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The Birth of a Nation
At the Ford Foundation ethnicity is always job 1
By Craig L. Hymowitz
Watching the sea of Mexican flags fill the plaza this past October and listening to the staccato burst of Spanish slogans shouted out by flushed, excited faces, a casual observer might have thought he was in one of those revolutionary provinces near Chiapas commanded by modern Zapatistas. Indeed, many of the slogans were anti-Yankee, and every now and then the sea of Mexican flags would part to reveal someone setting a U.S. flag on fire. Yet the scene was taking place not in Mexico but in downtown Los Angeles. The issue was Proposition 187, and a nation-within-the-nation was not just protesting, but declaring its independence. "I think this is just the opening salvo," California State University Chicano Studies Professor Randolfo Acuna said of the protests. "It is our Fort Sumter."
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Proposition 187 has now begun its slow legal journey to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the scars resulting from the outbursts against it remain fresh in Californians' minds. It is clear that, while the majority of Latinos (the part of the Hispanic community that supported Proposition 187 overwhelmingly as late as mid-September, before being barraged with inflammatory appeals about "racism") continue to assimilate at a healthy rate, they do so against the best efforts of the professional Hispanic leaders and "immigrant rights" groups. And while it seems that these organizations are merely opportunistic, recruiting from among the masses of illegals pouring into California, their current efforts to create a Hispanic "nation" in the midst of the United States are actually the result of a longer-range process, a process begun nearly 30 years ago by their chief patron and brain trust, the Ford Foundation.
The demonstrations of "ethnic pride" that marked Proposition 187 may have been a surprise to some, but for the Ford Foundation it represented the culmination of a quarter century of "Hispanic community-building." It was the fruition, however unintended, of Ford's manipulation of education, immigration, and government policies to create a new identity in America:"that of the Hispanic."
During the past two decades, the Ford Foundation has concentrated on programs for the expansion of Hispanic political mobilization, litigation to "clarify the rights" of immigrants, and research on immigration and reform legislation.
As William Hawkins describes in Importing Revolution: Open Borders and the Radical Agenda, Ford's "bankrolling of 'open border' advocacy policy is sharply one-sided, and often extremist... playing the leading role in founding, and building, what are now the major Hispanic-based organizations. "Other observers agree that Ford's efforts have wedded questions of ethnic identity with immigration policy. While Hispanic separatism may seem "just a pipe-dream of...a few pot-bellied radicals," according to Professor David Hayes-Bautista, director of the UCLA Study of Latino Health, it is the reality in many pockets across the Southwest. Often concentrated on college and high
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The problems of immigration and border control between the United States and Mexico date back to the Mexican-American War and have worsened as the economic gap has grown to become the largest of any two neighboring countries. The modern era of U.S.-Mexican border relations began during World War II. The Bracero Guest Worker Program sought to take advantage of the economic disparity between the United States and Mexico by attracting Mexican workers to overcome a shortage of agricultural and manual laborers. Congress and the Mexican government authorized a program that allowed Mexican workers into the United States for a period of up to six months. While agricultural growers came to depend on the near limitless supply of seasonal workers, for strike breaking as well as picking, the program also introduced more than four million Mexicans to the United States, which became, through tales carried back home, the promised land.
Although the Bracero Program was officially ended in 1964, Congress could do nothing to diminish agribusiness' demand for cheap labor or the Mexicans' reliance on the dollar. The Immigration Reform Act of 1965 replaced the national-origin quota system, in place since 1920, with a system based on family reunification and "more equitable" division of entry visas between the Eastern and Western hemispheres. (Also included was the "Texas proviso," which allowed employers to hire illegal aliens without penalty.)
Caught in the backdraft of the civil rights movement, immigration reform, which has traditionally been seen as an issue of national sovereignty, was transformed into an issue of ethnicity and minority rights. Mexican immigration, however, remained for the most part economically driven until the Ford Foundation entered the field.
