“The
Obama administration will sue Arizona for trying to help Washington enforce
federal immigration laws, but flatly rejects the notion of suing sanctuary
cities that blatantly defy those same laws.”
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The
Cost of Sanctuary Policies
A recent criminal case in California highlights the human costs of looking
the other way when illegal aliens are apprehended and then turned loose rather
than being placed on deportation proceedings.
Marcos Lopez Garcia, an illegal alien, pled guilty to manslaughter in a
hit-and-run case that killed a 4-year-old in Santa Rosa, California, in August
2011. He now faces a 5½ year sentence. Lopez had two prior arrests for driving
without a license and without insurance, most recently in June 2010. At that
time he was given a one-year conditional sentence. (See
Sacramento Bee,
May 14, 2012, and
KSRO News,
May 11, 2012)
The news accounts do not explain why Lopez was not reported to the
immigration authorities, although the likely explanation is misguided sanctuary
policies. But, even if he had been turned over to the authorities, under the
current prioritization policy of the administration, Lopez would not have been
a priority case, and likely would not have been taken into custody by ICE.
SANCTUARY
CITY BALTIMORE – THE SPREAD OF MEX SUPREMACY
Illegal Aliens Want Sanctuary
Policies In Writing
Last Updated: Fri, 08/27/2010
- 3:34pm
Lawmakers and
police in a major U.S. city have reassured illegal immigrants that they’re
protected under longtime sanctuary policies amid demands from open borders advocates
that the measures be formalized in writing.
A group of Latino activists, clergy and civil rights leaders
took to the street this week to command Baltimore officials to further solidify
the city’s measures to shield illegal aliens from federal authorities. Like
many law enforcement agencies across the nation, Baltimore Police bans its
officers from inquiring about suspects’ immigration status.
Now emboldened illegal immigrants want the policy in writing to reduce crime and help
bridge the gap between officers and immigrants after the recent murders of
three Hispanic men in the area. The most recent victim, a Honduran, was clubbed
and beaten with a wooden stake by a mentally disturbed teen who professed to
hate “Mexicans.” Illegal immigrants are more prone to cooperate in these sorts
of police investigations if the department has a written don’t-ask-don’t-tell
immigration policy, their advocates say.
But Baltimore Police Chief Frederick Bealefeld asserts that
a written policy is unnecessary because his officers never ask about
immigration status as per the citywide sanctuary measures. In the three years
he’s served as department head, Bealefeld says he hasn’t heard “one utterance on
enforcement of immigration laws.” For their part, city officials assure residents that they
should trust police to focus on fighting violent crime, not enforcing
immigration laws.
This week a Maryland legislator threw a wrench in
Baltimore’s sanctuary public relations campaign by announcing a proposed bill
that will give citizens the power to sue public officials who violate federal
immigration laws. If the measure passes, citizens can file complaints against
public officials in circuit court and, if convicted, the official could be
booted from office or face criminal charges.
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OBAMA’S PROMISE TO HIS LA RAZA PARTY BASE:
OPTION ONE
AMNESTY, AND EXPANDED LA RAZA SUPREMACY – There is a reason
why his administration is infested with LA RAZA part members!
OPTION TWO
CONTINUED NON-ENFORCEMENT
NO PRESIDENT IN HISTORY HAS SABOTAGED OUR BORDERS MORE AS
HE’S SQUANDERED TRILLIONS ON MUSLIM BORDERS.
THERE IS NOTHING BARACK OBAMA WILL NOT DO FOR THE ILLEGALS’
VOTES!
VIVA LA RAZA SUPREMACY? OBAMA IS FUNDING IT FROM YOUR WHITE
HOUSE WITH YOUR TAX DOLLARS!
