By DEXTER DUGGAN
PHOENIX — Shocking riots by some Latinos against Donald Trump’s supporters and even civic authority bring to mind defiant illegal aliens.
But it’s more than likely that some of the violence against the Republican presidential candidate’s followers and the police comes from young legal residents or U.S. citizens who’ve been indoctrinated at school or elsewhere.
The young people don’t have to be freshly arrived from south of the international line to have been propagandized in “ethnic studies” or “multiculturalism” classes or some variation of that, which denounce “white European” culture and celebrate a legendary brown Southwestern kingdom of Aztlan.
To decry and even attack the “Europeans” is thought to be a step toward the social justice of “restoring” the Southwest and even other parts of the United States to Latino rule.
Earlier during this decade, for instance, The Wanderer chronicled developments in a divisive, tax-funded “ethnic studies” program in the Tucson Unified School District that promoted racial resentment and hailed Aztlan.
These days, YouTube videos show many Latinos in the U.S. expressing enthusiastic support for Trump, but there definitely are other Latinos taking an opposite stand.
In interviews with The Wanderer in early June, some U.S. citizens noted that the violence wasn’t committed only by illegal aliens.
One video from the June 2 riot in San Jose, Calif., against Trump supporters showed a proudly grinning young Latino man with an American accent telling a blonde young woman, who also had an American accent, to go back to Europe. He seemed to think his was a clever comment, but it’s an insult old enough to have whiskers.
A story posted June 3 by the UK Guardian quoted one of the San Jose protesters, “The blood that runs through my veins is Mexican.”
Beginning in March, Trump’s supporters have had their gatherings disrupted and have been assaulted by leftist radicals, many of them visibly Latino, in cities including Chicago, suburban Phoenix, Albuquerque, and, in California, Costa Mesa, Anaheim, San Jose, and near San Francisco. Protesters also turned up in San Diego and Fresno.
When he began his surprising presidential campaign last summer, Trump included opposition to crime by illegal aliens as one of his key issues.
This quickly resounded with Americans all too aware of, or suffering from, major illegal-alien lawbreaking in their towns and cities. But Trump’s truth-telling horrified the U.S. elite, including Catholic Church prelates, who remained determined to downplay knowledge of what was happening while deluging the U.S. with the effects of a border open to virtually all crossers.
If anyone dared suggest that standard, commonsense procedures to verify and screen people for admission to the U.S. should be applied, elite spokesmen denounced “racists” supposedly opposed to any immigration. Lawbreaking Democrat Barack Obama did all he could to ensure that a tsunami of illegal immigration overwhelmed the U.S.
Having been shown that the highest levels of U.S. authority ignored border violence and violations, anti-Trump protesters apparently decided they could do whatever they pleased.
In recent weeks they’ve wrecked police cars, chased, physically attacked and bloodied Trump supporters, worn masks to cover their faces while waving Mexican flags, and snatched Trump supporters’ apparel to set afire.
Some Latino rioters also burned the U.S. flag.
One can only imagine the worldwide liberal media explosion, including demands that Trump retire from political life, if Trump supporters in one town after another were, say, waving the Confederate flag, beating and bloodying Hillary Clinton supporters, pelting them with objects, and battling police officers.
But of course these liberal media were more patient and gentle in covering the violence that they deemed to be coming from their own side of politics.
However, in this age of social media, the Latino violence was documented and uploaded by ordinary people as terror swirled around them.
Videos from the June 2 San Jose riot, as last week’s issue of The Wanderer went to press, showed people’s cars being jumped on and kicked as they tried to drive away after the Trump rally there.
A trapped car was shown being rocked from side to side by rioters, while a video showed a victim being punched in the back of the head as he tried to escape. Trump signs were grabbed and torn up while his supporters were spat on.
One photo showed some demonstrators watching a distinctive Trump hat afire at their feet as one of them wore a shirt with the image of murderous Latino Communist revolutionary Che Guevara, and another held a “We need socialism” sign.
Another poster reportedly proclaimed, “Make California Mexico again.”
Some widely circulated San Jose photos showed a young man with blood dripping down the side of his face, while a woman had raw egg running down her hair.
The liberal Democrat mayor of San Jose, a Hillary Clinton backer, repeatedly was accused of having his city’s police fail to take speedy protective action while the Trump supporters were pummeled and egged.
Frontier Justice
The Wanderer contacted for comment a conservative Latino activist, an attorney and a political consultant, all in Arizona, and a pundit from the San Francisco area.
In a June 3 telephone interview, Reymundo Torres, an Arizona Republican conservative activist, said he didn’t know “if there’s any way to figure out if (protesters) are legal or illegal,” but he is concerned with “what’s happening generationally in the Latino community.”
