Wachovia: Banking on open borders
Last year, I told you about Bank Of America’s special credit line for illegal aliens. The banking industry’s collusion in the illegal alien matricula consular trade has also been covered here at length, as has the illegal alien home loan racket. Most recently, I reported on the La Raza/mortgage boondoggle and how open borders has contributed to the subprime mess.
Now comes word that Wachovia is forking over more than $16 million to the rule of law-undermining, pro-illegal immigration-promoting National Council of La Raza/The Race:
The Wachovia Foundation will provide $16.25 million to help economic development in Latino communities in the United States.
The foundation has formed a partnership with the National Council of La Raza. The bank will provide $5 million in grants over five years for counseling in homeownership and community-development efforts.
Wachovia also will provide $1.25 million over five years to sponsor La Raza events and a $10 million loan to fund growth for Raza Development Fund’s lending activities.
“Wachovia’s investment in NCLR will allow us to expand the successful programs we have developed with our nearly 300 community-based affiliates who every day strengthen America by promoting the advancement of Latino communities,” says Janet Murguia, president and chief executive of NCLR.
The money will also help fund public La Raza-sponsored charter schools like the ethnic supremacist Mecha madrassas and Aztlan academies I’ve reported on previously.
Looks like Wachovia’s banking on open borders to halt its decline (stock’s down 38 percent, the company’s in disarray, and investors are suing).
Bad move.
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Looks like Wachovia’s banking on open borders to halt its decline (stock’s down 38 percent, the company’s in disarray, and investors are suing).
I closed my account with these two last year. I hope others have and will as well.
The list of banks that will never get my business grows yet again.
It’s about time to close my account with them, too.
Well all I can say is Wachovia and BOA are written on my sh!t list, I will not do business with either one of them.
It is amazing to me how all these American Co. do business with illegals, subversive organizations, terrorist nations etc………… We are now witnessing the destruction of a Republic.
It gets worse and worse — doesn’t it?!
The slippery – slide has become an avalanche.
Wachovia in bed with Bank of America in bed with La Raza. Do ya’ think that they may be in bed with our elected officials??
You know-the new ROYAL CLASS.
I will pull my money out next week (except the stupid CD which I can’t touch until next year).
PS
LOTE Anyone!!!!!!!
*sigh*
I not only have bank accounts with Wachovia. Our mortgage is with them as well.
#7 rogerbacon CDs
When I heard about Bank of America-I stopped buying (investing in) CDs.
credit unions, people.
#8:
are you saying you’re for it, or are you mocking those who preach it?
How about Countrywide and La Raza? Lib’s are defaulting left and right. I think Durbin is a head member of La Raza.
Maybe I am not informed but, every time my husband and I bought a house are applied for a loan we had to show valid drivers license, ssn, work stubs etc… so do these people who are here illegal can get loans without these items? You would think banks loaning money would check out your legal status first before they cut the check. We make it so easy for these people, free medical, loans, school tuition and so on and so on. Try getting any of that easy if you are a tax paying American. And, speaking of tax paying. The next time I hear some elected official or talking head pundit say that illeagals pay taxes…if they rent they are paying property tax. Bull the owner of the property is paying the tax!
First reaction: ****RAGE*** (This is my bank.)
Second reaction: In general, business (an institution to which conservatives are naturally warmly disposed to) is powerfully destructive of traditional community. To businesses, if it breathes, it is a potential customer. Businesses fall over each other catering to any demographic that they can identify. Illegal, homosexual, violent music fans, whatever. You see the same thing in cynical politicians, of course. Thus, the GOP was making convention speeches in Spanish as far back as 2000. The bastards cared only to sell their product and there is no such thing as an illegitimate market segment.
Local TV — a subsidiary of the chamber of commerce — is another troubling character in all of this. IMO, the influence of local TV has more destructive, liberal impact on the country than the big MSM. You will never see a Kieth Oberman on local TV. What you will see is endless soft reporting that always adopts an “inclusive” posture and that trumpets reports from people like the Southern Policy Law Center that are always bashing conservatives. All people buy cars — don’t you know — and you will look long and hard before you see local TV do any report that reflects negatively on any minority community. But, of course, every new feel-good liberal program is another cause for celebration about how progressive our community is (and why don’t you move here and start spending money with our advertisers?).
