{"id":199903,"date":"2007-06-19T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T17:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/19\/republicans-piss-away-hispanic-vote\/"},"modified":"2007-06-19T12:02:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-19T17:02:00","slug":"republicans-piss-away-hispanic-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/19\/republicans-piss-away-hispanic-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Piss Away Hispanic vote."},"content":{"rendered":"

Truth be told, I tend toward the restrictive side to immigration, but it’s not over concern about Hispanics.<\/p>\n

I’m more concerned with potentially importing anti-Semitic Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, German, Latvian, Lithuanian, or Estonian skinheads than I am about someone from Latin America, and I’m not too concerned about them.<\/p>\n

I’m not that concerned about the above either. When people come to America, they tend to leave a lot of that behind, which is a good thing.<\/p>\n

I’m concerned about immigration being used to depress wages, and it is used that way with H1b and L-1 visas, and the repeated suggestions about slave labor<\/s> guest workers, who would constitute a permanent underclass.<\/p>\n

I also agree with Paul Krugman’s assessment<\/a> that a large underclass creates a breeding ground for right wing politics.<\/p>\n

That being said, there are clearly is both a right wing and a left wing position on expanded immigration (cheap labor and empatyh respectively) and on more restricted immigration (racism and wages respectively).<\/p>\n

Personally, I favor a bounty program for illegals who rat out employers.<\/p>\n

That being said, the Republican anti-immigration side is clearly racist, and it shows to the newly minted Americans.<\/p>\n

New mood from new citizens<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Latino immigrants in South Florida who have traditionally registered with the GOP have felt alienated by the party, critics say.
By Peter Wallsten, Times Staff Writer
June 16, 2007<\/p>\n

MIAMI BEACH \u2014 As a Cuban who fled Fidel Castro’s communist rule for a new life in the U.S., Julio Izquierdo would seem a natural Republican voter \u2014 a sure bet to adopt the same political lineage that has long guided most of his countrymen who resettled in South Florida.<\/p>\n

But moments after taking his oath this week to become a U.S. citizen and registering to vote, the grocery store employee said he felt no such allegiances.<\/p>\n

“I don’t know whether Bush is a Democrat or a Republican, but whatever he is, I’m voting the other way,” Izquierdo, 20, said Thursday as he waited for a taxi after a mass naturalization ceremony at the Miami Beach Convention Center.<\/p>\n

Izquierdo said he did not like President Bush’s handling of the Iraq war and was miffed at politicians, most of them Republican, who seem to dislike immigrants.<\/p>\n

That sentiment, expressed by several of the 6,000 new citizens who took their oaths Thursday in group ceremonies that take place regularly in immigrant-heavy cities nationwide, underscored the troubled environment facing the GOP in the buildup to next year’s presidential election.<\/p>\n

Surveys show that among Latino voters \u2014 a bloc Bush had hoped to woo into the Republican camp \u2014 negative views about the party are growing amid a bitter debate over immigration policy.<\/p>\n

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