2008 Woodie Awards
Activist invites audience to take care of neighbors crossing border
Congress treads on Constitution with reforms and house resolutions, immigration activist says.
By Jason B. Hogan
Issue date: 4/4/08 Section: News
Originally published: 4/3/08 at 7:29 PM CSTLast update: 4/3/08 at 7:27 PM CST
Dominguez elicited aid from a local coyote, an individual that assists immigrants in crossing the U.S.-Mexican border illegally.
Morones said Dominguez was told by the coyote that her children would slow down the rest of the group putting them all in danger.
Dominguez and her children were left behind to fend for themselves in the Arizona desert.
After wandering aimlessly with no supplies through the desert area, Morones said Dominguez literally surrendered to death in the arms of Jesus - her son Jésus.
Her two children carried on through the insufferable desert heat and were later picked up by border patrol.
Upon return to their home in Zacatecas, Mexico, they told their grandfather, which prompted him to ask for Morones' help finding his daughter.
Morones said he assisted them in an attempt to find Lutrecia Dominguez in the Arizona desert.
"They went and found a body, but it was another woman," Morones said.
"Then another and another. These are the people dying because we don't have proper immigration reform."
Morones proudly admitted to being part of the disruption of the Minutemen, a national civil defense corps that charges themselves with border monitoring from illegal crossings and supporting border patrol agents, according to their Minuteman Civil Defense Corps headquarters Web site.
The Minutemen's official mission statement states that they will employ all means of civil protest, demonstration and political lobbying to accomplish this goal.
On July 16, 2005, Morones said he joined with the activist group Gente Unida made up of 65 human rights organizations to protest against the Minutemen.
Morones said one of the primary members of the Minutemen organization was Jim Chase who he once debated on the "Today Show."
"Racists do not identify themselves as racists," Morones said. "It's the action they do that make them racists."
Morones said Mahatma Ghandi once told a story to his grandson about a man who was walking along the beach with his son.
According to Morones, the son began to pick up starfish off the shoreline and throw them back into the water.
The father asked his son what he was doing. His son replied that he was throwing the starfish back into the water to save them.
And the father asked him what difference that would make.
The son picked up the next starfish and said it would make a difference to that one.
Morones pressed on with a discussion about the campus shooting occurring April 17, 2007, at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, called the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history by the BBC News Web site, killing 33 people, including the gunmen.
"If someone would have shown that young man some kindness in West Virginia, maybe he wouldn't have killed all those people," Morones said.
"The person you see in the morning in the mirror, that's who makes the difference ... It does make a difference."
Morones said Dominguez was told by the coyote that her children would slow down the rest of the group putting them all in danger.
Dominguez and her children were left behind to fend for themselves in the Arizona desert.
After wandering aimlessly with no supplies through the desert area, Morones said Dominguez literally surrendered to death in the arms of Jesus - her son Jésus.
Her two children carried on through the insufferable desert heat and were later picked up by border patrol.
Upon return to their home in Zacatecas, Mexico, they told their grandfather, which prompted him to ask for Morones' help finding his daughter.
Morones said he assisted them in an attempt to find Lutrecia Dominguez in the Arizona desert.
"They went and found a body, but it was another woman," Morones said.
"Then another and another. These are the people dying because we don't have proper immigration reform."
Morones proudly admitted to being part of the disruption of the Minutemen, a national civil defense corps that charges themselves with border monitoring from illegal crossings and supporting border patrol agents, according to their Minuteman Civil Defense Corps headquarters Web site.
The Minutemen's official mission statement states that they will employ all means of civil protest, demonstration and political lobbying to accomplish this goal.
On July 16, 2005, Morones said he joined with the activist group Gente Unida made up of 65 human rights organizations to protest against the Minutemen.
Morones said one of the primary members of the Minutemen organization was Jim Chase who he once debated on the "Today Show."
"Racists do not identify themselves as racists," Morones said. "It's the action they do that make them racists."
Morones said Mahatma Ghandi once told a story to his grandson about a man who was walking along the beach with his son.
According to Morones, the son began to pick up starfish off the shoreline and throw them back into the water.
The father asked his son what he was doing. His son replied that he was throwing the starfish back into the water to save them.
And the father asked him what difference that would make.
The son picked up the next starfish and said it would make a difference to that one.
Morones pressed on with a discussion about the campus shooting occurring April 17, 2007, at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, called the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history by the BBC News Web site, killing 33 people, including the gunmen.
"If someone would have shown that young man some kindness in West Virginia, maybe he wouldn't have killed all those people," Morones said.
"The person you see in the morning in the mirror, that's who makes the difference ... It does make a difference."
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Edward Anderson
posted 4/24/08 @ 4:58 PM CST
Morones shows his true colors once again as an advocate for Immigration Criminals by painting the very Federal Laws he claims over ruled California's Prop 187 as being simultaneously something to be ignored when it means stopping, pursuing and deporting the immigration criminals that those very laws mandate. (Continued…)
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