Henry Santiestevan, former head of the Southwest Council of La Raza, has written:"It can be said that without the Ford Foundation's commitment to a strategy of national and local institution-building, the Chicano movement would have withered away in many areas." Ford deliberately set out to politically empower Hispanics through a series of concentrated grants, with much of the emphasis in rural areas of the Southwest--places like New Mexico, where Reies Tijerina attempted to build a radical chicano movement akin to the Black Panthers in the mid-60's. Ford also looked to the urban areas of Southern California, where illegal immigration was increasing but was, as yet, still a sleeping issue. It would be in this venue that Ford's investment in community organizing among Latinos would have its most dramatic effect, cementing the relationship between immigration and identity.
It is an irony, given the increasing tension between black and Hispanic groups in Southern California, that Ford originally approached the question of Hispanic rights with the intention of strengthening its ongoing efforts on behalf of blacks. According to the writings of Siobhan Oppenheimer-Nicolau, a former Ford program officer, officials at Ford determined in 1966 "that the problems of Blacks and other disadvantaged groups would not receive sustained attention unless the political base for the disadvantaged was broadened." Two years later Ford would create the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the most influential Hispanic group in the country--and Ford's largest Hispanic policy recipient.
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Modeled after the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, MALDEF, with an initial $2.2-million grant, was formed with the mandate "to assist Hispanics (legal or otherwise) in using legal means to secure their rights." A second grant was made to establish the National Council of La Raza "to coordinate efforts to achieve civil rights and equal opportunity" through support of Community Development Corporations. Under the guidance of newly installed McGeorge Bundy, the Ford Foundation, in addition to creating MALDEF and La Raza, funded numerous other Hispanic advocacy groups, such as the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project and the Latino Institute. In 1974, Ford would establish the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund to mimic MALDEF's efforts among Puerto Ricans.
Over the next three decades Ford and other liberal institutions, such as the Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations, would seek to expand the rights of Hispanics in a variety of ways. One report by the Latino Institute found that in 1977-78, "the Ford Foundation, provided over half (54 percent) of the support for Hispanic needs and concerns. The Ford grants were nine times greater in value than the foundation providing the next highest amount." The survey also revealed that MALDEF alone received almost one-third of all funds given to Hispanic-controlled organizations. To date, Ford has given more than $18.9 million to MALDEF, and $12.9 million to the National Council of La Raza.
Coming along at a time when revisionist historians were finding a malicious recipe to the melting pot, MALDEF was guided from the onset by the principle that its job was to strengthen the "ethnic identity" of newly arrived immigrants, legal and illegal, rather than aid their assimilation into their American mainstream. Building on the first federal bilingual education program in 1968, MALDEF won its first major victory on behalf of Hispanics in Serna v. Portales (1972), a case that won Spanish-speaking children in New Mexico the right to bilingual education.
MALDEF's efforts on behalf of bilingualism continued with its support for the 1974 Supreme Court case, Lau v. Nichols, which forced school districts to remove language barriers that prohibited linguistic minorities from fully participating in public education. Working with the Court's definition of "linguistic minorities," MALDEF and other Hispanic groups took the final steps to institutionalize an "Hispanic" identity (as opposed to an assimilated Mexican-American one) and to gain recognition for Hispanics as a federally recognized minority by amending the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
At the time of the Voting Rights Act's renewal in 1975, three Hispanics had already been elected to the House of Representatives, one to the U.S. Senate, two were then serving as governors, and, according to one study of Texas, 700 of them had held local office since 1971. MALDEF maintained, however, that Mexican- Americans had been systematically excluded from political involvement. The organization managed to convince Congress that English-language ballots were the same as literacy tests, which had been used to exclude qualified blacks from voting in the South. MALDEF-sponsored amendments to the Voting Rights Act authorized multilingual ballots on demand whenever "language minorities" made up 5 percent of a given jurisdiction's residents (legal or otherwise) where there had been less than 50 percent voter turnout in the last presidential election. Thus 375 new jurisdictions were added, mainly in the Southwest, and a new class of bilingual ballots were created for "language minorities," including Spanish-speaking persons, Asians, American Indians, and Alaskan Natives.
