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A decade before Candidate Donald Trump announced his newly acquired obsession with building a wall on the US-Mexico border, investigative journalist Juan B. Botero denounced Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo to the House Ethics Committee because of his bizarre obsession with building a wall “paid for by the Mexican government.” In the summer of 2006, he warned members of Congress and Colorado voters that if Tancredo’s localization of World War II German-Italian fascism into American politics wasn’t derailed, it would trigger a national crisis in a decade. In spite of severe childhood traumas involving Mexicans, the self-appointed Chairman of the Immigration Reform Caucus refused to recuse himself from shaping US immigration policy and the Ethics Committee did nothing. In June of 2015, Donald Trump announced his Presidential ambitions channeling Tancredo’s anger issues by denigrating Sephardic Jews (Hispanics / Latinos) as “murderers” and “rapists” in hardline, offensive tones. Tancredo’s poisonous mix of vendetta against Mexicans eventually spread from Congress to the Executive Branch through Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller as the moral blueprint for the Trump Administration.

Lethal Injustice exposes the corrupt Americanized fascism that hijacked the Party of Lincoln in 2015, atrocities against immigrants by white-supremacist vigilantes on the US-Mexico border, and the unprecedented friendliness of conservative anti-immigrant influencers towards Russia. After 6 years of studying Trump’s astonishing deference towards Vladimir Putin, the shocking conclusion is that he married not one but two honeytraps loyal to Eastern European intelligence: agent of influence Ivana Zelníková Trump from Czechoslovakia and agent of influence Melania Knavs Trump from Slovenia. Trump’s marriage to Melania Knavs was the result of a highly sophisticated kompromat operation set up by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Upon taking the Oath of Office on January 20th of 2017, Donald Trump committed treason by aiding, abetting and advancing a Russian-owned honeytrap to the rank of First Lady of the United States. Unlike her Red Sparrow comrades Anna Chapman Kushchyenko and Maria Valeryevna Butina, Melania Knavs remains at large as the most beautiful, dangerous and strategically placed human intelligence (HUMINT) asset of the former KGB and the greatest failure of American intelligence.

Lethal Injustice presents evidence for a criminal investigation of former President Trump for treason. Hiding behind his justification of violence against immigrants, his incitement of violence at the US Capitol on January 6 of 2021 and his steady undermining of America’s global prestige are the mission objectives of sexpionagent Melania Knavs, the superbly trained communist ex-prostitute from the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The only way a supermodel, pornographic film actress and commercial sex worker can become First Lady of the United States only 10 years after becoming a US citizen is with the backing of a well-planned and highly orchestrated foreign intelligence operation. Russian President Vladimir Putin summed it up when he boasted that Russian prostitutes are “the best in the world.” Former President Donald Trump must be held accountable for aiding and abetting domestic terrorism, for violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) with his family and for misprision of treason against the United States of America by marrying two honeytraps loyal to the interests of the Russian Federation.

To review the evidence and perspectives derived from 18 years of research,
the documents and exhibits related to the lawsuit filed in Federal District Court,
and to understand why their publication has been subjected to massive cyberattacks, go to
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Juan B. Botero

Juan B. Botero is a cross-cultural communication consultant with media production and business development experience servicing private, government and non-profit interests in Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and the United States. He was born in Washington D.C. and grew up in Bogotá, Colombia. During his military service in the Colombian Army, he was trained in counterintelligence at the Batallón de Infantería Miguel Antonio Caro (MAC). He holds a Bachelor of Science in Broadcasting and Film from Boston University and is a member of the National Press Photographer’s Association (NPPA), the Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) and the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA). His consulting services have been retained by major corporations such as General Motors, Allison Transmission, the Hallmark Channel, Starz Encore, The United States Navy, The United States Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), Newport News Shipbuilding, Boston Market and TBWA CHIAT/DAY. He served on the Board of Directors of the Colorado I Have a Dream Foundation and The Inner City Health Center, and has worked for Compassion International, Fundación TECHO, Habitat for Humanity, HCJB Global, The Mission Possible Foundation, The United States Naval Sea Cadets Corps (USNSCC) and United Way. He worked in strategic communication for political campaigns in the United States, Mexico, Honduras and Perú and has been interviewed by regional and national affiliates of ABC, CBS, NBC, National Public Radio (NPR) as well as international networks such as the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Radio Cadena Nacional, Radio Caracol, Radio Unica, CNN Español, Telemundo, TV Azteca and UNIVISION. As part of his research on immigration, he has worked as an interpreter at the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) of the Department of Justice (DOJ). As a sworn Officer of the Court, he has witnessed more than 7,000 deportation proceedings in courtrooms and detention facilities in Arizona, California, Florida, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Utah. He is a spokesman for the Deported Veterans Support House, DREAMers Moms USA Tijuana and the families of victims of extrajudicial killings by white supremacist vigilantes on the US-Mexico border. As the proponent of “The Best of Both Worlds,” a Humane Comprehensive Immigration Reform (HCIR) based on Restitution and Earned Legalization, he is a uniquely qualified subject-matter expert on the failures and corruption of US immigration laws and policies.

