McCain’s Pandering to La Raza

John McCain flip-flops like crazy over the issue of border security and illegal aliens.

During a townhall meeting, he confronted “La Raza” radical Enrique Morones. Morones is a member of “Borders Angels”, another group of scofflaws who aid and abet illegals.

McCain: Let me just tell you sir, I talked about the people who have come across here illegally and those who have died in the desert. I know that — I come from a border state. I’ve been in Mexico many times. But there’s also drugs coming across our border, sir, that are killing Americans too. And they’re working right there [applause] — yes, sir, and they’re working right there and sending people who just want to come across the border illegally to cover their own activities. [voice rising] The United States of America has to have secure borders, sir, and I will do that. And that’s necessary even if you may disagree. Our nation’s national-security requirements are — that we have secure borders. But we can address this issue in a humane and compassionate fashion, I am committed to that and you have my commitment to it, and we will make it the highest priority, and if you don’t think that we have to secure our borders, then I respect your view but we just disagree.
Link: http://hotair.com/archives/2008/07/15/audio-mccain-rips-la-raza-activist-that-obama-praised/

This is what happened behind the scenes after  the exchange:

On a Mexican radio program on 1420 AM in Tijuana hosted by Odilon Garcia, Morones called in and gave more information on what Morones and McCain talked about after their public conversation took place.

Morones told Garcia that while McCain was talking on the microphone about the fact that drug smugglers are using migrants to cross over illegal drugs, Morones told him that the United States should stop the demand for illegal drugs.

After McCain ended his Q and A session, Morones and McCain spoke face to face and McCain told him about the need for Border Security. Morones asked the Senator to meet with him privately without cameras so Enrique could make the point that Immigration raids are “separating families” and border walls are “killing immigrants”. He told the Senator to ask Enrique’s good friend Juan Hernandez, whom Enrique had dinner the night before, to set up the private meeting. McCain told him that he would. Enrique said that he would ask McCain to sign an executive order to stop Immigration raids.

Enrique then adds, that he called Juan Hernandez about the mistake the McCain campaign is doing by portraying the picture of John McCain with the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe in the background at the NCLR convention. Morones then told the story that on Saturday some students called him at the convention that they were upset with the McCain booth having a picture of Senator McCain with the Virgin of Guadalupe because the senator was using the image of the virgin for political purposes. One of the students took the picture and ran away. Some security officers ran off and caught the student but that the picture was not hung back. The next day the picture was not seen and Morones called that a victory.
Link: http://michellemalkin.com/2008/07/15/mccain-at-the-race-conference-capitulation-complete/

McCain was also a co-sponsor of the DREAM Act, a proposed bill that would have granted amnesty to illegals.

But,this is what he told conservative bloggers:

As for the Dream Act, McCain told us that he would have voted against cloture (i.e., in favor of preventing a vote) because he “got the message” this summer that Americans want the border secured before we “go on to the rest.” McCain would deem parts of the border secure when the governor of the relevant state so certifies.
Link: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2007/10/018851.php

On the other hand, at a recent address to La Raza, Juan McAmnesty told an audience member that he’ll support the DREAM Act.

Link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oivKVWGE2mU&eurl=http://michellemalkin.com/2008/07/15/mccain-at-the-race-conference-capitulation-complete/

He also has open-borders radicals like Juan Hernandez, on his staff:
http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/juan-open-borders-hernandez/

Dear Juan McAmnesty:

How about ENFORCING the law and preventing anymore MS 13’s, rapists, murderers, thieves, and terrorists, from traipsing across our sieve-like borders.

In other words, grow a pair, help secure the border, and stop pandering to illegals.

But, one can only DREAM.

Obama’s Latest Endorsement

Gateway Pundit posted excerpts from the last correspondence of FARC terrorist Raul Reyes, who was killed this week by Columbian soldiers. The following has been translated from captured documents.

Guess who he supported for president?

The gringos will ask for an appointment with the minister to solicit him to communicate to us his interest in discussing these topics. They say that the new president of their country will be Obama and that they are interested in your compatriots. Obama will not support “Plan Colombia” nor will he sign the TLC (Colombian Free Trade agreement). Here we responded that we are interested in relations with all governments in equality of conditions and that in the case of the US it is required a public pronouncement expressing their interest in talking with the FARC given their eternal war against us.