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Senators Tell DHS To Stop Ignoring
Illegal Alien Sanctuaries
By Judicial
Watch Blog
Created
4 Nov 2011 - 12:22pm
While the Justice Department
focuses on taking action against state laws to combat illegal immigration, a
group of U.S. Senators is asking the Obama Administration to stop ignoring
local ordinances that undermine federal laws by offering undocumented aliens
sanctuary.
In battling local immigration
control measures nationwide, the DOJ has claimed that they conflict with federal
immigration law [1]and undermine the government’s
careful balance of immigration enforcement priorities and objectives. The Obama
Administration has made this argument recently in cases against Arizona and
Alabama.
But what is the
administration doing about local governments that refuse to cooperate with
federal immigration authorities and blatantly ignore the legal status of
arrested individuals? A group of Senate Judiciary Committee members posed the
question to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano this week.
They specifically mentioned
Cook County Illinois where local authorities openly flip the finger at the feds
by refusing to report illegal immigrants who come in contact with police, even
dangerous criminals. In fact, in 2007 Judicial Watch took legal action [2] against the Chicago Police
Department—which has a don’t-ask-don’t-tell immigration policy—after learning
of an illegal immigrant sanctuary resolution that was being considered by Cook
County’s Board of Commissioners at the time.
In a letter [3] to Napolitano this week, the
Judiciary Committee members—senators Chuck Grassley (Iowa), John Cornyn
(Texas), Tom Coburn (Oklahoma) and Jeff Sessions (Alabama)—cite a recent
meeting with a high-ranking Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official
who confirmed that Cook County creates a major problem for enforcement efforts.
In fact, the ICE associate director of removal operations said Cook County’s
egregious example of sanctuary city policies presents “an accident waiting to
happen.”
So the senators ask
Napolitano: “We would like to know what specific steps have been and will be
taken by your Department to compel Cook County to reverse its policy of
ignoring immigration detainers. In addition, we would request an overview of
meetings held between federal officials and Cook County, including any emails
or other documentation that exist, to understand how the federal government has
been or is attempting to rectify the situation.”
Napolitano is urged to take a
direct role in the matter by the lawmakers who remind the Homeland Security
Secretary that Cook County’s ordinance creates a “serious threat to the
public’s safety” that requires Napolitano’s “immediate and personal attention.”
It’s a matter of national security, the veteran senators assert.
Americans shouldn’t hold their
breath. The Obama Administration is too busy fighting local measures that are
viewed as “discriminatory” and “anti-immigrant” by the open borders movement.
In fact, the DOJ even created a secret group [4] within the bloated civil
rights division to monitor laws passed by states and local municipalities to
control illegal immigration.
Judicial Watch has been a
frontrunner in the nationwide battle to combat illegal immigration and earlier
this year filed a motion [5] on behalf of the Arizona
State Legislature in the Obama Administration’s lawsuit challenging its tough
law. JW has also sued police departments across the country for practicing
don’t-ask-don’t-tell immigration policies and has led an effort to shut down
taxpayer-funded day laborer centers. Read all about JW's work involving illegal
immigration here [6].
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Obama Administration Refuses to Sue Sanctuary Cities
Obama Administration Refuses to Sue Sanctuary Cities
Less than a week after suing Arizona to block its immigration law, SB 1070,
critics are pressing the Obama administration to go after “sanctuary cities”
that deliberately look the other way when it comes to illegal immigration. The
Department of Justice last week responded that it will not sue these cities,
which prohibit local law enforcement from inquiring about an individual’s legal
status or alerting immigration authorities when they encounter illegal
immigrants, because it believes passive refusal to follow the law is not as
egregious as Arizona’s passage of a law that “actively interferes” with federal
law. Justice Department spokeswoman for Attorney General Eric Holder
inexplicably argued, “There is a big difference between a state or locality
saying they are not going to use their resources to enforce a federal law, as
so-called sanctuary cities have done, and a state passing its own immigration
policy that actively interferes with federal law.” (The Washington Times, July
14, 2010).
Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX), who authored the 1996 federal law which
requires states and localities to cooperate with federal authorities on
immigration enforcement, criticized the Justice Department’s politically
convenient stance on sanctuary cities. "For the Justice Department to
suggest that they won't take action against those who passively violate the law
…. is absurd," said Rep. Smith. "Will they ignore individuals who
fail to pay taxes? Will they ignore banking laws that require disclosure of
transactions over $10,000? Of course not." (The Washington Times, July 14,
2010).
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has also noted the irony of the Obama
administration’s refusal to sue localities to strike down their sanctuary
policies, which she said could also be considered a “patchwork” of immigration
laws across the country. (Brewer Statement, July 6, 2010). Senator David Vitter
(R-LA) similarly noted, “This administration’s idea of immigration enforcement
is to go after the states and local officials actually trying to enforce the
laws on the books. They are demonizing those that look to protect our border
and end illegal immigration while giving a wink and nod of approval to
sanctuary cities that don't enforce our laws.” (Vitter Press Release, July 15,
2010).
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8 New American Gateways For
Immigrants
By Neema P. Roshania, Kiplinger.com
Jun 29th, 2010
The economic recovery may be
slow and uncertain. Immigration remains a hot button political issue. But
there's one positive trend that will keep benefiting smaller cities in the
years ahead: Their growing appeal to immigrant poppulations.
Though New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago and other large U.S. cities
remain hubs for immigrants, newcomers from abroad are increasingly settling in
smaller communities across the U.S., lured by a lower cost of living, more job
opportunities, and a support structure of fellow immigrants. In return, these
communities get a rejuvenated work force and a consumer base.
Here are eight rapidly emerging gateway communities for
immigrants. All are likely to remain popular with foreign newcomers, despite stepped-up
enforcement of federal immigration laws. Some may surprise you.
Benton/Washington Counties,
Ark.
Home to large employers such as Wal-Mart in Bentonville and Tyson Foods in nearby Springdale, these northwest Arkansas
counties have seen enormous growth in their immigrant populations over the past
decade.
Foreign born residents now make up more than 20% of Springdale's population. The area's
chicken farms, construction industry, corporate headquarters, and low cost of
housing remain a strong magnet.
With Hispanics accounting for most of the increase, the
region is seeing more ethnic bakeries, restaurants, media outlets, and other
businesses. The once nearly homogeneous local school districts have added
English as a second language to their curricula in addition to special programs
to help involve parents in their children's education.
Portland and Salem, Ore.
(Marion/Multnomah counties)
The growth of the area's technology industry draws
highly skilled immigrant workers to northwest Oregon, where they're joining
earlier arrivals -- refugees from Southeast Asia, Africa, eastern Europe and
Russia.
Fairfax County, Va.
In this large suburban county bordering Washington, D.C., immigrants make up almost
30% of the population. The recession hasn't been felt here as much as it has in
other parts of the country and construction, and service jobs are still
plentiful. Fairfax County is across the Potomac
River from the nation's capital, which, along with other large cities, has long
been a draw for immigrants.
There's also a strong immigrant presence among service
workers, especially in health care, restaurants, and cleaning services. Nearly
40% of the region's immigrant population arrived within the past decade. Many
own their own businesses. And they are encouraging more family members and
friends from the old country to join them.
Shelbyville, Tenn. (Bedford County)
Though the foreign born population in Shelbyville hovers around the national
average, the small city and its environs have become a mecca for refugees from
Egypt, Myanmar (formerly known as Burma), and Somalia. There are jobs in Shelbyville's food processing plants and
other factories.
Cape Coral, Fla. (Lee County)
Southwest Florida's Gulf Coast has strong
agriculture and service sectors. In 2000, Cape Coral's foreign born population was
8.7%, relatively low compared with national average of 11.1%. In the past
decade it has increased by about 250% -- putting it above the national average.
Boise, Id. (Ada County)
Attracted to the area by job opportunities in agriculture
and an affordable cost of living, Boise's immigrant population has
climbed by more than 50% over the past decade.
