not good for anyone

[tmma 467]

I don't trust the tele version. I'm more face to face. I know you will not be heard on the tele. The demand on the circuit is high.

No choice here where I am. They didn't answer anything, nor did they allow people to express their opinions.

'demand on the circuit....?' They are allowed so many callers and that's the number THEY SELECTED and called. There is no overload at all.

Did they say the requirement was prescreened? I never done a tele townhall meeting.

All I know is from my own experience in broadcasting-it was run over a transmit delay. There was no getting around it or denying it. It was on a delay. No doubt in my mind.

They didn't release a number for people to call them---they selected folks to call. That's it and the # on the caller ID was a number that could not be called back on.

I don't know what criteria they had for selection-all I can think of is that I'm not a registered republican or democrat here in TX-that's what everyone I know here thought anyway.

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[luckytxn 2,265]

"At a health care town hall meeting in Texas, La Raza members, screaming "***, ***, ***" attack an American; then more attack another American. Cops arrest one Mexican. Then a La Raza gang screams that they are taking over American, that they are the majority now and will kick out the Whites. It ends with a La Raza rally in which a Mexican mobs chants Viva la Raza as one obese Mexican and a child hold up a Mexican flag."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mslFPmo5Owc

lots of town hall meetings being cancelled or moved at the last minute, with only the schills being informed of the new location. people are angry, and suitable answers are not forthcoming.

The Socialists in power now are courting La Raza heavily. Kinda makes you wonder if they love America.

Exclusive: The Truth About 'La Raza'

by Rep. Charlie Norwood

04/07/2006

The nation's television screens many days recently have been filled with scenes of huge crowds carrying the colorful green and red flag of Mexico viewers could well have thought it was a national holiday in Mexico City.

It was instead, downtown Los Angeles, Calif., although the scene was recreated in numerous other cities around the country with substantial Mexican populations. Hordes of Mexican expatriates, many here illegally, were protesting the very U.S. immigration laws they were violating with impunity. They found it offensive and a violation of their rights that the U.S. dared to have immigration laws to begin with.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa mounted the podium, but any hopes that he would quiet the crowds and defend the law were soon dashed. Villaraigosa, himself, has spent a lifetime opposing U.S. immigration law.

For law-abiding Americans without knowledge of the dark side of our current illegal immigration crisis, all this is unfathomable. For those who know the truth about the "La Raza" movement, these demonstrations were a prophecy fulfilled.

It is past time for all Americans to know what is at the root of this outrageous behavior, and the extent to which the nation is at risk because of "La Raza" -- The Race.

There are many immigrant groups joined in the overall "La Raza" movement. The most prominent and mainstream organization is the National Council de La Raza -- the Council of "The Race".

To most of the mainstream media, most members of Congress, and even many of their own members, the National Council of La Raza is no more than a Hispanic Rotary Club.

But the National Council of La Raza succeeded in raking in over $15.2 million in federal grants last year alone, of which $7.9 million was in U.S. Department of Education grants for Charter Schools, and undisclosed amounts were for get-out-the-vote efforts supporting La Raza political positions.

The Council of La Raza succeeded in having itself added to congressional hearings by Republican House and Senate leaders. And an anonymous senator even gave the Council of La Raza an extra $4 million in earmarked taxpayer money, supposedly for "housing reform," while La Raza continues to lobby the Senate for virtual open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens.

The Mexican flag flew over a crowd of pro-amnesty marchers in New York. Marches like this across the U.S. have been supported by the “La Raza” movement. (Reuters/Seth Wenig)

Radical 'Reconquista' Agenda

Behind the respectable front of the National Council of La Raza lies the real agenda of the La Raza movement, the agenda that led to those thousands of illegal immigrants in the streets of American cities, waving Mexican flags, brazenly defying our laws, and demanding concessions.

Key among the secondary organizations is the radical racist group Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, or Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan (MEChA), one of the most anti-American groups in the country, which has permeated U.S. campuses since the 1960s, and continues its push to carve a racist nation out of the American West.

One of America's greatest strengths has always been taking in immigrants from cultures around the world, and assimilating them into our country as Americans. By being citizens of the U.S. we are Americans first, and only, in our national loyalties.

