Posted on 08/23/2007 6:32:31 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
PROJECT: COUNTERINTELLIGENCE
SUBJECT: ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION / RESPONSE ON THE U.S. LOCAL LEVEL
FILE: OPPOSITION RESEARCH TRANSLATION: SPANISH to ENGLISH (w/BABELFISH)
Original Spanish Title: ("Se Dificulta Defensa Pro Inmigrante /Organizaciones Evalúan Estrategias Ante El Avance de Iniciativas Contra Los Indocumentados")
TEXT:
2007, The Chicago La Raza, Inc. Published 08-23-2007
Organizations Try to Adopt New Strategies in The Face of Growing Local Initiatives in USA Aimed Against Illegal Aliens ("Undocumented"– [sic])
WASHINGTON, D.C. Anti-illegal alien measures are proliferating coast-to-coast in the United States. Adding to that the new federal administration initiatives, pro-immigrant groups are up against he wall, so that there is the need to organize strategies to counter this big wave, such as conducting marches, as this battle promises to intensify. Eric Guttierez is a lawyer in charge of legislative affairs for the Mexican American Defense group called MALDEF. He said that their group wants to be everywhere at any time, but it is simply not possible and for that reason they are required to take anti-measures on state levels and work with local organizations with effective strategies to fight the new anti-illegal immigrant initiatives.
MALDEF has had some luck in restraining many of these initiatives. For example, last week, they were successful to have the federal government weigh on behalf of day laborers against the city of Baldwin Park, California, which tried to get through a resolution prohibiting public solicitation for work in parking lots and on the street by the illegal aliens. They were successful in coalition with the National Network of Day Laborers (NDLON) and the United Day Laborers of Baldwin Park.
But Guttierez says over all the local initiatives are growing, and for MALDEF it simply is impossible to fight then everywhere throughout the country. It would be complicated and expensive. After the failure of the US federal government to pass immigration legislation of a comprehensive nature to help the immigrants, the fight then passed to the States and the localities of the USA. But at the same time there are pronounced differences on just what is the best strategy to fight such initiatives in legal battles.
There arose differences on just how to go forward as the best way to push for help for illegal immigrants, but now there are differences as various local measures that are anti-immigrant come up. Boycotts? Marches? Demonstrations?, Direct Lobbying of local US Councilmen and Supervisors? Telephone Calling Campaigns? The Naturalization for the Right to Participate in Elections?
These are the questions, but the answers are all complicated, just as the Hispanic community itself is diverse. Each community seeks its own ways to counter this wave, to try to be effective.
(Rest of article summarized with main points)
--There are propositions to decentralize this fight against foreigners in the USA (sic and this is being suggested by such groups as MALDEF, and other pro immigrant groups in multiple localities, but we cannot dance to that music, observe NLACC.
--Reasons for the difficulty is that is simply impossible to be on the front lines of the battle in every locality, for lack of money or organizational strength nationwide.
--Flavia Jimenez of National Council of LA RAZA (NCLR) said that as a national group, it is difficult for them to move to be everywhere at anytime, because each state and local situation is difference. There are cases where the pro-immigrant (sic) organizations are stronger in some areas of the country than in others.
--There are established networks of support for Hispanic communities, to face these horrible decrees. They can mobilize, and there are other communities where these Latino presence is growing, but recently, like "support battalions".
--Ricard Juarez of the group Mexicans Without Borders, admits that marches and boycotts have limited "definitive results." But there are no other options for that which we are doing. We are trying to complement it with other actions. Such as allying with other pro-illegal alien ("inmigrante") groups, non-Hispanic groups, etc...
--In Prince William County (in Virginia), for example, they have no other option, because of the anti-illegal alien initiative which got through, even though in his opinion the voices of pro-illegal aliens would surpass those of the anti-immigrants.
--Every day more and more announcements of action taken against illegal aliens on the local level is cornering us, and not to mention the federal measures…the option is that we either go into hiding, or we go to the front and fight. So the decision was to go to the boycott, to say “we are here, that we contribute, and we want to be recognized” said Juárez.
--Local business can get together, with a war chest, and lobby local leaders, from the perspective that the Supervisor’s initiatives will harm business, that business pays taxes, and that if they are adversely effected, the County will be adversely effected, too.
--Chacon on the other hand, says he has two theories. On is that local anti-illegal alien measures try to smooth the way for changes on the federal level. "If you study it, you will see that where the anti-immigration forces are losing, it is they lose in essence because these regulations are deemed unconstitutional." The other is that this local movement is preparing for more federal action, just like the Bush Administration had proposed very early on. But Congress, even if in the hands of the Democrats, cannot pass these because it would take Republican support."
(END OF TRANSLATION)
Very sweet of you.
However, I’m not Thud-worthy. Active, visible conservatives are Thud-worthy. Consider me, please, a timely tap of a snare drum.
