Ford Foundation

Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 9:43 AM

H-1B and JOB DESTRUCTION NEWSLETTER

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This discussion between O'Reilly and Dan Stein of FAIR appears on the
surface to be a pure immigration issue - that is until you see who is
on the board of the Ford Foundation. It's none other than Ratan Tata.
TATA as most of you probably already know is the largest H-1B bodyshop
in the world and they are Indian owned. I'm forwarding this newsletter
to Dan Stein in the hopes that next time he talks about the Ford
Foundation he might mention their conflict of interest.

http://www.fordfound.org/about/trustee.cfm#officers

Ratan N. Tata
Chairman
Tata Industries Limited
Bombay, India

http://www.steinreport.com/danstein_oreilly_02182003.htm

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Ford Foundation Funding Groups Against Stricter Border Control

02/18/2003

Fox News: The O'Reilly Factor

O'REILLY: In the "Unresolved Problems" segment tonight, as you may
know, a Fox News opinion dynamics poll says 79 percent of Americans
favor putting troops along the borders of Mexico and Canada to help the
border patrol.

But the Bush Administration, like the Clinton Administration before it,
will not move. That's because there's some powerful forces against such
an action.

Here to tell us about them is Mr. Dan stein, the executive director of
the Federation for American Immigration reform. Mr. Stein is in
Washington.

Now, I want to take this methodically so everybody understands. It's
pretty complicated.

The Ford Foundation, which is a giant philanthropic group, all right,
has given, in the past 30 years, $57 million to five groups that don't
want crackdown on the border, is that true?

DAN STEIN, FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM: That's about
right.

O'REILLY: I got the stats right here. I got all of the donations.
Fifty-seven million dollars. So the Ford Foundation is funding the
groups, La Rasa and other groups that I've never heard of.

Tell us about those groups. Who are they? What do they do?

STEIN: All right. The Ford Foundation funds these groups. These groups
were effectively created by the Ford Foundation from about 1968 through
the 1970s.

The main one is the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund.
It is a group of grass tops -- lawyers -- radical activist lawyers, who
work and litigate to try to intimidate the federal government and state
governments using the courts from enforcing immigration laws in the
United States. They are the primary litigation arm.

O'REILLY: All right. What...

STEIN: Ford is also...

O'REILLY: What did they want? They want what?

STEIN: What they want is a complete absence of U.S. immigration
controls, particularly the U.S./Mexico border. Their strategy has been
to create a hollow core strategy where the Border Patrol just becomes
this thin line around the U.S. perimeter. But, once people get inside
the country, they get full access to public education, benefits,
driver's licenses, various documents...

O'REILLY: And are doing this under the humanitarian banner because they
feel it's humane to do this?

STEIN: Well, underneath the surface of all these groups is a radical
political agenda led by a group called MECHA, which works to
re-establish this mythical Chicano state called Aztlan. It -- it's
based on the idea that the U.S. is stolen territory.

O'REILLY: But why would the Ford Foundation buy into that kind of
radicalism?

STEIN: Well, the last Ford folks from the Ford family stalked off the
Ford board, I think, in the 1960s and was taken over by people with
radical political agendas. Ford has been pumping hundreds of millions
of dollars -- I mean, Ford is so big. They're an $11-billion
foundation. They give away like three-million bucks a day, Bill.

So they have built these organizations, La Raza, MALDEF, the National
Immigration Forum. They have funded the National Lawyers Guild, which
are -- they're a very radical group of attorneys. And they've also
funded the Immigration Project...

O'REILLY: All right.

STEIN: ... of the ACLU with the sole and primary objective of
destroying U.S. immigration controls.

O'REILLY: All right. So, basically, they want open borders with Mexico.
Anybody comes in...

STEIN: Not just Mexico. Anybody from anywhere. They want to make it
effectively impossible for the U.S. to smoothly and efficiently control
immigration.

O'REILLY: But I don't know...

STEIN: Ford's got...

O'REILLY: I don't know why...

STEIN: Ford's got a lot of money, Bill.

O'REILLY: Yes, I know they do, but I don't...

STEIN: There was...

O'REILLY: ... what -- what good does that do this country?

STEIN: It doesn't...

O'REILLY: It creates chaos and pandemonium.

STEIN: There -- well, there -- through the stream of all of this is a
streak of anti-Western bias. MALDEF also works to rewrite American
history...

O'REILLY: True.

STEIN: ... challenging Texas's rendition of the Alamo, for example.

O'REILLY: Hey, Mr. Stein, you ought to see how they're coming after me.
I mean...

STEIN: Oh, well, you have got to be target number one...

O'REILLY: Yes, I am.

STEIN: ... because you're...

O'REILLY: I'm the biggest target in the world, and they're...

STEIN: You're telling the truth.

O'REILLY: ... because I know what they're up to.

But, anyway -- but I can't figure out what the Ford Foundation wants to
accomplish by this. I still don't figure it out.

But, look, how's the -- the ACLU's in with this, too, right?

STEIN: Right. Right. Well...

O'REILLY: Does the American Civil Liberties Union want open borders?

STEIN: The ACLU says that a country like ours has the right to control
its borders, but they object to virtually every single proposal of the
last 30 years that would improve immigration controls in this country.
They have objected, as have all these other organizations, to any
effort to reduce immigration, to deport illegal aliens.

LULAC -- see, there were legitimate grassroots Latino and Mexican-
American organizations, like LULAC, the League of United Latin-American
Citizens, a 1925 patriotic group, promoted the idea of simulation into
the American ethic.

O'REILLY: All right.

STEIN: Ford bought them basically in the 1960s, and they were
transformed.

O'REILLY: You know, I've got to -- I've got to stop you because we have
to take a commercial. I want to bring you back next week.

STEIN: All right.

O'REILLY: We've got to find out why the Ford Foundation is doing this.
We have to nail that down.

Mr. Stein, thanks very much. We'll see you next week.

STEIN: My pleasure, Bill.

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