Where Hillary’s Latino votes came from
From Citizenship USA 1996…to Destino 2008
Despite his loud crusading for illegal alien driver’s licenses, Sen. Barack Obama lost out to Hillary Clinton on the Latino vote tonight. Hispanic Clintonistas attribute her commanding lead on “name support.” I have a different theory. More on that in a moment. First, this:
“There is a real affection for the Clinton administration and a real familiarity with Senator Clinton,” said Cecilia Munoz, senior vice president for policy at the National Council of La Raza. In addition, she said, Clinton “got support of the big figures in the Latino political establishment quite early. So she has really terrific surrogates and they have been on board with her for a long time.”
The legacy of Bill Clinton’s administration was evident in yesterday’s exit polls from California, where Clinton beat Obama among Hispanics by 2 to 1. “There is a lot of name support,” Vargas said.
So, where did all of Hillary’s Latino votes come from? Well, there’s another legacy of Bill Clinton’s administration that should not be forgotten: The corrupted, reckless Citizenship USA program. Rosemary Jenks of Numbers USA first blew the whistle on the subversion of the naturalization process, pushed by then-VP Al Gore in 1996:
The preliminary results of the INS internal review of naturalization applications approved during CUSA, as presented to the Subcommittee by Assistant Attorney General for Administration Stephen Colgate clearly show that the problems were severe. Of the 1,049,872 immigrants granted U.S. citizenship under CUSA:
* 71, 557 were found to have FBI criminal records, including INS administrative actions (e.g., deportation proceedings or other immigration violations), and misdemeanor and felony arrests and convictions;
* Of these 71,557, 10,800 had at least one felony arrest, 25,500 had at least one misdemeanor arrest, but no felonies, and 34,700 had only administrative actions initiated against them;
* 113,126 had only name checks because their fingerprint cards were returned to the INS by the FBI because they were illegible;
* 66,398 did not have FBI criminal record checks because their fingerprint cards were never submitted to the FBI by the INS; and
* 2,573 were still being processed by the FBI.As of late February 1997, 168 of these new citizens had been found to be “presumptively, statutorily ineligible” for naturalization based on their criminal record, and in another 2,800 cases, it could not be determined based on available information whether they were eligible or not.
Former House Judiciary Cmte chief counsel David Schippers followed up on the investigation and published his findings in his book, Sellout. A relevant excerpt:
My staff and I agreed that we needed to focus on the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), which appeared to be running out of control. By the time we came to the subject, investigations by the General Accounting Office (GAO) and congressional committees had already indicated that the White House used the INS to further its political agenda. A blatant politicization of the agency took place during the 1996 presidential campaign when the White House pressured the INS into expediting its “Citizenship USA” (CUSA) program to grant citizenship to thousands of aliens that the White House counted as likely Democratic voters. To ensure maximum impact, the INS concentrated on aliens in key states — California, Florida, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, and Texas — that hold a combined 181 electoral votes, just 89 short of the total needed to win the election.
The program was placed under the direction of Vice President Al Gore. We received from the GAO a few e-mails indicating Vice President Gore’s role in the plan (which are included in Appendix A at the back of the book). He was responsible for keeping the pressure on, to make sure the aliens were pushed through by September 1, the last day to register for the presidential election.
In our investigation we uncovered a case study evidencing what is pejoratively known in political science circles as “Chicago Politics.”
Back in the early years of the twentieth century, “Hinky Dink” Kenna and “Bathouse” John Coughlin were recognized as the very models of the unsavory Chicago politician. The two once fixed an aldermanic election in Chicago’s First Ward. To do so, they imported thousands of ward heelers, friends, associates, and city workers and had them registered to vote from every building in the ward — from homes (of which there were few) to taverns and cribs (of which there were many). On Election Day the recent arrivals stopped at Hinky Dink’s tavern, picked up fifty cents, ate a free lunch, and went out to vote their consciences. Guess who won that election?
