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Texas GOP gets tougher on immigration

Some say platform adopted at convention could deter Latino voters


DALLAS — Texas Republicans adopted another get-tough policy on immigration and bilingual education on Saturday that some say will make it hard for the party to attract Hispanic voters at a time when the Texas population is turning increasingly Latino.

The platform encourages state lawmakers to create a Class A misdemeanor criminal offense “for an illegal alien to intentionally or knowingly be within the State of Texas,” and to “oppose amnesty in any form leading to citizenship for illegal immigrants.”

Texas Republicans also want to limit citizenship by birth to those born to a U.S. citizen “with no exceptions.” The platform calls for the end of day-labor work centers and emphasizes border security, encouraging “all means … (to) immediately prevent illegal aliens.”

The party's education platform calls for the end of federally sponsored pre-kindergarten, and opposes any mandatory pre-kindergarten or kindergarten. “We believe that parents are best suited to train their children in their early development,” it says.

Bilingual education should end after the third year, according to the platform, and non-U.S. citizens should not be eligible for state or federal college financial assistance.

Opponents challenged party members with differing views to make their voices heard.

“Your party platform is your brand. It represents your values and beliefs and what distinguishes you from Democrats,” said state Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, D-San Antonio, chairman of the 44-member Mexican American Legislative Caucus.

“Republicans who don't agree should speak out and take a stand for the sake of humanity,” he said. “What they need are guts, or ganas, and not artful spin that's a cheap form of ignoring the single biggest problem affecting the Republican Party.”

Hispanics will make up 78 percent of Texas' population growth over the next 30 years, compared with only 4 percent for whites, according to demographic projections. Minority children already make up 66 percent of the state's 4.8 million public school enrollment — and Hispanics could surpass whites in the state's overall population by 2015, estimates show.

Not one of the state's 181 legislators is a Hispanic Republican.

“The figures are irrefutable. I am extremely concerned,” longtime Republican advertising executive and political consultant Lionel Sosa said of his party's future.
Need to reach out

GOP primary voters booted out the only statewide Republican Hispanic elected official this spring when they rejected Railroad Commissioner Victor Carrillo.

The party must do a better job of drawing Hispanics or what is now “a serious problem,” Sosa said, could turn fatal.

Within a dozen years, Latinos could be electing Democrats “because Democrats have the right message and Republicans have the wrong message,” Sosa said. “I don't think it will happen. If it happens, then Texas will turn into a Democratic state and once Texas turns Democratic … We'll never elect a Republican president again.”

“But I'm not gloom and doom about that. I believe that survival drives the culture. Things will change when more Republican candidates get it,” he said. “They won't have to make a false choice between security and humanity.”

It's imperative for Republicans to reach out to Hispanic voters, said GOP campaign consultant and pollster Whit Ayres, president of the American Association of political consultants.

“If Republicans don't do better among Hispanic voters, we are not going to be talking about how we get Florida back in a presidential election,” said Ayres, of Alexandria, Va. “We're going to be talking about how we keep from losing Texas.”

Houston GOP delegate Stuart Mayper said he's concerned about the party's relationship with Latino voters.

“We must reach out to these people. If we don't, it's a big mistake,” he said.

But the party shouldn't water down its principles.

“Learn English in this country. I don't like going into Wal-Mart and seeing Spanish,” Mayper said.

He wants to see troops on the border.

“Close the border. I am not against any Mexicans or anything. Let's slow down the tide. I'm not saying send anybody back,” Mayper said.
Work visas suggested

Dolores Fieden, another Houston GOP delegate, is a Hispanic who emphasized the importance of legal migration.

Seeing her party attract more Hispanics “would be nice,” she said. “But if doesn't happen, it's not because it's not open to them. It's open to whomever.”

The immigration problem can be solved by issuing enough work visas to fill jobs that U.S. citizens don't want, said Sosa, who has worked for seven GOP presidential campaigns, starting with Ronald Reagan's in 1980.

“When that happens so much of this emotional rhetoric will subside, and we will be able to carry on a more civil conversation,” Sosa said.

The party's state leaders, including Gov. Rick Perry and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, “get it” when it comes to issues important in the Latino community, he said.

