Thread: Mitt Romney immigration stance to soften to woo Latino voters

Mitt Romney immigration stance to soften to woo Latino voters
April 19, 2012 | Filed under: world | Posted by: admin
Syed Ubaidur Rahman of NVONews.Com

Mitt Romney’s immigration stance is set to soften as a last ditch effort to woo Latino voters says Syed Ubaidur Rahman of NVONews.Com

Worried over overwhelming Hispanic support for Barack Husain Obama––ironically outside the US too––the Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has decided to go slow on his policy towards illegal immigration. The Repulicans who, till the other day, were critical of Democrats have suddenly realized the political significance of this fast-growing population.

The softening of stand has more to do with politics than economics or anything else as the latest Pew Research Centre poll suggests that Obama leads over Romney among Hispanic voters by 40 points.

The problem with the Grand Old Party (GOP) is that the population of Spanish-speaking migrants from Latin America has been constantly increasing even in the States considered as the Republican stronghold.

While the Republicans were still pondering over the policy on illegal immigration the Democrats on Wednesday launched Spanish language advertisements in the states like Colorado. Obama has already started his campaign in some of these states.

This awakened Romney, who according to some media reports, told donors that the Republicans have to get Hispanic votes for the party. He reportedly told them that Latinos’ overwhelming support for Democrats and Obama ”spells doom for us.”

Though it is still not clear as to how Romney would tackle this new challenge yet it appears that he is planning to distance himself from Kris Kobach, a Yale-trained lawyer and Kansas State politician, who drafted most of the recent state and local laws that crack down on illegal immigration.

Only a few months ago, Governor Romney, through a written Press statement, openly boasted that he was happy to have Kobach “on the team,” thus making it clear his plan to fight illegal immigration.

But that seems to be ancient history. Now a spokesperson for Romney told a section of media on Tuesday that he is a supporter, not an adviser. However, Kobach was quoted in National Journal on the same day as saying that his role has not changed and he is still an informal adviser. He blamed Democrats for propagating that his job had been modified.

Whatever be the truth some Hispanic voters believe that he had been made a scapegoat.

The most interesting comment on the issue was made by the Miami-based Republican strategist, Ana Navarro. She was quoted in the Yahoo News as telling Romney: “I think he better bury [Kobach] deep underground between now and November…I’d tell him to get a one-way ticket to Finland for the next six months.”

Romney, it is leant, may embrace a Republican version of the Dream Act, which would legalize some immigrant young people, who were brought to the country as children. Senator Marco Rubio, the likely Vice Presidential candidate for Romney, has been working on a version of the Dream Act that would legalize but not give citizenship to some young people, who grew up in the United States.

Romney also said Republicans should criticize Obama for falsely promising Latinos that he would pass immigration reform in his first year in his second term.

True, Latino voters come from different countries and are not homogenous; they are not single-issue group and polls show that on aggregate, they care most about the economy and jobs, with immigration issues trailing behind. Yet Republican strategists emphasize that a hostile-sounding tone on immigration issues alienates many Hispanic voters, no matter the candidate’s economic platform.

But the non-White Obama is still more popular among Latinos outside the country too, even though they strongly suspect the hegemonic design of the United States. This was evident during his recent visit to Columbia, the fifth to the region, where he went to attend the Summit of Americas.

Mitt Romney immigration stance to soften to woo Latino voters | Northern Voices Online: NVO News Blog

Another Lib rag, trying to ding Romney, and from all the articles being posted here they're getting all the help they need. All this is doing is assuring Obama another 4yrs. "Northern Voices Online" try "Lib Central Online"

Like I've said before I've been screwed for a long time because of illegals, so watching everyone else take the deep breathe.....

Originally Posted by stevetheroofer

Another Lib rag, trying to ding Romney, and from all the articles being posted here they're getting all the help they need. All this is doing is assuring Obama another 4yrs. "Northern Voices Online" try "Lib Central Online"

Like I've said before I've been screwed for a long time because of illegals, so watching everyone else take the deep breathe.....

Has Romney come out and denied all these reports of what he apparently told the donors earlier this week? If the media is putting words in his mouth he could easily come out and say none of that is true and we'd take his word for it, it's that easy, so why hasn't he? Or has he and the liberal media is ignoring him???

It's apparent now why the Republican establishment backed Romney from day one and that was because they figured he was the most pragmatic of the lot and could adapt to the situation at hand. He leads a deficit among Hispanic voters and now they're advising him to wiggle over to Obama's court on illegal immigration to nullify the Hispanic advantage.

Originally Posted by googler

He leads a deficit among Hispanic voters and now they're advising him to wiggle over to Obama's court on illegal immigration to nullify the Hispanic advantage.

For one the GOP, has been putting everybody but Romney out front, but the people have spoken, and the ever coveted "Hispanic vote" is 8% to 12% can't see him ditching all of us for that percentage which has sworn to vote Democrap no matter what! "Check!"

who in the world is Syed Ubaidur Rahman??? Never heard of him before and why does his opinion matter on US politics?

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Originally Posted by stevetheroofer

For one the GOP, has been putting everybody but Romney out front, but the people have spoken, and the ever coveted "Hispanic vote" is 8% to 12% can't see him ditching all of us for that percentage which has sworn to vote Democrap no matter what! "Check!"

The GOP establishment did it's best to put their boy Mitt out on front even when the people, state after state, made it clear they wanted ANYONE but Romney. And they did a pretty good job of keeping Ron Paul out of the lime light too it seems.

Originally Posted by googler

The GOP establishment did it's best to put their boy Mitt out on front even when the people, state after state, made it clear they wanted ANYONE but Romney. And they did a pretty good job of keeping Ron Paul out of the lime light too it seems.

Whatever! Romney didn't get any help from the GOP, or MSM so your hate on Mitt statement is bogess, and your boy Ron said that all of us here are Nazi's because we want illegals deported! Funny how his statement never seems to come up in casual conversation! But go ahead and live in denial, he said it we all heard it, end of story! Notice his poll numbers took a swan dive into the toilet after he said it too! LOL!!! "And Mate!"