Hispanics Blast Democrats' Ad

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[MaineVoter2002]

Hispanics Blast Democrats' Ad

A Democratic political ad is under fire from Hispanics who say it unfairly compares Latino immigrants to terrorists.

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee sponsored a 35-second ad on its Web site that shows footage of two people scaling a border fence mixed with images of Osama Bin Laden and North Korea President Kim Jong Il.

Pedro Celis, chairman of the Republican National Hispanic Assembly, said in a statement Tuesday that the DSCC should remove the ad because it vilifies illegal Hispanic immigrants and is "appalling."

Houston City Councilwoman Carol Alvarado, a Democrat, sent a letter to DSCC Chairman Sen. Charles Schumer of New York asking that the ad be pulled. She said it could alienate Latino voters.

"To liken Latino immigrants to bazooka-toting terrorists not only undermines the positive relationship our party has with this community, but also lowers us to a despicable level as breeders of unfounded fear and hatred," Alvarado wrote.

The ad opens with the words "Security Under Bush and GOP?" It features scenes of a masked man with a bazooka, scenes from terrorist attacks and police inspecting a subway train. It also shows Osama bin Laden, Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and a docked ship as it claims "4 times as many terrorist attacks in 2005."

Then comes footage of a person climbing over a corrugated metal border fence and another preparing to climb it as the words "millions more illegal immigrants" form on-screen. In the following scene, viewers see the words "North Korea has quadrupled its nuclear arsenal" with footage of a tank and North Korea President Kim Jong Il.

The ad ends with the words, "Feel safer? Vote for change."

"Equating these undocumented migrants to the very real threats of terrorism is inexcusable and only serves to fan the flames of anti-immigrant sentiment in our country," Celis said in the statement.

The faces of the people climbing over the fence are not clearly visible and there is nothing in the ad confirming the people in the ad are Hispanic. Such scenes are often captured in footage of the U.S.-Mexican border.

Bettina Inclan, the assembly's executive director, said the people in the ad appeared Hispanic, "not just to us, but to other people who saw the video."

DSCC spokesman Phil Singer dismissed the group's criticism as a Republican group "trying to gloss over the White House's abysmal record on security."

"This group's time would be better spent pressuring reluctant Republicans to support comprehensive immigration reform," Singer said in an emailed statement.

Inclan said the group was among supporters of the bipartisan Senate immigration bill, which passed the Senate but has been criticized in the House.

The ad drew rebuke from other Hispanics.

"This is the same kind of fear mongering we condemn in the extreme media and now we are seeing it at the DSCC," said Lisa Navarrete, spokeswoman for the National Council of La Raza. "It's appalling."

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[maica]

One of the strangest political ads I have ever seen. It implies that terrorist attacks, Osama, Kim il etc will disappear if the Dems regain power.

[MaineVoter2002]

I still like THIS AD much more

[seastay]

Its a problem because not all Hispanics are ms -13 gang members but all ms-13 gang members are Hispanic, therefore why doesn't anybody complain against their own who dont obey laws if they dont want to all be lumped together in this category?

When is the last time immigrants came out in numbers to protest the real oppressors, organized crime and gang terrorists from Latin America? Instead they mass in numbers to protest the only government whom bends over backward to accommodate diversity, more so than any government on the planet, including the ones their families left behind but for which they still fly a flag in brainwashed sympathy.

[LifeOrGoods?]

"To liken Latino immigrants to bazooka-toting terrorists not only undermines the positive relationship our party has with this community, but also lowers us to a despicable level as breeders of unfounded fear and hatred," Alvarado wrote.

Nobody has compared illegal immigrants to terrorists, but some illegals are in fact terrorists and bazooka-toting gang members. Does an illegal expect to be welcomed with open arms? (Maybe loaded arms.)

What part of the English word illegal don't they understand?

[dynachrome]

The ad makes it sound like they support the WOT.

[Graybeard58]

Here's a video:

http://www.jibjab.com/JokeBox/JokeBox.aspx?Id=103883&JokeId=40274

[MaineVoter2002]

Tell me that's not real

[Caramelgal]

Yes illegal immigrants are…well illegal, enough said.

First, as the daughter of an immigrant, I say, come here legally, through the proper channels and with the desire to be an American citizen and I welcome you with open arms. Come here by breaking our laws and you’ve started off on the wrong foot; be prepared to face the consequences.

But Hispanic gang activities aside, most of the Hispanics who come here, legally or illegally, are looking for jobs and an improved way of life for themselves and their families.

It’s the Mohammad’s, mostly not the Juan’s and Juanita’s who are plotting to blow up airplanes and mass murder Americans.

I recently talked to a woman who legally emigrated here from Columbia and is now a US citizen. She told me that because of the political corruption in Columbia and many other Central and South American countries, obtaining the necessary paperwork in their home country to start the process of coming to the US legally is hugely expensive and requires huge payoffs and favors to the right people. Many would like to be legal but end up taking their chances to come here illegally, but they then are often the victims of those who take their money in exchanged for a supposed safe passage across the boarder and then again by those already here who swindle them again with promises of foolproof paperwork. They are swindled and loose no matter what they do. I never considered this part of the equation.

I think of the Cubans who risk life and limb to cross to Florida for a chance of freedom. What they do is not exactly legal either.

Say what you will, and know I am not in favor of open boards and am against illegal immigration, but a lot of the Hispanics who come here, are very hard working and industrious and have the potential of being good citizens. I’ve had the pleasure of knowing quite a few and I wish some native born American had such appreciation of what this country has to offer. Not all of them want to repatriate parts of the Southwest to Mexico or demand that we adopt Spanish as a second language.

[Graybeard58]

It's a spoof.

[Redbob]

So some illegals are more illegal than other illegals?

[maica]

Does Robinson have a chance? He sure has a great ad.

[MaineVoter2002]

So some illegals are more illegal than other illegals?

Why you ask me? Did I say something of the sort?

[stephenjohnbanker]

Um ....rotflmao!

[Recovering_Democrat]

This is clearly an attempt to make people think Democrat party operatives are "tough" on terror.

What a laugh.