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Republicans miss chance to reach out to Hispanics with immigration resolution
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The Washington Times
BOSTON — Republican leaders spent a good chunk of their summer meeting talking up their revamped Hispanic outreach efforts and then turned around and approved a resolution that could make it harder for the party to close its deficit with the nation’s fastest-growing minority group.
This "deficit" is never going away unless the GOP copies Democrats on things like open borders and huge government programs.
The Republican National Committee passed a resolution on the third and final day of its meeting that touched on some of the thorniest issues in the immigration debate, calling for the completion of a double fence along the southwestern border and saying that most Americans “oppose any form of amnesty that would propose a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants.”
“That is very bad language that only alienates Latinos even more,” said Alfonso Aguilar, who ran the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ office of citizenship under President George W. Bush.
Shocking--he GOP came out for law enforcement!
Mr. Aguilar, who now serves as executive director of the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles, said the wording could reinforce the notion that Republicans are tone-deaf on the subject.
A Hispanic who worked for George Amnesty (repeated attempts) Bush. Another shocker.
The party, Mr. Aguilar said, could learn from Rep. Bob Goodlatte, the Virginia Republican who says some illegal immigrants should have the chance to go to the back of the line and through the normalization process.
“What we oppose is a special path to citizenship,” Mr. Aguilar said.
Going "back in line" would mean that they would need to be back in Mexico, Guatemala, etc, and apply like everyone else, which is not what "back in line" means to amnesty advocates. Plus why should a person here illegally not be penalized, since they would not be as innocent and law-abiding as someone in another country who is trying from the start, lawfully, to get in line?
Polls show that Hispanic voters support a pathway to citizenship. For President Obama and congressional Democrats, the path to citizenship is nonnegotiable as a part of immigration reform. Republicans are divided on the issue.
No mention of polls from the non-Hispanic majority. Our support can just be smirkingly taken for granted.
The RNC resolution also calls for Congress to create work permits for the children of illegal immigrants who were brought to the U.S. through no fault of their own and for foreign nationals living in the U.S. who are working and have not broken other laws.
Have "not broken other laws," what a standard! And what if they have? Drunk driving or what have you? Deported? Not a chance.
Before the vote, Ada M. Fisher, national committeewoman from North Carolina, said the RNC should not support the creation of guest-worker permits because that amounts to a path to citizenship.
American citizens seem locked into an endless unemployment/underemployment nightmare, while our hostile ruling elites are coming up with new ways to give foreigners work permits.
Bruce Ash, national committeeman from Arizona who helped author the plan, countered that “this resolution is not a pathway to citizenship.”
The RNC-endorsed systems would allow some young illegal immigrants brought to the U.S. as minors the chance to obtain work permits that must be renewed every five years as long as they prove they are employed or attending school. Foreign nationals would have to renew their permits every two years.
Isn't all of this pointless, since anything short of a full amnesty that the Democrats and the invaders want, will simply be used to vilify the GOP and get it to come across with a full loaf, rather than a few crumbs?
The RNC weighed in on the issue in March when it released a post-election Growth and Opportunity Project report that said the party must be careful to “craft a tone that takes into consideration the unique perspective of the Hispanic community” and that the party must “embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform.”
"Comprehensive" always means some form of massive amnesty, so let's try to be a little less dishonest.
Since then, the immigration debate has raged on Capitol Hill, where the Democrat-controlled Senate passed, with the help of 14 Republicans, a bill that would bolster border security before granting some illegal immigrants a path to citizenship.
Sally Bradshaw, one of the authors of the RNC report, has signed on as an adviser to Americans for a Conservative Direction, the Mark Zuckerberg-backed organization pressing for immigration reform and a path to citizenship.
RNC members here acknowledged that the immigration resolution could cause the party some political heartburn.
Zuckerberg, another member of the Tribe, the most influential group in throwing open our borders in 1965 in the first place. Read 'The Culture of Critique,' by Kevin MacDonald.
“When you were a kid, your mother would say it is not what you said, it is how you say it that counts, and sometimes we are not very eloquent in how we say things,” said Ron Kaufman, an RNC member from Massachusetts.
Steve Duprey, an RNC member from New Hampshire, said he voted against the resolution because it could be “misinterpreted.”
“I would have worded it more carefully to accurately convey that we are against a blanket ‘amnesty’ but that we have faith that our Republicans in Congress are not creating one,” Mr. Duprey said. “The way I view it is that because of all the hoops someone has to go through: learn the language, pay taxes, have a job, not commit a crime, that it is not amnesty. Amnesty suggests forgiveness without consequences. Here it is a pretty tough road.”
Even if these "hoops" mean it was okay to invade America, which it was not, they will never ever be enforced.
Republicans want to avoid a repeat of the Immigration Reform and Control Act that President Reagan signed in 1986. The act granted amnesty to millions of people living in the U.S. illegally. Elected officials now are struggling to find common ground on how to handle the estimated 11 million illegal residents.
Conveniently doesn't mention that the previous massive amnesty passed with border security promises--that never happened!
The issue dogged Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential race, where he tacked hard to the right in the Republican primary and embraced the notion of “self-deportation.”
Actually Romney was pretty milquetoast on this issue, but at least never supported amnesty. The leftist media jumped on 'self-deport' like it was the craziest most extreme nutty right-wing "notion" imaginable, but simply means that as the US actually enforces border laws and employer laws, job and welfare opportunities will decrease and many will want to leave the US, or those who travel back and forth will decide to stay home (and maybe work to improve their own nations), all of which is backed up by many experts.
Mr. Obama issued an executive order months before the election that said his administration would stop deporting young illegal immigrants who had been brought to the U.S. as children by illegal immigrants.
Mr. Obama went on to win 71 percent of the Hispanic vote four years after capturing 67 percent of the Hispanic vote against Republican rival Sen. John McCain of Arizona in 2008.
In other words, even open-borders John McCain lost 67 percent of the Hispanic vote.
On Friday, Florida Republican Party Chairman Lenny Curry cringed when he was asked about the language of the RNC resolution.
Wonder how he "cringed"?
“The Republican Party is having a debate right now, our elected officials are having a debate, not everybody agrees, but there are people out there trying to fix it and that is the positive thing and I am going to let our elected officials figure that out,” Mr. Curry said.
Texas Republican Party Chairman Steve Munisteri said the resolution represented the competing views in the party.
“The key is hitting the high points and the high points are that that resolution no longer calls for the automatic deportation of folks who are here unlawfully,” Mr. Munisteri said.
Asked whether the “amnesty” clause could hurt the party’s outreach efforts, Mr. Munisteri said it would not “as long as it is made clear that we are not opposing people getting citizenship by going to the back of the line. . . .
This entire post-election push to change the GOP in favor of amnesty was a scam from the beginning. The GOP, since it is still somewhat more conservative and border-law-abiding than the Democrats, was bound to get substantially less votes from Hispanics. So to be shocked--shocked, I tell you!--by the election numbers was only a ploy to trigger this tsunami of amnesty support, especially carried out by the anti-Western civilization media.
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