This is totally opposed by MEChA for the hordes of illegal immigrants pouring across our borders, to whom they say:

"Chicano is our identity; it defines who we are as people. It rejects the notion that we...should assimilate into the Anglo-American melting pot...Aztlan was the legendary homeland of the Aztecas ... It became synonymous with the vast territories of the Southwest, brutally stolen from a Mexican people marginalized and betrayed by the hostile custodians of the Manifest Destiny." (Statement on University of Oregon MEChA Website, Jan. 3, 2006)

MEChA isn't at all shy about their goals, or their views of other races. Their founding principles are contained in these words in "El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan" (The Spiritual Plan for Aztlan):

"In the spirit of a new people that is conscious not only of its proud historical heritage but also of the brutal gringo invasion of our territories, we, the Chicano inhabitants and civilizers of the northern land of Aztlan from whence came our forefathers, reclaiming the land of their birth and consecrating the determination of our people of the sun, declare that the call of our blood is our power, our responsibility, and our inevitable destiny. ... Aztlan belongs to those who plant the seeds, water the fields, and gather the crops and not to the foreign Europeans. ... We are a bronze people with a bronze culture. Before the world, before all of North America, before all our brothers in the bronze continent, we are a nation, we are a union of free pueblos, we are Aztlan. For La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada."

That closing two-sentence motto is chilling to everyone who values equal rights for all. It says: "For The Race everything. Outside The Race, nothing."

If these morally sickening MEChA quotes were coming from some fringe website, Americans could at least console themselves that it was just a small group of nuts behind it. Nearly every racial and ethnic group has some shady characters and positions in its past and some unbalanced individuals today claiming racial superiority and demanding separatism. But this is coming straight from the official MEChA sites at Georgetown University, the University of Texas, UCLA, University of Michigan, University of Colorado, University of Oregon, and many other colleges and universities around the country.

MEChA was in fact reported to be one of the main organizers of those street demonstrations we witnessed over the past weeks. That helps explain why those hordes of illegal immigrants weren't asking for amnesty -- they were demanding an end to U.S. law, period. Unlike past waves of immigrants who sought to become responsible members of American society, these protesters reject American society altogether, because they have been taught that America rightfully belongs to them.

MEChA and the La Raza movement teach that Colorado, California, Arizona, Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Oregon and parts of Washington State make up an area known as "Aztlan" -- a fictional ancestral homeland of the Aztecs before Europeans arrived in North America. As such, it belongs to the followers of MEChA. These are all areas America should surrender to "La Raza" once enough immigrants, legal or illegal, enter to claim a majority, as in Los Angeles. The current borders of the United States will simply be extinguished.

This plan is what is referred to as the "Reconquista" or reconquest, of the Western U.S.

But it won't end with territorial occupation and secession. The final plan for the La Raza movement includes the ethnic cleansing of Americans of European, African, and Asian descent out of "Aztlan."

As Miguel Perez of Cal State-Northridge's MEChA chapter has been quoted as saying: "The ultimate ideology is the liberation of Aztlan. Communism would be closest [to it]. Once Aztlan is established, ethnic cleansing would commence: Non-Chicanos would have to be expelled -- opposition groups would be quashed because you have to keep power."

MEChA Plants

Members of these radical, anti-American, racist organizations are frequently smoothly polished into public respectability by the National Council of La Raza.

Former MEChA members include Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who was officially endorsed by La Raza for mayor and was awarded La Raza's Graciela Olivarez Award. Now we know why he refuses to condemn a sea of foreign flags in his city. California Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante is also a former MEChA member. He delivered the keynote address at La Raza's 2002 Annual Convention.

The National Council of La Raza and its allies in public office make no repudiation of the radical MEChA and its positions. In fact, as recently as 2003, La Raza was actively funding MEChA, according to federal tax records.

Imagine Robert Byrd's refusing to disavow the views of the KKK, or if Strom Thurmond had failed to admit segregation was wrong. Imagine Heritage or Brookings Foundation making grants to the American Nazi Party.

Is the National Council of La Raza itself a racist organization? Regardless of the organization's suspect ties, the majority of its members are not. When one examines all the organization's activities, they are commendable non-profit projects, such as education and housing programs.