And, of course, in big business, the concept of an “American business” is a complete anachronism but that is a whole other story…
In general, “business” meets many of our needs. But it is not our “friend” or our partner in building community.
All sides now. We are being attacked from all sides. No country can fight 20 fronts and win. Attacked from within (gov’t pandering to all groups, aclu, la raza, lulac, naacp, splc, corporations, runaway PC, etc). Attacked from external (radical muslim groups, an endless war, muslim countries openly defying the world and developing nuclear weapons, communist countries making threats, debt burden to China, massive trade imbalance, appeasement oriented socialist countries, a resurgent Russian bear, dependency on mulsim countries for energy, etc). I am beginning to feel like we are a castle under seige in the 17th century where we are surrounded by barbarians with cannons. All you can do is hunker down and wait for the inevitable collapse of the walls protecting you and your family from the savagery of the babarians. Now I am really depressed. Sorry to be such a bummer but I think we are in serious trouble and nobody recognizes the danger.
Mule,
I started my post above before seeing yours. But I sure could have used your comment as a launching point! We see the same things.
If an ACLU backed “civil rights” organization walks into an executives office and says, we want money and we know that if we look, we’ll find discrimination violations.
What do you tell them?
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You tell them to leave the property or you’ll have them arrested for trespassing, and then you file a coercion/bribery lawsuit against them.
This feels like the first good news I have heard all week considering to the best of my knowledge I do not do any business with Wachovia. By November the only loan I have with the open borders loving Bank of America will be paid off and we will never do business with them again. I hope their shareholders win!
Ok, what is LOTE?
I wonder how long before Wachovia will be offering debit/credit cards with Bloods and Crips logos? Maybe even a 1/2 per cent rebate to La Raza on each transaction.
I ditched Bank of America a while back. I wont deposit any fund in Wachovia either.
Sooner or later these people will learn.
This is not the America I used to know.
Nice thought, but doesn’t work that way any longer. 30 years ago that is what would have happened but PC is too ingrained now. These race hustlers will jaw bone the company into handing over money. The company does not want the bad publicity of racism charges (which the media jumps all over) so as long as the demand is not exhorbitant, they pay. Afterall, wachovia is a multibillion dollar business. It is worth a few $M to have them go away, while bein able to say “hey look how tolerant and accepting we are”. It is like the discrimination lawsuits that have no merit but are settled anyway just to avoid the cost and bad publicity. Which only validates why we have runaway civil suits today.
I know that the appropriate thing is merely to withdraw my patronage from offending businesses. But this is highly inconvenient for me and I am especially loath to forego Bryers ice cream to avoid subsidizing the gay games. And, of course, however much I inconvenience myself, I know that such actions are a completely irrelevant drop in the bucket that will go utterly unnoticed by the corrupt people running these organizations.
It is a troubling thought but it is more and more with me: Direct action against malefactors is the only way.
I just emailed my husband with the link to this and said: “Time to find a new bank!”. This makes me VERY angry!
#22:
I believe it stands for “Lesser Of Two Evils”
Lawyers, too, are excellent candidates for direction action, a program that has appealed to people for centuries.
In September 2006 when Bank of America announced they were giving credit cards to illegals I noted their stock…it was $51.45.
I have watched it since and it closed yesterday at $29.44 with a 52 week low of $26.68.
Thats DOWN NEARLY 50% !!!!! Glad I don’t own any of that junk stock.
Every bank that tries this “appease the illegals” crap costs stock holders money.
Can we add this to the already extremely high cost of Illegal Aliens to the REAL citizens of the United States of America?
Wachovia has always walked the fine line between lawlessness and legality. Frequently crossing over. This is just another instance. Crap company.
I need to find out more about SunTrust. In my TV market, they’re advertising something about giving money to the charity or your choice when you open an account. The woman in the commercial can’t decide between the CHURCH and the school. When’s the last time you heard church mentioned as if it were a normal thing??
This really, really ticks me off! I have 3 accounts at Wachovia.
Anyone know how to find a major bank that is anti-illegal? I say “major bank” because ATM’s are important to me and I hate fees.
