I wouldn't say that all MEChA members can be so classified or would I make Cruz guilty for a 30 year old association. BUT, the fact he won't denounce some of the more radical statements is curious. From my view when one of the stated objectives is to reject assimiliation and when I look around and see the parallel culture that this country is allowing to develop (eg everything from the bank to the classroom to the voting booth in Spanish) I begin to wonder if they are in fact accomplishing something.
The motto of MEChA is Por la Raza todo, fuera de la Raza nada. "For the Race everything, outside the Race nothing." They don't hide it, it's their organizing principle. And they have goals for their "race". It's Mexican reconquest of the territory lost in the Mexican American War.
If people want to excuse MEChA because it's founded upon latino racism and not white racism, then they should say so. But they shouldn't blind themselves to what this organization is all about. It's racial, political, and has a seditious plan for "liberating Aztlan", the "A" in MEChA, which at least for a few more years happens to be the southwestern United States. It may happen that the massive demographic changes due to illegal immigration will effect MEChA's goals, it's surely what has been happening in southern California.
Germans dismissed a small, racist political organization with grand territorial plans some 80 years ago, and that turned out badly. There's no good reason to see if this latest racial separatist movement is going to be even a pale imitation of that disaster. And Californians have been badly served by a political class too craven to deal with the problem.