The most important effect of the 1975 VRA amendments did not occur until 1980, when the term "Hispanic" was officially added to the national census as an ethnicity. Facing criticism from demographers and assimilationists in 1978, MALDEF's Vilma Martinez, chairman of a Special Census Advisory Committee on the Spanish Population, defended the addition:"We are trying to get our just share of political influence and federal funds. There's nothing sinister about it."
The 1980 census would count "Hispanics" (undocumented along with legal residents) for the first time. For the 1990 census, MALDEF conducted a nationwide "Make Yourself Count!" outreach program, because "everything from allocation of Federal funds to political representation is determined by census number," said Antonia Hernandez, MALDEF's current president and general counsel. Having been given a new identity and having had their numbers counted, Hispanic activists were now in a position to take the next step--demand federal affirmative-action programs, political redistricting, and preferential academic admissions based on "proportionality."
As a result of Ford Foundation money and direction, Hispanic activists had achieved the miraculous: status as a federal minority that previously hadn't existed. MALDEF leader Vilma Martinez defended the development, telling the New York Times that "Spanish people most shared the 'common realities' of poverty, poor education, unemployment, and political weakness." Today, however, Hispanic leaders are more honest in their assessment. As Charles Kamasaki, Vice President of National Council of La Raza, says, "Yes, at some level the term 'Hispanic' is a false term, [but] so is 'Asian-American'... and 'African-American.''' Linda Chavez is more forthright, "Nobody really identifies themselves as either 'Hispanic' or 'Latino,'" she says bluntly.
In fact, "Hispanic" is still something of a fantasy. The 1992 Latino National Political Survey revealed that the majority of Hispanics actually identify themselves by national origin, i.e. Mexican, Cuban, etc. This survey also revealed that among non-citizen Latinos, only 35 percent believed there was discrimination against them in the United States. Ironically, the survey was funded in part by the Ford Foundation.
Given the obvious link established between the population count of Hispanics and their political power, the actions taken by many of Ford's grantees on immigration reform were not unexpected. "It was clear that political power and government support was the preferred agenda for Ford's disciples," writes William Hawkins in "Importing Revolution." Originally dedicated to three principle areas on concern-- education, employment, and voting--the MALDEF Board adopted immigration as a fourth major program area in April 1977. As Vilma Martinez said, "Our definition of Mexican-American had expanded to encompass not only the citizen, but also the permanent resident alien, and the undocumented alien." In effect, MALDEF and NCLR, according to Chavez, sought to "erase the distinction between aliens and citizens, legal and illegal, and to pretend the border doesn't exist."
MALDEF had actually begun its efforts on behalf of illegal aliens two years earlier, in 1975, as part of a joint suit with the American Civil Liberties Union, charging the Immigration and Naturalization Service with "indiscriminate and unconstitutional arrests and deportations of persons of Latin or La Raza appearance." MALDEF justified its actions on the belief that Hispanics appear the same whether in the U.S. legally or illegally. Therefore any efforts aimed at illegals would affect all Hispanics.
Heading up the litigation team on this case was Ramona Ripston, head of the Southern California ACLU and a member of the National Lawyers Guild. This extreme left-wing group resolved in 1978 to "support the movement for full democratic rights for all non-citizens and an end to all deportations and manipulations of the borders carried out in the interests of capitalism." The Lawyer's Guild in 1972 had established a National Immigration Project to "protect, defend, and extend the rights of documented and undocumented immigrants in the United States." From this the NLG would play a significant role in the Sanctuary movement of the late `70s and `80s aimed at undermining U.S. foreign policy in Central America by aiding and even smuggling illegal aliens into the country.
