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Islamisation of David Keene, American Conservative Union June 27, 2007 David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union (ACU), has been moving, along with several other paleo-conservatives like Dinesh D’Souza, towards a partnership with Saudi-funded, pro-Hamas institutions. A forewarning was the appointment of Grover Norquist to the ACU board. A second forewarning was the appointment of Suhail Khan to the ACU board. Then Tuesday, David Keene joined United for Peace and Justice, the ACLU, the Communist Party-USA, as a speaker in the “Day of Action to Restore Law and Justice” to “…call on Congress to restore habeas corpus, fix the...

--snip-- We must not sell out, and we must fight for the rights of our people that have been here!" he shouted, a crowd of 50 or so cheering and applauding as the short speech closed. "This is our land and we're going to fight for just and humane comprehensive immigration reform!" --snip La Raza, LULAC and the union issued a news release announcing the town hall meeting that was an ultimatum. They said U.S. Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn, R-Texas, were "on notice" that "we want workable reform and we want it now!"

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. Organizations that represent what is now the nation's largest minority group are beginning to achieve power commensurate with their numbers. "There's a real sense that...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Legislation described as the nation’s most sweeping attempt to deny jobs and public benefits to illegal immigrants was sent to Gov. Brad Henry’s desk Tuesday. State lawmakers urged Henry to sign the measure into law after it was approved in a bipartisan 84-14 vote by the state House. The bill was approved 41-6 by the Senate last month. “The people of Oklahoma are very strongly for this bill,” said House Speaker Lance Cargill, R-Harrah. Immigrant groups said the bill is a wrong-headed approach to stop illegal immigration and urged Henry to veto it. “It’s not going...

Archives of Rudolph W. Giuliani Immigration:The Progress We've Made and the Road Ahead Tuesday, March 31, 1998Hyatt Regency, Washington, D.C. Check Against Delivery Introduction Today, as we gather to talk about the state of immigration in this country, my thoughts immediately turn to a letter that I wrote in February to Attorney General Janet Reno. Last July 18th, New York City made a shocking discovery. We found over 40 deaf Mexican immigrants held in cramped apartments, forced to sell trinkets on the subways and routinely tortured, starved, and sexually assaulted by their bosses. The Mexican immigrants, including 10 minors,...

While admitting that factors such as high Hispanic dropout rates, lack of Hispanic student participation in extracurricular activities, shortage of "multiethnic" textbooks, and lack of participation by Hispanic parents are all perceptions in the Hispanic community; rather than address the perceptions with those who hold them (incorrectly I must add), LULAC proposes to address those concerns first by starting with the teacher, and if that doesn't work, threatening your way all the way to federal court if necessary, in order to right a perceived wrong. In other words, Jose's parents won't come to his PTA meetings because they don't understand...

WASHINGTON -- Conservative Republican Mike Huckabee, seeking to repeat the success of another former governor from Hope, Ark., said Sunday he is taking the first step in what he acknowledged is an underdog bid for the White House in 2008. Huckabee, who left office Jan. 9 after serving 10 1/2 years as governor of a Democratic-leaning state, faces steep odds in a crowded GOP field that includes well-known and well-funded hopefuls such as Sen. John McCain of Arizona, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

A wave of immigration raids in Concord, Pacheco and west Contra Costa County has prompted a local Latino advocacy group to file a complaint. Officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, falsely identified themselves as police, refused to show identification proving their agency affiliation and prevented detainees from taking prescription medication with them, according to a draft of a complaint by the League of United Latin American Citizens. The league also claims that agents wrongfully searched apartments of Latinos without permission under the pretext of picking up those with outstanding warrants, said Jerry Okendo, president of the league's Bay...

OK, class, it’s time for a multiple choice quiz. Ready? The federal government recently conducted a study of 100 illegal immigrants who were arrested for a crime and then released into the general population. Students, what is the average amount of times each of these illegals were arrested? Is it: a) one time; b) three times; or c) five times? How about if I told you that none of the above choices is high enough? What if you found out that the average number of times that this study group of 100 illegal immigrants have been arrested was SIX TIMES...

