John McCain: La Raza’s voice in Washington
Artwork from an anti-borders art contest held by the John McCain-staffed Reform Institute
The McCain campaign continues to perpetuate its Big Lie in the run-up to Super Tuesday. And thanks to MSM enablers and open-borders Republicans rooting for a McCain win, voters are swallowing the Big Lie. The Big Lie is that McCain can be trusted on immigration and border security. Dinocrat reports that the McCain campaign called him again and left a recorded message touting the shamnesty promoter’s border security credentials. Here’s the text of the call:
On the issue of immigration there is no debate that our borders are broken. There are 12 million people here illegally. I’ve listened and learned. We must secure our borders first and restore trust and confidence in our government. As President, I’ll hire new border patrol guards, build a fence, ask governors to certify that their borders are secure. The two million people who have committed crimes will be deported immediately. No one will be rewarded for illegal behavior. They’ll go the the back of the line, pay fines and learn English. For those already in our country, there will be no special privileges, and we’ll punish employers who hire illegal immigrants. We’ll be humane and compassionate, but we will be firm. It’s a matter of national security.
According to the WaPo/ABC News poll released this weekend, 47% of respondents said McCain was the candidate they trusted most on immigration; 22% said Romney; 10% chose Huckabee; and 5% went with Paul.
If those voters knew about Juan Hernandez and Jerry Perenchio, McCain would be in single-digit Paul territory.
You want straight talk? McCain’s tongue says he’s “listened and learned.” But his heart is with La Raza, the militantly ethnocentric, anti-immigration enforcement Hispanic lobbying group that honored him in 1999 and whose annual conference he keynoted in 2004.
Go back and watch McCain on the Senate floor during the amnesty debate. Refresh your memories. Here he is comparing guest-worker tax treatment to Jim Crow laws:
Let me remind you of how he and his good friend Teddy Kennedy engaged in nauseating identity politics straight out of the Raza playbook. From May 25, 2006, these are the true, extremist views of John McCain:
An extraordinary exchange just took place on the Senate floor over the last 40 minutes. It’s the most important debate of the year, in my opinion.
The questions are these: Who do we let into this country and how many?
On one side of the debate: Democrat Sen. Jeff Bingaman of N.M. and Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama.
On the other side, the blubbering open-borders duo of GOP Sen. John McCain of Arizona and Democrat Sen. Teddy Kennedy of Massachusetts.
Bingaman is offering an amendment to cap the number of visas for legal permanent residents at 650,000. The current Senate immigration bill essentially obliterates the current employer-based green card cap of 140,000. Spouses and children currently count against that cap. Under the Senate bill, that would no longer be true. There would be, in effect, no limits. Bingaman’s cap would be four times the current rate–yet both McCain and Kennedy are responding hysterically as if Bingaman has proposed some human rights crackdown on the world.
When Bingaman pointed out the need for prudence in opening the floodgates to unlimited numbers of low-skilled workers, both McCain and Kennedy pulled the race card. McCain’s immediate response was to sputter that the “Chamber of Commerce, unions, and Hispanic groups” oppose the caps! McCain called it un-American to be selective about whom we let into this country. Yeah, he did.
When McCain accused Bingaman of “discriminating against” poor immigrants, Bingaman pointed out that the McCain-Kennedy bill itself had a 290,000 cap. No response from the Open-Borders Tag Team.
Sen. Tom Coburn, a staunch amnesty opponent, has endorsed McCain. He’s letting bygones be bygones in the spirit of senatorial collegiality.
But I remind you that McCain refused to support Coburn’s amendment to the shamnesty bill calling for full enforcement of our immigration laws.
And here’s a reminder of John McCain’s “leadership” from June 2007 via the Washington Times:
Often lost in the big picture coverage of major legislative issues like the now-troubled Bush-Kennedy immigration bill are the little moments that say everything about how Washington works. They’re the little moments that your legislators don’t want you to know about and figure will never make it back home through the media.
But Stephen Dinan, our excellent national political reporter who has led the way for months on coverage of immigration legislation, captured this priceless moment in his story this morning as the supporters of the bill struggled to keep it together.
The late-night vote was on an amendment that would require illegal aliens who get legal status to have a minimum level of health insurance. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the Massachusetts Democrat who is the chamber’s most liberal member, was — not surprisingly — opposed.