Gwinnett County, Ga.
The foreign born population in Gwinnett County has more than doubled since
2000, and now represents about 25% of the county's total population. Drawn to
the area by an abundance of jobs in the service sector and the low cost of
housing, the immigrants are mostly Hispanic. They are carving out a livelihood
in a region where blacks have traditionally been the most visible minority.
Gwinnett also has one of the highest rates of illegal immigration in the U.S.
-- authorities estimate that half of all foreign born residents of the county
are unauthorized.
Raleigh-Durham-Cary, N.C.
(Wake/Durham/Chatham Cos.)
North Carolina's 394% immigrant growth rate
in the 1990s was the fastest among Southern states, and the trend has continued
in the 21st century. The Raleigh-Durham area has been hub to much of
this growth.
The draw? Affordable housing and jobs at Research
Triangle Park -- one of the country's largest technology development centers --
as well as in the construction and service sectors. The recession and stricter
enforcement of immigration laws in the Tar Heel State are slowing immigration
growth -- at least for now. But many experts think migration could pick up
again as the economy recovers.
Sources: Census Bureau,
University of Southern California, Moody's Economy.com
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DICK LAMM, GOVERNOR OF COLORADO on the LA RAZA AGENDA and the
DEATH OF THE AMERICAN DREAM
We know Dick Lamm as the former
Governor of Colorado. In that context his thoughts are particularly poignant.
Last week there was an immigration overpopulation conference in Washington, DC,
filled to capacity by many of America's finest minds and leaders. A brilliant
college professor by the name of Victor Hansen Davis talked about his latest
book, "Mexifornia," explaining how immigration - both legal and
illegal was destroying the entire state of California. He said it would march
across the country until it destroyed all vestiges of The American Dream.
Moments later, former Colorado Governor Richard D. Lamm stood up and gave a
stunning speech on how to destroy America. The audience sat spellbound as he
described eight methods for the destruction of the United States. He said,
"If you believe that America is too smug, too self-satisfied, too rich,
then let's destroy! America. It is not that hard to do. No nation in history
has survived the ravages of time. Arnold Toynbee observed that all great
civilizations rise and fall and that 'An autopsy of history would show that all
great nations commit suicide.'"
"Here is how they do it," Lamm said: "First, to destroy America,
turn America into a bilingual or multi-lingual and bicultural country."
History shows that no nation can survive the tension, conflict, and antagonism
of two or more competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an
individual to be bilingual; however, it is a curse for a society to be
bilingual. The historical scholar, Seymour Lipset, put it this way: "The
histories of bilingual and bi-cultural societies that do not assimilate are
histories of turmoil, tension, and
tragedy." Canada, Belgium, Malaysia, and Lebanon all face crises of
national existence in which minorities press for autonomy, if not independence.
Pakistan and Cyprus have divided. Nigeria suppressed an ethnic rebellion.
France faces difficulties with Basques, Bretons, and Corsicans."
Lamm went on: Second, to destroy America, "Invent 'multiculturalism' and
encourage immigrants to maintain their culture. I would make it an article of
belief that all cultures are equal. That there are no cultural differences. I
would make it an article of faith that the Black and Hispanic dropout rates are
due solely to prejudice and
discrimination by the majority. Every other explanation is out of bounds.
Third, "We could make the United States an 'Hispanic Quebec' without much
effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity. As Benjamin
Schwarz said in the Atlantic Monthly recently: "The apparent success of
our own multiethnic and multicultural experiment might have been achieved not
by tolerance but by hegemony. Without the dominance that once dictated
ethnocentricity and what it meant to be an American, we! are left with only
tolerance and pluralism to hold us together." Lamm said, "I would
encourage all immigrants to keep their own language and culture. I would
replace the melting pot metaphor with the salad bowl metaphor. It is important
to ensure that we have
various cultural subgroups living in America enforcing their differences rather
than as Americans, emphasizing their similarities."