Beginning in 1985, the Lawyer's Guild began to receive the first of its $416,000 in Ford Foundation grants for "refugee and migrant rights." Members of the organization would play a prominent role in MALDEF's first litigation specifically on behalf of illegal aliens, Plyler v. Doe (1982). Argued by the Guild's Peter Schey before the U.S. Supreme Court, the case resulted in a 5-4 decision that states could not deny illegal immigrant children access in public education. (It would be this decision that would lead opponents of Proposition 187 to contend that it was unconstitutional.) Continuing its efforts to expand education rights for illegal aliens, MALDEF won the right in Leticia A. v. Board of Regents (1985) for illegal alien children to establish California residency so they might pay the lower in-state tuition in the state's university system. According to their 1993 annual report, MALDEF is currently working to "retain [these] hard-won educational opportunities for Latino students."
MALDEF's efforts on behalf of illegal aliens were not limited to education. In other litigation, they prevented Los Angeles County from forcing illegals to apply for Medi-Cal to receive non-emergency health services, because, for this to happen, they would have to be referred to the INS. As Peter Tijerina, MALDEF's founder, told Vista magazine,"Hell, the remedies weren't in the streets, they were in the courts." And the money to pay for it all was in the Ford Foundation's bank account. According to funding requests, MALDEF sought $600,000 from Ford in 1985 and 1986 for support of their Immigrants' Civil Rights Program and Political Access Program. For these two years, MALDEF requested $2.8 million; they received 92 percent of that amount. According to Ira Mehlman, media director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform,"The root of all of this is the Ford Foundation..."
To compliment efforts by MALDEF and the ACLU, the Ford Foundation launched a new program in 1982 on behalf of refugees and immigrants aimed at strengthening public and private agencies that assist them, clarifying their rights and responsibilities under domestic and international law. Between 1982-88, Ford would commit more than $25 million to these efforts. Following passage of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, MALDEF, La Raza, and other Hispanic groups split a $200,000 Ford grant to promote amnesty applications among illegals.
"I think Franklin Thomas [president of the Ford Foundation from 1979] was interested in the expansion of rights: immigrant rights, women's rights..." says William Diaz, former Ford programming officer in charge of Hispanic groups. "His concern for Hispanics was also a major part of his administration." By the early 1990's this concern had resulted in federal recognition of Hispanics as a distinct ethnic minority deserving of affirmative-action, government set-asides, multilingual ballots, and bilingual education. The broader and socially more divisive achievement, however, was to call into question the immigrant's traditional attitude about its' relationship to America. As Linda Chavez notes in Out of the Barrio, "Until quite recently, there was no question but that each group desired admittance to the mainstream. No more. Now ethnic leaders demand that their groups remain separate, that their native culture and language be preserved intact, and that whatever accommodation takes place be on the part of the receiving society."
This tale is not yet complete. An interesting footnote occurred last month in a preliminary hearing on Proposition 187 that took place in Los Angeles. At issue was implementation of the initiative's provisions to prohibit alien school enrollment, to eliminate free access to non-emergency medical services and in-state tuition rates for college-bound illegal aliens, and to facilitate the reporting of illegal aliens to the INS. All of these developments were the result of MALDEF's expansion of Hispanic rights over the last 20 years. Arguing the case to suspend the voters' will and defend Ford's and MALDEF's legacy was Peter Schey of the National Lawyer's Guild.
Craig L. Hymowitz is a staff writer with the Investigative Journalism Project of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture.
