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Hillary's Open Borders Disgrace-recent appointment reveals the "activist" nature of her campaign
FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | April 24, 2007 | John Perazzo

Posted on 04/24/2007 5:09:52 AM PDT by SJackson

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s position on illegal immigration is an unmitigated disgrace, and American voters ought to be aware of it.

Last Thursday Mrs. Clinton appointed an individual named Raul Yzaguirre, identified as a “Hispanic civil rights activist,” to co-chair her presidential campaign and to direct her outreach efforts to Hispanic voters. Proud to have an opportunity to help the Senator’s cause, Yzaguirre
beamed: “Hillary Clinton has spent more than three decades advocating on behalf of those who are invisible in
America. Not only is she the most experienced and qualified candidate to be president, Senator Clinton has the ability to bring people together to get results and move this country forward.” 

Let’s take a look at the man who spoke these words, and who was entrusted by Mrs. Clinton to fill one of the most vital positions in her campaign.

For fully three decades, from 1974 to 2004, Yzaguirre served as President and CEO of the
National Council of La Raza, an organization that:


·        views the United States as an irredeemably racist nation

·        favors racial and ethnic preferences for minorities in the workplace and in higher education

·        supports open borders and amnesty for all illegal aliens

·        supports the DREAM Act, which is designed to allow illegal aliens to attend college at the reduced tuition rates normally reserved for in-state legal residents

·        advocates “reform” that would give illegal aliens full access to taxpayer-funded health care services

·        characterizes any reduction in government assistance to illegal border-crossers as “a disgrace to American values

·        supports access to driver’s licenses for illegal aliens

·        supports voting rights for illegal aliens

·        opposes the Aviation Transportation and Security Act requiring that all airport baggage screeners be U.S. citizens

·        opposes the Clear Law Enforcement for Criminal Alien Removal Act, which would empower state and local police to enforce federal immigration laws

·        opposes the REAL ID Act, which requires that all driver’s license and photo ID applicants be able to verify they are legal residents of the United States, and that the documents they present to prove their identity are genuine.

At many of the “pro-immigration” rallies that NCLR members have attended in recent times, their signature slogan has been: “La Raza unida nunca sera vencida!” (“The united [Hispanic] race will never be defeated!”)

All of the foregoing views are Yzaguirre’s as well. Every single one of them.

While heading NCLR, Yzaguirre also condemned groups (such as the organization US English) that call for English to remain the primary language spoken in the United States. “US English is to Hispanics as the Ku Klux Klan is to blacks,” he said.

In 2001, NCLR formed focus groups to study how the American public felt about the word “amnesty” vis a vis immigration policy. After the focus groups reported that the public’s reaction was extremely negative, Yzaguirre advised then-Mexican President Vicente Fox to avoid using the term ever again. He urged Fox instead to employ such euphemisms as “regularization,” “legalization,” “normalization,” “permanence,” “earned adjustment,” and “phased-in access to earned regularization.”

In Yzaguirre’s view, illegal aliens are best described as “hardworking people who are paying taxes, who are helping this economy.” “They are benefiting you and I,” he adds. “They’re making it possible for you to send your grandmother to a nursing home to get taken care of.…[T]hey are creating jobs, not taking away jobs.” About the enormous social, political, and economic costs that illegal immigration imposes on American society, he is silent.

Yzaguirre opposes the imposition of sanctions against employers who hire illegal immigrants, claiming that such policies create “massive levels of discrimination against Hispanics.”

In fact, Yzaguirre rejects the very use of the term “illegal.” “Why are we calling them illegals?” he asked Pat Buchanan during a 2001 debate. “If you [are] calling them illegals you’ve got to call every employer an illegal, every consumer an illegal, everybody who hires them an illegal. Let’s -- if you are going to paint somebody with that brush,…let’s be equal about it. You are talking about a police state.…Draconian steps that would create a police state based on fear-mongering.” He then told Buchanan that modern day illegals “did same thing that your ancestors did.” When Buchanan replied that his forebears “came here legally,” Yzaguirre retorted: “What’s the difference? You can change the laws?”
In 2004 Yzaguirre characterized the Border Patrol’s arrest of illegals in a number of southern California communities as “a clear assault on civil rights in an area with a sizable Latino population.”