But even these defensible efforts raise the question of whether education and housing programs funded with federal tax dollars should be used in programs specifically targeted to benefit just one ethnic group.

La Raza defenders usually respond by calling anyone making these allegations "a racist" for having called attention to La Raza's racist links. All the groups and public officials with ties to the La Raza movement can take a big step towards disproving these allegations by simply following the examples of Senators Byrd and Thurmond and repenting of their past ways.

If they are unwilling to admit past misdeeds, they can at least state -- unequivocally -- that they officially oppose the racist and anti-American positions of MEChA, and any other groups that espouse similar views.

Through public appearances, written statements, and on their respective websites, La Raza groups and allies must:

1. Denounce the motto "For La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada," as repugnant, racist, and totally incompatible with American society or citizenship.

2. Acknowledge the right of all Americans to live wherever they choose in the U.S. without segregation.

3. Commit to sponsorship of nationwide educational programs to combat racism and anti-Semitism in the Hispanic community.

4. Denounce and sever all ties with MEChA and any other organizations with which they have ever been associated which held to the racist doctrines held by MEChA.

5. Acknowledge the internationally recognized borders of the U.S., the right of the citizens of the U.S. to determine immigration policy through the democratic process, and the right of the U.S. to undertake any and all necessary steps to effectively enforce immigration law and defend its border against unauthorized entry.

6. Repudiate all claims that current American territory rightfully belongs to Mexico.

If the National Council of La Raza, other La Raza groups, and local and national political leaders with past ties and associations with the radical elements of the La Raza movement can publicly issue such a statement and live by every one of these principles, they should be welcomed into the American public policy arena, with past sins -- real or imaginary -- forgiven.

If they cannot publicly and fully support these principles, Congress needs to take appropriate steps and immediately bar any group refusing to comply from receiving any future federal funds. Both the House and Senate should strike these groups from testifying before any committees, and the White House should sever all ties. Both political parties should disengage from any further contact with these groups and individuals.

There are plenty of decent, patriotic Hispanic organizations and elected officials to provide Congress with necessary feedback on specific issues confronting Americans of Latino heritage. Any group or individual who can agree with the simple six points should be welcomed into that fold.

If not, the American people will know there's a wolf in their midst, and take the necessary precautions to defend our Republic against an enemy.

Mr. Norwood, a Republican, represents the 9th District of Georgia.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=13863

[tmma 467]

I see john&jean down there----did they call you? I'm asking because you live kind of in the same region as me, I think. Apols if I'm wrong.

[SuperDuper! 230]

Obesity really is a problem in this country.

I hope Obama can do something about that.

Oh, he will. He plans a fa(s)t food tax to help pay for his plan. Your Big Mac will have an Obama tax for you to munch on.

[tmma 467]

Obesity really is a problem in this country.

I hope Obama can do something about that.

Oh, he will. He plans a fa(s)t food tax to help pay for his plan. Your Big Mac will have an Obama tax for you to munch on.

I don't eat junk food-and I'm not obese. At least that's one tax I'm not going to worry about.

[SuperDuper! 230]

Obesity really is a problem in this country.

I hope Obama can do something about that.

Oh, he will. He plans a fa(s)t food tax to help pay for his plan. Your Big Mac will have an Obama tax for you to munch on.

I don't eat junk food-and I'm not obese. At least that's one tax I'm not going to worry about.

Ah, well that's great, you escaped Obama's evil tax plan! I don't think the TXN will fair so well...

[luckytxn 2,265]

Sotomayor even belonged to this group. Click the link to read the rest of article.

Last week, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Patrick Leahy spoke out against critics of Sonia Sotomayor as playing “racial politics.” According to Leahy, "You have one leader of the Republican party call her the equivalent of the head of the Ku Klux Klan… That's what comes across. It comes across that if you belong to a group that tries to help Hispanics... somehow you're suspicious.”

Usually confirmation hearings are supposed to be about getting specifics about the nominee. But Leahy chose to make vague accusations against unnamed critics of the nominee while defending an unnamed organization. It was apparent to DC insiders that the “group that tries to help” Hispanics is the National Council for La Raza (The Race) and the “Republican Leader” is me.

