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.”
Says a racist organization.
No, that is a statement made by a Freeper in a recent post.
Wish I could remember who it was, he’s a brilliant Freeper.
The statement is just so spot-on correct!
I do not care what the foreign racists think. How does an organization named La Raza (The Race) get any attention in the first place?
Yes it is. Campaigns would be won on it.
Sick of being threatened by a group that puts illegal alien hordes ahead of United States citizens.
What sane country leaves its borders so wide open?
What country has survived it?
Get black votes. 20 or 25 percent and we win the election.
That plus a HUGE conservative turnout and we can do this.
The point isn’t even if they are good or bad people.
The point is they Broke American Immigration Law!
Good post, you make good sense my FRiend.
Some of them, absolutely. Henry Cisneros, Ciro Rodriguez, the Castro brothers- many of these guys are as racist as they come.
A CA Guy- completely, utterly racist. Being in California, I’m sure you know. 55 years in South Texas is a real education, too. There are plenty of conservative Hispanics, but there are plenty of bigots, too. And they’re not about to let you forget that you, Gringo, are outnumbered.
Get ‘em out. I’ve been saying for years you could employ half of black America for years rounding up illegals. Do it. Then deal with black crime. You’d simultaneously solve much of the drug and violent crime problem we have. Combined with Trump’s stated intention to make foreign governments treat us fairly in trade, you could turn the US around 180 degrees in one term. And Trump would go down as the GREATEST PRESIDENT WE’VE EVER HAD.
Bummer, but other than Lintseed, and that is only long-shot, no Republican was going to get La Raza’s endorsement anyway.
My immigration strategy would fine Mexico (and any other country) $1M per illegal and take it out of any holdings they have in the US.
Next I’d give all illegals 90 days to get out of the US and after that it’s round up time and any citizen can join in.
“GOP’s embrace of Trump and lurch to the right on birthright citizenship and immigration could damage them in 2016 with Latino voters.”
That’s ok because he will offset it with the black voters.
Members of La Raza need to be deported and not allowed back if found to be in this country illegally. They do not have alliance to the U.S.!.
Which will further energize and get out the Patriot vote.
Targets.
This next election we need volunteers to sit at the polling stations to video footage of the Mexican or government tour buses dropping off illegal aliens en masse and people that are willing to step up to the bus drivers and ask the drivers where they’re from noting if they’ve been given pat answers by American officials to use. It should be non-confrontational and body worn cameras may be a plus.
Hey La raza! Kiss my red, white and blue American @$$, you freeloading racist bass turds.
I don’t listen to racists. Aryan Nation, Black Panthers, LaRaza are all trash.
Remember, “the flack is always heaviest over the target”...
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