The Kyl Trojan Horse Deception

Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts 

PHOENIX (By Jon Garrido, Hispanic News and the Blue Dogs of the Democratic Party) September 3, 2007 — Kyl is a Trojan Horse who sponsored immigration reform but his hidden agenda working as a mole on the inside was to prevent a path to citizenship and to deport 12 million undocumented. If the immigration bill been adopted as Kyl fought for, it would have deported all migrants for jaywalking or spitting on the sidewalk. It was a proposed bill with very strict citizenship provisions loaded with unworkable cruelties.

A biblical warning, "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves." This is a description of Kyl and those that support him.

There are many wolves in sheep clothing that are team players of the Kyl deception.

Elias Bermudez

One wolf sleeping with the enemy covered by sheep's clothing is Elias Bermudez, founder of the pro-immigration group Immigrants Without Borders. Elias believes Kyl is "a true statesman and a person of character" and possibly part of the ultimate salvation of the Republican Party.

A registered Republican, Bermudez predicts Arizona eventually will be a Hispanic majority state and says Republicans such as Kyl and McCain are crucial to the party's continued vitality.  

A profound contradiction for it was Republicans who killed immigration reform. The only way to have immigration reform adopted with a path to citizenship is to elect moderate and conservative Democrats (The Blue Dogs of the Democratic Party).

To support Kyl's mission to deport the undocumented, Bermudez talks out of both sides of his mouth. He portrays himself as a champion of the undocumented but his primary mission is to succeed in processing immigration paperwork which provides his personal income. I know first hand Bermudez was a strong supporter of the undocumented having to leave the United States as a condition for obtaining a Green Card. I argued with Bermudez, this condition was a requirement I could never accept. I forcibly told Bermudez having the undocumented leave the United States for supposedly a few hours then being allowed to return to the United States would turn into a massive voluntary deportation with the undocumented having to acquire immigration processing assistance to return to the United States knowing full well many would have not been able to return.

None of this concerned Bermudez. The only concern Bermudez told me was to make sure the proposed legislation did not exclude non attorneys in the processing of immigration documents thus allowing his business of immigration processing to continue.

Bermudez's fifteen minutes of fame have come and gone. Once perceived as pillar of the migrant movement until his sheep's clothing slipped to expose the wolf, Bermudez has fallen victim to his own self serving ambition of building an organization that sells immigration paperwork processing to the undocumented. Bermudez has lost credibility with most Hispanic leaders and even his followers who patiently wait for an alternative organization so they can jump ship.

If any of this seems like I am angry — I am.

On August 2, 2006, I began a series of articles on diabetes found at the Hispanic News Diabetes Center identifying the number one killer of Hispanics is not the war in Iraq, serial killers, drive by shootings, road rage, deaths on the border, car accidents but illnesses caused by diabetes.

Obesity is the root cause of diabetes and according to the National Centers for Disease Control, the USA has an diabetes epidemic.

Nearly 21 million Americans are believed to be diabetic and 41 million more are pre-diabetic and could reach the diabetic level if they do not alter their living habits.

One in three children born in the United States five years ago are expected to become diabetic in their lifetimes, according to a projection by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The forecast is even bleaker for Hispanics: one in every two, particularly Mexican-Americans and Puerto Ricans.

What causes obesity? It is the food we traditionally eat and that sold by fast food restaurants and grocery stores such as Food City.

For those that counter the kind of food we eat is a personal choice; be assured, that is exactly the same argument tobacco originally made until the tobacco companies were sued and publicly admitted cigarettes cause cancer.

I asked Food City to meet with me and they did. Food City was represented by their public relations hired gun Nereyda Lopez-Bowden who claimed the problem at hand was a public relations problem and not a health problem as I contended.

The meeting ended abruptly as soon as it started for I knew Food City was never going to address this as a health problem but would continue to prefer dealing with it as a public relations problem. This is standard modus operandi for Food City by buying influence with Hispanic organizations with a small token financial contribution.

It was I who wrote the letter to Eddie Basha and I added the names of two Inmigrantes Sin Fronteras representatives who were responsible for coordinating the Inmigrantes committee because Elias Bermudez was in South America. I was not comfortable without meeting with Bermudez but I was assured Bermudez was aware of all conditions and had approved proceeding.

As soon as Basha received my letter, Nereyda Lopez-Bowden called Elias Bermudez when he returned and set up a meeting with one condition: Jon Garrido would not be invited "because he will not negotiate." (Translation: He can not be bought.)

Bermudez agreed and met with Nereyda Lopez-Bowden and Basha representatives. An agreement was reached calling off the planned boycott.

The primary question that publicly has not been shared with the Phoenix Hispanic community is what was offered to Bermudez and evidently, what did Bermudez accept for calling off the boycott?

There are many who emailed Bermudez asking what was in the agreement with copies to concerned parties including me.  Bermudez responding back to all inquires, "The problem has been resolved." Nothing else. "The problem has been resolved!" (I saved the emails.)

The only conclusion surmised from any of this is something was offered by Bashas and something was received by Bermudez for calling off the boycott.

Are the undocumented the beneficiaries of any agreement? You know what my answer is.

The only conclusion is whatever Bashas offered to Bermudez has monetary value and as such, IRS requires notification of the value received and of the cost of business has to be reported by Bashas to IRS. It will make for revealing investigative reporting to research this transaction beginning on April 16 of next year.

This is the only way the Hispanic community is ever going to find out why Bermudez called off the Food City boycott.

Bill Straus

Another wolf in sheep's clothing is Bill Straus, Arizona Regional Director of the Anti-Defamation League, who told me Kyl is "admirable." This is similar to saying in 1939, the Nazis strategy to build a white supremacist Aryan nation was "admirable." What is hard to understand is how Straus is blind to the devious Kyl agenda. (Maybe Straus is not blind.) This is like Straus being a member of the Vichy government in the name of French liberation. To forget the past is to relive it. Evidently, Straus has become a fixture in the Kyl McCain camp and as such it is time for him to retire.

If he refuses to go, Hispanic News will start a campaign emailed across the United States to alert the Jewish community of Straus' collaboration with anti Hispanic basher Kyl and as such, Straus' employment with the ADL must come to and end.

The Anti-Defamation League, founded in 1913, is the world's leading organization fighting anti-Semitism through programs and services that counteract hatred, prejudice and bigotry yet Straus supports Kyl, the biggest advocate in Arizona for hatred, prejudice and bigotry against the Hispanic undocumented. This is a contradiction to the ADL mandate.

The Germans after the war tried to cover up the killing of 6 million Jews. The Germans rationalized they were not aware of what was being done to the Jewish population in Germany.

This is the same verbiage Straus uses to describe Kyl. Straus states he is not aware of any discriminating behavior Kyl has toward the Hispanic undocumented.

To this day, I vividly remember standing near the entrance of the former Nazi concentration camp in Dachau, Germany and seeing a tombstone that read "6 Million Jews are Buried Here."

I will never forget the tragedy loss of 6 million Jews and hope 12 million Hispanics are not rounded up and sent to concentration camps. If you think this can never happen in the United States, you are not aware there was once a concentration camp about 60 miles to the southeast of Phoenix.

I was born and raised in Superior, Arizona, and just before entering Florence, Arizona, on the west side of the highway, I remember during my childhood passing the barracks used to jail American Japanese. The barracks are gone now but I still remember them as I still remember the showers and ovens at Dachau.