Illegal-alien 'solidarity caravan' led by professional radicals
Seeking to end deportations, detentions, 'militarization' of U.S. border
Published: 1 day ago
Aaron Klein
World Net Daily
A “Solidarity Caravan” traveling the country to protest what its leaders claim is the militarization of the U.S. border is led by far-left professional agitators and union organizers.
Workers World, the official newspaper of the Workers World Party, a Marxist-Leninist organization in the United States, has been documenting the movements of the “National Caravan in Solidarity with the Children and Families on the Mexico and Texas Borders.”
Launched Oct. 10 in New York City, the purportedly grassroots school-bus caravan has made stops in Philadelphia; Washington, D.C.; Durham, North Carolina.; Atlanta; Jackson, Mississippi; and several Texas cities, including Houston, San Antonio, Laredo and Brownsville.
The self-described “caravanistas” met in each city with “immigrant rights, civil rights, faith-based, community and social justice activists” to draw attention to the “militarization at the U.S./Mexican border,” reported Workers World.
The caravan aims to “redefine the upsurge of Mexican and Central American migrants – tens of thousands of children and families detained at the border – from a border crisis to a major refugee crisis,” the communist newspaper continued.
Despite the tens of thousands of illegal alien minors streaming across the border and being granted entry into the U.S., the “caravanistas” are complaining about what they see as “federal and state governments’ abusive and inhumane measures against migrants, including deportations and detentions.”
The Solidarity Caravan ended its cross-country trip Monday in McAllen, Texas.
Like so many other instances of purported grassroots activism, the caravan leaders are actually far-left professional organizers.
The two caravan coordinators are Bill Chandler, executive director of the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance, and Teresa Gutierrez, a member of the Marxist-Leninist Workers World Party.
Gutierrez, a member of numerous pro-illegal alien groups, has her own activist experience with agitating law enforcement.
In 2007, she was a leader in a “Pastors for Peace” caravan, which wanted to cross into Mexico to ultimately challenge what it described as the “immoral” U.S. blockade of Cuba. That caravan was stopped by border agents and police.
Meanwhile, according to a press release from the new Caravan Solidarity coordinators, the cross-country journey also aimed at raising money for the South Texas Human Rights Center.
The center’s founder is Eddie Canales, who is also a director of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, or NNIRR.
The NNIRR draws no distinction between legal and illegal immigrants and calls on the U.S. government to “affirm the right of workers to cross international borders” and “demilitarize the U.S.-Mexico border to end law enforcement and human rights abuses.”
Canales works for the SEIU union’s Justice for Janitors campaign in Denver, which many in the progressive movement view as the precursor to the Occupy movement. He was also an organizer of the third party movement, La Raza Unida, in Texas in the 1970s.
The Solidarity Caravan is just the latest example of an apparently grassroots pro-illegal alien movement actually being led by leftist professional activists.
WND reported last year billionaire George Soros is a primary donor to the so-called immigrant-rights organization that has been blocking buses and carrying out other civil disobedience to prevent the deportation of illegal aliens.
WND documented the bus-blocking movement was led by numerous radical Soros-funded activist groups.
http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/pro-illeg...onal-radicals/
