Obama immigration aide seeks to finish journey
February 17, 2013
FILE - In this Sept. 7, 2006 file photo, President Barack Obama's top immigration adviser Cecilia Munoz is seen in Washington. It's Munoz who is leading Obama’s effort to break through years of partisan gridlock and provide a pathway to citizenship for millions of people living illegally in the United States. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Cecilia Munoz, President Barack Obama's chief domestic policy adviser, keeps a framed letter from the late Democratic senator and immigration advocate Ted Kennedy in her West Wing office.
"We didn't complete the journey, but we'll get there," Kennedy wrote in 2007 following the collapse of bipartisan efforts to overhaul the nation's fractured immigration system.
For Munoz, a veteran of that fight and many earlier ones, completing the journey has never felt more possible. As head of the White House Domestic Policy Council, it's Munoz leading Obama's effort to break through years of partisan gridlock and provide a pathway to citizenship for millions of people living illegally in the United States.
"There is a definite lift in her step," said Valerie Jarrett, Obama's senior adviser. "But she's not taking anything for granted." ...
"Few people know the obstacles ahead in the immigration debate better than Munoz, who spent two decades as an immigration rights activist at the National Council of La Raza, the nation's largest Hispanic advocacy organization."
It says it all that in the inner nest of the Obama White House there lurks a rabid activist from an organization called National Council of the Race. So does two pro-amnesty-spin articles from the AP appearing on the same Sunday, as the latest bloated amnesty effort is again trying to buck, lurch and grunt its way off the runway--one of the articles being a long puff piece on the endearing pretzel and chocolate toting ideologue. (Accompanied by a 7-year-old photo? Many of us should be so lucky.)
Imagine if a President Romney had chosen as his chief domestic policy adviser a key leader of something called the National Council of White People. Not that there would ever be any danger of that from the hapless Republicans. In one hilarious article during the campaign, it was said that Governor Romney was implicitly emphasizing his evil whiteness, by, among other things, wearing white dress shirts. The article didn't say what Obama was emphasizing by wearing the same type of dress shirts. Vibrant multiculturalism?
It says it all that in the inner nest of the Obama White House there lurks a rabid activist from an organization called National Council of the Race. So does two pro-amnesty-spin articles from the AP appearing on the same Sunday, as the latest bloated amnesty effort is again trying to buck, lurch and grunt its way off the runway--one of the articles being a long puff piece on the endearing pretzel and chocolate toting ideologue. (Accompanied by a 7-year-old photo? Many of us should be so lucky.)
Imagine if a President Romney had chosen as his chief domestic policy adviser a key leader of something called the National Council of White People. Not that there would ever be any danger of that from the hapless Republicans. In one hilarious article during the campaign, it was said that Governor Romney was implicitly emphasizing his evil whiteness, by, among other things, wearing white dress shirts. The article didn't say what Obama was emphasizing by wearing the same type of dress shirts. Vibrant multiculturalism?
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