense.
In California , we hate the evil, greedy rich (except the rich in Hollywood , in sports, and in drug dealing). But we love people who have broken into California to eat the bounty created by the productive rich. Illegals get benefits from various generous welfare programs, free medical care, free schools for their kids, including meals, and of course, instate tuition rates and scholarships too. Nothing's too good for our guests.
To forestall even a hint of criticism of illegal immigration, the California Legislature is considering a unilateral state amnesty. Democrat State Assemblyman Felipe Fuentes has proposed an initiative that would bar deportation of illegals from California . Interesting dilemma for Obama there. If immigration is exclusively a federal matter, and Obama has sued four states for trying to enforce federal immigration laws he won't enforce, what will the President do to a California law that exempts California from federal immigration law?
California is also near fulfilling the environmentalist dream of deindustrialization. After driving out the old industrial base (auto and airplane assembly, for example), air and water regulators and tax policies are now driving out the high-tech, biotech and even Internet-based companies that were supposed to be California's future. The California cap-and-trade tax on business in the name of reducing CO2 makes our state the leader in wacky environmentalism and guarantees a further job exodus from the state. Even green energy companies can't do business in California . Solyndra went under, taking its taxpayer loan guarantee with it.
No job is too small to escape the regulators. The state has even banned weekend amateur gold miners from the historic gold mining streams in the Sierra Nevada Mountains . In fact, more and more of California 's public land is off-limits to recreation by the people who paid for that land. Unless you're illegal. Then you can clear the land, set up marijuana plantations at will, bring in fertilizers that legal farmers can no longer use, exploit illegal farm workers who live in hovels with no running water or sanitation, and protect your investment with armed illegals carrying guns no California citizen is allowed to own.
The rest of us only found out about these plantations when the workers' open campfire started one of those devastating fires that have killed hundreds of people and burned out thousands of homes in California over the last decade.
It's often said that whatever happens in California will soon happen in your state. You'd better hope that's wrong.

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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.

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LA RAZA DEMS BUILD THE “DREAM ACT” LIFE FOR LA RAZA OFF THE AMERICANS BACK! NOT ONE AMERICAN VOTED FOR ONE DREAM ACT HANDOUT!



 

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THE ILLEGAL (MEXICAN) CRIME TIDAL WAVE:

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/05/heather-mac-donald-illegal-alien-crime.html



THE MEXICAN CRIME TIDAL WAVE SPREADS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES

Everyday there are 12 Americans murdered by Mexicans and 8 children molested!

California Attorney Gen Kamala Harris announced that nearly HALF of all murders in Mex-occupied CA are by MEX GANGS!


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WILL MEXICO BANKRUPT AMERICA?

CALIFORNIA UNDER MEXICAN-OCCUPATION PAYS OUT $22 BILLION PER YEAR IN SOCIAL SERVICES TO ILLEGALS!


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WILL OHIO BE BANKRUPTED BY THE LA RAZA MEX-OCCUPATION THAT NOT ONE LEGAL VOTED FOR?


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HOW MANY BILLIONS ARE MARYLANDERS FORCED TO PAY FOR MEX WELFARE AND LOOTING?


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BARACK OBAMA, FIRST HISPANDERING LA RAZA “THE RACE” PRESIDENT – HIS LA RAZA SUPREMACIST INFESTED ADMINISTRATION:


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OBAMA AND MEXICO PROMISE ILLEGALS JUMPING OUR BORDERS OBAMACARE, “FREE” MEDICAL, “FREE” ANCHOR BABY BIRTHING = 18 YEARS WELFARE, AND OUR JOBS!


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ROBERT RECTOR: THE STAGGERING COST OF MEXICO’S INVASION, OCCUPATION AND EVER GROWING WELFARE STATE


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ONE OF MEXICO’S BIGGEST EXPORTS NEXT TO DRUGS, AND CRIMINALS ARE PREGNANT WOMEN. THESE POOR DESPERATE WOMEN JUMP OUR BORDERS FOR “FREE” ANCHOR BABY BIRTHING = 18 YEARS OF WELFARE FOR EACH CHILD.

THE CHILDREN BORN OF MEXICANS THAT ILLEGALLY CROSSED OUR BORDERS IS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN BUT STILL A CITIZEN OF MEXICO.


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THE LOOTING OF AMERICA BY MEXICO, BARACK OBAMA and ERIC HOLDER

OBAMA’S HISPANICAZATION of AMERICA:


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ANCHOR BABIES – HOW MEXICO ANCHORS THEIR OCCUPATION AND EXPAND THEIR WELFARE STATE IN OUR BORDERS!




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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":

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."

The fringe is the center. The center is the fringe. Viva La Raza?



HERE'S WHAT LA RAZA DID TO THE AMERICAN DREAM THAT ONCE LIVED IN CALIFORNIA!



BOOK:

Mexifornia: SHATTERING OF AN AMERICAN DREAM (illegals call it their DREAM ACT)



http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/05/book-mexifornia-shattering-of-american.html



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THESE FIGURES ON WELFARE FOR ILLEGALS IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY ARE DATED. IT NOW EXCEEDS $600 MILLION PER YEAR!!! (source: Los Angeles County & JUDICIAL

WATCH)





http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1949085/posts



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LOS ANGELES – A MEXICAN WELFARE AND CRIME STATE WHERE THE JOBS ALSO GO TO ILLEGALS



http://mexcanoccupa¬tion.blogs¬pot.com/20¬11/04/mexi¬can-welfar¬e-state-in¬-los-angel¬es.html



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One tragic thing about this book is that it was written in 2003. Since then the

Mexican occupation has doubled. Welfare to illegals is up to $20 BILLION in

California. Welfare to illegals in sanctuary city Los Angeles is past $600

million per year, while Mexican gangs murder all over the state. Yet the

lifer-politicians continue to fight for open borders, more perks for illegals,

and their illegal votes!



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BOOK:

MEXIFORNIA – THE SHATTERING OF THE AMERICAN DREAM

WITH THE MEXICAN INVASION AND OCCUPATION



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"Victor Davis Hanson brings a lifetime of experience in California's

Central Valley to this indictment of multiculturalism and mass

immigration." -- Mark Krikorian, Center for Immigration Studies



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READER’S REVIEW (source: AMAZON)

(COMMENT: ANYWHERE YOU GO IN MEXIFORNIA, YOU HEAR THE ILLEGALS JABBERING AWAY IN MEXICAN, EVEN IF THEY CAN SPEAK ENGLISH. THE LA RAZA SUPREMACIST PRESIDENT OF MEXICO HAS ADMONISHED HIS EXPORTED PEOPLE TO SPEAK ONLY SPANISH TO ESTABLISH THEIR LA RAZA SUPREMACY)



If you don't understand something or disagree with a concept then the best way

to conceal your ignorance or discredit the idea is to call it

"racist". Dr. Hanson did not have to go very far out on a limb to

make the point that non assimilation of Chicanos to American culture is

divisive and destructive - and that it is the new immigrant that is failing to

adapt. Great book, on point and very timely.





*Starred Review*

(MEXICANS ARE THE MOST VIOLENT CULTURE IN THE HEMISPHERE. WE’RE NOT ONLY DEALING WITH ILLEGAL AND UNINSURED DRIVING, ILLEGAL CONTRACTING, IDENTITY THEFT, ILLEGAL VOTING, BUT MURDER ON THE LARGEST SCALE IN AMERICAN HISTORY! ACCORDING TO CA ATTORNEY GENERAL KAMALA HARRIS, NEARLY HALF OF THE MURDERS IN CA ARE BY MEXICAN GANGS!)



Classics professor Hanson is also, like generations of his family before him, a

fruit farmer in California's central valley. He has employed immigrants, seen

them flood his community during the last 30 years of mass flight from Mexico,

and endured the crime associated with illegal immigrants. Hanson is immensely

sympathetic to poor Mexicans, however, and the most powerful chapter here

outlines the harried life of the illegal alien. (THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD IS NO LONGER BILL GATES, IT IS MEX CARLOS SLIM! MEXICO HAS MORE BILLIONAIRES THAN SAUDI ARABIA. THIS IS ENABLED BY THE EXPORTATION OF 40 MILLION  MEXICANS TO OUR COUNTRY TO LOOT. MEXICO EVEN PRINTS MAPS TO OUR BORDERS AND ADVISES LA RAZA HOW TO AVOID BORDER PATROL. MEXICAN CONSULATES IN OUR BORDERS, ABOUT 50 IN TOTAL, PUSH FOR EXPANDED DREAM  ACTS, GETTING ILLEGALS REGISTERED TO VOTE, AND MORE FREE HEALTHCARE. THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT HAS DECLARED THEY DO NOT WANT THEIR CRIMINALS BACK! CA HAS THE LARGEST AND MOST EXPENSIVE PRISON SYSTEM IN THE COUNTRY. HALF THE INMATES ARE MEXICANS!



But he hates to see the ordered culture in which he grew up drowned by an alien inundation whose undeserving beneficiaries are Mexico's kleptocratic rulers, for whom an open border is asafety valve expelling the potential for democratic change.

 The four solutions to the mess that Hanson enumerates include continuing de facto open borders butinsisting on rapid acculturation; patrolling the border effectively and

reducing legal immigration; imposing "sweeping restrictions on

immigration" and ending Mexican chauvinism in the U.S.; and allowing

present policies to make California increasingly mirror an unreformed Mexico.  (YOU CANT GO FROM ONE END OF MEXIFORNIA TO THE OTHER AND NOT SEE ONLY HISPANICS IN OUR JOBS, AND HEAR THEM SPEAKING SPANISH. IN 2006, WE WERE ALL WITNESS TO HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF MEXICAN ON THE MARCH DEMANDING THEIR “RIGHTS” AND WAVING MEXICAN FLAGS.)

Hanson thinks that the U.S. "still need not do everything right" to

prevent social collapse in the Southwest and that the totalitarian uniformity

of valueless mass culture may soften that collapse. He also sees very clearly

what has brought this crisis on: the American globalist ideology's lust for

cheap labor and emphasis on "raw inclusiveness" instead of "standards and taste." (BARACK OBAMA HAS AN AGENDA OF NOT ONLY AMNESTY TO BUY THE LA RAZA VOTES, BUT ALSO OPEN BORDERS BECAUSE HORDES OF ILLEGALS CLIMBING OUR BORDER KEEPS WAGES DEPRESSED FROM $300 TO $400 BILLION PER YEAR)

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Review



"Hanson's 'Mexifornia' is that rare book that combines scholarship with

personal experience to provide genuine insight into a complex issue." --

Linda Chavez, author of An Unlikely Conservative



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"Victor Davis Hanson brings a lifetime of experience in California's

Central Valley to this indictment of multiculturalism and mass

immigration." -- Mark Krikorian, Center for Immigration Studies



• Hardcover: 150 pages

• Publisher: Encounter Books; 1 edition (July 25, 2003)

• Language: English

• ISBN-10: 1893554732

• ISBN-13: 978-1893554733



ALL REVIEWS ARE FROM AMAZON.com

REVIEW 1



This review is from: Mexifornia: A State of Becoming (Hardcover)

This book shows how Mexico sends their poor to America to work, so they don't

have to improve their own country, and how we use these people for cheap labor

so that we can sell things for less. It's a deal made between the two

countries. (THE “DEAL” IS PROBABLY FAR GREATER THAN NOTED HERE. WHEN GEORGE W. BUSH FINALLY SHOWED HIS ASS AT KATRINA, HE HAD POCKETFUL OF NO BID DEALS WORKED OUT FOR HALLIBURTON-CHENEY! BUSH RESCINDED MINIMUM WAGE FOR THOSE HIRED BY HALLIBURTON TO CLEAN UP KATRINA. FORTUNATELY, CONGRESS RESCINDED THE PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE. DESPITE THIS, NEW ORLEANS AND CITES DAMAGED BY THE HURRICANE, WERE DELUGED BY LA RAZA! BIRTH RATES FOR HISPANICS SOARED (AND THEREFORE THE 18 YEARS OF ANCHOR BABY WELFARE THAT FOLLOWS ANCHOR BABY BIRTHING, AND ALSO MEX GANG CRIMES! ONE JOURNALIST HAS REPORTED THAT BUSH AND FORMER NARCOmex PRESIDENT FOX HAMMERED OUT A DEAL. FOX WOULD TURN OVER THE MANAGEMENT OF MEXICO’S CORRUPT BIG OIL TO BUSH’S CORRUPT BUSH-SAUDIS BIG OIL, AND BUSH IN TURN, WOULD MAKE SURE OUR BORDERS WERE KEPT WIDE OPEN FOR MEXICO’S CONTINUED EXPORTATION OF THEIR POOR, PREGNANT AND CRIMINAL CLASSES!)



The trouble is, it's not what American citizens want. The

"servants of the people", the representatives, are not listening to

us, so it's always exciting to read something that really tells it like it is.