"Fourth, I would make our fastest growing demographic group the least
educated. I would add a second underclass, unassimilated, undereducated, and
antagonistic to our population. I would have this second underclass have a 50%
dropout rate from high school."
"My fifth point for destroying America would be to get big foundations and
business to give these efforts lots of money. I would invest in ethnic identity,
and I would establish the cult of 'Victimology.' I would get all minorities to
think that their lack of success was the fault of the majority. I would start a
grievance industry blaming all
minority failure on the majority population."
"My sixth plan for America's downfall would include dual citizenship, and
promote divided loyalties. I would celebrate diversity over unity. I would
stress differences rather than similarities. Diverse people worldwide are
mostly engaged in hating each other - that is, when they are not killing each
other. A diverse, peaceful, or stable society is against most historical
precedent. People undervalue the unity it takes to keep a nation together. Look
at the ancient Greeks. The Greeks believed that they belonged to the same race;
they possessed a common language and literature; and they worshipped the same
gods. All Greece took part in the Olympic games. A common enemy, Persia,
threatened their liberty. Yet all these bonds were not strong enough to
overcome two factors: local patriotism and geographical conditions that
nurtured political divisions. Greece fell. "E. Pluribus Unum" -- From
many, one. In that historical reality, if we put the emphasis on the 'pluribus'
instead of the 'Unum,' we will balkanize America as surely as Kosovo."
"Next to last, I would place all subjects off limits; make it taboo to
talk about anything against the cult of 'diversity.' I would find a word
similar to 'heretic' in the 16th century - that stopped discussion and
paralyzed thinking. Words like 'racist' or 'xenophobe' halt discussion and
debate. Having made America a bilingual/bicultural country, having established
multi-culturism, having the large foundations fund the! doctrine of
'Victimology,' I would next make it impossible to enforce our immigration laws.
I would develop a mantra: That because immigration has been good for America,
it must always be good. I would make every individual immigrant symmetric and
ignore the cumulative impact of millions of them."
In the last minute of his speech, Governor Lamm wiped his brow. Profound
silence followed. Finally he said,. "Lastly, I would censor Victor Hanson
Davis's book "Mexifornia." His book is dangerous. It exposes the plan
to destroy America. If you feel America. deserves to be destroyed, don't read
that book."
There was no applause. A chilling fear quietly rose like an ominous cloud above
every attendee at the conference Every American in that room knew that
everything Lamm enumerated was proceeding methodically, quietly, darkly, yet
pervasively across the United States today.
Discussion is being suppressed. Over 100 languages are ripping the foundation
of our educational system and national cohesiveness. Even barbaric cultures
that practice female genital mutilation are growing as we celebrate
'diversity.' American jobs are vanishing into the Third World as corporations
create a Third World in America - take note of California and other states - to
date, ten million illegal aliens and growing fast. It is reminiscent of George
Orwell's book "1984." In that story, three slogans are engraved in
the Ministry of Truth building: "War is peace," "Freedom is
slavery," and "Ignorance is strength."
Governor Lamm walked back to his seat. It dawned on everyone at the conference
that our nation and the future of this great democracy is deeply in trouble and
worsening fast. If we don't get this immigration monster stopped within three
years, it will rage like a California wildfire and destroy everything in its
path, especially The American Dream.
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Hans
A. von Spakovsky
Law-Enforcement-Free
Sanctuaries
The
Obama administration will sue Arizona for trying to help Washington enforce
federal immigration laws, but flatly rejects the notion of suing sanctuary
cities that blatantly defy those same laws. That announcement two weeks
ago revealed the hypocrisy and utter contempt for the rule of law rampant in
Eric Holder’s Justice Department.
It was the latest example of
the Department letting partisan politics, rather than the interests of justice
and the impartial enforcement of the law, drive its legal decisions. In this
instance, it both threatens national security and undermines public confidence
in our legal system.
