Democratic Party Stereotypes of Latino Voters Betrays Its Ignorance

In yet another example of an all too common talking point for liberal activists and their allies in the press, Politico took Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky to task over the weekend for failing to "properly" engage members of the left-wing Dream Act Coalition on the issues of illegal immigration. In charging that Paul "can run but he can't hide from Latino voters in 2016" the article betrayed the increasing Democratic Party stereotype of American Hispanics and its ignorance and lack of concern for the issues facing this community. In their desire to capitalize on America's racial and ethnic differences, Democrats have been successful in the mainstream media of making the term "Latino" synonymous with illegal immigration.

A recent Univision Survey of American Latino voters found that only eight percent of Hispanic voters listed immigration reform as the most important determining factor in their voting preferences. 21 percent listed education as paramount to their concerns, 16 percent cited jobs and a full 15 percent were most concerned with government spending and the national deficit. Still, rarely does a day go by without media reports of Democrat Party focus on immigration reform or liberal media commentary warning Republicans that a failure to embrace amnesty will lead to their political extinction.

Unfortunately for American Latinos, a sizable portion are currently governed on a local level by Democratic Party office holders. As is the case nationwide, Democrat-run political precincts in minority neighborhoods hold a startling higher level of crime, poverty, unemployment and failing schools than those under political control of the Republican Party. To make matters worse, Democrats primary concerns regarding Latinos appear to be focused not on what ails their communities, but the potential electoral windfalls the party can receive by naturalizing millions of illegal aliens.

Forgotten in their obsession to gain decades of voter loyalty that Democrats hope to obtain from amnesty are the millions of American families of Hispanic decent that have called American home for generations. If one were to listen to a Democratic Party candidate on the stump or a liberal talking-head in the media, one would think that Latinos in America are a recent phenomena, rather than the reality that they have been an integral part of the American fabric, particularly in the American Southwest, for close to two centuries.

This unfortunate dilemma for American Latinos is due in large part to the activist coalition which makes up the confederacy of the Democratic Party. As Democrats have done since the days of Andrew Jackson, the party in the modern age relies on expediency over substance and as such rewards activist groups who can deliver voters to the polls, rather than those who can bring innovative solutions to the needs of their constituents. Just as they successfully utilized the energies of the Klu Klux Klan in the post-Reconstruction south, Democrats have given favored status to modern-day Hispanic racist groups in the American southwest. With the ascendency of former San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro to the post of secretary of housing and urban affairs, the infamous left-wing racist organization La Raza Unida (the United Race) now can boast a sense of legitimacy, just as the Klan did so many years ago via its strong connections to the Democratic Party in the 19th and 20th century. Castro, the son of La Raza's founders, has numerous Democratic colleagues on local state and national levels, including his twin brother Joaquín.

Together with the radical racist group Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán, or MEChA, they have risen to the top of Democratic Party special-interest groups whose primary focus is the Latino community. As was the case with the KKK, race-driven social and cultural desires take a higher precedent than do the day-to-day "kitchen-table" issues that most Americans, Latino or otherwise, care about. While Latino parents worry that their children are getting a well-rounded education to prepare them for the future, La Raza Unida, MEChA and other similar groups focus on fighting English immersion and other programs they fear will assimilate first and second generation Latinos and thus make them less controllable as a group.

In order to maintain their standing within left-wing politics and Democratic Party circles, it is vital for these groups to demagogue the conversation and define what it means to be "Latino" in America. Their dominance of the political discussion related to Hispanic concerns is impressive, regardless of its wickedness. They have been successful is driving the narrative that has been picked up by white liberals in the media and Democrat politics. The commonly held belief among many is that to be "pro-Latino" one must be a proponent of amnesty. Despite that the aforementioned Univision poll showed that 58 percent of Latino Americans want border security to be settled before passing any form of comprehensive immigration reform, liberal-Progressives have argued with some success that the Republican Party, whose policies more closely mirror the feelings of Latinos, is somehow anti-Hispanic. They have also falsely painted the image of Latinos in America largely as one of a helpless and besieged minority, dark in hue, strangers in a foreign and oppressive land, in need of protection.

