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Democratic Member of Congress
Member the radical Progressive Caucus
Former member of MECha, which seeks the reconquest of the Western U.S. by Mexico
On April 1, hundreds of American "Minuteman Project" volunteers will deploy a mile north of the U.S.-Mexican border. They will not enforce the immigration laws by apprehending illegal border-crossers, their spokespeople say. They intend to serve as eyes and ears for the Border Patrol, a kind of non-confrontational national "Neighborhood Watch."
The Federal Government has responded to fears of immigration, border-crossing terrorists and "Minuteman" confrontations by announcing this week that 500 more agents are being sent to patrol this border. An Hispanic criminal gang has threatened to "teach a lesson" to "Minuteman" border watchers, a clear threat of violence.
And Democratic Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva this week has sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez asking the government to send more agents -- not to stop people from entering America illegally, nor to protect peaceful American border-watchers from criminal gang violence and concocted confrontation, but to monitor non-violent Americans of the "Minuteman Project."
Whose side is Rep. Grijalva on? Apparently the Mexican side. He has been a Mechista, an activist in an organization ideologically committed to re-conquering for Mexico the American Southwest won in war or purchased by the United States more than a century ago. No mere liberal, Congressman Grijalva is also part of the socialist Progressive Caucus in the House of Representatives. Before accepting his accusations that those volunteers in the "Minuteman Project" are "vigilantes," let us take a close look at who and what Representative Grijalva really represents.
Raul Grijalva is a Democratic Member of Congress who represents the Seventh District of Arizona, which stretches from Hispanic suburbs near Phoenix southeast to the Hispanic suburbs of Tucson, then south to the Mexican border adjacent to Nogales and west 275 miles along this international frontier to the California border at Yuma. This district, whose makeup is nearly 51 percent Latino and more than five percent Native American, was gerrymandered in 2002 to produce Arizona's second Hispanic representative in Congress. In 2000 the region now bounded by this district cast 58 percent of its votes for Al Gore.
Raul Grijalva was born in Tucson in 1948 and has spent his life there. He graduated from the University of Arizona in 1985 and, according to journalist Michelle Malkin, has been an "unapologetic Mechista," i.e., a member of the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, the Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan known as MEChA. Aztlan refers to all lands that have been part of Mexico, including the Western United States from Texas and Colorado to California and Oregon. MEChA members, called Mechistas, support the reconquest of these lands by Mexico. They use the same word Reconquista that Spaniards use to describe the eviction from Spain of the Moors in 1492 after 800 years of Muslim occupation.
"MEChA's symbol is an eagle clutching a dynamite stick and machete-like weapon in its claws," wrote Malkin. "It's motto is 'Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza, nada.' [For the Race, everything. For those outside the Race, nothing.]'"
The area of this congressional district, although nominally part of this mythical "Aztlan" as Mexican territory, was not home to any significant Spanish or Mexican city. It was sweltering desert that the Mexican colonial government largely ignored, so its culture remained mostly Native American prior to the U.S. buying it from Mexico for $10 million in the 1854 Gadsden Purchase.
Grijalva has been director of Tucson's El Pueblo Neighborhood Center and, in 1987, was Assistant Dean for Hispanic Affairs at the University of Arizona. He was elected to the Tucson Unified School Board 1974-1986 and to the County Board of Supervisors 1988-2002.
In the Democratic primary race for this new congressional district, Grijalva's support from organized labor and the Sierra Club bested two other candidates, one of them female state Senator Elaine Richardson backed by the leftwing group EMILY's List who spent $500,000 on ads. (Grijalva countered by telling grassroots voters that he was backed by "Adelita's List," named for his activist daughter.)
Since taking office in January 2003, Congressman Grijalva has joined the radical Progressive Caucus in the House of Representatives. His voting record is too short to give a clear picture of how far left he sits on the political spectrum. He campaigned for office by promising to oppose any "privatization" of Social Security, and by proposing an amnesty program for illegal aliens.
In July 2004 Grijalva joined 11 other Democrats, nearly half of whom were fellow Progressive Caucus members, in signing a letter to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan requesting that U.N. observers be sent to monitor the November 2004 American elections. "We are deeply concerned," this letter said, "that the right of U.S. citizens to vote in free and fair elections is again in jeopardy."
In other words, Grijalva seriously proposed that America's national election should be overseen and judged by the agents of such regimes as dictatorships of North Korea and Syria, the theocracy of Iran (that recently disqualified all its "election" candidates who advocated reform), the People's Republic of China and Communist Cuba.
Grijalva sits on the House Education & the Workforce Committee and the House Resources Committee. His campaign contributions have come mostly from organized labor, which also donated nearly 65 percent of his Political Action Committee (PAC) money. Other big donors include the National Association of Realtors, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA) and the University of Arizona. This may mean that Rep. Grijalva has found a way to coerce Republican as well as Democratic taxpayers to pay for his re-election campaigns through partisan political contributions he is given by the taxpayer-funded University of Arizona.