This is really ticking me off.
At this rate, we’re just better off stuffing money in our mattresses.
I hate that Walkaloverya’s stock is down. Does this mean they won’t be able to pander to illegals and their cohorts as much now? *sniff*…not.
I hope they see more suits come their way from investors.
Thank you Khan, I was completely stumped!
Lesser of two evils.
Don’t you wish!
In fact, this country is under assault on every front. Haven’t you seen all the accounts that our mattresses are infested with bedbugs? There is no refuge, in this land, for our money or our persons.
Small home town Credit Unions may be an option.
I completely agree.
For the first time in MY adult life, I fear for my country.
I have traveled thru a couple dozen countries, even traveling thru East Germany & East Berlin while the Wall was still up, thru communist countries, poor third world countries and the honor and pride I felt in America was intense. I KISSED the ground in America when I returned.
But now? I fear for the United States of America, the land of the free the home of the BRAVE. ( where are they, outside of our military)
This is NOT the country our fore-fathers had in mind for today.
We MUST NOT lose it.
These infiltrations are a cancer that will destroy us slowly and painfully.
Stay away from any company that panders to this illegal activity and thought. Period.
Ill conceived thoughts today, are killers tomorrow…look at the gas prices.
If B. Hussien is elected, I really won’t know what to think, other than we are doomed without a proactive massive response from honorable conservatives.
You think it is just about Wachovia? You think by kowtowing and laying supine it will get better? That is what you are suggesting. At what point will it stop or go away? This is a one way street that will steamroll over everything with nothing in the way to stop it. You think groups like LaRaza are going to one day say: “OK, we are disbanding now”? If we don’t start voicing real opposition now what chance will there be in 5-10-20 years? What are we setting our country up for let alone our children?
I get a call from BofA just about every single week with them telling me that, because of my excellent credit rating, they’d like to send me a card with a low interest rate. They never ask me if I want it, they just say, “This is the address we have on file (um, where did they even get it?), so we’ll send your new card out immediately.”
To which I always politely say, “Whoa, whoa, whoa….I need to explain something to you before you go any further. I cannot possibly do business with an institution that accepts the bogus matricula consular ID cards from illegal aliens from Mexico with which to open accounts. I’m not angry with you because you might not know this, but now you do and should likewise take BofA to task for allowing this.” Every time, the person on the other end will say, “Uh, what is whatever-the-ID you just mentioned?”
So, I explain it to them in a way that captures their attention (not blaming them because they’re just the caller) and usually when I get to the part that this ID is not even accepted in Mexico, the very country that “authorizes” these bogus cards(!), you can tell that the seed has been planted in their minds. Now, what they do with this information afterwards, well, one can hope that they’ll join us in fighting this at every turn.
Oh, just as an aside, these bogus cards are also an accepted form of ID with which to obtain a marriage license in San Diego County (I verified it with the county clerk’s office). Un-be-lieve-able.
I was begining to think I was the only one that noticed.
I notice the danger as well but too many people don’t. They’re response is we’re all racist meanies.
I closed my accounts at BOA last year and guess I’ll be popping into Wachovia to close the account I opened there after I left BOA.
Can someone tell me who doesn’t do business like this?
Simply close all your accounts. Do not ever go back even if they change. Some people learn the hard way.
THANK YOU!
If we all did something simple like this it would help immensely, doing something even more proactive as well might start something to end this madness.
Get creative, do something.
Should be “Their” not They’re. Sorry.
Looks like I will be moving my money out of wachovia.
You people might as well just give up. You have lost the battle. Los Estados Unidos WILL become a hispanic country within 50 years. Your grand kids WILL be speaking spanish in school as a first language.
My wife got her U.S. citizenship on Monday after 10 years of B.S. and thousands of dollars in fees. We hope to move back to her country(Philippines) in 5 years so we can raise a family. We will not be coming back to here.
Not according to the Wachovia Foundations guidelines. Do you have a source for this charge?
As a diversion from the challenges of life, I play a computer version of the board game “Risk”. To make it challenging, I play against 7 other computer opponents, at their highest skill level. The game often starts out where I am the weakest player against impossible odds. I usually win. How is this relevant to the real world?