<p>Americans are to blame for some illegal immigrants becoming serial crooks because "they're picking up those bad habits of cheating, of drinking and drugs," according to an official of a prominent Latino advocacy organization.</p> <p>Jesse Diaz of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) made the claim on Monday during an interview on Dallas talk radio station KRLD, and then repeated them on Tuesday to WFAA-TV.</p>

DALLAS - After a federal study revealed that a look at 100 illegal immigrants previously arrested and released for breaking state or local law had on an average been arrested six times, the president of the Dallas chapter of the League of United Latin Amercian Citizens (LULAC) made a controversial remark that has been the talk of the town. Jesse Diaz, the LULAC leader, said while the report is flawed, he stands by his comments that if Americans want to blame anybody, they need to blame themselves. "Now that they come to the United States, they're picking up those bad...

SAN ANTONIO - Hispanic leaders called Thursday for a moratorium on workplace raids like recent ones at six meatpacking plants, saying immigration reform in Congress should be completed first. "This is the time to take action because families are being destroyed," said Rosa Rosales, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens. She and others at a news conference here called on federal officials to halt raids targeting undocumented workers, saying such roundups harm workers who are simply trying to support their families. "We would like the raids to stop - a moratorium on them - until we can...

The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday approved next Tuesday for the runoff election in District 23, putting controversy surrounding the date to rest. After Gov. Rick Perry scheduled the runoff, the League of United Latin American Citizens sued, attempting to move the election to Dec. 19. The group argued that fewer Hispanics would turn out to vote because next Tuesday is a religious holiday for Mexican Catholics. But two compromises added three days of early voting, which now ends Saturday, in the contest between Republican Rep. Henry Bonilla and Democrat Ciro Rodriguez. That prompted LULAC to drop its suit —...

>>>From Travis J. Carter Carter Public Relations Direct: 214.360.7815 E-mail: tcarter@carterpr.net LET THE VOTERS DECIDE Petition Drive -VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY IN FARMERS BRANCH- Dear Community Supporters: We have launched a petition drive to call for a city-wide vote on the recent immigration ordinance passed in Farmers Branch. The Let the Voters Decide petition drive is fully underway and moving forward! We encourage you to join us for information/training sessions. Sessions will be held at 10 a.m. and another at 2 p.m. through Friday, Dec 1. We need your help to reach our goal of over 700 signatures! Meetings are at LVD...

EXPLANATIONS OFFERED at meeting WHAT Educational Meeting WHO Uniting Farmers Branch group WHERE Mary Immaculate Church at Valwood Parkway and Dennis, Farmers Branch WHEN Friday, December 1, 7 p.m. This Educational Meeting, presented by Uniting Farmers Branch (UFB), is an informational forum. MALDF (Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund) will explain the meaning of recent city council action regarding apartment rentals and how this action may impact the immigrant community. Included in the meeting will be a description of what various interested groups are doing and a Q&A with the audience in Spanish and English. Invitations are being extended to city officials,...

This is a follow-up to the story of Hispanics in Orange County having received a supposed voter suppression letter. In this post I'm going to: present evidence that the letter was sent by an illegal immigration supporter...discuss how Arnold Schwarzenegger has been politically emasculated and how his handlers don't have the U.S.'s best interests at heart...illustrate a PIIPP that the AP has fashioned from the story (no, really)...and, discuss those hacks who promulgated this story and who have shown that - even with what we know now - they have little journalistic integrity and that their future reports should not...

Immigration will be the topic of a conference to be held at Texas A&M University at Kingsville from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday. The conference, Borders, Boundaries and Frontiers: A Forum on Immigration Issues, is sponsored by the American Democracy Project at the university. Texas border sheriffs, immigration officials, local ranchers and government leaders, civil rights lawyers, professors and students will be in attendance. For more information about the Borders, Boundaries and Frontiers conference, call (361) 593-2776 or visit www.americandemocracyproject.org sicalderon@brownsvilleherald.com

Some San Antonio residents are taking part in a march Thursday to oppose the lack of rights for undocumented immigrants. The Dia de la Raza march is being hosted by League of United Latin American Citizens and other organizations, and is meant to coincide with Spanish Heritage Month. The groups involved say they want to remind people about the plight of undocumented immigrants.

