http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/laraza/ en-us Sun, 3 Jan 2010 01:41:39 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419777/posts As you start to read all this, you'll laugh at how incestuous it all gets. Let's start with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which as I've noted in the past is tied in with the Soros foundation. Together, the two worked on something called The Project on Death in America.(PDIA) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2341083/posts And speaking of Mr Soros, he himself(his foundations) have given directly to NPR. Compared to some of the other numbers I'm seeing, it's a small amount of $250,000. But it doesn't matter. Soros money is soros money in my book. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2396058/posts Additional information about RWJF can be found here.... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419777/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 01:41:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410074/posts A leftist La Raza activist previously forced out of a U.S. ambassadorship for her close ties to a terrorist-sponsoring foreign government has been nominated by President Obama to a key administration post. Mari Del Carmen Aponte, a former director at the extremist Mexican group National Council of La Raza (see the press release applauding her nomination) and the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, has been handpicked by Obama to be the U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador. That means Aponte, an attorney and independent consultant, will represent the State Department in the civil war-ravaged Central American country. In 1998... Judicial Watch Corruption Chronicles http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410074/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:59:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2409981/posts We all knew Obama winning the election would be bad. But did any of you really believe it could be this bad? Every day is just another astounding move of stupidity, treason, or both. Witness: If you were president of the United States, would you hire an alleged former spy for Fidel Castro to be ambassador to El Salvador, a country teetering on the brink of hard-core socialism? President Obama just did. On Dec. 9, Obama nominated Mari Del Carmen Aponte to be ambassador to El Salvador, despite the fact that in the late 1990s, the FBI discovered that she... The Big Feed http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2409981/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:04:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409615/posts If you were president of the United States, would you hire an alleged former spy for Fidel Castro to be ambassador to El Salvador, a country teetering on the brink of hard-core socialism? President Obama just did. On Dec. 9, Obama nominated Mari Del Carmen Aponte to be ambassador to El Salvador, despite the fact that in the late 1990s, the FBI discovered that she was working with Cuban intelligence officers. According to Insight Magazine, "When the FBI eventually questioned her about her involvement with Cuban intelligence, she reportedly refused to cooperate." Why would Aponte escape the Obama administration's scrutiny?... Townhall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409615/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:11:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409602/posts WALNUT CREEK — Almost a month after an internal probe pushed 50 immigrant workers out of their jobs at a downtown Target store, interviews with former and current store employees portray a mass firing that was selective, planned in advance and confusing to many of those forced out. Sparked by an allegation that illegal immigrants worked on the night shift, the Walnut Creek store last month attracted the attention of the Minneapolis corporate headquarters of the 1,700-store chain. The company sent a team to investigate, according to several people close to the incident. By the end of the second week... Contra Costa Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409602/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:03:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403881/posts Millions of undocumented people in the U.S. should be given a path to legal status after the country finds a way to stop illegal immigration, business and government leaders said in a report Wednesday. The University of Denver report argues that legalizing as many of the estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants as possible could strengthen the economy and national security. But it should come with conditions, such as requiring new immigrants to learn English, pass criminal and medical background checks, and pay any taxes that they owe, the document states. The report is the product of a year of discussions... Associated Press - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403881/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 18:33:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2379128/posts "Texas has a very diverse heritage, but all Texans expect our leaders to be accountable and responsible to the people. We are taking the message to the people." TheCypressTimes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2379128/posts#comment Thu, 5 Nov 2009 14:44:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382480/posts A cross-section of opponents of health-care reform legislation making its way through Congress crowded into the Durango office of U.S. Rep. John Salazar... An orderly 50 or so protesters... represented at least three interest groups - Republican women, the Tea Party movement and the 9-12 Project started by conservative radio and television commentator Glenn Beck. The protest was part of a nationwide effort, which included thousands of conservatives rallying at the Capitol on Thursday against the Democrats' health-care overhaul plan, labeling it a government takeover of the nation's medical system. Health-care reform misses the target on all fronts... It's too... Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382480/posts#comment Mon, 9 Nov 2009 22:49:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379382/posts Health Care Reform Legislation Becomes Vehicle for Reshaping Immigration Policy .Weak Verification and Loosening of Welfare Reform Rules Alter Longstanding System of Enforcement and Incentives WASHINGTON, .PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Current versions of both the House and Senate health care reform bills contain inadequate verification measures that will fail to prevent millions of illegal aliens from accessing taxpayer funded health benefits, charges the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). And in a radical change from current law, both versions of the bill grant immediate health care benefits to immigrants currently subject to a 5-year waiting period before they may access most federal... Reuters/PRNewswire http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379382/posts#comment Thu, 5 Nov 2009 19:49:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379056/posts "...Two things disturb me about "America Libre." The first is that this book won an International Latino Book Award when it is clearly only a mediocre novel in terms of its writing. (It was also one of USA Today's picks for "Summer Reads" and was similarly lauded in Latina magazine.) The second is that Ramos' depiction of evil, Hispanic-hating Anglos, only too eager to deny Social Security benefits to illegal aliens (when they're not cruelly deporting them outright), is obviously what he truly thinks of non-Hispanics. "America Libre" exists for one reason only: to foment hatred and revolutionary sentiment among... Worldnet Daily: Technocracy http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379056/posts#comment Thu, 5 Nov 2009 13:11:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376753/posts I'm writing this in West Africa where I have spent eleven of the last fourteen months working with compassionate, dedicated, and brave people on humanitarian programs designed to save lives and alleviate human suffering. During the past five years, I have traveled to the Eastern Congo where the deaths of millions of people have gone largely unnoticed by the rest of the world, been to Darfur, responded to famines in Ethiopia, helped end a measles epidemic in Burkina Faso, and been deployed to Guinea Bissau in response to a cholera epidemic. I am currently focused on helping people affected by... Center for Immigration studies http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376753/posts#comment Mon, 2 Nov 2009 19:25:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374676/posts A document from the House ethics committee lists an examination into whether the chamber's rules were violated when Rep. Linda T. Sanchez put three legislative aides to her fellow-congresswoman sister on her payroll after an embezzlement scheme had left Rep. Loretta Sanchez's office short of funds. The document, a July tracking report obtained by The Washington Post, says that the sisters, both California Democrats, "shared transferred staff from one office to another after embezzlement," and that a meeting between lawyers for the ethics committee and the congresswomen had taken place June 1. The document also says that lawyers for the... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374676/posts#comment Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:06:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374524/posts Police Probe Shot Fired at Home of CNN's Lou Dobbs Thursday , October 29, 2009 By Joshua Rhett Miller A gunshot was fired at the New Jersey home of CNN's Lou Dobbs after a series of threatening phone calls earlier this month, the host told listeners on his nationally syndicated radio show. Dobbs, a fervent proponent of U.S. border enforcement, told listeners of "The Lou Dobbs Show" on Monday that the incident is part of an ongoing assault against anyone who opposes amnesty or leniency toward illegal immigrants. FOX News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374524/posts#comment Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:14:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2373909/posts CNN and talk radio host Lou Dobbs, a strong proponent of U.S. border enforcement, told his radio audience a gunshot was fired into his home after a series of threatening phone calls . "Three weeks ago this morning a shot was fired into my house, my wife was standing there," he said on his nationally syndicated radio show Monday. "This follows weeks and weeks of threatening phone calls." "This shot was fired with my wife not 15 feet away." ........ WND http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2373909/posts#comment Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:29:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2373448/posts Lou Dobbs describes his home being shot at. Lou Dobbs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2373448/posts#comment Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:00:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372868/posts The war on conservative speech has moved from the White House to your neighborhood pews. Left-wing church leaders want the Federal Communications Commission to crack down on "hate speech" over cable TV and right-leaning talk-radio airwaves. President Obama's speech-stifling bureaucrats seem all too happy to oblige. Over the last week, an outfit called "So We Might See" has conducted a nationwide fast to protest "media violence" -- specifically, "anti-immigrant hate speech, which employs flawed arguments to appeal to fears rather than facts." Their ire is currently aimed at Fox News and conservative talk-show giants. But how long before they target... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372868/posts#comment Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:20:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370665/posts Geraldo Rivera on Thursday lambasted Lou Dobbs for the outspoken CNN host's views concerning illegal immigration. Speaking at a luncheon sponsored by El Diario La Prensa NY, Rivera disgracefully said, "Lou Dobbs is almost single-handedly responsible for creating, for being the architect of the young-Latino-as-scapegoat for everything that ails this country." Rivera also told the audience that he had spoken to his boss, and was assured Dobbs was not coming to Fox (video embedded below the fold with partial transcript): CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR THE VIDEO "One of the aspects of our reality in the United States now is the... Newsbusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370665/posts#comment Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:51:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2369848/posts Bigotry isn't funny, said Cesar Baldelomar in Sojourners. But Forum Novelties Inc. is trying to cash in on racist stereotypes by selling—through Walgreens, Target, and other major retailers—an "illegal alien" Halloween costume, featuring a space alien mask, an orange prison jumpsuit, and an oversize green card. Maybe the joke would be funny if undocumented immigrants weren't still being beaten to death by young men raised on xenophobic hatred. (Watch reactions to the costume) What "absurd outrage," said commentator Debbie Schlussel in her blog. "You can sell Nazi memorabilia on eBay," but let a secure borders group, Americans for Legal Immigration,... The Week http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2369848/posts#comment Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:21:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366894/posts Watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6heXIdSpDdE Youtube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366894/posts#comment Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:54:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2355227/posts The Man Behind the Curtain and his Drones. ...."In a November 2008 in and interview with Spiegel, Soros made some comments that accurately outlined precisely the course that President Obama's administration would eventually pursue in 2009: "I think we need a large stimulus package which will provide funds for state and local government to maintain their budgets -- because they are not allowed by the constitution to run a deficit. For such a program to be successful, the federal government would need to provide hundreds of billions of dollars. In addition, another infrastructure program is necessary. In total, the cost... Hubpages http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2355227/posts#comment Mon, 5 Oct 2009 16:08:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2353302/posts La Raza President Wants Health Care Reform for ‘Everyone,’ Including Illegal Aliens Friday, October 02, 2009 By Matt Cover (CNSNews.com) – National Council of La Raza President Janet Murguia said that health care reform should include “everyone,” and this means illegal immigrants as well because with more people paying into the system it might lower the costs of health care. Speaking to reporters Thursday at a press conference in support of President Barack Obama’s efforts to pass a government-led overhaul of the nation’s health care system, Murguia said that while the issue of illegal immigrants was politically difficult, there were... CNSnews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2353302/posts#comment Fri, 2 Oct 2009 13:17:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2350338/posts This broke earlier this morning. Bank of America Corp. is suspending its work with the housing affiliate of embattled community organizing group ACORN. The decision comes as three Republicans in Congress ask Bank of America and 13 other financial institutions to give Congress a complete accounting of their dealings with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now or its affiliates. The Provocateur http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2350338/posts#comment Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:55:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2345953/posts Bank of America is even still referring people to the ACORN offices caught on tape. A sample from the banks' website: Local Home Ownership Programs We work with local and national organizations to bring potential homebuyers education and financial resources to obtain a mortgage. Phoenix * ACORN. Bank of America works with Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) Housing to provide special mortgage products to potential homeowners in Phoenix. For more information, call ACORN's Phoenix office at 1.602.253.1111 or visit the website at www.acornhousing.org. * NCLR. Bank of America works with National Council of La Raza (NCLR) to... Bank of America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2345953/posts#comment Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:42:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2341502/posts As ACORN grapples with a scandal that in recent days has led the Census Bureau to sever ties and the Senate to block housing funding , other groups with similar stated goals are left to wonder how the fallout might affect them. But the group is on its heels after conservative activists posing as a prostitute and her pimp released hidden-camera videos .... The Senate voted 83-7 Monday to block Housing and Urban Development Department from giving grants to ACORN. ....Housing and Urban Development Department ... provides funding to 25 groups that, like ACORN, have a national profile and similar... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2341502/posts#comment Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:46:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2336281/posts While much of the public debate surrounding the Democrats’ healthcare plan has focused on the massive costs to be paid by American taxpayers, another flaw has stayed under the radar — until last week. That’s when the National Council of La Raza and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus pushed to include illegal immigrants in the president’s healthcare effort. Despite statements to the contrary, the Obama administration could force the American people to pay for the healthcare of millions of illegal immigrants in the U.S. The Democrats’ bill in the House, H.R. 3200, contains gaping loopholes that will allow illegal immigrants to... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2336281/posts#comment Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:28:59 GMT