LA Mayor Villaraigosa warns ICE to back off immigration raids

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Yeah...MeChA...Villaraigosa...wonderful! Grandios? Look whose grandios.

http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Crenshaw_HS/stu...echa/mecha.html

http://www.boundless.org/2002_2003/features/a0000660.html

MeChA? Just another fraternal organization? Gimme a break!

Yeah, thanks for the links. This is what they are about:

The objective of M.E.Ch.A. de Crenshaw is to ensure all Chicanos have the doors open to higher education remain open, while at the same time encouraging Chicano/as to pursue higher education and helping them succeed.

M.E.Ch.A. de Crenshaw is committed to the liberation and self-determination of our people through education. We are united as brothers and sisters as we struggle to learn. M.E.Ch.A is here to ensure that we and all RAZA succeed in higher education and use it for the benefit of the community as a whole and as setting a good example for other chicano/as.

We believe that everybody should have justice, education and equality and be treated with respect and dignity. We stand tall & proud of who we are, and take pride in our culture and history and in what we do. M.E.Ch.A. is not a club or "clique" it is an organization. We are a familia inclusive of ALL RAZA groups regardless of nationality, social economic status or sexual orientation.

Boundless... OMG... the limits of some people's idiocy.

Edited April 10, 2008 by maviwaro

[Chica Yeyé 41]

Yeah...MeChA...Villaraigosa...wonderful! Grandios? Look whose grandios.

http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Crenshaw_HS/stu...echa/mecha.html

http://www.boundless.org/2002_2003/features/a0000660.html

MeChA? Just another fraternal organization? Gimme a break!

Yeah, thanks for the links. This is what they are about:

The objective of M.E.Ch.A. de Crenshaw is to ensure all Chicanos have the doors open to higher education remain open, while at the same time encouraging Chicano/as to pursue higher education and helping them succeed.

M.E.Ch.A. de Crenshaw is committed to the liberation and self-determination of our people through education. We are united as brothers and sisters as we struggle to learn. M.E.Ch.A is here to ensure that we and all RAZA succeed in higher education and use it for the benefit of the community as a whole and as setting a good example for other chicano/as.

We believe that everybody should have justice, education and equality and be treated with respect and dignity. We stand tall & proud of who we are, and take pride in our culture and history and in what we do. M.E.Ch.A. is not a club or "clique" it is an organization. We are a familia inclusive of ALL RAZA groups regardless of nationality, social economic status or sexual orientation.

Boundless... OMG... the limits of some people's idiocy.

HOW DARE THEY WANT ACCESS TO HIGHER EDUCATION, JUSTICE AND EQUALITY.... EEEEEEWWWWWW

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Yeah...MeChA...Villaraigosa...wonderful! Grandios? Look whose grandios.

http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Crenshaw_HS/stu...echa/mecha.html

http://www.boundless.org/2002_2003/features/a0000660.html

MeChA? Just another fraternal organization? Gimme a break!

Yeah, thanks for the links. This is what they are about:

The objective of M.E.Ch.A. de Crenshaw is to ensure all Chicanos have the doors open to higher education remain open, while at the same time encouraging Chicano/as to pursue higher education and helping them succeed.

M.E.Ch.A. de Crenshaw is committed to the liberation and self-determination of our people through education. We are united as brothers and sisters as we struggle to learn. M.E.Ch.A is here to ensure that we and all RAZA succeed in higher education and use it for the benefit of the community as a whole and as setting a good example for other chicano/as.

We believe that everybody should have justice, education and equality and be treated with respect and dignity. We stand tall & proud of who we are, and take pride in our culture and history and in what we do. M.E.Ch.A. is not a club or "clique" it is an organization. We are a familia inclusive of ALL RAZA groups regardless of nationality, social economic status or sexual orientation.

Boundless... OMG... the limits of some people's idiocy.

be sure to read the second link.

