Posted on 05/08/2016 5:54:13 PM PDT by jazusamo
Donald Trump launched his presidential campaign promising to build a border wall to stop illegal immigrants — and Hispanic rights advocates say Republicans will now reap the pain of having him as their party’s nominee.
America’s Voice, a leading immigration advocacy group, said Republicans are facing “a moment of truth.” Other organizations predicted that Hispanic voters will be eager to punish Mr. Trump for his rhetoric and the party as a whole for nominating him.
“The Republican Party is about to run into a force more powerful than their hatred — the power of the love of families and communities standing together,” said Kica Matos, director of immigrant rights at the Center for Community Change.
On the other side are Hispanic Republican leaders who fear exactly what has come to pass. They say Mr. Trump has a lot of work to do even to get Hispanics in his own party to back him up.
“I cannot support him, I cannot campaign for him, I cannot vote for him,” Alfonso Aguilar, executive director of the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles, told The Washington Times.
“Having said that, I am taking a pause and just seeing how this evolves, and considering all the things that the country is facing, all the things that are at stake in this election I am willing to see if Mr. Trump evolves on a number of issues. I hope that he revises his views on immigration and if that is the case I would be willing to consider reconsidering my position,” he said.
Hispanics are one of the fastest-growing demographics in the American electorate, and Republican nominees have lost a share of that vote in the past two presidential elections, from about 40 percent in 2004 to 31 percent in 2008 and 27 percent in 2012.
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Trump isn't running for the president of Mexico, nor of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Guatemala, etc.!
BUILD THE WALL AND THROUGH OUT ALL OF THE ANCHOR BABIES AND THEIR DISGUSTING MOTHERS ET AL FROM EVERYWHERE !
First order of business once Trump is sworn in; END ALL FREEBIES for these bastard wannabee “citizens”. I am TIRED of paying for them. GO HOME; get out of my country and quit calling me names while you leach from my countries treasury. Fuck off, get out.
My first trip to Mexico in 1981? There were hammer an sickle political posters everywhere
They didn't love each other enough to stay together in their own countries.
U am way beyond fed up with this bullsh!t! This is OUR country. AMERICA! Not some Super 8 motel or an unassimilated boarding house for the Third World. Mexican trash. Nothing but arrogant beggars looking to start trouble.
How about calling them ‘’cabrones’’?
I have a question about “common sense immigration reform”.
What’s wrong with the laws we have now? They were passed by Congress. They were signed by various presidents.
That’s as good as it gets. Round ‘em up, send ‘em back.
Many of us have ties to our parents’ or grandparents’ countries of birth.
Howcome only s..cs put their FORMER homeland first? The legal ones, I mean.
GTF back if it was so great.
There are illegals coming from Eastern Europe. I’m against that too.
Why does everything have to be a race issue.
There is the rub
How about calling them ‘’cabrones’’?
That works for me. Good idea!
Basteges LOL
Seriously I love Hispanics but we have some differences on politics
We need to get back to our yo tengo, donde esta’s
The Mexican Gov abuse her people,the American Gov uses the Illegals to abuse the American people.
WAKE UP and UNITE!!
NO MAS
My grandfather took pleasure in teaching me Spanish/Mexican cuss words. He bragged that Mexicans could out cuss any other Hispanic nationality.
divide and conquer, old as the hills
Well as an old submariner I will just say %&*#, ^$#*, @*%# LOL
“the power of the love of families and communities standing together,”
This from people who left the families and communities of their own country.
“The illegals have a fairly active advocacy group on Free Republic.
You see them actively pushing gang of eight point man, La Raza Marco Rubio.”
Ok, you piqued my interest. I can easily spot the closet leftard Freepers who promote faggot marriage but I somehow missed those. Care to share?
I have rounded em up lots of times.
The FEDS let em go.
Om the flip side if the Federales get you you ar screwed and they will bleed your family dry.
Dont even want to know what is going on with the drug cartels
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