Keep Arkansas Legal, a new immigration reform group in the Central Arkansas area, will meet at the Roosevelt Thompson Libray from 3:00pm-6:00pm Saturday October 7th (Terry Library was booked). We will discuss what to do for the election and the upcoming legistlative session. We will then have a general discussion about illegal immigration. address: Roosevelt Thompson Library 38 Rahling Circle Little Rock, AR 72223 You can go to this link and type the address for a map http://maps.yahoo.com/" We also have a volunteer opportunity. The Lagrone campaign has given a neighborhood in Chenal called The Village to do door to...

LOS ANGELES – Immigrants Without Borders is an Arizona-based assistance organization. It doesn't have the multimillion-dollar funding of national Latino organizations, nor does it have their fame. But this regional group has something the others don't: the ability to mobilize immigrants, to organize marches like the ones seen in the past few months and a long list of community contacts. Bringing these two sides together and the development of a long-term social and economic strategy for Latinos are among the goals of the National Latino Congress. Some 1,300 leaders and activists from across the nation are attending the event, which...

Minuteman Project protesters composed of members of LULAC District 14 and others stood by Gen. Ignacio Zaragozas bronze statue a symbol of Mexican liberation on Saturday at San Agustin Plaza and held a forum on keeping immigration enforcement in the hands of the U.S. Border Patrol and not those of "vigilantes."Protesters said they opposed the coming of the Minutemen, a nationally organized group whose goal is to stop illegal immigration at the U.S. borders. The group is expected to set up shop in Laredo and Webb County from Sept. 11 to Nov. 7. "We think it is wrong to allow...

Opinions clash in initial meeting of Ark. immigration watch group Viewpoints clashed Tuesday night during the Arkansas Minuteman Civil Defense Corps organizational meeting at Lake Hamilton Fire Department. Nearly half of the packed meeting room at the station were there to voice their opposition to the organization’s mission, while the other half voiced staunch support. "It’s up to us to do what we can to protect the birthright of our children and grandchildren," meeting organizer Bill Riggins of Hot Springs told the crowd. "With every benefit and every reward comes responsibility." Riggins called the influx of illegal immigrants into the...

A talk with federal officials tentatively set for late August The League of United Latin American Citizens and others have requested to meet with U.S. Department of Education officials about the denial of $3.4 million in federal grants for educational assistance programs that would affect 12 area schools. Feliberto Valdez, director of the Corpus Christi LULAC National Education Service Center, said he will continue to seek alternative local sources of funds but plans to shut down the center's operations Aug. 31. "We're trying to get members of the community to send letters to the Department of Education," he said. "We're...

Hispanics helped, Travis County still split under first two plans WASHINGTON — The first proposals to redraw Texas' congressional map and fix Latino voting rights violations would create up to seven Latino-majority districts in the state — but leave Travis County split between three members of Congress. The two maps are being proposed by the League of United Latin American Citizens, or LULAC, and are the first of several proposals expected to be submitted to the Texas Legislative Council by Friday. The new maps come in response to a Supreme Court ruling in June that found the state's 2003-Republican drawn...

ANGELES (Reuters) - Karl Rove, U.S. President George W. Bush's senior political advisor, on Tuesday took the administration's message on immigration reform to Latino leaders, saying the country was approaching a "critical moment" in the debate. >br> Speaking at the annual convention of leading Latino civic group the National Council of La Raza, Rove said Bush would work with Republicans and Democrats in coming weeks to push through reform legislation that has bitterly divided Congress, the Republican Party and the nation. "We face a critical moment in our immigration debate, a moment when our nation will make an important decision...

White House adviser Karl Rove is scheduled to speak tomorrow at the annual conference of the federally funded, left-wing, open-borders-advocacy group, the National Council of La Raza. If he does not want his speech to look like an act of appeasement, he should confront La Raza on its opposition to commonsense policies designed to secure both U.S. borders and U.S. pocketbooks. La Raza, which means “The Race” in Spanish, has denounced as “horrendous” and “appalling” the House immigration bill passed in December, which was sponsored by Judiciary Chairman James Sensenbrenner (R.-Wis.) and supported by the overwhelming majority of House Republicans....