Writes Mr. Dinan: “Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and John McCain of Arizona both went to check with Mr. Kennedy before casting their votes to match his. Soon after, (Arizona Republican Sen. Jon) Kyl also switched his vote to match Mr. Kennedy’s.”
The amendment was defeated.
And let’s remember McCain pulling the threat-of-violence card in support of immigration capitulation: If we don’t give in, it’ll be like the banlieus in France!
Crooked talk: He says he’ll build the fence.
Straight talk: He resents what he calls the “goddamned fence.”
John McCain and La Raza-The Race share a deep-seated contempt for grass-roots conservatives who worked successfully to defeat the disastrous amnesty bill. And they share a common impulse to marginalize their political opponents as “haters.”
Thus, La Raza-The Race has launched a new “We Can Stop the Hate” campaign–smack dab in the middle of the campaign season–to redefine tough policy criticism from the Right as “hate.” They protest that it is “racist” and out-of-bounds to talk about reconquista–even as the McCain campaign boasts a “Mexico First/”Just A Region”/”Free Flow of People” outreach director who’s practicing it out in the open for the leading GOP presidential front-runner.
Yes, an ethnic separatist group that calls itself “The Race”–a group that has embraced John McCain and vice versa–has the gall to crusade against “hate.” Chris Kelly notes that La Raza-The Race head Janet Murguia is calling for networks to keep immigration enforcement proponents off the airwaves and that both La Raza-The Race and another open-borders group are pushing for Fairness Doctrine policies to shut up their foes.
Read it:
Ms. Murguia argued that hate speech should not be tolerated, even if such censorship were a violation of First Amendment rights: “Everyone knows there is a line sometimes that can be crossed when it comes to free speech. And when free speech transforms into hate speech, we’ve got to draw that line. And that’s what we’re doing here today. And we need to make sure that network executives will hold their people accountable and not cross that line.”
Murgia praised McCain and looks forward to the “tapering down” of immigration enforcement efforts if he wins the White House: “With his emergence as a leading Republican presidential primary contender, I do think that we’ll see this toned down… Does it mean that we know everything he’s going to do in that area of reform? And I know he’s got his work cut out for him with a number of people, and we’ll see him put this whole platform together, but we do believe that if he ends up being in a lead role here, we think that that issue will be tapered down.”
No respect for the rule of law. No respect for the First Amendment.
Like John McCain said: “I’ll rely on people to judge me by the company that I keep.”
The company John McCain keeps:
Russ Feingold.
Teddy Kennedy.
Lindsay Grahamnesty.
Juan “Mexico First/Free Flow” Hernandez.
Jerry “Spanish first” Perenchio.
Geraldo Rivera.
La Raza.
Charles Keating.
John Kerry.
The New York Times.
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Both the Weekly Standard and the NYT assail “anti-immigrant” forces.
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The late GOP Rep. Charlie Norwood of Georgia told the truth about La Raza-The Race and refused to be mau-maued. I’m reprinting his response in full:
It is with great amusement that I read the National Council of La Raza’s (NCLR) defense [from its president and CEO Janet Murguia.] against the facts contained in my article, “The Truth About ‘La Raza,’” that appeared in HUMAN EVENTS, April 10,2006. Instead of addressing the troubling facts outlined in the article, NCLR still seeks to hide from the truth through shrewd distractions.
Murguia claims: “Rep. Norwood mistranslates our name as the National Council of ‘the race.’ The actual definition of ‘La Raza’ is ‘people,’ referring to the Hispanic people or community.”
According to whom? The online encyclopedia Wikipeidia translation reads, “La raza: Spanish: ‘The race.’” Ditto with www.freetranslation.com, translation2.paralink.com, www.freedict.com/onldict/spa.html. But here’s even more online fun: Type in “National Council of the RACE” on Google, the world’s number one search engine, and it will take you straight to NCLR’s home page. Case closed.
NCLR’s second objection is where the real deception becomes glaring: “NCLR did not receive $15.2 million in federal grants last year and no federal funds of any kind were used to fund get-out-the-vote efforts or for any political purpose.”
By “last year” my article refers to the last fiscal year reported by NCLR on its official website, which is fiscal year 2004. NCLR very cleverly fails to mention this fact, even though they surely knew precisely where the $15.2 million the article mentioned was coming from.