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Archway Publishing rev. date: 5/26/2021

This report is

dedicated to the families of the thousands of freedom-seeking immigrants

killed on US soil by white supremacist vigilantes claiming to be defending America

and to those who will recognize the call to action to protect our democracy.

CONTENTS

Part I

Aiding and Abetting

Domestic Terrorism, Genocide and Fascism

Acknowledgments

Author’s Note

Foreword

Introduction

Section 1:   North Denver’s Little Italy, the messed-up cradle of Tom Tancredo, President Trump’s godfather

Section 2:   2006 Report to the House Ethics Committee: Tancredo’s vendetta against Mexican students

Section 3:   Clear, Compelling & Convincing Parallels: Tancredo, Hitler, and the Trump Phenomenon

Section 4:   Aiding & Abetting Domestic Terrorism: Tom’s Army is now Trump’s vigilante problem

Section 5:   List of American conservatives advocating for the use of lethal force against immigrants

Section 6:   FEMA’S Nazi-inspired concentration camps & Stephen Bannon’s Roundup

Section 7:   The Nazi Orphan Factory & the Kindergarten camps USA

Section 8:   Trump’s Fourth Reich is Europe’s Deja Vú

Section 9:   PTSD, obsessive immigration fears and The Wall

Section 10:   The American Right hits the Russian U-Turn

Section 11:   Additional sources and recommendations

Section 12:   Impeachment Article I: Aiding and Abetting Domestic Terrorism by advancing Fascism

Part II

Aiding and Abetting

Unregistered Foreign Agent Melania Knavs Trump

Introduction

Section 1:   Status report of Joseph Stalin’s honeytrap / sexpionage / Red Sparrow program

Section 2:   Trump’s honeytrap # 1: Czechoslovakian StB asset Ivana Zelníčková

Section 3:   Trump’s Real Estate partner: Russian sexpionagent Elena Baronoff

Section 4:   Trump’s honeytrap # 2: Slovenian exotic escort Melania Knavs

Section 5:   Russian honeytrap Anna Vasil’yevna Chapman Kushchyenko

Section 6:   Russian NRA gun-rights honeytrap Maria Valeryevna Butina

Section 7:   Charlottesville riots sexpionagent Nina Kouprianova Spencer

Section 8:   On-the-job training of agent of influence Ivanka Trump Zelníčková

Section 9:   Putin and the Russian-American Hybrid Breeding Program

Section 10:   The Trump family vs. the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA)

Section 11:   Additional sources and recommendations

Section 12:   Impeachment Article II: Raising, Aiding and Abetting a Family of Unregistered Foreign Agents

Epilogue

Glossary

About the Author

PART I

Aiding and Abetting

Domestic Terrorism,

Genocide and Fascism

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I am indebted to my colleagues, friends and family who offered their continuing support during the preparation of this report. This project has not been an easy promise to keep to immigrant families, but I hope that with its publication they will know that I did everything possible to expose the corruption behind the immigration policies of the Trump Administration of the ultranationalists that have corrupted the Party of Lincoln.

I also wish to thank the subject-matter experts, private investigators, journalists, forensic scientists, historians, human rights activists and advisors who corroborated the evidence of extrajudicial killings from their respective areas of expertise. In light of how white supremacists have been taking the law into their own hands, it’s also easy to understand why the extrajudicial killings of immigrants by vigilantes emboldened by the Trump Administration continues to be the most underreported story in America today.