Get Some Sleep. See you tomorrow. G-d Bless.
Correct me if wrong but weren't the marches you conducted originally what triggered the explosion of angry American citizens to begin with? I know that was the moment when I really got angry and haven't calmed since.
Theoretically had they never been so in their face in their anti-American marches demanding entitlements they were not promised under the Constitution they probably would have gotten something akin to the Kennedy bill watered down a little but essentially the same.
Really, pro-enforcement advocates have had no greater allies in bringing this forth as a first tier national issue favoring a fence and enforcement. Quite the opposite of what these groups intended.
O’Reilly said the La raza/kennedy/Bush/McCain/kyl bill would pass, you are correct.
Nighters timely-tap-of-a-snare-drum
:)
Good! This proves we were right to battle jorge on this past round. Let’s keep the heat on.
Well, actually, Yes and No. (How do you like THAT for Asian exactness!) :-)
Yes, all of your analysis is 100% airtight, factual and documentable. Good job!
Good Night, Kiwa
Still have a little sun, here. TV time. Praise the Lord that most folks still live back there. But don’t tell anyone, at least unless they want to buy my house.
Clearly, you worked on the formatting, and there was no way in heck Babelfish could have made it so coherent.
Fess Up.
Particularly, the White House has not given up yet, nor have the amnestia demonstrators in the streets. They have mutual goals.
The Bush Admin feels screwed by The Base this summer, (which they were because they screwed The Base first on "regularization/shamnesty/a path to citizenship") and has it in for us. I am sure they will promote and further for example such PR overturues as, the Elvira Arellano Family Separation sob story, or frame a Minuteman down the border, or get small business angry at Patriots and not the Illegals, or do SOMETHING to somehow paint the illegals in a more positive light and try to derail the great momentum in this country that is going against them and their open borders policy.
Nope, they have not surrendered yet, so we must continue to march forward and agressively take as much territory as we can. Local resolutions by City Councils, State Legislators and Supervisors goes a long way, as the Hispanic press shows us. They are deathly afraid of this outbreak.
It is as you say.
Yes, and usually whoever is debating them never says it would be easier to eliminate the conditions that attract illegal aliens. They never mention self deportation from lack of a reason to be here!
“Everyone knows this iilegal cheap labor is a big plus to business”
illegal cheap labor is nothing more than modern day slavery.
Having said that, I have zero sympathy for any illegal alien in our country.
It’s time to bring out the big broom...and if that doesn’t work, turn it around.
“Americans getting shafted by judges will add to the resentment. Like another poster said, “ they woke the sleeping giant.”
I know a Japanese general said that, in a movie anyway,but it is appropriate with your screen name.”
It was said for real, and I think Yamamoto was an Admiral. The movies got that one right.
“I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant, and filled him with a terrible resolve.”
— Yamamoto, after the attack at Pearl Harbor, 1941.
Matthew 27:11
Call me a Roman. It paid well.
I bought a bird feeder. I hung it on my back porch and filled it with seed. Within a week we had hundreds of birds taking advantage of the continuous flow of free and easily accessible food. But then the birds started building nests in the boards of the patio, above the table, and next to the barbecue. Then came the poop. It was everywhere: on the patio tile, the chairs, the table...everywhere. Then some of the birds turned mean: They would dive bomb me and try to peck me even though I had fed them out of my own pocket. And others birds were boisterous and loud: They sat on the feeder and squawked and screamed at all hours of the day and night and demanded that I fill it when it got low on food. After a while, I couldn't even sit on my own back porch anymore. I took down the bird feeder and in three days the birds were gone. I cleaned up their mess and took down the many nests they had built all over the patio. Soon, the back yard was like it used to be...quiet, serene and no one demanding their rights to a free meal.
Now lets see...our government gives out free food, subsidized housing, free medical care, free education and allows anyone born here to be a automatic citizen. Then the illegals came by the tens of thousands. Suddenly our taxes went up to pay for free services; small apartments are housing 5 families: you have to wait 6 hours to be seen by an emergency room doctor: your child's 2nd grade class is behind other schools because over half the class doesn't speak English: Corn Flakes now come in a bilingual box; I have to press "one" to hear my bank talk to me in English, and people waving flags other than "Old Glory" are squawking and screaming in the streets, demanding more rights and free liberties.
Maybe it's time for the government to take down the bird feeder?
A classic, indeed!
BRAVO! Yes, it’s time for us to get the govt to take down the bird feeder! The price we pay for giving so much tax money to the them...But part of that reminded me of the movie the birds.LOL
Only those who want to get re-elected will bother reading this...
you know why?
it’s not just whites, but blacks and mexicans that don’t want illegals.
mexicans i know from indigenous families dating back to the mexican revolution and those who came continuously since are embedded in american life and culture
and these mexicans resent paying for illegals.
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