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.

U.S. Pays Ransom to Mexican Kidnappers of Democrat Congressman’s Kin

Gotta love the selective ‘we don’t negotiate with kidnappers’ policy.

U.S. law enforcement authorities helped facilitate a $32,000 ransom payment in Mexico for a relative of a U.S. congressman who was kidnapped last week by gunmen in Ciudad Juarez, a border city with rampant drug smuggling, gunfights and corruption.

Erika Posselt, a Mexican national described only as “a relative of the wife” of Rep. Silvestre Reyes, Texas Democrat and powerful chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, was abducted June 19 from an auto glass store she owns in Juarez.

Held for three days, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents - at Mr. Reyes’ request -helped arrange her safe return.

Saying they would kill Mrs. Posselt if a $500,000 ransom wasn’t paid, the kidnappers negotiated with Mrs. Posselt’s brother in Juarez and agreed to release her for $32,000 - in U.S. and Mexican currency. According to a confidential ICE memo, Mrs. Posselt was heard yelling in the background on one phone call between her brother and her captors.

The family raised the money, according to the memo. On June 21, two men on a motorcycle collected the ransom money at a Juarez street corner but sped off and eluded investigators who had staked out the drop site.

Mrs. Posselt was released several hours later, and Mexican authorities quickly transferred her to their American counterparts, who rushed her to El Paso, Texas, for “security reasons,” according to the ICE memo.

No arrests have been made.

U.S. policy prohibits federal agencies from negotiating with kidnappers in ransom demands for U.S. citizens. It is not clear how the policy pertains to the involvement of U.S. agencies in the kidnapping of noncitizens such as Mr. Reyes’ relative. But some law enforcement authorities on Thursday said the Mexican case could have set a dangerous precedent.

……Washington layer Joseph DiGenova, former U.S. attorney in the District, said cross-border law enforcement operations are generally coordinated by the U.S. Attorney General’s office. He called the Reyes case a “bizarre use of U.S. law enforcement resources.

“There is absolutely no fundamental basis for U.S. law enforcement to be involved but for the request of the congressman,” he said. “Not only is it highly unusual, but it raises serious questions.”

Mr. DiGenova said the only reason ICE became involved is because Mr. Reyes is “the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.”

Link: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jun/27/us-helps-ransom-reyes-kin/

So much for equal application of the law. Federal law enforcement, the very entity sworn to protect U.S. citizens abetted the ransom of a Mexican national, because she’s related to a Congressman. Silvestre should be prosecuted for his violation of U.S. law, right along with those who assisted him from the U.S. Attorney’s office.

Mexico Frees Murderers of U.S. Border Patrol Agents

Our ‘freinds’ the Mexicans:

U.S. officials say they are outraged that a judge in Mexico has released a man suspected of killing a Yuma border agent this year by ramming a Humvee into the agent’s all-terrain vehicle.

The release of 22-year-old Jesus Navarro Montes comes as U.S. Border Patrol agents grapple with an increase in vehicle-ramming attacks along the Mexican border in recent years.

Since Oct. 1, the Border Patrol in Arizona has logged 24 truck assaults on agents or their barricades along the border. The number hit a record 44 the previous year, which was before work crews built dozens of miles of vehicle barriers along the Arizona-Sonora line.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement says its agents also have seen a steady increase in vehicle attacks in recent months, although ICE does not keep statistics.

The ICE doesn’t keep track of illegals, either.

Navarro’s release last week, which since has come to U.S. officials’ attention, drew outrage from the Border Patrol and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.

In a written statement Wednesday, Chertoff said, “We are shocked and appalled,” calling the death of Agent Luis Aguilar “a heinous act of violence.” Paul Beeson, head of the Border Patrol’s Yuma Sector, said he was “outraged” at the news.

Chertoff should be even more shocked and appalled at the fact that two border agents were imprisoned in 2006 for doing their jobs.
Links:
http://archive.glennbeck.com/realstory/10-23-06.shtml
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,249478,00.html

But one Mexican official suggested it was U.S. authorities’ failure to act that led to Navarro’s release.

“The U.S. has not issued an arrest warrant or an extradition request and has presented no evidence of Navarro’s guilt,” said Ricardo Alday, spokesman for the Mexican Embassy in Washington, D.C.

Yeah, maybe we shoulda sent Duane “Dog” Chapman, the Bounty Hunter, to get the sonofabitch since the government won’t do it. He had success nabbing a fugitive serial rapist, Andrew Luster, who fled to Mexico in 2003. Chapman was not only charged by the Mexican government for ‘kidnapping’, but arrested by the imbeciles in the Federal Marshals for doing the job they refused. All charges were subsequently dropped.
Links:
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Jan30/0,4670,ChapmanExtradition,00.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,213856,00.html

……Aguilar, a Yuma Sector agent, was killed in January when he laid a spike strip to stop a suspicious truck from returning to Mexico through the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area in California.