The very weakness of the
Department’s legal arguments in the Arizona suit betrays its political genesis.
As the brief filed on behalf of Arizona by nine other states persuasively
argues, Arizona is not interfering with federal authority: it has neither
created new categories of aliens nor attempted to independently determine the
immigration status of aliens. Arizona’s law simply requires local law
enforcement officers to check the immigration status of individuals arrested
for other reasons. This is exactly the regulatory scheme of concurrent
enforcement envisioned by federal immigration law.
The Justice Department’s suit
directly contradicts the 2005 Supreme Court decision in Muehler v. Mena. In
that case, all nine justices upheld the right of local police officers to
question a detained individual’s immigration status while a search warrant was
being executed. The suit also flies in the face of Estrada v. Rhode Island, in
which the First Circuit Court of Appeals this February upheld a state trooper’s
questioning of immigration status during a traffic stop. This is the exact
policy being implemented in Arizona.
Federal
courts have long upheld the power of state law enforcement officers to arrest
those who violate federal law, as long as it is also a violation of state law,
includingimmigration laws. The inherent authority of local police to arrest
immigration violators was outlined in 2002 in a legal memorandum issued by the
Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel. Yet Attorney General Holder
has filed a lawsuit making claims completely at odds with an opinion issued by
his own department.
Holder’s suit also conflicts
directly with federal immigration law. The Illegal Immigration Reform and
Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. §1373) specifically mandates
that no federal, state, or local government can “prohibit, or in any way
restrict, any government entity or official from sending to, or receiving from,
the Immigration and Naturalization Service [now Immigration and Customs
Enforcement or ICE], information regarding the citizenship or immigration
status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual,” a provision upheld by the
Second Circuit Court of Appeals in 1999. Congress wanted local governments to
get information on immigration status from the federal government – and that is
exactly what the Arizona law requires for anyone arrested in the state. Yet
Holder is trying to prevent Arizona officials from checking “the citizenship or
immigration status” of “any individual.”
Now we’re awaiting a ruling
by a federal judge on the Justice Department’s request for a temporary injunction
to stop the law from going into effect on Thursday. It’s clear, though, that
the only way that judge could possibly rule in the Department’s favor is by
ignoring the law and this precedent.
Justice Department spokesman
Tracy Schmaler asserts that Arizona is “actively” interfering with federal law
while sanctuary cities are just not using their resources to enforce federal
law. This bogus claim displays fundamental ignorance of these federal legal
requirements. Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the ranking Republican on the House
Judiciary committee and the chief author of the 1996 immigration law, rightly
calls it “absurd.” Cities like San Francisco not only do not enforce federal
immigration laws, some violate it by protecting aliens from deportation and refusing
to cooperate with or provide information to immigration officials.
As the nine states note in
their brief, the Justice Department is trying to negate the “preexisting power
of the States to verify a person’s immigration status and similarly seeks to
reject the assistance that the States can lawfully provide to the Federal
government.” Holder’s claim that Arizona is interfering with federal power to
regulate immigration is near frivolous.
Arizona simply requires that
law enforcement personnel (1) ascertain the immigration status of people they
have lawfully detained for some other reason and (2) report to the federal
government the presence of any detainee determined to be here illegally. If the
Obama administration wants to ignore that information and reject that
assistance, it has that option. The only possible “interference” with federal
power is the risk that the feds might be publicly embarrassed by a policy of
non-enforcement. Apparently the White House and DOJ consider embarrassment a
federal offense.
Holder makes one further --
yet equally absurd -- claim: that by trying to deter the movement of illegal
aliens into Arizona, the state is restricting interstate commerce and thus
violates the Commerce Clause. How can deterring the entry of people who have no
legal right to enter possibly violate interstate commerce? It is the same as
saying that -- notwithstanding federal laws that bar importation of heroin -- a
state that busts heroin traffickers is flouting the Commerce Clause.