According to page 48 of the National Council of La Raza Consolidated Statements of Activities, Year Ended September 30,2004, NCLR itself reports it received $15,170,182 in federal grants. [See Figure 1 on page 9.] In the same statement, under “Advocacy and Electoral Empowerment” NCLR reports on page 27, “while in 2002 activities centered on Get-Out-The-Vote (GOTV) efforts, in 2004 the project expanded to include voter registration, modest GOTV, and some elements of election protection,” and reports on page 48 that it spent $327,585 directly on “Legislative Advocacy” and another $2,611,827 on “Research, Advisory, and Legislation”-all while receiving that $15.2 million in federal grants.
Did NCLR’s receipt of $15.2 million in federal funds allow them to redirect other donations towards their combined $2.9 million in political activities? You be the judge.
But the real outrage in NCLR’s objections to the article is their disingenuous denial of their links to radical, racist and anti-American groups: “NCLR … unequivocally rejects, the motto Tor La Raza Todo, Fuera de la Raza Nada.’ (For The Race everything, for those outside The Race nothing.)”
No group can “unequivocally reject” a position while quietly paying out money to groups that support it, which is exactly what NCLR does.
The motto in question is that of the radical group MEChA and can be found online at the homepage of the Georgetown University MEChA Chapter. On the same site, you can read Georgetown MEChA’s Constitution, which contains the requirement that Georgetown MEChA maintain current membership in NCLR.
The Internal Revenue Service reports NCLR was actively funding the Georgetown University MEChA Chapter as recently as 2003, as documented in NCLR’s IRS Form 990, 2002 Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax, Exhibit 1, Page 1. [See Figure 2 on page 9.]
If NCLR is sincere in objecting to the facts in the article they should have no problem publicly agreeing to all six points mentioned in my article:
1. Denounce the motto “For La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada,” as repugnant, racist, and totally incompatible with American society or citizenship-and stop funding groups who support it.
2. Acknowledge the right of all Americans to live wherever they choose in the U.S. without segregation.
3. Commit to sponsorship of nationwide educational programs to combat racism and anti-Semitism in the Hispanic community.
4. Denounce and sever all ties with MEChA and other organizations which hold to the racist doctrines held by MEChA.
5. Acknowledge our borders, the democratic right of U.S. citizens to determine immigration policy, and the right of the U.S. to enforce immigration law and secure its borders against unauthorized entry.
6. Repudiate all claims that current American territory rightfully belongs to Mexico.
Based on the documented and independently verified statements in the original article, not only does HUMAN EVENTS owe no correction to NCLR, NCLR owes the entire American public an apology for deceptively supporting groups seeking to undermine our national unity and sovereignty.
But perhaps the best solution would be for NCLR, from this day forward, to simply start living by the six points above.
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JohnnyNJ~
I’m in Texas. Here’s more info on the high number of illegals having babies in Dallas.
Mr_Conservative_Cat~
I heard some Romney ads during Rush today on the radio. They went after McCain on a few things, one of which was his support of amnesty. McCain can’t like that ad…
Michelle, I am really, really looking forward to this year’s CPAC. Confrontation is in the air. I hope you bring every backup battery you own for the video camera! This ought to be great.
Miss Ladybug..Yep. 11,200 babies born to illegals in one year at Parkland. When our
youngest son had cancer he was at Zale Lipshi (? spelling) next door to Parkland. It’s
a teaching hospital for, I believe, Southwestern. When I was outside, it seemed that
when I looked in the direction of Parkland, all I saw were Mexicans and all I heard
when I walked to the car was Spanish. I heard from one of the nurses at Parkland,
who was outside smoking that she knew of a woman that had 7 anchor babies and
had been on welfare for 21 years and would not marry the father of the children
because then she would lose out on welfare. When I asked how she knew this, she
said the father was a janitor at Parkland and complained all the time about how little
the woman was paid by the government for these children. TS!
