Did he really say that?
“Growing up in Texas I never met a Latino who wasn’t working.”
While this kind of flattery is expected when politicians pander to any kind of group, in this case it’s not true. The latest data show that 65.4 percent of U.S.-born Hispanics over age 16 have a job, and 68.4 percent of Hispanic immigrants (legal and illegal) do, compared with 69.3 percent for the country as a whole. That’s not a difference worth getting excited about one way or the other, but it does show that Hispanics are regular people, not toiling supermen.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/343384/dontstandwithrand-mark-krikorian