| National Council of The Race -- July 1, 2009 'Tan Klan' petitions GOP leadership over disapproval of Sotomayor Calling the reaction of some prominent conservative commentators and politicians to Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court “an intense character assault,” Janet Murguía, President and CEO of NCLR (National Council of La Raza)... today urged Republican Party leaders to denounce the extreme rhetoric... |
| Federation for American Immigration Reform -- June 22, 2009 'Tan Klan' demands that Obama's health care travesty cover invaders On Monday, June 15, the National Council of La Raza (La Raza), an open borders advocacy group, issued a statement calling upon Congress to ensure that [illegal aliens.... criminals] are given health benefits if and when Congress considers health care reform... |
| Robert M. Engstrom -- Human Events -- June 15, 2009 Sotomayor's La Raza uses taxpayer money for radical agenda If a group of United States citizens trekked to another country, formed an organization called "The Race," which demanded open borders, unfettered immigration and citizenship, billions of dollars for bilingual education, health care, housing, job and wage guarantees, and anti-discrimination protection, they would likely soon be jailed or deported in a display of righteous sovereign indignation... |
| We Get E-Mail -- June 5, 2009 'Tan Klan' having a conniption fit over criticism of their pet lackey A reader sent us this e-mail received this afternoon. Apparently the Tan Klan doesn't know whether to xxxx or go blind over the criticism of their pet stooge Obama has nominated to fill a soon to be vacated seat on the Supreme Court... |
| Carolina Newswire -- June 5, 2009 Insanity: 'Tan Klan' chair named to DHS' Southwest Border Task Force Andrea Bazán, president of the Triangle Community Foundation and Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Council of La Raza, has been named to the DHS' Southwest Border Taskforce. The taskforce... will crack down on illegal activities that fuel the drug war in Mexico... |
| The Hill -- Washington -- June 3, 2009 Reconquistas launch Sotomayor Web site A Mexican American group has launched a website to organize support for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor and debunk any false attacks made against her. -- The site, SotomayorForJustice.com, was launched by MALDEF on Wednesday. It is dedicated to providing information... |
| National Council of The Race -- June 2, 2009 La Raza Wizardess wants Repubs to denounce gripes about Sotomayor Saying that, "The Republican party is better than this," Janet Murguía, President and CEO of NCLR (aka the Tan Klan)... called on Republican party leaders to denounce the extremist rhetoric surrounding the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court and released a petition asking them to restore the debate to a more appropriate level of civil discourse... |
| Imagine 2050 -- June 2, 2009 Unparalelled push for amnesty begins It has begun... At a press conference this morning Benjamin Jealous of the NAACP, Janet Murguia of NCLR [aka the 'Tan Klan'], and Ali Noorani of National Immigration Forum were just a few of the national leaders on hand to launch a push for immigration reform [aka amnesty]... [See Tantrum Watch] |
| FIRE Coalition -- June 2, 2009 Boycott of McDonald urged over support of 'Tan Klan' Each year, National Council of La Raza (or The Race) holds a convention in Chicago to promote their subversive activities and aid illegal aliens in flaunting U.S. immigration laws across the country. -- This year, McDonalds Corporation has agreed to be the title sponsor of the event... |
| San Antonio Express-News -- May 7, 2009 Alien's death may be labeled 'hate crime' ...The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund has been assured that investigators “will make whatever determination is appropriate to make, regarding filing any federal civil rights violations,” said Henry Solano, MALDEF interim president and general counsel.... |
| Hazleton (Pa.) Standard-Speaker -- May 2, 2009 Teens acquitted of serious charges in fatal Shenandoah beating Following seven hours and 40 minutes of deliberations, a Schuylkill County jury found two Shenandoah teens guilty of simple assault in connection with the beating death of Luis Ramirez Zavala, 25, an illegal Mexican [alien] . One teen was also found guilty of other minor charges. [Related: MALDEF furious] |
