Opinion
Obama appoints lobbyist who opposes enforcement of immigrant laws
By: EXAMINER EDITORIAL HOT ZONE
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March 11, 2009
Obama appoints lobbyist who won’t enforce immigrant laws
It’s bad enough that President Barack Obama repeatedly ignores the very rules and principles he publicly embraces, but it’s worse when he does so on behalf of a member of a radically leftist, explicitly racial-identity group. Obama has repeatedly reaped political benefits by promising not to appoint lobbyists to high government positions. But then he turns around and appoints lobbyists, to high government positions. On Tuesday evening he added two more, signing “waivers” under a “public interest” exemption from his own executive order on ethics.
One of the two is Ceclia Munoz, appointed to head the president’s executive office of inter-governmental affairs. Her lobbying job was as senior vice president of the National Council of La Raza. (La Raza’s translation is “The Race.”) La Raza favors amnesty for illegal immigrants, has filed numerous suits to keep state and local police from enforcing immigration law, supports giving drivers licenses to illegals, and wants to require states to offer in-state college tuition rates for illegals. Munoz herself has accused advocates of strict border enforcement of “hatred” and of being “xenophobic.”
Why, pray tell, is it in the “public interest” to set aside an anti-lobbyist law for somebody who lobbied against enforcing the law?
