Posted on 05/26/2010 4:36:57 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Latino groups blast Guard deployment By Jordy Yager - 05/26/10 05:42 PM ET
Two major Latino advocacy groups blasted President Barack Obamas plan to send 1,200 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, saying the National Guardsmen are unprepared to deal with border issues and that the move will overshadow immigration reform.
As we have seen time and time again, efforts to overhaul our broken immigration system have taken a back seat to dramatic escalations of border enforcement including placing troops on the U.S. border to serve in a function for which they have not been trained, said Rosa Rosales, the national president of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), one of the oldest Hispanic civil rights organization in the United States.
Obama announced plans on Tuesday to send 1,200 National Guard troops to the border region to provide surveillance support and counternarcotics enforcement in the U.S.s ongoing attempt to crack down on illegal gun, money, drug and human smuggling operations.
Officials with the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) echoed LULACs disappointment with the White Houses decision, saying the move is inadequate to address the real immigration problems of the region.
We are on a collision course of enforcement-only policies and, as experience shows, this will not solve the problem, said Janet Murguía, the president and CEO of NCLR. The White House must outline a clear plan of action. And Republican leadership must stop playing politics and do its part to solve the problem.
It’s better than a ‘virtual border’!
So does this mean the Pro-Mexico radical groups will follow through on their threat to boycott the upcoming mid term elections and thereby refuse to give the dumbcrats their votes?
They threatened to do that just a few weeks ago unless the dumbcrats give them amnesty. One can only hope!
Rosa, stick it up your nosa.
Ping!
Hmmm...timr to break out the popcorn...
Every time I hear groups like LULAC, LaRaza, NAACP...called "civil rights" organizations, all I think of is how the Tea Party is accused of being racist.
If LULAC hates it it means it’s a good idea and will probably be at least somewhat effective.
Senator Brownback said this morning in an interview that the guard troops would be put at desks to free up others to do enforcement.
Okay, they’ve blasted the Guard. Is it the Guard’s turn now?
This is INSANE. You call up Guardsmen to answer the phone and run the copy machine. Will the press ask the haloed one about this deployment of resources today? At least when Wilson called out the Guard to the border in 1915-17 they were expected to shoot.
League of United Latin Un-American Citizens (LULUAC)!
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