Thread: Illegal journalist Vargas organizing "Define American" Campus Discussions

This amounts to lobbying on behalf of foreign interests. Under federal law it is to be registered lobbying conducted only by recognized lobbyists. Time after time illegal aliens organize vast grass roots efforts to influence US officials, on the premise that they are now residents in the US. However, the concept of "legal address" has been around as long as I can remember and is based upon the premise that the person has legal right to be here. When I was a child my legal address was my parents' address, who were lawfully born in the US to lawfully admitted immigrants or native born citizens. Then I rented and had legal address at those locations. Then I owned and have always known that that was my legal address.

So one who is not lawfully admitted has no legal address and therefore cannot be a legal resident. Since they have no legal address they are "foreign principals" not allowed to address, petition, convince or lobby the US government, except through special agents who are recognized by the Department of Justice. Anything to the contrary is technically considered espionage, and enforcement of this provision, scant as it is, is by the Counter Espionage section.

This is why I keep saying that these activities of sit ins, teach ins, and demonstrations need to be addressed as a national security concern.

Here is the Foreign Agents Registration Act applicable language:


https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/219
(a) Whoever, being a public official, is or acts as an agent of a foreign principal required to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 or a lobbyist required to register under the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 in connection with the representation of a foreign entity, as defined in section 3(6) of that Act shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than two years, or both.


https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/22/611
As used in and for the purposes of this subchapter—

(a) The term “person” includes an individual, partnership, association, corporation, organization, or any other combination of individuals;

(b) The term “foreign principal” includes— (1) a government of a foreign country and a foreign political party;
(2) a person outside of the United States, unless it is established that such person is an individual and a citizen of and domiciled within the United States, or that such person is not an individual and is organized under or created by the laws of the United States or of any State or other place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States and has its principal place of business within the United States; and
(3) a partnership, association, corporation, organization, or other combination of persons organized under the laws of or having its principal place of business in a foreign country.


(c) Expect ^[1] as provided in subsection (d) of this section, the term “agent of a foreign principal” means— (1) any person who acts as an agent, representative, employee, or servant, or any person who acts in any other capacity at the order, request, or under the direction or control, of a foreign principal or of a person any of whose activities are directly or indirectly supervised, directed, controlled, financed, or subsidized in whole or in major part by a foreign principal, and who directly or through any other person— (i) engages within the United States in political activities for or in the interests of such foreign principal;

(ii) acts within the United States as a public relations counsel, publicity agent, information-service employee or political consultant for or in the interests of such foreign principal;

(iii) within the United States solicits, collects, disburses, or dispenses contributions, loans, money, or other things of value for or in the interest of such foreign principal; or
(iv) within the United States represents the interests of such foreign principal before any agency or official of the Government of the United States; and

(2) any person who agrees, consents, assumes or purports to act as, or who is or holds himself out to be, whether or not pursuant to contractual relationship, an agent of a foreign principal as defined in clause (1) of this subsection.



(o) The term “political activities” means any activity that the person engaging in believes will, or that the person intends to, in any way influence any agency or official of the Government of the United States or any section of the public within the United States with reference to formulating, adopting, or changing the domestic or foreign policies of the United States or with reference to the political or public interests, policies, or relations of a government of a foreign country or a foreign political party;


http://mashable.com/2015/10/15/defin.../#69JIz_PorEqr

Young people aren't talking enough about immigration. This will change that.

It all started with a seemingly untouchable conversation.
In April 2014, students at Texas Tech University gathered for a screening of Documented, a documentary by immigrant rights activist Jose Antonio Vargas. At the end of the screening, Vargas invited the students — some of whom were members of the campus conservative student group, at his request — to talk with him about what it means to be undocumented.
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The conversation, slated to last a little over an hour, quickly snowballed into an in-depth dialogue about what it means to be American. Fast-forward four hours later, and still no one wanted to leave the discussion.
For Vargas, founder of Define American, a media and culture organization using stories and conversation to help shift current views of immigration, it clicked.
“I thought, 'This is the seed for what a Define American Chapter could look like,'” Vargas tells Mashable.

As a result, Define American announced on Thursday the official launch of its College Chapters Program, a nationwide initiative designed to bring honest and comprehensive conversation around immigration, citizenship and identity to college campuses.

The core of the program relies on reaching out to students of various backgrounds and stances when it comes to the topic of immigration, meeting them where they are at through respectful, open conversations.
“Intersectionality is not just a concept. People are living through it. I see Define American Chapters as operating through that lens,” Vargas says.


