Posturing for La Raza.ITEM: The Cox News Service reported in the Houston Chronicle for July 19: "Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean Howard Brush Dean III (born November 17, 1948) is an American politician and physician from the U.S. state of Vermont, and currently the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, the central organ of the Democratic Party at the national level. predicted Tuesday that the Republican Party will make immigrants scapegoats in the 2006 election. In a speech to an influential Hispanic organization, Dean said that Republican-sponsored immigration immigration, entrance of a person (an alien) into a new country for the purpose of establishing permanent residence. Motives for immigration, like those for migration generally, are often economic, although religious or political factors may be very important. legislation and escalating rhetoric on the issue are part of the latest GOP effort to use fear as a political tactic." Republicans, continued the article, "tried to scare people by talking about 'race quotas' instead of affirmative action affirmative action, in the United States, programs to overcome the effects of past societal discrimination by allocating jobs and resources to members of specific groups, such as minorities and women. in 2002 and putting ballot initiatives to ban gay marriage in several states in 2004, [Dean] said. 'In 2006, it's going to be immigrants, you wait and see,' he told the National Council of La Raza The National Council of La Raza (NCLR) is the largest Hispanic advocacy organization in the United States. The NCLR was founded in 1968 as a nonpartisan nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing discrimination and poverty and to improving the lives and economic opportunities of , a Hispanic civil rights organization, at its annual convention." CORRECTION: Addressing the immigration invasion is not fear mongering This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since September 2007. ; it is common sense. Moreover, though a few notable Republican politicians have shown some common sense concerning rampant illegal immigration "Illegal alien" and "Illegal aliens" redirect here. For other uses, see Illegal aliens (disambiguation). Illegal immigration refers to immigration across national borders in a way that violates the immigration laws of the destination country. , the policies of the GOP establishment are no less loony than those pushed during the Clinton administration. Last May, for instance, Republican Senator John McCain joined Democrat Senator Ted Kennedy in introducing legislation that--like President Bush's proposal of a year earlier--would grant amnesty to illegal aliens. GOP Chairman Ken Mehlman tried to convince the same La Raza conference that welcomed Howard Dean that the Republican Party was not "anti-Hispanic" by pointing to the number of Latinos named to prominent positions, in a display of fear mongering of a different sort. "This is the most diverse Administration in history," boasted Mehlman at the Philadelphia gathering of the National Council of La Raza. La Raza is a "civil rights organization" according to the Cox News Service story quoted above. But could you imagine Cox applying this same description to an Anglo-Saxon group with obvious racist motives? Let's say the group had a motto declaring: "For the Race, Everything; Outside the Race, Nothing." Well, that is the La Raza motto: "Por La Raza Todo, Fuera de La Raza Nada." Instead of describing La Raza as a "civil rights organization," Cox should be asking why Howard Dean and Ken Mehlman would dignify dig·ni·fy tr.v. dig·ni·fied, dig·ni·fy·ing, dig·ni·fies 1. To confer dignity or honor on; give distinction to: dignified him with a title. 2. La Raza by addressing its annual convention. |
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