Posted on 02/01/2008 9:49:52 PM PST by technomage
Dr. Juan Hernandez on John McCains campaign staff as a 'non-paid volunteer' as a McCain spokesman said.
U.S.-born dual citizen Juan Hernandez was in Vincente Fox's cabinet as Director of the Office for Mexicans Living Abroad and is notorious for having said of Mexican Americans on Nightline on June 7, 2001, "I want the third generation, the seventh generation, I want them all to think 'Mexico first.'"
Does McCain agree with this?
From Amerpundit: This is a man who insisted that any securing of the borders was racist, and closed-borders proponents were equivalent to Nazis.
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.”
From GatewayPundit: Juan Hernandez, head of the Mexican government's Office of Mexicans Living Outside Mexico, told U.S. Representative Tom Tancredo that the North American southwest "is not two countries; it's just a region."
From www.juanhernandez.org:
Last month, when Hernandez appeared to endorse issuing a so-called ''survival kit'' to help Mexican migrants safely cross the border into the USA, U.S. officials criticized the proposal and demanded an explanation. Hernandez quickly backed down.
Hernandez: I believe it is time now for Congress to put the issue of immigration on a front burner before the next election cycle causes the issue to become mired in election-year politics.
In 1996, Hernández invited Vicente Fox (then Governor of the Mexican State of Guanajuato) to speak at UT, Dallas and meet George W. Bush (then Governor of Texas) -- a historical meeting that marked a new outlook in Mexico-U.S. relations.
After beating the party that had ruled for over 71 years, President Fox hired Hernandez as the first US-born cabinet member, heading the President’s Office for Mexicans Abroad. Operating from Los Pinos (the Mexican White House), the Office had as its principal objective to serve and dignify the 24 million whom President Fox has called heroes -- the countrymen who live in foreign lands.
Hernandez speaking of banks and illegals: It is difficult for those who struggle with English to have the self-assurance to open an account and discuss financial transactions when that conversation is more likely to lead to confusion than to certitude. Imagine yourself trying to open a bank account in Paris with only halting knowledge of French. So the first request to financial institutions on my Christmas list is to try to ensure there is at least one person trained to speak Spanish in any branch of your institution.
We must not only have a free flow of goods and services, but also start working for a free flow of people."
Juan Hernandez also created The Organization for Hispanic Advancement, (HispanA, a non-profit 5O1c3).
From the www.hispanicorganization.com website:
In April of 1996, Juan Hernández, former professor at The University of Texas at Dallas, and Vicente Fox, now President of Mexico, began a long conversation on the need for greater recognition and further advancement of Hispanics in the U.S. and Mexican societies. The conversation was joined by many others over the years, including President George W. Bush, former President Bill Clinton, former President Jimmy Carter, many governors, legislators, business leaders, heads of La Raza, LULAC, Maldef, directors of town-home associations, media experts, migration researchers, priests and pastors.
While he might be a dual citizen, Hernandez is clearly a traitor to the US. By serving in the Mexican government he obviously took an oath to uphold the Mexican constitution which shows his first loyalty.
Benedict Arnold was also a genuine American war hero....before he was a traitor.
Just like Shamnesty McCain.
Hernandez is a slime.
This man is so glib, “free flow of people”. But Mexico will not allow U.S. citizens to work in Mexico, as least not anglos, I believe.
“I have heard the American people.” How many times has McCain said that? Not sure what he heard us say but his hiring Juan Hernandez suggest he needs a hearing aid.
What a POS!
Well, Mr Hernandez, most of our U.S. banks bent over backwards to accommodate Hispanics. They gave them credit cards, car and home loans. Almost 50% of the home loans to Hispanics were sub-prime. Is the Mexican government going to bail those banks out now that YOUR PEOPLE are walking away from their financial obligations? H&!! no. The American taxpayers, people like me who have been fighting illegal immigration, will have to.
Does McCain agree with Hernandez? Of course he does. Otherwise he wouldn’t be on his campaign.
Yeah, I know. That was actually a part of the article I excerpted.
I already know all about McLame!!
Since when?
I heard someone say on the Sean Hannity show that McCain was born in Panama, is that right?
The Mexican economy is growing at 13.5% per year. Ours is growing about one-third that rate. Try going to Mexico and getting a job when you don’t know Spanish. I’ve known several people, highly skilled, who’ve tried but been scorned.
Meanwhile my small town has dozens of foreign nationals, who speak only Spanish, standing out on the sidewalk near a short-term employment office waiting to be hired for the day.
Here’s a question you can ask McCain:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=YRWRzZ_yPnk
Posts like this aren’t as effective, since many here are already anti-McCain. You need to spread that to those who are undecided or supporters, and you can do that by asking him that question and then uploading his response to Youtube.
Yes. I did say that. There is a difference between the official Mexican government line and what Mexican officials actually do. Any one who has paid a bribe to an official in Mexico just to get your car sprung from the towed lot will know exactly what I’m talking about.
The Mexican government does not allow any foreign nationals, including U.S. citizens, from entering or remianing in Mexico without legal documentation. The penalty is 2-years in prison. Compare that with the leniency and generosity our government has shown to illegal aliens (the term used is U.S. Federal statutes) from Mexico in this country. Just because the law says one things doesn’t mean it is followed.
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