The perspective presented in Part II and the training that allowed me to understand what happened to Donald Trump and his family would not have been possible without the inspiration of the late General Ramón Eduardo Niebles Uscátegui, Commander of the Batallón de Infantería Miguel Antonio Caro (MAC) during my military service in Colombia. His personal integrity, exemplary leadership, deep understanding of national security and friendship left an indelible mark upon my worldview. I will always be thankful for his vote of confidence that my work would make a difference in the defense of democracy.

Finally, I wish to acknowledge the spirit of Dulcinea for her inspiration and leadership. Had she not validated my fight against the fascist insanity in Congress, it’s doubtful this report would have made it to completion. As she struggled with her own wilderness and legacy, she unknowingly brought a kindred spirit back to life halfway around the globe, making the recovery from my losses easier knowing that significant efforts to redress America’s immigration nightmare were underway. I hope to have an opportunity someday to express my gratitude for the gentle but pivotal contribution that enabled this author to take care of unfinished business.

"Do you know what I’m craving? A little perspective.

That’s it! I’d like some fresh, clear, well-seasoned perspective.

Can you suggest a good wine to go with that?"

Anton Ego

Ratatouille

AUTHOR’S NOTE

Even though this report focuses on two deeply troubling subject matters, the very darkness behind the fascist Republican nightmare and the sexpionage that compromised the Trump Administration is what will bring a new chapter of restoration and renewed purpose for America.

Part I encapsulates 18 years of research on the Republican-styled fascism that engulfed the Trump White House, providing a solution to the present political crisis. The resulting evidence recommends the criminal prosecution of Donald Trump and his family for Aiding and Abetting Domestic Terrorism and fascism. The forces behind the damage being inflicted upon our democracy are thoroughly corrupt and the crimes inspired by their genre are horrific. Crucial evidence justifies a criminal investigation by international authorities of the extrajudicial killings of immigrants by white-supremacist vigilantes who felt validated, empowered and protected by the rhetoric of the Trump Administration. And history has proven consistently that those who dare resurrect the ancient dragons of anti-Semitism to channel them through unjust immigration policies against the Jews inevitably see their actions fail. The neo-Nazis surrounding President Trump who believed America would be exempt from the consequences that devastated prior superpowers that also conspired to persecute the Jews must now pay for their treason.

Part II summarizes 5 years of research into the incredible social advancement of Melania Knavs, a communist ex-prostitute from Slovenia, former FLOTUS and unregistered foreign agent of influence. Melania Knavs was trafficked to sexually addicted Donald Trump by soulmates Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell as part of a honeytrap operation gathering kompromat on American VIPs, working in conjunction with Russian and Slovenian intelligence services. These findings are based on open-source intelligence (OSINT) and on the author’s experience with counter-terrorism assignments during the Cold War. The author’s findings justify a criminal investigation of President Trump for at least 10 instances of violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) passed by Congress in 1938 for raising, aiding and abetting a family of unregistered foreign agents.

This report is formatted as a framework for a collaborative process in response to the author’s limited access to information available exclusively to intelligence and law enforcement personnel. Limitations also came into play when conducting research with forensics experts, morgues, and coroner’s offices bound by legal and ethical guidelines. The author is confident that with the appropriate guardrails, additional evidence submitted by experts will further corroborate these findings.

The author invites families of victims of domestic terrorism, the victims of vigilante violence and subject-matter experts to present evidence relevant to this report. It also invites experts on the Soviet Union, Russian intelligence, honeytraps, and kompromat to present relevant information. To review research materials, the exhibits developed for this report and to submit additional corroborating information, please visit www.lethalinjustice.com

February 1, 2021

The Honorable

Judge Amiena A. Khan

National Association of Immigration Judges (NAIJ)

26 Federal Plaza, Room 1237

New York, New York

Dear Judge Khan,

My name is Juan B. Botero, I’m an independent journalist who has been working nationwide as a certified interpreter in EOIR courts for the past 3 years in order to finalize my research on the corruption of the US immigration system, a project that I started in 2002. I’m respectfully submitting this report as a citizen concerned about the unconstitutional policies of our immigration courts. My report calls for a full investigation of the history that has led to our failed court system to have its present design. And even though I’m also alerting Congress and the Supreme Court, please know that you are the primary recipient of my report.