A Humvee struck Aguilar, 32, and crossed the border. Navarro, accused of being the driver, was arrested later in Mexicali. Navarro was held in a Mexican jail on prior human-smuggling charges until his release last week.

The diplomatic exchange over Navarro’s release comes as the Bush administration pushes for a $1.6 billion aid package to help Mexican law enforcement fight its drug war.
Link: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/06/26/20080626ramming.html

How about spending that money to build a BORDER WALL, George?

BTW: The scumbag illegal shot by the wrongfully imprisoned agents, was himself arrested:

EL PASO, Texas — The arrest of an admitted Mexican drug smuggler shot by a pair of U.S. Border Patrol agents is prompting renewed calls for the former law-enforcement officials’ release from prison.

Osvaldo Aldrete Davila was arrested Thursday at an international port of entry in El Paso; a sealed indictment issued in October charged him with drug smuggling offenses.

“These guys absolutely need to be pardoned,” Rep. Tom Tancredo, R.-Colo., told FOX News on Friday.

The agents, Jose Alonso Compean and Ignacio Ramos, were convicted last year of shooting Aldrete and lying about it. The agents were each sentenced to more than a decade in prison.

“This whole thing with Davila shows you how rotten the deal is they got,” Tancredo said.
Link: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,311996,00.html

Gotta love the ass-backwards mentality of the Department of Homeland Stupidity.

New Recreation From Mexico: Fake Border Crossings

Hilarious.

EL ALBERTO, Mexico — Gunshots ring out and sirens shriek, mixing with the ragged breath of muddy, panting humans. Suddenly, the full moon sweeping the ground like a searchlight reveals a disturbing scene: a group of illegal immigrants being handcuffed and led away by U.S. Border Patrol agents.

But the U.S. border is 700 miles from this rugged municipal park in Hidalgo state, a three-hour drive north of Mexico City. The spectacle unfolding here isn’t an actual border crossing attempt but a live simulation-adventure that attempts to give participants a taste of what it’s like for the thousands of Mexican and other Latin American undocumented migrants trying to enter the promised land of “el norte.”

Dubbed the “Caminata Nocturna” (Night Hike), the three-hour simulation is a combination obstacle course, sociology lesson and PG-rated family outing. Founded in 2004, it’s run by members of a local village of Hnahnu Indians, an indigenous people of south-central Mexico, whose population of about 2,500 has been decimated by migration to the United States.

Every Saturday night, dozens of the remaining several hundred villagers take part in the Caminata. Many work as costumed performers impersonating Border Patrol agents, fellow migrants and masked “coyotes” and “polleros,” the Mexican guides who escort migrants for a fee.

The 7 1/2-mile hike, which involves quite a bit of running, costs about $10 per person. The money raised from the Caminata, and other park activities such as cabin rentals, rappelling and boating trips, is shared evenly among the villagers.

Hell, it’s even become a tourist attraction:

Since it opened, the Caminata has drawn thousands of visitors, the majority from Mexico but also from Europe, the United States and Asia. Several of the roughly 50 participants in last Saturday night’s outing said they were hoping to gain some insight into what migrants endure during their trans-border odysseys.

“It’s part of our culture, and it’s important to know it,” said Sergio Mendieta, a secondary school teacher from the state of Mexico.

Yeah, it’s part of your culture to engage in and encourage felonies.

It bears resemblance to a survivalist training camp:

……The route takes participants up steep mountains studded with spiky cactuses and sharp-edged maguey plants, along the banks of the swift-flowing Tula River, through cow pastures and ancient Indian burial grounds. For much of the journey, participants are pursued by the ersatz border guards (also known as “la migra”), racing along in pickups, barking commands to surrender and firing guns loaded with blanks.

Some artistic license comes with the price of admission. In reality, border guards seldom use their sirens or discharge their firearms.

They seldom stop the illegals, too.

Although the simulation can only approximate the dangers and physical hardships of crossing the border, it reflects a harsh economic reality. Most of this village’s residents spend all or part of the year working illegally in places like Phoenix, Tampa, Fla., and Las Vegas.

So, I guess that means they sneak back in to teach other illegals the tricks of the trade.
I bet Geraldo Rivera lends a hand.

……(Delfino Santiago, 33, a Hnahnu who is among the park’s current group of overseers), said he first crossed the border when he was 16 and now regularly shuttles between his home here and Las Vegas, where he is legally employed with a landscaping company. Speaking in English (his third language, after Spanish and Hnahnu), he said that his fellow villagers wish they could work legally in the U.S. but that current U.S. immigration policy makes it extremely difficult and time-consuming to obtain legal status.

“I pay taxes. I understand the laws,” he said. “But they don’t allow us to become citizens.”

If you understood Title 8 of the US Code, amigo, you’d know that what you’re doing is a felony. We don’t mind those who seek the legal way into the country and U.S. citizenship, it’s the illegal short cuts you take that we won’t allow.
To top it all off, they have an odious sense of undeserved entitlement:

A handful of media reports have raised the question of whether the Caminata is a kind of boot camp that trains Mexicans and Central Americans how to sneak into Brownsville, Texas, or San Diego.

Hike organizers pump up participants with vaguely worded speeches about Mexican national pride and solidarity with migrants. The Caminata reflects the assumption that poor, desperate migrants have a right to seek work in foreign lands — an attitude shared by most Mexicans, who adamantly oppose extending the U.S. border wall. But the Caminata seems intended more as a homage to migrants than an overt political statement.

……Among the participants were two middle-aged Mexican teachers, an Ohio college professor, several extended families and small clusters of giggling teenagers snapping cell-phone pictures. Several men in black ski masks materialized, the evening’s tour guides. One, a stocky, garrulous fellow who declined to give his name, gathered the crowd together and launched into a rambling 40-minute monologue.

“This night is perhaps a little magical, because we speak of the theme that is the theme of immigration,” he said in Spanish. “And in this night, perhaps, it is evoked in tribute and in honor of all those immigrants who have nurtured a dream.” He then produced two Mexican flags from his knapsack and urged the crowd on in singing the Mexican national anthem.

Magical…I threw up a little in my mouth over that one. Mexican national anthem….Reconquista, anyone?

……(Marcelo Rojas, a Mexico City biologist), said he hoped that the experience would encourage Mexican participants not to invest all their hopes in migrating northward. Better, he suggested, that more of them should stay and fight to improve conditions at home. He also believes that Mexicans should be more open about addressing their country’s political and social failings.

Link: http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/267662/36/

Looks like Marcelo is the only smart one in the bunch.

John McCain to Suck up to La Raza

ARLINGTON, VA — U.S. Senator John McCain today issued the following statement on Cinco de Mayo as his campaign announced several new Spanish efforts:

“Cinco de Mayo commemorates an important moment in the history of Mexico’s path to freedom. On this day in 1862, a small group of Mexican troops overcame overwhelming force to win the Battle of Puebla. Today, we join together to remember the sacrifice that these Mexican patriots endured, as well as the struggles of all those around the world striving for freedom. We recognize as well the important friendship that exists between our country and Mexico, and celebrate the many contributions Mexican-Americans have made to our society, culture, security and economy.”

……Finally, as part of his commitment to talking with all Americans during this presidential campaign, the McCain presidential campaign announced that John McCain will attend the La Raza Annual Convention in San Diego on July 14, 2008.

Link: http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/News/PressReleases/6dfbbff2-9e17-4dd1-b2a1-87e4287e69fb.htm

Pandering to open borders advocates and illegal immigration pimps will not earn him respect with his Republican constituents. The problem with La Raza, is that in no way does it represent “the many contributions Mexican-Americans have made to our society, culture, security and economy”, blah…blah…blah. They are reconquista radicals who have stated emphatically, within our own borders, that their intention is to help as many south of the border illegals as possible, as well as “reclaim” the Southwestern part of the United States.

In February, during the GOP debate he said:

“I’ll rely on people to judge me by the company that I keep.”

The company he keeps includes:

Russ Feingold, Teddy Kennedy, Lindsay Grahamnesty, Juan “Mexico First/Free Flow” Hernandez, Jerry “Spanish first” Perenchio, Geraldo Rivera, La Raza, Charles Keating, John Kerry, The New York Times.

Not a very appealing list. It reads like a who’s who of nihilist moonbats and leftwingnuts.

The selection of presidential candidates for 2008 is really depressing and disappointing. On the one hand we’re faced with two corrupt socialists.

The Hildabeast, along with her husband, used the Oval Office as a conduit for mulitiple felonies; the most serious of which was treason with Chinese arms merchants.

Barak Hussein Obama has ties to radical organizations and individuals who engaged in terrorist acts. He also calls a foul-mouthed racist pastor a  “freind and mentor”.

Both want to eviscerate the country and the military, kow tow to Islamic extremists, and leave us vulnerable to another attack on this soil.

And then there’s John McCain; a Republican Senator entrusted with the security of the United States, who doesn’t give a damn about our national sovereignty. He cavorts with radical individuals and organizations who work dilligently to prevent border security and accountability.

As a result, illegals pour in by the thousands to commit more felonies, soak up benefits they haven’t earned, put a strain on the health care system, and cost the American taxpayer billions of dollars.

Middle Eastern terrorists also take advantage by sneaking into our country, thus leaving us vulnerable to another attack on this soil.

Between McCain and the current crop of Democrat candidates, who the hell needs Al Qaeda?