Posted on 10/22/2015 5:31:01 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Months since Donald Trump sparked outrage with his comments about Mexican immigrants, about two dozen of the nation's top Hispanic conservative activists are joining forces to respond and issue a warning to the Republican Party.
The activists plan to meet on Oct. 27 in Boulder, Colo., the day before GOP presidential candidates meet in the same city for a debate hosted by CNBC. Plans for the "unprecedented gathering" have been in the works for several weeks, according to organizers, who shared the details first with The Washington Post.
Attendees will be "the people and organizations the RNC and GOP campaigns count on to engage the Latino electorate," said Alfonso Aguilar, head of the American Principles Project's Latino Partnership and a lead organizer of the meeting. "We’ll discuss the tone of the primary, comments about the Hispanic community and some of the immigration proposals that have been made."
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Well, Cummings is mad because the DemocRATS are not in charge anymore.
Racialists. They don’t care what kind of people they sponsor, as long as those people look like them.
No.
As I said, the emphasis would have been better placed on “appears” v. the “mad at”
It is a mainstream media “trick”.
Okay, I get it .. thanks.
My wife, a latina conservative supports Cruz but like Trump and would vote for him easily.
Mr. Aguilar is the first and former chief of the U.S. Office of Citizenship. Appointed by President George W. Bush, Mr. Aguilar was responsible for educating immigrants about the rights and responsibilities of citizenship and for promoting their integration into American civic culture. He led the effort to develop the new naturalization test of the United States, which took effect on Oct. 1, 2008. He also served as chair of the Task Force on New Americans’ Technical Committee, an inter-agency federal task force created by President Bush, to enhance and coordinate government-wide immigrant integration initiatives.
Before joining the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in 2003, Mr. Aguilar served in numerous high-level government positions in the Bush administration and the government of Puerto Rico, including deputy director of public affairs at U.S. Department of Energy, executive director of the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration, and press secretary to former Governor Pedro Rossello of Puerto Rico.
Mr. Aguilar has a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and a J.D. from the University of Puerto Rico. He is a member of the Puerto Rico Bar and the League of United Latin American Citizens. Mr. Aguilar is also a member of the Board of Advisors of the North American Center for Trans-Border Studies at Arizona State University and is the U.S. representative of the Citizenship and Values Foundation based in Madrid, Spain. He writes a bi-monthly Op-Ed column for the daily La Opinion of Los Angeles, California and frequently appears as a guest policy analyst in many radio and TV shows across the country.
By Alfonso Aguilar Published July 18, 2013 FoxNews.com
The debate over immigration is the perfect example of this phenomenon. The GOP, until a mere seven years ago, was decisively supportive of immigration.
All the Republican presidents as well as presidential candidates of the modern era were supportive of immigration. And they held these view not because they were liberal, but because as good conservatives they understood that, historically, immigration has been essential to the economic growth of the nation, including for the creation of good jobs for American workers.
They also understood that immigrants help rekindle and strengthen the values and principles of our founding that sadly so many Americans today take for granted.
They understood that immigrants make America more, not less, American.
Yet, faced with a new large wage of immigrants, reminiscent of that of the turn of the last century, many Republicans, instead of remaining firm to their pro-immigration values, opted to shift their views to a restrictionist and nationalistic stance which demonizes all undocumented immigrants as serious criminals who should not be given a path to legal status even if required to pay a penalty and back taxes.
This is, thus, a relatively new point of view within the GOP and no one should try to argue, as incredibly some restrictionists are doing now, that opposing a path to legal status for undocumented immigrants is as defining for conservatives as defending small government and lower taxes and the right to life and the sanctity of marriage. Opposing immigration reform has never been a benchmark conservative posture.
One of the main reasons continuously articulated by GOP restrictionist leaders for opposing immigration reform is that supposedly Hispanics will never vote in large enough numbers for Republicans. They choose to ignore President Reagan’s famous quip: “Hispanics are conservative, they just don’t know it.”
They don’t care to hear that most Hispanics believe that abortion should be illegal, are opening businesses three times as fast as the national average and are supportive of school choice.
They also refuse to consider than just 8 years ago President Bush got as much as 44 percent of the Latino vote, and that the only reason that it went down to 27 percent in the last election is because of their ugly rhetoric on the issue of immigration.
They have made up their minds, regardless if it’s actually true, that for the most part, Hispanics are different from their base and that it’s waste of time to try to win them over.
This obtuse frame of mind threatens not only the viability of Republicans nationally, but most importantly, the growth of the conservative movement, and with it, the advancement of fundamental conservative principles like fiscal responsibility, limited government, family and faith.
If I had my way, you’d be in an unpleasant circumstance (I have a solution for all of this.) discussing the orderly exit of illegal aliens before (I have a solution for this) all hell broke loose.
So about 8 people are going to go to a bar and get drunk together.
OK, what’s next?
They ain’t very conservative if they get all bent out of shape about enforcing immigration laws - which also benefits honest representation of citizens at the polls........
Two dozen? You’d have to add my wife’s family to get to two dozen. If it weren’t for me, they’d still be voting Democrat.
The Angelo-Saxon caucus will meet to discuss the fastest possible way to deport illegal invaders.
Bacon and beer will be served.
:-)
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