"The Unified Race" and Open Borders--"We see no human being as illegal,"

DiscoverTheNetworks.org/Frontpagemag ^ | 4-20-06 | Kenneth R. Timmerman

[SJackson]

P. O. Box 13 San Fernando, CA 91340

LA RAZA UNIDA   Phone :619-420-3826 URL : http://larazaunida.tripod.com/

• Open Borders group
• Contends that the mythical land of "Atzlan" was stolen from Mexico by the United States
• "We see no human being as 'illegal.' Those who have arrived to the U.S. with heritage indigenous to the Americas, and specifically those crossing the southern border, are migrants on their own continent."
• "We have an aging white America. They are not making babies. They are dying. It's a matter of time. The explosion is in our [Hispanic] population." - Founder Jose Angel Gutierrez
  
  

La Raza Unida ("the Unified Race"), also known as the La Raza Unida Party, is an association of groups formed in the late 1960s and early 1970s with chapters throughout the Southwest, especially in California, Colorado and Texas. As the organization itself explains, "La Raza Unida [in Texas] organized around electing Chicanos to Boards of Education and City Councils. . . . The spirit and force of La Raza Unida was truly embodied in Texas under the leadership of Jose Angel Gutierrez, a student and [the] president of the Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO)." 

Gutierrez, who founded La Raza Unida, is currently an attorney and a political science professor. He formerly headed the Mexican-American Studies Center at the University of Texas' Arlington campus. In January 1995 Gutierrez made a passionate case for open borders to a Hispanic audience at the University of California's Riverside campus. An advocate of mass, unchecked migration between Mexico and the United States, Gutierrez complained, "The border remains a military zone [a reference to the presence, albeit meager, of agents patrolling the vast southern border of the United States]. We [Mexicans] remain a hunted people. Now you think you have a destiny to fulfill in the land that historically has been ours for forty thousand years. And we're a new Mestizo nation. And they want us to discuss civil rights. Civil rights. What law made by white men to oppress all of us of color, female and male. This is our homeland. We cannot - we will not - and we must not be made illegal in our own homeland. We are not immigrants that came from another country to another country. We are migrants, free to travel the length and breadth of the Americas because we belong here. We are millions. We just have to survive. We have an aging white America. They are not making babies. They are dying. It's a matter of time. The explosion is in our population."

Gutierrez has established a reputation as a sometimes crude and offensive speaker. "We have an aging white America," he said on another occasion. ". . . They are dying. . . . They are sh---ing in their pants with fear! I love it! . . . We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him." "Our devil," Gutierrez has said many times since 1970, " has pale skin and blue eyes." 

La Raza Unida held its first convention in 1972. In addition to Gutierrez, prominent members were Corky Gonzalez, Reyes Lopez Tijerina, and Cesar Chavez. The group's mission statement, according to its official website, is "Re-Commit, Re-Direct, Re-Organize and Re-Claim our past Chicano activism. . . . We will seek group ascendancy and solidarity among persons of Mexican American ancestry in this century." 

La Raza Unida opposes school voucher programs, advocates youth education programs designed to "enhance the education they are currently receiving in the public education system," opposes the North American Free Trade Agreement, and, most importantly, supports an open borders policy. In other words, it advocates unrestricted immigration; the effective dissolution of American borders; and amnesty, civil liberties protections, and expanded rights for those who have already violated immigration laws to enter the United States. 

La Raza Unida also professes "a commitment to the advancement of people of indigenous heritage," an advancement to be achieved by means of "the complete reworking of the current [capitalist] economic system." It further seeks what it calls "fair taxes for all," which, in the lexicon of groups advocating wealth redistribution, means ever-spiraling tax hikes for middle-to-higher-income earners, and a bloated welfare state. Moreover, La Raza Unida asserts that the U.S. government should "drastically reduce the amount of taxes used to fund military purposes," and calls for "an end to the militarization of society, including the borders." The organization articulates its immigration philosophy as follows: "We see no human being as 'illegal.' Those who have arrived to the U.S. with heritage indigenous to the Americas, and specifically those crossing the southern border, are migrants on their own continent." 

La Raza Unida's contention that its homeland was stolen by white Americans is a central reason for its militant posture. In fact, the group openly claims that large regions of the American Southwest do not rightfully belong to the United States. This premise was demonstrated in the summer of 2004, when La Raza Unida produced an ad to publicize an August 24 rally to be held in a venue it identified as "East Los Angeles, Califaztlán." The significance of this merging of the words "California" and "Atzlán" cannot be overstated. Radical Hispanic groups such as La Raza Unida and MECha (an acronym for Movimiento Estudiantil de Chicanos de Aztlan, or the Student Movement of Aztlan Chicanos) commonly refer to a mythical place called Atzlan. This is supposedly the cradle of Aztec civilization which was unjustly seized by the United States following the Mexican-American War, and which ought now be returned to its alleged rightful owners: the people and government of Mexico. 

On its website, La Raza Unida "pledges to seek and offer support to other organizations performing actions mirroring those we address." La Raza Unida went through a period of re-organization and restructuring after 1975, and for some time it lacked cohesiveness. However, the group appears to be much more active of late and proudly claims to be "doing outreach via the Internet as well as in person in events, demonstrations, and individual contact."

