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Contributed by Tony Cheek   
Monday, 19 March 2007
 
"Ain't No Prejudice Here!"BOISE, Idaho - A Boise State University group has angered area Latino leaders and other organizations by promoting a speech with a ''food stamp drawing'' that requires climbing through a hole in a fence and offering fake identification for a shot at wining a dinner at a Mexican restaurant.

The school's College Republicans organization is offering the dinner for two to promote a speech it is sponsoring by Canyon County Commissioner Robert Vasquez, a vocal critic of U.S. immigration policy who is planning to run for the U.S. Senate in 2008.

The speech scheduled for Thursday by the College Republicans is in the midst the university's Cesar Chavez Week, sponsored by the Boise State Cultural Center.

As part of the school's weeklong event, students and professionals who came from a farm-working background will discuss their personal history, and a documentary film follows immigrants traveling to the United States from Nicaragua.

Chavez championed the rights of farmworkers and helped found the United Farm Workers Union.

The flier on the College Republicans' Web site is headlined ''America's Illegal Alien Invasion.'' It contains the dinner drawing information: ''Win dinner for two at a local Mexican Restaurant! Climb through the hole in the fence and enter your false ID documents into the food stamp drawing!''

Jonathan Sawmiller, president of the College Republicans, defended the flier.
 
'It's more of an attention-getting device,'' Sawmiller told the Idaho Press-Tribune. The group's Web site calls the dinner drawing ''humorous.'' 
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