Posted on 03/29/2008 7:01:32 PM PDT by BGHater
SAN BERNARDINO - Like the woman herself, Dolores Huerta's position on illegal immigration from Mexico into the United States is blunt and direct.
Huerta, the 77-year-old who in 1962 joined Cesar Chavez in co-founding the United Farm Workers of America, delivered an impassioned and populist message to a crowd of about 500 people on Thursday night in the San Bernardino Valley College auditorium.
"We didn't cross the border," the revered immigrant and farm worker advocate told an enthusiastic crowd of mostly college students. "The border crossed us."
Her visit came amidst an era of renewed debate over anti-immigration policies and the fate of more than 10 million illegal immigrants living in the nation's shadows.
A fence across the U.S. Mexico border is being constructed, and Congress last year deadlocked on new immigration legislation.
In her wide-ranging speech, which was sponsored by Arts and Lecture Series Committee and MECHA Latino faculty and staff, Huerta railed against anti-immigrant groups, the North American Free Trade Agreement, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposed state budget cuts to education, and U.S. government inaction on immigration reform.
Huerta also praised young people and minorities in America for renewed vitality in political movements and urged listeners to vault a Democrat into the White House.
Huerta has publicly endorsed Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., for president.
"In a democracy, the only thing poor people and working people have going for them is their vote," Huerta said.
Huerta, her small frame behind a podium in the high-ceiling auditorium, hammered away with her well-trod anti-elite rhetoric.
She criticized NAFTA for paving the way for U.S. corporate exploitation of Latin American economies, and said efforts similar to those that rebuilt Germany and Japan after World War II were necessary to ease the flight north.
A possible 10 percent cut statewide to public education would disproportionately impact poor and minority students, she said.
But Huerta's strongest words were directed toward the issue of immigration.
She said illegal workers were a critical bulwark of the national economy, yet were faced with virulent anti-illegal-immigrant groups such as the Minuteman Project that she said were "linked" to the United States government.
She said Immigration and Customs Enforcement crackdowns had deported 290,000 people to Latin American countries in what she characterized as an "ethnic cleansing."
But anti-illegal-immigration efforts were doomed to failure, Huerta said, as illegal immigrants and naturalized Latinos had gained a foothold in the country.
"It's really too late," Huerta said of anti-illegal-immigration movements. "If 47 million (Latinos) have one baby each ... it's already won."
A Mexican-American labor organizer who bore 11 children, Huerta gained fame in the 1960s with her work to secure better working conditions for agricultural laborers.
In her negotiations, Huerta's reputation was a blend of fiery advocacy for Latinos and an emphasis grooming young girls and women for lives of independence and action.
Huerta's reception at the community college was overwhelmingly positive.
Many in the audience rejoiced in the theme of empowerment that drove Huerta's speech, which ended with a chant of "Si se puede," which is Spanish for "Yes we can."
"I liked how she said 75 percent of the world was people of color," said SBVC student Randy Dale, 23. "We are the majority, and we should be in charge more, especially in the U.S."
"I liked how she said 75 percent of the world was people of color," said SBVC student Randy Dale, 23. "We are the majority, and we should be in charge more, especially in the U.S."
"It's really too late," Huerta said of anti-illegal-immigration movements. "If 47 million (Latinos) have one baby each ... it's already won."
Lady I'm afraid your right. Simple demographics. America was nice while it lasted.
If the border did "cross you" then you would be 160 years old.
Unfortunately, because very little is being and will not be done in this country to control this problem, and yes it is a problem, it is becoming evident that there is a more sinister force controlling the outcome of immigration policy.
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That's got to be the dumbest bumpersticker the freeloaders from south of the border ever came up with to lay claim to what they think is THEIR country. My response is, "POSSESSION IN NINE-TENTHS OF THE LAW!"
“Lady I’m afraid your right. Simple demographics. America was nice while it lasted.”
The WWII generation killed us.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=55D115DA-C68A-40B5-831C-6071D194CE83
>”Born of liberal ideology, the 1965 bill abolished the national origins quota system that had regulated the ethnic composition of immigration in fair proportion to each group’s existing presence in the population. In a misguided application spirit of the civil rights era, the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations saw these ethnic quotas as an archaic form of chauvinism. Moreover, as Cold Warriors facing charges of “racism” and “imperialism,” they found the system rhetorically embarrassing.”<
At my childrens' (public) elementary school it looks like they have "won" about 4 times over, at least judging by the average number of babies they have here.