Essentially, the same tactics were used during President Clinton’s reelection in 1996. Only this time the Democrats weren’t handing out sandwiches. Instead, through CUSA, they were circumventing normal procedures for naturalizing aliens — procedures that check backgrounds and weed out criminals — and consequently they were handing out citizenship papers to questionable characters.
The possibility of using CUSA apparently occurred to the White House in February 1996, when Henry Cisneros, then Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, forwarded a memo to President Clinton. The memo, from the California Active Citizenship Campaign (ACC), complained of a backlog of alien applications for naturalization in Los Angeles. It contained the magic words: “INS inaction [on the backlog] will deny 300,000 Latinos the right to vote in the 1996 presidential elections [sic] in California.”
The memo outlined the services that the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) in Los Angeles could provide. The IAF offered thousands of volunteers to help process voter applications, register thousands of new voters, conduct 5,000 house meetings, encourage voting by mail, and get more than 50,000 occasional voters out to vote in the presidential election. Most interesting were the promises that the IAF would “create voter interest around issues of Affirmative Action and Minimum Wage, . . . influence 300,000 voters in the preparation for Nov. 1996, . . . produce 5,000 precinct leaders and turn out 96,000 voters for the 1996 presidential election.”
The White House discovered a problem, however: INS Commissioner Doris Meissner didn’t want to speed up the naturalization process and warned President Clinton’s people that such a push might be viewed as politically motivated…
Eventually, she gave in:
The White House wanted any applicant for citizenship to be naturalized in time to register for the November election, so the pressure on the INS was constant. On March 21 Elaine Kamarck in the Vice President’s office sent an e-mail to [National Performance Review official Douglas] Farbrother saying: “THE PRESIDENT IS SICK OF THIS AND WANTS ACTION. IF NOTHING MOVES TODAY WE’LL HAVE TO TAKE SOME PRETTY DRASTIC MEASURES.” Farbrother responded, “I favor drastic measures.” If he couldn’t get what he wanted from the INS, he wrote, he would “call for heavy artillery.”
In a March 26 e-mail to the Vice President, Farbrother reported that Chris Sale has indeed “delegated hiring authority to the five cities and increased their budgets by 20 percent.” But, he wrote, “I still don’t think the city directors have enough freedom to do the job.” Two days later Farbrother told the Vice President by e-mail, “[U]nless we blast INS headquarters loose from their grip on the frontline managers, we are going to have way too many people still waiting for citizenship in November.” He added, “I can’t make Doris Meissner delegate broad authority to her field managers. Can you?”
Gore answered, “We’ll explore it. Thanks.” By the end of March, Doris Meissner capitulated. On April 4, 1996, Elaine Kamarck, to prepare the Vice President for a lunch with Clinton, drafted a memo to Gore briefing him on the INS progress. In time, Newark, New Jersey, and Houston, Texas, would be added to the list of targeted cities, and in all, more than a million aliens would be naturalized in time to vote in the 1996 election.
The “path to citizenship” leads to Democrat votes. Too bad shamnesty Republicans refuse to learn from history.
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What a perversion of the American citizenship process.
Talk about being disenfranchised - every vote by these recruits dilutes the votes of native born and naturalized citizens who played by the rules.
Hillary’s heritage of Clintonian strongarm tactics and McCain’s Shamnesty - what a choice!
The Latinos are basically for who they think will give them the most.
I actually watched Obama’s speech this time and he’s really not that special of an orator. He’s OK, but not really as good as any run of the mill preacher.
The thing that surprised me about Obama was how brazen he was about promising so much. Both he and Hillary believe that the only solution to every problem that Americans might have is more government.
Say what you will about any of the R’s, but any of the R’s (even Romney) would be better than someone with a ‘the government will fix it’ attitude.
The constitution was written to prohibit the government from taking too much control over the people. Yet these people campaign on the concept that government deciding for you is a good thing.
There is absolutely NO WAY that either Hillary or Obama will win on their platform of raising taxes because they don’t have enough money. 3.1 trillion dollars is not enough money? It had better GET enough money.
