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It’s unlikely you will enjoy hearing this news (just as the Democrats
probably won’t like the letter that I’ll write to them next week). Still, I
thought we should clear up a few things before your convention begins in Florida
on Aug. 27. (more…)
Tag Archives: Republicans
On a recent Florida evening, hundreds of Republicans gathered at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables to discuss a growing concern for the party: attracting Hispanic voters as the 2012 presidential race begins to heat up. You don’t have to be very perceptive to know that many Hispanics in the U.S see the Republican Party as the enemy. It was Republicans who passed anti-immigrant legislation in Arizona last year. It was Republican senators who made up the majority of votes that defeated the Dream Act, ending the hopes of 2 million Hispanic immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as young children by their parents. It is Republicans who want to amend the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, which grants automatic citizenship to anyone born in the U.S., in order to deprive children of undocumented immigrants that right. (more…)
RECIPE TO LOSE THE ELECTIONS
If Republicans would like to lose one election after another, all they have to do is continue to oppose true immigration reform, propose more laws like Arizona’s controversial new immigration law, and keep arguing in favor of a constitutional amendment that would strip undocumented immigrants’ children of their American citizenship. That would be a foolproof formula for losing the Hispanic vote — and thus, all elections for a very long time to come. (more…)