| Sally Kohn -- Huffington Post (Leftist Twaddle) -- April 30, 2009 Is the media (and blogosphere) killing the amnesty effort? ...The two major American labor federations recently agreed to a plan that will help [illegal aliens] as well as US-born workers, ending the stalemate that hampered reform in 2007. A major funder, the Ford Foundation, has announced unprecedented support for grassroots organizations pressing reform this year... [See Tantrum Watch] |
| Atlanta Business Chronicle -- April 27, 2009 UPS makes $750K grant to 'Tan Klan' United Parcel Service Inc. gave $750,000 to Hispanic civil rights group National Council of La Raza (aka the Tan Klan) to help that organization develop programs and services for Latino communities. -- The grant will go to NCLR's Campaign for Stronger American Communities to provide direct services or advocacy for millions of Latinos... |
| New York Times -- April 9, 2009 Also on Obama's plate: an immigration bill While acknowledging that the recession makes the political battle more difficult, President Barack Obama plans to begin addressing America's immigration system this year, including looking for a path for illegal [aliens] to become legal, a senior administration official [former Tan Klan lackey Cecilia Munoz] said Wednesday... |
| Investor's Business Daily Editorial -- March 28, 2009 Sour grapes over the MALDEF radical Obama threw under the bus The open-borders crowd is angry the president ditched its radical choice to run the nation's civil-rights division. And it's blaming this paper for his "faintheartedness." -- Obama was expected to appoint Thomas Saenz as his top civil-rights cop at the Justice Department, where he would have had power to investigate issues related to illegal immigration... |
| New York Times Editorial -- March 24, 2009 Obama flinches on immigration In a little-noticed act of political faintheartedness, the Obama administration has pulled back from nominating Thomas Saenz, a highly regarded civil-rights lawyer and counsel to the mayor of Los Angeles [and an anti-American MALDEF minion who helped to axe Prop. 187], to run the Justice Department's civil rights division. |
| American Patrol Report -- March 23, 2009 Geithner - Ford Foundation link Secretary of the Treasury Geithner's father, Peter Geithner, was with the Ford Foundation for 28 years. The Ford Foundation created the National Council of La Raza and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund. Any guesses as to how he will treat the funding for illegal aliens? |
We Get E-Mail -- March 19, 2009  RINO Martinez's loyalties to the 'Tan Klan' exposed Here Mel Martinez reveals who his allegiance is to. Hint: it isn't to the Constitution or the bulk of America's citizens. He also discusses the intent to ram amnesty through with the aid of our new president. Sadly it begs the question... |
| Politico -- March 16, 2009 Unity '09: Dem groups quietly align (to wage war on America with Obama) ...The online-based MoveOn.org is a central player in the nascent organization, but other groups involved in planning Unity '09 span a broad spectrum of interests, from the American Civil Liberties Union to the National Council of La Raza (aka the Tan Klan) to Planned Parenthood, as well as labor unions and environmental groups... |
| Detroit News -- March 15, 2009 Reconquista fanatic is Obama link to states, communities Michigan native Cecilia Munoz wasn't used to busy senators calling her personally to ask about Latino concerns, so Barack Obama... quickly stood out. -- "It is rare for someone in the U.S. Senate to call you up on the spur of the moment for help in something he was thinking through," recalls Munoz, who was then a top Capitol Hill lobbyist for the NCLR (ak the 'Tan Klan'). |
| Michael Graham -- Boston Herald -- March 13, 2009 A change for the worse (Lying snake Obama is like Bush on steroids) ...To fix the corrupt culture of Washington, Obama promised the same number of lobbyists as he did earmarks: zero. And, like earmarks, the lobbyists are still there. This week he issued yet another round of waivers for lobbyists to join his administration - including one from the race-based organization La Raza (The Race, for you gringos)... |
| Michelle Malkin -- March 10, 2009 'Tan Klan' lobbyist gets ethics waiver You’ll love the loophole that lets President Obama violate his no-lobbyist rule in order to bring La Raza/The Race lobbyist Cecilia Munoz on board to work on shamnesty issues from the inside: It’s a “public interest” exemption. -- “Public interest” meaning illegal alien interest, apparently. |
