Cecilia Muñoz Prostitutes (metaphorically) for Thirty Pieces of Silver
SANTA FE, NM (By Jon Garrido, The Jon Garrido Network) November 30, 2011 ―
The word "prostitute" is used metaphorically to mean "debase oneself" or "sell out." "Prostituting oneself," in this case, the services performed are not sexual; never the less, Cecilia Muñoz is paid for services to lie defending the deportation of over 1,500,000 Hispanics. To compound the lie, Cecilia Muñoz claims Barack Hussein Obama had no choice for he had to uphold the law. Selling oneself lying for Obama is a service and all services are done for payment. Obviously, the payment from Obama to Muñoz is White House prestige and probably favors for the National Council of La Raza.
The word "prostitute" is not used in my or your lexicon but I chose the word because in my mind, destroying more than 1,500,000 Hispanic families in the USA is a Grave Mortal Sin going against God's law "...to treat immigrants as well as you treat citizens and love them as much as you love yourself. Remember, you were once foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD.......
As for Obama, the idiom the straw that broke the camel's back is a reference to any process by which cataclysmic failure is achieved by the last/final straw deemed to be the last in a line of unacceptable occurrences meaning there is a limit to everyone's endurance.
Specifically, we gave Obama our votes in exchange for Immigration Reform but Obama broke promise after promise to deliver Immigration Reform. Then to make deportations even worse, Obama lied he was forced to deport Hispanics using Hispanic spokespersons Hilda L. Solis, Katherine Archuleta and Cecilia Muñoz who traded their values for influence and have been used to defend Obama's broken promises of Immigration Reform and consequential 1,500,000 deportations.
Obama, using the above White House staff, lays the blame at the Republicans' feet assuming Hispanics are too naive to understand who the real villain is because in the first two years of the Obama Administration, Democrats controlled both houses of Congress.
The question why Obama couldn't get Immigration Reform approved in his first two years as he did Health Care Reform, the answer ― Health Care Reform was the Obama priority and Immigration Reform was the last priority. The truth is Obama has no empathy for Hispanics.
For all of this, Cecilia Muñoz is singled out for defending Obama's record setting deportations that have occurred in the first three years of the Obama administration and probably, the fourth year will be a blockbuster year for Obama deportations..
When Cecilia Muñoz, the Director of Intergovernmental Affairs at the White House, on the PBS Frontline documentary, Lost in Detention, defended the record setting deportations that have occurred in the Obama administration, some in the immigration advocacy community were appalled by the claims she made — especially given her previous role as an advocate when she worked for the National Council of La Raza.
The call for comprehensive Immigration Reform has been one Muñoz and the administration have reminded Hispanic and immigrant audiences repeatedly to the point where some grassroots advocates call it a “smoke screen.” Oscar Chacon, the executive director of the National Alliance of Latin American & Caribbean Communities out of Chicago, reasoned, “It’s not enough to say ‘We are committed to comprehensive Immigration Reform’ as Cecilia and the President have said while pursuing a path that has led to a record of the most deportations ever. The call for comprehensive Immigration Reform has become a smoke screen.”
Obama won two-thirds of the Hispanic vote in 2008 by promising immigration policies would be a top priority in his first term and would be overhauled but Obama failed to deliver Immigration Reform granting a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
Instead, Obama implemented Secure Communities, a deportation program, used to deport more than 1.5 million undocumented immigrants since 2009.
Obama's failure with Immigration has resulted in profound Hispanic disappointment with Obama.
In 2011, U.S. immigration policy continues as the number one issue with Hispanic voters, according to a poll conducted by the independent research firm Latino Decisions.
Asked to name the most important issues facing Hispanics, 51% of respondents cited immigration, 35% said the economy and jobs, and 18% said education.
A majority of Hispanic voters surveyed by Latino Decisions said they know an undocumented immigrant and one-fourth said they know someone who is facing deportation or has been deported.
Among Hispanics, Obama’s job approval rating has plummeted since its high mark in April 2009, according to Gallup, from 85 percent to 44 percent.
Obama's failure with Immigration Reform has led to a wave of immigration laws that has swept through states since 2006 with state legislators expected to introduce about 1,400 bills this year.
Since last fall, both English- and Spanish-language media have heavily chronicled record deportations and controversial enforcement policies promoted by President Barack Obama's administration.
After the latest defeat of the Dream Act, Obama was pressed to use “Prosecutorial Discretion” to avoid deporting Young Immigrants. Obama countered with an invitation to Hispanics to the White House where they were told he had no authority to decrease deportations.
