June 16, 2004

"Groups May Sue to Halt Arrests by Border Patrol"

From the LAT:

Latino community leaders and civil rights groups on Tuesday said they might take legal action to stop a U.S. Border Patrol crackdown on suspected illegal immigrants in San Bernardino and Riverside counties.

"The only way to stop this is if the community comes together," said UC Riverside political science professor and local organizer Armando Navarro. "All of a sudden, the Border Patrol is hitting different parts of Southern California away from the border. Something is going on."

Hold on for a second, please. The L.A. Times is accepting quotes and statements from Armando Navarro? You mean, this guy?

"Ladies and gentlemen, what [the displacement of whites, blacks, and Asians by Hispanics in California] means is a transfer of power, it means control, it means whose going to influence. And it is the young people, the people who are now moving to develop an agenda for the twenty first century. They are really going to be in a position to really make the promise of what the Chicano movement was all about in terms of self-determination, in terms of empowerment, and even in the terms of the idea of an Aztlan!"

Or, this guy?

I'm not going to liken it to the L.A. Times taking quotes from Tom Metzger at face value, but it's too close for a "responsible" news organization like the Times.

Posted to Immigration2003 at June 16, 2004 08:30 PM

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