http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/lulac/ en-us Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:40:36 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2393524/posts "A Latino group is asking a judge to prevent state officials from canceling the registrations of more than 40,000 vehicles apparently driven by undocumented immigrants. The League of United Latin American Citizens filed the lawsuit against state officials in Franklin County Common Pleas Court this morning. The legal action comes two weeks before the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles plans to revoke the potentially fraudulently obtained license plates of those who cannot provide proof of legal U.S. residency." Columbus Dispatch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2393524/posts#comment Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:40:36 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/2365524/posts DALLAS — For just $39.99, you can now dress up as an "illegal alien" for Halloween. Target is selling the costume made up of an orange jumpsuit with the words "illegal alien" written across the chest. The costume even comes with a mask of a space invader with big eyes, and a green card. It's not a funny matter to some leaders with LULAC, one of the largest Latino civil rights organizations in the country. Immediate National LULAC President Hector Flores says the costume is racist in nature. Flores adds, "The costume, while clearly depicting a supposed visitor from space,... Pegasus News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365524/posts#comment Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:59:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324890/posts A federal three-judge panel this week delivered a major blow to the Texas Democratic Party's so-called “Texas Two Step” process for selecting convention delegates, paving the way for its review by the Justice Department. Describing its claim as lacking merit, the 24-page unanimous ruling denied the state Democratic Party's motion for a summary judgment, or dismissal, of a lawsuit filed by the League of United Latin American Citizens of Texas, the Mexican American Bar Association of Houston and others. LULAC's suit charges that the Texas Two Step dilutes the Latino vote by awarding more delegates to “white majority districts” at... San Antonio Express-News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324890/posts#comment Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:16:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275923/posts PHOENIX — The Rev. Al Sharpton on Friday called for opponents of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who has aggressively cracked down on illegal immigration, to videotape alleged racial profiling by the sheriff’s office. The civil rights leader said the videos will help the U.S. Department of Justice in an investigation of alleged civil rights abuses by Arpaio’s office. “We’re gonna start some freedom rides around this county, to show how people of a certain skin color are treated different than other people,” Sharpton told a crowd of several hundred people at the Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church in Phoenix. Sharpton... Sierra Vista Herald/Bisbee Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275923/posts#comment Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:14:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2255967/posts Disagreement with Guard's possible return National Guard troops could be returning to the border, this time in an expanded role that includes "riding shotgun for Border Patrol," if the U.S. House has its way. "If we give them a little more training on this, I think we can do some more, have them play a more active role in law enforcement," said U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo. "That's what I'm looking at." Not everyone agrees with that plan. "We've always taken the stand that the National Guard should not be called in," said LULAC National President Rosa Rosales. "Why? Because... LAREDO MORNING TIMES http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2255967/posts#comment Fri, 22 May 2009 01:36:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2247520/posts It’s an old device in politics: Set up a straw man to criticize when you can’t win an argument on your own. Such tactics, unfortunately, are standard fare when it comes to efforts by a handful of special interest groups to bring about amnesty for illegal immigrants. Organizations such as the National Council of La Raza, the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and the Migration Policy Institute know that most Americans disagree with their desire for amnesty. Most Americans want to see immigration laws enforced. So these groups create straw... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2247520/posts#comment Sat, 9 May 2009 13:40:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2220672/posts Census Bureau: We’ll Work with ‘Community Organizations’ to Count All Illegal Aliens in 2010 Thursday, April 02, 2009 By Nicholas Ballasy, Video Reporter (CNSNews.com) - The acting director of the U.S. Census Bureau, Thomas Mesenbourg, told CNSNews.com that the bureau intends to work with community organizations to make sure every illegal alien in the United States is counted in the 2010 Census. The Census is used to apportion the seats in the U.S. House of Representative. There are 435 House seats that are divided among the states in proportion to their population, which is determined by the decennial census. States... CNS News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2220672/posts#comment Thu, 2 Apr 2009 14:15:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2192895/posts Letters to the Editor: 2.24.09 Their time is gone I read the article in the Feb. 19 edition about Geraldo Rivera applauding LULAC’s mission. Believe me, I’m not an idealist, but I am a thinker. What would happen if LULAC and the NAACP went away? I believe we would all be fine. It seems to me that organizations that represent people solely on the basis of race tend to be more racist than the causes that they fight so adamantly against. Why can’t we have a single Chamber of Commerce that represents Hispanic and black interests as well as their... Corpus Christi