An immigration reform organization is voicing concern about president-elect Barack Obama's naming of a pro-illegal alien activist to his White House staff.
Obama has named Cecilia Munoz to serve as director of intergovernmental affairs in his administration. Munoz is an 18-year veteran of the National Council of La Raza, which has been a leading advocate for illegal immigrants. According to Ira Mehlman, a spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), Munoz has been a longtime supporter of open borders. "Cecilia Munoz has been a longtime advocate for immigration policies, giving preferences to people based on their ethnic origin. She has also been at the forefront of the effort to discredit and to silence those groups that oppose amnesty and that want to set reasonable limits on immigration," he contends. "She is the one who claimed after the defeat of the 2007 amnesty bill that it was the result of a wave of hate spreading across the country, and she really initiated this very vicious campaign to try to get FAIR and other organizations barred, basically, from the media." It remains to be seen, Mehlman adds, just what kind of influence Munoz will have in shaping Barack Obama's immigration policy, but he believes she will certainly have access to the top-level decision makers in his administration.
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