Link: http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/03/captured-farc-computers-name-barack.html

The original story and Spanish version is here at Martha Colmenares’ website:

Link: http://www.marthacolmenares.com/2008/03/03/hasta-obama-sale-a-relucir-en-cartas-encontradas-a-reyes/

A background of FARC:

Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia - FARC

Description

Established in 1964 as the military wing of the Colombian Communist Party, the FARC is Colombia’s oldest, largest, most capable, and best-equipped Marxist insurgency. The FARC is governed by a secretariat, led by septuagenarian Manuel Marulanda (a.k.a. “Tirofijo”) and six others, including senior military commander Jorge Briceno (a.k.a. “Mono Jojoy”). The FARC is organized along military lines and includes several urban fronts.

In February 2002, the group’s slow-moving peace negotiation process with President Andres Pastrana’s administration was terminated by Bogota following the FARC’s plane hijacking and kidnapping of a Colombian Senator from the aircraft. On 7 August, the FARC launched a large-scale mortar attack on the Presidential Palace where President Alvaro Uribe was being inaugurated. High-level foreign delegations—including the United States—attending the inauguration were not injured, but 21 residents of a poor neighborhood nearby were killed by stray rounds in the attack.

Strength

Approximately 9,000 to 12,000 armed combatants and several thousand more supporters, mostly in rural areas.

Location/Area of Operation

Colombia, with some activities—extortion, kidnapping, logistics, and R&R—in Venezuela, Panama, and Ecuador.

External Aid

Cuba provides some medical care and political consultation. A trial is currently underway in Bogota to determine whether three members of the Irish Republican Army—arrested in Colombia in 2001 upon exiting the FARC-controlled demilitarized zone (despeje)—provided advanced explosives training to the FARC.

Although the FARC-controlled safe haven, or “despeje” — which is situated between two of Colombia’s largest coca cultivation areas — is not considered a major area for coca cultivation or drug trafficking, many FARC units throughout southern Colombia raise funds through the extortion (”taxation”) of both legal and illegal businesses, the latter including the drug trade. Some insurgent units raise funds through extortion or by protecting laboratory operations. In return for cash payments, or possibly in exchange for weapons, the insurgents protect cocaine laboratories in southern Colombia. Some FARC and ELN units are independently involved in limited cocaine laboratory operations. Some FARC units in southern Colombia are reported to be directly involved in drug trafficking activities, such as controlling local cocaine base markets.

Activities

Bombings, murder, mortar attacks, kidnapping, extortion, hijacking, as well as guerrilla and conventional military action against Colombian political, military, and economic targets. In March 1999, the FARC executed three US Indian rights activists on Venezuelan territory after it kidnapped them in Colombia. Foreign citizens often are targets of FARC kidnapping for ransom.

Although the Colombian government has given the FARC political status and has attempted to negotiate with this terrorist organization to stop the recruitment of minors, the FARC has refused. The Colombian government’s Family Welfare Institute estimates that at least 30 percent of the FARC’s fighters are younger than 18, compared to about 15 percent a decade ago. However, international and Colombia agencies that track the use of child fighters now think the FARC’s numbers may be higher. During recent skirmishes between the Army and a FARC column, 32 of the 77 fighters captured by army troops were under 18 years old, and 19 of those were 15 and under. Of the 46 FARC fighters who were killed in the skirmishes, 20 were children. The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) estimates that there were about 6,000 minors serving in the FARC and AUC terrorist groups last year.
Link: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/farc.htm

Wonderful organization, ain’t it?

I said this before: There’s a reason why Bin Laden, FARC, Ortega, et al, mention the Democrats in their videos, speeches, and letters.

Birds of a feather.

Mexico’s Illegal Alien Problem

Yep, you read the title correctly. Mexico’s  illegal alien problem.

Or rather, what happens to all the other  illegals from Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Honduras, who sneak into and through Mexico, on their way north to sneak into the United States:

“The World’s” Lorne Matalon reports on Mexico’s other immigration problem — undocumented immigrants from Central America — Guatemala and Honduras — crossing illegally into Mexico, on their way to the United States.

