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"The Unified Race" and Open Borders--"We see no human being as illegal,"
DiscoverTheNetworks.org/Frontpagemag ^ | 4-20-06 | Kenneth R. Timmerman

Posted on 04/20/2006 5:31:35 AM PDT by 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."

 

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; illegalaliens; immigrantlist; joseangelgutierrez; larazaunida; mexico; migrants; openborders
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To: SJackson
Here's a better link: http://www.pnlru.org/platform.htm

Here's an email I sent to our La Raza friends:

Dear La Raza:

Here's a quote from your platform:

Immigration

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 work for the rights of all peoples from this position.

It's been reported that "illegal aliens" from the Americas going into Mexico are illegal, considered to be felons, are rounded up, arrested, often raped and tortured, before being deported. What does La Raza do to help those people?

Do you support the rights of white Americans crossing the southern border without permission from the Mexican government, without a visa, without a passport and with ID supplied by the US Consulates? Do you support the right of these immigrants to own property, to work without permits, to send their kids to free public schools, to get free healthcare services and to insist that government services be provided in the English language? In other words, are Gringos a people or non-people.

I doubt I'll get an answer, as your hypocrisy would be all too clear.

Sincerely,

Jabba

21 posted on 04/20/2006 6:35:50 AM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (Jabba the Hutt's bigger, meaner, uglier brother.)
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To: ZULU

You won't need Arabic, only 2.7% of the British population is Muslim and only a tiny fraction of them speak Arabic as the majority are from Pakistan. We're still a 93% white anglo-saxon celt country whereas the US is only 81.7% white and that 81.7% includes latin americans which means if you don't count latin american as white, you are probably down to the high 60's or low 70's as a percentage. The US is much, much closer to having it's culture taken over than we are, sadly. (Source: CIA Factbook)

Personally I don't think you should have to speak anything but English - us Brits spent 500 years invading a quarter of the worlds surface and making a third of it's population speak English, so we didn't have to learn their languages! :D

I guess the two biggest problems you have is a very difficult to secure land border (God blessed Britain with a natural moat that has served us well for a millenium) and that south of that border is a third-world country desperate to have the jobs Americans don't want. Our nearest third-world countries are a continent away, unless you count France! :D

My inclination if I was American, would be firstly to take the bull by the horns and try to physically secure the border at whatever cost and secondly to introduce strong laws to discourage the large proportion of Americans (it seems to me) who turn a blind eye to illegals as long as they benefit financially.

Either way, I wish you all success in retaining your identity and culture.


22 posted on 04/20/2006 6:50:06 AM PDT by Vectorian
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To: GarySpFc
8 usc 1325 entering the US unlawfully (misdemeanor first time, felony second time)

Ironic isn't it. All this screaming about HR4437 making illegals felons, and the purported compromise to a misdemeanor, still unacceptable, despite being more leniant or the same as the curruent unenforced law on the books. Of course the real killer in that bill is the automated employer check system.

23 posted on 04/20/2006 6:57:45 AM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do!)
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To: ZULU
We need a LAW passed MANDATING English as an official language.

It's in the Republican Platform, as is a guest worker program. Will you settle for one out of two?

24 posted on 04/20/2006 6:59:35 AM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do!)
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To: Jabba the Nutt
Do you support the rights of white Americans crossing the southern border without permission from the Mexican government, without a visa, without a passport and with ID supplied by the US Consulates?

How about Native Americans? Mexico always treated them kinkly. Ask any Apache.

25 posted on 04/20/2006 7:00:47 AM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do!)
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To: SJackson
Apaches, Navajos, Hopi, Pueblos are just more non-peoples. I guess La Raza would consider all non-human too, so we can see where the logic of La Raza leads.

The McCain-Kennedy Bill would allow not the current 11 million, but also the extended families of the the 11 million. This would total at least 30 million.

Why the GOP cannot pick up this issue and run with it, staggers me. Why Bush, McCain, Specter and a majority of the US Senate supports this act is just beyond my understanding. What do they get out of this? It's insane.

26 posted on 04/20/2006 7:20:54 AM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (Jabba the Hutt's bigger, meaner, uglier brother.)
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To: MarkL

Ok, I'm going to stop calling them Ilegales for a while and start calling them criminales. The messkin spelling will identify who I'm talking about.


27 posted on 04/20/2006 7:22:33 AM PDT by Flavius Josephus (Nationalism is not a crime.)
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To: SJackson

Except, of course, the ones coming INTO YOUR COUNTRY ILLEGALLY.
What a bunch of crazy people with a new definition of DOUBLE STANDARDS.


28 posted on 04/20/2006 7:22:53 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: pandoraou812

But I thought Mexico only had the southwest for about 20 years before they started f'ing us and we went to war and, like Israel in 1967, created us a little buffer zone to keep the wogs at a distance.

That's my mythology, and I'm stickin' to it.


29 posted on 04/20/2006 7:25:36 AM PDT by Flavius Josephus (Nationalism is not a crime.)
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To: SJackson
I love the line about "our devil has pale skin and blue eyes" apparently the leaders of La Raza don't get out much I know a lot Mexicans with pale skin and blue eyes--some even have blond hair.
30 posted on 04/20/2006 8:01:17 AM PDT by adgirl
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To: SJackson

The only one I settle for is the mandating English part.

A Guest worker program would be a nightmare.

The people pushing the guest worker program CLAIM they want more workers here because they can't get Americans to do the jobs that need to be done. What they MEAN is, they want to hire slave labor at low wages, with no benefits.
So, who will pay for their sick costs? The employer?? Hardly. The laborer? He won't be able to afford it.
WE WILL PAY. When they get sick they go to the hospital emergency room, not the doctor because they have no insurance. Hospitals can't turn them away. Since they can't afford to pay the hospitals have to counter the expense of caring for them by raising paying patients costs and get some money from the state - OUR MONEY - to defray the expense.

What about children born in the U.S. to "guest workers"? They become American citizens automatically.

What will happen with Guest workers is they will remain in isolated, unassimilated colonies - by design. Fit only for the lowest and most menial of occupations, with no chance of raising their condition, and retaining all their social customs, languages, and allegiances to other countries - mainly Mexico.

This is suicidal.

If we need more workers, raise immigration quotas across the board - bring in people from MANY different backgrounds so they can assimilate better. Get people who want to be Americans, learn our language and culture and add theirs to the mix.

We should stop pnadering to special business interest whose bottom line is the dollar, not what is best for America. Frequently the two are the same.




31 posted on 04/20/2006 8:32:18 AM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis, Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
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