TXRose~
The problem in Germany is of their own making, to a certain extent. When my dad was stationed in Germany, especially when I was older, I learned about the Turks: they are “gastarbieters” – literally “guest workers”. They took the jobs Germans didn’t want to do (those menial jobs you mentioned), and the Germans, by and large, looked down on this group of people. The Germans didn’t really make any effort to assimilate them, because, as “guest workers”, they were supposed to go home at some point (or at least that is my understanding). In addition to not assimilating, the Turks (and likely guest workers from other Muslim countries) don’t come from a Judeo-Christian culture, which exacerbates the problem.
The Turks lived in the shadow of the wall before it came down. Europeans think
that they are pretty far advanced as opposed to us when it comes to dealing with
“resident aliens.” I am afraid that they are in for a rude awakening one day soon.
I know some Americans who have chosen to live in Germany and France and they
all say that the atmosphere is getting truly nasty.
TXRose~
Missed your earlier one about not all Mexicans are Mayan. But, I’d be willing to bet that most all those that are here illegally are descended from the native peoples the Spanish encountered. My dad is a history teacher. He was explaining to me one time about what he teaches his World History students about slavery and related topics as it relates to The New World. The school where my dad teaches has a fairly high percentage of Hispanics, too. Anyhow, he was telling me (something I don’t recall from my own high school World History classes) about the class system enforced by the Spanish. At the top of the system were the Europeans, and at the bottom were the native peoples. They also developed an elaborate system that classified you once there was mixing between the Europeans, African slaves and the natives. You could move down the social/class system, but you could never move up. I think this class system is one reason we see so much corruption in Latin American countries: it is generally those who are descended from the Europeans who have the power and wealth, while those descended from the native peoples have little power and wealth. And, to bleed off that restive population, the Latin American governments, most notably Mexico, encourage their disadvantaged to go north to The United States. God forbid the wealthy Mexicans let anybody else get a leg up out of poverty within their own country…
TXRose~
We left Germany for the last time the summer Saddam invaded Kuwait. My best friend’s dad, after he retired from the Army, worked for a defense contractor in Germany. My best friend and I are glad that he is now retired for good, and her parents have returned to the States. I always wanted to be able to go back to Germany again, but, by the time I am financially able to consider it, I have to wonder whether or not it will still be safe to do…
Miss Ladybug, Mestizos are the mixtures you are talking about. The more
light skinned blonde haired and blue eyed Spaniards are uppermost in the
caste system. I was friends with a girl whose skin was fairer than mine and
I am red haired. There is as strict a caste system among the Spaniards and
Mexicans as there is among East Indians. Believe it or not, that caste system
still exists in the Mexican communities in this country, though it is not as
strict. Yes, that is exactly what is wrong with Mexico and all of the other
new world Hispanic countries. Did you know that there are so many
millionaires in Mexico City that it boggles the mind? Most are millionaires
through graft and corruption.
McCain, a madman at the wheel.
It seems Romney could be hammering McCain more on illegal immigration, don’t like those percentages Michelle gave us.
Get him, Mitt!
I am an hour and a half from the Mexican border, west of San Antonio.
Is that all there is, in Dallas???
Oh, I see – ONE HOSPITAL.
Wonder how they bounded that? a Citywide district? or a precinct, maybe???
Hmmmm, this is Dallas whereof we speak – I’m guessing – PRECINCT.
Light, ain’t it! Where are the rest of them going to – prolly somewhere without so much attention, maybe.
Yes???
So is this McCain’s strategy in the GWOT, also??? Retreat, so they won’t bother us anymore??
John, baby. Border Security is part and parcel of National Security. DUH!
I searched my own inwards parts for a CLEAR CONSCIENCE.
I would NEVER burn down the RedWood Forests.
I would never burn down the American flag.
I will NEVER go dancing naked through the streets of ANY town.
I will never eat ESCARGOT – is that how you spell it? or Lobster, or oysters, or monkey brains.
I can watch a GOP that ALLOWS DIM CROSSOVERS to FLOOD THE PRIMARIES WITH IMMORAL VOTERS WHO CHEATED THE RULES TO DO SO to pick a RINO DEMOCRAT who has sold his soul to Joseph Stalin for the GOP Nominee – McSHIVE-IN-THE-BACK, to be specific – by CNN reports at 20% to get a 5% lead! …
…I can sit in my lawn chair with my bag of popcorn and my voter receipt for Mitt Romney in the Texas PRIMARY, and a WRIOTE-IN CANDIDATE OF CONSERVATIVE STRIPE in NOVEMBER, in my hot little hands, and a cool beverage in the cupholder at my elbow, and I can with a totally clean and at peace conscience, watch the exciting show of the GOP TITANIC sink like a ROCK to the bottom of the MARIANNA TRENCH, never to resurface again during the existence of Mankind on this earth, forever more – and sleep better than I have in 45 years.
