GOP HISPANIC GROUPS LOSING SUPPORT OVER ANTI-IMMIGRATION MESSAGE

NOTE: The GOP’s hard line stance on immigration issues, including its local support of the highly polarizing SB 1070 Arizona anti-immigration bill, is seemingly driving a wedge between the political groups Latino base and party leaders, forcing a decision- support anti-immigration legislation at the risk of polarizing Latino support within the party- or fight such bills at the risk of angering the conservative, largely anti-immigration, party base. Interesting to see how this will play out.

Posted by: Arizona Immigration Attorneys and Lawyers at Alcock & Associates, Phoenix

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” “Somos Republicans and Hispolitica, led by Hispanic Republicans from Arizona and Florida respectively, are accusing each other of not truly defending Hispanic conservative values.
Hispolitica defines itself as a conservative video-driven news, commentary and opinion website. Somos Republicans states that its mission “is to promote political education and information needed to make more informed political decisions,” and lists leaders in a half-dozen states.
Javier Manjarres, managing editor for Hispolitica and The Shark Tank, wrote this weekend that Somos Republicans is “almost certainly a Democrat front group.” According to Manjarres, Somos Republicans “openly states that they are a Republican group, but they have raised flags amongst conservative groups with their over the top pro-amnesty rhetoric and shameless attacks on conservative hispanic leaders like [Sen. Marco] Rubio and U.S. Senate candidate Ted Cruz.”
Manjarres adds that “Somos Republicans’ own publication – for anyone that actually reads it- only deals with one issue, and that is immigration ‘reform’, and no other issues matter to this group- regardless if you’re pro-life, support low taxes, limited government, or the 2nd amendment- issues that the group identifies as its ‘core principles’ don’t matter at all if you oppose their amnesty position- hypocrisy at it’s finest.”
He concludes that Somos Republicans’ purpose is “to deceive Hispanics and other voters.”
Somos Republicans then responded, saying that Manjarres is a tea party extremist that is not happy with SOMOS REPUBLICANS (SR) because SR has been a strong advocate of legal immigration reform. We believe he is envious that SR managed to become the largest Hispanic Republican group in the nation during a difficult era that is anti-immigrant / anti-Latino. He is livid that we asked Marco Rubio to take back his anti-immigrant stances. Marco Rubio will not support the DREAM Act.

Javier claims we are for amnesty, however, he is silent with regard to Cuban-Americans enjoying their unique amnesty privilege via the the Cuban Adjustment Act (wet-foot/dry-foot policy). Living in Florida, will Javier take a position to the [Cuban Adjustment Act] and the one year of entitlements?

Somos Republicans doesn’t just criticize Republican lawmakers. The Iowa Independent reported last December that Somos Republicans called Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., “unfriendly to Hispanics.”
The senator earned the distinction from the group after he “stated his plans to block a Senate vote on the DREAM Act, legislation that would provide a path to citizenship for some undocumented individuals, who were brought to the U.S. while children and who agree to sign up for military service or higher education.” “