Conservative Hispanic group tells GOP to avoid ‘amnesty’ label

news.yahoo.com ^ | Liz Goodwin

[posterchild]

A conservative pro-immigration reform group has issued talking points to Republican lawmakers, telling them to avoid referring to the children of illegal immigrants as "anchor babies" or calling for the construction of an "electric fence" on the border, among other things.

The talking points, published by BuzzFeed, went out to Republican lawmakers on the Hill as momentum builds for an immigration bill that would legalize most of the country's 11 million illegal immigrants. The memo urges lawmakers to call illegal immigrants "undocumented immigrants" and to avoid terms such as "aliens" or "illegals." Another phrase to avoid? "Send them all back."

"Conservatives get a bad rap when it comes to immigration reform because of a few people who say things that can be taken to be offensive," said Jennifer Korn, executive director of the Hispanic Leadership Network, the center-right group that sent the talking points on Monday. "It all means the same thing, but the way you say it matters."

[SharpRightTurn]

“Perhaps I should elaborate. Being conservative and pro-welfare-state is an impossibility.”

I agree.

[Smokin' Joe]

All of these ammnesty lovers are in for a big shock when the announcement is made that all the 11 million illegals are now elibible for a path to citizeship and only 10 come out of the shadows. Most of them have no desire whatsoever to become US citizens.

The ten or eleven million numbers are twenty years old.

Do these idiots think these people have been spending their evenings just gazing into each other's eyes and holding hands?

Thirty or forty million, minimum.

So maybe they will get 11 million to sign up--one in four, one if five--maybe.

[publius911]

‘earned legal status’ ???
earned ?

Well extortion is hard work, you know. Specially for illegal aliens, and anchor babies not already in jail.

Amnesty? Welfare? Que?