It isn’t surprising that he didn’t want to use our names. After all it’s difficult to defend someone belonging to a group called “The Race” by accusing her opponents of playing racial politics. The last thing the Democrats want is for the American people to know about the National Council of La Raza, their radical agenda and Sotomayor’s association with the group.

Sotomayor was a member of La Raza and her comments about “Wise Latinas” being superior to white men appeared in the La Raza Law Journal. The National Council of La Raza bills itself as “the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States” who works through “its network of nearly 300 affiliated community-based organizations.”

Among these affiliates are several chapters of the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (Chicano Student Movement of Aztlán) who La Raza helps fund. Aztlán is what radical “Mechistas”—as they refer to themselves on La Raza’s website—call the American Southwest, which they claim still belongs to Mexico. Their slogan is "Por La Raza todo, Fuera de La Raza nada" meaning “For the Race everything, outside the Race nothing.” One chapter says on La Raza’s site that their mission is “empowerment of our gente and the liberation of Aztlán.”

La Raza receives tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to set up charter schools like the Aztlán Academy of Tucson where they fly the Mexican Flag, but not the American Flag and teach students “Aztec Math.”

In 1994, La Raza gave their “Chicano of the Year” Award to Jose Angel Guitierrez who once said, “We have got to eliminate the Gringo, and what I mean by that is that if the worse comes to the worst, we have got to kill him" and that “our devil has pale skin and blue eyes.”

Of special importance when considering a Supreme Court nominee is La Raza’s position on a variety of policy and legal issues. They support driver’s licenses, in state tuition and amnesty for illegal aliens. They say that virtually all enforcement of our immigration laws on the state level is unconstitutional. They filed amicus briefs in favor of racial preferences and in favor of benefits for illegal aliens. They led the legal attack against Hazelton, PA for their official English and anti-illegal alien measures

http://townhall.com/columnists/TomTancredo...ties_to_la_raza

[luckytxn 2,265]

"Suzanne", a female caller to Mark Levin's show on June 25th, revealed the ominous secret of the Democrat health care reform effort.

I want to tell you that last week I attended a conference on health care reform sponsored by La Raza. And I will tell you that what they had to say, Mark, is scarier than anything that's been said so far on the health care plan.

The kind of comments that were made and the notes that I took... they started the conference out by saying "America does not need health care reform, but Latino immigrants need health care reform."

And someone from Menendez' office [Ed.: Sen. Robert Menendez, D-NJ] promised that he would make sure that "the useless barriers of citizenship would not be in this bill" and that he would make sure that they would use keywords like "streamline"...

It was La Raza, the Childrens Defense Fund and Senator Menendez from New Jersey, a representative from his office...

...Yes [they said they would get free health care for illegal aliens], these are my notes, Mark. They actually got up and said "Latino children need health care more than whites". And then they would say things like "you must go out into your communities, use words like 'streamline', use phrases like 'all workers' and 'all families'," because they said -- and I quote -- "If the American people find out that this bill is about giving health care to non-citizens, they will rise up against it."

...One of the quotes they said was, "We want to make sure we take care of barriers like verification, but we can streamline programs to the more affluent" and, quote, "Useless treatments for the elderly can be gone because we don't need to spend money for people who are going to die anyway."

That's a direct quote from that meeting. They also said, "We are very concerned there will be an effort to include" the illegal immigrants in this argument, so "we must make sure that we focus this" to the American people that it's looking like we want "health care for everyone".

And they also said that 75% of the children who will be picked up in this will be non-citizens and that 44% of the uninsured are non-citizens and they can't possibly allow the American people to know this." [Ed: Oops!]

Menendez' office said that he's going to make sure that "a family of four that makes $66,000 a year or less will pay nothing at all for the new health care. And he was the one who said he was going to get rid of specifics like "citizenship status" and focus on, quote, "equity for all workers".

And he said he's going to make sure that the Latino immigrants are the focus of the health care reform.

And La Raza said if they get this, they don't even care about amnesty, because they've fixed it so that one family member can apply for all extended family members. And... Mark, if you think we have a problem with illegal immigration now, wait 'til you see the borders when this thing gets passed.

"If the American people found out?"