STOP SPENDING OUR MONEY!
If I’m willing to give you what you would otherwise have to work for,would you accept it?If it ain’t worth working for,it ain’t worth having.What kind of citizens are the illegals going to be ,if they are handed citizenship on a silver platter?
Constitution? We haven’t had a Constitution in years! Oh, unless it agrees with the politician’s viewpoint at some particular time. Most of the time it’s totally ignored. If a Constitutional question is raised, the defense is that the Constitution is a “living, breathing” document. If that doesn’t wash, then the Founding Fathers were rich, greedy, slave-holders. At best, we have an “Animal Farm” Constitution, with a whole lot of “excepts” and “buts” after each article/amendment. There is a whole lot of people out there who want the government to decide things for them. They’re too busy with work, soccer practice, I-pods, and tv reality shows to care. That’s why we have the candidates today…preaching more taxes, and controls…at the top of the races. So, let’s get those people signed up as citizens. “Do you know English?” “No, senor.” “No problem”. “You swear to uphold the Constitution?” “What’s that?” “Don’t worry about it. You’re now a citizen. Check this box on the ballot where it says Democrat”. “Si, senor.”
God, am I getting depressed. McCain apparently wins CA, and I read this about the (first?) Clinton White House. God help us all.
These politicians don’t give a damn about America or Americans, it is ALL about power and greed. Sickening.
Selling out America for votes. Fantastic!!
Sellout
And so it begins…
This is a fact. The hispanic vote, either legal or/and ILLEGAL will support and vote for the candidate that supports surrendering the southwest.
With the push that allows ILLEGALS to vote in not only local but some state elections. ILLEGALS are throwing their wieght into politics. The politica of takig over this country by racist, propaganda, and revised historical accuracy organizations. LaRaza, MeCHNA, among the leaders.
A clear case of the have nots taking that of the haves. EX: Communism comes to mind, with the redistribution of wealth and power to a select few. (sound like someones platform for governing … Clinton, Obama perhaps.
Go into any Social Security office here in the west. Or go into any job aid office run by local authorities. Another go into the emergency room at any ospitol for that matter. Who is in line and recieving prefferential treatment, front of the line positions. It is the hispanics.
Does this sound racial? Nope not at all. Facts that the main stream populace do not want to face.
Let me make it clear. I have nothing against immigration and those who come here LEGALLY! But I am tired of supporting those who break the law and get to continue breaking the law.
I speak English in this country. When I travel I give the country I travel to the courtesy of learning enough of thier language to hold a basic conversation. I am tired of having to find a Mikky D’s that will serve me a big mac in English.
There are two completely different primaries going on in 2008, one about what you believe and the other about what you look like. CNN broke out California this morning for the Democrats by the white, black, and Latino vote. They then broke out the Republican vote by the economy, immigration, and religion. It’s pretty clear what the media thinks is important within each party.
No need to worry for Hillay, boy and girls, she has more rugs to sweep this under than Carter has dictators in his britches.
Wow. Stunning. This explains a lot.
We, the people, are mere peons. It’s the Hildebeest that matters.
From BBC : “Mrs Clinton then rebounded, with projected wins in Oklahoma, Tennessee and Arkansas - showing, her campaign team said, that she could win in “red”, (traditionally Republican) states.”
The fact that the majority of the state is Republican has no bearing whatsoever with primaries, or the fact that Clinton can win in a R state. This result does not show she can win in a R state at all, the way that is phrased is completely misleading, as it infers she can win over a Republican in a Republican state. In a primary, Republicans vote for the R nominee, Democrats for for the D nominee, and neither has anything to do with the other. This is just media bias and half-truths and both media and Clinton counting on the utter stupidity of Americans.
Unfortunately they seem to be successful in taking that stupidity for granted. Gawd I’m so sick of this crap. Shame on the BBC.
everytime I decide I can’t possibly vote for McCain, I read something thats convinces me Hillary must be stopped at all costs. How did we get here?
How long will our culture war stay cold?
