Posted on 08/24/2015 10:18:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
NCLR president Janet Murguia blames Trump for the beating of a Hispanic man in Boston and says the GOP’s attacks on birthright citizenship and immigration will further damage its reputation with Latinos.
Pointing to an assault against a Hispanic man last week allegedly inspired by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, National Council of La Raza (NCLR) president Janet Murguia said the GOP’s embrace of Trump and lurch to the right on birthright citizenship and immigration could damage them in 2016 with Latino voters.
On Wednesday, two Boston white men with extensive criminal histories allegedly urinated on and beat a homeless Hispanic man, justifying their actions to police with “Donald Trump was right, all these illegals need to be deported.”
“Enough is enough,” Murguia said in an interview with BuzzFeed News after publishing a blog post titled Trumpification of the Republican Party Reaches Turning PointMurguia said studies have proven that words can incite violence, citing the work of the Anti-Defamation League,
“He’s going by the book to scapegoat and dehumanize a group of people,” she said. “What Trump is doing now is going beyond talking about policy and being passionate. He’s using words and a tone that’s motivating people to take harmful actions against others.”
The Anti-Defamation League has previously linked derogatory rhetoric and violence against immigrants by far-right extremists to the national debate around immigration.
But while Murguia laid the blame for the incident at Trump’s feet, she said the embrace by multiple Republican candidates of his call to end birthright citizenship is also troubling, framing this stance as the antithesis of the pro-DREAMer argument. DREAMers, undocumented youth brought to the country as children, have largely been viewed sympathetically by Americans in the larger immigration debate. Ending birthright citizenship would take away citizenship from the children of undocumented immigrants.
Of the GOP candidates for president, seven have indicated they would support ending birthright citizenship, including Trump, Scott Walker, Rand Paul, Chris Christie and Rick Santorum. Walker later walked back his comments, saying that until the border is secured and immigration laws are enforced, nothing else matters.
At a big speech in Alabama Friday, Trump said 7.5% of all births in the country are to “illegal immigrants.”
In 2012, Mitt Romney’s comments on immigration in the primary including the idea that undocumented immigrants should “self-deport,” were widely credited with hurting him in the general election.
Romney only received the support of 27% of Hispanics, and Republicans working hard to get those numbers back up to respectable levels were already worried that Trump was putting their work in jeopardy — but that was six weeks ago.
Leading the largest Hispanic civil rights organization in the country, Murguia has emerged as someone increasingly willing to challenging politicians, including Democrats. Last year she made waves and drew the ire of the administration when she called President Obama the “deporter-in-chief.” This year she blasted House Republicans for refusing to advance an immigration overhaul.
Murguia said all of it — the rhetoric, the policies, the use of the controversial term “anchor baby” by Trump and Jeb Bush — will “motivate the community in a historic way, there’s no question that will be the outcome of all of this.”
Echoing her blog post, she said if the GOP isn’t careful, this electoral energy from Hispanics won’t be good for them.
“Trump may succeed in getting his wall but it will be a permanent wall between the Republican Party and Latino voters.”
There are A LOT of black voters that want the illegals deported. I know two of them that support Trump and they have never voted Republican. I don’t think the media is covering this, for obvious reasons.
Hey La raza! Kiss my red, white and blue American @$$, you freeloading racist bass turds.
La Raza (the race) is racist.
They would never be Republican because they are the biggest example of hands out voters.
They want free stuff and handed stuff which makes them natural Democrats.
If they’re illegal, they’re not supposed to be voting here anyway.
Let them vote in Mexico after they’re sent back.
hey, as long as it is on the Mexican border and they are all on the other side, great!
Trump Wall is looking better all the time.
so then I guess we blame all hispanic politicians for the murder of Americans by hispanic illegals, or do we just believe whatever the illegals say like the one that blamed the gun for shooting that woman in San Francisco
This time, if you see something at the polls, like illegal aliens voting, SAY SOMETHING!
“They would never be Republican because they are the biggest example of hands out voters.”
BINGO! These pukes will never vote GOP anyways so they’re supposed to scare us on something they will never...EVER do which is vote GOP.
then why is Trump’s rating with latinos in the last poll high?
LaRaza is an AstroTurf, wholey-owned subsidiary of the Democratic Party/Progressive Movement.
Them saying this is like how Nancy Pelosi ALWAYS predicts that the Democrats will retake the House. She might be right, she might be wrong, but she won’t say anything else because her goal isn’t to reveal truth but rather appeal to supporters and true believers.
La Raza council is just a bunch of Leftys with Spanish surnames
Hearing that Trump might get 20% of the black vote. In 2016 that is a stunning number.
Well, bye.
BFD. I remember the post that as is even if Romney got 87% of the Latino vote, hr still would have lost. He needed 4% more of the base. And I’ll bet there are plenty of Latino voters who aren’t too thrilled with the illegals.
They sure are.
A brown supremacist organization is all it amounts to.
They're as racist as the KKK or Black Panther Party have ever been.
‘Latino voters will be out in force to repudiate this racist ballot measure.’ - La Raza the night before their third humiliating defeat in California about a ballot measure denying benefits to illegal aliens.
Every time these morons speak, no one pays attention to hown badly wrong they are. All they see is some magical voting block that might vote for a Republican. And the only way the GOPe can think to campaign to them is exactly like Democrats do. And then the GOPe makes up some story why it didn’t happen this time.
Is that an actual quote?
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