Hispanics against Immigration Hearings

Yahoo News ^ | 7/1/2006 | Emily Fredrix

[garbageseeker]

What are Hispanic groups and the Democratic Party have to fear about the upcoming immigration hearings by the GOP?What are they hiding?I thought that they would be glad that they are finally to air their views in the public.

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MILWAUKEE - Hispanic leaders said Friday that Republican plans to hold national hearings on an immigration bill are a stall tactic aimed at delaying immigration reform and attracting more votes for the GOP this fall.

John Tresvina, president of the Mexican American Legal and Education Defense Fund, said the hearings were "basically a stalling tactic."

"It's a way to appeal to their base," Tresvina said at the annual meeting of the League of United Latin American Citizens.

Latinos do not pose a threat to the government and should be valued for their economic contributions, said Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers of America with labor leader Cesar Chavez.

"We have to let people know what the truth is. This is a distraction," Huerta said.

House Republican leaders scheduled the hearings to get feedback on a Senate-passed bill that would offer legal status to millions of illegal immigrants.

Speakers said Friday that the measure is far from perfect but still better than the one offered by Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., which would have subjected those in the country illegally to felony prosecution.

On Wednesday, Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean warned that Republicans were using "immigrant bashing and scapegoating" to seek votes in the November election.

His Republican counterpart, Ken Mehlman, canceled his address to the convention because of weather-related travel problems but said in a letter that it was important for the party to reach out to Hispanic voters and continue working on the immigration issue.

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California said Republicans showed their true colors this week when two-thirds of them voted to eliminate ballots in more than one language.

"We believe any diminishing of language assistance and bilingual ballots is a diminishment of our American democracy," Pelosi said in remarks prepared for a speech Friday evening.

[garbageseeker]

"You got to be an optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one." -- Will Rogers

[cripplecreek]

Actually it's illegal aliens and their supporters who are afraid of hearings.

[garbageseeker]

They always wanted the public to know about the virtues of public immigration and they are the ones who stalling.

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"We have to let people know what the truth is. This is a distraction," Huerta said

They want to tell the truth, but they want to control the forum. They know that the GOP will hammer them.

[BenLurkin]

Truth to a lefty is like garlic to Dracula.

[Libloather]

"It's a way to appeal to their base," Tresvina said at the annual meeting of the League of United Latin American Citizens.

So is waving the Mexican flag on American soil - eh?

[garbageseeker]

I like the truth to a Democrat is like krypronite to Superman

[cripplecreek]

If they want to tell the truth they could start by calling them what they are. "illegal aliens"

[garbageseeker]

or Felons

[garbageseeker]

They have a new flag now. It is a hybrid. On one side of the flag its American.On the other side its the Mexican flad.

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[siznartuf]

"Latinos do not pose a threat to the government and should be valued for their economic contributions, said Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers of America with labor leader Cesar Chavez."

All might be interested in this article on Cesar Chavez.
>http://www.amconmag.com/2006/2006_02_27/article.html<

Here is an excerpt:

"Chavez’s essential problem was straight out of Econ 101, the law of supply and demand. He needed to limit the supply of labor in order to drive up wages. Just as American Federation of Labor founder Samuel Gompers, himself a Jewish immigrant, was one of the most influential voices calling for the successful immigration-restriction law of 1924, Chavez, during his effectual years, was a ferocious opponent of illegal immigration."

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[garbageseeker]

Caesar Chavez did not like illegal immigration. But Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers of America with labor leader Cesar Chavez, supports it. The UFW needs news members to join their ranks.

[garbageseeker]

In fact, the UFW has leaned to the socialist forces in the Latino movement

[calex59]

What Hispanic leaders? Who are they and who elected them to office? What office do these leaders hold? Why are they afraid to have hearings about illegals if the majority of Americans support them as they claim? Who gives a sh** about Hispanic leaders who have no authority in this country and what they think? For that matter who cares what Dems think except other Dems?

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[USMA '71]

Well said! Ditto.

[garbageseeker]

But they have self-appointed themselves as leaders of the Hispanic people. Any dissent or alternate viewpoint is crushed. The Democratic leadership recognizes these people because they have the same ideology.