Latino Orgs Defend Cecilia Muñoz, Amid Calls for Her Resignation

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A Latino radio host and blogger is calling for Cecilia Muñoz to resign from the White House for her defense of the administration’s deportation policies. Presente.org, the immigrant rights group that led the petition to get CNN’s Lou Dobbs off the air, is demanding that Muñoz denounce the Secure Communities program.

In response, a group of some of the nation’s leading immigrant advocacy organizations released a statement Monday in support of Muñoz.

The controversy may reveal a difference of opinion within the immigrant rights movement over which strategy to take when advocating for the rights of immigrants in the United States.

At the center of the storm is Muñoz, a longtime immigrant rights organizer who now works for an administration that has overseen the deportation of a record number of undocumented immigrants.

http://newamericamedia.org/2011/11/latino-orgs-defend-cecilia-munoz-amid-calls-for-her-resignation.php