The Mexican government claims 400,000 Central and South Americans enter Mexico every year, some are seasonal farm workers, but the vast majority are passing through on their way to the US. The US border patrol estimates nearly half will make it to the US.

Many of the migrants take the train — the lesser of two evils — by road, they face police checkpoints, robbers or kidnappers who force their families to come up with the ransom. On the train they pay bribes to armed gangs that control who gets on, and in some cases, who gets thrown off. They must also stay awake, standing for days on end, gripping a handrail. Many have fallen off, losing limbs, or their life.

Link: http://www.pri.org/pri-videos/mexico-immigration.html

Watch the narrated slide slow at the above link.

Gee, how ironic. America gets criticized for daring to address our illegal invasion problem and for implementing a long-overdue crackdown. 

Mexico’s reputation for brutality and strict enforcement of immigration gets a pass by everyone, including illegal alien pimp, Geraldo Rivera, who regularly spit-flecks his rage over enforcement of U.S. law and those who criticize the porous border ’security’.

Listen for the punch line at the end of the show: Mexico’s corruption-in-chief, Felipe Calderón, says that he plans on “legalizing thousands of Guatemalans already inside Mexico, if they can provide proof of employment“.

Ain’t that a hoot?

Sandinista cutthroat endorses Obama

Just wonderful:

President Daniel Ortega, who led the 1979 revolution in Nicaragua, says Barack Obama’s presidential bid is a “revolutionary” phenomenon in the United States.

“It’s not to say that there is already a revolution under way in the U.S. … but yes, they are laying the foundations for a revolutionary change,” the Sandinista leader said Wednesday night as he accepted an honorary doctorate from an engineering university.

Ortega led a Soviet-backed government that battled U.S.-supported Contra rebels before he lost power in a 1990 election. He returned to office last year via the ballot box.

In statements broadcast on Sandinista Radio La Primerisima, Ortega said he has “faith in God and in the North American people, and above all in the youth, that the moment of great change in the U.S. will come and it will act differently, with justice and equality toward all nations.”

Ortega returned to power with the same communist agenda as before, along with a state-owned media to propagate his message. Seems like old times.

Naturally, he pushes illegal immigration:

Ortega also called Obama a spokesman for the millions of Central American and Mexican citizens who migrate to the U.S. in search of work, though polls indicate most Latino voters so far have favored Clinton over Obama.

And echoes the left’s harangue over the former “School of the Americas”:

Also Wednesday, Ortega gave approval to various army officials to receive training at the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, operated by the U.S. Defense Department in Fort Benning, Georgia — even as he said he would continue to lobby for the school’s closure.

Pot, meet kettle:

The president claims that members of the now-defunct National Guard who were trained at the school, formerly known as the School of the Americas, were involved in torture. Human rights groups say graduates went on to commit abuses throughout Latin America.
……Ortega did not explain why he approved the training, but said he would try to ensure officials did not turn into “torturers and killers.”

Link: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/14/america/LA-POL-Nicaragua-Ortega-Obama.php

For Americans with short memories, Ortega was the leader of the communist Sandinistas who flourished as an extention of Soviet influence in Central America in the 80’s. He and his merry band of revolutionary thugs were responsible for slaughtering dissidents and Miskito Indians, who wouldn’t knuckle under the Marxist-Leninist theory of indoctrination.

Ortega subjugated the Catholic Church, suppressed the media, and imprisoned and executed “counter-revolutionaries” by the thousands.

While leftist asshats like columnist William Greider chirped praise for Ortega and railed against the Contras, members of La Prensa, an outspoken newspaper in Nicaragua, were repeatedly harassed, jailed, censored, and forced into exile.

The Sandinistas continued their bloodbath until they were were ousted during the 1990 elections.

Since then, Ortega has been a political chameleon, changing with whatever opportunity presents, and was re-elected in 2006.

Ortega is in a tight spot. The Soviet safety net is gone, and he has to rely on the capitalist system for handouts; U.S. foreign aid and the International Monetary Fund. Nicaraguan youth, too young to remember the Sandinista rule, enthusiastically greeted his election.

Unstable regions of the world like Central America have always been a playground for socialism and communist regimes. The Left adopts leaders of these movements as darlings; without being subjected to the consequences. It’s no wonder despots like Ortega endorse Democrat candidates.

Obama should be proud.