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Democratic Member of Congress
Member the radical Progressive Caucus
Former member of MECha, which seeks the reconquest of the Western U.S. by Mexico
On April 1, hundreds of American "Minuteman Project" volunteers will deploy a mile north of the U.S.-Mexican border. They will not enforce the immigration laws by apprehending illegal border-crossers, their spokespeople say. They intend to serve as eyes and ears for the Border Patrol, a kind of non-confrontational national "Neighborhood Watch."
The Federal Government has responded to fears of immigration, border-crossing terrorists and "Minuteman" confrontations by announcing this week that 500 more agents are being sent to patrol this border. An Hispanic criminal gang has threatened to "teach a lesson" to "Minuteman" border watchers, a clear threat of violence.
And Democratic Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva this week has sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez asking the government to send more agents -- not to stop people from entering America illegally, nor to protect peaceful American border-watchers from criminal gang violence and concocted confrontation, but to monitor non-violent Americans of the "Minuteman Project."
Whose side is Rep. Grijalva on? Apparently the Mexican side. He has been a Mechista, an activist in an organization ideologically committed to re-conquering for Mexico the American Southwest won in war or purchased by the United States more than a century ago. No mere liberal, Congressman Grijalva is also part of the socialist Progressive Caucus in the House of Representatives. Before accepting his accusations that those volunteers in the "Minuteman Project" are "vigilantes," let us take a close look at who and what Representative Grijalva really represents.
Raul Grijalva is a Democratic Member of Congress who represents the Seventh District of Arizona, which stretches from Hispanic suburbs near Phoenix southeast to the Hispanic suburbs of Tucson, then south to the Mexican border adjacent to Nogales and west 275 miles along this international frontier to the California border at Yuma. This district, whose makeup is nearly 51 percent Latino and more than five percent Native American, was gerrymandered in 2002 to produce Arizona's second Hispanic representative in Congress. In 2000 the region now bounded by this district cast 58 percent of its votes for Al Gore.
Raul Grijalva was born in Tucson in 1948 and has spent his life there. He graduated from the University of Arizona in 1985 and, according to journalist Michelle Malkin, has been an "unapologetic Mechista," i.e., a member of the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, the Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan known as MEChA. Aztlan refers to all lands that have been part of Mexico, including the Western United States from Texas and Colorado to California and Oregon. MEChA members, called Mechistas, support the reconquest of these lands by Mexico. They use the same word Reconquista that Spaniards use to describe the eviction from Spain of the Moors in 1492 after 800 years of Muslim occupation.
"MEChA's symbol is an eagle clutching a dynamite stick and machete-like weapon in its claws," wrote Malkin. "It's motto is 'Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza, nada.' [For the Race, everything. For those outside the Race, nothing.]'"
The area of this congressional district, although nominally part of this mythical "Aztlan" as Mexican territory, was not home to any significant Spanish or Mexican city. It was sweltering desert that the Mexican colonial government largely ignored, so its culture remained mostly Native American prior to the U.S. buying it from Mexico for $10 million in the 1854 Gadsden Purchase.
Grijalva has been director of Tucson's El Pueblo Neighborhood Center and, in 1987, was Assistant Dean for Hispanic Affairs at the University of Arizona. He was elected to the Tucson Unified School Board 1974-1986 and to the County Board of Supervisors 1988-2002.
In the Democratic primary race for this new congressional district, Grijalva's support from organized labor and the Sierra Club bested two other candidates, one of them female state Senator Elaine Richardson backed by the leftwing group EMILY's List who spent $500,000 on ads. (Grijalva countered by telling grassroots voters that he was backed by "Adelita's List," named for his activist daughter.)
Since taking office in January 2003, Congressman Grijalva has joined the radical Progressive Caucus in the House of Representatives. His voting record is too short to give a clear picture of how far left he sits on the political spectrum. He campaigned for office by promising to oppose any "privatization" of Social Security, and by proposing an amnesty program for illegal aliens.
In July 2004 Grijalva joined 11 other Democrats, nearly half of whom were fellow Progressive Caucus members, in signing a letter to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan requesting that U.N. observers be sent to monitor the November 2004 American elections. "We are deeply concerned," this letter said, "that the right of U.S. citizens to vote in free and fair elections is again in jeopardy."
In other words, Grijalva seriously proposed that America's national election should be overseen and judged by the agents of such regimes as dictatorships of North Korea and Syria, the theocracy of Iran (that recently disqualified all its "election" candidates who advocated reform), the People's Republic of China and Communist Cuba.
Grijalva sits on the House Education & the Workforce Committee and the House Resources Committee. His campaign contributions have come mostly from organized labor, which also donated nearly 65 percent of his Political Action Committee (PAC) money. Other big donors include the National Association of Realtors, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA) and the University of Arizona. This may mean that Rep. Grijalva has found a way to coerce Republican as well as Democratic taxpayers to pay for his re-election campaigns through partisan political contributions he is given by the taxpayer-funded University of Arizona.
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