During the December 3 broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show, guest host Mark Davis
asserted that
Cecilia Muñoz, senior vice president of the Office of Research, Advocacy, and
Legislation at the National Council of La Raza, and others at NCLR "are
amnesty fetishists" and said, "[T]hat is what you get" in an Obama administration -- "a fan of
amnesty." In fact, the position taken by NCLR and Muñoz, who has been named by Obama to be
the director of intergovernmental affairs in his administration, on immigration is far from
radical, contrary to Davis' suggestion. NCLR strongly advocates passage of comprehensive
immigration reform, a position that is shared in principle by members of Congress from both
parties and by President Bush.
NCLR states on its website:
NCLR supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes the following principles: 1) a path
to citizenship for the current undocumented population; 2) the creation of new legal channels for
future immigrant workers; 3) a reduction of family immigration backlogs; and 4) the protection of
civil rights and civil liberties. By legalizing immigrants who live, work, and contribute to life
in the U.S., the U.S. could deal fairly with hardworking people who have responded to an economic
reality ignored by the law. At the same time, the U.S. can become more secure by enforcing the
new law and by allowing undocumented immigrants to come out of the shadows and participate fully
in their communities.
Bush supported a
bipartisan
bill that would have "creat[ed] a temporary worker program" and given undocumented immigrants
who passed criminal background checks and remained employed the opportunity to apply for a green
card in the future, and ultimately citizenship. NCLR sharply criticized the "Senate's failure to move a
comprehensive immigration reform bill forward" when a cloture motion to cut off debate on that
bill
failed. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) once sponsored a
bill with Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and several other Democrats and
Republicans to create a temporary worker program and give illegal immigrants a path to apply for
a green card and ultimately for citizenship. (As Media Matters for America has noted,
during the presidential campaign, McCain abandoned his support for that bill, saying during CNN's January 30 Republican
presidential primary
debate that he would no longer vote for it if it came up for a vote in the Senate.)
From the December 3 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
DAVIS: One quick tidbit in transition news. I believe a president-elect is judged by those he
brings into the fold. So, joining the White House staff in the Obama administration will be
Cecilia Muñoz. She currently serves as senior vice president for the Office of Research,
Advocacy, and Legislation at the National Council of La Raza. The National Council of La Raza
makes LULAC look reasonable. These folks are amnesty fetishists. Cecilia Muñoz, in her
post, [reading] "advocated for federal legislation to give the estimated 12 million" -- this from
CNS News, Penny Starr has the byline -- and I guess the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants
-- yeah, that's estimated by people who lowball that figure -- to give them [reading] "a path to
citizenship." And she has been tapped for the job of director of Intergovernmental Affairs.
And again, it's funny -- I just offer this not to raise an eyebrow, I mean, hello, it's a fan of
amnesty in the Obama administration. Whoa, that's shocking. This is what you get. I love the
emails that I sometimes get. "Mark, I'm concerned that Janet Napolitano will not be, you know,
strong enough on our borders." Really? Really? Well, if enough Americans had been concerned about
that, they would not have voted for Senator Obama. Of course, no -- no Homeland Security chief
under President Obama is going to be ardent enough about protecting our borders. It's only in the
last 18 months that President Bush's Homeland Security chief has been ardent enough about our
borders.
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