“This is a great time to be a Latino in this country!”
In 2013, ‘El Presidente’ arrived in New Orleans to speak at the National Council of La Raza.
El Presidente Juan Sanchez was not the dictator of some Latin American banana republic, but a board member of La Raza and the founder and president of Southwest Key which housed illegal alien minors who had crossed the border. The number of so-called ‘unaccompanied minors’ invading the country was beginning to shoot up under Obama and the administration was taking the opportunity to direct housing contracts to political allies that would help it transform America.
La Raza honored Southwest Key as its “affiliate of the year” and the group got a big check.
“The crux of our work is about creating opportunities for our gente,” El Presidente Sanchez told La Raza using the term for ‘folk’ or ‘people’. “This is a great time to be a Latino in this country!”
Or at least a Latino activist with ties to the Obama administration.
Under Obama, Southwest Key went from receiving $670,800 in federal grants to $31 million. The year after Sanchez’s appearance at La Raza, along with Michelle Obama, the nonprofit took in over $100 million. The Obama administration made the La Raza affiliate into an empire.
Michelle Obama delivered the keynote address at La Raza: a racist hate group based on the teachings of a Nazi sympathizer who believed Latinos were ‘La Raza’ or the master race. Next year, the Obama administration came to Southwest Key’s defense when the city of Escondido, CA rejected plans for a Southwest Key facility. Southwest Key and the DOJ won that one.
By 2017, Sanchez, self-declared ‘El Presidente’ of an empire of shelters, was taking in $3.6 million in compensation a year at the ‘non-profit’ and Southwest Key had scored $1.7 billion in federal grants. A portrait of Che Guevara hung in his office and politically connected figures on both sides of the border were cashing in while children were being sexually abused.
A recent federal complaint revealed that “Southwest Key has engaged in a pattern or practice of severe or pervasive sexual harassment of children in its care”, and that “from 2015 continuing through at least the end of 2023, Southwest Key received complaints concerning the sexual abuse and harassment of children at the majority of its Casas.”
The litany of abuses included a worker molesting a 5-year-old girl and 8-year-old girl and threating to kill her family, a supervisor repeatedly raping a 15-year-old girl, and a “child” reporting a Southwest Key worker telling him he liked trangenders and asked him if “he dressed as a woman at night” while fondling himself as part of over 100 reports with numerous descriptions of workers who groped boys and girls of all ages and solicited them for sex.
According to the allegations in the federal complaint, Southwest Key employees helped cover up the abuses, threatening girls that they would face consequences if they spoke out and encouraging them to keep quiet about what happened.
These abuses might never have come to light except that once the Obama administration made way for the Trump administration, the detention of underage minors suddenly became controversial. Southwest Key shelters, once the embodiment of La Raza pride, were denounced as “baby jails.” Media outlets suddenly began reporting the multi-million dollar salaries at the non-profit. Reports emerged of a Southwest Key worker sexually assaulting 8 children.
By 2019, El Presidente Juan Sanchez had stepped down from his own organization.
La Raza was forced to suspend its former “affiliate of the year” to which it had provided $250,000 in grants, but multiple Southwest Key figures still had prominent La Raza ties including interim board chair Victor R. Grza, a founder of the La Raza Roundtable, its chief strategic partnerships officer Jose Velasquez, a former vice president of La Raza, and Anselmo Villarreal, the current CEO of Southwest Key who had been a La Raza board member.
La Raza’s fingerprints are all over Southwest Key and closely tied in with a network of Latino activist groups set up to profit financially and politically from the border invasion.
Under Obama it was Republicans, including Sen. Chuck Grassley, who were sounding the alarm about Southwest Key. Earlier this year, Sen. Grassley, citing whistleblowers, warned of “MS-13 gang affiliation” households and “possible child-trafficking rings”, and asked for reports of “potential cases of human trafficking” identified by Southwest Key employees.
When the Arizona Daily Independent revealed in 2015 that whistleblowers were warning that children were being turned over to ‘drug families’ and that some of the minors were gang members, the story was buried. Only once Trump took office and tried to secure the border did the media suddenly become interested in investigating some abuses at Southwest Key.
What had once been a lucrative means of subsidizing Democrats and the border invasion became an obstacle to completely opening up the border and deluging the country. And while Southwest Key may have been exposed, there are many other ‘nonprofits’ run by political allies of the open borders lobby who are profiting from the invasion while denouncing “xenophobia.”.
Southwest Key and its La Raza officials claimed that they were helping Latinos, in reality the organization was exploiting the Latino kids that they were making millions promising to help. The Latino nationalism of La Raza was, like that of most identity politics movements, a fraud.
The mass invasion exploited both America and the migrants for a larger goal of transforming the country into the ideal leftist society envisioned by Barack Obama and La Raza.
Jose Vasconcelos, formerly Mexico’s leftist Minister of Education, had envisioned Latinos as ‘La Raza Cosmica’. The idea of a new master race shaped by continental eugenics became popular among Latino racialists in the United States leading to the chant “Viva La Raza!” meaning “Hail the Race”. Vasconcelos had praised Hitler and predicted a global National Socialist victory.
La Raza was a racist nationalist movement masquerading as an anti-racist one. So too Southwest Key promised to save Latino kids only for its workers to abuse them. But the kids were foot soldiers serving as the means to an end. And that end was the End of America.
Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.
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The Spanish raped and plundered South America and now they want to do the same to North America.
ReplyDeleteJontyD
I suppose it goes without saying that 0bama's Supreme Court pick, Sonya Sotomayor, was a member of La Raza, and one who famously said in a speech at Berkeley, "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”
ReplyDeleteAt the time I recall every Dem I knew was delighted that a 'Latina' was nominated. They knew absolutely nothing about her, her background, or judicial qualifications. The diversity of it all was all they cared for.
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