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Alejandro Mayorkas nominated for USCIS director - 04/24/09
Cuban-born trial lawyer Alejandro Mayorkas has been nominated to head the USCIS (Citizenship and Immigration Services). Unlike other Barack Obama nominees, he doesn't appear to have a paper trail of extremist statements and actions, although there might be something out there.
From his bio at OMelveny and Myers (omm.com/alejandromayorkas):
Alejandro Mayorkas is a litigation partner with extensive jury trial experience, having been before a jury in more than 30 cases in both federal and state courts. He handles complex civil and criminal matters, internal corporate investigations, and serves...
Rosa Brooks to Pentagon; CFR, Soros; her Darwinistic, anti-American immigration policy; journalism bailout - 04/09/09
Former Los Angeles Times columnist Rosa Brooks is going through the revolving door again, this time to be an advisor at the Defense Department, specifically to Michele Flournoy the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy. There's a lot about her not to like; here's just some of it:
1. She was affiliated with George Soros' Open Society Institute and the Council on Foreign Relations.
2. During the Clinton years, she advised Harold Koh in his previous position at the State Department.
3. In her farewell (for now) column, she advocates for a "government bailout of journalism" (link). In addition to...
John Trasvina of MALDEF named to Obama administration (HUD assistant secretary) - 03/29/09
John Trasvina - president of the strongly pro-illegal immigration group MALDEF - has been nominated to the Obama administration. His title is "Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)". This follows the de-appointment of his co-worker Thomas Saenz to another post.
There's more on the FHEO office here: hud.gov/offices/fheo/aboutfheo/aboutfheo.cfm Among other things, they:
...manage the Fair Housing Assistance Program, administer the award and management of Fair Housing Initiatives Program grants, and propose fair housing...
Harold Koh is new legal adviser to Department of State, despite supporting illegal activity - 03/23/09
Earlier today, Barack Obama named Yale University Law School dean Harold Koh to be legal advisor to the State Department.
Customs and Border Protection chief of staff is dual citizen (Marco Antonio Lopez) - 03/02/09
The new chief of staff of U.S. Customs and Border Protection is a dual citizen (Mexico and the U.S.)
Just let that sink in.
Thomas Perez to head Citizenship and Immigration Services? (close with Casa de Maryland) - 02/20/09
According to this, the new pick for Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is Thomas E. Perez, currently Labor Secretary of Maryland.
In April 2007, he "joined students in Annapolis to urge approval of a bill granting in-state tuition rates to undocumented immigrants" (link).
And from this:
Perez, a former Clinton Administration official and currently Maryland’s Secretary of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation, has had a long association with (CASA de Maryland). Both Montgomery and Prince George’s counties pay CASA millions of dollars each year in social services contracts and have put up...
DHS Deputy Secretary was top United Nations official (Jane Holl Lute) - 01/25/09
From this:
A top United Nations official who once served on the White House National Security Council has been picked for deputy secretary of the Homeland Security Department, a move that would place two women at the top of the department for the first time.
President Barack Obama's nomination of Jane Holl Lute, a retired Army major who worked on the NSC under President Bill Clinton, was announced Friday by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
...At the U.N., Lute coordinates peace efforts among countries in conflict.
...In addition to her NSC work, Lute has served as vice...
Whitehouse.gov omits Blagojevich link from Michael Strautmanis biography - 01/20/09
The all new whitehouse dot gov has a new Office of Public Liaison & Intergovernmental Affairs, the new president's gatekeepers to hoi polloi. That office's "Chief of Staff to the Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Relations and Public Liaison" is Michael Strautmanis, a long-time Obama associate who also used to work for Rod Blagojevich. Oddly enough, that association is not listed in his biography (link and full text below).
Even the New York Times tells us this (go here and browse people):
A longtime friend of the Obamas who once worked as Michele Obama's paralegal. Obama's...
Jeanne Lambrew lies about uninsured (deputy director of Obama Office of Health Reform) - 01/13/09
Jeanne Lambrew - University of Texas professor, former Bill Clinton aide, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress - has been named the deputy director of the Office of Health Reform for the upcoming Obama administration (link). Her biography is at [1].
She contributed a chapter [2] to the just-released book "Change for America: A Progressive Blueprint for the 44th President", which contains at least one lie:
In 2007, about 47 million Americans lacked health insurance
In actual fact, as Census figures show, millions of those are not Americans but are citizens of other...
"Soros Flunky Runs Obama's Pro-U.N. Policy" (Eric Schwartz) - 01/12/09
From this:
In violation of Barack Obama's promise to run an open and transparent transition to the next administration, an associate of convicted document thief Sandy Berger has been secretly meeting with far-left groups under the auspices of the Obama-Biden Transition Project to develop a range of pro-U.N. policies. These include placing "more [U.N.] blue helmets on U.S. troops" and forcing the U.S. to join the U.N.'s International Criminal Court (ICC)...
...While Obama comes across in the media as a "moderate" or "centrist" in foreign policy, his Transition Project is developing an...
Obama "Energy Czar" Carol Browner's membership in Socialist panel scrubbed from website, Wikipedia - 01/10/09
Up until the past few days, the website of Socialist International - the main, worldwide socialist organization - listed Carol Browner - Barack Obama's choice to be Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change aka "Energy Czar" - as a member of their Commission for a Sustainable World Society (CSWS) group. Now, however, her membership in that group has been scrubbed from their website. Don't worry, though: I saved off a copy and screengrab here.
The scrubbing continued at Wikipedia, where the news that she was a member of that panel was deleted by someone using an IP address...
Louis Caldera: Obama's White House Military Office director (CFR, fmr CA Assemblyman; immigration?) - 12/02/08
Another Clinton retread has joined the Barack Obama administration. This time it's Louis E. Caldera, who's been named director of the White House Military Office. Per this, that "oversees all White House military operations, including Air Force One, Camp David and presidential trips overseas".
Tino Cuellar/Stanford, Alexander Aleinikoff/Georgetown lead Obama's immigration transition team - 11/23/08
Tyche Hendricks of the San Francisco Chronicle offers "Stanford professor leads Obama immigration team" (link), with the news that Tino Cuellar - law professor at Stanford University - has been named as one of the two co-leaders of Barack Obama's transition team dealing with immigration.