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Nasty Jack

(350 posts)
Tue Jun 9, 2015, 06:14 PM Jun 2015

Hispanics Would be Out of Their Minds to Vote Republican

President Obama does the right thing but the courts and Congress kick him in the teeth. He issued two Executive Orders to protect the parents of American citizens and so-called “DREAMers” brought to the U.S. as young children. Their names are Deferred Action for Parental Accountability (DAPA) and an expansion to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). They were enacted to protect some 4 to 5 million undocumented immigrants that the President has been trying to coax out of the shadows. Their obvious concern is deportation.

What still amazes me is why this country doesn't understand that if these people were to be deported, restaurants would be unmanned nationwide, there would be no one to work the farmers' fields, the landscaping business would be down the tube, and there would be no one to clean the homes of the rich. And if they are not going to be deported, why not take the step to legalize their residency and provide a path to citizenship. The gutless Republican Congress won't do it but Barack Obama had the balls to take these Executive Actions that the conservative courts are now shoving down his throat. Amanda Sakuma on MSNBC said these folks will probably have to wait until the summer of 2016 before the courts decide their fate.

Jordan Fabian of The Hill reports there will be no emergency request from the Justice Dept. to lift the order blocking the Executive Action. Instead, it will concentrate on an appeal to the 5th Circuit Court in July. Every Latino in this country should take note who is behind the drive to push these people back in the shadows...the GOP.

Nasty Jack
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Hispanics Would be Out of Their Minds to Vote Republican (Original Post) Nasty Jack Jun 2015 OP
We are watching...closely. GOLGO 13 Jun 2015 #1
you're out of YOUR mind to think 'Hispanics' are only field workers and house cleaners!! Sunlei Jun 2015 #2
Well... Liberal_Stalwart71 Jun 2015 #3
Because Hispanics are one big monolithic voting block, right? FSogol Jun 2015 #4

GOLGO 13

(1,681 posts)
1. We are watching...closely.
Wed Jun 10, 2015, 01:47 PM
Jun 2015

Republicans stupidly think that Hispanic Americans don't care about Latinos without papers. How very, very wrong they are. We know how they treat them, what they really think about the rest of us.

Year by year, they lose ground on who they can hate. They lost the blacks, they're losing their minds that they are going to lose the gays. So much so they are willing to go full out to not lose the ability to hate Latinos as well.

 

Liberal_Stalwart71

(20,450 posts)
3. Well...
Wed Jun 10, 2015, 04:27 PM
Jun 2015

We got people in this thread who assert that Obama hasn't done shit:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251411190

So, of course that narrative gets tossed around and reasserted until everyone believes it.

When everyone believes it, the lie becomes the truth.

Let Hispanics vote Republican. We'll see what happens.

FSogol

(45,476 posts)
4. Because Hispanics are one big monolithic voting block, right?
Wed Jun 10, 2015, 08:20 PM
Jun 2015

Do you even read that crap before you post it?

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