Gee, what a surprise. A group that preaches racial superiority and divisiveness wants to enact a stealth illegal immigration bill -- not dissimilar to chain migration. The bill will reward illegal immigration to the direct detriment of all American taxpayers and especially the elderly.

Kind of puts Judge Sotomayor's membership in La Raza in a new light, doesn't it?

Groups like La Raza encourage the Balkanization of America. They promote mutually hostile political groups that do not form a "melting pot", that do not utilize a common language, and that do not share the principles of America's founding.

Fifty years from now, if La Raza gets its way, America will look more like Yugoslavia in 1993 than America.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Action: Contact Senator Robert Menendez at 202 224-4744, 973 645-3030 and 856 757-5353 and politely tell him we know what he's up to with this health care bill, that illegal immigration is not tolerated by the citizens of New Jersey, and that we will expose him -- as the anti-American traitor that he is -- to the public.

As for those who belong to or support either La Raza or The Children's Defense Fund, I would strongly encourage you to drop your membership and support. The racial divisiveness promoted by these outrageous groups is antithetical to America's civil society.

It's time to politically punish these cretins who are out to dismantle our country.

Update: A press release issued by La Raza on 6/15 mirrors the caller's report (hat tip: Oil for Immigration):

As our nation’s leaders consider health care reform in the coming weeks, NCLR (National Council of La Raza), the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States, strongly urges President Obama and Congress to make every effort to ensure that health care reform reaches all communities. No single community stands to gain as much from this important debate as Latinos. In the U.S., one out of every three uninsured persons and roughly 40% of all uninsured children are Latino. NCLR stands for health care reform that makes coverage affordable and accessible for everyone—all families and all children.

..."This debate should be about health care for all, and setting the nation on a pathway to future health and well-being. Adding layers of immigrant verification and bureaucratic red tape to a new health care system would guarantee that millions of citizen children are effectively barred from accessing preventive care and would raise the cost of health care... we are extremely concerned that some view health reform as a way to scapegoat immigrants... Making health care easier to use and accessible for all workers and children is simple common sense."

http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2009/06/r...can-people.html

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Do they have WiFi on the Mexican Border? Can you get 3G? Must be nice, put out your lawn chairs, crack open a Lone Star, and break out the night vision scope. Is that the one you bought at Harbor Freight for $99.99?

Edited August 23, 2009 by Mister_Bill

[tmma 467]

Do they have WiFi on the Mexican Border? Can you get 3G? Must be nice, put out your lawn chairs, crack open a Lone Star, and break out the night vision scope. Is that the one you bought at Harbor Freight for $99.99?

I got mine at the Army Surplus.... Works good too!

[luckytxn 2,265]

NATIONAL COUNCIL OF LA RAZA (NCLR) Printer Friendly Page

Major Introductory Resources:

The National Council of La Raza: Mainstreaming Its Agenda (pdf)

By Kevin Mooney

December 2007

Funding Hate - Foundations and the Radical Hispanic Lobby - Part III

By Joseph Fallon

Fall 2000

The Open Borders Lobby and the Nation's Security After 9/11, Part Two

By William Hawkins and Erin Anderson

January 22, 2004

15 Things You Should Know about "The Race"

By Michelle Malkin

July 9, 2008

Additional Resources:

La Raza Starting To Sweat Over Patriotic Resistance to Open Borders Agenda

By Preston Blair

August 4, 2009

Sotomayor's Ties to La Raza

By Tom Tancredo

July 31, 2009

A Quota Queen for the Court

By Pat Buchanan

June 2, 2009

Sotomayor Labeled 'Hispanic Supremacist'

By Chad Groening

May 29, 2009

Sonia Sotomayor 'La Raza Member'

By Joe Kovacs

May 27, 2009

Money Inspires Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric of Lou Dobbs and Talk Radio, Says La Raza Official

By Penny Starr

April 21, 2009

Pro-Amnesty Activist Joins Obama White House Staff

By Penny Starr

December 3, 2008

La Raza: Losing Jobs to Illegals Is 'Not a Concern' of Americans

By Tiffany Gabbay

November 14, 2008

MSNBC Teams Up with ACORN, La Raza

By Amanda Carpenter

October 22, 2008

Still a Train Wreck

By Carol Devine-Molin

September 29, 2008

Soros Poised for Payback on His Political Investment

By DC Examiner

August 28, 2008

Housing 'Bailout' Contains Millions in Earmarks for Leftist Groups

By Jim Brown

August 11, 2008

Will Obama's 'Hateful Rhetoric' Draw Hispanic Voters?

By Gary Bauer

July 18, 2008

Obama's Pander on Immigration

By Debra J. Saunders

July 17, 2008

McCain Speaks to La Raza

By Amanda Carpenter

July 15, 2008

Immigration Agents 'Terrorize' Communities, Obama Says

By Fred Lucas

July 15, 2008

Come Study La Raza

By Liam Julian

July 2, 2008

Radical Chicano Group Gets Millions in Earmarks

By Judicial Watch

May 6, 2008

Raza Race Hucksters Raise a Stink

By Brenda Walker

February 1, 2008

La Raza: Immigration Raids Hurt Kids

By Amanda Carpenter

October 31, 2007

Left-Wing Extremists Want to 'Reconquista' Southwest

By Jeff Golimowski and Katherine Poythress

July 3, 2007

Betraying America Por La Raza!

By John Perazzo

June 18, 2007

Deceptive La Raza Campaign Targets Senate

By WorldNetDaily.com

June 1, 2007

Activists See Momentum Building for Immigration Reform

By Randy Hall

March 12, 2007

Schools of Hate

By Lynn Woolley

July 24, 2006

Rove Romances La Raza But La Raza No Likey Republicans, Stupid

By Bryanna Bevens

July 13, 2006

'The Race' Schools: Your Tax Dollars at Work

By Michelle Malkin

July 12, 2006

Rove's Rave

By Joseph Farah

July 12, 2006

Karl Rove: Hispanics Are Real Americans

By NewsMax.com

July 12, 2006

What Karl Rove Should Tell La Raza

By Human Events

July 10, 2006

Razablanca

By Julia Gorin

June 21, 2006

Public Tax Dollars Fund Racist School

By WorldNetDaily.com

June 1, 2006

The Truth About 'La Raza'

By Rep. Charlie Norwood

April 7, 2006

GOP Congress Earmarks $4 Million for Leftist Pro-Illegal Alien Group

By Amanda B. Carpenter

December 2, 2005

Aztlan's Partisans

By Steve Brown and Chris #######

September 10, 2003

Funding Hate - Foundations and the Radical Hispanic Lobby - Part I

By Joseph Fallon

Fall 2000

Funding Hate - Foundations and the Radical Hispanic Lobby - Part II

By Joseph Fallon

Fall 2000

1111 19th Street NW

Suite 1000

Washington, DC

20036

Phone :202-785-1670

URL: Website

Largest Hispanic organization in the U.S.

Lobbies for racial preferences, bilingual education, stricter hate crimes laws, mass immigration, and amnesty for illegal aliens

Founded in 1968 as the Southwest Council of La Raza, the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) is the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States. It works "to improve opportunities for Hispanic Americans," who are, in its estimation, an oppressed minority that suffers much injustice and discrimination in American society. Through its network of nearly 300 affiliated community-based organizations, NCLR is active in 41 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia. To achieve its mission, NCLR conducts applied research, policy analysis, and advocacy, "providing a Latino perspective" in the following areas:

Advocacy and Electoral Empowerment: In an effort "to reduce poverty and discrimination and improve life opportunities for Hispanics," NCLR works for "increased Latino participation in the political process."

Civil Rights and Justice: "Discrimination severely limits the economic and social opportunities available to Hispanic Americans. NCLR [seeks] to promote and protect equality of opportunity in voting, justice issues, education, employment, housing, and health care for all Americans."

Community and Family Wealth-Building: Lamenting the Hispanic community's "lack of access to capital," this program aims "to measurably increase the level of … assets" held by that demographic. Toward that end, NCLR has initiated America's largest Hispanic Community Development Finance Institution (CDFI) to provide low-cost capital.

