Sinister Intentions Indeed!
SPLC
and Pew Hispanic Center Misrepresent the Truth
According to the Pew Hispanic
Center, “Latinos, who are 13% of the U.S. adult population, accounted for 40%
of all sentenced federal offenders in 2007—up from 24% in 1991.” They went on
to say that the majority are NOT citizens, and while Hispanics are more likely
to receive prison time, the prejudice, if any leans toward them receiving less
time that blacks or whites. http://pewhispanic.org/topics/?TopicID=16
THE TRUTH: Hispanic illegal aliens are given special treatment by virtue of
shorter prison sentences for the crimes they commit than do blacks or whites.
If there is a prejudice here, Hispanics are NOT the victims of discrimination
in U.S. courts. Other ethnicities are.
In December, 2005, Pew
interviewed just under 5,000 mostly illegal alien migrants. The vast majority
claimed to have had jobs before leaving their home country, and a failure to
find work in their home country was NOT the primary reason for coming to the
United States. What was? This report was based on a survey of mostly illegal aliens who were applying for
“identity cards issued by Mexican consulates.”
http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=58
According to a December, 2002 Pew
Report, it is estimated that in 2005 immigrants, legal and illegal sent an
average of $50 million every day back to their home countries.
http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=13
THE TRUTH: Illegal alien Hispanics are not coming here because they can’t find
jobs in their own country. They come here illegally, take jobs from legal
immigrants and citizens, and commit crimes at a rate 3 times higher than
non-Hispanics,
So, not only are they taking jobs away from
our citizens, they aren’t even spending the money here. Also, the identity cards
Pew refers to are mostly the Mexican Matricula Consular card, a form of ID that
the Mexican government does not accept in Mexico. These Matricula Consular
cards are ONLY needed by illegal aliens. Unscrupulous American businesses
accept it to allow illegal aliens to open bank accounts, gain home mortgages
and credit cards, etc… According to the FBI, sanctuary cities and businesses’
acceptance of the Matricula Consular ID card encourages illegal immigration.
A June, 2005 Pew Report states,
“Contrary to the stereotype of undocumented migrants as single males with very
little education who perform manual labor in agriculture or construction, a new
Pew Hispanic Center report shows that most of the unauthorized population lives
in families, a quarter has at least some college education and that illegal workers
can be found in many sectors of the US economy.”
http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=46
THE TRUTH: Illegal aliens are not just stealing farm labor jobs, but also from
many other sectors of the job market. They’re not just here to pick lettuce, or
perform other farm labor, but are taking skilled labor jobs from Americans.
The Sept. 2008 Pew Hispanic
Center Report, 2008 National Survey of
Latinos: Hispanics See Their Situation in U.S. Deteriorating; Oppose Key
Immigration Enforcement Measures states, “Half (50%) of all Latinos say the
situation of Latinos in this country is worse than it was a year ago.” It goes
on to state, “More than four-in-five Hispanics (81%) say that immigration
enforcement should be left mainly to the federal authorities rather than the
local police; 76% disapprove of workplace raids; 73% disapprove of the criminal
prosecution of undocumented immigrants who are working without authorization;
and 70% disapprove of the criminal prosecution of employers who hire
undocumented immigrants. A narrow majority (53%) disapproves of a requirement
that employers check a federal database to verify the legal immigration status
of all prospective hires.” http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=93
THE TRUTH: Hispanics, by and large, according to Pew, don’t like enforcement of
our immigration laws. What Pew doesn’t tell you is how many in this survey are
here illegally. For Pew to suggest that the vast majority of Hispanics don’t
want our immigration laws enforced is misleading. By their own admission, half
the Hispanics interviewed are probably illegal aliens.
Pew also makes no comparison to
non-Hispanics concerning how they feel about their situation in the U.S. I
would imagine that most legal immigrants and U.S. citizens would say they feel
their situation is deteriorating, duh. Pew is encouraging Hispanics to feel
like “victims,” when the data does not support that they are any more
disadvantaged than any other ethnic group.
If 53% in Pew’s survey oppose employers
being required to verify prospective hires are here “legally,” then common
sense begs the question “Why?” I would suggest the only reason to oppose
employers making sure you are legal is because you probably aren’t!
