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Hispanic activists vow to flood voter rolls with 1 million immigrants, punish Trump, GOP at polls


Donald Trump on the campaign trail has insisted that Hispanics will rally to his message — though evidence backing up his claim is scant. (Associated Press) more >

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Updated: 8:34 p.m. on Sunday, December 13, 2015
Immigrant rights activists have vowed to sign up 1 million immigrants — mostly Mexicans — for citizenship and then quickly register them to vote in time to punish Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans at the polls in November for their harsh rhetoric.
The advocates say the new voters could make a difference in the presidential race, where most of the Republican field has tacked to the right in word and policy, and in key Senate races in Illinois and Florida, where Republicans will be reaching to hang on to critical seats.
With nearly 9 million legal immigrants already eligible to become citizens, the 1 million goal is not far-fetched. The activists say they are counting on energizing another 2 million Hispanic citizens who have turned 18 since 2012 and who they believe will turn out to vote to defend fellow Dreamers, or young illegal immigrants, against Republican calls for their deportation.

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“This is a huge amount of latent power,” said Joshua Hoyt, executive director of the National Partnership for New Americans, the group he and other leaders announced Thursday at the National Press Club.
The effort is funded in part by the Open Society Foundation, the project of liberal billionaire George Soros.

Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez, Illinois Democrat, said millions who stand to gain ... more >
Hispanic leaders insist they are ready to flex political muscles commensurate with their size as the second-largest racial or ethnic group in the country behind whites.

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Hispanic immigrants, however, have shown a lower propensity to naturalize in the U.S. and have lower turnout rates overall than other demographic groups, challenging the community’s leaders to get them more motivated.
They hope Mr. Trump has taken care of that for them this year with his stern stance on illegal immigration.
An estimated 8.8 million immigrants have been in the U.S. for at least five years as legal permanent residents, making them eligible to apply for citizenship, according to a study by the Center for American Progress. They are heavily Hispanic, and 30 percent of them are Mexican.
That was the population Mr. Trump appeared to target when, in announcing his campaign, he vowed to crack down on illegal immigrants. He said Mexico sent rapists and other bad elements of society to the U.S.
The advocates are also counting on citizens to rally on immigration — particularly young Hispanics whose families are touched by the debate over President Obama’s executive actions.
Mr. Obama’s 2012 deportation amnesty carved some 700,000 illegal immigrant Dreamers out of any danger of deportation and gave them work permits and access to Social Security numbers and driver’s licenses.
The president’s November 2014 plans would have granted that same status to as many as 3.7 million illegal immigrant parents — though courts have halted the action as an illegal use of executive power.
Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez, an Illinois Democrat and top Hispanic leader, said when he speaks to high school students who are citizens, they are eager to defend their friends’ status. He also said many of those millions who stand to gain tentative legal status under the 2014 plan that is being blocked are parents whose own children or other relatives are eligible to vote.
“The undocumented are in the same families as the legal permanent residents and the U.S. citizens,” Mr. Gutierrez said. “Those families are going to mobilize.”


Mr. Trump on the campaign trail has insisted that Hispanics will rally to his message — though evidence backing up his claim is scant. He has polled well in Nevada, which is considered to be the first real test of Hispanic voters on the primary election calendar, but he appears to be lagging in Hispanic support nationally.
Alfonso Aguilar, a top immigration official in the Bush administration and now executive director of the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles, said Mr. Trump has indeed inflamed Hispanic voters, but he said to assume that they will vote more broadly to punish Republicans does a disservice to them.
“That is the most insulting comment — not only to the Republican candidates, because it’s simply not true, but also to Latinos. It’s just crass pandering to Latinos to get their vote,” Mr. Aguilar said.
He said the other Republican presidential candidates need to publicly disagree with Mr. Trump and forcefully distance themselves to make clear that they want to compete for Hispanic voters.
“This is the situation that we have, a sad situation. Trump’s sucking the air out of the room,” he said.
Mr. Aguilar, who ran the citizenship office in the Bush administration, said getting legal permanent residents to naturalize is an important goal, but he also doubted whether the effort would work.
“In a way, they may be shooting themselves in the foot. If they don’t get to a million, it shows that their theory they’re going to use Trump to get to a million didn’t work,” he said.
One major question is whether Hispanics will be up for grabs or whether they will continue to tilt heavily Democratic. Hispanic leaders find that issue tricky: One the one hand, they want to reward Democrats for embracing legalization, but they also don’t want to be taken for granted, so they insist that their community can be swayed — though only by candidates who also want legalization.
Mr. Gutierrez said the registration effort won’t try to single out Democrats and that he would sign up anyone who wants to naturalize and register to vote.
But he said there is little doubt in his mind which way the new Hispanic voters will trend, and he is skeptical that even the two Cuban-American Republicans running for president will have an effect.
“They know who’s on their side, right?” he said. “Having a last surname that is Latino does not make you an advocate for the interests and a defender for the future and a more prosperous future for our community.”