Education: This program "focuses its investment in the areas of early childhood education and high-school reform, where the disparity between Latinos and other groups is greatest. NCLR [engages in] advocacy for policy outcomes that will make the nation's public school system more responsive to the needs of Latino children." NCLR also supports the DREAM Act, which is designed to allow illegal aliens to attend college at the reduced tuition rates normally reserved for in-state legal residents.

Employment and Economic Opportunities: This initiative "seeks to advance the economic well-being of Latinos by focusing its program and policy work on closing the employment and skills gaps between Latinos and other Americans … [and] in increasing access to federally-funded job training services and opportunities for Latino workers."

Farmworkers: "NCLR conducts policy analyses and advocacy activities in this area in order to improve conditions and opportunities for the nation's farmworkers. NCLR also works very closely with the Farmworker Justice Fund, Inc. a national advocacy group for migrant and seasonal workers [illegal aliens]."

Health and Family Support: NCLR collaborates with a variety of organizations -- state, local, and national -- to promote "reform" that would give illegal immigrants full access to taxpayer-funded health care services.

Immigration: NCLR strives "to encourage immigration policies that are fair and nondiscriminatory, to encourage family reunification, and to enact necessary reforms to the current immigration system." In short, it favors amnesty for illegals already residing in the U.S., and open borders henceforth. In La Raza's calculus, any restriction on the free movement of immigrants constitutes a violation of their civil rights, and any reduction in government assistance to illegal border-crossers is "a disgrace to American values." Thus La Raza supports continued mass Mexican immigration to the United States, and hopes to achieve, by the sheer weight of numbers, the re-partition of the American Southwest as a new state called Aztlan -- to be controlled by its alleged rightful owners, the people and government of Mexico. La Raza is also a sponsoring organization of the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride Coalition, which seeks to secure ever-expanding rights and civil liberties protections for illegal immigrants, and policy reforms that diminish or eliminate future restrictions on immigration. At many of the "pro-immigration" rallies that NCLR members have attended in recent times, their signature slogan has been: "La Raza unida nunca sera vencida!" ("The united [Hispanic] race will never be defeated!")

With regard to national security concerns, NCLR has strongly opposed most of the U.S. government's post-9/11 counterterrorism efforts, alleging that they have "undermined" the rights of "noncitizen Latinos." For example: La Raza was a signatory to a March 17, 2003 letter exhorting members of the U.S. Congress to oppose Patriot Act II on grounds that it "contain[ed] a multitude of new and sweeping law enforcement and intelligence gathering powers … that would severely dilute, if not undermine, many basic constitutional rights"; it has endorsed the Community Resolution to Protect Civil Liberties campaign, a project that tries to influence city councils to pass resolutions to be non-compliant with the provisions of the Patriot Act; it endorsed the December 18, 2001 "Statement of Solidarity with Migrants," which was drawn up by the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights and called upon the U.S. government to "end discriminatory policies passed on the basis of legal status in the wake of September 11"; and it endorsed the Civil Liberties Restoration Act of 2004, which was designed to roll back, in the name of protecting civil liberties, vital national-security policies that had been adopted after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

NCLR's major policy positions also include the following:

It supports access to driver's licenses for illegal immigrants.

It opposes the REAL ID Act, which requires that all driver's license and photo ID applicants be able to verify they are legal residents of the United States, and that the documents they present to prove their identity are genuine. According to La Raza, this law "opens the door to widespread discrimination and civil rights violations."

It opposes the Clear Law Enforcement for Criminal Alien Removal Act (CLEAR), which would empower state and local law-enforcement authorities to enforce federal immigration laws. La Raza argues this would "result in higher levels of racial profiling, police misconduct, and other civil rights violations."

It lobbies for racial and ethnic preferences (affirmative action) and set-asides in hiring, promotions, and college admissions.

It supports bilingual education and bilingual ballots.

It supports voting rights for illegal aliens.

It supports stricter hate-crime laws.

It opposes the Aviation Transportation and Security Act requiring that all airport baggage screeners be U.S. citizens.

It opposed President Bush's signing of the "Secure Fence Act of 2006" which authorized 700 miles of new border fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border.

