President Bush attacked opponents of an immigration deal Tuesday, suggesting they "don't want to do what's right for America."

"The fundamental question is, will elected officials have the courage necessary to put a comprehensive immigration plan in place," Bush said against a backdrop of a huge American flag....

He chose the get-tough setting as conservative critics blast a Senate proposal as being soft on people who break the law....                       "Bush confronts immigration deal skeptics" Associated Press May 29, 2007
             

"This bill is not an amnesty bill. If you want to scare the American people, what you say is, the bill is an amnesty bill. It's not an amnesty bill. That's empty political rhetoric, trying to frighten our fellow citizens. People in Congress need the courage to go back to their districts and explain exactly what this bill is all about, in order to put comprehensive immigration reform in place."               
                                              Transcript, Pres. Bush speech in Glynco, VA, May 29, 2007
              

No matter how adamantly President Bush and his bipartisan enablers in the Congress and the media deny it, or how cleverly they try to spin it, there's no getting around the fact that their proposed "comprehensive immigration reform" bill, S.1348, euphoniously (but dishonestly) entitled "The Secure Borders, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Reform Act of 2007," is a huge amnesty bill.

In fact it is several amnesties wrapped together in one bill that will legalize millions (estimates range from 12 to 20 million  — or more) of illegal aliens already here, PLUS bring in another 6 million more "chain migration" family members currently wait-listed. PLUS, the Kennedy-Bush-La Raza bill would annually admit 200,000 additional "temporary" guestworkers, who will have renewable 2-year Y-Visas.

But there is no exit monitoring/enforcement system in place to ensure that the “temporary” workers and their families leave when they are supposed to. And there is no reasonable expectation that any such system will be implemented, since both Democrat and Republican administrations have stubbornly resisted all previous efforts to implement exit visa monitoring.

Here are the amnesties included in S. 1348:

*Z-Visa Amnesty — All illegal aliens who claim to have been here prior to January 1, 2007 and who do not show up on crime databases as having any felony convictions and no more than two misdemeanors.
*Agriculture Workers Amnesty — For 1.5 million illegal alien farm workers.
*DREAM Act Amnesty — For all illegal aliens who graduate from U.S. high schools.
*Employer Amnesty — Although employers should not be saddled with doing the federal government's job of enforcing our immigration laws, many employers flagrantly, knowingly fill their work forces with illegal aliens. Under this legislation, even some of the most egregious corporate offenders will be give amnesty for immigration and tax fraud.

As outrageous as all the above may be to ordinary American citizens (not to mention the law-abiding immigrants waiting in line), it should not be at all surprising, considering the authors of the Senate "compromise" bill, S. 1348. First of all, the most important player is Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy, who has been the key architect of all of our immigration legislative and policy debacles for more than four decades!

Yes, Teddy Kennedy was the Senate immigration subcommittee chairman who shepherded through Congress the 1965 immigration bill, the legislation that started the wholesale deluge of our borders. This is what he said then:

The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. It will not relax the standards of admission. It will not cause American workers to lose their jobs." (U.S. Senate, Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization of the Committee on the Judiciary, Washington, D.C., Feb. 10, 1965. pp. 1-3.)

His similar promises today are even more fatuous and dishonest, since it is blindingly obvious that  our borders are all but completely broken and many of our elected leaders (Senator Kennedy most especially!) have absolutely no intention of securing them.

The radical and noisy "immigrants rights" lobby that backed Kennedy's legislation more than forty years ago has dramatically grown in size, political clout, and arrogance, and now is dictating immigration policy to politicians in both parties. This was admitted in an important article in the Washington Post on May 16, the day before Kennedy, together with President Bush's Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and a bipartisan cast of senators held their press conference to unveil their immigration bill.

In an article entitled "Latino Groups Play Key Role on Hill: Virtual Veto Power in Immigration Debate," the authors noted that while most members of the Senate still did not have access to the draft text of S.1348, the revolutionaries at the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) and the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) were practically writing the bill and were "virtually being granted veto power" over it.

The Post reported:

When Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) declared last week that unnamed "stakeholders" would decide whether Congress overhauls immigration law this year, Latino organizations in Washington understood exactly what he meant.

After laboring in obscurity for decades, groups such as the National Council of La Raza, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and the National Immigration Forum are virtually being granted veto power over perhaps the biggest domestic issue coming before Congress this year....

Such groups were practically in the room yesterday, maintaining contact as Democratic and Republican senators tried to hammer out a new immigration bill before a deadline set by Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) for today before he moved it last night to Monday.

The National Council of La Raza (NCLR) is not only one of the wealthiest and most politically powerful militant organizations in the country, it is also notoriously racist and subversive. The group's name, "La Raza," means "The Race," by which they are referring to ethnic Mexicans, or more broadly to "hispanics" or "latinos." And it is quite clear from their decades of vitriolic rhetoric — both spoken and written — that the La Raza activists are trying to engender not only race consciousness amongst hispanic U.S. citizens and Mexican migrants, but also racial militancy and animosity toward "Gringo America."

The NCLR grew out of the La Raza Unida (The Race United) Party and the Southwest Council of La Raza in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The key leaders were Marxist-Leninist followers of Fidel Castro and Che Guevarra.

In 1970, the California Senate Fact-Finding Subcommittee on Un-American Activities said this about La Raza Unida: "Its president is Maclovio Barraza. Mr. Barraza has been identified by the Subversive Activities Control Board as a member of the Communist Party, and presides over the Council which recently received a grant of $1,300,000 from the Ford Foundation."