Something is clearly wrong with this picture. While MEChA has as much right to free expression as the next hate group, one would like to think that, left to its own devices, “el Movimiento” would wither and die. The problem is, it hasn’t been left to its own devices. In each of the cases mentioned above, MEChA has not only not been discouraged — it has in fact been accorded special protection denied other student groups. What’s more, MEChA chapters often benefit, as at Berkeley, from lavish grants of student activity fees. If MEChA has successfully spread through the American university system, it is only because university administrators and faculty — the guardians of the system — have opened all the doors.

In doing so, they no doubt comfort themselves with the idea that it is all for the greater good of “diversity.” After all, in contrast to the “gringos” against whom the organization spends most of its time railing, MEChA can claim to represent a recognized ethnic minority. In the hyper-simplified, two-tone world of contemporary academia, that’s all it takes to count as a victim. MEChA advocates the overthrow of the U.S. government, the seizure of large swaths of U.S. territory, and the expulsion (or worse) of those presently living there. For this generation of college administrators and left-wing faculty, however, MEChA is a victim group deserving protection. Such is the logic of diversity. The road to Aztlan, at any rate, will be paved with good intentions.

1 California politicians who have never renounced their membership in the organization include Lieutenant Governor and current ex-officio UC Regent Cruz Bustamente, former State Assembly Speaker and Los Angeles mayoral candidate Antonio Villaraigosa, State Assemblyman Gil Cadillo and State Sen. Joe Baca.

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Yeah...MeChA...Villaraigosa...wonderful! Grandios? Look whose grandios.

http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Crenshaw_HS/stu...echa/mecha.html

http://www.boundless.org/2002_2003/features/a0000660.html

MeChA? Just another fraternal organization? Gimme a break!

Yeah, thanks for the links. This is what they are about:

The objective of M.E.Ch.A. de Crenshaw is to ensure all Chicanos have the doors open to higher education remain open, while at the same time encouraging Chicano/as to pursue higher education and helping them succeed.

M.E.Ch.A. de Crenshaw is committed to the liberation and self-determination of our people through education. We are united as brothers and sisters as we struggle to learn. M.E.Ch.A is here to ensure that we and all RAZA succeed in higher education and use it for the benefit of the community as a whole and as setting a good example for other chicano/as.

We believe that everybody should have justice, education and equality and be treated with respect and dignity. We stand tall & proud of who we are, and take pride in our culture and history and in what we do. M.E.Ch.A. is not a club or "clique" it is an organization. We are a familia inclusive of ALL RAZA groups regardless of nationality, social economic status or sexual orientation.

Boundless... OMG... the limits of some people's idiocy.

be sure to read the second link.

Something is clearly wrong with this picture. While MEChA has as much right to free expression as the next hate group, one would like to think that, left to its own devices, “el Movimiento” would wither and die. The problem is, it hasn’t been left to its own devices. In each of the cases mentioned above, MEChA has not only not been discouraged — it has in fact been accorded special protection denied other student groups. What’s more, MEChA chapters often benefit, as at Berkeley, from lavish grants of student activity fees. If MEChA has successfully spread through the American university system, it is only because university administrators and faculty — the guardians of the system — have opened all the doors.

In doing so, they no doubt comfort themselves with the idea that it is all for the greater good of “diversity.” After all, in contrast to the “gringos” against whom the organization spends most of its time railing, MEChA can claim to represent a recognized ethnic minority. In the hyper-simplified, two-tone world of contemporary academia, that’s all it takes to count as a victim. MEChA advocates the overthrow of the U.S. government, the seizure of large swaths of U.S. territory, and the expulsion (or worse) of those presently living there. For this generation of college administrators and left-wing faculty, however, MEChA is a victim group deserving protection. Such is the logic of diversity. The road to Aztlan, at any rate, will be paved with good intentions.

1 California politicians who have never renounced their membership in the organization include Lieutenant Governor and current ex-officio UC Regent Cruz Bustamente, former State Assembly Speaker and Los Angeles mayoral candidate Antonio Villaraigosa, State Assemblyman Gil Cadillo and State Sen. Joe Baca.

From my own experience on more than 3 university campuses where MeChA operates I can tell you that the only objectives that matter to the membership are the ones I highlighted from link #1.