While heading NCLR, Yzaguirre also condemned groups (such as the organization US English) that called for English to remain the primary language spoken in the United States. “US English is to Hispanics as the Ku Klux Klan is to blacks,” he said.

Notably, Yzaguirre is not the only open borders advocate who has joined Hillary Clinton’s campaign this year. Last month, the New York Senator also welcomed former National Council of La Raza Chairman Jose Villareal aboard her express train to the White House. Villareal has served Democrat candidates and office-holders before. He was an aide to President Bill Clinton, a fundraiser and campaign co-chair for John Kerry in 2004, and the treasurer of Al Gore’s 2000 presidential bid.

The issue of import here is not Raul Yzaguirre’s or Jose Villareal’s unmistakable desire to dissolve America’s borders and to welcome all current illegal aliens as new U.S. citizens and voters. The issue of import is that Hillary Clinton, who wishes to get your vote for President of the United States, has willfully selected these individuals to work for her campaign. She knows exactly who they are and what their agendas are.

Consider very thoughtfully what these selections say about Mrs. Clinton.



TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; electionpresident; hillary; immigration; josevillareal; nclr; yzaguirre
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1 posted on 04/24/2007 5:09:57 AM PDT by SJackson
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To: SJackson
Good find.
2 posted on 04/24/2007 5:11:17 AM PDT by Churchillspirit (We are all foot soldiers in this War On Terror.)
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To: SJackson

Her Thighness’ Hispanic accent in 10 ... 9 ... 8 ....


3 posted on 04/24/2007 5:14:57 AM PDT by sono (TITUS PVLLO in MMVIII - Paid for by the Aventine for Pullo)
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To: SJackson

Consider very thoughtfully what these selections say about Mrs. Clinton.
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Mrs Clinton kept Bill Clinton around as her faux husband so she could be President.
She has lied ,cheated ,stolen,broken campaign finance laws, hidden bodies in parks.
Everything that needs to be said about Hillary’s ambitions has been said over and over and still there are zombies that would follow her to grave.
She is totally without ethics, patriotism, love of God or Love of offspring. She is a totally worthless human being and yet she is running for President and has a chance.


4 posted on 04/24/2007 5:24:45 AM PDT by sgtbono2002 (I will forgive Jane Fonda, when the Jews forgive Hitler.)
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To: SJackson
Yzaguirre is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was a member of the Independent Task Force on North America. In May 2005, task force published Building a North American Community. A plan that calls for the merger of the United States, Mexico and Canada.

So, Mrs. Clinton has added the creation of Aztlan to her presidential campaign platform. "The late Rep. Charlie Norwood wrote an excellent article for Human Events in April 2006 that explained the La Raza’s close ties with Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, or Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan (MEChA). The takeover plan is referred to as the “reconquista” of the Western U.S. and it features ethnic cleansing of Americans, Europeans, Africans and Asians once the area is taken back and converted to Aztlan.

"He wrote: “Behind the respectable front of the National Council of La Raza lies the real agenda of the La Raza movement, the agenda that led to those thousands of illegal immigrants in the streets of American cities, waving Mexican flags, brazenly defying our laws, and demanding concessions.Key among the secondary organizations is the radical racist group Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, or Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan (MEChA), one of the most anti-American groups in the country, which has permeated U.S. campuses since the 1960s, and continues its push to carve a racist nation out of the American West.”

The takeover plan, referred to as the “reconquista” of the Western U.S., calls for ethnic cleansing of Americans, Europeans, Africans and Asians once the area is taken back and converted to Aztlan.

5 posted on 04/24/2007 7:10:23 AM PDT by 3AngelaD (Enoch Powell was right.)
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To: SJackson; All

Excuse me .. “she’s been advocating for 3 decades” .. WHAT? The real question is .. has she accomplished anything for her 3 decades of advocating ..??

THE ANSWER IS A BIG FAT - NO!!!

Why would anybody want her advocating for them when she has not accomplished anything in 3 decades ..?? ... amazing!