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Giving citizenship to the children of illegal aliens is largely responsible for the changing demographics in this country, and now many of these people are eligible to vote. Combining high birthrates with birthright citizenship ,in a population dependent upon government services, is an assurance the Democratic Party stays in power for generations to come.

And it will get more oppressive if it does. They have tons of radical elements in the younger generations, who have been indoctrinated by Dem School teachers.

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Updated: 8:34 p.m. on Sunday, December 13, 2015
Immigrant rights activists have vowed to sign up 1 million immigrants — mostly Mexicans — for citizenship and then quickly register them to vote in time to punish Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans at the polls in November for their harsh rhetoric.
The advocates say the new voters could make a difference in the presidential race, where most of the Republican field has tacked to the right in word and policy, and in key Senate races in Illinois and Florida, where Republicans will be reaching to hang on to critical seats.
With nearly 9 million legal immigrants already eligible to become citizens, the 1 million goal is not far-fetched. The activists say they are counting on energizing another 2 million Hispanic citizens who have turned 18 since 2012 and who they believe will turn out to vote to defend fellow Dreamers, or young illegal immigrants, against Republican calls for their deportation.

They're deluding themselves. Hispanic Americans, real Hispanic Americans, do not support illegal immigration or Muslim immigration or excess immigration that threatens their lives, incomes, taxes, debt and futures.

Hispanic Americans are Americans like everyone else, and view their own lives, the lives of their fellow citizens, and the future of the United States the same as everyone else.

"Hispanic Activists" who are only interested in the cause they've been paid to push which is illegal immigration to think registering more Hispanic Americans is going to "punish Trump" are just as silly, stupid and corrupt as the drug cartels behind this travesty.

The vast majority of Americans all want the same things, regardless of their ethnicity. Not all, but most.

Hispanic activists vow to flood voter rolls with 1 million immigrants, punish Trump, GOP at polls

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Sunday, December 13, 2015

Immigrant rights activists have vowed to sign up 1 million immigrants — mostly Mexicans — for citizenship and then quickly register them to vote in time to punish Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans at the polls in November for their harsh rhetoric.

The advocates say the new voters could make a difference in the presidential race, where most of the Republican field has tacked to the right in word and policy, and in key Senate races in Illinois and Florida, where Republicans will be reaching to hang on to critical seats.

With nearly 9 million legal immigrants already eligible to become citizens, the 1 million goal is not far-fetched. The activists say they are counting on energizing another 2 million Hispanic citizens who have turned 18 since 2012 and who they believe will turn out to vote to defend fellow Dreamers, or young illegal immigrants, against Republican calls for their deportation.

“This is a huge amount of latent power,” said Joshua Hoyt, executive director of the National Partnership for New Americans, the group he and other leaders announced Thursday at the National Press Club.

The effort is funded in part by the Open Society Foundation, the project of liberal billionaire George Soros.

Hispanic leaders insist they are ready to flex political muscles commensurate with their size as the second-largest racial or ethnic group in the country behind whites.

Hispanic immigrants, however, have shown a lower propensity to naturalize in the U.S. and have lower turnout rates overall than other demographic groups, challenging the community’s leaders to get them more motivated.

They hope Mr. Trump has taken care of that for them this year with his stern stance on illegal immigration.

An estimated 8.8 million immigrants have been in the U.S. for at least five years as legal permanent residents, making them eligible to apply for citizenship, according to a study by the Center for American Progress. They are heavily Hispanic, and 30 percent of them are Mexican.

That was the population Mr. Trump appeared to target when, in announcing his campaign, he vowed to crack down on illegal immigrants. He said Mexico sent rapists and other bad elements of society to the U.S.

The advocates are also counting on citizens to rally on immigration — particularly young Hispanics whose families are touched by the debate over President Obama’s executive actions.

Mr. Obama’s 2012 deportation amnesty carved some 700,000 illegal immigrant Dreamers out of any danger of deportation and gave them work permits and access to Social Security numbers and driver’s licenses.

