Only a partisan hack like Art Torres, chairman of the state Democratic Party, sees Bustamante's membership in MEChA, when he was a student at California State University Fresno in the 1970s, as a badge of honor. Republican Tom McClintock is quoted in an interview with the conservative weekly Human Events: "I believe that Cruz Bustamante has a great deal of explaining to do, if he still supports the aims of that organization." At a recent Sacramento news conference, Bustamante sidestepped the MEChA issue. Asked whether he would repudiate MEChA, Bustamante said: "The students that are in MEChA today are just like the students when I was there. Pretty much, they are trying to get an education." That sounds like a direct response to Michelle Malkin's charge, in a column published Monday in the Philadelphia Daily News that called MEChA "one of the nation's most virulently racist organizations."
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Have they been caught off guard, or are they merely looking the other way, hoping the problem goes away? In either case, their refusal to address the situation and will of the people is a slap in the face to all legal immigrants and law-abiding tax-paying citizens.
Bush has got to toughen up on controlling our borders.
Bush has got to toughen up on controlling our borders.