What if an American television network were to air a ninety-minute awards special to honor the Americans who have made it their mission to prevent George W. Bush and the rest of the open borders lobby from totally - and officially - abandoning the rule of law and erasing our borders with amnesty again?

What if there were a TV show honoring the Border Patrol Agents who risk their lives to guard our borders?

I know…what if I go shopping for a hairdryer today.

OK, what if an American TV network were to air a ninety minute awards special created by an organization called the “National Council of The Race”?...I mean “La Raza”.

On ABC-TV tonight at 9:30 Eastern, exactly that will happen.

The 2006 NCLR ALMA AWARDS

From La Raza Website:

MEDIA ADVISORY

WHEN:

Monday, June 5 at 9:30 p.m. EST on ABC Network

WHAT:

Broadcast of 2006 NCLR ALMA Awards featuring famous Latino celebrities in the television, film, and music industries

NCLR created the ALMA Awards in 1995 as part of its strategy to promote fair, accurate, and balanced portrayals of Hispanics in the media. The show was named “ALMA” (Spanish for “spirit” or “soul”) to represent the determined spirit of the Latino community.

Reading this made me think Charlie Norwood, of one of our Georgia Congressmen here and what he had to say about La Raza.

In April, Norwood wrote a piece in Human Events online outlining La Raza’s intentions and put in some information on MEChA that should not be ignored.

The Truth About ‘La Raza’

by Rep. Charlie Norwood
Posted Apr 07, 2006

It is past time for all Americans to know what is at the root of this outrageous behavior, and the extent to which the nation is at risk because of “La Raza” — The Race.

There are many immigrant groups joined in the overall “La Raza” movement. The most prominent and mainstream organization is the National Council de La Raza — the Council of “The Race”.

To most of the mainstream media, most members of Congress, and even many of their own members, the National Council of La Raza is no more than a Hispanic Rotary Club.

But the National Council of La Raza succeeded in raking in over $15.2 million in federal grants last year alone, of which $7.9 million was in U.S. Department of Education grants for Charter Schools, and undisclosed amounts were for get-out-the-vote efforts supporting La Raza political positions.

The Council of La Raza succeeded in having itself added to congressional hearings by Republican House and Senate leaders. And an anonymous senator even gave the Council of La Raza an extra $4 million in earmarked taxpayer money, supposedly for “housing reform,” while La Raza continues to lobby the Senate for virtual open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens.

I’ll be contacting ABC-TV and my local ABC-TV affiliate to let them know that I share Congressman Norwood’s knowledge and view of La Raza …and to let them know how I feel about their airing anything created by this unapologetic gang of un-American racists.

I hope more than a few VDARE.com readers will do the same.

Maybe ABC-TV news department will consider the La Raza show to be news.

Maybe I will go buy a hairdryer.

What a pickle the Wall Street Journal is in.[Immigration Figures At Polls, Sarah Lueck, Wall Street Journal, June 2, 2006]

The June 6th special election in California’s 50th District between Republican Brian Bilbray and Democrat Francine Busby presents our least favorite open borders newspaper with a real quandary: to support the Republican, as it would 99.9 percent of the time, or–horrors!–back the Democrat?

The Journal is, naturally, wishing , hoping and praying that Busby prevails in a race currently considered a dead-heat.

And what exactly would make the Journal root for a Democrat? I won’t keep you in suspense—the answer is immigration.

Bilbray, a former Congressman, is strong on border enforcement and sanctions against employers who hire illegal aliens. And Bilbray has long supported legislation to end the anchor baby/automatic U.S. citizenship provision. The Journal considers these trivial issues, if even that.

On the other hand, Busby is a candidate the Journal can embrace even though she is one of those nasty Democrats.

Busby, like the Journal, smarmily says she is opposed to “amnesty” but thinks that “earned legalization” is an entirely different matter. She was even caught on tape saying to an illegal alien: “You don’t need papers to vote.”

Given the outrage over S.2611 (Arizona Senator John McCain cancelled a trip to San Diego to appear with Bilbray so that he could address a Hispanic leadership group) plus the fact that the ultra-conservative 50th District has 44 percent registered Republicans versus less than 30 percent registered Democrats, Bilbray should be coasting. Why isn’t he?

The Journal would have you believe that his “hard line status” on immigration diminishes his appeal to moderate Republicans.

But we know that ending illegal immigration and reducing legal immigration resonates with all Americans.

What the Journal is loath to admit is the most obvious. Bilbray’s albatross is not his strong stand against immigration.

What’s keeping the Bilbray-Busby race close is the urgent voter sentiment to rebuke the policies of Republican President George W. Bush, still a bright and shining star as far as the Journal is concerned.

Bush’s popularity rating in California is 28 percent . If you don’t think that’s a drag on a Republican candidate’s chances, then think again.

If Bush weren’t in the tank, then Busby would be sharpening her pencils getting ready to return to her old job at the local school board.