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Consistent with this accepting attitude toward illegal immigration, LULAC no longer deems U.S. citizenship to be of any importance; no longer are citizenship and legal residence prerequisites for LULAC elected or appointed positions. LULAC also opposes any measures taken to make English America's official language. For instance, in response to the 1996 U.S. House of Representatives' passage of the "English Language Empowerment Act," LULAC responded, "English-only is incredibly divisive because it sends the message that the culture of language minorities is inferior and illegal. With a dramatic increase in hate crimes and right wing terrorist attacks in the United States, the last thing we need is a frivolous bill to fuel the fires of racism."

Mexican-American organization that favors racial preferences
Supports the legalization of illegal Hispanic immigrants
Opposes military surveillance of U.S. borders
Opposes making English America's official language

The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) has created, for the public to sign, an online petition calling not only for expanded rights and amnesty for illegal aliens, but also for the removal of future restrictions on immigration into the United States. The petition calls on Senators to support a comprehensive immigration reform that:

1) "Keeps families together and treats immigrants with respect. The vast majority of immigrants . . . work hard and they pay taxes. Long waiting periods for U.S. citizens and legal residents to reunite with their family members contributes to the phenomenon of undocumented immigration."

2) "Rejects proposals that criminalize [illegal] immigrants and their families, and the people and organizations that come in contact with them. … Since the 9/11 terrorists, efforts have been focused on terrorizing good people simply because they are foreigners."

3) "Provides a reasonable, realistic and legal path to earned permanent residence and citizenship for those [illegals] already within the United States."

4) "Creates an effective entry avenue for future immigrants with labor protections that are fully enforceable."

Established in 1929, LULAC is one of our nation's oldest Mexican-American associations. It began as a patriotic, pro-American, pro-citizenship group and remained that way until the late 1950s. During its first three decades, LULAC encouraged Hispanic assimilation to the "Anglo" culture, the acceptance of English as our country's primary language, and the deportation of illegal Mexican immigrants. It rejected the idea that the American Southwest should be returned to Mexico, and discouraged the establishment of Spanish-language enclaves.

But the radical politics of the 1960s changed all this, and LULAC has moved ever further to the left of the political spectrum during the past forty years. Today LULAC seeks to expand affirmative action programs, as well as the legal rights of the millions of Hispanic immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally. José Velez, who headed LULAC from 1990 to 1994, has said that the U.S. Border Patrol is "the enemy of my people and always will be." LULAC opposes policies that would have the military protect America's borders because "military personnel are not trained for border patrolling and might easily violate the civil rights of those they intervene with." Several years ago Mr. Valez himself submitted false papers for more than 6,000 illegals seeking amnesty, an action that resulted in Valez's conviction for 10 counts of immigration fraud.

Consistent with this accepting attitude toward illegal immigration, LULAC no longer deems U.S. citizenship to be of any importance; no longer are citizenship and legal residence prerequisites for LULAC elected or appointed positions. LULAC also opposes any measures taken to make English America's official language. For instance, in response to the 1996 U.S. House of Representatives' passage of the "English Language Empowerment Act," LULAC responded, "English-only is incredibly divisive because it sends the message that the culture of language minorities is inferior and illegal. With a dramatic increase in hate crimes and right wing terrorist attacks in the United States, the last thing we need is a frivolous bill to fuel the fires of racism."

On October 27, 1997, LULAC and Rainbow/PUSH joined forces to organize a "civil rights" march across San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. The stated purpose of the march was "to protest attempts to discriminate against immigrants and dismantle affirmative action." LULAC president Belen Robles, called the march "a defining moment for the Latino Community. . . . We march to protect the civil rights gains that we have fought so hard to achieve. Particularly in California, where Proposition 209 [which banned racial preferences in California's public sector] has caused such a dramatic drop in minority enrollment rates at institutions of higher education, and [where] proposition 187 [which was designed to cut illegal aliens off from taxpayer-funded programs and other benefits] has singled immigrants out for punishment, we need to stand up for our rights and let the forces of discrimination know that we will not let America go back into a system of institutionalized racism." Other participants in this march included members of a host of leftwing organizations such as the United Farm Workers, the NAACP, and the National Organization for Women.

At the aforementioned march, Rev. Jesse Jackson invoked the name of Martin Luther King, Jr., and then twisted King's words and used them to justify the very antithesis of the slain civil rights leader's color-blind ideal. "He dreamed," Jackson said of King, ". . . that the walls of legal structure that separated races would be replaced by a bridge and that under one big tent we could be judged by the content of our character and not by the color of our skin. The dream is not to be color blind nor gender blind, but to be color and gender sensitive and caring and inclusive. . . . We choose vision over blindness. We do not need to pray for cataracts over our eyes [but] for clarity."

LULAC was a signatory to a March 17, 2003 letter exhorting members of the U.S. Congress "to oppose the Domestic Security Enhancement Act (DSEA), also known as 'Patriot [Act] II,'" which was then under consideration. These signatories stated that the new legislation "fail[ed] to respect our time-honored liberties," and "contain[ed] a multitude of new and sweeping law enforcement and intelligence gathering powers . . . that would severely dilute, if not undermine, many basic constitutional rights." In addition, LULAC has given its organizational endorsement to the Community Resolution to Protect Civil Liberties campaign, a project of the California-based Coalition for Civil Liberties (CCL). The CLL tries to influence city councils to pass resolutions creating Civil Liberties Safe Zones; that is, to be non-compliant with the provisions of the Patriot Act.

LULAC receives large amounts of funding from immensely wealthy foundations. From 1990 through 1995, for instance, the Ford Foundation gave grants to LULAC totaling $1.36 million. A multi-billion dollar entity with nearly limitless discretionary income at its disposal, the Ford Foundation has given even greater sums than this to other open borders groups such as the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF), the National Council of La Raza, and the National Immigration Forum. LULAC receives considerable funding from major corporations like Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Chemical Bank, Chevron, Chrysler, General Motors, Ford Motor, General Electric, Lockheed, Rockwell, Southwestern Bell and Quaker Oats. LULAC has also received funding from: the Verizon Foundation; the AT&T Foundation; and the Open Society Institute.


Yet Horhay Bush continues to call these people our friends even though it is NOT citizenship they want...

Open Society Institute

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The Open Society Institute (OSI), a private operating and grantmaking foundation, aims to shape public policy to promote democratic governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform. On a local level, OSI implements a range of initiatives to support the rule of law, education, public health, and independent media. At the same time, OSI works to build alliances across borders and continents on issues such as combating corruption and rights abuses.

OSI was created in 1993 by investor and philanthropist George Soros to support his foundations in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Those foundations were established, starting in 1984, to help countries make the transition from communism. OSI has expanded the activities of the Soros foundations network to other areas of the world where the transition to democracy is of particular concern. The Soros foundations network encompasses more than 60 countries, including the United States.