So much for the “center” lurch. Barack Obama rings the red meat chow bell for the left.
An 18-year veteran of the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), who advocated for federal legislation to give the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States a path to citizenship, has been tapped for President-elect Barack Obama’s White House staff.
Cecilia Muñoz, who currently serves as senior vice president for the office of research, advocacy and legislation at the NCLR, will serve as director for intergovernmental affairs in the Obama administration.
Check out this video from December ’07 featuring Eliseo Medina of SEIU, Ana Avendano of the AFL-CIO, and Cecilia Muñoz of the National Council of La Raza discussing strategies for achieving comprehensive, “progressive” immigration reform….
Obama just earned a whole lot of brownie points with the Tan Klan on this one.
What they seem to forget is that the key word here is ILLEGAL.
Even aliens inside this country have rights guaranteed by the Constitution, but that also means they are subject to our laws. Sneaking into our country consists of BREAKING OUR LAWS. I love legal immigration! The more the merrier! But I do not like the idea of individuals that don’t even pay taxes being allowed to have access to services that honest Americans work for. It’s wrong (although if we had the FairTax, I wouldn’t care as much). And with all of the new social goodies that Obama has in store for us, that makes it even more wrong. Finish building the stupid fence and crack down on employers that hire illegals. It’s that simple.