This book is written from the viewpoint of someone who actually lives with these

Mexican immigrants. The rich people who want to use them in their businesses

for cheap labor don't live with them; the liberal elites who push for them to

get amnesty don't live with them.  (YOU WONT’ FIND A SINGLE BILLIONAIRE THAT DOES NOT WANT OPEN BORDERS, AMNESTY, DREAM ACTS PAID FOR BY THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS TO SUBSIDIZE MISERABLE WAGES, AND NO E-VERIFY. NOT BILL GATES, WHO WANTS OPEN BORDERS AMNESTY, NOR BILLIONAIRE MAYOR BLOOMBERG OF NEW YORK CITY, WHERE MEX BILLIONAIRE CARLOS SLIM LIVES!) This guy lives among them, and knows the problems first hand, and as I suspected, there are many, and they're not pretty.

He writes very bluntly about the problems, but not without sympathy for the

Mexican immigrants whose own country won't take care of them. With all the new

books out and the discussions going on about legal and illegal immigration, and

what the American people want, I'm hoping that these problems will be solved.

This book is one of the best on the subject, because it is written from a

viewpoint of personal experience.

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REVIEW 2



Victor Hanson combines scholarship (Professor at Cal State) with personal

experience (life long resident and farmer in central CA. who has

Mexican-American family and friends) to present a thoughtful look at the

illegal Mexican immigration crisis. Hanson argues that the reason for this

crisis is that both ends of the political spectrum have vested interests in

continuing the unabated entry of illegal Mexicans. Republicans wish to placate

business interests with cheap labor and Democrats hope for a future electoral

base. Hanson further explains that this wave is not like the earlier waves of

Polish, Jewish, or Italian immigration which was of a fixed duration and where

the connection of the new immigrant to the Homeland was more thoroughly

severed.

This book is well written and to the point (approx. 140 pages). I have also

seen Victor Hanson on several political talk shows. He is well spoken and mild

mannered which is a welcome relief from the cacophonous diatribe we too often

get on cable news channels.

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REVIEW 3

As one who shares the author's ethnic,cultural and geographical heritage, I

thought Hanson did a marvelous job of assessing California's major social

issue, and one of America's primary problems. Like Hanson, I was born and

reared in Fresno County, albeit some 25 miles from his native Selma. I can

attest to the accuracy of his description of Selma and the Central Valley in

the 1950's.

As a child, my associates included Hispanics; as a teenager working in the fig

and peach orchards, my fellow workers were Hispanic. During my professional

career, I have hired and promoted many Hispanics.

Hanson's Scandinavian ancestors (from Sweden) and mine (from Denmark) came to

America legally and without speaking English, but they succeeded--without

bilingual classes, welfare, government subsidies, or that phenomenon known as

"affirmative action", which is being rapidly unmasked as nothing,

more or less, than "reverse discrimination". Hanson deftly exposes

the race industry as an amalgam of organizations and individuals who are quick

to attack the Anglo for any slight, either real or imagined, but who, in the

long run, seem not to do much for those whom they purport to serve.

As a criminologist, I am well aware of the violence committed by Hispanic

Gangs, and the fact that those gangsters who do not wind up in the morgue soon

become expensive inmates in our overcrowded prison system, costing taxpayers

some $25k per year each. I am equally aware of the many outstanding Hispanic

officers, prosecutors, and judges with whom I've worked.

Hanson has eloquently described the failure of our educational programs to work

toward an assimilated America, as well as the failure of the"separatists" in the race industry.  (THIS “SEPARATIST MOVEMENT IS REFERRED TO AS M.E.Ch.A., WHICH IS PARTY OF LA RAZA “THE RACE”. THE TERRITORY THE CLAIM IS THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST, WHICH THEY REFER TO AS “AZTLAN”. THE RACIST LA RAZA MAYOR OF LOS ANGELES, ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA WAS A MEMBER OF M.E.Ch.A. --- SEE THE TRANSCRIPT FROM A LA RAZA FASCISM MEETING BELOW THAT REFERENCES THIS SEPARATIST MOVEMENT).