| Associated Press -- March 10, 2009 Mixed signals along South's 'Immigrant Highway' ..."We are very much welcoming to immigrants on places like Buford Highway, yet at the same time there are billions of dollars being spent on enforcing immigration laws," said Michele Waslin, a senior policy analyst at the Washington-based Immigration Policy Center... [Waslin worked for the Latino supremecy mob 'The Tan Klan" for years] |
| OneNewsNow -- Tupelo, Mississippi -- March 8, 2009 Almost $1M in taxpayer money to the "Tan Klan" An Iowa congressman says it's outrageous that nearly a million dollars of the proposed Omnibus spending bill would go to an organization that openly advocates illegal immigration [National Council of The Race]. -- Congressional officials report the $410-billion Omnibus spending bill currently being debated in Congress... |
| Investor's Business Daily Editorial -- March 5, 2009 Who is Thomas Saenz? Ask B. Hussein Obama.... ...[MALDEF minion Thomas] Saenz has also sued California cities to establish "hiring halls" for illegal day laborers so that they can have a place to urinate. In fact, protecting day laborers against "anti-immigrant" sweeps is one of his top priorities.-- He would also crack down on local law enforcement officials who help ICE deport illegals... |
| Iowa Independent -- Des Moines -- February 28, 2009 King critical of spending for 'pro-amnesty organization' A $950,000 earmark for a Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the omnibus spending bill that passed the U.S. House Wednesday has drawn the ire of U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron. -- The Iowa Republican called the National Council of La Raza [aka the 'Tan Klan'] a "pro-amnesty organization" and said... |
| East Valley Tribune -- Phoenix -- February 26, 2009 Sheriff Arpaio: Remove judge from profiling case A federal judge hearing a racial profiling lawsuit against the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office is twin sister to the president of a major pro-[illegal alien] rights organization. -- That family tie, the sheriff's office contends, should disqualify Judge Mary Murguia [sister of 'Tan Klan Grand Wizardess' Janet Murguia] from presiding over the case. |
| We Get E-Mail -- February 26, 2009 'Tan Klan' in a tizzy after over raid on Bellingham plant A reader received the following e-mail from the National Council of the Race on February 25 urging recipients to badger B. Hussein Obama over a raid in Bellingham, Wash. that netted 28 suspected job thieves... |
| Washington Times -- February 26, 2009 National Immigration Forum, 'Tan Klan' radicals whine about raid on invaders ...The National Council of La Raza urged supporters to call the White House and demand Mr. Obama lay out his immigration policy, while the National Immigration Forum said the raid was an unwelcome continuation of Bush administration policies. -- "What are Latino and immigrant voters to think? They turn out in massive numbers and vote for change and yet 'change we can believe in' turns out to be 'business as usual,' " said Ali Noorani, executive director of the forum... |
| L. A. Observed -- February 25, 2009 Villaraigosa counsel (former MALDEF shyster) joining Obama team Thomas A. Saenz, the in-house counsel to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, has been selected to head the U.S. Department of Justice's civil rights division, the Los Angeles Daily Journal reports today based on unidentified sources. Saenz, 42, is the former vice president of litigation for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. [Related item] [Related feature] |
| Associated Press -- February 17, 2009 More Good News: Rancher didn't violate illegal aliens' "rights," jury says A jury in Tucson has found that a southern Arizona rancher didn't violate the civil rights of a group of illegal [aliens] who claimed he detained them at gunpoint in 2004. -- The federal jury also found Roger Barnett wasn't liable on claims of battery and false imprisonment... [This frivilous lawsuit was backed by the brown- clown supremacists known as MALDEF] [Related info] |
| Excerpt from Lou Dobbs Tonight Transcript -- February 13, 2009 'Raza Nazi' ethics (or lack thereof) exposed LOU DOBBS: An amazing development in Phoenix, Arizona. A federal judge there has refused to recuse herself in a class action lawsuit against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, even though the judge's twin sister has been waging a very public campaign against the sheriff. Judge Mary Murguia has cleared the way... |
