Posted on 01/25/2008 7:32:34 AM PST by AuntB
Dr. Juan Hernandez, McCain Hispanic outreach director: “We must not only have a free flow of goods and services, but also start working for a free flow of people.”
Last month, I received an e-mail from a concerned reader. She wrote:
“Hispanic Republicans here in Nevada had a chance to speak by conference to Sen. John McCain and many of us were appalled to learn that his National Director of Hispanic Outreach is none other that Dr. Juan Hernandez, notorious for his open borders stance. How can McCain reconcile the fact that he says he “learnt his lesson w/the American people” with choosing as his Hispanic Ntl. Dir. someone whose views and interests are so clearly anti-security and not in the interest of the American people or for that matter us legal Hispanic immigrants. Can someone question him directly on this?”
Bryan at Hot Air confirmed it. Here’s a photo he found on McCain’s daughter’s campaign website. The ethnocentrist, border obliteration activist is in tight with the top echelons of the McCain camp. McCain campaign guru Mark MacKinnon is in the foreground. Maybe sending e-mails about their future shamnesty plans with Teddy Kennedy and Lindsay Graham.
Hernandez and I go way back. He had a bad habit of calling you “My friend” during TV debates while smoothly peddling open-borders propaganda. I cured that bad habit several years ago during a Fox News segment by pointing out that he was not, in fact, “my friend.”
He is not your friend, either.
Hernandez was a close advisor to Vicente “Welcome to North America” Fox and headed up a Mexican bureaucracy called the “Presidential Office for Mexicans Abroad.” It was designed to allow Hernandez to travel across the country, meddling with local, state, and federal immigration enforcement on behalf of millions of illegal aliens in America. He lobbied for illegal alien driver’s licenses and Mexico first, defended Mexican bus operators carrying illegal aliens to the USA, and promoted extending banking privileges to illegal aliens.
In an interview on ABC News’s Nightline, Hernandez stated bluntly that he was betting that the Mexican American population in the United States –all generations– “will think Mexico first…”I want ‘em all to think Mexico first.” Here’s the audio clip from Nightline, June 7th 2001:
And here’s Tom Tancredo recounting how Hernandez told him that Mexico and the U.S. are not two separate countries, but “just a region:”
TANCREDO: I had a great argument one time with a gentleman by the name of Juan Hernandez who was at that time the minister of that ministry that I just mentioned, the Ministry for Mexicans Living in the United States.
And I asked him that very question. What he told me the purpose of his ministry was to push people into the United States, it was to—by the way, it was also AFC work with them so that they did—he was with the community, he said. He was three days a week in the United States, four in Mexico.
By the way, he himself is a dual citizen born in Texas, university—teaching at the University of Texas and on the Vicente Fox cabinet. And he said, “I work with the community in the United States, the Mexican community because I don‘t want them essentially going native on us. We want them continually tied emotionally, linguistically, politically to Mexico, because then they‘ll continue to send money home.”
And I said to him, that does not sound like—you know, you‘re doing something that‘s actually the act of an unfriendly government.
CARLSON: Well, of course, it doesn‘t in any way serve American interests. It undermines our country in a pretty direct and direct and obvious way.
TANCREDO: Tucker, his response. Let me tell you his response.
CARLSON: Yes.
TANCREDO: At the end he goes, “Congressman,” in an incredibly condescending way. He goes, “Congressman, it‘s not two countries; it‘s just a region.”
CARLSON: That is not my view, to put it mildly.
TANCREDO: Not mine either.
Now, incredibly, Juan Hernandez is GOP presidential candidate John McCain’s Hispanic Outreach Director. He is, as my Nevada reader wrote, a sovereignty-undermining extremist who “whose views and interests are so clearly anti-security and not in the interest of the American people or for that matter us legal Hispanic immigrants.”
I repeat: Geraldo Rivera Republican John McCain has learned nothing from the shamnesty debacle.
Next stop for his friend Juan Hernandez: DHS Secretary?
Mark Krikorian…”Does McCain agree with this? Has he offered Hernandez, a former high-level foreign government official who presumably swore an oath to uphold the Mexican constitution, a place in a future McCain Administration? That’s not a rhetorical question.”
Gateway Pundit: “When Senator McCain insisted that he had not changed his position on immigration in an interview after the South Carolina Republican Primary, he wasn’t kidding!”
Jake Jacobsen: “You have got to be freaking kidding me.”
Sundries Shack: “Let’s ask his Hispanic Outreach Director whether he’d work for a politician who intended on securing the borders before offering amnesty. What do you think his answer would be?”
Oh, I know too well what it would be. Hernandez would smile, lie through his teeth, and tell you he supports securing the border, just like his good friend John McCain does…
I literally can’t watch this guy when he comes on TV. Everything is “my friend... this...”, “my friend, that...”, and we’re supposed to take in all of these “good people” just coming here to make money. There is NO ONE more open borders/pro-amnesty than this creep. And I wish he’d wash all that grease out of his hair.
I actually hope it’s true that Hernandez is currently affiliated with McCain; he is so overtly against us enforcing our borders that hopefully the electorate will notice and halt McCain and his “straight talk Express” right in its tracks.
Anyone believing that McCain changed his mind on amnesty will now know better.
Here’s an interesting article. Do you remember Richard Poe?
http://www.freerepublic.com/~richardpoe/
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/moonbatcentral/2005/03/john-mccain-gets-soros-cash.html
Thursday, March 10, 2005
John McCain Gets Soros Cash
Senator John McCain’s Reform Institute has suffered some bad press recently due to its involvement in an influence-peddling scandal with Cablevision. As usual, however, mainstream media have failed to go to the root of the matter.