Maclovio Barraza was the NCLR Board of Directors' founding Chairperson, and the NCLR continues to honor this hardcore Marxist by awarding the Moclavio Barraza Award to its top activist each year.

One of the early founders of La Raza was Professor Jose Angel Gutierrez, whose violent, extremist rhetoric has caused NCLR some public relations problems. Back in 1969, Gutierrez said: "We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him." He has continued to promote the same hateful "reconquista" ideology ever since. But that didn't stop NCLR from bestowing on him their "Hero Award" in 1994.

The radical student group MEChA (Moviemento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan), with which NCLR has been closely allied for several decades, is even more explicitly and militantly racist, having adopted the slogan, "Por La Raza Todo, Fuera de La Raza Nada," which translated means: "For the Race, Everything; Outside the Race, Nothing."

MEChA's founding documents and literature are replete with appeals to "La Raza de Bronce" (The Bronze Race) and condemnation of the "brutal gringo." MEChA, as its name suggests, is also a leading promoter of the radical "reconquista" (reconquest) movement, a plan of to take over the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Texas — a region they refer to as "Aztlan" — which they claim was stolen from the "Aztecan" peoples. NCLR provides major financial support to MEChA and many of NCLR's leaders were MEChA leaders in their college days.

NCLR: Agents for the Government of Mexico?

Especially troubling is NCLR's leading role in the Fundacion Solidaridad Mexicano Americana (Foundation for Mexican-American Solidarity, FSMA), an organization founded and funded by the government of Mexico and directed by the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Public Education. Both of these ministries have been engaged in efforts aimed at demanding full political rights for illegal aliens in the U.S. and indoctrinating America's Hispanic population in radical, racist La Raza ideology.

Top members of La Raza, MALDEF, the National Immigration Forum and other leading immigration activist organizations also serve on the Council of the FSMA. As such, they are acting as agents for a foreign power that is actively seeking to influence our national, state, and local laws and policies, in ways that are inimical to the interests of our nation and our citizens. NCLR and these other participating groups should be investigated by Congress to determine if they are breaking any laws, especially since these organizations and/or their affiliates not only enjoy tax-exempt status, but even receive millions of dollars from federal and state government agencies.

New Stealth Federal Funding Bill for La Raza

Which brings us to an extraordinary matter of some urgency. Several weeks before the White House and its Senate allies announced their big "breakthrough" legislation (S.1348), radicals in the House quietly introduced legislation to pump $5 million directly into La Raza next year — and $10 million per year for "each fiscal year thereafter."

H. R. 1999, entitled the Hope Fund Act of 2007, should truthfully be labeled the "Perpetual Funding of La Raza Radicals Act."

It is being sponsored by Rep. Ruben Hinojosa (D-Tex.) and Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Ariz.). Other co-sponsors who have signed on are: 

• Barney Frank (D-Mass)
• Ed Pastor, (D-AZ)
• Silvestre Reyes, (D-TX)

Since the bill is rather short, we include the entire text below:

To authorize appropriations for assistance for the National Council of La Raza and the Raza Development Fund.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

April 23, 2007

Mr. HINOJOSA (for himself and Mr. RENZI) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services

A BILL

To authorize appropriations for assistance for the National Council of La Raza and the Raza Development Fund.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the `Hope Fund Act of 2007'.

SEC. 2. ASSISTANCE FOR NATIONAL COUNCIL OF LA RAZA AND RAZA DEVELOPMENT FUND.

 (a) Use- The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall, to the extent amounts are made available pursuant to subsection (b), make a grant to the National Council of La Raza for the purpose of providing technical and financial assistance to local non-profit organizations to undertake community development and affordable housing projects and programs serving low- and moderate-income households, particularly through organizations located in neighborhoods with substantial populations of income-disadvantaged households of Hispanic origin. Assistance provided by the Secretary under this section may be used by the National Council of La Raza or the Raza Development Fund to--

 (1) provide technical and financial assistance for site acquisition and development, construction financing, and short- and long-term financing for housing, community facilities, and economic development;

 (2) leverage capital from private entities, including private financial institutions, insurance companies, and private philanthropic organizations;

 (3) provide technical assistance, training, support, and advice to develop the management, financial, and administrative capabilities of housing development organizations serving low-income households, including Hispanic households; and

 (4) conduct such other activities as may be determined by the Secretary and the National Council of La Raza.

 (b) Authorization of Appropriations- There is authorized to be appropriated for grants under this section--

 (1) $5,000,000 for fiscal year 2008; and

 (2) $10,000,000 for each fiscal year thereafter.

Although S.1348, the immigration bill, is far more important and will have a much larger and more dramatically harmful impact than H.R. 1999, nevertheless, the La Raza funding bill is such blatant pork-barrel pandering to an extremist, racist lobbying group, that it sends an unmistakable message about what the "stakeholders" behind the Kennedy-Bush amnesty are really after: more money, more power, more revolution — and the complete destruction of our borders and security.

With millions more tax dollars in their political war chest, they would become even more brazen in their demands. They know that this is a volatile issue that could rouse the wrath of American voters. Which is why none of the sponsors of the legislation have mentioned H.R. 1999 on their House web sites, and why the NCLR has also kept mum about this planned political payoff.

But their dirty secret is out. If it is sufficiently exposed, it can stir enough opposition not only to stop H.R. 1999, but also to defeat S.1348 or any other amnesty "compromise" that comes out of the White House-Congress immigration wheeling and dealing.

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