Posted on 06/18/2011 4:59:42 AM PDT by Free in Texas
During committee testimony this week in Austin, a Texas senator interrupted a Spanish speaker telling him he should "be speaking in English" during a committee hearing. Antolin Aguirre of the Austin Immigrant Rights Coalition was testifying against Senate Bill 9 that would help crack down on illegal immigrants in Texas. Aguirre spoke through an interpreter even though he had been in the U.S. since 1988. Two minutes into Antolin Aguirres testimony, Sen. Chris Harris, a Republican from Arlington, interrupted asking Aguirres interrupter, "Did I understand him correctly that he has been here since 1988?" Harris asked. "Why arent you speaking in English then?"
Through his interpreter, Aguirre said Spanish is his "first language and since it is his first time giving testimony he would rather do it in Spanish." "It is insulting to us," Sen. Harris fired back. "It is very insulting. And if he knows English, he needs to be speaking in English."
The fiery exchange happened on Monday during a Senate Transportation and Homeland Security Committee hearing. Law makers were hearing testimony on the purposed Senate Bill 9 The so-called sanctuary cities bill. The bill would allow local law enforcement officials to check a suspects immigration status. Supporters of Senate Bill 9 have said it would help crack down on illegal immigrants. Opponents argue that it will do little to help border security and that its instead based on racism. Despite the blow-up The Texas Senate passed the bill Wednesday. It now goes to the House with a vote expected in the next few days.
(Excerpt) Read more at ktrh.com ...
Classic.
Easily solved by passing a law that all committee meetings, work, etc., be done in English.
Aguirre needs his illegal status investigated and shipped back where he can speak Spanish 24/7.
Now if we had a governeor with same balls, maybe something would get something done about it.
On another thread, there are some speaking of Perry running for POTUS. Well, I can for a fact state that the illegal issue is maybe twice as bad as it was 10 years ago when he took office. These illegals are getting brazen, and have lost fear of authority and "legal" citizentry
Thanks for the link. I just sent appreciate email, though I am not in his district. Every Texas Freeper should take a few minutes to show their appreciation to this patriot.
Let’s hope his words will put some starch in the spine of others.
Stand firm.
And they're doing it with our tax dollars. Read on.
NCLR Funding Skyrockets After Obama Hires Its VP (La Raza)
Judicial Watch ^ | June 17, 2011
FR Posted on Friday, June 17, 2011 4:32:44 PM by jazusamo
A Judicial Watch investigation reveals that federal funding for a Mexican La Raza group that for years has raked in millions of taxpayer dollars has skyrocketed since one of its top officials got a job in the Obama White House. The influential and politically-connected National Council of La Raza (NCLR) has long benefitted from Uncle Sams largess but the group has made a killing since Obama hired its senior vice president (Cecilia Muñoz) in 2009 to be his director of intergovernmental affairs.
Ignored by the mainstream media, Judicial Watch covered the appointment because the president issued a special ethics waiver to bring Muñoz aboard since it violated his own lobbyist ban. At the pro illegal immigration NCLR, Muñoz supervised all legislative and advocacy activities on the state and local levels and she was heavily involved in the congressional immigration battles that took place in the George W. Bush Administration.
She also brought in a steady flow of government cash thats allowed the Washington D.C.-based group to expand nationwide and promote its leftist, open-borders agenda via a network of community organizations dedicated to serving Latinos.Among them are a variety of local groups that provide social services, housing counseling and farm worker assistance as well as publicly-funded charter schools that promote radical Chicano curriculums. Judicial Watch published a special report on this a few years ago.
This week a JW probe has uncovered details of the alarming increase in federal funding that these NCLR groups have received since Muñoz joined the Obama Administration.
In fact, the government cash more than doubled the year Muñoz joined the White House, from $4.1 million to $11 million. Not surprisingly, a big chunk of the money (60%) came from the Department of Labor, which is headed by a former California congresswoman (Hilda Solis) with close ties to the La Raza movement. Since Obama named her Labor Secretary, Solis has launched a nationwide campaign to protect illegal immigrant workers in the U.S.
Just this week Solis penned declarations with Guatemala and Nicaragua to preserve the rights of their migrants. The NCLR also received additional taxpayer dollars from other federal agencies in 2010, the JW probe found. The Department of Housing and Urban Development doled out $2.5 million for housing counseling, the Department of Education contributed nearly $800,000 and the Centers for Disease Control a quarter of a million. Additionally, NCLR affiliates nationwide raked in tens of millions of government grant and recovery dollars last year thanks to the Muñoz factor. An offshoot called Chicanos Por La Causa (CPLC) saw its federal funding nearly double to $18.3 million following Muñoz appointment.
A social service and legal assistance organization (Ayuda Inc.) that didnt receive any federal funding between 2005 and 2008 got $600,000 in 2009 and $548,000 in 2010 from the Department of Justice. The group provides immigration law services and guarantees confidentiality to assure illegal aliens that they wont be reported to authorities.
Cecilia Munoz
Wasn’t there a rock band called SEOD - Speak English Or Die - back in the ‘80s?
But this guy was just being a defiant jackass. He is totally fluent in English. Lets send his spanish arse home.
It was a song by a thrash outfit that went by the name of The Storm Troopers Of Death. I’m not a thrash fan but here ‘ya go.
The vid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyJoVpL-Cl4
The lyrics.
http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/sod/speakenglishordie.html#4
Wow! Thanks!
I kind of like the lyrics to #16 F*** the Mid-East.
I would have printed them but it would take too much
editing.
I don’t get this or understand this.
You come to Texas because it is a land of opportunity. You’ve stayed that long.
Why do you not take pride in being a Texan?
“Thanks, I didnt know that. But they dont call Austin Moscow on the Trinity for no reason at all.”
A-men.
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