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is moving to shore up an area of vulnerability in his re-election campaign against his trailing Democratic opponent, Phil Angelides. On Tuesday at an event in L.A., he will announce the formation of Hispanic Families for Arnold. When he was elected in the 2003 recall election, Schwarzenegger garnered 34 percent of the Latino vote, a good total given that the replacement Democratic nominee, Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante, is Mexican-American. But in some recent polls matched up against Angelides, Schwarzenegger is running under 20 percent. Forty to fifty community leaders and their families will join Schwarzenegger at the...

LULAC chapter criticizes Austin school district for going against community's wishes.A Hispanic community group is criticizing the district's choice to lead Travis High School, saying he is inexperienced and unfamiliar with issues facing the campus. Austin school board members last week approved the hiring of Rene Garganta, former principal of University Middle School in Waco. Garganta has also worked as an administrator in the Victoria district and as an administrator, teacher and coach in the Seguin district. The local League of United Latin American Citizens is circulating an e-mail saying the district went against the wishes of the organization and...

April 10, 2003 The Honorable Chris Cannon 118 Cannon House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 The Honorable Howard Berman 2221 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 The Honorable Lucille Roybal-Allard 2330 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Dear Congressman Cannon, Congressman Berman, and Congresswoman Roybal-Allard: Representing a broad alliance of educators, businesses, labor groups, civil rights organizations, faith-based groups, children and youth groups, and various community-based organizations from across the country, we write to express our strong support for the Student Adjustment Act.You recently reintroduced this important legislation to address the federal barriers to education and work confronted...

With California’s state budget hung up, at least for the moment, on the politics of illegal immigration and children’s health care, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is right in the middle between legislative Democrats and Republicans. It’s consistent with his evolution from supporter of the anti-illegal immigrant Proposition 187 in 1994 to his dramatic declaration in 2002 that he opposed any Prop 187-like measure. Schwarzenegger wants to add money for existing children’s health care programs at the county level, which service children who are here illegally. But he doesn’t want to start up a new program, which would begin the process of...

Attorneys for a group of students who sued the state to suspend the high school exit exam have filed an emergency request with a state appeals court. They want the court to urgently hear their claims the test should be suspended for this year's graduating class. On Wednesday, the state Supreme Court stayed a lower court's injunction that had barred the exam from taking effect for the Class of 2006. It meant the exam would be a requirement for seniors to graduate. The students and their parents argued that the exam is discriminatory because all California students do not have...

Marcial Rodriguez, a U.S. Marine who grew up in a Mexican farming village, is offended that the country he went to war for might deport his relatives who are living here illegally. Three months after the lance corporal returned to Ohio from the fighting in Iraq, the U.S. House adopted a bill that would make Rodriguez's cousin a felon for being one of the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants. Rodriguez, 20, said he enlisted in the Marine reserves to repay the debt he felt owed to a country that had given him an education and a home for his family....

Massive street marches to protest a proposed crackdown on illegal immigration have energized U.S. Hispanics and may signal a new day of Hispanic political involvement. The demonstrations, which attracted both legal and illegal residents across the country, mean politicians may face an angry Hispanic electorate in which Republicans would be the biggest losers, activists said on Monday. Half a million people marched in Los Angeles two weeks ago, and another half a million protested in Dallas on Sunday. On Monday, there were smaller marches in more than 60 cities, all to express displeasure with proposed legislation in Washington aimed at...

PHOENIX - Hundreds of protesters gripped Mexican flags as they marched for immigration reform in the past few weeks, but they say a display of cultural unity is being mistaken as a lack of loyalty to the United States. The displays turned off many Americans. Conservative talk show hosts admonished the protesters, while everyday people wrote angry letters to the editors of their local newspapers. Some called for those carrying the Mexican flag to return to Mexico. Others questioned why immigrants demanding rights in the United States would wave symbols of Mexico. But those who carried them, and scholars of...

