Reshaping the American Electorate

The Immigration Plot: How left-wingers plan to transform America's electorate to achieve political power

Middle American News   By Jerry Woodruff  (Part III of IV) 

The strategy to grant citizenship to massive numbers of immigrants was already used by Democrats during the Clinton administration to boost their chances in the 1996 elections.  The “Citizenship USA” program run by then Vice President Al Gore accelerated the naturalization process for more than 1 million immigrants between August and September.   The program organized mass citizenship ceremonies in big city sports stadiums around the country, naturalizing as many as 5,000 immigrants at a time. As a result of the rush to make the Democrat-leaning immigrants eligible to vote in time for the November election, the Immigration and Naturalization Service failed to conduct fingerprint and background checks on more than 180,000 immigrant applicants.  Of all applicants, more than 75,000 were later found by an independent audit to have criminal arrest histories, according to David P. Schippers, the chief counsel for the House Judiciary Committee, who led a congressional investigation of  the Citizenship USA program.

Supplementing the Democrats’ strategy to legalize millions of politically sympathetic new voters, powerful Hispanic advocacy groups and allied left-wing “social justice” organizations exert tremendous political pressure on Congress and the White House to prevent any reduction in the massive flow of immigration to the U.S. — both legal and illegal.  Well-financed groups such as the National Council of La Raza and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) work closely with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and left-wing pressure groups to block enforcement of immigration laws as well as construction of effective barrier fencing along the border with Mexico, guaranteeing that the flow of hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens into the U.S. annually continues without interruption.  That provides the potential new voters who hold the key to future power.

Following the strategy employed by Boston’s James Michael Curley, Detroit’s Coleman Young and Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe, pro-immigration leaders use incendiary rhetoric to frighten and intimidate their opponents into silence and to generate hatred towards them.  Citizens who call for enforcement of immigration laws or border fencing are viciously denounced as “racists,” “Nazis,” “bigots,” and “hatemongers.”

Hispanic Leaders Envision
Triumph Over White Voters

As millions of illegal aliens pour across the border, the demographic reality is that Republicans — and their core, mostly white conservative constituency — face electoral doom unless they are able to stop the left-wingers’ plans to inundate the country with millions of new Democrat voters.   Art Torres, Hispanic chairman of the California Democrat Party in 1995, well understood the growing strength of his ethnic group back when the state’s voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 187 to block public welfare benefits to illegal aliens.  He consoled Latino voters by telling them, “Remember, 187 is the last gasp of white America in California.  Understand that.”

Hispanic politicians actively seek to keep immigration flowing from south of the border to enhance their political clout.  Rep. Joe Baca, D-CA, of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, told the annual conference of the Southwest Voter Registration Project, “The Latinos are coming! And the Latinos are going to vote. So our voices will be heard. So that’s what this agenda is about. It’s about insuring that we increase our numbers, that we increase our numbers at every level.  We talk about the congressional, we talk about the senate, we talk about board of supervisors, board of education, city councils and commissions.  We have got to increase our numbers...”

Hispanic activist Mario Obledo sees in starkly racial terms an emerging political struggle that might have severe consequences for white voters.  “California is going to be a  Hispanic state,” he said. “We are going to control all of the institutions. If people don’t like it, they should leave.”  When asked by a radio interviewer if he really said that, he replied, “Yes, they should go back to Europe.” Obledo is a central figure in the Hispanic immigration movement and highly regarded by Democrat leaders. He was California’s Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Gov. Jerry Brown, a cofounder of MALDEF, former president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton.