Posted on Oct 30, 2015
GOP Faces Uphill Climb With Latino Voters In Key Swing State Of Colorado. Is Trump Doomed?
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The Donald, and his anti-immigrant posturing, loom large.
AntiAssociate Politics Editor, The Huffington Post
Posted: 10/29/2015 07:53 PM EDT | Edited: 3 hours ago
JOE AMON VIA GETTY IMAGES
BOULDER, Colo. -- Minutes before presidential candidates took the stage at Wednesday's Republican primary debate, an evangelical pastor stepped to a microphone and told of being brought into the U.S. illegally by her mother, and how she didn’t deserve to be vilified by politicians who neither understand nor care for her struggle for a better life.
“My mom and I were taken to a deportation facility,"said the Rev. Vanessa Guzman, also a real estate agent from Lakewood, a nearby Denver suburb. "For a week I stayed there, with enough clothes that could fill a trash bag. And we were sent back to Mexico. But my mom es una luchadora. And she went back to the United States and she knew that this is the place she called home.”
Guzman, now pursuing a masters of divinity degree at Denver Seminary, explained that she had a higher calling.
“This is where God lands," Guzman told The Huffington Post following her speech. "God is with the people that are being oppressed. Right now, these are the people. I’m sure you’ve heard the comments. This is the civil movement of our time. That’s why I’m here.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gop-latino-voters-colorado-trump_56329816e4b063179911d0a7?ir=Politics%253Fncid%253Dnewsltushpmg00000003
AntiAssociate Politics Editor, The Huffington Post
Posted: 10/29/2015 07:53 PM EDT | Edited: 3 hours ago
JOE AMON VIA GETTY IMAGES
BOULDER, Colo. -- Minutes before presidential candidates took the stage at Wednesday's Republican primary debate, an evangelical pastor stepped to a microphone and told of being brought into the U.S. illegally by her mother, and how she didn’t deserve to be vilified by politicians who neither understand nor care for her struggle for a better life.
“My mom and I were taken to a deportation facility,"said the Rev. Vanessa Guzman, also a real estate agent from Lakewood, a nearby Denver suburb. "For a week I stayed there, with enough clothes that could fill a trash bag. And we were sent back to Mexico. But my mom es una luchadora. And she went back to the United States and she knew that this is the place she called home.”
Guzman, now pursuing a masters of divinity degree at Denver Seminary, explained that she had a higher calling.
“This is where God lands," Guzman told The Huffington Post following her speech. "God is with the people that are being oppressed. Right now, these are the people. I’m sure you’ve heard the comments. This is the civil movement of our time. That’s why I’m here.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gop-latino-voters-colorado-trump_56329816e4b063179911d0a7?ir=Politics%253Fncid%253Dnewsltushpmg00000003
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I don't think that saying Mexico only brings crime and rapists to the US will resonate well with the whole of Latino voters
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I love the comments that profess that many in the Latino community are conservative. I'm sure that they are. However, exit polling show that Latinos, like blacks, Jews, and other minorities, vote predominantly Democratic. It is doubtful that Trump's verbal effluent will alter this record one way or the other. The question is will his stand incite conservatives to get off their duffs and vote. The minorities cannot alone determine the outcome of elections. The problem that the GOP faces is that their base votes on a single issue. They hear their candidates say just one thing that they disagree with and they won't turn out to support them. Democrats, on the other hand, likewise vote on single issues. They hear their candidates say just one thing they agree with and they'll turn out to support them even if their candidates also say many other things that are contradictory or simply offensive to the Democratic base.
That being said, I don't think the GOP has an uphill battle in appealing to Latinos or any other minority group. I believe they face a stone wall with no hope...
That being said, I don't think the GOP has an uphill battle in appealing to Latinos or any other minority group. I believe they face a stone wall with no hope...
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CPT Jack Durish
LTC (Join to see) - Do you actually believe Latinos would vote GOP if they backed off their proposals to secure the border and clear out the illegal aliens (including grandma)?
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CPT Jack Durish - They voted for Reagan and Bush 41, back when family unity was in the platform where family separation resides today.
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CPT Jack Durish
LTC (Join to see) - Anyone who equated "family unity" with support for illegal entry in the country is seriously confused. The issue of illegal aliens was barely a blip on the political radar in the time of Reagan and Bush 41. Of course, Reagan signing the amnesty helped inspire the onrush that raised it to the stratosphere.
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LTC (Join to see)
CPT Jack Durish - Reagan's amnesty was an actual amnesty, and was much bigger than your opinion suggests and far bigger than Obama's executive orders or last year's Gang of Eight senate bill.
Reagan and Bush 41 then each added executive orders to include millions of family members of those covered under amnesty.
They correctly recognized that crossing the border was (and is) the immigration equivalent of a parking ticket, that should be punished by a fine instead of a decade of exile and family separation.
Smuggling drugs or people, illegal reentry after deportation and use of fraudulent documents are more serious, and people with such violations were not included in amnesty.
What is being discussed today by the Democrats and moderate (sane) Republicans is not amnesty. It is a fine for the illegal crossing, and the ability to apply for a green card in the United States without the ten year exile ONLY for people with a visa immediately available and not subject to any other bar to admission. No criminals and nobody who doesn't have a US Citizen or Permanent Resident spouse or a US citizen adult would be included.
By the way, the Immigration and Nationality Act has always included in its mission statement the words "to promote family unity". The current far-right deport everybody mentality was never the GOP platform until the Tea Party types were escaped from the crazy tent. Reagan would be run out of today's GOP as too moderate.
Reagan and Bush 41 then each added executive orders to include millions of family members of those covered under amnesty.
They correctly recognized that crossing the border was (and is) the immigration equivalent of a parking ticket, that should be punished by a fine instead of a decade of exile and family separation.
Smuggling drugs or people, illegal reentry after deportation and use of fraudulent documents are more serious, and people with such violations were not included in amnesty.
What is being discussed today by the Democrats and moderate (sane) Republicans is not amnesty. It is a fine for the illegal crossing, and the ability to apply for a green card in the United States without the ten year exile ONLY for people with a visa immediately available and not subject to any other bar to admission. No criminals and nobody who doesn't have a US Citizen or Permanent Resident spouse or a US citizen adult would be included.
By the way, the Immigration and Nationality Act has always included in its mission statement the words "to promote family unity". The current far-right deport everybody mentality was never the GOP platform until the Tea Party types were escaped from the crazy tent. Reagan would be run out of today's GOP as too moderate.
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The far left-wing is the politics of personal destruction.
For example during one of the races for Governer of
Arkansas, allowed misinfomation about John Paul Hammerschmidt
to not go challlenged and found out to be a lie. w/o which, He would'
never been president.
For example during one of the races for Governer of
Arkansas, allowed misinfomation about John Paul Hammerschmidt
to not go challlenged and found out to be a lie. w/o which, He would'
never been president.
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