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La Raza conference smears immigration patriots.(National Council of La Raza)(Brief article)

The New American

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How's this for sordid hypocrisy? An organization that identifies itself by race and that promotes militant racism denounces as "racist" and "xenophobic" American citizens who merely insist that our government enforce our borders. Translated into English, the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) means National Council of The Race. "The Race" in this instance refers to people of Mexican descent. The recent NCLR national conference in Los Angeles (see page 18) featured a presentation by Joanna Mendelson--investigative reporter with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of Southern California entitled "Keeping Our Institutions Safe."

Sam Antonio, national immigration spokesman for the John Birch Society, attended the conference as a correspondent for THE NEW AMERICAN. He described the ADL program as a vicious example of the sandwich smear: "Responsible, patriotic organizations such as the Minutemen and the California Coalition for Immigration Reform ...

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