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A couple of months ago I asked Congressman Bob Etheridge to defund the Obama Justice Department’s lawsuit  against Arizona’s immigration law.  After the federal government had ignored the problems border states like Arizona had endured from illegal aliens and drug gangs crossing the Mexican border, Arizona passed a state law that mimics the federal immigration laws that were not being enforced.  The reaction of the Obama administration was to sue Arizona to stop the new law.

Now they are at it again. The new lawsuit, filed this week, says that Arizona community colleges acted illegally because they required noncitizens to provide their green cards before they could be hired for jobs.  Yesterday it was reportedthat “Justice officials said the colleges discriminated against nearly 250 noncitizen job applicants by mandating that they fill out more documents than required by law to prove their eligibility to work.”

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Zainul Singaporewalla, a U.S. permanent resident who was offered a math teaching position at Glendale Community College. He was asked to fill out a federal form attesting to his immigration status, produce a driver’s license and social security card and to complete another form which required additional documents and his green card.  When he couldn’t present his green card the college would not let him work.

So now the Obama Justice Department is back filing another lawsuit against Arizona.  Instead of filing lawsuits, maybe the Obama administration should be enforcing immigration laws so that the citizens of states facing the most severe effects of illegal immigration would get some relief.

Bob Etheridge declined my challenge to amend the Justice Department’s Appropriation Bill to deny funding for the Department’s earlier suit against Arizona.

During his 14 years in Congress, Bob Etheridge has supported amnesty and drivers licenses for illegal aliens.  Congressman Etheridge, Do you support President Obama suing Arizona again?

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Thomas Ross, while the head of the Z Smith Reynolds Foundation, steered over $280,000 to Planned Parenthood from 2001-2007 and an additional $50,000 to NARAL Pro-Choice America. Both groups provide abortions and inevitably had the most to gain from the UNC system’s new health care plan, which up until last week included coverage for elective abortions.

Ross gave directly to such groups in the almost seven years he served as Executive Director of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, a leftist foundation which gives hundreds of thousands of dollars annually to liberal activist groups that support abortion, comprehensive sexual education, gay rights and radical, third-wave feminism.

As Executive Director, he approved money for the Equality NC Foundation in support of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community, and projects like the Women’s Economic Equity Project. He approved $70,000 for the international non-profit IPAS, whose mission is to empower women by exercising their sexual and reproductive rights. Financially giving to groups like NC Lambda Youth Network, a “youth-led statewide leadership development network for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and allied (LGBTA) young people, ages 13 to 24,” is most alarming as he will oversee 200,000 students in the UNC system beginning in January 2011.

Examining his resume, the new UNC president proves to be yet another love child of liberal groups seeking greater power and more influence – this time in education. Here are some more donation figures from the new president of the UNC system:

2007

• ACLU: “To support the salary of a reproductive health education coordinator.” $30K
• Center for Community Action, Inc.: “For the implementation phase of the Women’s Economic Equity Project.”  $70K
• Equality NC Foundation: “For general operating support to strengthen leadership for the LGBT community in North Carolina.” $35K
• IPAS: “To promote sexual and reproductive rights advocacy in North Carolina’s Latino communities.” $40K
• Planned Parenthood: “For the Strategic Advocacy Today, a Pro-Choice Tomorrow Program.” $175K

2005

• Equality, NC Foundation: “For general operating support.” $20K
• IPAS: “To promote sexual and reproductive rights advocacy in North Carolina’s Latino Communities.” $30K
• Planned Parenthood Health Systems, Inc.: $50K
• Planned Parenthood of Central North Carolina: $30K

2004

• Planned Parenthood: $25K
• NC Lambda Youth Network: “Rainbow Youth Coalition (RYC).” $15K

2003

• NARAL Pro-Choice America: “General operating support.” $50K

Ross’ previous roles in North Carolina have been political appointments. Raleigh News and Observer reporter Rob Christenson said “In turning to Ross, the UNC Board of Governors found someone who is part of a relatively small group of men and women who run North Carolina's politics, businesses, foundations, courts and law firms.” Ross’ appointment as head of the state’s largest institution will make sure that the “relatively small group” continues to control the direction of North Carolina, elections or no elections.

The amount of money contributed under Ross’ leadership to such radical left organizations portends what will likely be an unfortunate shift of the UNC system from the moderate, non-partisan and businesslike leadership of Erskine Bowles. We can instead expect to see a more openly liberal, partisan direction coming from the central administration in Chapel Hill, at least if history is an indicator.

This article was written by Jessica Anderson and originally published at www.nccivitas.org on August 31, 2010