We'll take that chance.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 11/18/2010 2:32:51 PM PST by pissant
Somos Republicans, a Latino group from the Southwest, wrote an open letter to the future House GOP leadership last week asking it to reconsider putting Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) in charge of the House subcommittee on immigration and Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) in charge of the House Judiciary Committee.
The group argues that King and Smith’s anti-illegal immigration rhetoric and policy ideas, which include a proposal to end birthright citizenship for the American-born children of illegal immigrants, would alienate Latino voters and ruin the Republican party’s chances of defeating President Obama in 2012.
DeeDee Blase, the Somos Repubicans founder, explains:
Though it is constitutionally impossible that a mere Congressional “statute” will decide who gets to be a citizen, we believe that this insensitive and constant assailment on our Hispanic Community may push Hispanics further into the Independent, Libertarian or Democrat Party. Moreover, Hispanic voters were crucial in electing seven new Republican Hispanics to Congress and two new Republican Hispanic governors. However, Hispanics also vehemently and strongly rejected those Republicans that utilized harsh anti-immigrant rhetoric and opted for a Democrat, as it occurred in the West Coast, Colorado and Nevada.
(Excerpt) Read more at iowaindependent.com ...
If we can keep amnesty from being passed in the lame duck, it will never see the light of day once King is in charge.
Fine, if they don’t want King as the immigration chair, the new House leadership should give the post to Lou Barletta.
Pandering doesn’t work. The best way to deliver a hard truth is bold and blunt and unapologetic.
Mexico doesn’t apologize for its immigration policies; they give 200,000 people the boot every year and helping an illegal alien will get you 6 years in jail there.
We already allow a million legal immigrants a year and Mexico already has the largest quota of visas in the world, larger than the next half dozen countries combined.
So no apologies. Secure the border, enforce the law, and stop apologizing.
I say go ahead and do what is needed. I don’t believe that crap about alienating voters.
I don’t believe that for one Tijuana second....
enforce the present laws to the max. there’s your “reform”
Lamar Smith did an impressive job when he was chair of the House Immigration Subcommittee. holding the old INS’s feet to the fire on numerous occasions. He is very solid on immigration enforcement, and would make a TREMENDOUS Judiciary Committee Chairman. They need to STFU.
This is because Latinos voted so heavily GOP in 2008 and 2010, but if the GOP blocks amnesty they will switch to the Dem party. /s
Using the word “immigration” to refer to the trash and filth that sneaks into America is
criminal in itself. America needs to stop using such a soft word and get serious
about these vermin.
Someone needs to ask Dee Dee if she will switch parties.
To The Republicans.
Do what AMERICAN CITIZEN VOTERS put you in office to do.
Allowing ILLEGAL ALIENS to continue to drain resources that would benefit LEGAL IMMIGRANTS and other Americans has got to end.
“Somos Republicans”?
They can’t even say it in ENGLISH?
Besame el culo, Somos Republicans.
We'll take that chance.
Soros Republicans?!
Oh, never mind....
That would be a very good question. I’d enjoy listening to the tap dance.
Another front “conservative” group. Just like the fags at GOProud.
What was the slogan/motto used by the Texans at the Alamo?
Was it “Come and get it?”
What a laugh riot.
I keep hearing about polls in which legal Latinos resent illegals almost as much as non-Latinos. And why shouldn’t they? Unless they’re bilking the system, illegals make *their* taxes go up and *their* services and safety go down. If they’re bilking the system, they’re not voting GOP to begin with. This is a hollow threat through and through.
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