In order to win, I have to use every skill and resource available and it taught me that those same skills are applicable in real life:
Know every possible advantage and employ resources efficiently. Luck can often help, but it goes both ways. Be aggresive and don’t make stupid mistakes. Know your opponents tendancies and exploit them.
Knowing this game should be madatory for our military and political leaders. America can still be victorious in the challenges we face, but we all need to understand the rules of the game and play it to win.
OK. Suggestions of what can be done. Realistic suggestions. Unless or until PC (multiculturalism and tolerance at all costs) and its ilk are suppressed, we can not stop it. Period. The gov’t backs this nonsense even to the extent of throwing the native anglos over the side in favor of 3rd world immigrants. And it is NOT just liberals. I see it here and even in MM posts. Things like “hate” “prejudiced” etc when it is a convenient shot at a lefty or anyone else. Makes me cringe b/c it only shows how well ingrained the concept is to all Americans (conservative and liberal alike). We must “tolerate”. “Your post is filled with hate” blah blah blah. We should strive to be accepting of new ideas but this has gone waaaaayyyyyy to far. We are digging our own graves with our compassion and understanding.
My repsonse was obviously generic, indicating that all companies today face this. Not just Wachovia. I don’t like it but as long as the shake down artists are allowed to continue, and backed by the gov’t through non discrimination and affirmative action laws, this nonsense will continue. Look, if you run a multi billion $ business, you are not going to risk your carreer or the company’s future to “make a point or prove something”. That is a fact.
Now, I am NOT conding this. In fact, I dropped BOA Visa like ahot potato when the news about them and credit cards to illegal came out. That is about all I can do until the silent majority wakes up and shed the shackles of PC and stops being shut down wiht simple name calling (racist, xenophobe, nativist, intolerant, etc). But alas, I fear it will take something catastrophic, affecting peoples ability jsut to survive, before PC will be stamped out. Nothing like a hungry belly to make a person say, “screw you, I have to take care of my own”. You will see a lot less compassion then for people outside our own circle.
The problem used to be that it was “silent.” Increasingly, the problem is that it is hardly a “majority.” What we have here is cultural death-spiral.
I made my previous reply before reading these last sentences of yours, WC. I think you are exactly right. Only the sort of existential calamity that you describe might dramatically turn things around. It could be a 30s-style depression with people eating their dogs, etc. Or, it could be really major terrorist stike like a nuclear bomb or at least a dirty bomb. It would take a lot. We have already seen that 3,000 dead upset the country but had no lasting impact on our direction.
There might be other potential calamities that would do the trick, but I can’t think of any. We are in the midst of “creeping calamities” on several fronts. But we are like frogs in slowly heating water. We only have a chance to save ourselves if the have a sudden and dramatic experience of the threat.
Not that any of this would be pretty. A democratic government would not serve in such times. The government would have to be authoritarian. I can only hope that it might be a benign authoritarian regime. More likely, it will be Hillary/Obama style government seizing the dramatic moment to try to reform humanity. Those are the dreams that always animate a Che or Fidel or Pol Pot or Stalin, Hitler, etc.
When you start ignoring the law as this government has done with Illegal immigration…….you get a domino effect. The anarchy is permeating all of society which eventually will collapse…Get ready for the new “wild ,wild, West”
Hold onto your hats it’s going ot be a bumpy life once one of the traitors running for Prez gets in and opens the floodgates even more.
I worked for Wachovia for several years. It is ridiculous how far they bend over backwards for every PC cause. I had to sit through a two day diversity class where I was basically tought that I, as a white male, am responsible for all of the
pain and suffering in the worldoppression of minorities in America. I also saw a lot of really incompetent managers keep their jobs simply because they were a minority of one kind or another, and they were afraid of lawsuits and/or bad press. So glad I’m no longer there. I can actually say “Merry Christmas” to my coworkers now without having to worry about being dragged into HR.I will be immediately switching to Bank of America.
I didn’t mean to suggest you were condoning it. I feel your frustration. I also don’t necessarily disagree about prevailing opinions, PC or the machine involved but conceding that “it is just the way it is” will get us nothing. I certainly don’t have all the answers but the hardest part is getting people to stand up. Be brave. If we don’t then who will?
