Thread: ix Reasons Why Latinos May Stay Home on Election Day

There’s more news on the rapidly deteriorating relationship between Mr. Obama and Latinos. A constituency that, just two years ago, handed over 67 percent of their vote to Obama is now protesting in the street, as occurred during President Obama’s recent trip to Los Angeles.

But to understand just how bad things have gotten, and to put it in context, you have to know six things:

1) The criticism that Obama caught from Latinos in the first 18 months of his administration for breaking his promise to make immigration reform a top priority is a love tap compared to what has rained down upon him more recently for his atrocious behavior with regard to deporting illegal immigrants. That includes using the 287g program to allow local law enforcement to round up, and give to the feds, as many illegal immigrants as possible with the surgical precision of a meat cleaver;

2) One thing that has really irked many Latinos is the fact that the administration is so cavalier about its record number of deportations — nearly 800,000 in its first two years — that it sends Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano out to brag about the take like a proud fisherman posing for a picture with the daily catch;

3) The reason for that is because Latinos — whether naturalized citizens, or eighth-generation residents of the Southwest — take deportations seriously. More to the point, they take them personally. Most of them won’t bat an eye if you remove a 20-something single man with no family. But when you start uprooting and deporting grandma, grandpa, mom and dad — people in which other people’s lives are wrapped up — look out;

4) There is always a group of Latino voters out there who are just waiting for Democrats to betray them, as if to confirm their cynical belief – from the old countries — that all politics is corrupt and all politicians beyond redemption. And so when a Democratic elected official betrays them, they’ll pounce;

5) Ever since 1994, when Republicans threw the very first immigration piñata party, demonizing and scapegoating immigrants and all Latinos to scare up votes here and there, Latinos have been on edge. It hasn’t helped calm fears any that, in the 17 years since then, there have been – at the state, local, and federal level – dozens of similar attempts to score points on their backs. They’re always waiting for the next one; and

6) The debate is not over whether Latinos would be so angry with Obama that they even contemplate voting for a Republican — not after how despicably that party has behaved toward them. The real concern for Democrats is that disillusioned Latinos will be a no-show in the 2012 election, and that this could hurt the incumbent’s re-election chances.

That’s why Obama dug the immigration issue out of the freezer and flung it on the grill by calling a White House meeting of about 70 business, labor, and political leaders to restate his “commitmentâ€

the Hispanic demographic trends exist ONLY because of unfettered, unbelievable immigration from Latin America legal and illegal. The trend is only explained because some people have allowed Latin Americans to come here in their millions. There is no other reason. In fact that trend is UNJUSTIFIABLE and needs to be reversed, completely because we now understand more plainly that demographic hegemony muscles are being flexed because somehow we now have a competing culture and language? Is this where this trend is taking us, an American Canada?

6) The debate is not over whether Latinos would be so angry with Obama that they even contemplate voting for a Republican — not after how despicably that party has behaved toward them. The real concern for Democrats is that disillusioned Latinos will be a no-show in the 2012 election, and that this could hurt the incumbent’s re-election chances.

Really? Are you really that stupid or do you have a really short memory? It was REAGAN who signed the last amnesty in 1986, moron! He completely screwed legal immigrants and US citizens by allowing this invasion to mushroom. So stuff that into your pinata.

This latina says NO MORE AMNESTIES, EVER!!

3) The reason for that is because Latinos — whether naturalized citizens, or eighth-generation residents of the Southwest — take deportations seriously. More to the point, they take them personally. Most of them won’t bat an eye if you remove a 20-something single man with no family. But when you start uprooting and deporting grandma, grandpa, mom and dad — people in which other people’s lives are wrapped up — look out;

What complete BS! I know plenty of "latinos/as" who'd disagree with this. The majority of illegal alien enablers/profiteers are pushing a mexican agenda. Deport anyone except mexican nationals, that's what they want. They could care less if we deported only non-mexicans, regardless of family situations. Why else do you suppose mexico is so adamant about patrolling their southern border and enforcing their own immigration laws? Gotta keep the the US open for more of their own.

Which brings us to the last thing you need to know about this latest Obama drama: This administration’s immigration policy is all about winning the votes of white people, not losing them. Keep it straight, people.

Keep this straight, we want what was promised us in '86, enforce the damn laws! Now start packing and don't the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya![[/quote]

quote(What complete BS! I know plenty of "latinos/as" who'd disagree with this.)quote

Same here I'm married to one she and her family have concerns like the rest of us with uncontrolled immigration, they see local schools that favor illegals over legal immigrants. The idea of lumping all people in one pot is racist and yet the left and the press continue to do so.