Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said the time is “now” to pass comprehensive amnesty legislation that would legalize illegal aliens and grant them the pathway to citizenship. He added that “We can’t wait another political season and we can’t do a piecemeal approach.” When he was in college Villaraigosa was a member of MEChA, an organization that wants to create a Hispanic homeland in the U.S. He has never fully repudiated MEChA.