Federal law stipulates that
any person who “conceals, harbors, or shields from detection, or attempts to
conceal, harbor, or shield from detection,” an illegal alien is committing a
crime. It is also criminal just to “encourage” residence by illegal aliens. Yet
sanctuary cities like San Francisco have enacted formal policies that embrace
all these illegal acts. Such policies lead directly to further crimes, such as
the vicious murder of a father and his two sons on a San Francisco street. The
killer was an illegal alien with two prior felony convictions -- yet on neither
occasion did San Francisco authorities notify the feds of his presence. Had
they done so, he would not have been able to gun down Tony Bologna, 48, and his
sons Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16, as they sat in their car on June 16, 2008.
Holder’s refusal to sue
sanctuary cities is an abrogation of his responsibility as the nation’s chief
federal law enforcement officer. Unlike Arizona, many of these cities have
policies that violate federal law.
The Obama administration
claims Arizona’s law will “disrupt federal immigration enforcement.” But the
only thing it could possibly disrupt is federal non-enforcement. As the
elections approach, Holder’s suit may help gin up enthusiasm among the
president’s more radical political allies, such as La Raza. But using the law
enforcement powers of the federal government to achieve political ends is a
dangerous abuse of power.
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FROM HIS LA RAZA SEC. OF LABOR, HILDA SOLIS, TO FORMER LA
RAZA V.P. CECELIA MUNOZ, AND ON THE COURT
LA RAZA SONIA SOTOMAYER, THE SELF-STYLED “WISE LATINA”… NO ADMINISTRATION HAS
BEEN SO INFESTED WITH A FOREIGN POLITICAL PARTY AS OBAMA IS WITH THE MEXICAN
FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA!
TAX-PAYER FUNDING FOR LA RAZA HAS SOARED UNDER OBAMA!
FIFTEEN THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT LA RAZA “THE
RACE”
by Michelle Malkin
(get Malkin’s book on
OBAMA NOTED below!)
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!”
While Obama pushes war over there, he is equally
intent on leaving our borders with NARCOMEX undefended, open and ready for business
with the Mexican drug cartels.
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The Administration's Phantom
Immigration Enforcement Policy
According to DHS’s own reports, very
little of our nation’s borders (Southwestern or otherwise) are secure, and
gaining control is not even a goal of the department.
By Ira Mehlman
Published on 12/07/2009
Townhall.com
The setting was not quite the
flight deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln with a “Mission Accomplished” banner
as the backdrop, but it was the next best thing. Speaking at the Center for
American Progress (CAP) on Nov. 13, Homeland Security Secretary Janet
Napolitano declared victory over illegal immigration and announced that the
Obama administration is ready to move forward with a mass amnesty for the
millions of illegal aliens already living in the United States.
Arguing the Obama
administration’s case for amnesty, Napolitano laid out what she described as
the “three-legged stool” for immigration reform. As the administration views
it, immigration reform must include “a commitment to serious and effective
enforcement, improved legal flows for families and workers, and a firm but fair
way to deal with those who are already here.”
Acknowledging that a lack of
confidence in the government’s ability and commitment to effectively enforce
the immigration laws it passes proved to be the Waterloo of previous efforts to
gain amnesty for illegal aliens, Napolitano was quick to reassure the American
public that those concerns could be put to rest.
“For starters, the security
of the Southwest border has been transformed from where it was in 2007,” stated
the secretary. Not only is the border locked up tight, she continued, but the
situation is well in-hand in the interior of the country as well. “We’ve also
shown that the government is serious and strategic in its approach to
enforcement by making changes in how we enforce the law in the interior of the
country and at worksites…Furthermore, we’ve transformed worksite enforcement to
truly address the demand side of illegal immigration.”