I am 56. This post has nothing to do with my ability to sleep or not before 45 yrs ago.
BTW,. you inland voters who think that McCain is – oops, that term is not very pretty – “all the rage” and you are NOT talking abt his temper!
I suppose you all have doors on your homes, gates secure that help you sleep with peace of mind…
like some of my friends in THIS VERY COMMUNITY used to sleep so peacefully….
Not particularly thinking much about how their daughters would feel when they were to find them a few hours later, after they offered some strangers a plate of food….
Sad to say, all true.
See Snopes here.
The original story here.
The worst part – you and I are paying federal taxes to support it, while the hospital makes a profit!!
Do you want to really get sick? Watch this TV news video.
If Romney had managed to win a Senate seat, this is the kind of senator he would have been.
The only reason that he doesn’t have a record faaaarrrrr to the left of McCain’s is because he couldn’t manage to get himself elected.
Unless, of course, he was lying to get elected, but he wouldn’t do that, would he?
He is not a conservative, he is a Clinton in sheep’s clothing.
Romney is more conservative than McCain or Huckabee. For some reason, people weren’t voting for the true conservatives like Hunter, Tancredo and Thompson. They seemed to think “electability” was most important. Now see where that has gotten us…
Hey Texas Friends: Ladybug, TXRose, and Fred,
Thanks for the feedback and the links, I’ve printed the article and also Emailed it to Juan McCainez. It’s a crime that the MSM refuses to nationally publicize things like this Parkland Hospital situation. Thanks also for your informative posts on Europe and the Mexican caste system….
I am now fully depressed at the prospects of voting tomorrow.
Results from Indonesia are in (for Super Tuesday). Dems went for Obama, voting at the Embassy. Republicans have to mail their votes in. Figures.
If you missed the head of LaRaza going head to head with Lou Dobbs last night you can read the transcript on his web page. Essentially, LaRaza is going after the networks for providing a platform for “hate speech” Their proof? ADL is on board. I knew this hate speech thing was going to rape the first amendment. How about you?
I was looking for the “forum” area on their website, so I could make my own comments.
Anyone else find it yet?
#100 On February 4th, 2008 at 10:25 pm, Miss Ladybug said:
“TXRose~
Missed your earlier one about not all Mexicans are Mayan. But, I’d be willing to bet that most all those that are here illegally are descended from the native peoples the Spanish encountered. …the class system enforced by the Spanish. At the top of the system were the Europeans, and at the bottom were the native peoples. They also developed an elaborate system that classified you once there was mixing between the Europeans, African slaves and the natives. You could move down the social/class system, but you could never move up. I think this class system is one reason we see so much corruption in Latin American countries: it is generally those who are descended from the Europeans who have the power and wealth, while those descended from the native peoples have little power and wealth.”
I believe the European-descended elite in Spanish Latin America, down thorugh Argentina, is one of the meanings of the term Hidalgo.
Ombre Rose..Parkland is the county hospital for Dallas County. I have been
hearing people talk about Juan Hernandez who works for McCain and I just put
two and two together. This is the same Juan Hernandez that worked for and
with Fox in Mexico. I knew Juan back when he was a professor at TCU and when
he was singing and managing a restaurant on Camp Bowie Blvd in Ft Worth. My
family and I spent a lot of time visiting with Juan before he became so political
and was suddenly all for open borders. This is one American Mexican that isn’t
mixed with Indian of any kind and whose family (while dirty blonde, blonde hair
still counts) is upper crust. This is not someone who got to this country by way
of border hopping relatives. His family, if I remember correctly goes back to
the grandees that came from Spain. I am not making excuses, just telling what I know of the man. He used to be very idealistic. Guess money and
power reared their ugly heads. Still not going to vote for McCain when TX
votes.
#116 On February 5th, 2008 at 11:04 am, TXRose said:
“His family, if I remember correctly goes back to
the grandees that came from Spain.”
So, it sounds like he is a Hidalgo….