Posted on 02/06/2008 7:53:50 AM PST by 3AngelaD
Despite his loud crusading for illegal alien driver’s licenses, Sen. Barack Obama lost out to Hillary Clinton on the Latino vote tonight....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...
Former House Judiciary Cmte chief counsel David Schippers followed up on the investigation and published his findings in his book, Sellout. A relevant excerpt:
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....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…...
El cemetario?
El barrio de East LA.
I think Michelle missed on point. There is ingrained prejudice by Latinos against Blacks. That’s one of the reasons they didn’t vote for Obama who is just the same as Hillary in policy.
Well, yes, some Latinos. But there are millions of black Latinos.
Tijuana, Guadalupe,Veracruz, Tampico, Ixtapaluca, Acapulco, Monterrey, Chihuahua, Zapopan, Nezahualcóyotl, Guadalajara...
And I would guess huge numbers from Guanajuato and Michoacan.
Latinos do not vote for Black candidates. Whites are far less racist when it comes to voting black. Just look at Idaho which is known as an “Aryan” type state. They just went for Obama in caucuses
http://youdecide08.foxnews.com/2008/02/05/obama-wins-idaho-democratic-caucuses/
Latinos do not vote for Black candidates. Whites are far less racist when it comes to voting black. Just look at Idaho which is known as an “Aryan” type state. They just went for Obama in caucuses
http://youdecide08.foxnews.com/2008/02/05/obama-wins-idaho-democratic-caucuses/
Latinos do not vote for Black candidates. Whites are far less racist when it comes to voting black. Just look at Idaho which is known as an “Aryan” type state. They just went for Obama in caucuses
http://youdecide08.foxnews.com/2008/02/05/obama-wins-idaho-democratic-caucuses/
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