“These are the candidates that are doing the right thing,” Sosa said. “What the extremists in the party are doing doesn't reflect on the candidates.”
‘Disconnect' with Latinos

Though he doesn't agree with the GOP platform on certain issues, Sosa said voters generally gravitate toward candidates because of their personalities and positions on issues, not because of party platforms.

“It's not about the party. It's about what the individual candidate does or says,” Sosa said.

MALC leader Martinez Fischer believes the GOP's “disconnect” with Latinos is beyond problematic.

“It's a plague. Republicans have been afflicted with this illness since the 1860s,” he said. “The only difference is their target. Back then it was the Irish and Catholics, today it's Latinos who are largely Catholic — I see a pattern here.”

 

Then your Mexican buddies are, at heart, lazy asses.

Cuz we don't want them here mooching off our hard work. Just like anyone rational.

 

Tell me what effect of all the social programs have had on minorities.

Are they motivated to be overachievers by this?

The only social program that I see doing any good is giving minority startup business owners cheap loans/grants/etc.

IOW, going to work.

 

They dont want their people being blown up by land mines or having families with children power cut off



They dont want this eithier



The platform encourages state lawmakers to create a Class A misdemeanor criminal offense “for an illegal alien to intentionally or knowingly be within the State of Texas,” and to “oppose amnesty in any form leading to citizenship for illegal immigrants.”



Texas Republicans also want to limit citizenship by birth to those born to a U.S. citizen “with no exceptions.” The platform calls for the end of day-labor work centers and emphasizes border security, encouraging “all means … (to) immediately prevent illegal aliens.”

The party's education platform calls for the end of federally sponsored pre-kindergarten, and opposes any mandatory pre-kindergarten or kindergarten. “We believe that parents are best suited to train their children in their early development,” it says.

Bilingual education should end after the third year, according to the platform, and non-U.S. citizens should not be eligible for state or federal college financial assistance.

 

Nobody does.

But it doesn't negate the fact that once they're here, the working class supports them to some degree.

You cannot dispute that.

 

LOL, either you are a complete liar or you are actually insane, You say you traded successfully yet you are going back to school so you might have a crack at working long hours having to manage other people for 89k a year???

Bullshit.

you are giving up a job where you can travel wherever and whenever you want, (i spend about 2-3 months a year living abroad) work as many, or as little hours as you want. (i work about 3 hours a day in the summer when im not fine tuning systems and the markets dead.) You are giving up a job where you can make almost unlimited amount of money, if you are good, and you feel like putting the time in, so that you could go back to school to possibly make 89k a year. LOL.

There is no way in hell you were successfull at trading.

 

And im sure your owners will be pumped when you hire a bunch of lazy incompetent far left people who end up unionizing on you and crippling your company.

Why dont you go tell the owners of this supposed hotel your plan and see how long you last.

 

You guys are arguing with a hotel desk clerk.

The biggest problem this guy has to face is when someone shits the bed in Room 217.

 

Actually, as we've discussed before, it was the Republicans who passed the Civil Rights Act, and democrats who tried to filibuster it. No matter how many times you repeat a lie, it still wont become a fact. LOL!!!

 

True.

Democrats aren't perfect,I'm not arguing that they are

I supervise many Mexicans,and they are the hardest working and nicest group of people that I supervise.They aren't stupid,they know democrats want them for thier votes,but they know that Republicans only want them for slave labor


Many of my Mexican friends and co workers do get pissed with Obama and democrats,but feel that Republicans look at them as less then human. Republicans have tried courting them,but since they vote 2-1 or 3-1 in favor of democrats Republicans have turned downright vile and evil against them

I understand if you dont like democrats,but how can you support a group that proposes to blow your people up with landmines,turn off the heat in the winter and the AC in 90 degrees in the summer, supports allowing businesses to not allow Mexicans into their establishments etc ?


who is the party that gave a Mexican(Richardson) a legit shot to win the presidency?who is the party that has the most Hispanics in Congress to represent you ?who gave you the first Hispanic Supreme court Justice ?when an Hispanic one day becomes president,what party do you think they will be from ?

Wake up brother