The one failure which, to my surprise, he did not identify is that of our elected

officials who establish public policy. When Hanson and I were youngsters/young

men in the Central Valley, the politicians seemed to act in the best interests

of their constituencies. Today,by and large, our politicians have little

integrity, but rather pander incessantly to special interests which, in turn,

provide them with campaign funds, endorsements,and precinct workers.It is

common knowledge that, in Sacramento, legislative votes are "for

sale" almost daily.  (THE CA LEGISLATURE IS NOW INFESTED WITH LA RAZA SUPREMACIST PUSHING FOR EXPANDED DREAM ACTS, NO E-VERIFY, NO  IMPOUNDING OF ILLEGALS’ CARS IF CAUGHT DRIVING WITHOUT LICENSE OR INSURANCE. AS FAR AS LACK OF INTEGRITY, JERRY BROWN JUST SIGNED A LAW MAKING IT ILLEGAL FOR EMPLOYERS TO USE E-VERIFY, AND FORMER GOV ARNOLD SCHARZENEGGER, UPON LEAVING OFFICE, GRANTED A PARDON TO FORMER LA RAZA ASSEMBLYMAN NUNEZ SON, A MEXICAN GANG MEMBER WHO COMMITTED MURDER!) Until we can restore some integrity among our public

officials, we will not move toward a better California--better for Hispanics,

Anglos, African Americans, Asians, and all others!

Except for his failure to discuss the lack of integrity among many of our

elected officials, Hanson has done an admirable job. Mexifornia should be on

the "must read" list of all who are concerned about the future of

Californians, notwithstanding the color of their skins!



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WHILE CA IS NOT HALF MEXICAN, NEVADA NOW ONE-THIRD, COLORADO IS BELIEVED TO BE 20% ILLEGAL AND BREEDING FAST. MEXICO ANCHORS THEIR OCCUPATION BY ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS.




DAVID AXELROD: OBAMA WILL GET BLOWN AWAY UNLESS ILLEGALS VOTE FOR HIM AGAIN!



July 29, 2012

Axelrod: It’s Amazing ‘We’re Not Getting Blown Away’

David Axelrod’s anxiety over Barak Obama’s reelection chances is now on full display. In the latest personal e-mail from the Obama campaign, Axelrod starts to act paranoid:
You know what's kind of amazing?

That we're not getting blown away in the face of unprecedented, unlimited spending from super PACs, Mitt Romney, and all the other shadowy groups trashing Barack Obama nonstop.
Shadowy groups? Is he hallucinating? Perhaps his boss has reinstituted the Choom Gang and Axelrod has been puffing away – the donors to Romney’s campaign and pro-Romney Super PACs has received consistent and brutal scrutiny.

It’s worth noting the violent language here. For a campaign that whines about incivility on a regular basis to use the phrase “blown away” is inconsistent, to say the least.
Axelrod continues:
In June, nearly 80 percent of the money Romney and the Republicans raised came from just 6 percent of the donations they received -- and that's before we count the super PACs. The other side relies on fewer people giving more, and with this year's new rules, it's a lot more.
Even with all that, we're still in a position of strength heading into the final three months of this race, thanks to grassroots supporters like you. When I talk to a reporter or go on TV, I'm damn proud to tell people that.
Obama is still in a position of strength? Oh, like NBC’s polls, which skew the results? Note also the desperation in tone once again – the cursing has become a hallmark of Obama’s campaign emails. Axelrod continues:
The story we're telling is simple: We are a force to be reckoned with, one small donation at a time.
We're facing our next big fundraising deadline this Tuesday.

Another deadline? Just how many times can you cry wolf?
When Barack Obama ran for president in 2008, our campaign changed the way people get involved in elections.
Undoubtedly true. Just ask Hillary about the Iowa caucuses of 2008.

He fundamentally believes that asking everyone to chip in whatever they can, and asking people to get personally involved -- to go and talk with their neighbors and friends about why they're a part of it -- is the right way to do this.
Again, Axelrod has a point. Obama is asking everyone to chip in … and chip in … and chip in. Of course, there’s not much left at this point.
Today, in the age of super PACs and outside groups that can spend millions in anonymous money on misleading attack ads, proving the viability of that kind of politics is even more important.
Misleading attack ads? Like the one from your campaign that accused Mitt Romney of being unpatriotic for once working at Bain? Or the one that accused Romney of lying about Obama’s words – and which showed Obama actually saying the words?
I love talking about the way we've built this campaign. Just take a look at last month: more than 700,000 donors in June -- nearly 200,000 of whom had never donated before -- giving an average of over $50 each.
Now here’s a conundrum; if the Obama campaign has had thousands of supporters giving the requested minimum of $3, just what are the other supporters giving to raise that average to $50?
What we have in the bank at midnight on Tuesday will tell us how big we can go in these critical, final three months. As of tomorrow, there are 100 days left to make it happen.
If we keep up the momentum, I know we can make history again.
You just keep on doing what you do:
Thank you for being part of this,


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WHY OBAMA WILL LOSE… unless enough illegals that he’s handed our jobs to vote for his expanded version of LA RAZA SUPREMACY!
THERE IS A REASON WHY OBAMA’S SEC. OF (illegal) LABOR IS LA RAZA SUPREMACIST HILDA SOLIS….
THERE IS A REASON WHY OBAMA HAS SABOTAGED E-VERIFY… IT’S ALL ABOUT BUYING ILLEGALS’ VOTES WITH OUR JOBS!
KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED WITH HORDES OF ILLEGALS PRIMARILY HARMS BLACK AMERICA!
OBAMA IS NOT AMERICA’S FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT, HE IS LA RAZA’S FIRST HISPANDERER!


July 5, 2012

Why Obama Will Lose in a Landslide

By Wayne Allyn Root

5/30/2012

Most political predictions are made by biased pollsters, pundits, or prognosticators who are either rooting for Republicans or Democrats. I am neither. I am a former Libertarian Vice Presidential nominee, and a well-known Vegas oddsmaker with one of the most accurate records of predicting political races.
Neither Obama nor Romney are my horses in the race. I believe both Republicans and Democrats have destroyed the U.S. economy and brought us to the edge of economic disaster. My vote will go to Libertarian Presidential candidate Gary Johnson in November, whom I believe has the most fiscally conservative track record of any Governor in modern U.S. political history. Without the bold spending cuts of a Gary Johnson or Ron Paul, I don’t believe it’s possible to turnaround America.
But as an oddsmaker with a pretty remarkable track record of picking political races, I play no favorites. I simply use common sense to call them as I see them. Back in late December I released my New Years Predictions. I predicted back then- before a single GOP primary had been held, with Romney trailing for months to almost every GOP competitor from Rick Perry to Herman Cain to Newt- that Romney would easily rout his competition to win the GOP nomination by a landslide. I also predicted that the Presidential race between Obama and Romney would be very close until election day. But that on election day Romney would win by a landslide similar to Reagan-Carter in 1980.
Understanding history, today I am even more convinced of a resounding Romney victory. 32 years ago at this moment in time, Reagan was losing by 9 points to Carter. Romney is right now running even in polls. So why do most pollsters give Obama the edge?
First, most pollsters are missing one ingredient- common sense. Here is my gut instinct. Not one American who voted for McCain 4 years ago will switch to Obama. Not one in all the land. But many millions of people who voted for an unknown Obama 4 years ago are angry, disillusioned, turned off, or scared about the future. Voters know Obama now- and that is a bad harbinger.
Now to an analysis of the voting blocks that matter in U.S. politics:

*Black voters. Obama has nowhere to go but down among this group. His endorsement of gay marriage has alienated many black church-going Christians. He may get 88% of their vote instead of the 96% he got in 2008. This is not good news for Obama.
*Hispanic voters. Obama has nowhere to go but down among this group. If Romney picks Rubio as his VP running-mate the GOP may pick up an extra 10% to 15% of Hispanic voters (plus lock down Florida). This is not good news for Obama.
*Jewish voters. Obama has been weak in his support of Israel. Many Jewish voters and big donors are angry and disappointed. I predict Obama's Jewish support drops from 78% in 2008 to the low 60’s. This is not good news for Obama.
*Youth voters. Obama’s biggest and most enthusiastic believers from 4 years ago have graduated into a job market from hell. Young people are disillusioned, frightened, and broke- a bad combination. The enthusiasm is long gone. Turnout will be much lower among young voters, as will actual voting percentages. This not good news for Obama.
*Catholic voters. Obama won a majority of Catholics in 2008. That won’t happen again. Out of desperation to please women, Obama went to war with the Catholic Church over contraception. Now he is being sued by the Catholic Church. Majority lost. This is not good news for Obama.