The fact of the matter is, like all Americans, Latinos are a diverse group of individuals from all walks of life. In addition to the undocumented maids and gardeners that upper-crust white liberals envision when they think of this community, Latinos in America are teachers, firefighters, policemen, business owners, executives, computer programmers, military veterans, bus drivers, restaurant cooks and franchise owners. There are Latinos of very dark skin as well as those who are as pale as a Norwegian in wintertime. They are rich and poor, middle and working class, upwardly mobile and hard-working, as well as having their fair share of spoiled children squandering the fortunes their parents spent a lifetime acquiring.

While the eight percent of Latinos who list immigration reform as their primary issue of concern is a significant number which should be given due consideration to, the 92 percent of Latinos whose paramount concerns are for theirs and their children's future also deserve their voice to be heard. For a Republican Party looking to capture the White House in 2016 and wrestle control of the major urban markets from Democrats, they would be wise to look at Latinos as a whole and not simply how radical groups like La Raza wish to define them by. For a Democratic Party which claims to speak for Latino Americans, their ignorance and stereotyping of this community is dangerously reminiscent to their attitudes toward black Americans, as they took political control of this community in the 1960's. For a Latino American community who has worked so hard to become an integral part of the American landscape over he past two centuries, they run the risk of seeing their American Dream derailed, just as another notable group of Americans who acquiesced their independence to Democrats, and have seen the remarkable progress they made in this country begin to reverse itself in recent decades.

“Despite that the aforementioned Univision poll showed that 58 percent of Latino Americans want border security to be settled before passing any form of comprehensive immigration reform, liberal-Progressives have argued with some success that the Republican Party, whose policies more closely mirror the feelings of Latinos, is somehow anti-Hispanic. “

This is the CRITICAL QUOTE, and is where Hispanics and Republicans agree, while DEMOCRATS are in their own world with Open Borders - and that is because they want to repopulate this country as quickly as possible, so as to replace the idiot JFK/FDR/union types that keep dying off.

The bottom line is that Hispanics in this country DO NOT WANT OPEN BORDERS, and that is because they understand, better than just about anyone, exactly who is down there, and they prefer they stay down there. The problem is that the Republicans keep trusting their “Advisers” (most of whom are gay, by the way) and actually believe you need open borders to get the Hispanic vote.

Here is the BOTTOM LINE for Hispanics in this country, based on reading a lot of polling data:

1) They want SECURE BORDERS, for the reason mentioned above
2) They like legal immigration, so that family can move here
3) They like Amnesty, so that family here can live legally
4) They don’t like deportations or round-ups of illegals (again, because that may include family), and they also feel like second class citizens if they need to carry papers
5) They do want the DREAM ACT

So 1 out of 5 we match them on, but a VERY IMPORTANT one - they want their kids and their neighborhoods to be safe and they know that can’t happen with Open Borders. We need to pick up on that and not even discuss the rest until and unless the border is secure (and the rest don’t mean anything, anyway, unless the border is secure). That will pretty much eliminate any short-term advantage the Democrats got with Hispanics by pushing Amnesty.

To your list should be added:

(6) They do not want sanctions against employers for hiring ilegal aliens, because that could hurt family; and

(7) They do not want welfare benefits denied to illegals, because that could hurt family.

I don't know about your list, or mine. From your poll reading, don't you see evidence that second and later generation Mestizos are opposed to any aspect of illegal immigration, before and after the fact? You are characterizing their position as: we oppose crossing the border illegally but, once they are here, we must accept them, completely. That is a distinction without a difference. No fence could ever be tall enough to stop those being promised total acceptance on the other side. The magnet of welfare, freebies and periodic amnesty is the problem, not fence technology.

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