[LNewman]

See also Mexican American Political Association Newsletter ... Nativo "Larry" Lopez is listed as President of MAPA.

[ncountylee]

I live next to Costa Mesa and will make an extra effort to support the merchants.

[handy old one]

If your not going to let me break the law the way I want then I will try to put you out of business?? Boy do these people need to learn how the game is played.

[Sterco]

OK amigo it is like this. Most of the crime these policemen are answering the call to is "illegal Mexican on illegal Mexican" crime. Goes with the barrio amigo. So if you do not want to let the good policemen know who you are you can just go on killing each other and stealing from each other and raping each others sisters. If you are here illegally you really should go home and let Vincente take care of your problems. Get out of your neighborhood and commit a crime we are going to find out you are illegal anyhow. Suit yourself Pedro.

[Shermy]

the big name Hispanic groups have dropped out of these protests generally, so we get these no-name groups. No support from Hispanic citizens, and the Big Business money can't defeat that.

[hophead]

I hope part of the plan is that if you refuse to answer a policeman's questions about your status, you are AUTOMATICALY arrested and deported if found to be an illegal alien.

And please stop using the term "illegal immigrant". They are "illegal aliens". They are not, by definition, immigrants.

[DumpsterDiver]

Nativo Lopez, a spokesman for Hermandad Mexicana Latinoamericana...

Lopez, along with several local labor unions and Latino advocacy groups, wants to force the Costa Mesa City Council to reconsider plans to train police to do immigration checks on people suspected of serious crimes.

Just what does Larry Nativo expect us to do with illegals who are suspected of serious crimes, present them with a pinata?

Naui Huitzilopochtli, who is a member of the [illegal] immigrant advocacy group the Tonantzin Collective.

Sounds like another fine group.

[DumpsterDiver]

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[gubamyster]

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[taxed2death]

How about taxpayers boycotting businesses that employ illegals?

That makes much more sense.

[VeniVidiVici]

Mexicans organize boycott against American business = activism

Americans organize boycott against Mexican business = racism

[kcvl]

Nativo Lopez, formerly of the Corrupt 'Hermandad Mexicana Nacional' Now Head of MAPA

Lopez plays a prominent dual role as a local school board member and as national co-director of Hermandad Mexicana Nacional -- the Mexican National Brotherhood -- a sizable non-profit community service organization for immigrant families.

Lopez is no stranger to controversy. The voter-registration efforts of HMN were at the heart of the lengthy but inconclusive Congressional investigation into the results of the 1996 House election in which Loretta Sanchez narrowly defeated incumbent Bob Dornan.

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LOPEZ IS PRESIDENT of the Mexican American Political Association and a leading force behind Hermandad Mexicana Nacional (Mexican National Brotherhood), a tax-exempt non-profit formed to aid undocumented workers which nevertheless dabbles in partisan affairs--so much so that it's been the subject of an election-fraud investigation.

Until last year, "Nativo" (his real first name is Larry) was a Democrat. Then he switched to the Green party to join the Nader-Camejo presidential juggernaut. Lopez's own brush with elected office was even more calamitous. Elected a decade ago to a seat on the Santa Ana school board of trustees, Lopez was recalled by residents of Orange County (just months before Gray Davis met the same fate) for his refusal to comply with California's Proposition 227, which ended bilingual education in public schools. The recall vote wasn't close: Lopez lost by a 40-point margin. He said he wanted to make Spanish California's primary language; he was rejected in every precinct of the most Spanish-speaking city in America.

http://tinyurl.com/9m72v

[kcvl]

Sep 2005 11:14 PM PDT

As a result of publicity about the advocacy of cock-fighting that Nativo Lopez has pushed through his organization, the Mexican American Political Association, Lopez appears to be drawing back somewhat from his whole-hearted embrace of this repulsive back-alley entertainment.

[kcvl]

Police sweeps are nothing new, Lopez said, but now police and politicians are using fears brought on by the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to justify a public policy that they say will help cut crime.

“The fallacy of these arguments about crime and security is that they have been tried before, but previously the anti-immigrant crowd did not have the Twin Towers as their big fig leaf,” Lopez said.

[Razz Barry]

What other lawbreakers will they be boycotting for next? It's no wonder so many Latino countries are $h!+. A country can only be as good as its people.