Is the Southern Poverty Law Center spreading
“hate?” Are they guilty of playing the “victim” card and misrepresenting
patriotic Americans, many of them veterans? In their 2009 “Intelligence
Report,” the SPLC has labeled the FIRE Coalition and our partners as “nativist
extremists.” http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?sid=443
Is the SPLC engaged in
disinformation and a smear campaign against the FIRE Coalition and other
patriotic Americans? If so, why? In their ridiculous article, “Sinister Intentions,” the SPLC states,
“Many other growing nativist
extremist groups — most notably the Federal Immigration Reform and Enforcement
Coalition, or FIRE, which increased from two chapters in 2007 to 14 last year — largely steered
clear of the border in favor of confronting immigrants with aggressive protests
at day labor sites, which are safer, closer to home, and don't require spending
hot days or cold nights in the desert.”
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=1696
THE TRUTH: Really? The SPLC has not contacted the FIRE Coalition leadership, and
its information is erroneous, to say the least. The FIRE Coalition had
approximately 75 FIRE Teams in 2007. Last year that number surpassed 100, and
is currently over 125 teams, with an additional 200+ individuals on a waiting
list who desire to start FIRE Teams in their communities.
The FIRE Coalition is a non-partisan,
non-profit 501(c)3 that works with Members of Congress, the nation’s largest
group of state legislators fighting for enforcement of our laws (State
Legislators for Legal Immigration), the largest veterans group (The American
Legion), the largest women’s group, (Concerned Women for America), 60 other
organizations as official partners, and tens of thousands of American citizens
of all ethnicities. Are we to assume that the SPLC thinks these 3.5 million
Americans are “nativist extremists” as well? The “sleeping giants” are patriotic
Americans, not extremists.
In a 2005 article by Dustin Inman Society’s D.A.
King,
What is the Southern Poverty Law
Center (SPLC)? Judging from pictures of their expansion, below,
they are very well off, indeed. From the article Lump of Coal:
... human nature being what it
is, there always seems to be a lump of coal lurking among the sugarplums. We
were reminded of this unpleasant fact again by a Journal reader in Arlington
who considered making a contribution to the Southern Poverty Law Center, listed
as No. 0454 in the Combined Federal Campaign...
In fact, unknown to most CFC
donors, the tax-exempt SPLC flunked an audit by the Arlington-based Better
Business Bureau's Wise Giving Alliance, which requires that "a reasonable
percentage, at least 50 percent of total income from all sources, should be
applied to programs and activities directly related to the purposes for which
the organization exists."
...SPLC...spent 89 percent of its
total income on fund-raising and administrative costs...
Granted, administrative costs
tend to run high when executive salaries are in the six-figure range. For
example,... Morris Dees, SPLC's chief trial lawyer, pulls down a cool
$280,699...
... give your hard-earned dollars
to a real charity, not a bunch of slick, parasitic hucksters who live high on
the hog by raising money on behalf of needy people who never see a dime of it.
http://www.thedustininmansociety.org/thousand_words/pics_splc_expands.html
Are the SPLC and Pew Hispanic
Center spreading disinformation and outright lies? NO ONE at the FIRE Coalition
draws a salary from the tax-deductible donations given to it. The SPLC and Pew
can’t say that. We aren’t lining our pockets with six figure salaries for the
cause we believe in, and by design, our national leadership and state directors
are 100% volunteers.
The FIRE Coalition and its
partners support the Constitution and the constitutional laws written from it.
We do this openly. The SPLC calling us “extremists” for doing so is simply
their being dramatic, trying to instill fear in the minds of the public. A
query to the SPLC as to what criteria they used to compile the list has gone
unanswered.
While many of our partners do
actively seek out illegal alien hot spots, and rally in direct opposition to
them, by and large the FIRE Coalition very rarely protests illegal aliens. Our leadership
believes we only have two audiences: “We the People, and the people we elect.”
Illegal aliens are not part of
the solution. They are a symptom of the problem. Our elected officials are
failing to keep their oaths, and are failing to enforce our laws. We the People
are guilty of allowing them to do so.
Like many unscrupulous
politicians, groups such as the SPLC, Pew Hispanic Center, ACLU, National
Council of “The Race,” are providing aid and comfort to illegal aliens, which
is a felony. Homeland Security and the Justice Department should investigate
them for acts of sedition, hate crimes, and conspiracy to aid and abet the
largest invasion in world history. If these organizations are receiving any
taxpayer monies, that should end ASAP! The 14th Amendment of the
Constitution, Section 4 states plainly that the United States cannot pay the
debts of those that conspire to undermine our sovereignty and the Constitution.
The fact that the SPLC sought out
Jim Gilchrist is laughable. Jim does not speak for the cause. Most patriotic
Americans feel Jim has lost his way. Media whores eager for attention should show
some restraint and stop pandering to foreign and domestic enemies of the
Constitution and our laws. A little common sense goes a long ways.
Jeff Lewis
National Director
FIRE Coalition
Jeff@firecoalition.com
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