If Rep. Joe Wilson had been
in attendance to hear Secretary Napolitano’s CAP speech he might well have had
a few choice comments to offer. But since he wasn’t, we will have to rely on
the Department of Homeland Security’s own data to assess the veracity of
Napolitano’s claims.
According to DHS’s own
reports, very little of our nation’s borders (Southwestern or otherwise) are
secure, and gaining control is not even a goal of the department. DHS claims to
have “effective control” over just 894 miles of border. That’s 894 out of 8,607
miles they are charged with protecting. As for the other 7,713 miles? DHS’s
stated border security goal for FY 2010 is the same 894 miles.
The administration’s
strategic approach to interior and worksite enforcement is just as chimerical
as its strategy at the border, unless one considers shuffling paper to be a
strategy. DHS data, released November 18, show that administrative arrests of
immigration law violators fell by 68 percent between 2008 and 2009. The
department also carried out 60 percent fewer arrests for criminal violations of
immigration laws, 58 percent fewer criminal indictments, and won 63 percent
fewer convictions.
While the official
unemployment rate has climbed from 7.6 percent when President Obama took office
in January to 10 percent today, the administration’s worksite enforcement
strategy has amounted to a bureaucratic game of musical chairs. The administration
has all but ended worksite enforcement actions and replaced them with paperwork
audits. When the audits determine that illegal aliens are on the payroll,
employers are given the opportunity to fire them with little or no adverse
consequence to the company, while no action is taken to remove the illegal
workers from the country. The illegal workers simply acquire a new set of
fraudulent documents and move on to the next employer seeking workers willing
to accept substandard wages.
In Janet Napolitano’s
alternative reality a mere 10 percent of our borders under “effective control”
and sharp declines in arrests and prosecutions of immigration lawbreakers may
be construed as confidence builders, but it is hard to imagine that the
American public is going to see it that way. If anything, the administration’s
record has left the public less confident that promises of future immigration
enforcement would be worth the government paper they’re printed on.
As Americans scrutinize the
administration’s plans to overhaul immigration policy, they are likely to find
little in the “three-legged stool” being offered that they like or trust. The
first leg – enforcement – the administration has all but sawed off. The second
– increased admissions of extended family members and workers – makes little
sense with some 25 million Americans either unemployed or relegated to
part-time work. And the third – amnesty for millions of illegal aliens – is
anathema to their sense of justice and fair play.
As Americans well know, declaring
“Mission Accomplished” and actually accomplishing a mission are two completely
different things. When it comes to enforcing immigration laws, the only message
the public is receiving from this administration is “Mission Aborted.”
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Obama soft on illegals enforcement
Arrests of illegal immigrant
workers have dropped precipitously under President Obama, according to figures
released Wednesday. Criminal arrests, administrative arrests, indictments and
convictions of illegal immigrants at work sites all fell by more than 50
percent from fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2009.
The figures show that Mr. Obama has made good on his pledge to shift
enforcement away from going after illegal immigrant workers themselves - but at
the expense of Americans' jobs, said Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the Republican
who compiled the numbers from the Department of Homeland Security's U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). Mr. Smith, the top Republican
on the House Judiciary Committee, said a period of economic turmoil is the
wrong time to be cutting enforcement and letting illegal immigrants take jobs
that Americans otherwise would hold.
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FAIRUS.org
FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN
IMMIGRATION REFORM
FAIR CHARACTERIZES THE OBAMA,
AND LA RAZA DEMS PLAN FOR AMNESTY AS FOLLOWS:
That's why, throughout 2009
FAIR has been tracking every move the administration and Congress has made to
undermine our immigration laws, reward illegal aliens and burden taxpayers.
- Foot-dragging
on proven methods of immigration law enforcement including border
structures and E-Verify.
- Appointment of
several illegal alien advocates to important administration posts.
- Watering
down of the 287(g) program to limit local law in their own jurisdictions.
- Health care
reform that mandates a “public option” for newly-arrived legal immigrants
as well as illegal aliens.