Mr. Tancredo had something to say about Hernandez at http://www.pipelinenews.org/bbs/viewpost.cfm?particleid=732 :
And heres Tom Tancredo recounting how Hernandez told him that Mexico and the U.S. are not two separate countries, but just a region:
TANCREDO: I had a great argument one time with a gentleman by the name of Juan Hernandez who was at that time the minister of that ministry that I just mentioned, the Ministry for Mexicans Living in the United States.
And I asked him that very question. What he told me the purpose of his ministry was to push people into the United States, it was toby the way, it was also AFC work with them so that they didhe was with the community, he said. He was three days a week in the United States, four in Mexico.
By the way, he himself is a dual citizen born in Texas, universityteaching at the University of Texas and on the Vicente Fox cabinet. And he said, I work with the community in the United States, the Mexican community because I dont want them essentially going native on us. We want them continually tied emotionally, linguistically, politically to Mexico, because then theyll continue to send money home.
And I said to him, that does not sound likeyou know, youre doing something thats actually the act of an unfriendly government.
CARLSON: Well, of course, it doesnt in any way serve American interests. It undermines our country in a pretty direct and direct and obvious way.
TANCREDO: Tucker, his response. Let me tell you his response.
CARLSON: Yes.
TANCREDO: At the end he goes, Congressman, in an incredibly condescending way. He goes, Congressman, its not two countries; its just a region.
CARLSON: That is not my view, to put it mildly.
TANCREDO: Not mine either. Now, incredibly, Juan Hernandez is GOP presidential candidate John McCains Hispanic Outreach Director. He is, as my Nevada reader wrote, a sovereignty-undermining extremist who whose views and interests are so clearly anti-security and not in the interest of the American people or for that matter us legal Hispanic immigrants.
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