NCLR President Warns GOP On Child Refugees: Latino Voters Will Judge You Too Come Election Day

[TexasTowelie]

National Council of La Raza (NCLR) President Janet Murguía ripped the Republican Party apart this week with harsh criticism over their unchristian and un-American attacks towards child refugees seeking shelter in our country. While in Los Angeles during the NCLR's annual conference, Murguía publicly shamed numerous politicians for their outrages remarks concerning these kids -- warning they carried third world diseases and plagues.

Murguía did not forget to mention Gov. Rick Perry, criticizing his recent theatrical attempt of sending troops to the border in order to garnish points for a future 2016 presidential run.

"Soldiers with guns confronting children seeking refuge," said Murguía. "What is wrong with these people? How can they talk about children like this? Who treats children this way? Every one of the elected officials I just quoted consider themselves people of faith, but there is nothing godly in their words. It is disgraceful."

Murguía sent a very clear message to Republicans: Latino voters are watching how you treat these small, defenseless members of our community at large. And we won't forget come election time.

More at http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/15497/nclr-president-warns-gop-on-child-refugees-latino-voters-will-judge-you-come-election-day .

[LakeVermilion]

1. Republicans are disgusting!

Unable to develop any kind of policies to help Americans, the Republicans constantly resort to fear mongering and scapegoating. Republicans have forced our country into disarray in their never satisfied quest for power and profit.

[LoisB]

2. It is not just Latino voters watching.

[freshwest]

3. We'll see if this means anything on election day. Only the opinions of voters matter in the long run

[UCmeNdc]

4. Tea Party and the GOP tell Latino Children to take their diseases and go home!

Simpson attempted to tell the crowd of about 160 residents that the thousands of Latino children arriving at the Mexico-U.S. border are fleeing lives of violence and abuse, including gangsters who specialize in trafficking children as sex slaves. Texans should treat the children with compassion, he said, a notion that his audience summarily rejected.

After Simpson’s slide show of the faces of some of the border children, Longview resident Terri Hill said, “I believe your constituents should come first when you talk about people who are impacted. You are to represent us, and we have children. These [migrant children] are people that are coming in with leprosy, tuberculosis, polio.”

Another resident, Ben Denson, expressed fear that the children could be disease-carriers.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/23/tea-party-town-hall-erupts-as-texas-state-rep-urges-compassion-for-migrant-kids/#.U9BJ6B7N1q0.facebook

[Sunlei]

5. Let us hope people VOTE all the heartless republicans out, LOCAL especially.

Because there are sure plenty of soulless haters who vote republicans in. At the local level especially, RW lord over local people on, all the school boards, tiny town Mayor boards and neighborhood association boards.

[GOLGO 13]

6. Us non-Mexican Latinos are watching very closely...

We know who's on our side.

[bigdarryl]

7. Latinos are slit on the immagration issue with the kids coming

So I'm not sure how this is going to play out in 2014