Illegals' March of Hate

George Putnam
Thursday, May 3, 2007



It is this reporter's opinion that all across America we have witnessed another "march of hate."

March participants included illegal immigrant mothers, pushing children in strollers — children who received citizenship under Amendment 14.

The mothers tell America that these children are American citizens, using the child to remain in the United States, crying out to our decency that we would not separate their family.

Who are these people who come to our nation, are afforded every advantage, then spit on us?

I have met a few of them. One I would like to discuss. His name is Armando Navarro, long-time activist for Latino rights.

His activities date back to the Chicano-rights movement in the late 1960s.

He does not confine himself to our political activities. He recently went to Mexico to support the leftist candidate López Obrador who was rejected in the narrow electoral loss to Felipe Calderón.

But going to Mexico is typical for Navarro. He has led groups to face down border militias in Arizona.

Navarro has visited guerrillas in Central America and met with Fidel Castro in Cuba.

He has generated headlines back home in Riverside and San Bernadino counties.

There have been news clips showing his protests of various organizations including armed border vigilantes and the Catholic Church.

There have even been news clips of his protests at the university that employs him — the University of California, Riverside where he works as a professor of ethnic studies.

Navarro never fails to speak and when he does it is with shouts of hate of America and what we have done to "his people."



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Navarro considers himself more an organizer and strategist than a leader. But he says strong leaders also are essential.

And he points with pride to Pancho Villa, Emiliano Zapata, and his more recent hero, the defeated Obrador.

Navarro never ceases to demand Mexican rights. He wants every person of Mexican descent in the United States (whether native born, legal immigrant, or illegal) to demand equal rights and to be granted a legal right to live on land he considers Mexican territory.

He speaks of the historical rights of the Mexican people.

Navarro points to the fact that no other group can claim the Southwest as their land — not the Hungarians, the Irish, not anyone else can make that claim.

He compares the Mexicans as a colonized, oppressed, stateless people, similar to the Palestinians.

If they cannot achieve economic and social equality under the current system, he says they must seize control, must carve out a separate nation called "Aztlán."

All these thoughts, these words, these actions by a kid who grew up in Rancho Cucamonga.

Navarro wanted to be a priest. He started off as an altar boy.

He wanted to be a musician and later in 1960, he joined the Army Reserve.

Then Navarro opposed the war in Vietnam and became active in the Chicago movement, cut his teeth on the La Raza Unita, and organized school walkouts.

That's when he became a self made trouble maker.

Why speak when you can shout?

That's the way to get their attention. And he's been marching and shouting ever since.

Mind you, all this at our own government expense.

Amazingly he does something else to exhort the crowd when it is time for his fiery rhetoric. He does something unusual.

He borrows a musician's trumpet and plays "La Marcha Zacatecas," a patriotic battle song. And that arouses the crowd.

Navarro is always ready for confrontation as he was in the recent Los Angeles march.


Says this firebrand, "I tell people, ‘You have two choices: I can extend the hand of friendship, or the fist of an adversary. Which do you want?'"

His latest move was obtaining duel citizenship. He uses this dual citizenship to take advantages of the freedom of speech afforded by the United States to offset the many constraints citizens live under in Mexico.

These are the people and their loyalty. Are they American, Mexican, or something else?


Mr. Navarro, with all your advantages, we have a right to know!



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