Thread: New Labor Secretary Pick (La Raza, MALDEF) - R. Alexander Acosta

Originally Posted by MW

Time to get over Puzder. He was a horrible choice and pretty much everyone on ALIPAC, with the exception of you, could see that clearly. He was a staunch supporter of illegal immigrant amnesty and increases in foreign labor. it would also appear he was a wife abuser. He was not fit to serve in any position in Trump's cabinet. He basically stood for everything we at ALIPAC oppose.

I'm not happy with this new choice either, but unfortunately, like you said, he'll probably cruise to an uncontested appointment if for no other reason than being Hispanic and working for the civil rights division of the Department of Justice. I guess Trump's team is thinking they can't take another chance on someone the Democrats would rail against.

It wasn't Democrats that killed the Puzder nomination, it was Republicans.

Enjoy your new Sec of Labor and always remember, beware what you wish for.

Originally Posted by GeorgiaPeach

President Trump is holding his news conference now. Very disappointed. He buckled.

Yeah, he had to. There won't be any more business people after what's happened to Puzder who want to work in this rotten swamp of airheads.

Originally Posted by Judy

It wasn't Democrats that killed the Puzder nomination, it was Republicans.

Enjoy your new Sec of Labor and always remember, beware what you wish for.

Why do you say such things? Nobody wished for Acousta. This is Trump's choice, not ours. Pudzer was unfit, plain and simple. I'm just thankful 12 Republicans could see what the rest of us saw. To be quite honest I was extremely shocked that you came out in support of Pudzer and even more shocked that you regret his decision to bow out.

For goodness sake, let's look at the facts again:

- Employee'd an illegal alien for several years, yet claims he didn't know she was illegal.

- Has been an adamant supporter of amnesty for illegal aliens. Supported the "gang of eight" bill and was pushing for illegal amnesty as recent as last year.

- Preferred foreign employees, which included illegal immigrants, over American workers in the businesses he managed. Said they work harder (truth be known it's because they worked cheaper).

- He supports an increase in foreign labor.

- Wife accused him of domestic abuse.

You can say what you will, but this man was unfit to serve in the job.

Here is it..

The final panelist was R. Alexander Acosta, Chair of the ABA Commission on Hispanic Legal Rights & Responsibilities and Dean, College of Law, at Florida International University. Acosta focused his remarks on education, an issue that “undergirds many other issues” in the Latino community, he said. Florida International University College of Law graduates the highest percentage of Latinos of any ranked law school in the country, and is housed at a university that is almost 80 percent Latino, Acosta noted. Latino law students face many challenges, including a lack of role models, a lack of sophistication about the educational system, and a lack of knowledge about how to prepare for law school.

Cultural factors can influenceLatino students as well, Acosta said. The centrality of family to many Latinos sometimes causes students or recent graduates to curtail career opportunities. Often students must drop out or suspend their studies in order to work to support the family, Acosta said. In addition, recent graduates sometimes hesitate to accept excellent jobs or clerkships if they require them to leave their family’s geographic area. The percentage of Latino law gradsis actually declining, Acosta noted.“When you’re not advancing as agroup, you’re retrogressing,” he said, which means “we need to start thinking about these issues.

”Acosta also spoke about challenges facing Latino students at the secondary school level. Latinos, who make up about 25 percent of public school students nationwide, are over-represented in the public school system relative to their numbers in the population, he said. Latino dropout rates are very high. In South Florida, historically, for example, 21 percent of all high school students—many of them Latino—drop out after ninth grade. Only 50 percent of entering freshmen end up graduating from public high school. Some join gangs, but Acosta said, prosecuting gang members is not the answer.For every two gang members that are convicted “you get four more”because so many young people areout of school. But, Acosta said, “theschool to prison pipeline is just partof the problem…If you don’t solvethe educational problem you aregoing to have all sorts of problemsin terms of socioeconomic status…housing, and other issues. These arefundamental problems that need tobe solved because they lead to allthe secondary issues we’re talkingabout,” Acosta said.

http://www.americanbarfoundation.org...pring_2016.pdf

Thank you so much Newmexican. I was trying to take a picture and other things.

MW, it's like the FairTax, you don't understand business. You don't understand someone's job in a business environment versus someone's job in a regulatory or government environment. Puzder can't be blamed for supporting Amnesty. The US Senate supported Amnesty, the President of the United States supported amnesty, most Americans at the time opposed mass deportations, you included, ALIPAC included, most States supported amnesty without the right to vote or pathway to citizenship. You can't blame a business person for a position that the majority of the country held especially when he lives in Southern California. You can't blame a business person for doing the job they were hired to do. But that's what you did. You couldn't separate his statements that were part of his job, from what his efforts and functions would be in a Trump administration when his JOB for US is to stop this madness and he had the unique skills and experience to be able to do that.

Puzder wasn't defeated by the Senate because of his past statements. If the Senate had believed he was an amnesty supporter, he would already be confirmed. Puzder was stopped BECAUSE the Senate knew he would do his job and re-employ Americans on a fast track basis and help Trump stop this madness of illegal immigration and excess legal immigration.

You just didn't get it. You've never gotten Trump or business or our economy. That's fine. A lot of people still don't get it. But more and more are at least figuring it out enough to be able to trust Trump's judgment even when they don't understand the strategies or the skills required to deliver it.

It's a shame we had 4 to 12 Republicans in the US Senate who put their own agendas opposite of what we need ahead of our country.

But celebrate, MW. Puzder is out, Acosta is in. You and a handful of Republican Senators should be happy. You won, you beat Trump. Enjoy it.

Puzder is not a wife abuser. She lied about that. They were getting a divorce, divorce lawyers use false claims of abuse to try to increase the settlement. Wake Up. Was he ever charged? No, because it was all a lie for money.

We have to all agree that the two picks for labor secretary have been for amnesty in statements. Foreign citizen sympathy and/or preferences does not seem like good thinking for such an important position.

There are people, business and others, who have never in the past or would not in the present advocate for amnesty. There are people in business here at Alipac and around the nation that know the real damage caused by illegal immigration. They don't like competing against cheap, unskilled labor and they do not like the population changes by massive illegal immigration and refugee resettlement. Lack of assimilation and cultural incompability adds to our frustration over immigration.

Business people, if those are the types you want because they have needed skills to do the job, will never make public statements against illegal aliens. Why would they? They are their customers. Why are they their customers? Because they're here and the government took no action to remove them. You can't blame the business people for their statements. It would be suicide to speak against them while they're in our country.

You want non-business people? You get people like Acosta.

Related:

https://www.alipac.us/f9/next-secret...erence-343721/

Anyone know him? Should he work on "Make America Great Again."?
I don't ever heard of him, so, that's my question...