I not saying it is easy but just like what Michelle is doing and groups like ALIPAC, SOS and any number of others. We must be vigilant. We must call them out. We must speak up. We must use our dollars. We must be willing to make a certain amount of sacrifice and take some hits. We must use our God given rights to confront this.
I hate to be cliché but evil happens when good men do nothing. If enough of us continue to raise hell we will make a difference and pick up converts along the way. The bottom line is if they can intimidate us to shut up on this then what could they not make us do? Think about it. We may get roughed up a little in this, hell may get roughed up a lot in this PC atmosphere but THAT is exactly what they hope for. It is truly up to us because we see it. If something like this is not worth standing up for then I can’t imagine what would be. Even at certain cost. Otherwise we are just passing it down and saying to our posterity it is not my problem. It will never be a majority. Even if things get bad most people will clamor for the government to do something. Do anything and that something will probably neither be the right thing nor a good thing. Real changes have only come about because of a strong minority of people. People who were willing to take some sacrifice. Somebody has to care. Like 1776, the Alamo or whatever example you want to use. Again if we can be intimidated to shut up and not do anything then the land of the free and home of the brave is just a figment.
This whole “racial” thing will NEVER go away unless we resist it. It will get worse, much worse. Not only from policies but events like Detroit. We will eventually be grinded into the ground.
I know an illegal and potentially complicit, shady deal when I see one. I turned down a better re-fi rate when I found out Wachovia was the parent bank of the loan. Si se puede!
100% agree. This racial crap has gotten way out of control. I am sick of walking on eggshells, while my race is totally open season. Reverse discrimination is not the answer to real discrimination. It will only put a lid on the boling pot. Eventually it will explode.
My point is from the business side. They are in a corner. It will take social changes before they stop their ways.
I’m sure you dont mean the Bank of America that was basically the first large bank to do the same thing as Wachovia?
Can’t be the same….wait, yes it can. Try another bank.
When are these companies going to learn that when they pander to illegals, they drive away american citizens? I don’t know what started the “press 1 for english” and bilingual signs, but I avoid as many businesses as possible using them. I have learned to do without lots of stuff as a result. What sense does it make to build an economy to accommodate deportable people?
I was heading over to Wachovia this afternoon to take advantage of a market beating rate on a CD. Glad I saw this article. My wife and I closed our BofA checking accounts and canceled our BofA credit card years ago over that bank’s support of illegals.
In the two decades I worked for banks and mortgage companies, not once did our internal attorneys permit us to say in our marketing materials anything like “supporting American homeowners since 19**” because it would be viewed as disciminatory against non-citizens. I swore under my breath every time we told to write something more “inclusive”. Grrrrr.
You can start looking for a more responsible local bank through the internet or Yellow Pages. You can also search the net for sources to give you a bank rating – bankrate.com comes to mind,but there are other sites… It’s been about 5 years since I went through a hassle with a major bank. Since then, I’ve made certain they are local, or all branches are within my state of residency, and their assets vs. outstanding loans is solid. Most ATMs are tied in with an international verifying service and you can use them anywhere. Don’t be shy about asking all the questions about bank policy you want. They want your business. Their customer service is also outstanding. Just last week this sweet lady called and said I’d forgotten to sign a check and did I give permission for them to pay it (they could have automatically rejected for payment thus causing a multitude of extra charges on my end). The fact she represented the fraud division caught my attention real quick…never had that kind of attention to detail from the BofA’s of the world.
Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Wachovia are catering to illegals. I would like to know how this works with the Bank Secrecy Act or the Patriot Act since you must show an actual id to open an account. As far as banks that don’t deal directly with illegals – look at USAA Federal Savings Bank. You can use ATM’s anywhere in the world. It is open to the general public. And NO I don’t work there.
I have several joint accounts with my retired mother through Wachovia. She’s been slowly moving her money out of Wachovia and into several small local banks over the last year. When I go back to visit in December, we’re going to close all the accounts for good.
credit unions are better. they don’t pay taxes like banks do, thus the pols don’t get their hands on your money. and rates are better too.
closing today.
Go ahead and add BB&T to the list