 

RESOURCES

GOP Congress Earmarks $4 Million for Leftist Pro-Illegal Alien Group
By Amanda B. Carpenter
December 2, 2005

[GarySpFc]

Here are some of the most common immigration felonies.

8 usc 1325 entering the US unlawfully (misdemeanor first time, felony second time)
8 usc 1326 entering the US after being deported
18 usc 1546 using false documents to obtain work authorization
18 usc 1028 using false identification document
42 usc 408 misuse of a social security number
18 usc 1344 setting up a bank account with false information

[MarkL]

People are not illegal. They can't be. They commit illegal acts. By doing so, they become criminals.

The people to which la raza are referring are simply criminals. And they need to be treated as such.

Mark

[NRA1995]

Wasn't "Aztlan", as they like to call it, stolen from the Aztecs by the Spanish? Didn't Pizarro steal land and wealth in Peru from the Incas? Where do these idiots get off calling anyone "Thieves"?

[litehaus]

bttt

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

These people are illegal.If they believe people are not then they should prove it!Go back to mexico,open your borders and allow others to enter and tell you what to do,then help themselves to what they want.

[DumpsterDiver]

ping

[luvbach1]

You are right. Everyplace belonged to someone else. History is not static. And then there's manifest destiny. The Mexicans'manifest destiny was to rule Mexico. At least it was that of their oligarchy.

[SquirrelKing]

Only Gringos are illegal. They should go back to England.

Or better yet, let's ALL go back to living in caves in France and painting pictures of antelope with our feces.

[Vectorian]

Absolutely - the 13 American colonies were 'stolen' from the locals by the British crown and were then in turn stolen by the British colonists. . . .

[Vectorian]

You'll all want to be coming back to England soon when you are forced to speak Spanish! :D

[DumpsterDiver]

Resources
GOP Congress Earmarks $4 Million for Leftist Pro-Illegal Alien Group
By Amanda B. Carpenter
December 2, 2005

There was a thread about Carpenter's article last December. Carpenter's article was about the National Council of La Raza, though, and not about La Raza Unida.

GOP Congress Earmarks $4 Million for Leftist Pro-Illegal Alien Group [LaRaza]
www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1537799/posts

[SJackson]

Sometimes it's handy to have gringos around.

[tumblindice]

The latest edition of the NRA's publication "America's First Right" points out that the federal government had the manpower (BATF) to confiscate legal guns and harass American citizens following a gun show not long ago in Richmond, VA, but, sadly, they don't have the assets to enforce our immigration laws by apprehending and deporting illegal Mexicans.
Priorities, priorities . . .

[donaldo]

Bingo! Don't pay any attention to these inflammatory dolts. Most of their ravings can't stand up to two minutes' rational analysis. One would think that the Aztecs and Mayans spoke Spanish before the arrival Cortez and Pizarro. Seems to me that the Apache have rights to a prior claim on their so-called ancestral homeland. Victor Davis Hanson did a superb job of eviserating these racists in his book "Mexifornia." Every college and university has a coterie of such morons in every ethnic studies department. They're not intelligent enough to be accepted in disciplines with more rigid requirements, like remedial math, to cite one example. Just tell them that we'll give up the southwestern U.S. when they go back to Spain. These idiots always bring Edmund Burke to mind: "Men of intemperate minds can not be free, their passions forge their fetters."

[pandoraou812]

This is supposedly the cradle of Aztec civilization which was unjustly seized by the United States following the Mexican-American War, and which ought now be returned to its alleged rightful owners: the people and government of Mexico.

Hmmm so Mexicans and the Mexican govt can screw it up? They dont need more land, they need to fix the county they've got and leave the USA alone. Build the wall.

[donaldo]

You are correct sir! If the southwestern U.S. were still in possession of Mexico the illegals would be crossing the border at Utah and Colorado and northern California instead of the Rio Grande.

[ZULU]

Won't we have to learn Arabic there?

I know a little Spanish - knowledge is a good thing and one should learn as much about as many things as possible in life.

But dang-nabit I don't want to HAVE to speak anything but ENGLISH here.

We need a LAW passed MANDATING English as an official language. And we have to STOP requiring notices, government documents, etc, to be written in English and Spanish.

American has become a nation of many ethnic and religious groups. The common glue which holds us all together is English and Anglo-Saxon customs and laws.


Personally I don't know if we need more immigrants or not, but immigrnat are not the problem. The problem is this hord of illegal invaders, primarily from south of the Border, who come here and expect US to learn THEIR langauge.

American politicians who continue to pander to special business interests who want these illegals here, and ignore the sentiments of most Americans on this topic, should be made to pay the penalty at the polls.

This should become a new litmus test for elected officials.
Do you support protecting our borders and laws removing illegals from our midst - then you get re-elected, if not, bye-bye. Then we move on to other issues.

By the way, the Minutemen are plannng to build a barrier along our southern border. Send them a contibution, and send a copy of the contribution to the White House, John McCain and "Teddy the Swimmer" Kennedy.

Maybe that will get their attention.

[ZULU]

Well, at least he was pro-gun!!

[SquirrelKing]

Whoa. His right pocket is WAY bigger than his left.

Weird.