As columnist Michelle Malkin reports, La Raza seeks to inculcate young people with its worldview by funding a number of charter schools that advocate ethnic separatism and anti-American, anti-white attitudes. Among these schools are the following:

Mexicayotl Academy in Nogales, Arizona is "structured and developed around the concepts of identity, culture, and language." It supports local ethnic lobbying efforts "to right social injustices by educating the community and helping create social change." Under the heading "Greatest Achievements," the school's website lists its visit from the Marxist academic fraud Rigoberta Menchu, and its sponsorship of the Mexican holiday Dia de los Muertos.

La Academia Semillas del Pueblo is a Los Angeles public school that teaches children "Aztec math" and the Mexican indigenous language of "Nahuatl." The principal, Marcos Aguilar, is an ethnic separatist who told a UCLA interviewer: "We don't want to drink from a White water fountain, we have our own wells and our natural reservoirs and our way of collecting rain in our aqueducts. We don't need a White water fountain. … We are not interested in what they have because we have so much more and because the world is so much larger. And ultimately the White way, the American way, the neo liberal, capitalist way of life will eventually lead to our own destruction."

Aztlan Academy in south Tucson seeks "to integrate a meaningful Chicano Studies program into [students'] lives, language, and academics, as a means of developing their intellects as well as their pride and self-esteem." ("Aztlan" is the separatist name for the Southwestern United States that NCLR hopes will someday reunite with Mexico.)

The Dolores Huerta Preparatory High School in Pueblo, Colorado is named after the Latina labor union activist who is a Board member of the Democratic Socialists of America.

The Academia Cesar Chavez Charter School in Saint Paul, Minnesota supports the aforementioned federal DREAM Act.

In 2007 NCLR released a report characterizing the juvenile justice system as biased and discriminatory against Latino youth. Complaining of language barriers and cultural barriers that allegedly have a disparate impact on minorities, the report exhorts those who work in the justice system to learn to communicate in a way "that conveys information in a manner that is easily understood by diverse audiences including persons of limited English proficiency, those who have low literacy skills or are not literate, and individuals with disabilities." "Some of these changes," says the report, "may involve the requirement of hiring bilingual staff or translating all written and verbal information in languages other than English." The report further demands that these workers cultivate "cultural competence" enabling them to "effectively communicate with the youth and their families," and to create a system that "values diversity."

An eminent figure in NCLR's history is Raul Yzaguirre, who served as the organization's President and CEO from 1974 to 2004. A notable former Chairman is Jose Villareal.

The organization's current President is Janet Murquia, who worked at the White House in various capacities from 1994 to 2000, ultimately as deputy assistant to President Bill Clinton. Immediately prior to joining NCLR, she was the Executive Vice Chancellor for University Relations at the University of Kansas.

In 2005 NCLR received some $15.2 million in federal grants, of which $7.9 million was in U.S. Department of Education grants for Charter Schools; undisclosed amounts were earmarked for get-out-the-vote efforts supporting La Raza political positions.

NCLR also receives funding from the American Express Foundation; the Allstate Foundation; the AT&T Foundation; the Bank of America Foundation; the Carnegie Corporation of New York; the Annie E. Casey Foundation; the Fannie Mae Foundation; the Ford Foundation; the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; the Joyce Foundation; the W. K. Kellogg Foundation; the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; the Open Society Institute; the David and Lucile Packard Foundation; the Rockefeller Foundation; and the Verizon Foundation.

NCLR's total revenues in 2005 were $25.3 million. Its net assets that year were nearly $52.4 million.

At the March 2008 "Take Back America" conference sponsored by Campaign for America's Future (CAF), NCLR joined CAF and five additional leftist organizations in announcing plans for "the most expensive [$350 million] mobilization in history this election season." The initiative focused on voter registration, education, and get-out-the-vote drives. Other members of the coalition included MoveOn.org, Rock the Vote, ACORN, the Women's Voices Women Vote Action Fund, and the AFL-CIO.

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Do they have WiFi on the Mexican Border? Can you get 3G? Must be nice, put out your lawn chairs, crack open a Lone Star, and break out the night vision scope. Is that the one you bought at Harbor Freight for $99.99?

...my detectors are not working right now....Are you being sarcastic?

I see nothing wrong with folks protecting their land from anyone.

(I don't have nvg-was just making the point that they are maybe not a bad idea if you are going to sit out there all night.)