Which is why, precisely, they enjoy university funding for activities that bolster diversity.

As for link #2 its a matter of the typical opinion of their take of what history should be- written by the victors. I may not be a member of that group, nor do I really have any interest in joining or even defending their silly notion that Aztlan is what they say it should be- but I do take serious offense when its used to overshadow what the Mexican-American community has had to endure in a land that has been, to some extent, Mexico up until our nation played with Manifest Destiny.

MeChA has spread because it offers an alternative to traditional cultural imposition and because it offers yet another marginalized group the ability ot network and succeed after high school/college. Like I've said, I've yet to see them pronouncing the evils of American expansionism at the 4-5 activities I've seen over the years. Sure... their old timers may seem a bit radical for non-Mexican tastes... but heck... the street has an opposite direction and could easily be reflected to show the same hate from other groups that clearly focus on the hate part of the equation more than the social improvements MeChA promotes.

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On an aside note...

As that a new version of the movie representing your views?

Edited April 10, 2008 by Boo-Yah!

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On an aside note...

As that a new version of the movie representing your views?

No. Then it would say "I see Mexican chopf*cks"

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HOW DARE THEY WANT ACCESS TO HIGHER EDUCATION, JUSTICE AND EQUALITY.... EEEEEEWWWWWW

Hear hear Charles!

How dare you NOT want to spend your hard-earned tax dollars on some foreign shmuck's education?

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Yeah...MeChA...Villaraigosa...wonderful! Grandios? Look whose grandios.

http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Crenshaw_HS/stu...echa/mecha.html

http://www.boundless.org/2002_2003/features/a0000660.html

MeChA? Just another fraternal organization? Gimme a break!

Yeah, thanks for the links. This is what they are about:

The objective of M.E.Ch.A. de Crenshaw is to ensure all Chicanos have the doors open to higher education remain open, while at the same time encouraging Chicano/as to pursue higher education and helping them succeed.

M.E.Ch.A. de Crenshaw is committed to the liberation and self-determination of our people through education. We are united as brothers and sisters as we struggle to learn. M.E.Ch.A is here to ensure that we and all RAZA succeed in higher education and use it for the benefit of the community as a whole and as setting a good example for other chicano/as.

We believe that everybody should have justice, education and equality and be treated with respect and dignity. We stand tall & proud of who we are, and take pride in our culture and history and in what we do. M.E.Ch.A. is not a club or "clique" it is an organization. We are a familia inclusive of ALL RAZA groups regardless of nationality, social economic status or sexual orientation.

Boundless... OMG... the limits of some people's idiocy.

HOW DARE THEY WANT ACCESS TO HIGHER EDUCATION, JUSTICE AND EQUALITY.... EEEEEEWWWWWW

And glorifying thugs and murderers like Pancho Villa and Che. The Tan Klan? At least they don't wear hoods...but why should they have to when they are the darlings of the Leftists running the universities. Oh pleez!

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HOW DARE THEY WANT ACCESS TO HIGHER EDUCATION, JUSTICE AND EQUALITY.... EEEEEEWWWWWW

Hear hear Charles!

How dare you NOT want to spend your hard-earned tax dollars on some foreign shmuck's education?

Mexican-American schmucks to you, M. Same as the rest of the campus schmucks that get tax and non-tax money at [college of your choice].

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Yeah...MeChA...Villaraigosa...wonderful! Grandios? Look whose grandios.

http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Crenshaw_HS/stu...echa/mecha.html

http://www.boundless.org/2002_2003/features/a0000660.html

MeChA? Just another fraternal organization? Gimme a break!

Yeah, thanks for the links. This is what they are about:

The objective of M.E.Ch.A. de Crenshaw is to ensure all Chicanos have the doors open to higher education remain open, while at the same time encouraging Chicano/as to pursue higher education and helping them succeed.

M.E.Ch.A. de Crenshaw is committed to the liberation and self-determination of our people through education. We are united as brothers and sisters as we struggle to learn. M.E.Ch.A is here to ensure that we and all RAZA succeed in higher education and use it for the benefit of the community as a whole and as setting a good example for other chicano/as.