And, will our society/culture/nation even survive if it stays cold?
We have to be honest, and face the facts about the enormity/severity of the existential threat(s) our country NOW faces.
Can our country survive if we continue to play, and lose at, these verbal scam-games?
Can you actually talk socialists out of wanting to take over?
Could you actually have talked Communists out of wanting to take over?
Were talk and reasoned argumentation ever a successful defense at a witch trial?
Can you talk Muslim jihadi crazies out of wanting to take over?
Can you talk non-tax paying people out of wanting to take over?
Can you talk illegal alien border-jumpers out of wanting to take over?
Talk, talk, talk,….
Will talk alone ever save us?
Again, I ask:
How long will our culture war stay cold?
And, will our society/culture/nation even survive if it stays cold?
I do not have the answers; it’s tough enough just to come up with the questions.
But, I am afraid for our country’s future…very afraid.
Hillary would sell her soul for a vote, if she had one.
Leaving out the invective, MM is right. Hillary’s support comes from people remembering Bill Clinton’s Presidency and liking what they remember. Bill Clinton’s approval numbers are in the high sixties while George Bush Jr. is in the low thirties. Median income rose during Bill Clinton’s Presidency and (adjusted for inflation) declined under George Bush Jr. What’s not to like?
Don’t confuse the word “latino” with all spanish-speaking peoples. Spaniards and South Americans have a much use for La Raza Mexicans as Americans do. As “minority” is a euphemism for black Americans, “latino” is a euphemism for Mexican. Spanish-speakers are not a monolithic block as Democrats believe, and that belief displays their ignorance.
The Constitution is just some nice words on a piece of parchment. Ol’ FDR started the shredding of it and our modern day politicians on both sides of the fence have pretty much finished it. The Constitution is just a speed bump on the road to socialism.
Well, there’s the part about explaining to kids all about oral sex which really isnt sex. There’s the part about the Chinese having our nuclear secrets in exchange for campaign funds. There’s the part about Muslims flying planes into three of our buildings killing 3000 of our people while the President was neglecting his duties attending to Monica. No need to go on.
Granite your post #15 is very relevant having delved back into my personal library reading on the American Civil War. There is a growing divide between those that produce and those that take while giving nothing in return. Too many compromises have been made and the cities full liberals are telling the rest of the country how to live. Many of us in fly over country feel disenfranchised in the ballot box (due to voter fraud) and by the liberal courts (judges legislating from the bend) and are becoming openly hostile to the illegal invaders. I have seen more than one incident in our small town when someone has gone off on an illegal and it is only going to get worse. The gang problem is even beginning to invade many of our rural communities in Idaho and it is just a matter of time before the good old boys push back and it won’t be pretty when they do. The steaming pile of feces we have been given as candidates for POTUS will only ensure something is about to give in the very new future and I also fear the cold war may very well turn hot too.
#21:
I sometimes wonder if that will be the only way for our country to survive.
As I’ve said before -
Yes, all of those Mexican illegal aliens are doing the job most U.S. citizens won’t do; voting for Hillary Clinton.
LGM Clinton was riding an economic boom because of previous tax cuts. He also put terrorism on the back burner. As you recall Chamberlain of the UK bought some appeasing time from Hitler but later it came back to bite him. You never addressed how Hillary is using the latino votes whether they are illegal or legal. If you are against tax cuts you should ask JFK why he thought they were good and of course LBJ too because he benefited from those same tax cuts. Remember Clinton never had to build the military but only appeased the terrorists. So far the leading demos would appease them as well. Go get your burka and learn Spanish.
Well, its because we have a bipartisan system and the politicians are more aligned to their political party than they are to their constituents or their country. The republicrats do little to nothing, and only offer a slightly diluted version of the demoract platform now.
The democrats reject individual constituent citizens to appeal to groups of gays, women, minorities, labor unions (even with their admitted intimidation and such interferrence of elections), and foreign nationals (while preventing confirmation of legal identity of voters) that maintain allegiance to their motherland while looting our system at the expense of American taxpayers. We get the priviledge of paying additional taxes for our systems to support foreigners, while we watch our national debt rise and our Social Security program get looted- in exchange for our politicians to get illegal votes or campaign contributions or presidential library contributions.
Its reached a point that the politicians select their constituents, rather than the converse. And the politicians and media and special interest politican front groups pass the McCain-Lieberman Incubent Protection Act to silence the freedom of speech of individuals and direct groups of citizens.
The Democrats are agry and indignant at the dishonor suffered by the Clintons by the investigations, convictions, and impeachment- and want the same and worse on the Republicans to settle the score. They have run (and CONTINUE to run) constant negative propaganda against lame duck Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rumsfield, Halliburton, etc.
McCain feels slighted by losing the 2000 primary to Bush that was rightfully his- and he lost the Presidency thru the period of 9/11 and the War on Terrorism- and has since been sniping his party and siding with democrats as he criticizes Bush. However, at this point, the Republican Party backs him blindly while Conservatives are having to settle for Romney.
Miguel Perez had this to say several weeks ago. It is racial to them and in fact the majority will vote this way no matter how some folks insist they are not “monolithic”
http://www.reporternews.com/news/2008/jan/16/mccain-gives-latinos-leverage/?printer=1/
#26 On February 6th, 2008 at 10:48 am, AlturaCt said:
‘Miguel Perez had this to say several weeks ago. It is racial to them and in fact the majority will vote this way no matter how some folks insist they are not “monolithic”
“In fact, Latino voters may make McCain president if he becomes the Republican nominee. And if another Republican gets the nod, so many Latinos will vote Democratic that records will be broken…
…Nothing could be farther from the truth! … [To] the overwhelming
majority of Latinos, especially those who live in the major urban centers of this nation, illegal immigrants are not foreigners who represent some kind of threat; they are our friends and neighbors. Sometimes they are even our relatives. Those who don’t think we will vote to help them are sadly mistaken.”
http://www.reporternews.com/news/2008/jan/16/mccain-gives-latinos-leverage/?printer=1/‘
Wow.
Thanks for the heads-up.
Now, if that is not a clear, in-your-face threat…, then, what is?
Too much analyzation. Latinos 101:
Young Latinos = Obama
Older religious/conservative latinos = Clinton (remember, “its the economy, stupid?”)
Any questions?
I already have Clinton Fatigue.
On February 6th, 2008 at 9:40 am, misterbee241 said:
Ditto!
I wish the people with those fond remembrances of the Clinton era could have stood in front of a classroom of eighth graders in a rural, Christian community and had that statement plied to them in the form of a question, like so many of us teachers had to during that terrible time!
Maybe Clinton-era remembrances would then be more grounded in reality. (For the record, whenever I was asked that question by a student or child, I always gave the stock answer of “You’ll have to ask your parents that question.”)
P.S. Since when is median income an accurate measure of our economy’s performance? All the median tells us is where the division line lies between high and low incomes/wage earners. And too, if the median is to be considered an accurate gage of our economy and it did significantly dip during President Bush’s terms, then it must be mentioned that such a dip correlates to the left-over problems the President inherited from the glorious Clinton-era - like the tech bust and the failure to address terrorism, just to name a few - all of which negatively affected our economy.
A while ago I looked at both their records and concluded that on the whole both Clinton and Obama are essentially open borders folks. Obama lead the charge in the Illinois Senate to get driver’s licenses for illegals in the state.
Michelle, you pointed to two crucial votes that each of them cast that were quite open borders. One would have outlawed criminals, gang bangers and terrorists, and they both voted against it. The other one would have committed to following the laws on the books. They both voted against both of them.
Obama has an infamous speech given to La Raza. They each have patterns that their policies would be essentially open borders.
Here is my full dossier on it.
NO!
