Posted on 09/27/2021 4:53:47 AM PDT by Kaslin
I am a Hispanic woman whose family fled Communist Cuba in order to give their children a better future. Like so many others, my family fled brutal repression in favor of America's freedom and prosperity. Conservative Republican policies are by far best-suited to protect that American freedom for generations to come – our values of faith, freedom, and family connect with the broader Hispanic community. Unfortunately, Democrats cannot say the same.
Joe Biden’s failure to understand the needs of our Hispanic communities has been clear since the campaign trail. Hispanics do not need a “leader“ who patronizes us playing “Despacito” at a rally while delivering a speech with empty promises. We need leaders who will provide tangible solutions that will help our families and businesses thrive as they did during the Trump administration.
In merely 8 months, Biden has stifled the economic recovery he inherited and reversed policies that were helping Hispanic Americans. His failed leadership is evident to all. He has enabled policies that have sent our cost-of-living skyrocketing. He has failed to shut down COVID. And he has failed to secure our borders.
Abroad, Biden’s total lack of leadership also undermines the cause of freedom around the world – look no further than 90 miles off our coast. While the Cuban people risked their lives by fighting to liberate themselves from the communist Castro regime, Biden’s Cuban-born Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told Cubans they will “not be permitted to enter the United States.” He did not pledge unwavering support to Cubans. Instead, he failed to continue the Trump administration’s hardline policy toward the Castro regime. This is not surprising, since Biden’s Democrat Party welcomes socialists and socialist policies.
At home, we see everything is more expensive in Biden’s America. Hispanics have been particularly vulnerable to economic hardship during the pandemic. In fact, 62% of Hispanics say they have experienced financial hardships during the pandemic. Biden’s plan? Spend $3.5 trillion on his and Democrats’ socialist spending spree. That is the equivalent of $27,000 in new spending for every household in America.
Biden’s response to COVID-19 is no different than his failed policies on the economy. Biden promised to shut down the virus – he failed. Now, Biden is forcing vaccines through an unconstitutional, un-American federal decree on businesses and families. His speech was dark and divisive, pitting Americans against one another. He demonized minority groups, who disproportionately account for unvaccinated Americans – 48% of Hispanic Americans have taken the vaccine, compared with 52% of White Americans. Biden continued his assault by stating, “This is not about freedom or personal choice.” As many Hispanics have experienced firsthand, authoritarian decrees do not work. Freedom matters and Joe Biden threatening our individual freedoms will not stand.
However, Biden’s unconstitutional decrees do not apply to the influx of illegal migrants at the southern border. Chaos has ensued at the border ever since Biden reversed Trump’s border policies. As illegal immigrants continue to pour into communities across the U.S., the Biden administration has essentially abandoned local governments. The Mayor of McAllen, Texas, a majority Hispanic community, says the border crisis is a health and safety problem for America and complained that his city has “no authority to stop them.” Republicans believe in the rule of law, but Joe Biden doesn’t. As a result, Biden’s crisis has allowed human trafficking and drug trafficking to run rampant across our southern border. It has also unleashed a crisis of COVID, illicit drugs, and crime into many Hispanic communities along the border.
Biden’s authoritarian decrees, socialist policies, and failed decisions are not what Hispanic Americans believe in. We choose freedom, not socialism. We want security and opportunity. We believe in hard work, and we value family and faith – not its destruction.
My parent’s & their families came to the US as WWII refugees in the 50’s. They struggled to get on their feet when they came, but were hard working people that put family first. Eventually their kids included a doctor, an engineer, a mechanic, a die designer in automotive-all productive people contributing to America. I suspect many people fleeing places like Cuba will have similar stories in their future, having seen how bad things can be without freedom to succeed.
Which is where conservatives can still win, by teaching new Americans that they need freedom more than they do socialism.
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They will still vote for him 66% to 33%
My (obviously female) wife was born and raised in Mexico. She, like me, is Jewish. She is also a fully legal immigrant, who subsequently obtained her Green Card and, about 3 years later, her citizenship. She is pro-gun, pro-family, almost violently opposed to illegal immigration, in favor of a strong military and fiscal responsibility. In 2016, despite Donald Trump’s announcement speech the prior year, she proudly voted for him. I find it particularly delicious that Hillary went 0-for-3 with her - as a woman, as a Mexican immigrant or as a Jew, one would normally expect her to have voted D...but my wife is generally pretty smart (let’s not talk about mathematics, OK?).
Hispanics should be, by all measures except their status as recent immigrants, conservative Republicans. They generally have pretty traditional family values, and the vast majority that I know - of all social classes - are VERY hard workers who pay their taxes and obey the laws that matter (i.e. not the ones that are there to raise revenue via penalties). They also, in my experience (in TX), LOVE their guns - they are a macho society, which means that they don’t like taking crap from anyone for anything. However, the Dems traditionally grab immigrants, and they have utter control over the media, so they’ve gotten a much larger share of the Hispanic vote in the past than what would otherwise make sense. But now, finally, the Dems have so jumped the shark that the propaganda campaign is backfiring.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAapww5mLSlj8Q9zkjAUK2Q
Hispanics from Socialist countries I would think would see through the facade of the Democrat Party. Those coming here from other countries are here to find work and benefits that are not available to them from where they came . Free stuff is promised upon their arrival. Those looking more for freebies will be drawn to the Democrats. I think its more of an educated Hispanic vs. a lesser educated when it comes to party choice, their former living environment experience would also come into play. LOL, South American and Central American politics is usually El Supremo, Commandante or Viva El Guapo.
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