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The National Hispanic Leadership Agenda, a coalition grouping 29 organizations, presented a report on the process of appointing people to government posts as it has unfolded over the three months since Obama took office.
The NHLA praised some of the policies that have been put in place so far and the efforts of the government to ensure health assistance to children, as well as the intention to bring to fruition comprehensive immigration reform.
But 100 days into his term with certain posts still vacant in his administration, Obama has named or proposed 60 Hispanics for top-level posts, including 19 requiring Senate confirmation, a figure that lags behind what other presidents have done to staff the highest levels of their administrations.
The two Hispanics placed highest in the administration are Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.
"There is a list of well-qualified Hispanics who can play an important role in this administration," said NHLA director Gabriela Lemus during a telephone press conference.
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Placing ethnicity BEFORE merit? I'd like for some of them to explain publicly why requesting such a thing isn't one of the biggest examples of ethnocentrism.
Placing ethnicity BEFORE merit? I'd like for some of them to explain publicly why requesting such a thing isn't one of the biggest examples of ethnocentrism.
Agreed. Not to mention, they want everything handed to them on a silver platter when other than procreating faster than the speed of sound and thus out populating white and black Americans, they have no basis for doing so.
Thanks, for sparing me the painful annoyance of stating it for the 9999999999,0000000000 time.
This thread is off topic. What's this got to do with illegal immigration? I don't think the organization is suggesting nominating an illegal immigrant to the Supreme Court.
This thread is off topic. What's this got to do with illegal immigration? I don't think the organization is suggesting nominating an illegal immigrant to the Supreme Court.
In light of the fact that they site the massive population of "hispanics" as a reason for their demands, without distinguishing between legal and illegal, it is indeed related to illegal immigration. Why is it that those of your ilk only cry foul about blatant obfuscation of the entire population of hispanics when it works against you?
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With more than 50 million Latinosliving in the United States and Puerto Rico, representing 16 percent of the country's population, the NHLA feels it's necessary for them to be a part of the decisionmaking process in areas like education, civil rights, immigration, the economy and health care.
This thread is off topic. What's this got to do with illegal immigration? I don't think the organization is suggesting nominating an illegal immigrant to the Supreme Court.
I think this ties into illegal immigration via the azzkissing Obama did to hispanic groups by promising amnesty as well as the infamous line that everyone should learn Spanish - not that hispanic immigrants should learn English.
Basically, its payback time for Obama. Lets see if kowtows or not.
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