Latino leader upset over change in political tide; La Raza puff piece.

Immigration: In South Carolina they are set to pass some laws making it harder for illegals and that has upset the adovocates who are demanding rights.

Diana Salazar (right) president of the Latino Association of Charleston, discusses her group's position on immigration reform during a news conference in the Statehouse lobby in Columbia on Tuesday. The House and Senate are expected to begin negotiations shortly on the two final versions of the legislation that attempts to rein in hiring practices of public and private employers and ask the federal government for authority to enforce immigration laws such as deportation, along with many other provisions. "Undocumented — not aliens because they are not from Mars," Salazar said. "They were not the cause of our terrorist attacks. They are not criminals. They just want to keep their families together." ....Salazar, who is a third-generation American of Mexican heritage, said the issue of illegal immigration should be debated at the federal level. She said the state has many other issues to care for, and sees the change in tide after so many years of apparent indifference as "hypocritical." "How many years have we Americans turned our face like this and let the flood come in? Have we seen that? Now, we're being hypocritical," Salazar said. "We're tying things up for our own benefit, for our chair, for our next election." Many illegal immigrants want to be given the right to be issued South Carolina driver's licenses, and she wants to continue to see the state driver's manual offered in Spanish despite legislative efforts to print it and other state material in English only. "For those who violate the law you have an address, you have an identity, you have a picture and they can be prosecuted as you and I can," Salazar said. ....Rep. Wallace Scarborough, R-James Island, said the legislation is not about treating people in an inhumane way. It's about abiding by the law. "I am all for them being treated like their human beings — I also want them to be here legally," Scarborough said.

There is also this puff piece in the liberal National Catholic Reporter on Janet Murguia, executive director of La Raza. Same old everyone is racist against illegals and hate speech talking points.