9/18/2004

Heinz-Kerry Undermining Homeland Security via the Open Borders Lobby


FrontPage magazine currently has a series, 57 Varieties of Radical Causes, which is a report by Ben Johnson documenting the tax-exempt giving by Teresa Heinz Kerry to political groups, which are shaping the American future.

If you aren't familiar with Kerry's wife's involvement with the "shadow political organizations", you should educate yourself.

Living in a border state, I am particularly offended - no! outraged! - to learn of Heinz-Kerry's huge support of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF), one of the premier organizations making up the “open borders” lobby. By huge, I mean that she has contributed well over half-a-million dollars to this group's prolonged effort to erase America’s borders and undermine the nation’s security.

MALDEF's history is extremely alarming. Not content to follow its original charter, which was aiding LEGAL immigrants to this country, MALDEF has expanded its efforts in giving illegal immigrants tools to avoid police detection.

It has long been known that terrorists are now using our border crossings to slip into this country undetected. According to Johnson, Heinz-Kerry has also underwritten the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA).

In June 2002, MIRA explicitly told its followers not to comply with federal immigration law:

"Please do NOT aid people in applying with INS unless you are familiar with their immigration history and are certain they would not be at risk of deportation by doing so. Always refer clients to an attorney if they are out of status or have a criminal record of any kind. It is very important that we, as service providers, do not put people at risk even as we try to help them.


Also, immediately after 9/11 a MIRA press release asked people to “Refer local Arab, Muslim, and affected groups to MIRA.”

Read Ben Johnson's article. His extensive research on this subject contains critical information on the man-who-would-be-president's wife.