What does it mean that Obamba is appointing maldef's Thomas Saenz to a key Justice Dept post?

Who's Thomas Saenz?
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Thursday, March 05, 2009
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=321150134875960

Civil Rights: The open-borders crowd eagerly awaits the nomination of one of its own to a key Justice Department post, a man who has dedicated his life to promoting illegal immigrant "rights."

President Obama is expected to appoint Thomas Saenz as the nation's top civil-rights enforcer. It's a key appointment because Obama has promised to "reinvigorate" the division Saenz will lead. And the Civil Rights Division carries a wide-ranging portfolio, covering everything from hate crimes and police misconduct to voting rights and redistricting laws.

All this power will likely be turned over to Saenz, who was a top lawyer for a radical Hispanic group that wants to cede California to Mexico. Saenz is credited with killing Proposition 187 in California against the wishes of 60% of voters. That law would have denied welfare to illegals.

At the time, Saenz was vice president of litigation for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, or MALDEF, whose co-founder has exulted: "California is going to be a Mexican state, we are going to control all the institutions. If people don't like it, they should leave."

Joel W

http://blogs.laweekly.com/ladaily/morning-sixpack-a-news-roundup-40/

* Molina Slams Obama on Saenz According to Supervisor Gloria Molina, the White House, fearing a confirmation fight over Thomas Saenz, dumped him as its choice to head the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. Criticizing the administration, Molina claims the L.A. mayoral advisor's pro-immigration-rights stance was a red flag scaring off the White House. L.A. Observed
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Maryland Labor Secretary Tapped to Head Civil Rights Division
http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2009/03/maryland-labor-secretary-tapped-to-head-civil-rights-division.html

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President Barack Obama today nominated Tom Perez, Marylandâ€™s labor secretary, to head the Justice Departmentâ€™s Civil Rights Division.

Perez, who oversaw large chunks of the transition, including matters at Justice and the Department of Health and Human Services, is one of the last pieces of the DOJ puzzle. The department's No. 2 and No. 3 officials were sworn in today, and Obama has announced the nominees for most of the major DOJ components, save for the office of Legal Policy, Office of Legislative Affairs, the Tax Division, and the Environmental and Natural Resources Division.

Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. has said reinvigorating the Civil Rights Division is among his highest priorities. The division was wracked by allegations of politically motivated hiring during the Bush administration, and critics have said the division strayed from it traditional role of traditional role of protecting minority voters and workers rights
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The problem with this appointment is that Maryland has a very lousy reputation for protecting the people of Maryland from the Illegal aliens. In fact, I would guess Maryland HUD needs to be thoroughly investigated for example.

We do not have a friend in that position and I do not think he should even be appointed. There is no.. none.. no corresponding defense of the majority civil rights, and as things have gone for many years now, the minority groups are very busy thumping the majority off of the walls.

We need a way to level the playing fields.. and it has just gotten a whole lot worse.

Lorenzo the Itinerant

NWO

ATJ

Saenz has also sued California cities to establish "hiring halls" for illegal day laborers so that they can have a place to urinate. In fact, protecting day laborers against "anti-immigrant" sweeps is one of his top priorities.

He has agitated for "a federal court decision which would settle (the issue) for all time," and now he may have his way. Loitering illegals may soon have total freedom to harass store customers and drink and relieve themselves in public.

He would also crack down on local law enforcement officials who help ICE deport illegals. When the LAPD tried such collaboration, Saenz demanded "punishing all wrongdoers."

In fact, the way Saenz sees it, no illegal alien should be rounded up.
Is Obama out of his CHUCK'N MIND! This is obscene illegals taking over our country in a time people are fighting to keep jobs and we the people will have to pay more taxes because they don't. This is the last straw of this left wing B.S.

Thomasina Paine

And most Californians have!

Gee, do you suppose he bothered to pay taxes.

I can't believe any of this surprises anyone - BO was the most left wing member of congress.

GreasyTony

Can your article be any more BIASED?.....LOL

It's very great news! A very educated and experienced person to take that position.....so what is wrong here? I don't get it? Are you looking for somebody that has no experience, and dropped out of High School?

Let's take a look at Thomas Saenz.

He grew up in Southern California and attended Alhambra High School. He graduated summa c u m laude from Yale University and received his law degree from Yale Law School, where he won the Potter Stewart Prize for moot court. He then served as law clerk for the Honorable Harry L.Hupp of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and to the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He joined the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund as a staff attorney in 1993; he became Los Angeles Regional Counsel in 1996, National Senior Counsel in 2000, and Vice President of Litigation in 2001. He taught Civil Rights Litigation as an adjunct professor at USC, for several years, and was a Resident Practitioner at Berkeley Law School (aka Boalt) in 2005. He became counsel to the L.A. Mayor in August 2005.

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