*Small Business owners. Because I ran for Vice President last time around, and I'm a small businessman myself, I know literally thousands of small business owners. At least 40% of them in my circle of friends, fans and supporters voted for Obama 4 years ago to “give someone different a chance.” I warned them that he would pursue a war on capitalism and demonize anyone who owned a business...that he’d support unions over the private sector in a big way...that he'd overwhelm the economy with spending and debt. My friends didn’t listen. Four years later, I can't find one person in my circle of small business owner friends voting for Obama. Not one. This is not good news for Obama.
*Blue collar working class whites. Do I need to say a thing? White working class voters are about as happy with Obama as Boston Red Sox fans feel about the New York Yankees. This is not good news for Obama.
*Suburban moms. The issue isn’t contraception…it’s having a job to pay for contraception. Obama’s economy frightens these moms. They are worried about putting food on the table. They fear for their children’s future. This is not good news for Obama.

*Military Veterans. McCain won this group by 10 points. Romney is winning by 24 points. The more our military vets got to see of Obama, the more they disliked him. This is not good news for Obama.
Add it up. Is there one major group where Obama has gained since 2008? Will anyone in America wake up on election day saying “I didn’t vote for Obama 4 years ago. But he’s done such a fantastic job, I can’t wait to vote for him today.” Does anyone feel that a vote for Obama makes their job more secure?
Forget the polls. My gut instincts as a Vegas oddsmaker and common sense small businessman tell me this will be a historic landslide and a world-class repudiation of Obama’s radical and risky socialist agenda. It's Reagan-Carter all over again.
But I’ll give Obama credit for one thing- he is living proof that familiarity breeds contempt.

Wayne Allyn Root

Wayne Allyn Root (W.A.R) is a former Presidential candidate, the 2008 Libertarian Vice Presidential nominee, and a Tea Party favorite.

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CAN OBAMA BUY THE ILLEGALS’ VOTES WITH DREAM ACTS WELFARE?

Obama DREAM Amnesty to Cost At Least $585 Million

The Obama Administration's plan to grant deferred action status and work authorization to illegal aliens meeting criteria similar to the DREAM Act could cost over $585 million, internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) documents reveal.  (Arizona Central, July 24, 2012)

The documents, leaked to the Associated Press last week, provide the first look at the Administration's cost projections for the amnesty program announced June 15. They include estimates that the federal government will need to hire over 1,400 new employees and contractors to process the more than one million anticipated applications. (Id.) In fact, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) — the agency that the Inspector General discovered earlier this year was pressuring its employees into rubber-stamping immigration benefits applications despite questions of fraud or ineligibility — estimates the amnesty will result in it processing more than 3,000 applications daily. (Id.; see also FAIR Legislative Update, Jan. 9, 2012 and OIG Report 12-24)

The documents also undermine the Administration's claims that the amnesty will be fee-driven and not cost U.S. taxpayers. While the internal documents show DHS is considering charging illegal aliens $465 per application, the documents also state that depending on how many applicants are granted a waiver or otherwise do not pay, the government could lose between $19 million and $121 million. (Arizona Central, July 24, 2012)Secretary Napolitano told Congress last week that DHS would release its plans for implementing the application process August 1 and that it would begin accepting applications August 15. (See Bloomberg Government Transcript, July 19, 2012; see also FAIR Legislative Update, July 23) The Department was scheduled to hold its second stakeholder conference call on the recently announced deferred action program July 26 (already rescheduled from July 9), but cancelled the call just hours before it was to occur.

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“We should not forget that we are a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants,” Napolitano said.

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The Obama administration has also cut worksite enforcement efforts by 70%, allowing illegal immigrants to continue working in jobs that rightfully belong to citizens and legal workers.


Illegal Alien Parents to Benefit from President's DREAM Act Decree

Lost in the media frenzy surrounding President Obama's decision to administratively implement the DREAM Act is the Administration's plans to also grant a reprieve to the illegal alien parents who brought them here in violation of U.S. immigration law. In doing so, the Administration is directly contradicting its own public relations campaign — and that of amnesty advocates nationwide — which has portrayed its new policy as a way to provide "a degree of relief" to "innocent young kids." (See White House transcript, June 15, 2012; to read more about the President's "deferred action" policy, see FAIR's Legislative Update, June 19, 2012)

The Administration's decision to not deport the illegal alien parents of so-called DREAMers was revealed by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano during a CNN interview. Here is the exchange between CNN Anchorman Wolf Blitzer and Secretary Napolitano:

BLITZER: What about the parents of these children? The children come forward now, they identify themselves. Should the parents be concerned that potentially they could be deported? They would now be identified as illegal immigrants.