I have a friend that makes 72 million a year, He keeps trying to give me money, He offered to buy all of the equipment I wanted to start my business, it’s not a lot only about 25,000 but I told him that if I don’t work for my equipment and what I have then I would not appreciate the work it took to be successful and it would not be a good lesson for my kids to see if you have a rich friend that offers you money just to take it and I was not going to take advantage of his wealth or frienship and I would rather make it on my own. He was kind of taken back by my statement and said “Wow, I think I just gained a whole other level of respect for you”. I told him ” I appreciated his offer, but it just would not be the right thing to do.
I agree if you give someone something they don’t have to work for they will have no respect for it and if they take it they don’t have any respect for who gave it to them ie the U.S.
garyt said (#24):
Even if this is true, it’s not the point. People vote for Clinton because in their minds Clinton means prosperity, growing middle class wages, and job security. People vote for Hillary because they think Bill did a good job. What you think matters less to them.
Our oldest son used to tell me, when I said that wanting something and working
and saving for it made it worthwhile, that that was just propaganda. Still, I did
noticed that when he traded in the car he “inherited” from his Dad (after Dad got
a new car) and was paying for the new car himself from money he had saved while driving Dads hand me down, the new car was treated a lot better than the
other one. Propaganda? Don’t think so. If something comes too easily, we just don’t value it like we do something that was hard won. Nothing. Absolutely nothing surprises me when it comes to the Clintons. They divvied
their souls up long ago in order to have more to sell to the highest bidders
whether for votes or money. If she becomes pres we need to ask how many
corrupt leaders have they sold out to and to whom are they going to sell our country out in the future?
This is why, folks, should McC get the nomination instead of Mitt, I will hold my nose and vote for him instead of voting for a dimm or not voting for the president
at all. I will not be a party to putting the Clintons back into the White House!
Thanks for the background on this story. I never knew about how Gore and Clinton pushed that policy through. But I have a question, where was congress on this? They are charged with oversight. Why no investigations?
reverenddon, congress wouldn’t do anything because they are looking at the
votes they might lose if they made waves. First and foremost is their sense of self preservation.
There should be more incentive for these immigrants to join the army.
pwadams said:
You’re thinking of McCain Feingold. McCain-Lieberman was a (fortunately) failed attempt to hike the gas tax on us poor schmucks not lucky enough to be driven around everywhere in government-paid chauffeur-driven limos.
lgm said -
Yes, in their minds. The reason they believe it, is due to the liberal media lying to them about how well things are going. See “Freedom-nomics” by John Lott. He shows the absolute truth that during the Clinton years the media was very favorable towards Clinton vis-a-vis the economy. When Bush became president, the unemployment rate was lower and more jobs were created. Yet the studies show that the media was quite unfavorable towards Bush vis-a-vis the economy.
In reality, the leading economic people say that if a Democrat is elected, the economy will take a downturn due to higher taxes which will cause lost jobs and will mean less tax revenue.
Go here to understand how tax CUTS make any economy thrive! The article was originally published in 2000-01.
I was detailed from Investigations to C USA. It was a travesty, and we knew at the time it was strictly to elect Dems.
Americans, could not see Tom Tancredo, the patriotic statesman that he is and branded bhim a ‘one trick pony’, for his relentless attack on illegal immigration, which puts America ‘Im Mortal Danger’. Well, that leaves Americans with:
- Hillary ‘no-woman-is-illegal’ Clinton.
- Jose McCain.
- Barak ‘Hussein’ Obama.
- Mitt ‘Hire-an-illegal’ Romney.
Not that am happy but in a democracy, people get the government they deserve.
Uh, Puhleeze No. 17 LGM. Stop sucking the Clinton Kool-Aid. You just refuse to believe the Clinton’s lust for power. Here’s some more stuff to “like” about both Clintons: Impeachment Gate; FosterGate; Travelgate; Pardongate; Sexgate, Whitewatergate; campaigngate; filegate; pornogate; Ron Browngate; Wacogate;IRSgate, trashthewhitehousegate. I could go on and on but I can only hope that libs like you can grasp anything said here.
NO! I want an army of patriotic Americans, not self-serving immigrants.