The chapters will operate by focusing on three pillars: raising awareness through events like movie screenings and workshops, changing dialogue through sharing stories, and using civil discourse to change culture with the goal of supporting undocumented people every day.
Registered chapters will have the guidance of the official Define American team, with a campus engagement manager working as a liaison between the organization and registered groups. The liaison will help get groups officially recognized on campus, aiding students as they navigate potential administrative resistance or campus climate issues.
The first chapter of the program is already in place, with the initiative finding roots in where it all began — Texas Tech University. The university’s chapter, which is officially recognized by Define American and is applying for registered student organization status at the university level, was spearheaded by Saba Nafees, a Ph.D. student in mathematical biology at Texas Tech.
Nafees, who is undocumented, says the group has been vital in helping other undocumented students at Texas Tech finally get the support and attention they deserve. But undocumented students aren’t the only ones with something to gain from the chapter’s existence.

“We want this to be a community,” Nafees tells Mashable of the chapter.

“We don’t want this to be labeled as, ‘Oh, that’s the undocumented student group.’ This group belongs to everyone.”

“We don’t want this to be labeled as, ‘Oh, that’s the undocumented student group.’ This group belongs to everyone.” The inaugural chapter, which currently has between 20 and 25 committed members, has seen sizable success in the past year alone. Along with coordinating campus-wide campaigns and hosting film screenings, the group has also taken action to enhance the lives of undocumented students on campus. In particular, the group has helped undocumented students navigate studying abroad — an opportunity often extremely risky for students without “papers.”
But what’s really changing the culture at Texas Tech are the conversations.
“Yes, we are trying to change policy. Yes, we are trying to change legal status,” Dr. Aliza Wong, a faculty adviser for Texas Tech’s Define American chapter, tells Mashable.
“But the most important thing is getting people to the table to actually talk about it. "Once you put a face to a number, once you put a story to a statistic, you begin to humanize the problem. We have to understand how human the problem is."

The goal of these campus chapters is to reframe how young people engage in conversations around immigration, while also challenging students who believe they have no stake in the conversation to examine and confront their own historical experiences with immigration. After all, Vargas says, the majority of Americans have immigration history — many of us just don't think about it.
“I would argue that immigration is the most controversial yet least understood issue in America,” Vargas says.
That lack of understanding stems from the main issue Define American looks to solve. We simply don’t talk deeply, openly, honestly and meaningfully about immigration. Breaking the silence, according to Vargas, is the key to change.

“You cannot change the politics of immigration until you change the culture in which people talk about immigrants,” Vargas says. Vargas, who calls college campuses “ground zero” for promoting this critical conversation, hopes chapters will get youth engaged and invested. After all, he says, activist-oriented youth are often at the forefront of any major social movement — from Black Lives Matter to the LGBTQ rights movement.
For Vargas, the lesson through this campus-wide dialogue is simply put: “Silence is unacceptable, ignorance is dangerous and indifference is not an option.”

Define American chapters are also underway at Harvard University and the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. University students looking to create a chapter can register their organization for recognition through Define American’s website.

Look at arrogance of this thing. He is the human equivalent of the stuff flush toilets were invented to dispose of. Look at the arrogance here. This ---thing openly violates our laws with impunity, brags about it, agitates citizens to influence the government and all the while is a foreigner, a squatter who should not even be here. Try ignoring the minor law that makes you stop at a red light, try ignoring the cop who wants you to stop and see what happens to you. This double standard clearly demonstrates how our own government has decided to give de facto amnesty to illegal aliens by not instantly deporting every damn last one of them. And this is why they must all absolutely be forced or to leave. Hear that Ben Carson lovers?

I think patriots should make it an issue to make an example of this punk and demand the government deport him now!

Captainron has made a very good point about a foreigner trying to influence American politics. Although, I think it would take a lawyer to determine the merits of his point.

Crap like this is the reason why good law abiding, hardworking, honest people explode into violent, bloody revolution. There comes a point when the abuse of government power and governments indifferent to the will of the people becomes more than they can endure. This is why bloody revolutions happen. This is why the arrogant powerful elites, the ruling class who fancy themselves invulnerable, end up under a guillotine or hulled in front of a revolutionary firing squad. I pray to God there is no violence. But this is why it happens. Beware you arrogant modern aristocracy, you mega rich Marxists, the people are almost out of patience with your crap. Beware you are playing with dynamite.

Of course I am not advocating violence; I am trying to sound the alarm about danger.

American is a US citizen who was born here, born to US citizens, or because a citizen through legal channels to arrive and stay here. Everyone else is an Alien or an Illegal Alien, meaning not of here, not from here, and a foreigner here either legally (Alien) or illegally Illegal Alien).