What do you think? From Jorge Mújica Murias, an advocate. Excerpt: And that voting emphasis gives me the final clue in the whole affair. What Murguía and the Democrats fighting for re-election are asking from Obama is to save the Party, not immigrants. Deporter in Chief “For the president”, told Janet Murguía to those attending the luxury Washington Capital Awards banquet last week, “his legacy is at a stake. We think of him as the President of Deportations, the Deporter in Chief. Boom! What Jorge Mújica and a whole array of immigration activists have been saying for a year now is nothing; but coming from the lips of the Executive Director of the National Council of La Raza, the largest Latino organization in the country, this is a bomb; is a slap in both cheeks of Barack Obama. Just a year ago, La Raza put their hands in the fire for Obama, and two years ago he was honored to give the main speech at their national annual event. The media took the speech as a sign that Obama lost the support of La Raza. And we have to say, the National Council of La Raza is not a progressive organization, nor a radical one, but one who markets Latinos to many buyers, and receives lots of money from the federal government, starting with campaigns to recruit young Latinos to the army. This is the organization who, all on its own, declared the boycott against Arizona over after receiving a juicy offer of money from that State. And the Community Relations Chief in Obamas cabinet is the former Research Director from La Raza, Cecilia Munoz. But to lose the support of La Raza is not just losing the support of one organization. It is to lose support of part of the Democratic Party structure. To make it clearer, awardee at the La Raza event, Democratic Senador Bob Meléndez repeated Murguías words and demanded from Obama to stop his deportation policies. Double boom, added to the letter 38 congressmen of the Democratic Party also sent him a month ago asking him to stop deportations. “Respectfully, added Murguía, “we disagree with the President regarding his power to stop unnecessary deportations. He can stop tearing apart families and sinking communities and business into chaos. And he can not turn a blind eye to the damage he is causing. He has the power to stop it, and his failure to do so will be a miserable legacy of his presidency. And for his political Party, I would say. It is Obama or the Party Of course, front-men and cheerleaders of the President jumped up in his defense, like Fernando Espuelas, well-paid Univision personality, who is in love with Barack Obama. According to Espuelas, Murguía joined the ever more confused and radical elements of the activist community who are asking Obama to break the law. Curiously enough, thats exactly the argument behind the Republican Partys Stop This Overreaching President (STOP) Resolution, led by Rep. Tom Rice, from South Carolina. Magic realism, insists the cheerleader, has replaced political strategy for many of this activists, backed by some irresponsible Democrats in Congress, who expect the Spanish media to save them from the popular uproar. Loyal to an already failed strategy, Espuelas recommends La Raza to better focus on the real problem (John) Boehner, and the series of efforts in his party to block immigration reform, instead of following the yellow brick road to find the wizard. Blinded by his stylistic reference to the Wizard of Oz, Espuelas fails to see the deep motivations of Murguía and the Democratic Party congressmen who are asking Obama to stop his indiscriminate deportation policy. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Latinos, may simply not go to the polling places in November, disgusted both by Republicans and Democrats. Republicans are not, obviously, an option for them, but Obama, the Deporter in Chief as a main figure for the Democrats, makes them also not very desirable. Obama, of course, does not have much to lose in November. His presidency will go on for another two years, but Democrats who want to be elected or re-elected are at the verge of panic. A low Latino participation in November will help the Republican Party, whose Tea Partiers are mobilizing more people each day to try to win a majority in the Senate. According to Espuelas, “these organizations would do better to mobilize to the polling places the 11 million Latinos who did not vote two years ago. But that is exactly what the National Council of La Raza is doing, says Murguía, along with registering at least another quarter million Latinos by November. And that voting emphasis gives me the final clue in the whole affair. What Murguía and the Democrats fighting for re-election are asking from Obama is to save the Party, not immigrants. Its just another chapter in the election circus the two-party system is playing, where immigrants are just the animals, the unwilling performers in the lesser evil game. Their fate as human beings is way less important than the fate of the politicians who try to sell us the idea that all can be fixed if you just vote for the right party. México del Norte Jorge Mújica Murias jmujicam@gmail https://facebook/MexicoDelNorte/posts/738206796214129
Posted on: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 12:38:16 +0000