Obama stated he could not break the law regarding deportations. One of the props used to support what Obama claimed was Eva Longoria bedazzled with a White House invitation where she was informed the world is flat not round.
Longoria swallowed Obama's lie — hook, line and sinker.
Gullible Eva Longoria read from her prepared White House script, "We would like to blame Obama for inaction on lessening deportations, but he can’t just disobey the law that’s written.’’
Longoria, an American actress, best known for portraying Gabrielle Solis on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives is where she became an expert on immigration law specializing in Presidential
Executive Branch Authority Regarding Implementation of Immigration Laws and Policies.
But there is no humor found with utterances of those who are used by Obama to preach the Obama mantra:
Hilda L. Solis, Katherine Archuleta and Cecilia Muñoz, the White House official who oversees immigration policy, said "Mr. Obama strongly favors Secure Communities because he does not have the option of saying, while I’m waiting for Congress to come forward, I am not going to bother to enforce the law.”"The Secure Communities program is the best tool we have,” added Muñoz, “to enforce the law in the best possible way.”
On April 29, 2011, an internal Memorandum was issued Re: Executive Branch Authority Regarding Implementation of Immigration Laws and Policies which states, "The authority of law enforcement agencies to exercise discretion in deciding what cases to investigate and prosecute under existing civil and criminal law, including immigration law, is fundamental to the American legal system."
On August 18, Obama pulled the rug from underneath Solis, Archuleta and Muñoz by announcing "Prosecutorial Discretion” would now be used to waive deportations of Young Immigrants.
No one now can refute Obama used Eva Longoria by lying he could not break the law and was forced to deport 1,500,000 undocumented Hispanics in the three years he has been President.
Obama, Solis, Archuleta and Muñoz do not understand the importance of Immigration Reform and the hardship caused by deporting 1,500,000 Hispanics compounded by the constant fear undocumented living in the United States are forced to live with daily which is identical to fear the German Gestapo heaped upon Jews when asked, "Papers, please."
Obama does not deserve to be re-elected and his incompetent staff who are not Hispanic advocates but have prostituted themselves are now used to expound the Obama mantra and they should resign immediately.
Not that staff had creditability before but clearly now, Obama's staff have exposed themselves betraying Hispanics putting Obama first rather than Hispanics.
Hispanic groups believe the far greater impact of Obama failing to have Immigration Reform approved in Obama's first two years as president when the Democrats controlled Congress is "social" fueled by racists.
Laws
targeting
undocumented
immigrants
have
reflected
and
even
intensified
the
rising
anti-immigration
movement
both
in
statehouses
and
on
the
streets.
The
result
is a
legislative
record
from
Arizona
to
Florida
that
hasn't
made
much
of a
mark
on
undocumented
immigration,
but
has
fueled
a
populist
backlash
against
it.
But
this
is
not
to
say
state
and
local
policies
have
not
had
significant
effects.
When
Prince
William
County
in
Virginia
passed
an
SB
1070-style
law
in
2008,
those
embroiled
in
the
debate
say
it
became
a
very
different
place.
"It
wasn't
just
that
a
law
was
passed.
All
of a
sudden
people
felt
threats
of
violence,"
says
film
producer
Chris
Rigopulos
after
a
screening
of
"9500
Liberty,"
a
documentary
on
the
law.
In
Arizona,
an
estimated
150,000
Hispanics
left
the
state
in
the
months
after
SB
1070
was
enacted,
according
to a
BBVA
Bancomer
Research
study.
According
to
Alicia
Sandoval,
who
left
Arizona
for
Ohio,
this
mass
exodus
was
not
just
because
of
SB
1070.
Ms.
Sandoval,
who
came
to
the
US
from
Mexico
10
years
ago,
says
the
law
only
formalized
what
had
been
going
on
for
years.
"When
we
first
came
to
Arizona,
there
was
no
fear,"
Sandoval
says
through
an
interpreter.
"The
police
wouldn't
treat
you
bad,
even
if
you
didn't
have
any
papers."
But
that
has
changed.
She
points
to
the
aggressive
policies
of
Maricopa
County
Sheriff
Joe
Arpaio,
who
arrested
and
used
ICE
to
deport
26,000
people
from
2007
to
2010
–
all
before
SB
1070.
Sandoval
worked
at a
bakery
in
the
heavily
Hispanic
Phoenix
neighborhood
and
often
saw
lines
of
cars
pulled
over
by
police
officers
when
she
got
off
work
at 1
a.m.
She
says
Sheriff
Arpaio's
deputies
would
find
reasons,
such
as
expired
tags,
to
pull
over
people
and
then
arrest
them.
To
Win
2nd
Term,
Obama
needs
a
Large
Hispanic
Turnout
Hispanic voters growing in numbers are crucial in presidential battleground states such as New Mexico, Nevada and Colorado.
Mr. Obama's failure so far to kick-start an immigration-law overhaul, has siphoned Hispanic re-election support for Obama in 2012. Twelve states constitute the likely battlegrounds for the 2012 election, based on Gallup’s state-by-state ratings of President Obama’s approval level.
Assuming Obama can move his national numbers back upward, then the 16 states plus the District of Columbia in which he had approval of 50% or better this spring can reasonably be considered his electoral base. They have 215 electoral votes.
For now, however, the battleground dozen in the middle of Gallup’s rankings have 155 electoral votes, and to win, Obama would have to capture 55 of those while holding his base. The battlegrounds, which also appear on lists drawn up by strategists in both parties, are three perennial swing states, Florida (29), Ohio (18) and Pennsylvania (20); Iowa (6); three in the South, Virginia (13), North Carolina (15) and Georgia (16); and five states in the West, Oregon (7) plus a grouping in the interior West made up of Nevada (6), Arizona (11), New Mexico (5) and Colorado (9).
For those states, Obama would have to depend on a large Hispanic turnout which is the reason, while most of Washington was embroiled in the debt-ceiling drama, about 160 Hispanic leaders from across the country recently were invited to the White House one day, largely unnoticed.
The White House event was part of broader efforts by Obama’s reelection campaign to rekindle excitement among Hispanic voters, many of whom have turned their backs on the president amid disappointment over his immigration policies.
Key to the strategy to regain Hispanic support is shifting voters’ attention beyond the caustic immigration debate with data-driven appeals that show progress in other areas.
For two days, they enjoyed full access to top presidential advisers, cabinet members and administration officials from across government. Before the participants left town, they received a glossy 33-page booklet detailing talking points to be shared back home — 1.9 million Hispanics kept out of poverty by the stimulus, $808 million in loans last year to Hispanic small businesses, and an extra $1 billion directed to colleges with large numbers of Hispanic students, to name a few.
“I understand the pain our community is going through,” said Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis, in policy discussions with Hispanic activists from across the country as a top White House liaison to the community, adding, “But I think it’s amazing how little people know of the good things this administration has done.”
It is obvious Solis has been in living in a Washington cocoon reciting the Obama mantra and has no clue on the pain the undocumented must endure who must comply with draconian immigration laws and live in constant fear of being caught for a broken tail light and deported leaving behind a broken family.
The tensions — and the administration’s aggressive efforts to soothe them — reached a climax of sorts in a flurry of activity two months ago, with the administration making a surprise announcement it was giving officials discretion to suspend certain deportation cases that have drawn fire from critics, such as ones involving young people brought to the USA in early childhood.
The White House move came two days after immigrant advocates delivered tens of thousands of petitions to Obama’s reelection headquarters and other Democratic Party offices demanding an end to the administration’s aggressive deportation policy.
Since Obama in the first two years of his presidency when Democrats controlled the Congress failed to achieve Immigration Reform, Obama has only one avenue available to regain Mexican American support which is to end the Secure Communities Program and quit deporting undocumented.
The White House efforts to build up the Hispanic base coincide with recent moves by Obama’s Chicago-based reelection campaign to begin ramping up its grass-roots Hispanic operations in key states.
The campaign recently named Solis’s former chief of staff, longtime Denver strategist Katherine Archuleta, as its national political director, touting her as the highest-ranking Hispanic in the organization.
“The White House feels they have done all this work in other areas on the economy that has benefited Hispanics just like it’s benefited most of the country,” he said. “But it hasn’t been perceived that way in the community.”
If the 160 Hispanic leaders invited to the White House to be informed of talking points to be shared back home accept the items enumerated will substitute for Immigration Reform and condone 1,500,000 deportations and Secure Communities continuing — then the 160 Hispanics leaders are not leaders but Eva Longoria clones who can be bedazzled with as little as a White House dinner of Red Herring — but nothing will substitute for an approved Immigration Reform bill overturning AZ SB1070 with a path to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented — NOTHING!
Obama had a possibility in the first two years of his presidency when Democrats controlled Congress but Obama blew this opportunity. With the Republicans in control of the House and the 2012 election just around the corner, the only option for Obama to gain Hispanic support is continue “Prosecutorial Discretion” ending the deportation of Young Immigrants and ending the Secure Communities Program to deport the undocumented.
The only way now for Obama to win re-election in 2012 if he wants support from Hispanic voters, Obama must end Securities Communities and fire Janet Napolitano for overseeing deportations and Cecilia Muñoz for defending deportations.