First, I’d like to draw your attention to the immigration legacy of former Congressman Tom Tancredo, Chairman of the Immigration Reform Caucus from 1999 to 2007. Because of his personal issues with Mexicans and Muslims, he never should have been entrusted with this position. Furthermore, his thirst for vendetta has been augmented by distortions from eugenics-based think-tanks like Numbers USA, VDARE, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) and the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) among others. Second, his worldview is a plagiarized German-Italian fascism from the 1930s mixed with his legacy from Tancred the Great, the Crusader who persecuted Muslims and Jews in Europe and the Middle East. He fans the flames of ideologues in the Justice Department who discredited your predecessor Judge Ashley Tabaddor in 2014 because of her Iranian roots. He is the intellectual author of President Trump’s Muslim ban and the reason why he also smeared US District Judge Gonzalo Curiel in June of 2016 because of his Mexican roots.

The lack of independence of the judiciary in immigration courts is proven by judges who have the US Attorney General as a boss who sets deportation quotas and impossible timelines to process deportation cases. This rush to judgment does not exist in any other court system and is the essence of Tancredo’s unconstitutional legacy. Hopefully, you are also aware of the parallels between the Trump genre and the political style of German-Italian fascism, similarities that set off alarms among Holocaust experts worldwide. My report proves that these parallels aren’t coincidence but the actual operating system. The concept of children being systematically traumatized, families dispersed to concentration camps in remote areas and extra-judicial killings to defend the Motherland stem from a race-based worldview we have seen before. Furthermore, Melania Trump violated our immigration laws to work as a high-end prostitute, certainly a crime involving moral turpitude (CIMT). To be clear, she is violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act passed by Congress to protect America from espionage. I hope you’ll appreciate the hypocrisy of the Trump First Family living in the American White House as unregistered agents while hard-working migrant families were systematically destroyed by Nazi-styled policies for civil offenses far less egregious than domestic terrorism, espionage, sex trafficking and treason.

I hope that with the enclosed evidence it will finally be possible to stop the madness of today’s unconstitutional deportation machine until we have humane, comprehensive immigration reform.

Very respectfully yours,

Juan B. Botero

Director / Producer

Lethal Injustice documentary project

FOREWORD

Part I focuses on the enormous damage that a single individual can inflict upon an entire ethnic group by manipulating patriotic and religious sentiment, one of the basic elements of fascism. It explains how a genre consisting of a translation, adaptation and localization of German-Italian fascism into modern American politics successfully penetrated and corrupted the Republican Party at the highest levels and the reason why it hasn’t been denounced until now. And even though the answer is obvious, this report will also explain once again why someone with unresolved issues stemming from traumatic childhood experiences involving Mexicans should never have been allowed by Congress to shape immigration laws impacting Mexican families nationwide. This is a double standard that Congress has yet to rectify. Multiple warnings about Congressman Tancredo’s conflicts of interest regarding Mexicans were communicated to the House Ethics Committee in 2006 to no avail. Portions of this report are included in Section 2.

Part I of this report establishes the following perspective:

1. Colorado’s role as the epicenter of America’s Nazi-inspired immigration policies

2. Colorado’s appalling history of violent race relations with Mexicans and immigrants

3. Colorado’s unprecedented surge of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s

4. How Colorado elected a Denver Mayor, a Governor and US Senator from the KKK

5. The epicenter of Colorado’s racial tensions is North Denver’s Little Italy

6. Little Italy has been a hotbed of Italian vs. Mexican animosity since World War II

7. The Columbus Park riots in the 1970s featured Italian vs. Mexican immigrants

8. Mexican is a racial epithet used in North Denver / Little Italy to denigrate Latinos / Hispanics

9. Signs posted in North Denver would read: No Dogs, No Negros, No Mexicans

10. Little Italy’s most vociferous ambassador is Congressman Tom Tancredo (CO CD-6)

11. Tancredo’s childhood was destroyed by domestic violence episodes featuring his alcoholic father

12. As a result, Tancredo was diagnosed with depression and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

13. His depression and PTSD were further compounded by fistfights against Mexican students

14. These violent fistfights took place in the streets of Little Italy and at Holy Family High School

15. Tancredo’s high school classmates assert that he is still angry about losing these fistfights

16. Tancredo is a direct descendant of Great Crusader Tancred the Great

17. Tancred the Great persecuted Muslims and Jews as part of a holy calling

18. Tancredo has devoted his entire life to persecuting Muslims and Sephardic Jews i.e., Hispanics

19. Tancredo has couched his immigration policies in patriotic, militaristic, pious, Christian terms

20. The DACA / Dream Act fiasco is part of Tancredo’s designed vendetta against Mexican students

21. Tancredo got a 1-Y deferment for the Vietnam War draft due to his depression / PTSD

22. Tancredo’s 1-Y deferment permanently disqualifies him from discussing immigration, yet

23. Tancredo was Chairman of the Immigration Reform Caucus in Congress for 8 years

24. For an entire decade, he established the framework for immigration policy in Congress

25. Since 1999, he has been pushing his immigration worldview with violent rhetoric and policies

26. Tancredo built a deep friendship with Italian-American paisano Sheriff Joe Arpaio

27. Other paisanos recruited include Lou Ferrigno, Silvester Stallone and Ken Cuccinelli

28. Both Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Tom Tancredo are die-hard WWII Nazi Germany buffs

29. Sheriff Joe’s Tent City is an adaptation of Nazi concentration camps featuring tents

30. Sheriff Joe revived and implemented the posse / vigilante concept to hunt Mexicans on the border

31. Sheriff Joe adapted the Schutzstaffel Einsatzgruppen concept into paramilitary teams

32. Tancredo’s overemphasis on the 2nd Amendment is a coded go-ahead for vigilantes

33. The number of vigilante border killings of immigrants has skyrocketed since June 2015

34. Tancredo is still pursuing vendetta through the Executive branch at state / national levels

35. Tancredo ran for Governor of Colorado 3 times and for President in 2008

36. Tancredo’s genre is based on his irrational anger patterned after Hitler and Mussolini

37. This genre is based on the false premise that America is being destroyed by immigrants

38. Stephen Bannon hired Tom Tancredo as a contributor for Breitbart News

39. Stephen Bannon is a Nazi sympathizer and a devout student of German history in the 1930s

40. Tom Tancredo is a Nazi sympathizer and devout student of German history in the 1930s

41. Joe Arpaio is a Nazi sympathizer and devout student of German history in the 1930s

42. The processing of detained immigrants under Trump was designed as psychological warfare

43. Tom Tancredo, Jeff Sessions, Stephen Bannon, and Steve Miller are anti-Mexican soulmates

44. Identical policies and genres prove that Tancredo’s playbook was transferred to Donald Trump

45. Multiple world leaders and Holocaust scholars denounced the Trump-Hitler parallels

46. Holocaust survivors worldwide denounced the Trump-Hitler parallels

47. There are Nazi-style concentration camps throughout the United States in remote areas

48. There are Nazi-style killing fields along all four States of the US-Mexico border

49. The unknown remains of Sephardic Jews are being cremated along the US-Mexico border

50. The ashes of Sephardic Jews are being shipped to San Diego to be dumped into the ocean

51. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) tactics are patterned after the Gestapo / SS

52. Tancredo birthed the organization We Build the Wall, focusing on the southern border

53. Just like the Nazis, the organization We Build the Wall is a front for personal enrichment

54. Most Hispanics / Latinos have Sephardic Jewish roots in Spain, Portugal and Israel

55. Every time it’s tried, any nation that persecutes Jews suffers economic catastrophe

56. Germany, Egypt, the USSR, and the USA have persecuted Jews through unjust laws

57. Due to his personal vendetta against Mexicans, Tancredo’s policies are unconstitutional

58. Leading conservatives / Evangelicals including Tancredo are now pro-Russia, pro-Putin.

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At some point, the President of the United States will have to get behind the Statue of Liberty or Tom Tancredo’s wall.