NAPOLITANO: No. We are not going to do that. We have internally set it up so that the parents are not referred for immigration enforcement if the young person comes in for deferred action. However, the parents are not qualified for deferred action. This is for the young people who meet the criteria that we've set forth. (CNN transcript, June 15, 2012)

While Napolitano makes the distinction that the illegal alien parents will not qualify for "deferred action," the Administration's decision not to deport them essentially amounts to the same thing. The only major difference is that if the Department of Homeland Security simply administratively closes the parents' cases, it is uncertain whether it will grant the parents work authorization.

As if the President's new deferred action policy were not troubling enough itself, the decision not to deport the illegal alien parents of DREAMers could triple the number of illegal aliens who benefit from it. Excluding parents, the Pew Hispanic Center estimates that at least 1.4 million illegal aliens would qualify for deferred action under the President's new program. (See Pew Hispanic Center report, June 15, 2012) But with the Administration's acknowledgment that it will no longer deport the illegal alien parents of DREAMers, the size of the President's amnesty program could triple, or perhaps even quadruple, when fraudulent applications are taken into account.


THE ENTIRE REASON THE BORDERS ARE LEFT OPEN IS TO CUT WAGES!
"We could cut unemployment in half simply by reclaiming the jobs taken by illegal workers," said Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, co-chairman of the Reclaim American Jobs Caucus. "President Obama is on the wrong side of the American people on immigration. The president should support policies that help citizens and legal immigrants find the jobs they need and deserve rather than fail to enforce immigration laws."

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Newsmax

Obama's 'Hispanicazation' of America
Monday, January 10, 2011 08:28 AM

The truth about the DREAM Act

Published March 20, 2012  

The DREAM Act has become a rallying cry for President Obama, members of his administration, and liberal Democrats everywhere. President Obama has vowed to “keep fighting for the DREAM Act,” which would grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants.
It’s true when listeners or those polled don’t know the facts that the DREAM Act has some appeal. After all, we are all naturally sympathetic when children are involved.

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THE MEXICAN CRIME TIDAL WAVE SPREADS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES

Everyday there are 12 Americans murdered by Mexicans and 8 children molested!

California Attorney Gen Kamala Harris announced that nearly HALF of all murders in Mex-occupied CA are by MEX GANGS!


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WILL MEXICO BANKRUPT AMERICA?

CALIFORNIA UNDER MEXICAN-OCCUPATION PAYS OUT $22 BILLION PER YEAR IN SOCIAL SERVICES TO ILLEGALS!


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WILL OHIO BE BANKRUPTED BY THE LA RAZA MEX-OCCUPATION THAT NOT ONE LEGAL VOTED FOR?


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HOW MANY BILLIONS ARE MARYLANDERS FORCED TO PAY FOR MEX WELFARE AND LOOTING?


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BARACK OBAMA, FIRST HISPANDERING LA RAZA “THE RACE” PRESIDENT – HIS LA RAZA SUPREMACIST INFESTED ADMINISTRATION:


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OBAMA AND MEXICO PROMISE ILLEGALS JUMPING OUR BORDERS OBAMACARE, “FREE” MEDICAL, “FREE” ANCHOR BABY BIRTHING = 18 YEARS WELFARE, AND OUR JOBS!


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ROBERT RECTOR: THE STAGGERING COST OF MEXICO’S INVASION, OCCUPATION AND EVER GROWING WELFARE STATE


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ONE OF MEXICO’S BIGGEST EXPORTS NEXT TO DRUGS, AND CRIMINALS ARE PREGNANT WOMEN. THESE POOR DESPERATE WOMEN JUMP OUR BORDERS FOR “FREE” ANCHOR BABY BIRTHING = 18 YEARS OF WELFARE FOR EACH CHILD.

THE CHILDREN BORN OF MEXICANS THAT ILLEGALLY CROSSED OUR BORDERS IS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN BUT STILL A CITIZEN OF MEXICO.


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THE LOOTING OF AMERICA BY MEXICO, BARACK OBAMA and ERIC HOLDER

OBAMA’S HISPANICAZATION of AMERICA:


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ANCHOR BABIES – HOW MEXICO ANCHORS THEIR OCCUPATION AND EXPAND THEIR WELFARE STATE IN OUR BORDERS!




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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":

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."

The fringe is the center. The center is the fringe. Viva La Raza?