Hispanic civil rights

Various Hispanic leaders have attempted to claim that their goals are comparable to the U.S. Civil Rights movement. See this appearance by Janet Murguia for an example. The huge differences should be obvious, including the fact that most of those "Latino civil rights leaders" are more concerned with giving illegal aliens rights to which they are not entitled.

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Hispanic leader promises civil disobedience without amnesty; Harold Meyerson helps (Casa de Maryland) - 3/17/2010

... disobedience." 1. See the Hispanic civil rights page for a brief discussion of how giving rights to American blacks who were citizens isn't the same as what Gutierrez and Torres want to do: give U.S. civic rights to citizens of foreign countries. 2. The fact that a Washington Post columnist would print Torres' comment without asking him about it or commenting on it is a bit shockin...

NCLR conducting "National Call-In for Immigration Reform" April 27 to May 1 - 4/23/2009

The National Council of La Raza is conducting "Reflection and Action: A National Call-In for Immigration Reform" (nclr.org/content/news/detail/56918): From house call-in parties to community center and church gatherings, the goal is for participants to come together between April 27 and May 1 to reflect on immigration reform and call their members of Congress to continue the push for imm...

Clarissa Martinez/NCLR's offensive, misleading pro-illegal immigration editorial - 2/07/2009

... "better qualified" bit. See hispanic civil rights for that part. As for the last sentence, if she'd written "Ward Connerly" that would have just been very inaccurate; the use of Duke is despicable. ...Coinciding with the rise in vitriol in the immigration debate, FBI statistics show a nearly 40% increase in hate crimes committed against Latinos between 2003 and 2008. The ...

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