“POSSESION IS NINE TENTHS OF THE LAW”
That is exactly why they are flooding up here like locusts.
It won’t be too long before there are so many of them having anchor babies and just squatting here that it will be impossible to get rid of them.
What she doesn’t realize is that if they take over they will turn the southwest into a third world country and will gave to go farther north to find work.
Illegal alien criminal, was in jail four times in the last two years and had not been deported or even reported to HS.
The mayor of LA and the sheriff who runs the jail are culpable for this murder.
Last week, the mayor appeared at the site of the murder to console the mother of the victim. I wish I could have been there to confront him in public.
I hope the mother sues and gets millions from the city and the county of LA.
“Unfortunately, because very little is being and will not be done in this country to control this problem, and yes it is a problem, it is becoming evident that there is a more sinister force controlling the outcome of immigration policy.”
Yes, politicians that are still winning elections and that are fairly recently retired did this to us, back when the “greatest generation” ran things.
It was a poison pill that was passed when the democrats controlled everything, and once the American egg was broken it could never be put back together again.
The best we can hope for now are small speed bumps such as a border fence, focused legislation on hiring and ID, etc, etc.
“>Chief among national concerns was total numeric immigration. Senate floor manager and Camelot knight-errant Ted Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, assured jittery senators that “our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually.” Senator Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, further calmed that august body, insisting “the total number of potential immigrants would not be changed very much.” Time has proven otherwise. Average immigration levels before the 1965 amendments took effect hovered around 300,000 per annum. Yet 1,045,000 legal immigrants flooded our cities in 1996 alone.”<
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=55D115DA-C68A-40B5-831C-6071D194CE83
Huerta also praised young people and minorities in America for renewed vitality in political movements and urged listeners to vault a Democrat into the White House.
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God help us, with this kind of trash permeating our government and our society. Send them all back to Mexico including these perverts who have no business in America themselves. America is for American citizens -— not blood-sucking leeches and lawbreakers.
I've got some bad news for Huerta. Once that happens and America becomes just ANOTHER MEXICO, where is she going to go then?
DE (not Diatomaceous Earth) Ping.
You left your cesspool of a country and created another one. Now where are you going to go?
10 million illegals??
It’s more like 40 million illegals.
The democrats think they will get all these illegals into their camp. They are right, but only for a while. When the Latino bloc reaches large enough numbers they will dump the Dems and take over themselves. The 2024 election will be between the Democrats and the Partidad de la Raza. Republicans will be a short article in Wikipedia, like the Whigs.
For a preview, go to Los Angeles. The Hispanic rulers are no longer nedd the Democrat party to get elected, but they still want the money and alliances it brings.
WOW! That's inspirational!
Let me try it on for size:
"I didn't steal that car, the car stole me!"
I didn't take that money, that money took me!"
I didn't pull that trigger, that trigger pulled me!"
Nope - STILL sounds stupid...
Instead, long forgotten-grudges are nursed against the white populace.
Always a source of amazement by many people. Canada's own Barack Obama was Pierre Elliot Trudeau. He was a socialist. When he became Prime Minister in 1968, Canada opened wide it's doors. Immigrant myself, I watched with rueful smiles.
Yer average Canadian now does not say "go back where you came from"- as they did previous. This to a mild observation about Canada,often taken wrongly. No, something like we will try to make things better and find out where WE are lacking etc. The minorities, well, the most complaining, are the ones respected.
Something happened on the way to the forum. Damn the Senator Teds and the Trudeaus with the Human rights Johnnies to Kingdom come. (Laughs)
“Pierre Elliot Trudeau”
Wasn’t his wife the first of the celebrity Britney Spears type intimate close up photos (no panties)?
It would change if they were made to actually pay the cost of these future gangmember themselves. Instead of counting on US citizens to educate and feed and eventually incarcerate the worst of their kids.
The funny part is demographics really is destiny. When these invaders numbers grow large enough the US taxpayer runs like hell and California for example instantly becomes TJ.
All thanks to Americans like GW. Bush.
As I know it, she used to be a prostitute in Delano.
She hasn’t just endorsed here, she’s a Clinton co-chair.
If anyone wants to do anything about this, ask Clinton to denounce her statements, then upload the response to Youtube.
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