| Washington Times -- February 8, 2009 16 illegals sue Arizona rancher with help of MALDEF ethnic hustlers An Arizona man [Roger Barnett] who has waged a 10-year campaign to stop a flood of illegal [aliens] from crossing his property is being sued by 16 Mexican nationals who accuse him of conspiring to violate their civil rights when he stopped them at gunpoint on his ranch on the U.S.-Mexico border. [Related American Patrol Report Feature with commentary by Glenn Spencer] |
| Clarissa Martinez -- Los Angeles Times -- February 5, 2009 'Tan Klan' separatist kook goes off on FAIR's Mehlman At the height of his hubris, Ira Mehlman, a spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform -- an anti-[illegal alien] organization designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center [professional shakedown artists] -- decided that he is better qualified than Latino civil rights leaders to speak to Latino views. What's next, David Duke writing about African American views on affirmative action?... |
| We Get E-Mail -- February 5, 2009 'Tan Klan' miffed at Sheriff Arpaio.... again The following joke of an e-mail was received from the constantly sniveling, illegal immigration-defending 'Tan Klan' today.... |
| WorldNetDaily.com -- February 5, 2009 16 illegals sue rancher who catches them on his land A group of 16 illegal aliens is suing an Arizona rancher, claiming he violated their civil rights, falsely imprisoned them and inflicted emotional distress by holding them at gunpoint on his property along the border. -- The federal lawsuit against Douglas, Ariz., rancher Roger Barnett... [The God-awful MALDEF is behind this shakedown] |
| Raul Yzaguirre -- Austin American-Statesman -- January 30, 2009 Hogwash Alert ! Former 'Tan Klan' Windbag: Mexico's future is entwined with ours As the eyes of the world remain focused on violent conflicts in the Middle East, one the United States' closest international allies is under siege. -- Mexico is embroiled in a widening war with our hemisphere's most powerful drug cartels. That's the message Mexico's President Felipe Calderón delivered during a recent visit to Washington... |
| Vineland (New Jersey) Daily Journal -- January 30, 2009 Translated by Google 'Tan Klan' still moving to stifle free speech Regular news such as Lou Dobbs Tonight, The O'Reilly Factor and MSNBC News Live offer national platforms to spokespeople who represent known vigilante groups and racist as Jim Gilchrist and Chris Simcox of the Minuteman Project and Dan Stein of the Federation for Immigration Reform in the United States... |
| New America Media -- January 29, 2009 'Tan Klan,' other ethnic hustlers say amnesty is in sight ..."Obama has made clear a campaign commitment to address this in his first year (in office), and we plan to hold him accountable," said Janet Murguía, president and CEO of the National Council of La Raza [aka the Tan Klan]. -- "The election created a very new understanding of how [illegal] immigration plays in our political arena," said Murguía... |
| Austin American-Statesman -- January 29, 2009 Mexican reconquista fanatics sue over DPS license rules One of the country's oldest [ethnic-hustling] organizations [the notorious MALDEF] is challenging the statutory authority of the state Department of Public Safety to issue rules and policies preventing some Texas residents from receiving standard-issued driver licenses. |
| John Hawkins -- Townhall.com -- January 27, 2009 Fight back agaist the tolerance fascists ...They're merely crying wolf for political gain because they believe they may benefit personally from it -- or in the case of organizations like the NAACP, La Raza, GLAAD, CAIR, NOW and the alphabet soup of other groups that make a living off of having grievances [the awful SPLC and ADL come to mind], because it keeps them rolling in money and publicity... |
| IRC's Americas Program -- Albuquerque, New Mexico -- January 23, 2009 Obama's Immigration Challenge: More about words than policy ... Groups such as the National Immigration Forum, Center for Community Change, America's Voice, and National Council of La Raza [aka the Tan Klan], along with their allies in the Democratic Party are calling for reintroduction this year of a comprehensive immigration reform... |
| We Get E-Mail-- January 9, 2009 Audio Conference - National Immigration Forum Amnesty scheme alert! Audio clip recorded on January 8 is of a telephone conference featuring the usual anti-American pro-Reconquista crowd the likes of Frank Sharry, Cardinal Mahony, The 'Tan Klan's' Janet Murguia, and others plotting their next push for amnesty and open borders. These traitors are relentless. |