We believe that everybody should have justice, education and equality and be treated with respect and dignity. We stand tall & proud of who we are, and take pride in our culture and history and in what we do. M.E.Ch.A. is not a club or "clique" it is an organization. We are a familia inclusive of ALL RAZA groups regardless of nationality, social economic status or sexual orientation.

Boundless... OMG... the limits of some people's idiocy.

HOW DARE THEY WANT ACCESS TO HIGHER EDUCATION, JUSTICE AND EQUALITY.... EEEEEEWWWWWW

And glorifying thugs and murderers like Pancho Villa and Che. The Tan Klan? At least they don't wear hoods...but why should they have to when they are the darlings of the Leftists running the universities. Oh pleez!

Ohhhh the Bolsheviks!!! They're back!!

Funny how, even with so many commies in academia, the kids turn out to be pretty quiet supporters of the status quo in the States, no??

Then again, thugs and murderers is a matter of perspective. I mean, Bush has more blood on his hands than that Argentinian MD. Both fought for what they saw as just and valid.

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HOW DARE THEY WANT ACCESS TO HIGHER EDUCATION, JUSTICE AND EQUALITY.... EEEEEEWWWWWW

Hear hear Charles!

How dare you NOT want to spend your hard-earned tax dollars on some foreign shmuck's education?

Brother mawilson, those who self-identify Chicanos are not 'foreign' or 'illegal'. They are first generation Mexican-Americans, as my children (if we would choose to reproduce) would be.

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The rest of the story...

But Homeland Security spokeswoman Laura Keehner said the department believes its priorities are correct. In its work-site investigations, she said, ICE's focus is on national security and public safety. The agency also investigates companies it believes may have committed visa fraud, money laundering, tax evasion or egregious violations of hiring laws.

"We believe that we are prioritizing appropriately," Keehner said. "This is not random. The types of arrests that are made are well thought out."

Szabo said the mayor and Los Angeles business leaders hope to discuss their concerns with Chertoff in person next week during an annual business trip to Washington, D.C.

Last year, Chertoff warned in an interview with The Times that a crackdown on employers would cause "unhappy consequences for the economy." But employers who knowingly hire illegal workers are breaking the law, he said.

Anti-illegal immigrant advocates praised ICE's actions in Los Angeles and elsewhere.

"Cutting off the magnet of jobs has to be the No. 1 priority if you want to get a handle on illegal immigration," said Ira Mehlman, spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which supports stricter border controls.

Years of lax enforcement is what led to so many illegal workers in Southern California in the first place, Mehlman said. ICE should keep the pressure on undocumented workers and should focus even more attention on their employers, he said.

In Los Angeles, he said, "you take away 100 illegal aliens from these guys and they could have 100 more before lunch. But you take the head of personnel, that's another matter."

Immigrant rights proponents said raids at businesses break up families, make workers more vulnerable and give unscrupulous employers a competitive advantage. Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, said the situation only underscores the need for comprehensive immigration reform.

"All of the Los Angeles economy [is paying] for the incompetence of our congressional representatives," she said. "They haven't done what they are supposed to do."

Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce President Gary L. Toebben agreed on the need for reform legislation.

Toebben also sent a letter to Chertoff saying that workplace raids are "devastating" to businesses that are trying to follow the law.

Even when employers ask for proof that new employees are eligible to work in the U.S., there is no guarantee that the documents are valid, he said. Businesses can use the Department of Homeland Security's E-Verify system to match employee's names and Social Security numbers with federal databases, but critics have said that it often inaccurately flags foreign-born U.S. citizens.

Toebben said workplace raids can slow production or bring it to a standstill. He said future enforcement could also discourage some companies from hiring people who appear to be foreign-born for fear of hiring undocumented workers and being targeted by ICE.

Toebben said he worries that if the arrests continue, Los Angeles companies could have "a very difficult challenge in meeting their workforce needs."

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Yes I think its time to get back to the trunk of the story...