Posted on 08/20/2015 12:07:34 AM PDT by Steelfish
Aug 19, 2015 For Hispanic Conservatives, Alarm Over Immigration Debate
By AARON ZITNER
Concern over the tone adopted by some GOP candidates in the latest immigration debate has turned to alarm among some Hispanics. Pictured, Donatila Diego, left, and Juana de Leon, originally from Guatemala show their support for the Obama administration’s immigration reform plan on July 9 in Homestead, Fla. Getty Images When Donald Trump used the word “criminals” to describe illegal immigrants from Mexico, the Republican National Hispanic Assembly called his comments “extremely counterproductive.”
Now, listen to the more personal language that Gonzalo Ferrer, the national chairman of the group, uses to describes Mr. Trump’s most recent contributions to the immigration debate: “Extremely bigoted, offensive to all Hispanic-Americans, unconstitutional . . . and self-defeating.”
Mr. Trump, he said, shows “reckless disregard for the harm he is causing to Republican Hispanic-American families and to the Republican cause.”
These are troubling days for many people trying to promote the Republican Party and conservative ideals to Hispanic voters. Concern over the tone adopted by some GOP candidates has turned to alarm.
An immigration debate that long turned on sensitive matters—such as whether to provide some kind of legal status to undocumented workers—is now focusing on more explosive issues. Those include the idea of deporting millions of illegal immigrants and ending “birthright citizenship,” the 147-year-old principle that anyone born on U.S. soil is a U.S. citizen, even if his or her parents entered the country illegally.
Both ideas were embraced by Mr. Trump over the weekend.
More than anything so far, some conservative Hispanic leaders say, these ideas cause Hispanic voters to question whether they have a home in the GOP. “Basically, they are saying, ‘We don’t want you. Get out,’ ” said Mr. Ferrer,...
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The next meeting of Hispanic Conservatives will be held in a phone booth in Dubuque Iowa. No reservations required. lol
IF they`re Conservative then why do they support OBozo`s plan of amnesty? Sounds like we never had their support to begin with.
The southwest never belonged to them!
I want the illegals OUT OF MY COUNTRY.
We all want them out.
Period.
If there’s Republican Hispanics who want our country flooded with illegals they need QUIT the Republican Party and join up with Democrats.
That said, this is most likely fake stuff put out by dem war rooms to scare the timid... the stupid - our congressmen...
Our congressmen - the easy, the pushovers, the stupid.... the gullible.
NO, GOPe - we the people do NOT want illegals. We do NOT want anchor bablies.
Read the damn polls rather than the fake letters sent out by dem political consultants.
Nice take.....these people have no loyalty to a party, to our country or to our system of govt.
It’s all about the barbarian hordes, lusting after our riches....here to loot and pillage......and to overthrow the US govt.
In their diseased minds, it’s “us against them.”
Americans are seen as 'easy marks'... There's reason stores in the ME and South American don't have 'return policies'... it's because their cultures are so corrupt any 'return policy' would be abused.
I’ve caught WSJ lying several times recently. A lot more spin than they’ve done in the past. They definitely are running scared over Trump.
> These deluded dumb-bells still think the SW belongs to them.
We ran them out of here yet they don’t seem to remember they kicked the Indians to the curb first.
Tone?
No one capable of critical thought need to continue reading after this worn out politically correct term is used yet once again.
Would they prefer to hear the tone of more innocent Americans being killed, raped, ran over, looted, robbed and murdered get the message across?
Are you referring to most of the GOP or the fraudulent deceit and diversion from this so called "Republican National Hispanic Assembly"?
Super riposte!
Initially the latter, but good point on the former.
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