6 posted on 04/24/2007 9:13:47 AM PDT by CyberAnt ("... first time in history the U.S. House has attempted to surrender via C-SPAN TV ...")
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To: sgtbono2002

Yes, Hillary has a chance because of people like my co-worker who is planning to register to vote for the first time (she’s over 30), just so she can vote for Hillary (only because it’s historic - first woman president garbage).

How stupid is that ..??


7 posted on 04/24/2007 9:17:41 AM PDT by CyberAnt ("... first time in history the U.S. House has attempted to surrender via C-SPAN TV ...")
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To: Howlin; eddie willers; cajungirl; wirestripper; Southflanknorthpawsis; Peach; prairiebreeze; ...
Important article ping...

The director of Hillary's Hispanic outreach effort is the man who for three decades was the leader of La Raza.

8 posted on 04/24/2007 11:43:43 AM PDT by Interesting Times (ABCNNBCBS -- yesterday's news.)
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To: SJackson
“Hillary Clinton has spent more than three decades advocating on behalf of those who are invisible in America. Not only is she the most experienced and qualified candidate to be president, Senator Clinton has the ability to bring people together to get results and move this country forward.”


9 posted on 04/24/2007 11:48:03 AM PDT by BulletBobCo
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To: Interesting Times

Don’t worry, when Duncan Hunter is sitting in the White House this will allllll be mute.


10 posted on 04/24/2007 11:48:31 AM PDT by Registered (Politics is the art of the possible)
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To: Interesting Times
¡Si, Se Puede!

11 posted on 04/24/2007 11:50:30 AM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: Registered
Don’t worry, when Duncan Hunter is sitting in the White House this will allllll be mute.

When Hunter is sitting in the White House, it will all be moot.

When Hillary is sitting in the White House, it will all be mute.

12 posted on 04/24/2007 11:57:29 AM PDT by Interesting Times (ABCNNBCBS -- yesterday's news.)
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To: Interesting Times
The director of Hillary's Hispanic outreach effort is the man who for three decades was the leader of La Raza.

So maybe she wants to return all of the Mexas and Mexifornia land??

13 posted on 04/24/2007 12:05:10 PM PDT by airborne (Duncan Hunter is the only real choice for honest to goodness conservatives!)
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To: airborne
So maybe she wants to return all of the Mexas and Mexifornia land??

Can you imagine the lunatic quotes available from this guy over the years? Talk about your target-rich political environments...

14 posted on 04/24/2007 12:15:04 PM PDT by Interesting Times (ABCNNBCBS -- yesterday's news.)
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To: Interesting Times

Yeah, I noticed that!


15 posted on 04/24/2007 12:18:24 PM PDT by CyberAnt ("... first time in history the U.S. House has attempted to surrender via C-SPAN TV ...")
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To: Interesting Times

BTTT


16 posted on 04/24/2007 12:36:56 PM PDT by E.G.C.
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To: Interesting Times

I’d suggest waiting to publish them until after the nominating convention .


17 posted on 04/24/2007 12:46:41 PM PDT by Bob J (nks)
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To: potlatch; PhilDragoo; ntnychik; Interesting Times; Grampa Dave; Jeff Head; DoughtyOne

Facts: Over 90% of CA babies born of illegal aliens

Nanci Pelosi has thousands of (non-union!) illegal aliens
in her many upscale restaurants and huge vineyards

Democrats have 37% less children than Republicans

Democrats push abortion that affects mostly blacks

Democrats are depend on illegal alienss for votes


18 posted on 04/24/2007 12:48:23 PM PDT by devolve ( GOOGLE_the_little_fury_with_the_fringe_on_top_)
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To: Bob J; Interesting Times
So, would Swift Boat in Spanish be: ~ Rapido Boat?

Muy Bueno!

TS

19 posted on 04/24/2007 12:56:53 PM PDT by The Shrew (www.swiftvets.com & www.wintersoldier.com - The Truth Shall Set YOU Free!)
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To: devolve

“Facts: Over 90% of CA babies born of illegal aliens”

Uhhh, where did you get this tidbit?


20 posted on 04/24/2007 1:20:25 PM PDT by Bob J (nks)
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