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A worried GOP learning Spanish
Chicago Tribune ^ | January 21, 2002 | Jeff Zeleny

Posted on 01/21/2002 9:58:03 AM PST by expose

Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:51 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

AUSTIN, Texas -- The intensified drive to draw Hispanic voters to the Republican Party isn't a voluntary mission of political correctness, but a matter of sheer necessity at the ballot box.

Worried that legions of campaign workers across the country can't speak the fastest-growing language of political importance, the Republican National Committee is sending key workers to intense Spanish language classes. For up to two weeks, GOP officials from selected states will immerse themselves in vocabulary and conversation at the Berlitz Language School in Washington.


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To: grlfrnd
INVASION USA!

How America's immigration policy welcomes terror, cultural revolution

© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com

America has thrown open its national doors and laid out the welcome mat for murderers, revolutionaries and terrorist sleeper agents "In the past four months, since Sept. 11," said Joseph Farah, editor of WorldNetDaily and Whistleblower, "most Americans have become aware for the first time that our nation's borders are a sieve. Terrorists and their supporters, if they want to get into America, can do so. In fact, it's easy. This issue of Whistleblower is the most comprehensive, hardest-hitting journalistic exposé yet on this immense problem."

High points of the issue include:

Farah's clarion call to "Seal our borders";

Reporter J. Zane Walley's stunning on-scene report from the U.S.-Mexico border documenting how Middle Eastern illegals find easy entrance into the U.S. from Mexico (with exclusive photos);

Rebecca Hagelin's exposé – featuring interviews with federal whistleblowers – on how corruption at the U.S. Customs Service has opened a major door for terrorists to attack America;

Clinton impeachment prosecutor David P. Schippers' outrageous but true story of how Bill Clinton and Al Gore pressured the Immigration and Naturalization Service to naturalize literally thousands of criminals as America citizens – all so they could vote for Clinton and Gore;

Veteran Mideast expert Daniel Pipes' insightful and principled plan for effectively fighting militant Islam in America, while safeguarding the rights of law-abiding Muslims;

Terror expert and investigative reporter Steven Emerson's look at Canada, and how the United States' northern border – like the one it shares with Mexico – is a key terrorist entry point into the U.S.;

Joseph Farah and Art Moore's eye-opening report on "America's 'Palestinians," documenting how unchecked immigration is fueling a growing secessionist movement in the American southwest.

February's Whistleblower also features a special piece by former White House FBI agent and federal whistleblower Gary Aldrich, as well as a powerful, extended excerpt from Patrick J. Buchanan's explosive new book, "The Death of the West," in which the author points out a much larger – and in many ways, even more troubling – immigration-related problem than America's opening up its national doors to terrorists:

"America has undergone a cultural and social revolution," writes Buchanan. "We are not the same country that we were in 1970 or even 1980. We are not the same people. …

"While the awful events of September 11 created a national unity unseen since Pearl Harbor … they also exposed a new divide," he writes. "This chasm in our country is not one of income, ideology, or faith, but of ethnicity and loyalty. Suddenly, we awoke to the realization that among our millions of foreign-born, a third are here illegally, tens of thousands are loyal to regimes with which we could be at war, and some are trained terrorists sent here to murder Americans. ...

"Uncontrolled immigration threatens to deconstruct the nation we grew up in and convert America into a conglomeration of peoples with almost nothing in common – not history, heroes, language, culture, faith, or ancestors. Balkanization beckons."

If you want to understand America's mind-boggling immigration problem – and find out what steps the U.S. government can and must take to end out-of-control immigration – read the February edition of Whistleblower.

141 posted on 01/21/2002 12:14:31 PM PST by expose
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To: Big Meanie
What does any country use it's military for, if it isn't to protect it's borders and sovereignty?

We can't use our military to protect OUR borders; we're too busy protecting the borders of other countries.

142 posted on 01/21/2002 12:14:33 PM PST by LiberteeBell
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To: Aristophanes; FITZ
Whattya think? Can I get a post as the Ebonics Communications Director for the New GOP?
144 posted on 01/21/2002 12:15:04 PM PST by Aristophanes
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To: sarcasm
Your idea of compromise is my idea of surrender.

Your idea of NO compromise is surrender. The Socialists will be coming for you first. I plan on living to fight another day.

145 posted on 01/21/2002 12:17:38 PM PST by VRWC For Truth
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To: one_particular_harbour
Oh please. You make me laugh! Is that all you can come up with? You might want to ask others around here since they know me and what I'm like and if I'm for real. Heck, read my profile. And yeah, I have the day off. If you don't, then you're posting from work, right?
147 posted on 01/21/2002 12:18:57 PM PST by I_Love_My_Husband
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To: LiberteeBell
Why do you have a problem with Americans citizens speaking the language of their choice? Let the freedom bell ring!
148 posted on 01/21/2002 12:19:25 PM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
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To: one_particular_harbour
All we are seeing from the Republicans these days is incremental socialism. One advantage for the politicians from this harebrained idea - they will be able to lie in two languages.
149 posted on 01/21/2002 12:20:07 PM PST by sarcasm
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To: diotima
Any big city in America will show you are wrong. They don't want to know English, and sue if they can't be spoken to *in their language*. They need to learn English. Period.
151 posted on 01/21/2002 12:20:51 PM PST by I_Love_My_Husband
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To: FITZ
Most of the non-English speaking people here never heard of the Constitution, they couldn't care less about it.

Geez, are you serious? And the GOP went to all that trouble last year to print Spanish versions of the Constitution and distribute them in South Texas. I thought for sure that would get us some votes.

152 posted on 01/21/2002 12:21:59 PM PST by BUSHdude2000
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To: sarcasm
Principles alone do not, and never have, won elections. Sorry to burst your bubble. If one actually has principles, they owe it to themselves to learn how to win. Losing "on principle" gains you nothing. It is people like you who assist the cause of liberalism more than anyone by allowing the perfect to be the enemy of the good. It is time for you to wake up to reality.
153 posted on 01/21/2002 12:22:57 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: BUSHdude2000
LOL. Oh I KNOW. Pandering will get the Repubs votes. Just keep believing in the fairy godmother, and all that lot.
155 posted on 01/21/2002 12:23:36 PM PST by I_Love_My_Husband
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To: VRWC For Truth
Your idea of NO compromise is surrender. The Socialists will be coming for you first. I plan on living to fight another day.

The socialists will be in power soon enough due to compromises such as yours - who do you think immigrants vote for?

156 posted on 01/21/2002 12:23:43 PM PST by sarcasm
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To: one_particular_harbour
Do you not read well? I see you have glasses on in your pix. I work for the gov't. Period.
157 posted on 01/21/2002 12:24:33 PM PST by I_Love_My_Husband
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To: expose
Wählen Sie Republikaner!

Un "lingo" alemán pequeño.

158 posted on 01/21/2002 12:26:03 PM PST by Jagdgewehr
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Why do you have a problem with Americans citizens speaking the language of their choice? Let the freedom bell ring!

I have absolutely no problem whatsoever with anyone speaking the language of their choice. I have a problem with Americans being required to speak someone else's language just because they live here but refuse to learn English.

160 posted on 01/21/2002 12:26:13 PM PST by LiberteeBell
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