Thread: La RAZA's Munoz to spout propaganda at Walsh Univ.

Walsh to host speaker on "Latinos: Immigration Reform and Civil Rights"
UPDATE: 12:53 PM, Friday, March 21, 2008


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NORTH CANTON

Walsh University will host Cecilia Muñoz from the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) to speak on the topic of "Latinos: Immigration Reform and Civil Rights" at 7 p.m. April 7 in the Barrette Business & Community Center, on the Walsh University Campus at 2020 E. Maple St.

Muñoz is a nationally recognized politician, lobbyist, civil rights activist and speaker on NCLR legislative and advocacy activities including: immigration policy, civil rights, employment, poverty, farmworker issues, education and health. She was the 2000 recipient of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship Award and the author of several publications. As senior vice president for the Office of Research, Advocacy and Legislation at NCLR, she oversees all legislative activities that cover issues of great importance to Hispanic Americans.

Sponsored by the Catholic Studies Institute and Office of the Chaplain, the event is free and open to the public.

Immigration reform 'to define us'
BY CHARITA M. GOSHAY
REPOSITORY STAFF WRITER

April 8, 2008

NORTH CANTON One the country's chief advocates of Latino civil rights said how the nation chooses to deal with the challenges of immigration reform will define who we are as a nation.

On Monday, Cecilia Munoz, senior vice president for the office of research, advocacy and Legislation for the National Council of La Raza, spoke at Walsh University.

The program is part of an ongoing series of discussions about the issue, sponsored by the university and the Catholic Diocese of Youngstown.

"When we talk about immigration reform and civil rights, (it has) an awakening influence on how we live as a people," said Monsignor Lew Gaetano, campus chaplain and host of the program. "The reform of policies becomes non-negotiable, theologically, ethically and morally for the Catholic community."

"We're a nation of immigrants, and we need to refocus on what it means to be an immigrant," Munoz said. "We need to reconnect to that history."

An umbrella organization for more than 300 grassroots groups, La Raza is the nation's largest civil rights group for Latinos, now the county's largest minority.

Munoz said that Latinos lack the same infrastructure as traditional civil rights groups and face more issues than simply immigration. The vast majority of Latinos in the U.S are either citizens or documented immigrants.

"Latinos are the most likely to be uninsured. Their high school dropout rate is two times that of blacks and three times that of whites," she said. "We're dying to have a conversation about poverty and education, but we can't get traction. It's all about immigration, all the time. The reason we're engaged in the issue is, when the country gets in an ugly mood, it tends to pick on people who look like immigrants."

Munoz said the same people who are welcomed to work here when times are prosperous, bear the brunt when the economy sours, like now. But she noted that the food Americans eat and the hotel rooms they use are harvested and cleaned by mostly Latino work force, and many of those workers are undocumented. She added that it would take about 80 years and billions of dollars to round up the estimated 12 million undocumented Latinos currently living and working in the United States.

Munoz said she is distressed because the debate about immigration has been dominated in recent years by strident anti-immigration voices, some of whom have roots in hate groups, adding that if a person breaks the law, that does not give others license to strip them of due process and subject them to inhumane treatment.

"We have placed a label on a population, and once labeled, anything done to them is OK," she said.

Munoz called for a more streamlined, expanded immigration system so that people who want to come here to work won't have to break the law. That does not mean, however, "open borders," she added.

"Most people who are here illegally didn't decide one day to break the law," Munoz said. "They didn't get in line, because there is no line."

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"Most people who are here illegally didn't decide one day to break the law," Munoz said. "They didn't get in line, because there is no line."


Oh yes there most certainly is A LINE and it takes years to get through the medical, background, financial and criminal checks....Cecilia, and you know this. There are millions of applications of legal immigrants waiting to be processed some for years b/c of backlogs. Anyone at USCIS could testify to that.

Cecilia Munoz should be the clown of the week on Terry Anderson Show.

Originally Posted by legalatina

"Most people who are here illegally didn't decide one day to break the law," Munoz said. "They didn't get in line, because there is no line."


Oh yes there most certainly is A LINE and it takes years to get through the medical, background, financial and criminal checks....Cecilia, and you know this. There are millions of applications of legal immigrants waiting to be processed some for years b/c of backlogs. Anyone at USCIS could testify to that.

You are right on. Cecilia is a racist moron who has no regard for legal immigrants who did the right things and Cecilia should also know there are Mexican immigrations who got in line.

She added that it would take about 80 years and billions of dollars to round up the estimated 12 million undocumented Latinos currently living and working in the United States.

ROFL!!!! Where in the WORLD does she get her figures from??? 80 years?? HAHAHAHAHA oh I almost busted a gut! That's 150,000 per year.

We can do WAY better than that with ATTRITION THROUGH ENFORCEMENT! If there are NO jobs, NO birthright citizenship, NO welfare, NO free education, NO free medicare, NO free ANYTHING, they WILL leave and not come back.

Wait, hold on, she is only talking about protecting the "12 MILLION illegal latinos" in the US. She doesn't care about illegal aliens from other countries, she is promoting only the 12 million illegal aliens that are latinos. Well, well, well...isn't that umm, racist? xenophobic? bigotry?

What a whack job this woman is! LOL

....Excuse me, Cecilia but here is an example of how long applicants have to wait in line before their visa's are processed...notice how in some cases they are just getting to applications that were filed in 2001. La RAZA lies, misinforms and misrepresents the facts. There is a line, Cecilia.

http://www.ilw.com/govttimes/department ... yment.shtm

How many would you let in Cecilia.?...where do you draw the line? How will you feel when there are so many even Hispanics won't find work...what is the number Cecilia....1, 2, 3 billion.....will you be happy after you have destroyed American and turned us into another Mexico?

These traitors make me ill....I don't believe for a second they are that stupid.

We also need to cut the amount of visa's, there are too many Americans out of work!!