The president’s November 2014 plans would have granted that same status to as many as 3.7 million illegal immigrant parents — though courts have halted the action as an illegal use of executive power.

Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez, an Illinois Democrat and top Hispanic leader, said when he speaks to high school students who are citizens, they are eager to defend their friends’ status. He also said many of those millions who stand to gain tentative legal status under the 2014 plan that is being blocked are parents whose own children or other relatives are eligible to vote.

“The undocumented are in the same families as the legal permanent residents and the U.S. citizens,” Mr. Gutierrez said. “Those families are going to mobilize.”

Mr. Trump on the campaign trail has insisted that Hispanics will rally to his message — though evidence backing up his claim is scant. He has polled well in Nevada, which is considered to be the first real test of Hispanic voters on the primary election calendar, but he appears to be lagging in Hispanic support nationally.

Alfonso Aguilar, a top immigration official in the Bush administration and now executive director of the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles, said Mr. Trump has indeed inflamed Hispanic voters, but he said to assume that they will vote more broadly to punish Republicans does a disservice to them.

“That is the most insulting comment — not only to the Republican candidates, because it’s simply not true, but also to Latinos. It’s just crass pandering to Latinos to get their vote,” Mr. Aguilar said.

He said the other Republican presidential candidates need to publicly disagree with Mr. Trump and forcefully distance themselves to make clear that they want to compete for Hispanic voters.

“This is the situation that we have, a sad situation. Trump’s sucking the air out of the room,” he said.

Mr. Aguilar, who ran the citizenship office in the Bush administration, said getting legal permanent residents to naturalize is an important goal, but he also doubted whether the effort would work.

“In a way, they may be shooting themselves in the foot. If they don’t get to a million, it shows that their theory they’re going to use Trump to get to a million didn’t work,” he said.

One major question is whether Hispanics will be up for grabs or whether they will continue to tilt heavily Democratic. Hispanic leaders find that issue tricky: One the one hand, they want to reward Democrats for embracing legalization, but they also don’t want to be taken for granted, so they insist that their community can be swayed — though only by candidates who also want legalization.

Mr. Gutierrez said the registration effort won’t try to single out Democrats and that he would sign up anyone who wants to naturalize and register to vote.

But he said there is little doubt in his mind which way the new Hispanic voters will trend, and he is skeptical that even the two Cuban-American Republicans running for president will have an effect.

“They know who’s on their side, right?” he said. “Having a last surname that is Latino does not make you an advocate for the interests and a defender for the future and a more prosperous future for our community.”

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The effort is funded in part by the Open Society Foundation, the project of liberal billionaire George Soros.

There it is again, 501 C 3 tax fraud "charities" trying to impact public policy and influence elections using tax exempt "charity" donations. When will people realize the harm of this? How much more damage to our country will be allowed before we repeal the income tax and put an end to all its sins against the American People and the United States?

Our Founders were against such a scheme which is why no direct tax on its people was allowed and a Constitutional Amendment to to change their wishes was pushed through by President Woodrow Wilson and a Democratic controlled Congress, the same year trade tariffs were reduced to steal our jobs and put our producers in competition with more foreign producers, the same year the Federal Reserve was created, all done in less than 8 months in the year 1913.

First it was the income tax to make up for the lost tariff revenue and with the mandated income tax in place and the Constitution amended, the Federal Reserve was created to control our money supply.

Can you imagine such sweeping harmful changes moved through our government and states in such a brief period of time? It's unthinkable. Wilson even called for a Special Session of Congress to ensure passage of the trade tariff and income tax law through Congress early enough to secure the 3/4 approval of the states to the 16th Amendment in time for the Congress to establish the Federal Reserve before the end of the year.

This was not the work or wants of the people of the United States. This was the work of rich globalists, that exempted money they would funnel tax free into organizations to promote and foster their agenda against our country at the expense of our people.

When Americans fully understand the origination and purpose of the income tax system, they will be ashamed they ever wanted to use it as a scheme to "tax the rich", which of course is the last thing it's ever done. What it did was tax the people and encumber through public debt everything they ever worked for or accumulated forever while enabling our enemies to manipulate our country's system of governments into foreign-controlled institutions we don't even recognize, and do it tax free through "charity" tax status.

This is why we need to unite and pass the FairTax which ends with one simple bill all the evils of the income tax system, including the devastation of our nation conducted by 501 C 3 tax fraud "charities" who give nothing but live well manipulating our country into economic suicide and the end of our Republic.

FairTax Act of 2015: HR 25 in the US House of Representatives and S 155 in the US Senate.