The Wall Street Journal

December 29, 2005

INTRODUCTION

My first encounter with the godfather of Donald Trump’s immigration nightmare occurred when I worked as Director of Strategic Outreach for US Senator Wayne Allard in 2002. As a recent arrival to Colorado, I had decided to do some networking by volunteering as the interpreter for Governor Bill Owens during a business trip to Mexico in 2001. I enjoyed an all-expenses-paid trip while supporting bilateral negotiations on technology, law enforcement, immigration, energy, and international trade as part of the Governor’s inner circle. Shortly after the trip a friend of Governor Owens suggested that I call the legendary Dick Wadhams who at the time was ramping up the 2002 reelection campaign for Senator Allard. He told me that he needed help with Hispanic voters and from what I knew about the Senator’s policy initiatives I assured him that I could help. We then had lunch with Senior Campaign Advisor Walt Klein and Senator Allard who in spite of my status as a campaign rookie decided to offer me the job. Things ran smoothly for most of the year as we promoted the Senator’s policy initiatives on education, housing taxes and immigration. The affable former veterinarian had been a successful, low-key moderate who supported many legislative efforts giving immigrants greater access to housing and education opportunities and as far as I was concerned it was a pleasant task to promote a true ambassador of the American Dream.

Things were running smoothly for most of the year until all hell broke loose on August 11th when the Denver Post ran a front-page story about a model student named Jesús Apodaca who had been brought across the border by his parents as a child. With exquisite political timing, the Post published his wondering out loud if he could attend college as an undocumented immigrant, a fair question by a promising student. The report triggered the Chairman of the Immigration Reform Caucus, Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo, who went ballistic and began pressuring what was the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) at the time to deport the entire Apodaca family back to Mexico. To the delight of the Denver Post staff, they had successfully riled up Tancredo and nothing screamed Republican immigration schizophrenia more loudly than his spectacular outburst against a model student. We suddenly found ourselves on the defensive answering questions about Tancredo’s xenophobic outburst while we defended Senator Allard’s record as an immigration moderate. On cue, the Tom Strickland Campaign exploited the story to discredit Senator Allard’s record among Hispanic voters and even though we distanced the Senator from the bad boy of Republican politics the damage was done. According to post-election analysis, Senator Allard won his reelection by a slim margin of Hispanic votes, and even though I was proud that my outreach efforts had played a key role within a successful campaign formula, the margin of Hispanic voters could have been much higher had Tancredo not destroyed a model immigrant family with such vitriol.

Submitted as evidence:

https://www.upi.com/Archives/2002/09/13/Colorado-deportation-request-under-fire/

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As the incident unfolded, I didn’t give much thought to a reflex reaction of deciding to get to the bottom of Tancredo’s conduct. My reaction came from a combination of my natural curiosity, my background in investigative journalism and my counterintelligence training during my service in the Army. I never could have imagined the impact it was going to have upon my life or how relevant this search would become to the future of American politics 15 years later. The publication of this report is the culmination of the 18 years of research that followed this flash decision. In spite of all the setbacks it has caused me since 2002, the conclusions are clear and other than wishing I had received more support to break the story sooner, I have no regrets.

After the Apodaca attack by Congressman Tancredo, I began to process comments from various Colorado Republicans about Tancredo being a loose cannon. They coincided with comments from Mexican-American families who sensed that his attacks were actually personal. I have always believed that Government was established to help people, not crush them, and to have witnessed the Chairman of the Immigration Reform Caucus destroy a productive immigrant family and doing so in a fit of rage was simply insane. After Election Day, I received a nice letter from Senator Allard quoting President Theodore Roosevelt about the man in the arena and thanking me for my efforts. His reelection switched control of the US Senate to the GOP and so I became the go-to-guy in Colorado for mobilizing Hispanic voters. As I transitioned back to consulting in the private sector, I was pleasantly surprised to get a call from Carmen Ortega, my counterpart at the Strickland campaign. Even though our clients had been vigorous opponents, Carmen and I had always remained cordial. She wanted to discuss work, so we met at a Starbucks in Englewood. Among the several topics that we covered she confided that she had switched parties, part of a nationwide trend among Latinos that we had both witnessed during the campaign. I put her in touch with several business leaders whom I knew would be interested in her skills and she agreed to follow up. I then told her about my research into why Tancredo had gone ballistic on Jesús Apodaca and even though she didn’t know the answer at the time she told me that she would put out some feelers. The Apodaca incident had been a nightmare, and along with many who witnessed the incident, we were left wondering why the Chairman of the Immigration Reform Caucus in Congress displayed so much hatred against Mexicans.

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