What Christians should do regarding illegal immigration has been an ongoing debate for a long time. Recently, Christianity was entered into the debate over immigration bills being worked on in the US Congress by Senator Hillary Clinton. Hillary basically advanced the argument that opposing illegal immigration is "un-Christian" and claimed that such enforcement would be the same as making the Good Samaritan and Jesus criminals. Missing from Hillary's comments were quotes from the Bible. While immigration from Mexico is of course not mentioned, there are issues that illegal immigration bring up that are mentioned in the Bible. 1. Taxes Matthew...

One of every seven U.S. residents is Hispanic, and that will eventually increase to nearly one of every four, according to a new study that calls for improved education to integrate the minority group into society. "Failure to close Hispanics' education and language gap risks compromising their ability to both contribute to and share in national prosperity," cautions the study by the National Research Council, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences. Gabriela Lemus, director of policy and legislation at the League of United Latin American Citizens, agreed that graduating from high school is critical. Without that "they are...

RIVERSIDE – About 400 Latinos concerned about the rights of immigrants who enter the country illegally to work met Saturday in Riverside to fight plans for increased enforcement from Washington and Costa Mesa. The Mexicano/Latino Leadership Immigration Summit focused mostly on legislation approved in the House of Representatives that would build a fence along parts of the Mexican border. "We're not terrorists, just hardworking people trying to make a living," said speaker Hector Preciado of the Greenlining Institute, a Northern California public policy and advocacy group. SNIP Zeke Hernandez of the Santa Ana chapter of the League of United Latin...

You may have noticed that those who carelessly throw around charges of "racism" are themselves the most egregious racists. Thus, race hustlers charge that opponents of racial quotas (euphemistically called affirmative action) are racists - that their opposition to racial preferences in education and employment is motivated by animus against blacks and Hispanics. But affirmative action is every bit as racist as Jim Crow - holding, as it does, that certain individuals should be penalized and others rewarded solely on the basis of pigmentation. (Calls to "redress historic grievances" and demands for "diversity" are thin rationalizations for racial plunder.) Similarly,...

Count Tom DeLay as one of those upset about Thursday’s roundup of day laborers in League City. But the Republican congressman wasn’t troubled to see that 62 suspected illegal immigrants were rounded up in the sweep. Instead, he was dismayed because almost all were let go. “I am very encouraged we have local law enforcement that wants to go after criminals who happen to be illegal immigrants and that (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) would help,” said DeLay, who has made immigration one of the top issues of his re-election campaign. “On the other hand, I am disheartened that they had...

A little history on LULAC. I know a lady, 82 years old, Gloria Deverick, whose father Joe Garza from Spain, started LULAC. Both he and Gloria were and still are, against illegal immigration as well as free benefits. What the press won't publish and what LULAC hardly admits to, is the correct history. LULAC was taken over by, as she still alleges, "criminals and politically corrupt people." For some contrary insight, read some information from, "Hispanics for Secure Boarders." Another quote from Mrs. Deverick; she said that one figure in LULAC said that, "the White House will be painted brown."...

Political Pulse: 01.15.06 Truan protests flag at press conference At a Tuesday night press conference at Taqueria Alteno held by local Hispanic rights organizations to announce peace marches protesting a wall between Mexico and the U.S., Jose Chavira, spokesman for Mexico's "Frente Unida" or United Front, made a statement before he even opened his mouth. He proudly displayed a flag - complete with swastikas - comparing President Bush to Hitler. "We associate (Bush) with Hitler in Mexico," Chavira said. Former state Sen. Carlos Truan quickly protested the flag. "I'll do all that I can do to support your march," he...

HERNDON, Va. -- The debate between the Herndon Minutemen and day laborers heats up with the arrival of a new controversial Web site. The Herndon Minutemen is a group that conducts surveillance of day laborers in Herndon, Va. "I am sure there are racists in this country, but they're not in my organization," said George Taplin, president of the Herndon Minutemen. He is responding to a new Web site, weareracist.com. The site was created by LULAC, the League of United Latin American Citizens. "We thought the best thing to do was to set it up as weareracist.com. We do believe...