Caller-Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2192895/posts#comment Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:23:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2148894/posts As the United States awaits the inauguration of its first nonwhite president, organizations representing women, gays and lesbians and people of color are working overtime to encourage President-elect Barack Obama to make good on his remark that he would nominate "one of the most diverse Cabinets and White House staffs of all time." Recommending names of possible presidential nominees is a time-honored part of the political process for interest groups of all stripes. But the push for diversity, which gained steam over the last couple of presidencies, has reached a crescendo this year, political observers say, with constituent groups building... The San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2148894/posts#comment Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:46:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2146251/posts Building a border fence, tougher immigration laws and resources that could allow local law enforcement agencies to target immigrants are all symptoms of a bias against Hispanics that must change, Rosa Rosales, national president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, or LULAC, said in El Paso this weekend. "One of our top priorities is civil rights. It was the same way before me," she said. "To this day, we feel there's still a lot of discrimination in employment, discrimination in housing, discrimination in the overall issues that pertain to minorities." Rosales, in El Paso for a quarterly LULAC... El Paso Times, Texas http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2146251/posts#comment Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:42:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044611/posts What most people will not expect of the new administration is an effort to "solve" the problems with our immigration system by granting amnesty (or some euphemism for the same) to millions of illegal aliens to satisfy the insatiable desire for American businesses for lower-wage labor. We had that debate in 2007, and the American public soundly rejected it. Yet, McCain and Obama are appearing before the national conventions of Hispanic ethnocentric lobbyist and pressure organizations promising to make "comprehensive immigration reform" (amnesty) a priority. Amnesty is irresistable because it provides an easy "fix" to a difficult problem. It can... San Diego Union-Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044611/posts#comment Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:44:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044087/posts Presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama will be using the National Council of La Raza convention, which begins tomorrow in San Diego, as a platform for courting the increasingly significant Latino vote. Convention organizers hope to press the senators for answers on some of the thorniest issues affecting Latinos, among them immigration policies and solutions to the nation's health insurance and mortgage crises. This week, as they prepared to participate in the four-day event at the San Diego Convention Center, some local groups said they were optimistic about what they would hear from the candidates and in convention sessions,... San Diego Union - Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044087/posts#comment Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:19:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043265/posts Last October, when John McCain’s presidential campaign was nearly dead, I went to Iowa to follow him around for a few days. The story felt like a eulogy. Few observers believed McCain could come back from the twin disasters of his campaign nearly running out of money and his disastrous stand on comprehensive immigration reform. Riding in a van from Sioux City to Sheldon, I asked McCain what had gone wrong. “The biggest detriment to our campaign so far — by far — was the immigration issue, because it’s an emotional issue with our Republican base,” he told me. “I... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043265/posts#comment Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:25:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042796/posts WASHINGTON: Senator John McCain told a major Hispanic group here Tuesday that he remained committed to passing the kind of immigration legislation that angered many Republican voters last year, but he underscored that he intended to first secure U.S. borders. Speaking to the convention of the League of United Latin American Citizens, McCain noted his efforts to pass comprehensive immigration legislation, which was supported by President George W. Bush and such Democrats as Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts but which fell apart last year after an angry grass-roots movement that viewed it as tantamount to amnesty rose up to oppose... IHT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042796/posts#comment Wed, 9 Jul 2008 06:08:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042795/posts Barack Obama has pledged to push through immigration reforms that would give America's 12 million illegal migrants a form of citizenship. "I will make it a top priority in my first year as President - not only because we have an obligation to secure our borders and get control of who comes in and out of our country...but because we have to finally bring undocumented immigrants out of the shadows," he said in a speech in Washington. Both the Democratic nominee and his Republican rival Senator John McCain addressed the League of United Latin American Citizens, the largest Latino organization... telegraph.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042795/posts#comment Wed, 9 Jul 2008 05:58:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042767/posts Who read Free Republic? Apparently the U.S. Secret Service does!This past weekend, I posted an article alerting the Secret Service that members of the terrorist supporting group Code Pink were using fake presses to gain access to events headlined by Secret Service protectees like presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (AZ).This morning, McCain spoke at the LULAC convention in Washington, D.C. Usually when he speaks at an event in D.C., McCain can expect to have his speech disrupted by Code Pink activists who rush the stage and heckle him from the audience and the press section.That didn't happen today.... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042767/posts#comment Wed, 9 Jul 2008 04:38:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042576/posts WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain told a major Hispanic group here Tuesday that he remains committed to passing the kind of immigration legislation that angered many Republican voters last year (snip) New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042576/posts#comment Tue, 8 Jul 2008 20:56:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2042491/posts Presumptive Republican presidential nominee, US Senator John McCain addresses the League of United Latin American Citizens convention at the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC. Iraq's hardening demand for a pullout deadline for US troops on Tuesday reignited the sharp campaign quarrel over the war between White House rivals McCain and Barack Obama. John McCain, seen here in Mexico City on July 3, 2008 US Republican presidential hopeful John McCain points at a journalist during a press conference north of Bogota, Colombia. McCain has warned security conditions must dictate troop withdrawals from Iraq, after Baghdad said it wanted a timetable for... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2042491/posts#comment Tue, 8 Jul 2008 18:05:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042081/posts Barack Obama, John McCain, and even Hillary Clinton will all be speaking at this year's convention of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), an illegal immigration-supporting group that was once patriotic but has since been radicalized. As shown by the attendees discussed below, the convention will be a nexus of those who do not support what's in the best interests of the U.S. For example, here's a 2007 quote from their national treasurer Jaime Martinez, who'll also be appearing at one of their workshops: "We must not sell out, and we must fight for the rights of our... self http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042081/posts#comment Mon, 7 Jul 2008 22:42:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034500/posts The two presidential candidates will discuss matters of interest for the latin american community in this country. The Angeles.- The two main presidential candidates, Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama, will be the guests of honor at the third Latin American National Congress, that will be carried out on July 18 and 19 in Los Angeles. The organizers confirmed the participation of the two politicians in the event, that will be performed in an exclusive hotel in Downtown Los Angeles, where it is expected that more than 300 organizations of 20 cities will attend. On the first day, McCain... Translated from informador.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034500/posts#comment Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:44:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026900/posts Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), who wrapped his party’s presidential nomination just this week, is already besieged by liberal constituencies demanding that he cut military spending to boost social programs. Two influential liberal groups have sent the presumptive Democratic nominee a letter pressing him to support cuts to defense programs to pay for universal preschool, relief for Americans facing foreclosure on their homes and expanded benefits for military veterans. The demands carry weight because the groups, the Black Leadership Forum and the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), represent two constituencies that are important to Obama’s political strategy: blacks and... thehill.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026900/posts#comment Fri, 6 Jun 2008 04:46:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021832/posts By BILL MURPHY Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle Comments (304) Yahoo! Buzz The Houston rodeo has rejected a U.S. Justice Department offer to mediate disputes with minority groups who say it needs more minorities in high-ranking positions, doesn't give scholarships to noncitizens in the country legally and has stopped featuring Tejano performers on its main stages. The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo does not believe mediation is needed because it promotes diversity and does not engage in discrimination, said chief operating officer Leroy Shafer. "At this point, we see no need to have a Justice Department mediator involved in this," he... The Houston Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021832/posts#comment Tue, 27 May 2008 12:30:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2018852/posts   We all know John McCain is terrible on immigration. For years he held America’s sovereignty and security hostage to amnesty and increased immigration, and his newfound support for “enforcement first” is so insubstantial and transparently insincere that it insults our intelligence. He’s so bad that Americans for Better Immigration ranks his performance in office as the worst of all the presidential candidates — including Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. (See the GOP grid here and the Democratic one here.) And as Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation has pointed out, passage of McCain’s bill “would represent the largest expansion... National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2018852/posts#comment Tue, 20 May 2008 21:23:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1986293/posts HOUSTON — Civil rights activists say "anti-immigrant hysteria" helped lead to the arrest of a Hispanic truck driver after a car accident that killed a Harris County sheriff's deputy who was driving drunk. Jose Jesus Vieyra, 57, a Mexican immigrant, is accused of causing a crash that killed sheriff's deputy Craig W. Miller on Feb. 21. Authorities say Vieyra caused the crash by crossing three lanes of traffic in his commercial truck and veering in front of Miller. But autopsy results released Thursday show that Miller, 43, had a blood-alcohol level between 0.27 and 0.32 when he died — more... Houston Chronicle/Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1986293/posts#comment Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:05:28 GMT