By DEXTER DUGGAN
PHOENIX — A black activist urged Arizona Tea Party groups to oppose misuse of the 14th Amendment that has the effect of granting immediate citizenship to illegal aliens. He also said he wants Latinos liberated from their oppressive rulers.
Warning against illegal immigration flooding the United States and overwhelming this nation’s voters, Ted Hayes told a meeting of north Phoenix’s Arizona Project Tea Party on December 3, “This might be our final hour in history, or it might be our finest hour, and it starts in Phoenix, Ariz.”
He hoped the movement would pick up steam and make itself felt in Congress.
Hayes, who has fought to help the homeless in California and has a daughter who is an Olympics gold medalist in hurdles, told the meeting that misinterpreting the 14th Amendment “is undermining” blacks because illegal aliens have assistance diverted to them that disadvantaged blacks, who are U.S. citizens, would receive otherwise.
The aliens are taking Americans’ jobs, education, housing, even their lives, he said.
“To me, the greatest threat to our country…is the illegal alien invasion,” he said. His website is www.tedhayes.us.
Although Hayes points out that the 14th Amendment specifically was approved in Congress soon after the Civil War to guarantee citizenship to freed black slaves, the amendment is used now to award automatic citizenship to children of illegal aliens.
The amendment begins by saying, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
Critics of the misuse of the 14th Amendment note that it doesn’t simply say “born in the United States,” but also “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”
Clearly, the critics say, people who have sneaked into the U.S. and defy its laws with their continued shadowy, unauthorized presence are not under the jurisdiction of this nation, nor would their offspring be.
The U.S. and Canada are the only two developed nations in the world that continue to provide birthright citizenship to illegal aliens, according to NumbersUSA, an advocacy group that favors lower legal immigration levels, while other nations have repealed this provision in recent decades, including Portugal, France, Ireland, New Zealand, and Australia.
Speaking to four Tea Parties in the Phoenix area, Hayes gave two separate presentations to the Arizona Project, on November 30 and December 3.
Arizona Project chairman Ron Ludders told the December 3 audience he was hearing feedback that Hayes’ November 30 talk had been a standout presentation.
With his short white beard, Hayes is a colorful presence in the public eye. He wore a prominent Star of David around his neck both nights at the Arizona Project, along with a khaki jacket the first time and an African-style cap the second time.
Sitting down to chat with The Wanderer on December 3, Hayes criticized the disregard toward U.S. sovereignty shown in Pope Francis’ pontificate concerning borders.
“I would love to have him explain to me . . . why he tells them to come oppress me in my country,” Hayes said, adding later: “. . . What you’re doing is killing me. . . . It’s killing my people.”
Hayes expressed friendship toward poor Latinos and, during his talk later the same evening to the Arizona Project audience, ticked off a list of Latino countries he’d like to see liberated from oppression.
“I want to be their best friend. I am their best friend,” Hayes said.
When The Wanderer noted that Mexican Catholic bishops urged their people to keep crossing the border illegally to the U.S., Hayes observed that Mexico is “really a wealthy country.” He wondered why those bishops didn’t urge their countrymen “to rise up against oppression” there.
Hayes said that when he went to the office of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington, D.C., to ask why the USCCB countenanced illegal immigration, he was told it’s just their policy.
The Wanderer attended both of Hayes’ Arizona Project talks to compile the comments below. He spoke effortlessly for hours and still kept the audience attentive.
“I’ve been taken to jail on numerous occasions” as an activist for the homeless, he said, adding that he personally became homeless “to see if there’s a way out of it.”
Touching on various topics, Hayes said that in his opinion, the greatest generation in U.S. history was the 740,000 young white men who died opposing slavery in the Civil War — a remarkable instance of one race dying in battle against members of the same race in order to liberate a different race.
“We came a long way to put an end to chattel slavery in this country,” Hayes said, adding: “I’m not African-American. I’m not an African. . . . I’m a United States citizen.”
Donald Trump didn’t mean anything to him as a candidate for the presidency, Hayes told the audience, until Trump cited the 14th Amendment as a way to discourage illegal immigration.
“I sat up” then, Hayes said, adding that people on both the political right and left “are sick of being invaded.”
U.S. blacks “are moving toward Donald Trump” because they recognize “he’s speaking more to our interests” on the 14th Amendment, Hayes said.
The 14th Amendment must “get rid of anchor babyism,” he said, expressing serious concern that “America will be over” within a few years when growing numbers of illegal aliens gain the vote and feel they can do whatever they want in the U.S.
Hayes said the 14th Amendment is to guarantee blacks their birthright, but it’s being stolen from them and given to someone else.
“If you take the 14th Amendment away from us and give it to someone else, we’re gone,” he said. “. . . Black people are scared, they’re really scared” about this.
Hayes likened illegal aliens to a burglar in the house at night, “happy the owner does not wake up. . . . They’re happy we’re stupid enough to stay asleep, with a knife in our back.”
Pointing to the damage Democrats have done to the black family with welfarism, Hayes said, “We flip the script now. We make Democrats a pejorative term. . . . Forever we will kill the Democratic Party. They’ll have to get a new entity. . . .
“Black folks are going to be falling in love with you” as Republicans because “they’ll see a tomorrow,” not the dead end of dependency, said Hayes, a Republican.
“Be Republicans. Be proud of it, because you have a heritage” that’s unique for its firm foundation opposing slavery, Hayes said.
When Republicans are accused of being racists for opposing illegal immigration, Hayes said, blacks can come to their defense and decry this accusation. “We are your black shield,” he said. “Hold us up, then no one can stop you.”
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