Only Immigration Reform or the U.S. Supreme Court can end AZSB 1070. The crumbs identified as talking points provided by Solis don't even come close to being fundamental to the welfare of 50 million Hispanics living in the USA.
Immigration advocates have been agitating against Obama since 2009, angry overhauling immigration policy seemed to take a back seat even as he ramped up enforcement. The administration announced last month it had deported about 397,000 people in fiscal year 2011, bringing the total deported under Obama to more than 1,500,000 — more than under any other administration.
‘Turned her back’
But it is the activists’ recent decision to take on Muñoz that has added a cultural twist to the debate.
Peter Wallsten, of the Washington Post The highest-ranking Hispanic official in the Obama White House is being targeted as a traitor by fellow Hispanics in a highly personal, ethnic-based campaign against the president’s deportation policies.
“It appears Cecilia has turned her back on the important legacy she left as an immigrant rights advocate,” said Roberto Lovato, co-founder of Presente.org. “Cecilia Muñoz has made a 180-degree move from being a champion for immigrants to being the No. 1 defender of a horrendous immigration policy.”
Responding to criticism, administration officials in August pledged to conduct a case-by-case review of pending deportation proceedings and suspend low-priority cases such as those that would remove students who were brought to the United States at a young age — though officials concede the review has not fully begun yet.
Documentary comments
Concern on the left over Muñoz’s role intensified in late October after she appeared in “Lost in Detention,” a documentary on the PBS show “Frontline” examined the treatment of detainees held at Immigration and Customs Enforcement jails and featured accounts of Hispanic immigrant families separated after mothers or fathers were deported.
The report echoed the concerns many activists have voiced for years over a federal program called Secure Communities, in which people charged with state and local criminal violations are also checked for immigration status. Critics say many minor offenders are being detained and deported.
In a combative interview with journalist Maria Hinojosa, Muñoz defended the administration’s actions, pointing to policy changes in recent months designed to prioritize deporting criminals and playing down the more sympathetic cases.
Asked to reconcile her advocacy background with the record of the administration she serves, Muñoz responded, “We each have our responsibilities in this arena, and it’s important everybody do their job wisely and well.”
Critics have zeroed in on Muñoz’s assertions more than half of those deported in the past year were criminals and the government is focused on those who commit “serious crimes.” She and other administration officials say the vast majority of deportees fell into high-priority categories.
But only about 75,000 of those deported — less than 20 percent — fit into the administration’s top priority tier, according to government data, meaning they had been convicted of at least one aggravated felony such as murder or rape, or two felonies. Another 46,000 fit into the second tier, meaning they had been convicted of a single felony or three or more misdemeanors.
All told, government data show about 90 percent of deportees fit into the wider range of priority categories, including the recent border crossers and those who had been deported before, among others.
The Presente petition argues a large share “of the ‘criminals’ are being deported for non-violent offenses.”
‘She should take a stand’
Some activists believe Muñoz feels conflicted. Gaby Pacheco, 26, who joined other undocumented young immigrants last year in a protest walk from Miami to Washington, said Muñoz broke down in tears during a meeting with the group. Nevertheless, Pacheco said, she defended Obama.
“She should take a stand against what is happening,” Pacheco said. “It really pained me to hear her say all this is just collateral damage.”
The Truth be Told
Obama won two-thirds of the Hispanic vote in 2008 after pledging to make overhauling the immigration system a top priority. Several recent polls show his approval ratings among Hispanics remain higher than among the overall population, but they are far lower than the share many Democratic strategists believe he will need to secure reelection.
Honesty is key to a successful partnership. In this case Hispanics and Barack Obama. Since the beginning of this partnership, Obama has lied. Not just once but countless times with the worst travesty, using staff to lie for Obama. Not just any staff but Hispanic staff who no longer have scruples for they have sold their identities as Hispanics and have now been bribed with influences traded for their values. Many of the signing organizations have been criticized for softening demands for comprehensive Immigration Reform in order to stay within the good graces of Democratic leaders especially the White House.”
One
organization,
Presente.org,
even
made
a
public
statement
asking
Ms.
Muñoz
“set
the
record
straight”
along
with
a
petition
for
community
members
to
sign
in
hopes
Ms.
Muñoz
and
the
administration
would
clarify
its
remarks
and
acknowledge
the
devastation
the
current
enforcement
policies
are
having
on
the
immigrant
and
Hispanic
communities.
The
claim
more
than
half
of
the
people
removed
this
year
were
criminals
was
one
that
was
most
widely
disputed.