Nine leaders from local Hispanic organizations joined hands as they announced peace marches in Laredo and Washington, D.C., to protest the proposed wall between Mexico and the United States Tuesday night at a midtown taqueria. Representatives of the South Texas Amigos de Mexico, the Coastal Bend Immigration Council, the American GI Forum, the League of United Latin American Citizens and the Contra-Minutemen Coalition condemned the "wall of shame" and said it would do little to stop immigration. "We're building a wall instead of tearing walls down," said Nancy Vera, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens #4444. "There...

After long and careful deliberation, the National Executive Board of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) unanimously voted to oppose the nomination. The Executive Board felt that contrary to President George W. Bush's statements that Alito would be a fair and impartial judge on the Supreme Court, the judge's well-documented track-record during his tenure under both the Reagan and Bush administrations, when he was Assistant to the Solicitor General from 1981-1985, Deputy Assistant U.S. Attorney General from 1985-1987, and U.S. Attorney for New Jersey from 1987-1990, as well as during his tenure as a Judge on the Third...

A liberal Hispanic lobbying group is labeling some opponents of illegal immigration "racists, cowards" and "domestic terrorists" on a new website. But the activists targeted by the accusations say they have no time for "name-calling" and will continue their work. The League of United Latin America Citizens (LULAC) -- which bills itself as "the largest and oldest Hispanic civil rights organization in the United States and Puerto Rico" -- sponsors the website WeAreRacists.com. Under the banner, "Stop the Minutemen*!," the site's home page features photos of some members of the "Herndon Minutemen," a group opposed to illegal immigration trying to...

The Job Center closes today. Some laborers will leave area; others will find new places in town to seek work. COSTA MESA -- Today is the beginning of an uncertain time for workers who use the city's Job Center. At 11 a.m., the center closes for good after 17 years of operation. The City Council chose earlier this year to shutter the facility, which connects day laborers and employers. At the time, Mayor Allan Mansoor said employment services should be provided by the private sector, not the government. Without the center, workers will be forced to move on, and for...

Austin, TX (OPENPRESS) November 3, 2005 -- The majority of Texans are opposed to tax increases and the Trans Texas Corridor, and if enough of them learn that Proposition 1 is a smoke screen for a tax increase, they are expected to vote "no" against the proposal. "I am confident that if Texans knew the financial impact involved, and the unlimited corporate welfare of the rail fund, they would vote against Proposition 1 and defeat it," said Sal Costello, founder of People for Efficient Transportation. "No one wants east coast toll roads here in Texas, or billions in tax increases...

Press Release Bush misses another opportunity to nominate a Hispanic to the Supreme Court LULAC organizational leaders to develop Diversity Score Card on Judicial Appointments, questioning Bush’s commitment to diversity October 31, 2005 Contact: Brenda Alvarez, (202) 833-6130 Washington, DC—The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) expressed today its frustration over President Bush’s nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. to the U.S. Supreme Court. This is the third opportunity Bush has missed to diversify the court by not naming a Hispanic to the seat. It is clear to LULAC officials that Bush has misled the Hispanic community by...

CLEARWATER - Three decades ago, Gabriel Cazares fought during his time as mayor to keep Scientologists out of Clearwater. He was once heavily involved with civil rights groups, too, though in the last decade he had canceled his membership with the NAACP and the League of United Latin American Citizens, also known as LULAC. But the 85-year-old has never stopped fighting. He is especially vocal about the welfare of minorities, especially Hispanics. So he became angry on Sunday night after watching CNN break away from Gov. Jeb Bush's remarks to residents as Hurricane Wilma threatened the area. While other stations...

September 26, 2005 · I believe that a little outrage can take you a long way. I remember the exact moment when I discovered outrage as a kind of fuel. It was about 1980. I was 17, the daughter of Bolivian immigrants growing up in suburban Detroit. After a dinner table conversation with my family about the wars going on in Central America and the involvement of the United States (my country by birth and my parents' country by choice), a good friend said the thing that set me off. He told me that he thought the U.S. might someday...