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Lupe Moreno is well spoken and should run for office! She came from a
family who dealt in human smuggling and has seen the underbelly of
this travesty first hand.

Lou Dobbs aired 4/2605 CNN

DOBBS: My guest tonight is a Latino-American woman who is among those
leading the fight against illegal immigration into this country. Lupe
Moreno says the fight is against illegal aliens is about people who
are breaking the law to come to this country, not about race. Lupe
Moreno is the co-founder of Latino-Americans for Immigration Reform, a
volunteer for the Minuteman project. She is in Washington, D.C., and
joins us tonight. Good to have you with us.

LUPE MORENO, CO-FOUNDER, LATINO-AMERICANS FOR IMMIGRATION REFORM:
Well, thank you.

DOBBS: OK, let me ask you, first, why is it so -- a cause for you in

particular, that you are taking up the immigration reform issue in the
border security issue?

MORENO: Well, for one thing, I think all these people are breaking our
laws, and nobody seems to care about it. I do. I feel that my family
had something to do with the start of this total destruction, of what
is going on in our nation, and I feel an obligation to try to help to
stop it.

DOBBS: You took part, as well -- you were a volunteer in the Minuteman
project. What was the reaction in the Latino community?

MORENO: Well, it depends on who you talk to. If you talk to American
Latinos that believe in our laws, they thought it was great. A lot of
them wished they could be here with us. If you talk to the radical
Latinos, the ones that side with foreign nations, then they were very
upset.

DOBBS: And you bring up the issue, I'm -- you would not have been in
this position, but I've had certain groups call for a boycott of me
and this broadcast -- Latino, open-borders activist groups, I should
say -- many suggesting if, not all the way to racist, borderline
racist in their judgment. How -- give us...

MORENO: They are breaking -- they are breaking our laws, Lou, and the
only words that they could use, because they can't use any other
words, is that we are racists. Well, we're not racists. We are
standing up for what is right. We are standing up for this nation.
They are standing up for foreign nations.

DOBBS: As you know, in Arizona, proposition 200 received the support
of nearly half of all Hispanic Arizonans who went to the polls. But
these groups want to ignore the fact that Hispanics -- they want to
attach open borders to some sort of racial issue, ignoring the fact
that millions of Hispanics in this country want those borders secured.
They want their families secured, and they want immigration reform to
be rational and the law-breaking to quit.

MORENO: That's right.

DOBBS: Why is there such a blindness amongst some groups to that very
real reality?

MORENO: Lou, I do -- I don't understand them, actually. I love this
nation. This is my country. I was born here, and for people like
Laraza Maldec and Lou Lack (ph), to me these are traitor groups. I
don't know where their heart is. They are very militant, very racist,
because they hate America, they hate Americans, and they go around
beating up poor senior citizens that only try to tell people what has
been going on.

DOBBS: You know, when you say they beat up, and obviously we should --
when you say they beat up poor senior citizens, what do you mean?

MORENO: I have been doing this, fighting illegal immigration, for
almost 12 years. I've been to rallies. I've been to protests. I've
been to places where we tried to get our elected officials' way of
thinking, trying to tell them something is wrong. We have had these
groups come against us. We've had them dress up in complete black,
black-hooded, up to their -- down to their shoes -- and they start
fights. They start fights and they start throwing things at the
seniors. They've practically spit in my face. They called me a racist
more than I can count. But you know what, it gets to the point where
that word doesn't mean anything anymore. They are groups of hatred.

DOBBS: Well, unfortunately there are all sorts of small groups of
hatred in this country. Luckily, they are diminished and minimized to
the point of irrelevancy, at least in my judgment for all...

MORENO: Not in the Hispanic community, Lou. Not in the Hispanic
community. We have real big problems that a lot of the Latino
community does not want to acknowledge, but it's there, and it
frightens me.

DOBBS: Well, we're going to ask to you come back to talk more about
the subject. We're out of time, Lupe Moreno. We thank you for taking
time to be with us here tonight. Come back soon. We wish you all the
best.

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