Casa de Maryland public schools

CASA de Maryland’s Facebook page denounces the new Arizona immigration law and highlights opposition to the measure by Meghan McCain, daughter of Arizona Republican Senator John McCain.

CASA de Maryland created a major controversy by distributing an eight-page book telling illegal aliens how to avoid law enforcement authorities. The CASA book, Know Your Rights (PDF) tells illegal aliens not to carry “any documents from your country of origin” and that “providing your name” to a police officer “has risks” because “your name can be used to start a deportation process.” It flatly says, “Don’t provide government officials information about your immigration status.”

“Only in America can groups like CASA and their illegal alien criminal clientele use tax dollars to lobby for amnesty and equal rights, all to the detriment of the American people and our way of life,” commented Brad Botwin of Help Save Maryland.

Help Save Maryland is a multi-ethnic, grass-roots, non-partisan organization with thousands of members across the state. “We are opposed to the use of tax dollars on programs that attract and sustain illegal aliens to Maryland,” Botwin explained.

Under the category of “Government,” CASA lists the following entities as financial donors:

• Baltimore City Council
• City of Baltimore Mayor’s Office
• City of Takoma Park
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Maryland AIDS Administration
• Maryland Cigarette Restitution Fund
• Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development
• Maryland State Legislature
• Mid-County Regional Services Center-Montgomery County
• Up-County Regional Services Center-Montgomery County
• Montgomery County Council
• Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services
• Montgomery County Department of Housing and Community Affairs
• Montgomery County Office of the County Executive
• Montgomery County Public Schools
• Prince George’s County Council
• Prince George’s County Council Special Appropriations Funds (Councilmember Thomas E. Dernoga)
• Prince George’s Department of Housing and Community Development
• Prince George’s County Office of the County Executive
• Redevelopment Authority of Prince George’s County
• U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Cliff Kincaid is the Editor of Accuracy in Media, and can be contacted at cliff.kincaid@aim.org. This is an excerpt of one of his columns, which can be read in its entirety here.