Thread: Powerful Latino DJs to mount immigrant voter drive

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Powerful Latino DJs to mount immigrant voter drive

Fri Jul 7, 2006 8:33pm ET

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Two Latino radio hosts credited for mobilizing hundreds of thousands this year in pro-immigrant protests said on Friday they would join the drive to increase the immigrant vote in the 2008 U.S. presidential election.

Los Angeles disc jockeys Piolin (Tweetybird) and El Cucuy (the Bogeyman) said they will work with the National Council of La Raza and other organizations to push Latino immigrants living in the United States to become U.S. citizens and register to vote in time to cast ballots in 2008.

Immigration promises to be one of the big issues in the 2006 mid-term congressional elections and the 2008 presidential election as the future of some 12 million undocumented immigrants divides Congress and President George W. Bush's Republican Party.

An estimated 8 million Latinos are legal residents in the United States who qualify for naturalization as U.S. citizens, including 3 million in California alone, activists said.

National Council of La Raza president Janet Murguia said Spanish-language radio DJs could help add at least another 3 million Latino voters to the 7.5 million who cast ballots in 2004, helping to elect more pro-immigration politicians.

"With the huge march on March 25, the Los Angeles DJs showed the power to mobilize the community," said El Cucuy, whose real name is Renan Almendarez Coello, referring to the 500,000 marchers who rallied in Los Angeles on March 25 in what is believed to be the nation's largest pro-immigrant protest.

"The big difference now is that we are united and fighting for the same objective," said Piolin, also known as Eddie Sotelo.

Both Mexican native Piolin and Honduran-born El Cucuy said they had once been illegal immigrants in the United States.

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They still keep leaving out all the other groups. And they have the nerve to call me names.

Powerful? More like subversive!!!

Both Mexican native Piolin and Honduran-born El Cucuy said they had once been illegal immigrants in the United States.

What a shock, I never would have guessed it. Good to know our immigration process is so selective in who it allows to become citizens, I guess we don't have enough traitors.

An estimated 8 million Latinos are legal residents in the United States who qualify for naturalization as U.S. citizens, including 3 million in California alone, activists said.

Hmmm, add those 8 million to the 12-20 million illegals that could receive amnesty and our legal citizen population just jumped 18-28 million.

Originally Posted by noillegalimmigrationannie

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Powerful Latino DJs to mount immigrant voter drive

Fri Jul 7, 2006 8:33pm ET

National Council of La Raza president Janet Murguia said Spanish-language radio DJs could help add at least another 3 million Latino voters to the 7.5 million who cast ballots in 2004, helping to elect more pro-immigration politicians.

Pretty funny that a couple of Latino DJs are considered a "Powerfull" political force. I wonder what Wolfman Jack would think about this?
I'm sure that there are plenty of politicians that will start leaning toward the pro-illegal side the closer we get to '08. With 8-20 million Latino votes hanging out there, these traitors will sell out Americans in a heartbeat. They must be defeated.
If our federal government would only enforce our current immigration laws and secure our southern border, all of this political pandering would suddenly become a non-issue.
We not only need to fence our border with Mexico, but with California as well.