Founded on June 26, 2001, McCain’s Reform Institute for Campaign and Election Issues has long served as a nerve center for the so-called “campaign finance reform” movement – a movement which has done nothing to clean up campaign finance, but has done a great deal to empower federal judges and government bureaucrats to regulate political speech, in defiance of the Bill of Rights.
Now here’s the kicker. The list of donors published on the Reform Institute’s Web site reads like a veritable Who’s Who of radical, leftwing foundations, including the Tides Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Proteus Fund and George Soros’ Open Society Institute (hat tip, Winfield Myers).
Not surprisingly, in view of the above associations, Arianna Huffington serves on the Reform Institute’s Advisory Board. Huffington has long acted as a front for George Soros’ “campaign finance reform” efforts. In 2000, she organized the so-called Shadow Conventions which provided John McCain with a bully pulpit to stump for his now-infamous McCain-Feingold Act. George Soros shouldered about one third of the cost of the Shadow Conventions.
Posted by Richard Poe @ 6:15:00 PM Eastern Time
Apparently Juan Valdez considers himself more Mexican than American. If so, it would not surprise me to find him working for McCain and would explain A LOT about McCain’s abortion called the illegal amnesty bill he introduced.
His bio and news links are currently active and I encourage all of you to read them while they are still available.
According to the website he lives in Mexico and considers himself an Mexican even though he was born in Texas.
http://www.juanhernandez.org/index-37.html
A quote from the website:
But a lot of these problems would simply disappear if there were simply more open policies in place, he said.
Hernández is emphatic. We must not only have a free flow of goods and services, but also start working for a free flow of people.
The border seems to become more and more a limitation the farther away you get from the border. But those who live in El Paso, those who live in Laredo, those who live in Nuevo Laredo, those who live in Ciudad Juárez, know that the border, in many senses, is an imaginary line, he pointed out.
He takes the idea further. The United States, Mexico, and Canada should be seen really as a single economic bloc, not as competitors. But while looking at the big picture, his focus is, again, on the building blocks. While praising the success of the North American Free Trade Agreement, Hernández advocates taking NAFTA a step beyond to help the small and micro companies to link up between the United States, Canada, and Mexico; then you will see, for example, job development just skyrocketing
I was listening just days ago to Jeff Katz (1110 Am WBT)(http://jeffkatz.wbt.com/) in SC interviewing McCain. McCain is STILL insisting on his comprehensive amnesty and plainly said WE don’t know what we’re talking about and that MOST people and ALL experts want the plan he’s been pushing.
It is legend about McCains temper. Has everyone forgotten how he cursed Cornyn out last spring? He has no business in the senate much less the white house.
Every year, the congressional staffers vote for congressmen. Here’s what McCain earns from those who have to work around him.
Show Horse
1. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.)
2. John McCain (R-Ariz.)
3. Joseph Biden (D-Del.)
Getting votes from both sides, the New Yorker is the subject of the old joke: The most dangerous place in DC is between Chuck Schumer and a TV camera.
Hottest Temper
1. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska)
2. John McCain (R-Ariz.)
3. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.)
Stevens, known for wearing an Incredible Hulk tie to intimidate friend and foe, and McCain, known to snap at staff when the cameras are off,
Worst Follower
1. Lincoln Chafee (R-R.I.)
2. John McCain (R-Ariz.)
3. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.)
Chafee’s the most liberal member of the GOP. Close behind are McCain, a little less of a maverick as 2008 nears, and Lieberman, a Bush ally on the Iraq war,
So every election year we survey top aides on both sides of the aisle—administrative assistants, press secretaries, legislative directors, and chiefs of committee staffs—to get their up-close and personal, and anonymous, views.
This year, we sent out some 1,700 ballots and received back a nearly identical number of Democratic and Republican responses. For each we donate $1 to a charity: So Others Might Eat or the Metropolitan Police Boys and Girls Clubs.
Our survey shows that while there may be lots of partisan backbiting among the senators and House members, their staffers seem far more capable of putting politics aside and making honest judgments. It wasn’t unusual for aides in both parties to name one of their own as “spineless” or give the “workhorse” nod to someone across the aisle.
http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/mediapolitics/1666.html
I live in central Florida (I-4 corridor - Orlando) and just received a phone call a few minutes ago from Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, AZ (on the Mexican border) who told me a whole list of reasons why he was supporting Mitt Romney for President. bttt
“Jake Jacobsen: “You have got to be freaking kidding me.”
Me: Dittos, Jake.
I’ve seen this guy on Lou Dobbs several times. He’s the worst of the worst.
Well, Hillary chose former National Council of La Raza president and NAU radical Raul Yzaguirre as his Hispanic outreach person.
I guess you can’t just pick some decent, intelligent individual of Hispanic descent for that position.
He used to be on Fox fairly frequently. I loved seeing that flipping smile disappear after shamesty went down.
This is an endorsement that will garner a LOT of weight. He's one tough hombre on illegal immigration and is totally against amnesty.
As a interesting coincidence, while typing this post, I just received a phone call (Florida) with a recorded message. It was Joe talking about his 100% endorsement of Romney. Chances of this coinkydink happening probably are about zilch, LOL.
Aside from his non-coddling of prisoners, Sheriff Joe pipes videotapes of Newt's lecture series into his jails, hah.
When a sarcastic reporter asked him if he has piped any lecture series by a Democrat, the sheriff replied that a Dem lecture series might explain why a lot of the inmates were in his jails in the first place.
My kind of guy!
Leni
Sheriff Joe needs to be Homeland Security director in the Romney administration. Seriously!
ping
This will completely blow over for McCain, and only a very small number of people will ever know about this.
The MSM isn’t going to cover this. And, while organizing an effort to go to his campaign events and ask him about this and then upload his response to video sharing sites would be very effective, no one is going to do that.
And, McCain knows that.
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