Bill Status
Name: H.R. 1999
This bill is in the first step of the legislative process. It has been referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
United States Representative Ruben Hinojosa from Texas has introduced a bill that will fund the pro-illegal immigration group: The National Council of La Raza (NCLR). This bill, the Hope Fund Act of 2007 (H.R. 1999) would appropriate $5 million to NCLR in 2008 and $10 million each year thereafter.
The Hope Fund Act is a grant to be used by NCLR for economic development projects and to 鈥渃onduct such other activities as may be determined by the Secretary and the National Council of La Raza.鈥?This final item is an open door for NCLR to utilize the funds beyond the specific outlines of the bill. This bill gives your hard-earned tax payer dollars to an activist group who promotes crimes such as illegal immigration and utterly disregards the rule of law.
More here: http://www.firesociety.com/article/18711
What will you do about it? Brenda: Please enlighten me? That was copied and pasted from the website link I provided.
Do you disagree that LaRaza is undermining laws? If so, please explain. It's more along the lines of the double standards that exist in this country. La Raza is clearly a racist organization, if you read their literature. You wouldn't see congress approving funding for a neo-nazi club or the KKK.
WHAT IS RAZA
"La Raza" (The Race) is a broad term which refers to those whose ancestry is indigenous to the area of Mexico (or "Aztlan"). MEChA members refer to themselves as "La Raza" or "Raza," but the term itself is used to indicate camaraderie among those in different organizations with the same objectives. There are a number of organizations who consider themselves to be La Raza.
The most visible of these groups are MEChA, The Brown Berets de Aztlan, OLA (Organization for the Liberation of Aztlan), La Raza Unida Party, and the "Nation of Aztlan" to name a few. Although the activism of these organizations vary from somewhat radical to extremely radical, they share the same objectives, the "liberation of Aztlan." Each follows the Raza manifesto "El Plan de Aztlan (sometimes called "El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan"). The Nation of Aztlan, tied to La Voz de Aztlan disseminates the exact same propaganda that MEChA spreads including antisemitic propaganda. Believers in the Aztlan legend insist upon the indivisibility of "La Raza" and their common goals, one of them being the need to abolish the border between the U.S. and Mexico. There is a myriad of Raza college newspaper. Some are El Popo, Aztlan News, Chispas, Gente de Aztlan (UCLA), Voz Fronteriza (U.C. San Diego), La Voz Mestiza (U.C. Irvine) and La Voz Berkeley. It is not uncommon for the writers of these publications to refer to the U.S., as "AmeriKKKa."
Rhetoric by some Chicano educators strongly suggest Communist or Socialist leanings. In May, 2000, more than 1,200 students gathered at UCLA for the seventh annual Raza Youth Conference, which the members say promotes higher education and recognition of the Aztlan culture. Sponsored by MEChA, the year's theme was "Reclaiming Our Razas through education, resistance, and promoting the idea of remembering the historical struggles of Raza" said Erika Ramirez, co-chair of the conference. The conference drew students from 80 middle and high schools and community colleges; featured speeches by those actively involved with the Chicano community.
The keynote speaker was Antonia Darder, a professor of education and cultural studies at Claremont Graduate University and director of the Institute for Cultural Studies in Education, who received a standing ovation for her speech.
Darder described American capitalism and what she said were its impacts on racism and sexism. "I grew up in a capitalist society, a society that taught us that the greed of corporations control politics," Darder said. "Capitalism is the root of domination. Racism and sexism exist because capitalism requires it." Darder said a globalized economy forced smaller countries to give up their self-sufficiency, resulting in people migrating to the U.S. "We're here because U.S. foreign policy in Latin America has forced us here," she said.
The University of Oregon Chapter of MEChA hints at its communist sentiments by posting a picture of Cuba's communist dictator Fidel Castro. On its web site, "La Voz de Aztlan" has an excerpt from a speech of February 7, 1997, by Fidel Castro who said "the United States should return to Mexico huge chunks of that country's territories it acquired more than a century ago" La Voz de Aztlan, whom Antonio Villaraigosa refuses to repudiate, also disseminates antisemitic propaganda,
Apparently, these "Raza" cults are composed of people who unabashedly hate the United States and often support other groups and leaders who also hate America. Raza's hatred of America is so intense, that most make bedfellows to anyone else who also hates America, like dictator Fidel Castro; murderer of his own people Sadam Hussain; and the women hating Taliban -- and of course they sympathize with all Islamic Terrorists over the Israel/Palestine issue. Raza cults are the loudest and most insistent element of the immigration lobby in California. Inebriated with a sense of righteous victimhood, and entranced by myths of a heroic racial past, devotees of the Aztlan cults are rapidly extending their influence within California's Hispanic population, particularly among students in the university system. It doesn't matter what the group believes. If they use the money for the reasons they are being given the money (education, anti-poverty, etc.) then I say go for it. If they use it for inappropriate activities (lobbying to undermine US laws), then I say pull the funding. Ill do my own research instead of taking your one-sided word for it. You had my interest until your last sentence... I am a Caucasian who joined La Raza in law school...I am now an attorney and can be accused of a lot, except, utter disregard of the rule of law. Here's what you do when somebody tries t scare you like this:
1) Use "the google" to look up HR 1999. You'll probably get to something like this:
http://www.nclr.org/content/viewpoints/d...
You'll read there about such diabolical plans as "helping out with housing" and "training and technical assistance." You'll start yo wonder why the person eho posted this is so scared of brown people.
2) Use "the google" again and look up La Raza, the "activist group who promotes crimes such as illegal immigration and utterly disregards the rule of law." You'll find this:
http://www.nclr.org/content/viewpoints/d...
where La Raza lays out what they do, who they are and what they are all about. You'll start to wonder why the above person did no research before parroting lies from wherever he or she heard this scary thing.
Then you'll try to remember that these bigoted slow people are a very small minority of the population and just decide to let the wingnuts have them. No I wasn't aware of this bill and now that I am I will be writing all my reps in the morning once I've had my morning coffee and gotten my mind in the right frame for some real cussin.
I am 200% against La Raza, Aztlan and all the other RE Conquesta groups and anyone foolish enough to think that once a group like this ever starts to receive money from the federal gov. that it would ever be cut off is living in their own little fantasy land.
We took the land from the Mexicans in war then paid them for it anyway. The Mexican govt. took it from some indigenous people (mostly Aztec and Apache) whom took it from someone else. Maybe the Indians should go back to Northern Russia over the land bridge and the rest of us can go back to Europe and leave it back to the Buffalo. |