And
this
has
to
do
with
how
the
administration
has
redefined
“criminal
removal”
to
more
broadly
include
people
who
may
have
had
minor
offenses
like
marijuana
possession.
As
for
Obama
T
The
payback
for
broken
promises
and
lying
will
be
Mexican
Americans
will
not
vote
for
Obama
in
2012
and
without
Mexican
American
votes,
Obama
will
not
be
re-elected.
As
disappointed
as
we
are
with
the
lack
of
Immigration
Reform,
there
is a
long
litany
of
failures
that
have
caused
the
demise
of
the
United
States
of
America.
The
2012
presidential
election
is
up
for
grabs
and
in
early
2012,
the
above
websites
will
ask
Mexican
Americans
and
other
democrats
not
to
vote
for
Obama
unless
Obama
makes
concessions
and
only
the
actions
below
will
be
accepted.
Obama
has
no
creditability
with
promises
so
only
actual
actions
will
be
accepted
to
regain
Hispanic
votes.
These
Accusations
are
now
being
drafted
and
at
the
top
of
the
list:
End
the
Secure
Communities
Program
and
fire
Janet
Napolitano
and
Cecilia
Muñoz.
Jon
Garrido
Some
content
from:
WSJ,
CM,
WP,
NYT,
HP
and
former
Jon
Garrido
articles.
On
October
18,
2011,
the
U.S.
Immigration
and
Customs
Enforcement
(ICE)
released
its
year
end
removal
statistics,
stating
the
agency
removed
396,906
individuals,
setting
a
record.
ICE
then
explained
216,698
of
those
who
were
removed
were
convicted
of
felonies
or
misdemeanors
and
then
itemized
the
following:
“This
includes
1,119
aliens
convicted
of
homicide;
5,848
aliens
convicted
of
sexual
offenses;
44,653
aliens
convicted
of
drug
related
crimes;
and
35,927
aliens
convicted
of
driving
under
the
influence.”
But
when
these
numbers
are
added
up
for
the
itemized
serious
offenses,
one
arrives
at
87,547
people,
or
22%
of
those
removed
for
serious
offenses.
So
ICE’s
own
data
leaves
people
wondering
why
Muñoz
and
the
administration
insist
over
half
of
the
people
removed
were
convicted
of
serious
offenses.
Even
before
Cecilia
Muñoz
went
on
Frontline’s
Lost
in
Detention,
she
was
claiming
the
Department
of
Homeland
Security
was
prioritizing
the
removal
of
people
and
taking
steps
“to
keep
low-priority
cases
out
of
the
deportation
pipeline
in
the
first
place.”
Many
in
the
immigrant
advocacy
community
thought
this
would
mean
DREAM
Act
eligible
youth
would
not
end
up
in
deportation
proceedings.
Writer
Maegan
Ortiz
explains,
“One
interpretation
is
these
organizations
are
trading
their
values
for
influence.
Many
of
the
signing
organizations
have
been
criticized
for
softening
demands
for
comprehensive
Immigration
Reform
in
order
to
stay
within
the
good
graces
of
Democratic
legislators.”
Kevin
Johnson,
the
Dean
of
the
University
of
California,
Davis
School
of
Law,
who
studies
immigration
law
explained,
“We
have
an
administration
that
has
deported
the
most
people
in
history
and
is
trying
to
justify
the
removal
of
‘petty
offenders’.
The
administration
and
Muñoz
have
pushed
a
policy
of
trying
to
look
tough
on
immigration
as a
carrot
for
comprehensive
Immigration
Reform.
The
problem
is
we
have
a
lot
of
deportation
and
detention
but
no
Immigration
Reform.”
Johnson
also
stated
the
credibility
problem
is
bigger
than
Cecilia
Muñoz
and
he
doesn’t
think
the
administration
policies
would
change
if
she
were
no
longer
Director
of
Intergovernmental
Affairs
at
the
White
House.
For
him,
the
larger
problem
is
the
administration
has
pursued
a
“deportation
now
and
deportation
forever”
policy.
But
at
this
point,
Cecilia
Muñoz
has
become
the
Hispanic
face
for
anything
immigration-related
coming
from
the
Obama
White
House.
And
even
friends
of
the
Hispanic
community
have
given
up
swallowing
her
message.
Cecilia
Muñoz
is
no
longer
an
Hispanic
advocate
for
Muñoz
has
prostituted
herself.
A
day
will
come
when
Muñoz
will
no
longer
be
at
the
White
House
and
will
try
finding
a
new
job
but
Cecilia
Muñoz
will
be
shun
by
all
Hispanics
and
never
again
be
trusted.