Noting young protesters waving the Mexican rather than American flag in California, Torres, a Catholic, asked, “Why are they seeking to re-create that country here, rather than (honoring) the country that’s taking them in?. . . To me, the whys are far more interesting and far more worrisome.”
A third-generation American with a Mexican heritage, Torres attended university and also studied Spanish in Mexico City, as well as traveling to that country for business.
Torres said he sees similarities between “the fracturing and balkanization” occurring in the U.S. and in Europe. “To me, is extremely worrisome.”
The anti-Trump rioters are “not there to make a point. . . . They’re there for chaos,” Torres said. “Even when the Trump people are clearly the victims…it’s ‘always the conservatives’ fault’.”
As for the Latino protester’s assertion that the blonde woman in San Jose should go back home to Europe, Torres said that supposedly pure Mexican blood long ago was intermingled with outsiders’, including Europeans’. “None of them marching around on these streets is pure Indian blood.”
He noted a trend in the U.S. not to wait for the judicial process but to seek “frontier justice” — not only against Trump supporters but also at such scenes of racial turmoil as Ferguson, Mo., and Baltimore.
“It’s becoming the norm,” Torres said. “. . . It’s one more acceptable form of free speech” for protesters to pelt women with objects.
“The double standard is blunt and obvious” between how liberals and conservatives are treated, he said, but there still are “squishy” Republicans who identify more with accommodating the rioters’ sensitivities than with defending Trump’s supporters.
These GOP members’ betrayals of their own Republican base “are responsible for Donald Trump’s surges” with voters, Torres said.
On another topic, Mexico’s potential economic improvement, Torres said there’s some progress in helpful privatization, but “a huge swath, millions of people, (are) locked out of the version of capitalism that exists there,” leaving them “mired in poverty perpetually.”
Torres said patriotism as Americans understand it isn’t practiced in Mexico, where there’s no desire to serve other Mexicans beyond their own immediate circle.
The last Mexican presidential candidate who truly had a plan for serious reform, the PRI’s Donaldo Colosio, was assassinated in Tijuana during the 1994 presidential campaign, Torres said.
A Catholic attorney in southern Arizona, who asked not to be named because of border conditions, told The Wanderer in a June 5 email that U.S. Catholic prelates show more concern for other nations than for their own people.
“They have the blood of the people in San Bernardino and the dead children killed by illegal aliens” as their burden of guilt, the attorney said — “all those brokenhearted mothers standing on the streets of a Donald Trump rally begging for help. There are many other instances of terrorism and crime committed by illegal and legal immigrants with an agenda fueled by anger and hate, which cannot be. Just pure shame on those complicit.”
She continued: “Have the bishops no heart for their flock? Have they lost their sense of duty to those closest in their sphere of responsibility? Why do they ignore every other way to help the needy foreigners, as set forth in the Church’s teachings and the Pope’s words, which will really help the old and the sick and the young in the sending countries? Why do they help empower the strong and the young to come and stay and harm us?”
The attorney began her email by saying that “the bishops need to justify their silence about, and their complicity in, the policies of the current governmental leaders of the United States to overwhelm America and the legitimate residents of America with people who hate this country and come to take from it and/or destroy it.
“Where in any of the Church’s social-justice documents or the Catechism or even in common sense can they find any justification for” the open-borders strategy of the U.S. Conference of Catholic bishops, she asked.
Helping Trump
In light of Church support for unrestricted immigration, Barbara Simpson, a commentator in the San Francisco area, emailed The Wanderer a statement taking Catholic clergy to task for failing to take a stand against the Latino rioters.
“One group that hasn’t had a word to say about all this is the Catholic clergy. This group has virtually universally supported ‘immigration’ from Mexico and Central America — legal and illegal — claiming it’s the ‘Christian’ thing to do,” Simpson said.
“As a Catholic, this is as offensive to me as those who justify the violence against Donald Trump,” she said. “I’ll feel much better about Church involvement when one of the clergy — any bishop, priest, cardinal, or even the Pope — speaks out that such rioting is wrong, and so is illegal immigration, and it doesn’t matter your politics.”
The recent riots around the U.S. are “an outrageous disruption of our election process,” Simpson said. “It’s one thing to disagree with a candidate, but it’s totally another to take out that disagreement against the people who support the candidate.”
In San Jose, “There’s no doubt immigrants, legal and illegal, were involved in the melee,” she continued. “The protesters battled the police, who were told to hold back their response, and the worst was the day after, to hear San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo saying that Trump was to blame for the attacks!”
Conservative Arizona Republican political consultant Constantin Querard told The Wanderer the rioters actually benefit Trump.
“The attacks only help Trump because they drive ratings, make him the victim, and rally people to his defense who might not be sure how they feel about Trump, but who are positive how they feel about violent thugs who burn the American flag and attack innocent people,” Querard said.
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